sportsanime | Bonus Round 6: Remixes

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Bonus Round 6: Remixes

The goal is in sight, participants! Let's finish strong by drawing upon the thousands of fanworks you've created this summer and putting them in new lights.

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

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

RULES

Choose a fanwork created by other participants in a previous main or bonus round of SASO 2017 and create a new piece based on it. You could create a fanart of another work, an FST inspired by a piece’s style, a podfic of someone else's work, retell another person’s fanfic from another point of view, create a new fanfic inspired by a great piece of art... go wild! Sequels do count as remixes, with limits: "And then the same thing happened again" is not ok, but "And then some totally new thing happened" is fine, and please don't create only sequels.
You cannot remix your teammates' works. You cannot remix your own works. You can remix fills that were created to your own prompts.
You can remix a remix, but if we see any remix chains we'll be upset, so do this with moderation and restraint.
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)
8 tracks (fanmixes)

There is no max work cap.

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. 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.
(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!) Ship: Fandom: Major Tags: (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) Other Tags: (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.) Original Work: <a href="url">link</a> (place the DW link here) Word Count: (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.
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- 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]

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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 HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) Ship: Fandom: Major Tags: (https://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/1609.html, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) Other Tags: (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.) Original Work: <a href="url">link</a>(place the DW link here) Word Count: (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.
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- Art/visual fills can be hosted anywhere; you may include a small safe-for-work thumbnail of the fill in your comment.

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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)

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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
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Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 453

***

“I still haven’t forgiven you,” Taiga tells him, and Tatsuya nods (he wouldn’t expect that; he doesn’t deserve that, not now and maybe not ever, for everything). “I love you, though, so.”

He pulls Tatsuya through the doorframe, all that exists of the house he’s building, materials chopped down from the mediocre land given to them by the colonists’ kindness and a promise to pay it back and forward, the help Tatsuya’s given them with their own mechanics even before he’d started to pay off the debt for fixing the detonator in his chest. It’s hollow, now, but Taiga always seems to fill it, like the ocean seeping through the cracks in a badly-made rowboat. But right now he’s held against Taiga’s chest, fully human, the doorframe above them, high enough and promising higher ceilings that they will build. Maybe a second floor, someday, Taiga says, and Tatsuya catches himself agreeing. He fits his arms around Taiga’s waist and he feels like his chest is so full it’s about to burst.

*

Taiga no longer talks about the father he was going to bring the treasure back to, the planet he was supposed to return to, the home on which he would bridge the gap to paradise. Tatsuya doesn’t want to bring it up, but sooner or later he drags it into a fight, because he’s always got to be stuffing his mouth with his foot.

“Don’t you get it?” Taiga says, and then breaks off, gesturing to Tatsuya, to the house they’d built, the room around them, the shelves Taiga had sanded down and Tatsuya had nailed to the wall, and oh, fuck.

Tatsuya wants to ask if it’s a compromise he’s had to make, but he already knows the answer.

“It’s hard,” Taiga says, quietly. “But I’m not trading you for anything. I thought I already proved it.”

Tatsuya can’t look away from the ground; it’s like he keeps failing the same goddamn test, except every time he still keeps Taiga.

*

This isn’t a mythical paradise, draped in gold and silver and myth. It’s not the thing people chase forever; it’s not the thing for which anyone would try and blow themself up. It’s better than anything Tatsuya could have ever pursued or dreamed up, better than the riches and the tantalizing treasures that had haunted his dreams year after year. But it’s him and Taiga and a home they’ve carved out themselves, a relationship reinforced with gold and copper wires, carefully navigated. Forgiveness where the point isn’t whether or not Tatsuya had deserved it, but that Taiga had wanted him to take it. The opposite end of the galaxy from where they’d started, maybe, but it seems fitting how far they’ve come.

GOD DAMN IT HEDGE I HAVEN'T EVEN LISTENED YET BUT I DID JUST SING THE LYRICS TO MYSELF IN MY FUCKING HOUSE AND STARTLED MY GUINEA PIG I CAN'T EVEN WAIT

Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 409

not a direct sequel but sometime after that

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/92497.html

Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 420

***

Alex probably never had to tell them to look like they were in love in the first place. Taiga had probably been doing it all along, even when he hadn’t wanted to let himself; maybe Tatsuya had wanted that kind of permission but it’s not like Taiga can pretend not to see it once he’s started. The way Tatsuya looks a second too long, the ghost of a smile on his lips, his hand so snugly in Taiga’s even before they had admitted anything.

