Bonus Round 7: Recs

[referees]

You've created so much during this event, so here's a round to celebrate each other's achievements!

This round is CLOSED as of 7PM on August 24 EDT. Late fills may be posted, but they will not receive points.

RULES

• Recommend at least three fanworks from main or bonus rounds. Your recommendations don’t have to be connected in any way, and you do not need permission to recommend a work.
• Don't rec your own work. You can recommend things created by your own team, but please spread the love to other teams too.
• Each recommendation must include at least two sentences explaining why that fanwork is awesome. Please use the format specified below.
• You may recommend as many works as you like, as long as they are posted separately in groups of at least three.
• There will be no prompts for this round. Simply post each fill/recommendation list 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.

Format your comment in the following way:

If FILLING (all teams):

FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP] 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 Copy and paste the following form into a comment and fill it out. Delete things in brackets, and leave the HTML alone. <b>Title:</b> <b>URL:</b> <b>Creator(s):</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Major Tags:</b> <b>Why is this work awesome?:</b> -- <b>Title:</b> <b>URL:</b> <b>Creator(s):</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Major Tags:</b> <b>Why is this work awesome?:</b> -- <b>Title:</b> <b>URL:</b> <b>Creator(s):</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Major Tags:</b> <b>Why is this work awesome?:</b> [you can copy-and-paste this format to include more recs in your comment if you'd like.]

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.

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Comments

FILL: Team Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou

[doxian]

furumiyu edition

Title: I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits. (furumiyu) (fic)
URL: http://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/15224.html?thread=6743928#cmt6743928
Creator(s): luckycricket33
Rating: T
Major Tags: none
Why is this work awesome?: the imagery in this is so rich and beautiful. a lot of it is (intentionally, i think?) awkward but it works so well, when you're starting to kiss someone for the first time it can be hella awkward (esp if you're a teenage boy) but that doesn't mean it can't also feel amazing or that you can't love it for all its awkwardness. the /specificity/ is so great, like, Miyuki being weirded out by how Furuya's tongue feels and thinking about how he never thinks about how /he also has a tongue in his own mouth, that feels like that too/. a lot of the descriptions are also super creative (e.g. riffing on the line drawn in the sand; "he thin tense resolution like the membrane from inside a boiled egg, holds firm and keeps miyuki on his feet."; "furuya sucks his face the way a beast with a snout devours ripe mangoes. [...] [miyuki] is rotten fruit and he is ready to be eaten" < screams into my hands that second line i'm never going to be over it)

i also love seeing Miyuki's slow falling, even right from the start. thinking that he's past the point of no return and then acknowledging that he isn't, he just likes to think he already is bc it's easier, probably. slowly noticing that he's getting used to it, and becoming worried about it. "he did not want to start needing a thing that came with an expiration date." in contrast, i love how untroubled and happy to roll with it Furuya is.

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Title: Miyuki's social life is completely fine and needs no adjustments (kagemiyu, furumiyu, oimiyu friendship) (fic)
URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/7151078
Creator(s): tsunderekita
Rating: M
Major Tags: nsfw, brief unwanted touching, violence, BDSM mentions, alcohol
Why is this work awesome?: the prompt was: "remember when miyuki grabbed a stranger's junk because he wasn't wearing his glasses and thought they were furuya. remember how that happened to kageyama." it happens at a party Oikawa invites Miyuki to. "but, Doxy," you ask, "isn't this a furumiyu rec li--" LOOK, the basis is furumiyu and that's enough for me ok ;;

for a while after reading this i was so excited about the idea of Furuya and Miyuki having regular casual sex, like, regular enough that Miyuki thinks nothing of sidling up to him at a party and, without any preamble, asking him to go bang (the alcohol probably helped ;;); that he'd think of dragging Furuya to a party with him in the first place; that he doesn't /get/ like this very much, doesn't want sex very much, but when he does he wants Furuya. i usually think of these two as romantic and maybe it seems like a simple thing to go "what if FWBs?" but i'd never considered it before this and now i can conclude that i am v much into it.

THAT SAID-- Furuya isn't in the fic and if i had to point at a ship that the fic focuses on, i'd say it actually centers around oimiyu's friendship. i haven't really gotten into oimiyu as a ship although i know a few people who have, but i really like how their friendship is portrayed here? Oikawa being annoying and calling him a messy drunk and poking into Miyuki's personal life >:] >:]

most of the fic is just Miyuki being a shitshow at a party. i really like how the narrative starts the morning after, so you get this aftermath of Miyuki being hungover and in class and with a swollen cheek and irritated, and you have to trace back to the night before to figure out what caused all that. i really enjoyed all the gratuitous crossover and spotting all the cameos from other sports anime series, pfft.

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Title: furumiyu mermaids (fic)
URL: http://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/16113.html?thread=7514865#cmt7514865
Creator(s): hqqt
Rating: T
Major Tags: drowning, bodily fluids (vomit), body horror (mild)
Why is this work awesome?: Furuya is a mermaid and rescues Miyuki after he falls into the goddamn sea. i am so weak for mermaid stuff but this is a particularly good one.

i love how Furuya looks: the barnacles on his cheek, the translucent tail, the gills that spread over his chest like external ribs and the glowing markings (of COURSE he's bioluminescent, i'm so glad). he sounds beautiful but also so, so obviously not human. i also like how he barely says anything in the entire fic and mostly shows things through action. what he DOES say, though, feels v important - sharing his name and thanking Miyuki. (and stating the obvious - "you aren't dead" - pfft.) i like how he kisses Miyuki so abruptly, and it seems so out of the blue although what he did probably makes perfect sense to him.

Miyuki-- i like how Miyuki got himself in this mess bc he was curious and wanted to pick something/someone apart. why am i even surprised. i love that even when he's about to drown and when he's met a /supernatural creature/ he still thinks about baseball and compares things to baseball. i was also tickled by the ending where he's just like "all of this just happened, it sure has been a hell of a day".