sportsanime | Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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Bonus Round 4: Quotes

A shipping olympics favorite, this round uses quotes of all sorts to fuel your creative endeavors.

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on July 21 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

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: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - M. Gandhi
- The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
- Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. (This is not the sports anime gen olympics.) Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Makoto & Rin). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Makoto/Rin). 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.

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, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Below that, place applicable major content tags (when applicable; otherwise write "no tags" or "none") Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of the fill in your comment. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" alt="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR IMAGE"/> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Please cross-link these fills and use clear tags in your comment. Written/text fills should be hosted at AO3 ONLY as a new, unchaptered work. Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere. You may include a small safe-for-work preview of your work in your comment. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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.

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 3 fills by any member of your team: 20 points each
Fills 4-10: 10 points each
Fills 11-20: 5 points each
Fills 21+: 2 points 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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

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THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL, every fill you do is beautiful, it's such a treat every time. I love the hair swept away from kageyama's back, everything is so soft and lovely.

poetry fill, G, developing relationship

knock, knock
(29 lines)

Everything about him is a
door, from the
way his shoulders move like
hinges, to the pane of his
body, the
shake, the rattle, the
stuck doorknob that is
his heart,
and though
he lets me rest my fingers
upon it, he never
opens up.

Yet,
here I am
still a splinter, still
never letting our distance
shut
and I’ll climb his creaks and
edges, until
there’s a tilt, and
that click of
a lock finally
undone.

(Knock, knock,
who the fuck’s that?
Oh, don’t you know the joke
by now?
It has always only been
me.)

SARAH I LOVE THIS, it's like something straight out of a beautiful children's storybook. I love miyahara's hair aloft in the air, I love their little legs!!! I really like the texture of the background too, there's so much depth in the blue, the light in the clouds is lovely

freefalling, probably not acrophobia but just in case, far more phthalo blue than any one picture should have

reposted fill because the subject line was wrong

SYLPHIE

No tags
Poem, 19 lines

A body covered in battle wounds
bruises painting gruesome brush strokes underneath his uniform,
rashes of scraped skin to counterpoints of grass-stained knees
fresh calluses forming on newly abused skin

All worth it for just one reward of just one slightly crooked grin

Youichi had to work even harder to make himself worthy
for the team,
for himself,
(and yes even to see that smile just one more time)

Repeated mornings at the crack of dawn running,
evenings after practice filled with the crack of bats until he collapsed
hardly satiated but knowing that one day he would be satisfied
one day his muscles would scream less
until he could keep up with him

Perhaps even changing the common phrase running through his mind,
‘You suck’ stinging behind his eyes every time he closed them
to one filled with only a slight nod and the quirk of lips,
but a response speaking volumes of what he craved;

Respect.

Tags: body horror, insects (bees), violence (choking/asphyxiation)
Word Count: 712

Fuji was and always had been a glaring hole in Inui’s data. He frowned at his notebook. Each of his other teammates had their data neatly written and recorded. Performance data, progressive analysis, predictive models for future matches. All of it easily plottable, little line graphs just waiting to be made with their peaks heading towards infinity as Inui nudged each of them ever higher.

But not Fuji. Fuji’s data refused to fit neatly into graphs. It bucked everything Inui thought he knew. It seemed the more data Inui recorded, the less he knew, as if Fuji’s data changed intrinsically just by observing it.

Fuji was particle physics personified, the fullest embodiment of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, quantum theory applied to flesh and blood. Inui wanted to rip open the box, see the possibilities collapse into one for better or worse.

Fuji, by definition, seemed to defy observation. But Inui was nothing but not patient. He cracked open a new notebook, it’s spine crackling as he folded it open for the first time, and he did what any good scientist would do.

He watched. He recorded. He waited.

Fuji seemed to know everything that Inui did, just a step before. As they watched opponents’ matches, Fuji seemed to get a grip on the enemy’s skills just a moment before it occurred to Inui himself.

It was unfair, Inui decided.

More than that, it was impossible. Fuji seemed to know things that happened behind the scenes, things that he couldn’t have known just from watching. An opponent’s relationship to a teammate, they way they’d trained to develop their special moves. Even Inui’s data could only extrapolate to a point, but Fuji went far beyond that.

Inui stopped watching their opponents play, and instead watched Fuji.

There was a buzzing.

It took a long time before Inui heard it, but once he did he always heard it whenever Fuji was around. It was like seeing the hidden image in a puzzle picture, and losing the ability to see the original shape of it. It was there, constantly.

No one else seemed to notice, and Inui didn’t press. That wasn’t the point of his investigation.

Inui wrote, and Fuji buzzed.

“You seem to be quite fascinated with me lately.”

Inui froze. Fuji had spoken, apropos of nothing, while standing alone outside the clubroom. Or so Fuji should have thought. No one had ever caught Inui in his hiding place in the bushes. He still wasn’t completely sure that Fuji had caught him. Inui scanned around, looking for anyone else, someone who may have shown up while Inui was focused on his notes.