Once, Taiga had heard about ballroom dancing couples doing better, knowing each other in every sense, people whose shared love of dance had led them to a love of each other. More, many times since then, he has heard of dancing that rips couples apart, the anger that simmers beneath the swift crack of their shoes against the wood floors, holding each other close with intensity in their eyes that could be mistaken for love, focus for adoration. He had asked Alex about that and she had sighed and told him that people remember the drama more than they remember the happy stories, because happy stories can seem boring and draw jealousy when they don’t happen to you.

It’s not that he and Tatsuya don’t fight; even in the middle of competitions they’ve argued about stupid shit, less stupid shit, serious shit. It doesn’t make them love each other any less; it doesn’t make them any less willing to cooperate and compete; it doesn’t change the intensity in their eyes and doesn’t make the yearning as they swap outfits in the dressing room any less intense, at least on Taiga’s end. (They always make up before they have sex, though; sex isn’t a problem solver or anything that can stave off the feelings.) And while a win can smooth things over, especially when they’re fighting about dance-related stuff, it’s never enough on its own.

But always, the fighting never wears down the base of trust that’s there, the trust that Tatsuya has in Taiga to lift him up in the air over his head like it’s effortless, spin him out and dip him back, the trust that Taiga has in Tatsuya to do his moves in a mirror, dance backwards first and then push the courage forward for him to move backwards. The shaking muscles, aching feet with blisters from shoes that haven’t quite worn in yet, reciprocal care to the bodies that don’t look quite so flawless out from under the lights and glitter.

Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 415

***

http://saso-afterhours.dreamwidth.org/92788.html

Ship: Aomine/Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 429

***

Taiga supposes it's only because he knows Tatsuya so well that he sees right through him so easily. Daiki doesn’t, and he can’t be that dumb to have made it this far in the royal guards, for him to be competent enough to trust with Tatsuya in his hands. Taiga supposes he’s both privileged and cursed with this, but it’s not like there’s a reason to keep it to himself, not after the third night in a row that Tatsuya excuses himself, egging the two of them on just have a night in by themselves because he’s too tired out from royal duty (the thinnest excuse Taiga’s ever heard, but Daiki seems to accept it).

“You do realize what he’s doing?” says Taiga, as they sit in the antechamber just outside of Tatsuya’s bedroom.

“What?” says Daiki.

Taiga sighs. “He’s trying to set us up, take himself out of the equation.”

“Um,” says Daiki. “What? Does he have like, some long-ago betrothed or something like that?”

“No,” says Taiga. “There’s none of that sort of pressure on him. It’s just...if he sees a chance to pull this kind of shit, he’s going to do it. Like, put yourself in his shoes, you know, you’re the prince, country comes before everything else and all that. I was raised to sacrifice everything for him, and this is kind of his way of trying to repay—and, like.”

Taiga sighs; there’s too much to explain and it’s all connected, no one part that really comes first. It’s just all there, dependent on itself in a circle, closer to a messy ball of yarn. But Daiki looks at him like he gets the gist of it, and Taiga’s not going to tell him he knew he was smart. So he presses a brief kiss to Daiki’s mouth instead.

“We have to talk with him about it, you know.”

“Yeah,” says Daiki. “Shit. How can he—we dedicated ourselves to him; how does he get that idea?”

“He doesn’t think we don’t want him, more like there always has to be a catch if he’s happy. Because that’s what royalty is, catches and exchanges.”

“But we’re like, the opposite of that.”

“I know,” says Taiga. “It’s just.”

Daiki shrugs. “We’ll get him to listen.”

Taiga smiles. He’s going to have to need a hell of a lot of that stark confidence to deal with Tatsuya and all of his complications and preemptive bargaining, but, well. Tatsuya had picked a good one, so Taiga kisses him again. For luck, but also just because.

Ship: Kagami/Himuro
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Original Work: link by

kiyala
Word Count: 430

***

They did the whole thing out of order, but it’s not like life is a series of steps that go in sequence. They know that much already, at least, going all the way back to the days when it was just the two of them playing streetball until dark together, really. You’re supposed to meet and go on a date and have sex and fall in love and get to know each other, except they’d met and gotten to know each other and fallen in love and had sex and only now, two months after they’d started spending all the time together they could, are they going on their first official date.

Yes, the wedding had come near the end of the summer and they’d had training camp and basketball keeping them apart until now, but they could have just gotten it done right then, gone somewhere low key and bumped knees under the table because this was all so new. It’s still all so new, and Taiga wonders if that’s going to wear off. Probably some day, but he’d like to think there are infinite things to discover in Tatsuya, not enough to cram into their lifetimes even though they’re going to live until they’re at least a hundred and ten.

Instead of going straight to Tatsuya’s place, Taiga had gone back to the hotel to change into jeans and a hoodie; he sprays a little cologne on and hopes he doesn’t run into any of his teammates on the way down or he’ll never hear the end of it (hey, at least they're not going to this date on the subway, as much as Tatsuya would go for that; Tatsuya’s worth at least a cab on every date). He tells the cabbie to stop outside of Tatsuya’s room; it’s drizzling and Tatsuya under the half-burned lights on the front of his building, the rain dotting the air like freckles, sucks the air out of Taiga’s lungs.

“What?” says Tatsuya.

“Where you going?” says the cabbie.

“168 and Broadway.”

The cabbie sighs, and Taiga just looks at Tatsuya, trying to breathe and give him the answer just like this. Tatsuya smiles at him, soft and real in the dark and Taiga swallows.

“You smell pretty good,” Tatsuya says as they get out of the cab.

Taiga doesn’t really remember how the wings he gets taste, or the beer he gets or Tatsuya’s, which he gets a sip of, or the coffee they buy afterwards, but all of that is incidental, because all he wants to remember is Tatsuya.

Ship: tendou/semi
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: spoken word, water sounds, implied alcohol/drinking
Original Work: you find him on the empty beach by

earlgrey_milktea
Word Count: None

***

Please listen here!

Ship: kuroo/bokuto
Fandom: haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: spoken word
Original Work: hazy gold kisses the horizon by

earlgrey_milktea
Word Count: None

***

Please listen here!

Ship: miyuki /& various
Fandom: daiya no ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: spoken word, music!!
Original Work: it’s the first of many by

kazuyas
Word Count: None

I hope you like the chord progression, because my music brain IMMEDIATELY went there

***

Please listen here!

Ship: Bokuto/Oikawa
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: university post-canon, Bokuto needs looking after, Oikawa needs looking after, Sawamura is their hapless roommate teammate friend
Original Work: link
Word Count: 1013

I was so all about the Bokuto and Oikawa dynamic in the original fill, and I totally wanted to write the lead up and fade out of it, how Oikawa goes in thinking he's spoiling Bokuto when it's the other way. Also somehow I've been stuck with the Oikawa and Sawamura apartment sharing since last SASO.

***

Oikawa isn't so sure about being on the same team as Bokuto when his first year of university starts. They've never met, due to Aoba Johsai's Nationals roadblock, so Oikawa knows Bokuto by reputation only as a loud, somewhat overbearing spiker with intense mood swings that his team babies him through, for some reason. He's sure they're going to get paired up, between their same year and Bokuto's spiking stats and Oikawa's reputation for being able to work with anyone, and Oikawa isn't looking forward to having to baby some glass cannon when he's hours away from home for the first time and not feeling his stablest himself.

He confesses as much to Sawamura, his erstwhile roommate, as they're unpacking their boxes in their Tokyo apartment. Sawamura is a good listener but tells Oikawa that he actually thinks the two of them might get on rather well, and that he should give it a chance.

"After all, you don't hate living with me yet, right?" Sawamura asks. "I bet you're surprised."

"Jury's still out," Oikawa sniffs, all the while wondering how long before he can upgrade to calling Sawamura Dai-chan. "And I'm not sure I can trust your opinion, given how much you love your little team of weirdos."

But the semester starts, and practices along with it, whether Oikawa is ready or not. He's hoping at least the routine of classes and practices will ease some of the homesickness, but it's a challenge to keep his friendly smile up when the first thing that happens is that a over-muscled spiky-haired freshman bounds up to Oikawa like an overexcited labradoodle.

"You're Oikawa-kun, right?!" he asks, sticking out his hand. Oikawa shakes it, one eyebrow raised.

"And you're Bokuto-kun," Oikawa answers. Bokuto bobs his head. "Well, let's work hard. And please take care of me, I guess."

"Nah, it's definitely me who should say that," Bokuto says, actually scuffing his foot. Is this guy for real? Oikawa wonders to himself as Bokuto turns and looks this way and that, trying to watch the whole gym at once as guys warm up and their new coach barks orders.

Bokuto, as it turns out, is absolutely for real, and they do get on, just like Sawamura said. It's just that Bokuto is so eager to please, tries whatever Oikawa suggests, is always ready to do another round of drills, stay later, work harder. When Bokuto inevitably has a meltdown during their second week there, Oikawa keeps tossing to him even though Bokuto doesn't pull out of it for half a dozen points and it costs them the practice match.

"Didn't have to do that," Bokuto mutters when they're sitting on the bench next to each other. Behind them a few other first years are muttering much the same thing to each other. "It's fine to ignore me when I get all…" He waves a hand, eyes downcast.

"It's not fine at all," Oikawa says crisply, giving a sharp look to the complainers until they look away, embarrassed. When he turns his focus back to Bokuto, Bokuto is looking at him with wide eyes, unsure. "I have to earn your trust, don't I? If we're going to work together."

"You do?" Bokuto's eyes somehow get rounder, more golden. "But…I mean, there's lots of good guys here. Ones who aren't so much trouble as me. Everybody's so talented, and you can set for any of them."

"Hm, you'll do fine, I think," Oikawa says archly, although he can't hide all of the smile at Bokuto's wide grin spreading over his face like sunshine. "So let's make a deal, all right? I'll toss to you, and you'll hit it for me. I can trust you, right?"

Bokuto's whole spine straightens. He holds out his fist, pinky sticking out. "Pinky swear!" Oikawa hooks his finger with Bokuto's to shake on it, and that's how it's been ever since.

But it takes a while for it to sink in that Bokuto's affections mean that he will do just about anything Oikawa asks, up to and including piggybacking Oikawa home after a long, exhausting practice. With his cheek against Bokuto's warm shoulder, Oikawa tries to remember a single time Bokuto has told him no for anything, and comes up empty.

Bokuto lets Oikawa wear his favorite, softest sweatshirt, even when Oikawa doesn't give it back right away. Bokuto doesn't mind when Oikawa crashes his apartment and turns the action movie over to the news. Bokuto is only too happy to come along when Oikawa asks him to go sneaker shopping on the weekend, even when they go to three more stores after and he ends up holding all of Oikawa's bags.

"Here we go!" Bokuto says, sitting Oikawa's feet back on the floor gently in his room. He stretches, rolling his neck. "You want first shower?"

What he wants…Oikawa steps forward into Bokuto's space and puts his hands on either side of Bokuto's face, and then he leans in to press their mouths together, Bokuto's eyes so wide. It only lasts a second before Oikawa pulls back to examine Bokuto's face. "Yes?"

Bokuto nods so fast his hair spikes wave, but when he leans forward, Oikawa leans back. Bokuto tilts his head, confused.

"You never tell me no," Oikawa says, chewing his lip. "Why not?"

"'Cause I wanna say yes," Bokuto chuckles. His hands come up to the small of Oikawa's back and splay there, so big and warm that Oikawa wants to melt. "You never ask me to do anything I don't want to."

"Oh," Oikawa says faintly, letting Bokuto kiss him this time. It's long and sweet, Oikawa's eyes fluttering shut as Bokuto pulls him in closer and Oikawa's hands settle on his chest. When it finally does break, Oikawa's short of breath, too close to see anything but Bokuto's warm, golden eyes.

"Yes?" Bokuto asks, grinning with just a hint of tease.

