sportsanime | Bonus Round 1: Quotes

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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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Sousuke/Haru (Free!)

i am drowning
there is no sign of land
you are coming down with me
hand in unlovable hand
- "No Chidlren," The Mountain Goats

Akaashi Keiji/Konoha Akinori (haikyuu!!)

- "Le Petit Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

OHHH!!!!! OH!!!!!!! OHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhh

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS FILL....OGHFJKSD..holy god...this is so Muhc..

Hajime Iwaizumi/Oikawa Tooru/Sugawara Koushi (haikyuu!!)

- "Le Petit Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Ushijima makes things worse by adding that Oikawa would’ve “perhaps been better had he gone to Shiratorizawa.”

I'M FUCKING GONE

Edited 2015-06-01 05:04 (UTC)

Ishigaki & Midousuji, Yowamushi Pedal

“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
― Voltaire

OHHH MY GOD!!! OH HHHH I;M HONESTLY TEARING UP A LITTLE BIT THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
AND IT ENCAPSULATES THE QUOTE SO WELL
HOLYFFSFD
THANK YOU SO SOOSOSOSO MUCH

Hajime Iwaizumi/Matsukawa Issei (haikyuu!!)

- "Le Petit Prince", Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

thank you!! toudou being a total lightweight is So Important to me

Arakita Yasutomo/Tadokoro Jin, Yowamushi Pedal

"Buddy you're a young man - hard man, shoutin' in the street - gonna take on the world some day. You got blood on yo' face, you big disgrace, wavin' your banner all over the place." - We Will Rock You, Queen

NO CONTENT WARNINGS 655 words

There were two things Azumane Asahi was afraid of.

Well, okay, there were a lot of things he was afraid of, like car breaks failing suddenly or solar flares or Daichi seeing his math test scores or bird flu or-

The point was, there were two things Azumane Asahi was afraid of at that moment in time, and those were his future, and Nishinoya Yuu.

He guessed that if you wanted to combine them, you could, maybe, if you really felt like making things that much worse. If you didn't think the prospect of life after graduation wasn't a big enough hurdle, sure, you could throw love into the mix.

In fact, he'd sort of already done that. Thrown love into the mix, that is. That was sort of the problem with Nishinoya. While normally he was kind of a terrifying force of nature on his own, there was now a new element of fear involved, namely Asahi's big fat crush on the small and fearless libero.

He tries not to think too hard about it, most of the time. Tried not to think too hard about kissing right below that shock of bleached hair, or about the way Noya jumped for joy whenever he was excited. It made his heart thump like he'd just had a bad energy drink, and made his palms kind of sweaty besides.

He guessed, all things considered, that it'd be okay if his palms got sweaty now, since he'd already shaken the principal's hand and the only thing that could complain about it would be the diploma tube clenched tightly in his fingers

The innocuous black cardboard tube wouldn't tell anyone about the moistness of his grip as he considered what it might be like to really honestly be with the object of his affections. What it might be like to walk down the street with those selfsame fingers tangled around Noya's, what it might be like to be able to call late at night, just to hear his voice say "hey". He considered being able to... to...

...to confess his feelings and be met with disgust? With disdain? Or worse, be met with a pitious, false agreement to go out with him, if only not to ruin the friendship they'd so carefully pieced back together?

What could he possibly have to offer someone who could so flawlessly pull themselves upward? Azumane Asahi, more timid than the mice he's hidden on countertops from, and Nishinoya Yuu, who would take on the world if it got in his way.

His shoes had only just hit the sakura-petal covered pavement outside the auditorium when a familiar slap on his back knocked the breath out of him. It knocked the rumination out of him as well, and he turned to it's grinning source.

"Well if it isn't Asahi-San! Now you finally look your age, you high-school graduate."

His hand had lingered on Asahi's back, and he swore it burned for reasons beyond the smack.

"So what are you going to do now, Graduate-San" Nishinoya held up an invisible microphone to Asahi's face, doing his best serious voice, which might have been to imitate an announcer. He wasn't actually sure, because at that point he was too busy with his heart stopping in his chest, and the question that had been asked of him. His face grew hot, and he wiped his palm on his pants.

