Bonus Round 4: Quotes

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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!

Comments

FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, G

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525 words

Sometimes, when it’s cold out and their landlord forgets to turn on their heat, Kuroo and Kenma will hide under a pile of blankets, pressed against each other for warmth in the icy New York winters. Kuroo answers work e-mails while Kenma plays video games, and when Kuroo is sick of schmoozing with his clients he slams his laptop shut and buries his face in the crook of Kenma’s neck. Kenma rolls his eyes and mutters that Kuroo is distracting him but doesn’t complain when Kuroo nuzzles his face into his shoulder. It’s freezing out, and when they’re both miles away from home at least they have each other to cling to for familiar comforts.

They tend to drift off to sleep around the same time. Kuroo likes talking to Kenma with the lights off, and Kenma likes to listen. When they’re tired of dealing with the external world for the day Kuroo gets out of bed, hits the light switch and burrows under the covers, ready with a barrage of questions about how Kenma is doing and how his work day went. Most of the time, Kenma is more than happy to oblige. Career stuff isn’t as important to him as it is to Kuroo, but it’s income they both need and Kenma is glad to be in a place, and a job, that he is happy to be in. Sometimes Kuroo will go on a tangent about something silly that happened to him at work, and Kenma will chime in with a story of his own. Or he’ll change the topic to local gossip, or tales of something that happened at home. Kenma peppers this with snarky commentary, and sometimes Kuroo laughs so loudly Kenma fears they’ll wake the neighbors.

Kuroo cuddles in his sleep. No matter how warm or cold the weather is, he gravitates towards human heat, latching onto Kenma like a human jetpack radiator. It’s endearing in the winter and really irritating when the summer comes by. Kenma has to practically peel Kuroo off him in the summer heat haze, shoving Kuroo’s body to his own side of the bed where it belongs. His cuddle habit isn’t cute when Kenma’s sticky, restless, and covered in sweat. It’s even worse when they don’t have clothes to forge distance between them. Kenma knows this best. Trying to pry a naked Kuroo off him in the summer is an absolute nightmare, and when he texts Shouyo to complain about it Shouyo just says it’s cute. Kenma sighs—life is hard, and no-one understands.

Despite this, his favorite Kuroo is the one that wakes up next to him in the mornings. Sometimes he’ll wake up baffled and half-dazed, mumbling something about how it’s too early for any sane man to be awake before burying his face back into a pillow. Sometimes Kuroo will turn to Kenma and ask him how they ended up like this, sharing a bed in a foreign city so far away. Once Kuroo squinted up at Kenma and said “okay, I have to be dreaming.” Kenma rolled his eyes and said, “I wonder why I love you.”

But he already knew.