Oikawa shoves him, delight rippling over him when Bokuto's strong grip means he goes nowhere. "You really need that shower."

!!! thank you so much! this is so beautiful- that shade of red, the silhouette and thorns and roses along the edges. and the hem of a dress, too? the scissors are such a great touch, and this looks like the cover for a book- if it was a book cover, i'd immediately pick it up. thank you! i love it!

Ship: Himuro/Various, Himuro/Kagami
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: sexual content
Other Tags: himuro will eat your heart kagami what are u doing
Original Work: link by

fickle
Word Count: 538

***

He fucked with Taiga’s boyfriends because he wanted to. He fucked Taiga’s boyfriends because he had to. Tatsuya couldn’t quite pinpoint the exact moment his life became like this -- moving to Tokyo after high school, moving in with Taiga had seemed such a good idea at the time. Then he started to do the thing that he did. Ruining things. Messing them and breaking things without any thought of how to stop it.

First, it was Kuroko. He knew that would be the cruelest blow because of course Taiga loved Kuroko best. Kuroko was his partner in so many ways -- on the court and off. But it had been so easy to take him from Taiga, so easy that Tatsuya was almost disappointed when he leaned in for a kiss after a long afternoon of talk and soft flirtation, and Kuroko had leaned in too.

He forgot, sometimes, that both Taiga and Kuroko were younger than him -- more in experience than in years -- but when he looked up to see Taiga standing at the door, his face young and stark with shock, he remembered again.

He smiled, to reassure Taiga that it would be all right.

*

“He wasn’t right for you,” he told Taiga later, even though he knew Taiga was raging inside, barely holding it in. He wouldn’t look at Tatsuya, but that was all right. Tatsuya knew Taiga well enough to know that he would forgive him. He had to. Taiga was all Tatsuya loved.

*

Aomine was easy to control. Tatsuya had only needed to give him a barely suggestion of interest and there he was, preening at the attention, immediately receptive to whatever debauchery Tatsuya suggested.

He fucked so well that Tatsuya thought about calling him again, even after Taiga had caught them, Aomine red-assed from where Tatsuya had spanked him and Tatsuya on his back. He beckoned Taiga closer, as an invitation as well as a challenge, but he knew that Taiga wouldn’t accept it.

Not yet.

He wondered how drunk Taiga would have to be to take what he wanted and what Tatsuya wanted to give him. How fucked the both of them were (Taiga hadn’t been, before Tatsuya had gotten ahold of him -- but that was Tatsuya’s gift.)

*

Taiga started avoiding him.

And that could not stand.

*

Mibuchi, Kise, none of these boys mattered much to Tatsuya. They knew it too and took it easily enough. It was only Taiga who minded, only Taiga who got that wounded look in his face every time he caught them.

Taiga, Taiga, why couldn’t he see? The one Tatsuya wanted was him.

*
Tatsuya knew that he was going to destroy his relationship with Taiga as soon as they slept together. He still did it, though, because Taiga still believed that he loved him and that that was enough. Tatsuya loved him so much -- that innocence, that naivete, untouched by almost anything that happened to him.

“I have always loved you best,” Tatsuya had told him, and Taiga’s whole face had changed. He looked like he understood Tatsuya at last. But he didn’t, in truth, because Tatsuya didn’t tell him the end of that sentence.

And I always destroy what I love.

Edited 2017-08-19 00:37 (UTC)

Sousuke was naive!! And now he has a world of regret.

Also, lol, I remixed another fic of yours -- the Kaghimu one. http://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/24968.html?thread=16050056#cmt16050056

Aw, I like this! I wanted something like this for them after all that. Kagami *can't* fix Himuro's problems, for sure, but he can still love him.

As always, what I like best about your writing is how sensory it is -- the details make it live. I can totally believe this what happens after -- awkward motel makeouts ftw.

Ship: Kasamatsu/Kise
Fandom: Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: TAGS OMITTED
Other Tags: angst, past character death, did i mention angst
Original Work: link by

tripsh
Word Count: 471

***

Yukio still saw his face sometimes, though his features had taken on the quality of a dream now, the perfection of his mouth, the curve of his jaw seemed unreal, like statue of Apollo, untouched by time. The war was over. No one wanted to talk about the war and Yukio found himself shuffled into a teaching career in lieu of anything else to do.

