sportsanime | Bonus Round 4: Quotes

SASO 2017 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

An oldie but a goodie—in this round, we draw inspiration from famous words said by other people.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible.

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." -Friedrich Nietzsche
- The quote can come from almost anything—famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, etc.— but please don't quote personal conversations you've had or overheard.
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Natsuo & Yuzuko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Natsuo/Yuzuko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your quote-inspired fanwork.
Remember to 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)
14 lines (poetry)

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If PROMPTING:	If FILLING:	If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> (the ship your prompt is focused on. "&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. Format the ship name any way you want, but clarity is more likely to get you fills.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; these apply to content in the prompt itself and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If your prompt doesn't require tags, write "None" here.) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Prompt:</strong>	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to. Any way you format it is fine. Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) * (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours** is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Copy/paste/fill out the following form into your comment box. Delete the guidance text that's in parentheses. Make sure you use tags. Here is a BR Template Creator for your convenience if the textarea is confusing. (Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; can include jokey tumblr-style tags here; may also pull from the "Additional Tags" list from the URL above, if applicable; otherwise, write "None" here.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) * (Place your fill here. You can use HTML. FOR NSFW FILLS, please cross-link these fills and use clear tags. Refer to the body of the post above for more information. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ http://referees.dreamwidth.org/5647.html#images ) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and tag them clearly. saso_afterhours** is open to all NSFW fills. Written/text fills can be hosted on AO3 or saso_afterhours ONLY. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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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 each (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

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).

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Ship: Hanamiya Makoto/Imayoshi Shouich
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: tags omitted
Other Tags: tags omitted
Word Count: 419 words

Death, infidelity, neglectful parenting, marriages of convenience - Imayoshi has a lot to regret.

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At the end of his life, Imayoshi numbers his regrets.

1) He hadn’t even tried to get to know his children. They’d grown in her and come from her body. He left the raising of them to her, compensating by funding the schooling and activities. There were excuses he could have given, of course, for his absence from their lives but the truth was that he had no interest in the little sacks of flesh that eventually became people.

2) He should have never decided that he needed to marry for the sake of his career. His wife had loved him as much as he had loved her and their children had grown up in a loveless house, loving neither of their parents for all that they did their filial duty. He should have married someone he loved.

3) He had kept seeing Hanamiya after the wedding. He should have made a clean break with him, should have said that it was over because even though his wife meant nothing to him, his honors and the vows he’d sworn still mattered.

4) He’d spent more time in Hanamiya’s arms than his wife’s. Wait. That wasn’t a regret. Hanamiya had been better in bed than her any day.

5) He hadn’t married Hanamiya. Heh. Not that it had even been legal back then. It would have been the end of his career, too. He would have never achieved the heights he had with a male spouse.

...And yet, nobody had ever been as well suited to him as Hanamiya was.

6) Breaking up with Hanamiya. His wife could have divorced him and it wouldn’t have hurt as much as that teenage parting of ways. Hanamiya had been dry-eyed and coldly contemptuous of Imayoshi but with that fierce anger burning underneath. In the fact of that, Imayoshi had felt that he couldn’t cry either - especially when he was the one asking for the split.

7) Not winning the Winter Cup. He had the Ace of the Generation of Miracles and he’d still lost! His middle school years had given him experience in managing an Uncrowned King and he’d thought that the Ace of the Generation of Miracles would be the same thing, only more. Aomine had been nothing like Hanamiya, though. Hanamiya made his own victories. Imayoshi should have pushed Aomine more instead of expecting him to come through when it counted the way Hanamiya did.

8) Meeting Hanamiya. If they had never met, he wouldn’t have all those other regrets.

This is such a lovely piece, because there's so much weight in identifying a person's life, the things they leave behind-- and the way you paint Imayoshi here is brilliant, because his regrets show that he is both a terrible person (the description no interest in the little sacks of flesh that eventually became people made me stop for a moment) and that he has reasons for being a terrible person up until the end when he lies the responsibility at their meeting. It was so interesting to read, thank you so much!

Hanamiya is so fucking terrible and I'm glad that the 'little sacks of flesh' line made you pause because I was very pleased with it. I just had to sit down and think about how contemptuous he'd be of his family when they're nothing but window dressing, and how at the same time, he'd hate Hanamiya because he knows his life would've been better if it had been Hanamiya he'd chosen (but so much worse too).

Also fun fact! This was originally going to end with a 'regret' that made it clear Imayoshi was dying because HANAMIYA had killed him but then I couldn't think of anything Imayoshi would do that would make Hanamiya turn on him.

nothing but window dressing absolutely came across, and was so terrifying because he was so blasé about it

I admit when I read "couldn't think of anything Imayoshi would do that would make Hanamiya turn on him" my head immediately jumped to your other fill about crying and Hanamiya's mournful fury at realizing Imayoshi isn't the same as him, at that betrayal? But I'm glad to know that as frightening as this ship is, murder isn't ~~yet?~~ in the cards ^^;

...omg baby no, they were 16 and 15 in that scene HANAMIYA NO DON'T KILL YOUR BABY BOYFRIEND.

I actually think Imayoshi's more likely to kill Hanamiya than the other way around! Imayoshi's the schemer who'll cut Hanamiya free if he becomes a liability.

But honestly, neither of them would kill the other. Being a monster alone is lonely. And they do love each other, even if they'd never admit it.

Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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