sportsanime | Bonus Round 1.5: AUs

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

Second verse, same as the first! This is an overflow post for br1, meant to hold new prompts and their fills (so that we don't hit comment cap on the first br post).

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. (There are changes from last year!)

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms. There's a comment template below for your convenience.
- 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., Izumi & Sakaeguchi). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Izumi/Sakaeguchi). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
An AU can be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [character] was the Team Captain instead of the canon captain character?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g., pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
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. 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. 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 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>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 after the asterisks. 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"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit 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>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"/>. Consider posting only a thumbnail if the image is large. For more info, visit 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.

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.

If you see anyone breaking the code of conduct (e.g., causing drama, being rude) anywhere (not just DW), please contact the mods immediately.

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).

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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oooh. Gimme your EM Forster rant. I like some of his books (A Room with a View and Maurice, tbh) but his views on women were shit.

Sorry I should have said no ulterior motives ;)

(Akashi's secret objective of course is to have a network of (future) naval commanders who owe their loyalty to him! To help with his world domination objectives natch.)

Okay, all I know about Oikawa was that he gave Kageyama a complex so.... Yeah, I can see it. Kasamatsu/Oikawa, the senpais that give their more talented kouhais a complex! (Although I don't think Kasamatsu would agree with this assesment. Oikawa is a lot like Kise, isn't he?)

(Good.)

;SL;JS;DFJSF OKAY SO SOME BACKSTORY. Picture little Damien at 16, sitting in the English A1 High class, star student and teacher's favorite receiving A Passage to India to read and being briefly hyped because HEY A BOOK SET IN INDIA, I AM FROM SRI LANKA, THIS IS SO COOL - oh. it's all about the white people. and the white woman accuses her brown guide of rape. and then it's portrayed as a false accusation. so basically women and brown people both get shafted and the sheer fucking colonialist fetishization of the entire book pissed me off so much - except I didn't have that vocabulary back then!

My best friend (then and now!) is a white girl who was probs the 2nd best student in the class. She loved it, I hated it, and I had no real way to express why except "too many people think that rape accusations are fake already" and "I don't like how he wrote the Indians". Even the homosexual subtext could not save that book for me.

ANYWAY. I EVENTUALLY GREW UP (as people tend to do when time passes) AND LEARNT A BETTER VOCABULARY TO EXPLAIN WHY THAT BOOK WAS A MASSIVE SLAP IN THE FACE TO SOMEONE WHO JUST WANTED TO SEE THE SUBCONTINENT REPRESENTED WELL.

It just really sucks when the books that the school gives you (A Passage to India, Kim, etc) are always from the outsider's viewpoint. There are plenty of South Asian writers! How about putting some of THEM on the curriculum? How about getting THEIR view of THEIR country? And ffs, the White Women In Peril trope is just so painful.

And. Yes. I can so see that being Akashi's secret objective but HOW DO FULL SIZE PORTRAITS TIE INTO THAT? I AM STILL SUSPICIOUS.

Oikawa also nearly hit Kageyama but Oikawa's best friend held him back. And Oikawa has fangirls, is very attractive and confident, and is definitely like Kise. But he's also very manipulative and his motto is literally "hit it til it breaks".

Oh heeeeeey, I'm from Bangladesh. What are the odds? (Pretty good, I guess, given the population size.) But still! *desi fistbump*

Your feelings about Forster is my feelings about Kipling. I hate him so much! And his work is even more conservative than Forster's is, i.e. the White Man's Burden, literally, etc, but yesh, yes, A Passage to India is definitely a work of failed liberalism. It's interesting as a historical piece, but a positive or accurate portrayal of India it is not. I wouldn't really expect that from Western creaters, not even now (I sometimes catch the terrible Indian Summers on TV and can't help hissing at the screen. Of course, Indian creators aren't exempt from Empire-nostalgia either, apparently -- I was so disappointed in Gurinder Chadra for making shit like The Viceroy's House, what crap.)

And ofc, male writers think the worst thing that can happen to a woman is rape OR ofc women would lie about that because they're harpies who want to bring a man down. *LOUD, LOUD SIGH*

I think Forster is probably best with a story that's closest to his own life - Maurice, tbh.

Akashi is the literally embodiment of the Kate Beaton Nemesis comic only instead of one portrait, he has five. Nemesises!!!

Hmmmmmm. Interesting. So he's what Kise seemed like in the first five minutes of his introduction, huh? Intereeeeeeesting.

OH HEY AWESOME. desi fistbump indeed!

oh my god, Kipling did such a fucking number on my head. The Jungle Book is so adored, Disney has that cute film and then some teacher at school gives me Kim and on the first read through, I think it's a cool adventure story and then at some point, I REALIZE KIM IS HELPING THE BRITISH SUPPRESS THE INDIAN PEOPLE. And I flatline. Because what the FUCK, the entire book is all about how Kim belongs with the native people despite being half-bred and is accepted as one of them - BUT THEN HE JOINS UP WITH THE BRITISH AND STABS PRACTICALLY EVERYONE IN THE BACK. The fuck, Kipling? The. Fuck.

"These are my people -- until the British come along! Then I'm one of them! Even though I'll always be a half-caste to them!" IT IS NOT A GREAT GAME, YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE, IT'S REAL PEOPLE'S LIVES. (Did you ever watch It Ain't Alf Hot, Mom? It's about British soldiers in India and just. Painful. And the Indians weren't played by Indian actors either.)

BUT YEAH. Major resentment towards Forster and Kipling and that entire fucking class.

I actually didn't like the woman much either. Not just for the 'false' rape accusation but because as a character, she wasn't interesting. She read like she was undeveloped, which may be because of what you say about Forster doing best when he writes what he knows about.

I just want to scream when male writers use FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS FOR DRAMA because do you KNOW how rare false rape accusations? Yet lit gives the impression they happen ALL THE TIME.

I had to Google it and now I started laughing. omg. Well. At least nobody walked up to Kise and went "hey, doesn't Lord Akashi sleep with a painting of you on his pillow?"

Oikawa's... actually like a mix between Imayoshi and Kise. He's got the good looks and popular appeal of Kise but he's very scheming and holds grudges like whoa. His best friend has to keep smacking him down to earth.

Bonus Round 1.5: AUs

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