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Bonus Round 2: Tic-Tac-Toe
Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible. There's a lot of text here, but if you read carefully and follow the instructions step by step, you will be okay.
RULES
Please refer to the first comment thread of this post for an example of how this round works.PROMPTING
- Select a ship to create your prompt card about. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Haruki & Kazuma). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Haruki/Kazuma). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
- Visit this card generator.
- Here is a visual guide to using it.
- The large text box is where you can list prompts if you have your own ideas. Please list at least 9 prompts; you can list more if you want. (The generator says you need at least 24, but it's lying.) Single words or short phrases are better than sentences.
- Otherwise, you can use the dropdown menu found right below it. Note: some of these prompts lists are NSFW. (NSFW prompts are a-ok as long as you tag for it.) If you don't like some of the options that appear in a prompt list, you can delete them.
- Text prompts only, please. Also, each card square must be unique—don't list the same prompt 9 times.
- In "Configuration Options," make sure you select 3x3 and (Normal prompt). This is the most important step!
- Leave the tic-tac-toe card with its default colors, so everyone can read it clearly.
- Click the "Create a bingo card" button.
- Scroll down to see the card that was created for you. If you don't like the prompts it picked, you can reroll by clicking "Create a bingo card" again.
- When you're satisfied, scroll further down the page until you see a textarea box full of HTML.
- Copy and paste the HTML from the box and into the body of your prompt comment, then post!
FILLING
Fill prompts by selecting an individual square to create fanwork for, then leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work. (Optional:) If you can fill three squares from a prompt in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, you get a tic-tac-toe (and an additional point bonus)! You can also just fill prompts as you please and get standard points.
- Prompt squares are labeled as follows:
A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 A3 B3 C3 - If you're trying for tic-tac-toe, you cannot combine squares into one fill. If your fill can satisfy multiple squares, pick the most relevant square: e.g., one square is sailing and another is pirates and you make a fill about pirates sailing, it's mostly pirates so put down the pirates square.
- Each fill must stand alone as an individual piece, but all your fills can slot into a larger universe if you'd like.
- You cannot fill a prompt square more than once, but you can fill every square on a tic tac toe card if you want to.
- You cannot work with your teammates to get a tic-tac-toe. Only individually achieved tic-tac-toes get the bonus.
- Multiple people can fill the same prompt square. You cannot "block" others from getting tic-tac-toe.
- Remember to also follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
- Here is a prompt/fill index for your convenience.
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/images)
- 14 lines (poetry)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
| FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [SQUARE], [RATING]
| FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [SQUARE], [RATING]
|
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 for each tic-tac-toe card (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
Tic-tac-toe Bonus: 2 points each for the first 12 achieved by your team
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!
FILL: TEAM HIMURO TATSUYA/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, B2, G
Fandom: free!
Major Tags: mentions of minor character death, anime spoilers
Other Tags: mentions of death via drowning
Square: saltwater
Word Count: 456
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He thinks it's fitting, that his earliest memory is of water. Maybe living beside the ocean is what shaped him to be who he is now, a boy who seems to have saltwater in his veins instead of blood, who seems better suited to swim among fish than be around other people on land. Any way he saw it, he was always meant to swim, remembering the first time his parents took him to the beach, the first time he laid his eyes on the sea, glittering in the sun and looming farther beyond what his eyes can reach. Even as a child, he had no time for the sand or any other entertainment offered by the shore.
He wanted the sea.
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He's there with Makoto the first time he befriends the fisherman, the kindly old man giving them both some of his catch in plastic bags to take home and make dinner with. He never really spoke to the man — it's always been Makoto who made conversations flow — but he remembers the strong hands, the kind eyes.
He's there with Makoto when they tell him what had happened to the fisherman after the storm.
Neither of them really looked at the ocean the same way, after that, but the difference lay in how Haru still wanted to return to it, embracing both the life and destruction it brings.
He understands, somehow, how things can be beautiful and terrible at the same time.
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Rin is shouting at him, his voice like an echo against the walls of Haru's heart and the blame that it was painted with, telling Haru things he knows aren't true. It's your fault, whisper the walls, you did this to him.
He shakes his head to himself. He's already conquered these demons, but he didn't do it alone.
Rin is angry (like Haru was) and it's only at himself (like Haru used to be, too.) He grabs the front of Haru's jacket as Haru tries to tell him everything, now, everything that's been pent up and screaming at him for not letting Rin know sooner, then Rin pulls his arm back and Haru catches his wrist and they fall to the ground, filthy and harried and bursting, until suddenly it stops.
And then there's saltwater on Haru's face instead of his veins and for the first time in a long time Haru's glad to be on land, submerged only under the warmth of Rin's tears.
You're here, he wants to say, but he's always been more expressive with his silence so all he does is drink Rin in, drinks in the terror and beauty he brings, and Haru feels the way he feels when he's looking at the sea.