"I... I think..." His hand, moving upward and feeling entirely as though it was it's own separate entity, curled around the hand Noya was holding up. Noya blinked, Asahi gulped.

He pulled Noya forward, bent down, and pressed their lips together.

A moment passed before the hand wrestled free of his own and arms circled around his shoulders. As he placed his hand on the small of Nishinoya Yuu's back, he thought that maybe for him, because of him, he could take on the world too.

No major content tags apply (maybe mild spoilers? rated T for cursing) WC: 946

Notes: This was a good prompt, hope I did okay x) Geography is hard tho haha. Umm was vague about timeframes but this is probably ssk's initial injury pre-anime; interpret however you like tho :)

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The physical therapist's waiting room was decorated blandly, with generic landscape photographs framed on the walls and a rather ugly beige carpet. Soothing music piped in from a wall speaker. The receptionist was working on a crossword puzzle and hummed idly along to the melody without realizing she was doing so.

Oikawa Tooru sprawled out on the bench with his usual careless grace. He had his earbuds in so he could blast his trashy pop songs over the office's boring background music. Concealed beneath his loose track pants was the knee supporter he had to wear for at least another month. He smiled pleasantly at the receptionist and shot her a flirty wink. She smiled shyly and ducked her head.

He had finished his morning appointment already and was waiting for his mom to come pick him up. Normally he would take advantage of being in Tokyo and wander about to go shopping, but after these sessions his knee always burned unpleasantly, and he'd prefer to hide his weakness than limp about on the streets and be pitied. It was the same reason he didn't drag Iwaizumi along, but now with no one to annoy, he was bored.

"You're taking up the whole bench. Move over," a gruff voice muttered.

Oikawa pulled out his earbuds and sat up, an intrigued smile flickering across his handsome countenance. The teenager who sat down next to him had his arm in a sling – a shoulder brace, he corrected mentally. This guy was big, broad-shouldered and bulky with muscle, just barely half-a-centimeter taller than Oikawa but significantly heavier.

Easy on the eyes, too, even if he scowls worse than Iwa-chan.

"Football?" Oikawa guessed. Rotator cuff tears were common; could be his throwing arm.

"…Swimming," the brute growled.

Oikawa hummed in interest. "My school doesn't have a swim team. I'm from Miyagi. The one and only Oikawa Tooru, volleyball ace! Are you from around here, Frowning-kun?"

The teen shot him a death glare. Oikawa only smiled his sweetest shit-eating grin, and had the gall to flutter his eyelashes.

After a long moment, the swimmer rubbed his shoulder distractedly and gritted out, "Tottori prefecture. And I hate nicknames. 'Sousuke' is fine."

Oikawa whistled appreciatively. "You're a long ways out! It must take you forever and a day to get here, but this is the best sports medicine clinic in the country. Frowning-kun, you must have a bright future in swimming."

He didn't miss the way Sousuke's eyes darkened, and not just because of his insistence on using the nickname. Oikawa always did have a knack for honing in on weakness, especially when he was trying to hide his own. He waited calmly, predicting that Sousuke wouldn't be able to let it slide.

Sousuke glared a hole through one of the pictures on the wall. "…Not anymore. I can't keep up with the team with my shoulder holding me back. Not that it's any business of yours, but it'll only get weaker. There's no coming back from this."

Oikawa stilled. That feeling was all too close to his heart. He had felt the ground drop out from beneath his sneakers the night his knee had given out on him. (Practicing jump serves long after his teammates had gone home, screwing up the landing, screaming himself hoarse into an empty gym until he could drag himself to his cell phone and call for someone to save him from himself.)

Oikawa smiled thinly, warm brown eyes razor-sharp with the memory of that pain. He still had goals to accomplish – teams to crush – and so he would continue on this path even if his body was torn to shreds in the process.

If he couldn't earn a volleyball scholarship, he would get into college on academic merit alone and force his way onto the team. He would not be stopped by an injury. He would not be stopped by anything.

"That's a load of bullshit," Oikawa stated cheerfully.

"It's none of your damn business, brat," Sousuke growled. His large hands gripped his knees.

"Yeah, I wouldn't know anything about overworking for a sport," Oikawa lilted sarcastically, hiking up his pants leg so that the white brace was visible around his swollen joint.

