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Bonus Round 1: Quotes

SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

PLAY BALL! For this round, we'd like you to take inspiration from songs, sayings, poems, and other kinds of famous words.

Because this is our first full round, please read this post carefully before proceeding!

This round ends at 7PM on June 13 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post with a quote attributed to a specific person or character, along with any ship/ot3/etc. from one of our nominated fandoms.
- Example: "Hi-ho, Kermit the Frog here!" -Kermit the Frog
- The quote can come from anywhere. Famous people, poetry, songs, books, movies, your neighbor, etc.
- 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., Yachi & Kiyoko). Non-platonic relationships use "/" (e.g., Yachi/Kiyoko). Please don't say "Any pairing," either!
Fill prompts by replying to the prompt with your quote-inspired fanwork.
Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.
You cannot fill your team's prompts or your own prompts.

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, including Grandstand or Sports Teams Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Place the prompt's relationship in the first bolded line of the comment. Including the canon isn't required, but it's nice. Visual example	FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING] Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team you belong to Write it exactly as it appears on the team roster or your team will not receive points Replace RATING with the rating of your fill (G - E) Place applicable major content tags and word count before your fill (when applicable) NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example	FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING] Replace RATING with the rating of your fill, G - E, as explained in the rules Place applicable major content tags and word count before the fill, where applicable NSFW FILLS: Post written/text fills directly to the round with clear tags. Please link to art/visual fills. You can include a small safe-for-work preview if you'd like. To place an image in your comment, use this code: <img src="LINK TO YOUR IMAGE" /> Visual example

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 prompts/fills as you want!

For prompts: 5 points each (maximum of 50 prompt points per team per round)

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.

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

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Nanase Haruka/Tachibana Makoto // (MakoHaru), Free!

"I opened my eyes last night
And saw you in the low light
Walking down by the bay
On the shore,
Staring up at the stars, that aren't there anymore

When we're apart whatever are you thinking of?
If this is what I call 'home', why does it feel so alone?
So tell me darling, do you wish we'd fall in love?"

- "The Saltwater Room" by Owl City

fffff I clicked this bc I love that song and YOU DID IT AGAIN asdasdasdasd mean oikage i love

tHIS IS AMAZING I'M GOING TO REREAD A BILLION TIMES ASDHFLK;

Oikawa Tooru/Ushijima Wakatoshi; Haikyuu!!

"Thinking about you is violent.
It’s never just hips.
It’s hips crashing like helmet-less bicycle wrecks,
head over handlebars,
hands all scraped up.
Nails full of dirt and spit and you.
Even your voice is this jarring thing,
this pleasant shake-down,
this sore so good, so goddamn good.
Like a bad-tooth hurt.
I think of you and want to put my fingers
in my mouth.
I want to pull my own hair.
I want smoke and blood."
- Trista Mateer (9 of 30)

Iwaizumi Hajime & Mikoshiba Momotarou, Haikyuu!! & Free!

"This is Pyunsuke!!" - Momo

They would so bond over that beetle, don't you tell me they wouldn't. LOL

Edited 2015-05-31 23:50 (UTC)

haikyuu/parks and rec foreverrrr 8D 8D 8D

warnings for: character death, alcohol/intoxication, 840 wc.

i. the beginning

“This is your—”

“You’re joking,” Futakuchi says, eyes narrowed in scrutiny, in distaste at the man, the boy in front of him. He’s smaller than Futakuchi is, frailer too. There’s something about him that seems winded, exhausted. He doesn’t even look like he’s fit to step another foot in the Shatterdome. “You’re absolutely joking.”

The Marshall does not humor him, hand clamped on the shoulder of a man that Futakuchi thinks might be his next burden. “This is your co-pilot, Futakuchi. And I shouldn’t have to remind you but Ennoshita Chikara went through all of the training you did and came out with higher marks in every single category except for physical.”

There isn’t time for compatibility tests when the kaiju are growing stronger and in number by the second. The size of their pilot class has diminished since the last Category V took out Crimson Pistol and Caerulean Tango in one go. He remembers. He remembers the rushed funerals too, the way he was ushered out of his cramped room to be told he was graduating, hushed undertones of we don’t have enough people to die for us.

“Please be kind to him,” the Marshall says, releasing Ennoshita from his grasp and exiting the training room stiffly.

Futakuchi scowls. Ennoshita looks at him mildly, hooded eyes depicting sleepiness, a disconnected sense of attention that Futakuchi thinks he might absolutely hate.

“I won’t hold you back,” Ennoshita says before Futakuchi can spit venom in his direction about how his co-pilot was supposed to be someone else (because Aone has always been the most compatible in wavelength with Futakuchi—it’s not anyone’s fault that Aone isn’t here, won’t ever be, not anymore). “Do you want to punch me?”