He saw no one, and Fuji continued.

“Do you have a crush on me, Inui?”

Inui stopped breathing altogether.

Fuji wasn’t smiling. “If that’s it, you should buy me flowers. I enjoy plants, you know.”

“I…” Inui stalled, not daring to come out from his spot despite clearly being noticed. “I don’t…”

“I see…”

The buzzing, normally ever-constant, increased just slightly. Fuji turned and walked away, but the buzz seemed to linger behind him.

Inui struggled to breathe.

Inui had long been aware of the floral scent that seemed to precede Fuji. A sweet smell that was almost sickly if you dwelled on it too much. Inui had tried to catch whiffs of it to analyse it, pin down its source, hoping it was just one more piece of the puzzle.

The smell was filling his senses as Fuji pinned him to the back wall of the clubhouse.

“You’ve gone too far, Inui.”

“I—”

Fuji pressed into Inui’s throat, trapping his words beneath his windpipe. Inui’s breath croaked around the obstruction.

The buzzing was intense now, and Inui could no longer distinguish it from the blood rushing through his ears.

Fuji wasn’t smiling when he opened his eyes, stare boring into Inui.

Inui had seen Fuji’s eyes before. Many times. Perhaps more than most, because he was always looking for them. And now… They were the same as they had always been, but they weren’t.

Inui could see the hidden picture now, and he lost the ability to see the original.

Fuji’s eyes were hollow, and deep down in the depths, there was buzzing.

And Inui could hear nothing else.

knives, implied future violence but uh well nothing major here

im sorry if this isn't the most interesting fill but it was my IMMEDIATE mental image upon seeing the quote

words: 666
no tags

Furuya smells like baseball and Kazuya wouldn’t have it any other way; grass, sweat, dirt, leather, and hard work. When he’s freshly showered and changed after practice, sitting next to Kazuya as he explains the stats book, just the two of them in the dining hall he smells clean, his shampoo a complex mystery of spices that Kazuya spends too much time thinking about. He wishes he didn’t notice, he wishes his brain didn’t remind him that smell and taste are linked because it doesn’t help his wandering eye problem, drawn over and over again to Furuya’s lips.

He thought he took precautions, their first few meetings held in his dorm room too intimate, Kazuya’s attention drawn to the bed and the embarrassing number of times and ways he’s thought about Furuya there, their hands too close where they rest on the floor. The dining hall is safer, less personal, more businesslike, no knickknacks or photos for Furuya to ask about after the lesson has ended. Or at least it was supposed to be safer but with Kazuya’s left knee pressed against Furuya’s right under the table and Furuya leaning in to look at a different notebook in Kazuya’s stack and breathing in his smell it’s getting harder to control his impulse.

It’s a terrible idea, he thinks, even though his body turns toward Furuya automatically. A vague part of him doubts his certainty; maybe he’s misread all of Furuya’s body language and signs, maybe Furuya will push him away, tell the team and the coach and Kazuya will pay the consequences of his ego making him think Furuya wants this too. Mostly he thinks that this is a slippery slope and once he falls over the edge he’s not going to be able to stop.

He does stop himself, leaning in a little too close, his heart pounding as he struggles to breathe through his nose normally, Furuya staring as he lets the notebook he picked up slip from his fingers.

“Miyuki-senpai,” Furuya interrupts the silence. “I want to kiss you.”

Kazuya makes an involuntary noise of surprise, laughing softly even as Furuya’s hand lands on his shoulder. He wonders if Furuya is worried he’ll run away. It wouldn’t be out of the question except Furuya’s eyes have him pinned to the spot without touching him, his legs feeling too jittery anyway.

“You’re so direct,” he says to buy his brain some time.

“Senpai…” It’s low and quiet and entirely unfair as Kazuya’s stomach does a weird flip.

“Maybe…” Kazuya’s eyes dart to Furuya’s lips. “Maybe just once.”

Furuya’s lips pull down into a frown for a moment before pulling back up slightly as he leans in, cupping Kazuya’s warm cheek. Kazuya closes his eyes before the pressure starts. Furuya’s lips are softer than they look; they linger on his while they both try to figure out what they’re supposed to do. Kazuya presses back gently, feeling light and tingly everywhere, trying to mold the moment in his memory just as Furuya’s lips mold to his.

When Furuya pulls away he doesn’t go far Kazuya can feel his breath tickling his face, he was so distracted by the feel, worrying about what he should do with his lips that he didn’t take note of the taste. Too bad, he thinks. His eyes sliding open lazily to stare into blue.

“Again,” Furuya says firmly. “Please, Miyuki-senpai. Again.”

Kazuya’s stomach does another weird flip and he really could just pull away, Furuya’s hold on him is soft enough. He could fall into his habit of laughing things off and pretend this never happened so easily but looking into Furuya’s eyes he knows he’d regret it.