Sousuke's drooping eyes cast a quick glance at him, then returned to staring at the wall. "What, do you think you understand me because you got hurt too? Just shut the hell up and leave me alone," he muttered.

Oikawa smiled and leaned in closer, unable to resist doing the opposite of what he was told. "You're right, I don't understand. In fact, I was just wondering," he asked with deceptive innocence, "what it was that motivated you to try so hard you broke yourself, but is now so unimportant that you want to quit and give it up. Seems rather fickle, doesn't it? Did you ever really want it at all...?"

Sousuke's hand closed around his jacket collar and shoved him roughly against the wall. Oikawa stared fearlessly, eyes bright with smug satisfaction at having teased a reaction out of the stoic teenager. He smiled his sickly-sweet grin, and Sousuke let him go with a grunt of annoyance.

"Before you give it up, maybe think about why you started in the first place, hm?" Oikawa winked. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his mom at the counter talking to the receptionist. Time to go home, finally.

"I'll see you around, Sou-chan!"

Oikawa flashed him a peace sign for good measure. And if looks could kill, Sousuke would have murdered him for the tenth time that morning.

Oikawa Tooru & Iwaizumi Hajime (Haikyuu!!)

you're kicked off the team

Arakita & Fukutomi yowamushi pedal

Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That’s murder. Let the punishment fit the crime. - Amy Dunne, Gone Girl

Edited 2015-06-01 05:15 (UTC)

holy shit

I'M LAUHHING SO HARD JESUS CHRISY

Makishima Yuusuke/Toudou Jinpachi (yowapeda)

When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fucking special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here
- from "Creep" by Radiohead

Haiba Lev / Kenma Kozume
–or– Haiba Lev / Morisuke Yaku [Haikyuu!!]

“Soft kitty,
.Warm kitty,
.Little ball of fur.

“Happy kitty,
.Sleepy kitty,
.Purr, purr, purr.”

– Soft Kitty, “The Big Bang Theory” (x)

furuya satoru/sawamura eijun, daiya no ace

Have you had love for me boy?
Have you only love for the blue sky?
Have you kissed the lips of the one
You liked so hard you couldn't stay alive?

— MØ, dust is gone

Shinkai Hayato/Arakita Yasutomo, Yowamushi Pedal

"I want a whole lot more than the boy next door. I want hell on wheels." - Stephanie Zinone, Grease 2

YEAH YEAH cute as heck, also moist

arakita yasutomo/makishima yuusuke, yowamushi pedal

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

I practically yelled when I saw this got a fill, thank you so much!!! I love Miki/Aya and I really enjoyed this, and my team yelled about it a bit too, we love mikiaya haha ... ;-; I really like that it's from Aya's point of view, I really love glimpses at how they may have had a chance to meet or why they would even stick together. And in particular, my favorite line was, "Do you not have any friends that appreciate this passion of yours?"

I just adore Aya ... noticing things that she wouldn't normally act like she ever pays attention to, I love her expectations getting thrown out the window, I love Miki being someone who is such a striking person in the eyes of others! I loved Aya's grumpy straight-forward nature, and this made me really happy to read.

no major content warnings

ps ur gon icon is so precious

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Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Prompt: Team Haikyuu!!

PROMPT: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

Re: FILL: TEAM NANASE HARUKA/TACHIBANA MAKOTO, RATED G

PROMPT: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

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

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: FILL: Team Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou, G

PROMPT: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/SUGAWARA KOUSHI

Re: FILL: Team Arakita Yasutomo/Fukutomi Juichi, T

PROMPT: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/IZUMIDA TOUICHIROU

FILL: Team Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, G

FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, T

PROMPT: Team Arakita Yasutomo/Fukutomi Juichi

Re: PROMPT: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

Re: FILL: Team Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio , T

PROMPT: Team Arakita Yasutomo/Fukutomi Juichi

PROMPT: TEAM HAIKYUU!!

PROMPT: team daiya no ace

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: FILL: Team Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, G

PROMPT: TEAM MAKISHIMA YUUSUKE/TOUDOU JINPACHI

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G

FILL: Team Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio , G