Bonus Round 1: Quotes

[referees]

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!

Comments

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

[miyukitty]

<333!! I'm so glad you like this, phew~ I haven't written either of these characters before, and I had to refresh my memory a bit for Sousuke.

It was a cool idea for a crossover though, especially since all these sports anime series could theoretically be taking place in Japan at the same time and I like thinking of it that way x) (So imagining all the poor injured kids going to the same clinic is a nice fix-it)

Thanks so much for your nice comment, and the prompt! :>

PROMPT: TEAM NISHINOYA YUU/TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE

[snuggy4589]

Azumane Asahi/Nishinoya Yuu (Haikyuu!!)

"Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other."

-Michelle Sagara West

[kuramochi]

ahhh i'm so glad you like it!!!! i love both siken and daiya so much ghglsfjesl so i'm glad i did ok smashing them together.

[kuramochi]

omg thank you so much for sharing hahahah you are making my night!!

PROMPT: TEAM NISHINOYA YUU/TANAKA RYUUNOSUKE

[snuggy4589]

Hinata Shouyou/Bokuto Koutarou (Haikyuu!!)

"WHY DO YOU JUMP LIKE YOU'RE ON THE FUCKING MOON?"

-Michael "Rage Quit" Jones (Cat Mario)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU

[paltita]

I AM WEA K...

PROMPT: Team Aoyagi Hajime/Teshima Junta

[kiriska]

Kisumi/Nagisa (Free!)

"It keeps going and going and going and going..." - Energizer Bunny commercials

FILL: Team Fukutomi Juichi/Kinjou Shingo, G

[krankran]

Words: 912
Warnings: None

Day 0
To be fair, the first thing Sousuke did when he got home was take it out and leave the open jar in the back yard. He figured even if it was ‘lovingly’ raised for all that time, it would probably remember how to crawl out of the glass jar and back into the trees. After all, the thing was an insect and had that kinda thing drilled into its brain as an instinct, not so easily erased by Mikoshiba’s attempted domestication.
It was a beetle.
So he was remarkably surprised when later, as the sky got dark and grey with rainclouds, that the bettle was still sitting in it’s jar, climbing over it’s wooden block even though it’s entire world had been tilted sideways.
He would have left it there, but Sousuke would like to think that he wasn’t that heartless, and seeing as it was starting to rain, carefully tipped the jar back to rightness, screwed the lid back on, and took it inside.


Day 1
He tried the same thing the next day, with little success. The beetle stayed where it was, sitting uninterested on the block, waiting for… who knows what. But even after carefully extracting the beetle and trying to place it on a tree, it refused to let go of his fingers. This entire exercise took the better part of the day, and eventually, annoyed and tired, he brought the thing back inside. Again.
Again, Sousuke wasn’t a mean person. So after that failure of getting rid of it, he wondered if he needed to feed the bug anything. A quick search lead to about an hours’ worth of research to do with damn beetles, what they eat, and the best habitat for them, even breeding the things, which he backed out of real fast.
It was annoying and a damn waste of time, but it was better that it was annoying and alive than annoying and dead.
Stupid thing.
Though, the jar was apparently not that great of a thing to keep it in, the space or something to do with stressing the thing out. But it was a bug. And insect. Didn’t they like small places or something?
…Still, there was hardly any place to put food or water, and he knew they had an old fishtank somewhere, so he eventually ended up dumping the bug, the sand, it’s wood chip and the food into it and ignoring it for the rest of the day.


Day 2
Three days.
He’d been taking care of this dumb thing for three damn days and no matter how hard he tried it just. Wouldn’t. Leave.
Nothing worked. It wouldn’t let him go, and if he ever got it off, it’d just attempt to jump back on him and fall and look so pathetic it would have been damn mean to just leave it there.
…But, well, he had added more sand to the fish tank, the contents of the jar not being anywhere near enough to cover the bottom. He’d be heading back soon, and he still had the thing with him. And no way was he going to give it back to Mikoshiba considering the other’s plans for it.
And it wasn’t as if he was thinking of keeping it either, he’d try to let it out again tomorrow.
Right… Tomorrow, he thought, staring at the ‘beetle humidifier’ (wasn’t it just a spray bottle?!) he had bought without thinking.


Day 3
There were birds outside, and somehow, Sousuke didn’t trust them enough to let the beetle go. The things were just milling around, pecking the dirt and making a damn noise at ass in the morning.
He’d let the beetle go tomorrow, he reminds himself as he changes the jelly.
Tomorrow for sure.


Day 4
Of course he had forgotten that it was only a three day break, so he had shoved all this stuff back in his suitcase, carefully balanced relocated the beetle back into the Jar he came in, and put the aquarium in the case too.
It wasn’t until he was unpacking it in the dorm did he realise the magnitude of the stupid situation he got himself into.
No wait, it wasn’t until Rin came back and laughed so hard he cried that he did.
This was dumb.


Day 5
The problem with the tank sitting on his desk was that he really didn’t have all that much room anymore. But keeping it on the floor was out of the question, and using Rin’s desk was asking for trouble.
Another problem was that the beetle had taken to crawling right to the edge of the tank, and sitting against the glass at the point closest to him. It was kind of…. Weird. Cute. No, definitely weird. It literally did not move for the entire time he was there, and when he got up to move, it got up to move.
What, did it think he was Mikoshiba or something?


Day 16
Now was probably a good time to probably admit defeat and that he wasn’t able to let the stupid thing go. But this was getting ridiculous and with exams coming up, he was half wondering if he should just give it back to Mikoshiba (despite his earlier decision not to.)
Still, the beetle hadn’t died under his care, and it looked perfectly healthy (probably) so he could probably pass it off as…. Another beetle. That he found.
…And took care of. That he had spent far too much time and money on this thing than he intended to.
Goddamit.