He didn’t hate it, really. Most of his students were earnest young people who wanted to do the best for their family. There were some who were troublemakers, but Yukio didn’t mind bringing his own powers of persuasion to bear on them when he had to. Mostly, he didn’t understand his students very well. There was barely a decade between them, but it might has well have been a century. Had he ever been so carefree? So unmarked by time like they were?

His leg -- shattered by shrapnel and then pieced back together again -- made him walk with a limp, but that was fine. He knew he’d never run like he had as a boy, or even as a man, as an officer exasperated by the antics of his men. He missed them all, vain Moriyama and incomprehensible Hayakawa -- but of course, there was one ghost that would never leave him.

Kise’s ghost haunted him in different ways. Yukio would see him in different people -- a cheeky student who shot him a cheerful smile, a graceful girl, walking down the road. One day, when he was cleaning out the wardrobe in what had been his sister’s room, he found Kise again, his yellowing photograph looking out from the past. He could barely make out what the ad was selling through the sudden, shameful tears that blurred his eyes.

If Kise had lived, Yukio thought -- he knew -- he would have made something with his life. He would have made it exciting, poetic, wonderful, fun. Yukio hadn’t known him in the outside world -- war was its own experience, intense and deadly, with nothing that could compare to it -- but still, Yukio had known enough about him to guess what kind of man Kise would be outside of war.

So Yukio pushed himself to do the same. He walked more slowly down a flower-strewn avenue and reminded himself to look at the petals, to appreciate their beauty. He allowed his mother, long since given up on the hope of having grandchildren, set up a meeting with one of her friend’s daughters. The girl had kind eyes, but Yukio knew already it wouldn’t work.

But still, he allowed himself to feel more, to look more. For the first time since the war had ended, since Kise had died, Yukio allowed himself to live. He thought, in his heart of hearts, that this was what Kise would have wanted for him.

omg thank you so much...this is so lovely to hear from you! this remix and this comment are so much <3

Ship: abe/mihashi
Fandom: oofuri
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: spoken word, music!!
Original Work: be careful you don’t get burned by

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Word Count: None

I genuinely got emotional and choked up as I was reading this poem, because I read it to the tunes of the official Oofuri soundtrack, and I have had this remix planned for a really long time, and I just. I felt so honored and touched to be remixing this and reading it. I felt so much; your words are so important to me, and so is the way you wove them. A skittering bird of a boy, god. God. I just. This was such a privilege to read out loud how Takaya falls out of a harsh sky and into love, and the gold of Mihashi’s heart. Please forgive the breath in my recording, I just. I got to a really emotional place.

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Please listen here!

Edited 2017-08-19 01:01 (UTC)

I loved every piece of poetry you made, and I did this recording of your other one, too. I loved this poem so much. I hope I did it and you any sort of justice at all: http://sportsanime.dreamwidth.org/24968.html?thread=16052360#cmt16052360

gosh your voice is so lovely!! goes to listen to all your podfics,

Oh fuck, I love this so much. It's an exact continuation of the original, not one false note.

I want Mibuchi and Hanamiya to fight over Kiyoshi's love!!! Damn it.

Thank you. I'm sorry I was such trash for taking so long to comment!! I read it right away and loved it.

omg i'm literally crying right now this was so beautiful?? your choice of music and the fade in and fade out and it's. it's like i can see abe's wings again aaa this poem is one of my proudest works this saso and you just made my entire day bring it to life, it's so beautiful, thank you so, so much; i'm really glad you liked my poem enough to remix it aaa you've done such a wonderful job thank u :')

omg your remix is so lovely!! when i was wrangling the html formatting it was really annoying lmao but i wanted to play with the visual-ness of it all, and your graphic displayed that really well!! i love the warmth and sun imagery, thank you so much!!

oh gosh i'm crying again....... your imagery and your use of metaphors is. so brilliant. it's so vivid and honestly so emotional?? i love your use of language, like i'm reading this and so many parts of it just. gives me a visceral reaction like.....
and the last line!! nooo!!!! but also yes!!! i'm so emo rn thank you for this wonderful remix

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