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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!
FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, B1 T
Fandom: Free
Major Tags: Death (character death)
Other Tags: none
Square: drowning (lethal or non-lethal)
Word Count: 458 words
This was meant to be just a Rin/Haru piece but somehow, his team insisted on being there along with Gou and Sousuke.
***
Haru’s parents don’t show up for the funeral. Even Makoto can’t remember the last time he’s seen them.
Gou insists on attending, as does Sousuke. With the two of them, that brings the number of mourners up to six.
It doesn’t seem like anywhere near enough. Haru should’ve become an Olympic swimmer, should have set the sort of records that had people demanding drug tests. He should have been the high water mark that everyone else measured themselves by.
He should have been famous and the world should have mourned with them.
Instead, there’s only the six of them on a boat they all chipped in to rent.
There had been mountains of forms to get through. Bureaucracy had no pity for grief. Cremation wasn’t compulsory but it was traditional; none of them could bear the thought of seeing Haru consigned to flames so they skipped that step.
They hired a nōkansha to ritually prepare the body, choosing to dress Haru in a white kimono rather than a suit. When they’d asked her to put Haru in his jammers under the suit, she hadn’t protested.
There was comfort in knowing that even now, he had a swimsuit on under the plain white kimono. Even now, he was ready for the water.
The boat slipped silently over the waves, the moonlight picking out the crest of each wave that slopped against the boat. Once they were far enough from the shore, they paused.
“Should we say some last words?” Gou asked tentatively, her hand resting on the plastic tarp they’d wrapped Haru’s body in.
“We already did all that,” Rin said, looking down over the railing. “We can say goodbye again once he’s in the water where he belongs.”
The wire they’d wrapped around him had multiple small weights attached to it. Haru’s corpse would drop to the bottom of the ocean and become food for the fish he’d loved so much.
They couldn’t give him to the flames or the earth. In the water was where Haru had always belonged.
Rin and Makoto rolled the body over the edge of the boat; it hit the water with barely a ripple and started to sink.
Gou tilted the basket of cherry blossoms over the railing so that pink petals fell onto the water and hid the body disappearing into the ocean’s depths.
“Goodbye, Haru,” Nagisa said between sobs, sniffing so hard he could barely get the words out.
“You taught me everything I needed,” Rei said, voice quivering as he wrapped his arms around Nagisa.
Rin and Makoto say nothing. They strip off their outer layers and jump overboard instead, joining Haru for one last swim.
When they climb back aboard, there are cherry blossoms pasted to their hair.
Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, B1 T
Even now, he was ready for the water.
GOODBYE!!! GOOD BYE!!!!
Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, B1 T
...LOOK I'M SORRY BUT THE PROMPT SAID DROWNING WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM ME?!
I just. Haru is a darling and should be sent to the waves when he dies. That's all.
Re: FILL: TEAM PRINCE OF TENNIS, B1 T