He huffs lightly, letting his shoulders sag a bit as he starts to smirk, his hand finding the collar of Furuya’s shirt where he hooks his fingers, pulling him closer.

“I never could say no to that passion in your eyes,” he speaks it against Furuya’s lips, the first sentence of many.

RUBS HANDS TOGETHER IN GLEE this is so pleasantly eerie, i love your take on inui and that last part gave me chills

thank you mels you continue to be truly The Best

well if someone really wants to i am not stopping them

Atobe Keigo/Echizen Ryoma, Prince of Tennis
no tags

"So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out sunlight
Shimmering love"
- Counting Crows, "Accidentally in Love"

Tanaka Ryuunosuke & Tanaka Saeko (Haikyuu!!)
no tags (genderbend optional)

"So different, yet so the same
Two sisters only have their parents to blame
It's rare that two can get along
But when they do, they're inseparable
Such a blessing comes to few"
--No Doubt, "Different People"

Tanaka Ryuunosuke & Tanaka Saeko (Haikyuu!!)
tags: Star Wars AU

Leia: You have a power I don't understand and could never have.
Luke: You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And... my sister has it.
--Episode VI, Return of the Jedi

Tanaka Ryuunosuke & Tanaka Saeko(/someone Ryuu definitely doesn't want his sister to date) (Haikyuu!)
tags: sex talk?

From Two Broke Girls

mels.

slaps my hands on my face this is lovely! thank u friend!

furuya satoru/miyuki kazuya, daiya no a
sexual content, trans character if u please

"I am dazed by the beauty of my body.
today I looked at myself with your eyes. discovered
the soft curve of shoulders the tired round breasts which
want to sleep and slowly roll down in spite of themselves.
my legs unfolding offering infinitely up to
the limits absent from what is me and what beyond me
throbs in every leaf in every raindrop.
I saw myself as if through glass in your eyes
looking at me. I felt your hands on the warm tight
skin of my thighs and obeying your command
I stood naked before a huge mirror and then
I covered your eyes not to see and not to feel
the loneliness of my body blossoming with you."

--Halina Poświatowska

This is just casual banter between enemies, this is a good and wholesome prompt.

Ishidou Natsuo &/ Sawamura Sanae, Teppuu
no tags

"Remember what we had here when there was something left to save."

- Magpie, The Mountain Goats

fukutomi juichi/arakita yasutomo, yowamushi pedal
abuse, violence

"‘Of course I won’t, I love you’,
a lie.
It hits me that we no longer know what it means
when you slap me across the face and instantly,
I tell you I love you. I can’t help it.
I have spent months associating it with this much pain.
My insides are bullet-holed basins where the past goes to die.
I feel death when you stand close.
Stay away from me.
I love you."

Lora Mathis, “We Need a New Word for ‘Love,’ It’s Overused”

Manami Sangaku &/ Teshima Junta, Yowamushi Pedal
no tags

"Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you."

- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, Of Montreal

Aoyagi Hajime/Koga Kimitaka/Teshima Junta, Yowamushi Pedal
no tags

She gets hysterical cause they're both so mean
And it's my favorite scene
But the cruelty's so predictable, it makes you sad on the stage
Though our love project has so much potential
But it's like we weren't made for this world
Though I wouldn't really want to meet someone who was

- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, Of Montreal

Edited 2016-07-17 04:29 (UTC)

Imaizumi Shunsuke/Teshima Junta (ywpd)

potentially nsfw, human furniture

- The Human Chair, Edogawa Ranpo

I was gonna fill this then I realized it was you, cries

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Bonus Round 4: Quotes

Re: FILL: Team Aldini Takumi/Yukihira Souma,G

FILL: Team Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, G

Re: PROMPT: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/NARUKO SHOUKICHI

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya, G

Re: PROMPT: Team Hoshizora Rin/Koizumi Hanayo/Nishikino MakI

FILL: Team MIYUKI KAZUYA/SAWAMURA EIJUN, G

FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

FILL: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya, T

Fill: Team Furuya Satoru/Miyuki Kazuya, T

Re: FILL: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA, T

Re: PROMPT: Team Kanzaki Miki/Tachibana Aya

PROMPT: TEAM TENNIS NO OUJI-SAMA

PROMPT: TEAM FURUYA SATORU/MIYUKI KAZUYA

PROMPT: TEAM FURUYA SATORU/MIYUKI KAZUYA

PROMPT: TEAM FURUYA SATORU/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Re: PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Re: Fill: Team Furuya Satoru/Miyuki Kazuya, E

PROMPT: TEAM OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE

Re: PROMPT: TEAM MIYUKI KAZUYA/MIYUKI KAZUYA

Prompt: Team Grandstand

PROMPT: TEAM OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE

Prompt: Team Grandstand

Prompt: Team Grandstand

Prompt: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

Re: PROMPT: TEAM ALDINI TAKUMI/YUKIHIRA SOUMA