Bonus Round 3: FSTs

[referees]

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

Profess your love for your favorite ships with the power of song! In this round, we ask you to create fan soundtracks and use them as inspiration for new fanwork.

Please read this whole post before commenting to ensure that your team gets the most points possible.

RULES

• Submit prompts in the form of a short playlist (1-6 songs) and a ship from any of our nominated fandoms. Submit only the track listing and a link to where they can be listened to; the idea is for others to interpret what you present. You may also link to lyrics if you would like.
• Your prompt MUST include some kind of relationship. Platonic relationships are indicated by an "&" between the names (e.g., Lilia & Sara). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Lilia/Sara). Please don't say "Any pairing," either.
• Create content based on the playlists of others! Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
• Fills may be in any form you choose (except for another FST of course) as long as they are inspired by/fit the mood of the soundtrack they are filling for.
• Remember to 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)
• 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. (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> <a href="">song title here</a>	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>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <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"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ 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>Ship:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <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"/>. Thumbnails only, please; more info @ 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!

Comments

FILL: Team Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, M

[moetushie]

Ship: Sousuke/Haru
Fandom: Free!
Major Tags: Character death
Other Tags: when u said post-apocalyptic, i heard zombies
Word Count: 749

AO3 link

***


Haru didn’t understand why Rin always insisted on including Sousuke in their foraging expeditions until the day Nagisa was almost bit. Nagisa was always the quickest one of them -- on land, anyway -- and the walker had come out nowhere. And after a moment of crystallized shock, the walker’s head disappeared in a puff of red mist. Haru whirled around to see Sousuke shouldering his rifle. They exchanged cool looks of acknowledgement. Haru didn’t question the need for Sousuke to come along with them again.

*

Try as hard as they could, they lost people, one by one. Makoto hadn’t ever been right since the rising began and he had lost both his parents and his younger siblings. He gone first and it nearly killed Haru to lose him. It was only the reappearance of Rin that stopped him from following Makoto. There was still Nagisa and Rei and Gou to take care of, after all.

And then there was Sousuke, a shadow that always lurked behind Rin. He’d stuck to the Matsuokas shortly after the rising. From Rin Haru learned that the three of them were pretty much the only family left for each other.

Rei was picked up by what was left of the military. They were gathering up what was left of the scientific community to find a cure for the walkers, and apparently, a particularly smart high schooler qualified. Nagisa had gone along with Rei -- it was impossible to separate them, after all. At both Rin and Sousuke's strenuous insistence, Gou had gone with them -- there was no more room for the the rest of them.

Haru, Rin and Sousuke watched them go, each knowing that they'd done the right thing.

Nagisa and Gou waved at them frantically, until the twist of the road swallowed them up.

*

The blood was hardly noticeable, against the red of Rin’s hair. He was still smiling when Haru reached him, slipping on the blood as he did so, his teeth biting so hard that Haru could see the pinpricks of red on his lower lip. “Rin, Rin, don’t --” Haru babbled, “don’t leave us, please.”

Rin’s eyes flickered over to where Sousuke was, a half a step behind Haru. “You guys are going to be okay?”

“Yeah,” Sousuke said.

“Damn liar!” Haru said, his voice ripped from his throat. How could they be okay now? How would anything be okay again?

Sousuke leaned down and whispered in Haru’s ear, his breath sour. “He’s dying, you fucking twit. Just lie.”

*

They’d taken Rin’s body and stolen a boat. The boat was because walkers turned out to to be terrible swimmers, and also -- Haru felt sure that Rin would have wanted to be buried at sea. They’d wrapped Rin’s body in the inflatable life raft and consigned him to the sea. If the boat sank now, Haru supposed that they were fucked. Sousuke seemed to know how to work the controls, so Haru stayed on deck and watched the sea.


*

When the gas ran out, Haru thought that this was it. The end. Sousuke had laid out their remaining supplies -- enough food for a week. Enough water for five days. Enough bullets for two shots to the head. Haru took it all in and realized something then. Despite it all, all the losses -- Makoto, Rin, all their dreams for the future -- he still didn’t want to die. He wanted to live, as disparately as before.

He looked up and saw Sousuke and saw the same feeling echoed in his eyes.

*

Haru woke up on the day the water ran out to an odd stillness. He pushed Sousuke off him -- they slept curled around each other, to conserve heat on the chillier nights at sea -- and realized that the boat was no longer rocking with the waves. He shook Sousuke awake -- Sousuke leveled his glare at him, but that didn’t have the power to scare him anymore.

“We’ve stopped,” Sousuke said, stating the obvious.

“Maybe we’re stuck on a reef?” Haru said, hopefully.

“Might still be in the middle of the sea, stuck on one of those garbage islands,” Sousuke warned him, but Haru was already out of the cabin. They had hit a reef -- and Haru could see a dark shape of an island in the distance. It was covered with trees and had a long, white beach that he thought he could reach, if he just reached for it.

He wanted to cry with happiness. He wanted to hug someone. And since Sousuke was the only one left, the only one who knew what Haru knew, he hugged him. Sousuke surprised him by kissing him, and Haru surprised himself by kissing him back.

For the first time in a long time, Haru felt something like hope.