FILL: TEAM OIKAWA TOORU/USHIJIMA WAKATOSHI

[rennae]

No tags!!

[daichiis]

OUCH MY HEART

FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, T

[uwu_anon]

Major Content Tags: None
Word Count: 535

Abe Takaya has always been too soft, in Haruna's opinion. From the moment they met, Haruna's clumsy, overpowered pitches were going to be too much for him. It was as if Abe came pre-wrapped with a manual. This is how to hurt me, this is how I'll hurt for you, this is why and when I will give up. Haruna's rough hands could only paw through the sheaths of paper secreted away in his chest, and prepare for the day he inevitably disappoints Takaya for the last time.

Haruna never means to hurt him, never means to lean too hard on his shoulder or throw a wild pitch. He can feel Abe's burning gaze boring into his back every time he walks off the mound at 80 pitches, anxiety pounding in his chest and phantom twinges running up his arm to settle in his elbow. But are they really phantom aches, he thinks, or am I pushing it even with 80? Panic pushes bile up into his throat, and it only gets worse when he can feel the entire team shaking their heads in chagrin, mumbling about coach's favoritism and spoiled pitchers. The worst, though, is Abe's clear and bright anger, free from any judgement, colored only by the frustration at Haruna limiting his own talent.

He can pinpoint the exact moment Abe's anger goes septic, turns to bitterness and self-righteousness. Haruna knows it's his fault, as he examines the circular bruises that litter Abe's torso after practice. His tongue is always paralyzed in his mouth when Abe begins to shoot him accusing glares.

When Abe begins to hate him, Haruna has no idea what to do except rely on him more while simultaneously pushing the other boy farther and farther away. For the first time, Haruna gets mean, brushes off the concern with a scoff and nurtures the battered lump of fear inside of himself until he's shoving his teammates out of his way in a rush to get away from Abe, away from that raw frustration and disappointment that radiates out of Abe's small body and affects him more than anything else that the rest of the team could mutter about him from the dugout.

Seeing Abe cry in the bathroom after practice makes him really, sincerely, want to die. He feels too big for his body, too rough and tumble and careless to exist among people like Abe, walking exposed-nerve bleeding-hearts that just care too much. He never wanted to be this way, to be this frightened animal biting at anything that got too near

What Haruna regrets most, what really haunts him at night, is how he took that softness from Abe and forced him into a hardline, merciless catcher who pulls the puppetstrings of his new pitcher like he's at home there. It's probably the worst possible matchup, and everyone on the team looks like they know it. It hurts to look at Abe shouting, clenching his fists and grinding his jaw, to see Mihashi quivering with unspilled tears in his eyes and to think, I did this.

What Haruna most wants is for the Abe that existed before he met Haruna to come back, if only for Mihashi's sake.
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we keep filling each others prompts i just noticed i have like. several of yours bookmarked oh my god

Re: FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T

[stereosymbiosis]

OH GOSH <3 my darlings!! thank you so much, and ty for the excellent gender headcanon A+++ i love it

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

[vellaude]

asjfhkfsgfsha I'M.. Thank you so much omg this is so beautiful this makes me emotional T////T

[catlarks]

You're welcome, I'm glad you like it!!

(fandom secret I popped over to your blog before writing this to try and gauge taste a little and saw trans girl Toudou art and was like, yes, I am in business.)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM IMAIZUMI SHUNSUKE/NARUKO SHOUKICHI

[vellaude]

thsi prompt is killing me.........

[stereosymbiosis]

YES I am ALL about my lovely transbikes!!!

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, T

[ts_smeliot]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is more beautiful than anything I'd even hoped for!!! Thank you <3

quick question

[uwu_anon]

yooooo im thinking of filling this but i wanted to check first and see if you were down for trans headcanons?? specifically amab agender+boy izumida and trans dude naruko since i kind of default to those hcs with these two but know not everyone jives w them?

Re: PROMPT: Team Nishinoya Yuu/Tanaka Ryuunosuke

[putsch]

i have this and so many of your prompts open in tabs im going to try and get to them when i stop being exhausted so hel P ME

Re: FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, T

[aeglos]

HE WOULD LEGIT PLANT THE CHICKEN STORY OIKAWA TOORU IS BOTH SEAN PARKER AND MARK ZUCKERBERG LBR

this fandom was so good lmao it produced so much Longfic that i think i died in a storm of jewnicorn @@ jesus what a soul-sucking perfect film

YES I AM LET'S GO IM NOT SCARED OF U I WAS UR ONLY FRIEND

Re: FILL: TEAM TACHIBANA MAKOTO/YAMAZAKI SOUSUKE

[supreme_thunderrr]

I'm glad you liked it, but what's a fill without a prompt, so thank YOU (ॢ˘⌣˘ ॢ⑅)

Re: FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, T

[aeglos]

thANK YOU um
IT WAS THE PART THAT ;__; HURT THE MOST ;____;
lays on the ground next to u and cries facedown

Re: FILL: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU, T

[momotarouuu]

im so very very glad you liked it!!! <3

Re: FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, T

[aeglos]

i'm such a big fan of the series you promote this from ;A; and i really like sitcoms like these LOL thank you so much for prompting !! something !! i like so much ;A; i'm so glad you liked it lmao

bokuto would accidentally print dick pictures onto government flyers i stand by this comment

Re: FILL: TEAM AKASHI SEIJUUROU/NIJIMURA SHUUZOU, T

[iwaizumemes]

Omg POOR SAKURAI. And gosh of course Takao with his Hawks eye will have noticed that Sakurai was listening the whole time. I can't believe someone filled this. Amazing. Thank you.