Bonus Round 6: Remixes

[referees]

The event's almost over, and you've made it this far, congrats! This round encourages you to look back at everything the SASO has made and use it as inspiration.

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on August 18 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

• Choose a fanwork created by other participants in a previous main or bonus round of SASO and create a new piece based on it. You could create a fanart of another work, an FST inspired by a piece’s style, retell another person’s fanfic from another point of view, create a new fanfic inspired by a great piece of art... go wild!
• You cannot remix your teammates' works.
• You must have permission from the original creator. There's a blanket permissions post here (feel free to add yourself to it!), or you can leave a comment on their original post asking for permission.
• You must include the dreamwidth link to the original work in your post.
• Since all fills are based on previous works, there will be no prompts for this round. Simply post your fill as a comment in response to this post.
• 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.

Remember, this is a NO-PROMPT round. Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If FILLING:

If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:

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 (without brackets) 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) If no major content tags are applicable, make sure to state this-- even if including other additional tags 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 If no major content tags are applicable, make sure to state this-- even if including other additional tags 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 fills as you want!

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 KURAMOCHI YOUICHI/MIYUKI KAZUYA, G

[kazuyas]

kageyama tobio & / oikawa tooru, hq!! - push-and-pull - original fill by sotongsotong here
tags: mentions of sports-related injury. second person pov can't believe it took me this long to do one of these rip
491 words.




you wanted to be better. you always wanted that, you do want that, you think—it's simple, right? oikawa is good, the best, and you want to be the best. ergo, you want to be better than oikawa. a simple chain of events, one part of the proof leading into the next.

and yet.

now, you find yourself looking at these two things:

a) being the best
b) being better than oikawa

they're not mutually exclusive. with one comes the other. that's unavoidable—utterly and totally. but.

but, but, but.

you've envisioned the first so many a time. so, so many.

but the second? you can barely even begin to wrap your mind around the possibility. since your first year, since you first stepped foot on the court at kitagawa daiichi, you have been following oikawa tooru's trail, trying to keep pace, nipping at his heels but never quite being able to surpass him.

it's kept you going, pushed one foot in front of the other. at karasuno, he's surrounded by at least a dozen new reasons to keep pushing, to be the best, and they are good and sincere reasons, reasons that make you better. hinata's determination, suga-san's faith, even tsukishima's needling—the list goes on and on, and you want to be able to stitch that together, to help make this team come together and fly.

despite all of that—or maybe because of that, because if oikawa excels at anything it's making a team come together and sing, so it's yet one more way you're following oikawa's example, trailing after him, again—oikawa tooru remains in the back of your mind, his figure looming in your periphery.

or, perhaps more accurately: looming in front of you—still, always.

it's because of all of this—everything you've ever known, about yourself, about oikawa, about oikawa and you and you and oikawa—considering the alternative (and it is the only alternative, you think), it's. well. foreign would be putting it mildly.

so when you overhear seijou's coach ask oikawa about his ankle, hear the concern, the alternative (being the best and being better) seem all the more real, all the more feasible.

close enough to reach out and touch, to take in your hands and even taste.

you imagined it would look more like victory, but—

this is too sudden. too quick. too soon. it wasn't supposed to happen like this, you think, not because of an injury—

that's not how you want this to go. it's—wrong.

sent into something that resembles a panic, you review:

a) you want to be the best.
b) you have to be better than oikawa.

b is a necessary circumstance to achieve a.

but when you watch oikawa's jump serve, faultless and breathtaking and carving a path forward—

powerful, you think, is the word to describe the feeling coursing through you.

months later, looking down at oikawa through the net, there'll be a touch of gratitude, too.