“What?” Futakuchi says in response, eyes narrowing in confusion because what the fuck is sleepy-eyes even saying?

“You can,” Ennoshita says, looking earnest as he rubs the back of his neck. “Punching something helped me after Tanaka died.”

ii. the middle

His cheeks are warm. Every inch of his skin is warm as he tangles his arms around Ennoshita’s waist, pulls him flush against his chest, unyielding. The alcohol is still coursing through his veins, the only lasting reminders of the party that had just been thrown in their honor—the darlings of the jaeger program, the new glimmer of optimistic hope that there might be salvation yet.

“Remember,” Ennoshita barely hiccups out, words muffled as he tries to speak against the fabric of Futakuchi’s t-shirt, tries to free his legs from their tangled state beneath the covers, “—remember when you hated me?”

Futakuchi only squeezes Ennoshita closer, harder, letting out a noise caught between an indignant groan and a much too childish whine when Ennoshita pushes him away. It barely lasts, the mourning of the loss of body heat. Ennoshita pulls himself up until their eye-to-eye, face-to-face, the corners of Ennoshita’s eyes wrinkled as he laughs, as he curls his fingers in the lapels of Futakuchi’s shirt to pull him forward. They stand no chance, any preexisting thoughts coursing through Futakuchi’s mind, any coherent words lingering on the tip of his tongue. They stand no chance when Ennoshita’s looking at him like he’s the absolute best thing on the planet.

“Are you—are you going to kiss me or not?” Futakuchi asks, lips curving into the faintest smile as he tries to will the heat away from his cheeks.

Ennoshita traces a scar running along the side of Futakuchi’s neck, a battle wound from a fight they almost lost, before looking straight into Futakuchi’s eyes again.

“Not again,” he says in a whisper, words still slurred just a touch as he leans in closer, until their lips are but millimeters away from each other. “I’m not letting you get hurt—not again.”

The promise is sealed with a kiss, one that feels like it lasts until hours are meaningless and all Futakuchi can feel are Ennoshita’s fingertips carding through the harried tangles of his consciousness, their consciousness.

iii. the end

(He keeps his promise.

This is what he all but tattoos in your mind when he is torn from his side of the cockpit, when he is hurled into nothingness. I’m sorry, he says first, and that is when you think you started panicking. I’m leaving so soon, he says second, and that is when the panic reached his eyes. Please, please, not now, he says third, and that is when you realized this wasn’t just a nightmare. White noise, static, it filled your mind as you felt a thread—a thread you’d never once seen before—drawn out, tugged apart, snapping.

You'll find me again, he says fourth. At least I kept my promise, he says fifth. At least I kept you safe, he says finally.)

The funeral procession is short and rushed. The Marshall rises in front of all of the Shatterdome, gathers up every last breath in his chest and says, “Let us take a moment of silence for our fallen pilot, Ennoshita Chikara.”

Futakuchi is quiet.

Edited 2015-06-01 02:50 (UTC)

THIS IS SO CUTE <3

oh my god, this ended me.

Kei showed this to me when we were EATING and I was jUST, KIND OF,

and then here I am, and here you are, and it is your fault once again.

i really really did. i was a little scared no one would fill it, but what you did was fantastic!!! thank you!

I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU HOW HAPPY I AM THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY FILLED THIS PROMPT THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOD.

Oikawa Tooru & Yamazaki Sousuke, Haikyuu!! & Free!

"When you feel like quitting, think about why you started" --- Unknown

I think about injured third years a lot and how said injuries can jeopardize one's future dreams. oh i'm in pain

prompt inspired by my teammate.

Edited 2015-06-01 00:07 (UTC)

this is so beautiful and so in-character and i cannot believe it was born from a sponegebob quote holy shit thank you.

I just... I had to walk away from my computer for a minute and walk off this prompt, oh my god.

~~This is why I shouldn't be reading prompts at work.~~

No major content warning

514 words (I can't help myself when it comes to these two and I wanted to write some positive fluff)

Sousuke was the one who stayed in Iwatobi while the rest of them left. He enrolled at the local college, and grew bitter over his misfortune with each passing day. Every few months, they’d all meet up in Iwatobi, and go drinking at a local pub- catching up, sharing news of exciting things in Australia and Tokyo. And the more stories he heard about Rin and Haru and all the swimming they did toegther, the more depressed Sousuke got, and the more beer he would pour down his throat.
On one such night, Sousuke got sickeningly drunk, and threw up a little on his t-shirt. And Makoto, being the fussy motherhen he always was, offered to help take Sousuke home while the rest of the boys moved on to have drinks by the beach.
When Sousuke regained his senses, he was in his hostel room, tucked underneath the covers. Groaning, he sat up in bed and realized he was shirtless, cleaned up, and put to bed like a small unruly child who’d stayed up way past his bedtime.
And there was Makoto, snoring lightly on the floor, using his folded up jacket for a pillow.
He woke up slowly, smiling at Sousuke.
“Feeling better?”
“Yeah… Thanks Makoto. You didn’t have to do any of this…”
“Well, I couldn’t just leave you in that state all by yourself.”

