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Bonus Round 2: Tic-Tac-Toe
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. There's a lot of text here, but if you read carefully and follow the instructions step by step, you will be okay.
RULES
Please refer to the first comment thread of this post for an example of how this round works.PROMPTING
- Select a ship to create your prompt card about. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Haruki & Kazuma). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Haruki/Kazuma). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Visit this card generator.
- Here is a visual guide to using it.
- The large text box is where you can list prompts if you have your own ideas. Please list at least 9 prompts; you can list more if you want. (The generator says you need at least 24, but it's lying.) Single words or short phrases are better than sentences.
- Otherwise, you can use the dropdown menu found right below it. Note: some of these prompts lists are NSFW. (NSFW prompts are a-ok as long as you tag for it.) If you don't like some of the options that appear in a prompt list, you can delete them.
- Text prompts only, please. Also, each card square must be unique—don't list the same prompt 9 times.
- In "Configuration Options," make sure you select 3x3 and (Normal prompt). This is the most important step!
- Leave the tic-tac-toe card with its default colors, so everyone can read it clearly.
- Click the "Create a bingo card" button.
- Scroll down to see the card that was created for you. If you don't like the prompts it picked, you can reroll by clicking "Create a bingo card" again.
- When you're satisfied, scroll further down the page until you see a textarea box full of HTML.
- Copy and paste the HTML from the box and into the body of your prompt comment, then post!
FILLING
Fill prompts by selecting an individual square to create fanwork for, then leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. (Optional:) If you can fill three squares from a prompt in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, you get a tic-tac-toe (and an additional point bonus)! You can also just fill prompts as you please and get standard points.
- Prompt squares are labeled as follows:
A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 A3 B3 C3 - If you're trying for tic-tac-toe, you cannot combine squares into one fill. If your fill can satisfy multiple squares, pick the most relevant square: e.g., one square is sailing and another is pirates and you make a fill about pirates sailing, it's mostly pirates so put down the pirates square.
- Each fill must stand alone as an individual piece, but all your fills can slot into a larger universe if you'd like.
- You cannot fill a prompt square more than once, but you can fill every square on a tic tac toe card if you want to.
- You cannot work with your teammates to get a tic-tac-toe. Only individually achieved tic-tac-toes get the bonus.
- Multiple people can fill the same prompt square. You cannot "block" others from getting tic-tac-toe.
- Remember to also follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.
FORMAT
Bonus round shenanigans all happen in the comments below. Brand-new works only, please.Required Work Minimums:
- 400 words (prose)
- 400px by 400px (art/images)
- 14 lines (poetry)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [SQUARE], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [SQUARE], [RATING]
|
Posts not using this format will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, regardless of what they contain. They, like all comments in this community, are subject to the code of conduct.
If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.
SCORING
These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual teammate. Make as many prompts/fills as you want!For prompts: 5 points for each tic-tac-toe card (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:First 4 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 5-10: 15 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21-50: 2 points each
Fills 51+: 1 point each
Tic-tac-toe Bonus: 2 points each for the first 12 achieved by your team
All scored content must be created new for this round.
Etc.
If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only (see the line of links below this post).Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!
Prompt: Team Daiya no Ace
Fandom: Princess Nine
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: none
Prompt:
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B1, G
Fandom: Princess Nine
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: valentines day syrup
Word Count: 404
***
Hikaru drenches her waffles in the expensive maple syrup Kanako buys her. Kanako’s parents, on the few occasions they have to eat breakfast with the two of them, are quick to point out how unhealthy and wasteful it is, dropping their favorite passive-aggressive hints that since Kanako’s in medical school now she ought to use her expert opinion to tell Hikaru to dial it down. Kanako smiles and nods and buys Hikaru another bottle when she goes through the current one, because her parents are completely missing the point.
It’s not that it’s healthy, but Hikaru works out and brushes her teeth; she’s back to playing softball on her college team (baseball was fun, but different; the smaller diamond and the larger ball, pitches curving like a cosine through the air have always called to Hikaru more than the glory and recognition she’s gotten from baseball, and Kanako gets it). And Kanako wants to indulge her, simple as that. Maybe that’s what this kind of relationship is, balancing the desire to spoil the other person rotten and doing what’s best for them, and in the scheme of things Kanako’s got nothing else to spend her outrageously-large inheritance from her grandmother on. Why not fancy, imported syrup? Even if it’s not a health benefit, they don’t have to live a rigid lifestyle if they can afford not to (Kanako had spent too much time in the beginning of that first year of high school on the outside looking in at what she’d wanted and had enough room to do not to know that).
She buys Hikaru a new bottle on Valentine’s Day, even though there’s one half-finished and sticky with Hikaru’s syrup-stained fingerprints already in the fridge. The new one’s from a different manufacturer, some kind of Canadian reserve brand.
“Tell me how it is,” Kanako says, pushing up her glasses. “And don’t get me anything until white day.”
Hikaru rolls her eyes. “Please. Here.”
She holds out her fork full of buttery, syrupy waffle. It’s bad; Kanako doesn't need the extra sugar. She bites it off the end, and God this syrup is good (if Hikaru prefers the other stuff, Kanako’s going to buy this one for herself every once in a while).
“Good, right?” says Hikaru, grinning.
She doesn’t wait for Kanako’s answer, lips meeting hers in a sticky, overly-sweet kiss that Kanako doesn’t mind in the slightest.
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B1, G
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B2, T
Fandom: Princess Nine
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: midsummer orange juice
Word Count: 489
***
When the summer days are this grossly humid and it’s light outside this long, there’s nothing to do after morning practice but collapse in a heap in Kanako’s air-conditioned bedroom. They’d both taken showers in the locker room and they’re already coated in sweat again. Hikaru sighs, leaning back farther into the softness of Kanako’s high-thread-count sheets and the give of her mattress, reaching out with one hand to trace over Kanako’s hipbone through her top, eyes closed.
Kanako jerks back, eyes wide and face red. “Do you want anything to drink? I’ll get orange juice.”
She practically bolts from the room, and Hikaru rolls her shoulders back. It’s always like this; Kanako will be so comfortable with her, kissing or cuddling or even touching a little bit, but at a certain point (always a different one) she just shuts down and deflects. She never says she doesn’t want it or isn’t ready; sometimes she’ll push for it herself when Hikaru’s trying to be considerate and back off, and then Hikaru will try something else again and hit her boundary, arbitrarily moved somewhere it wasn’t before. They need to talk about it; it’s as much Hikaru’s fault as hers (maybe more; Kanako’s clearly uncomfortable) that they haven’t.
Kanako comes back with two glasses, already sweating from the humidity out in the hall. She hands one to Hikaru and takes a cautious sip of her own; her face isn’t as red-flushed as before.
“Hey,” says Hikaru. “If I’m doing something wrong, or if you’re not ready—just tell me, okay? I don’t want to go too fast; I want to know where you’re comfortable stopping so I don’t keep going to far and making you feel bad.”
The glass slips in Kanako’s hand; she catches it before it falls. “I…it’s not that I don’t want to,” she says.
Hikaru raises an eyebrow. “It’s okay if you don’t. I’m not going to think you’re a prude or anything.”
“I do want to!” Kanako says, sitting up straighter. “But I don’t know what I’m doing and I don’t want to get caught in a place where you do, and I…” she trails off.
“I don’t know what I’m doing, either,” says Hikaru. “I’m just trying what I think would be fun, and maybe it is and maybe it isn’t.”
“Oh,” says Kanako, face coloring over again.
“But, like I said,” says Hikaru. “We can slow down and get you to the point where you feel like you do know what you’re doing before we move on. If that works better.”
Kanako nods, short.
“So what do you want to do right now?" says Hikaru. “Like, we don’t have to start doing whatever at this moment, but.”
“I want to kiss you," says Kanako, all in a rush. “I want to work on that.”
“You’re pretty damn good already,” says Hikaru. “But I don’t mind the practice myself.”
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, G
Fandom: Princess Nine
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Square: christmas tea
Word Count: 436
***
The teahouse is crowded with families and young couples, but there’s a table for two that’s just opened up in the back, and Hikaru and Kanako follow the host and sit down. Kanako takes off her jacket; it’s already warm inside but she’s still looking forward to drinking the tea. Hikaru scoots her chair in and bumps their knees together; she grins in a way that says that was totally on purpose and Kanako smiles back.
Her glasses are fogging up; she scowls as she wipes them with her sleeve and Hikaru laughs.
“Want me to read the menu?”
“I played baseball without glasses, you know,” says Kanako. “I can see how many fingers you’re holding up, too.”
“Aww, too bad,” says Hikaru.
She’s scanning the menu already; Kanako puts her glasses back on and looks at her own. They’ve got the usual selection, blacks and greens and herbals; she’s pretty sure Hikaru’s going to go for chai or oolong.
“Want to split a pot of sencha?” says Hikaru. “They’ve got the good stuff.”
Kanako nods (she’s awfully fond of green tea, and Hikaru knows it). “Should we get a cake, too?”
“Sure,” says Hikaru. “You pick.”
She chooses a strawberry slice with what looks like three centimeters of icing on top from the menu picture, overly-indulgent but, well, it’s Christmas and she’s on a date with her girlfriend.
“You should have worn the green wig,” says Hikaru. “It would be seasonal.”
Kanako snorts. “It definitely makes me look my best.”
Hikaru shrugs. “The first time I thought you were cute was when you were wearing it. Well, that and the baseball uniform.”
She drops that so casually; Kanako’s still not used to hearing it from her in this context. Heat rises to her face, and she wonders when the tea will get here so she can hide it with the steam from the cup.
“Thank you,” she says.
“You’re cute like this, too,” says Hikaru. “The glasses suit your face.”
Kanako wants to both disappear and lean over the table and kiss Hikaru. She settles for bumping her foot under the table, surprising Hikaru (for once).
The tea is good; the cake is sweet but lighter than Hikaru expects; it disappears quickly between the two of them. When the waiter returns with their staff, Kanako moves to her wallet but Hikaru’s quicker, pulling out a few bills.
“My treat,” says Hikaru. “It doesn’t set me back, Rich Kid.”
Hanako’s face heats up; she knows Hikaru’s teasing, but still.
“Merry Christmas,” says Hikaru, hand on her knee under the table. “Let’s go find some mistletoe.”
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, G
Re: FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B3, G