They stared silently at each other, a little shy, a little confused about the strange tension in the air between them.
A new feeling, an anxious sort of joy.

Afterwards, they always argued about who kissed whom first, but what Sousuke remembered best were the words Makoto gave him that night.

“I can tell you’re sad, Sousuke. You try to hide your pain, but we can all see through it. Well, at least I can. I hope you realize this isn’t the end. There are other dreams out there in the world for you, other places, other passions. I know you have so much inside you, so much to offer. It hurts me to see you give up like this.”

A month later, Sousuke transferred from the local university to a national one, and learned to experience his future as something abundant and hopeful, with a new world of opportunities opening up before him all over again.
The next time they’d met up, it was in Tokyo. Makoto found Sousuke outside his door, sweating nervously, wearing a new shirt (with the tag still on), holding a sweetly tacky bouquet of pink roses, and an invitation to their first date.
That night, they talked endlessly over coffee in Makoto’s apartment, and as he was still waiting for his belongings to be sent from home, Sousuke eagerly accepted Makoto’s offer to sleepover.
Their shy, inexperienced desire grew into the glow of love during their first summer together.
With Makoto by his side, Sousuke found himself thinking of his future more and more often, with hope, with courage, and with the will to forge a path for himself, onwards into the unfathomable future, no matter what stood in his way.

Edited 2015-06-13 05:20 (UTC)

Ishigaki Koutarou/Yamaguchi Noriyuki, Yowamushi Pedal

"You expect me to believe everything you say. Well, okay." - Going To Bangor, The Mountain Goats

Aomine Daiki/Kise Ryouta or Aomine&Kise // (AoKise), KnB

"It never gets easier, you just get better" --- Unknown

Jesus fucking christ.

But also, this is not wrong at all, bless.

No Major Content Warnings

Poem, 15 lines

I can taste where we touch,
chests flat like the even keels of boats,
riding tidal waves before we’re overturned,
pounded to nothing but splinters and sweat,
on the crushing rocks below.

Fingers trail with forgotten purpose,
through the shallows where we lie.
The topography of your skin;
charting the course we never should have taken,
and you moan and everything repeats.
Everything repeats again.

We feel like an estuary.
Are you the sea, I the river? Or are
we just that something in-between where
things go to die.

ahahah i'm glad i'm not the only one then. even as i told myself to stop, i just keep remembering asws that i've always wanted to write or read stories for. it's so addictive and ... it's the perfect opportunity ... it's fun to be able to indulge.

Hahahaha you're killing me. If this wasn't against the rules, I'd fill it rn omg it's too good.

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru // (IwaOi), Haikyuu!!

"Don't let a win get to your head,
or a loss to your heart"

- "He Got Game", Public Enemy

Edited 2015-06-01 00:18 (UTC)

I'm so desperately fond of this! It makes me so happy to see a fill from Miyahara's POV, as I already said to you on twitter, but I also adore her being the logical minded nerd here, and the way you talk about how she thinks/reads Manami to be. It's always one of my favorite things to see more in-depth of how people see Manami - and this definitely satiated that thirst.

But I also really love how it defines her as someone whose attachment to romantic feelings are strange and disconnected, unsure, a feeling for someone that she describes as having fallen in love, because she is at a loss for anything else to call it. And that it is okay. I sighed so gently at the last line of this. Thank you so much for filling it.

kageyama tobio/oikawa tooru, haikyuu!!

"Remember when you had a life and didn't make bitchy comments about mine?" — Zayn Malik

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Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

Re: FILL: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/NARUKO SHOUKICHI, E

Re: FILL: TEAM YOWAMUSHI PEDAL, E

PROMPT: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/USHIJIMA WAKATOSHI

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTORI

FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T

Re: FILL: TEAM Matsuoka Rin/Ryuugazaki Rei, G

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, E.

no subject

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, E.

Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T (borderline g minus language!!)

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, T+

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

FILL: TEAM TACHIBANA MAKOTO/YAMAZAKI SOUSUKE, G

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/IZUMIDA TOUICHIROU

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

no subject

FILL: TEAM NISHINOYA YUU/TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE, RATING: G

Re: PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/IZUMIDA TOUICHIROU

Re: PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

PROMPT: Team Tachibana Makoto/Yamazaki Sousuke

Re: FILL: TEAM MANAMI SANGAKU/TESHIMA JUNTA, G

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU