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.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, Haikyuu!!

"The story starts where the story falls apart with you." - Against the Current, from their song Dreaming Alone

i want... to do th... )-)o

Major content tags: None
Words: 851

(hella gay lil fic courtesy of my hella gay lil heart)

I love you.

Which one of them said it? Was it really said? Hajime stares at Oikawa, and Oikawa stares back, and he waits for a clue, tries to pull the voice behind the words and match it to the two he knows best to figure out what he should do next, bangs desperately around his empty head for something to say.

Oikawa doesn’t give him that chance. He smiles, one of the worst, fakest smiles Hajime’s ever seen. “Don’t mind, Iwa-chan! I’ll get over it.”

“Oikawa—”

“Anyway I promised my mom I’d clean my room today and you know how she gets, so I have to go! See you!” And he’s running off.

Hajime takes three steps and stops dead. Oikawa disappears around the corner. He’s only a street away, but that distance grows too big for him to traverse. He stands, staring at the ground for a minute, then moves over numbly to slump down on the curb with his head between his knees.

What was that reaction? He just blanked out for thirty seconds. Of course Oikawa would react that way. He doesn’t often show his true feelings to people, unless he’s angry, but this wasn’t anger. This was something much more vulnerable. Hajime couldn’t even pull himself together in time to say something, anything. A simple, dumb, ‘Me too.’

What the hell is he doing sitting on the street then? All the times he imagined saying those same words to his best friend that his best friend said to him— Sometimes those stories ended badly, but they never began with Oikawa saying what he just said, and they certainly didn’t end with Hajime saying nothing at all.

So he’s not going to say nothing at all.

What are you so afraid of?

He jumps up off the curb and runs the six blocks to Oikawa’s house, arrives breathing hard, heart pounding, but mostly not from exertion. He knocks hard, maybe a little too hard, and feels guilty when Oikawa’s mom answers it, looking a little concerned.

“Oh, Hajime. Did you and Tooru have a fight? He seemed upset,” she says. If Hajime knows Oikawa, which he does, he probably told his mom not to let him in, but she wouldn’t ever deny him.

“I need to talk to him,” he says, chest still heaving slightly. “Please, it’s important.”

She frowns slightly, looking behind her, but Oikawa’s not there. “Okay, come in.”

He forces himself not to run up the stairs or down the hall. Oikawa’s door isn’t even locked, so he pushes it open, trying to ignore how warm he feels. There’s no reason to be nervous now, except that he’s made an ass of himself, but he’s done that in front of Oikawa a million times before.

“Oi, I wasn’t done talking to you, Trashkawa.”

He’s curled up in his bed, under the covers, and he pulls his pillow over his head. There’s a muffled, “Go away, Iwa-chan, I just want to be alone.”

Hajime sits on top of him, pinning him down, and yanks the pillow away. Oikawa’s eyes are red, but dry, and he glares up at him, looking morose. “You can’t just say something like that and run away.”

“What was I supposed to do?” His voice is quiet and low, bitter.

Hajime scowls, defensively. It keeps running through his head—the words Oikawa said, that he should just say back. It’s clear, it would be easy that way. “You didn’t let me say—” He chokes on his own words.

Oikawa just stares at him.

Hajime takes in a deep breath, as subtly as he can. They say actions speak louder than words.

He shuts his eyes and leans down, not stopping until his lips make contact with Oikawa’s warm, soft skin.

He was kind of off the mark. He hit his cheek to the side of his mouth, and he feels his face heat up. “Wh—” Oikawa starts. Hajime quickly moves over, praying that Oikawa won’t keep talking, but the moment’s already ruined anyway, he supposes.

He breaks away after a few more seconds, face surely fully red now, but still manages to look down at Oikawa.

He starts laughing.

Hajime straightens up defensively. “What?!”

“You missed!”

Hajime grabs the pillow and smothers him with it. Oikawa tugs at it until he worries he might actually murder him and moves it away, but he regrets it because he’s still laughing.

Eventually he quiets down, and Hajime is struck by how unguarded he looks right now, smiling gently, hair slightly messier than he usually keeps it. He looks beautiful. Hajime swallows.

“Was that your first kiss?” he asks.

“You already know the answer to that!” Hajime is tempted to smother him again when he starts giggling.

“It was cute.”

Hajime frowns, and feels his face is no less red. “Quit smiling at me like that.”

“But I’m happy!” He pauses, and then squirms a little. “But can you get off? You’re heavy. You should stop eating so many snacks, Iwa-chan.”

Hajime hits him with the pillow, but he’s happy too.

MEGAN I'M?? MY HEART WAS BREAKING AND THEN YOU MENDED IT ;____; the fluff was so cute be still my trembling heart

THANK YOU SO MUCH

OH MY GOD PRE CIOUS BABIES!!!!! /BREATHES DEEPLY ~~CRIES ANYWAY~~ this is so adorable omg baby iwachan making a butt of himself a million (AND ONE!!) times, oh my heart ;∇; I love it.

:) :) :)

Number:4
no tags

poem, 22 lines

There were blank pages, before you
chapters and chapters that no one remembers and then

hello.

You’re there, and I’m there and the story starts.

Once upon a time,
we existed.

And time moved, like it does
and we moved
together
like we do,

words and pages, chapters upon chapters:
the shiver I felt before I grabbed your hand,
your smile when I dragged you on our first adventure,
the way your eyelashes fluttered when you kissed me the first time,

moments
in our story.

And when it falls apart,
the book crumbling, and our pages are just dust on lost bookshelves
I’ll know it’s because there was no more you.

Happily ever after,
the book is over,
close it before it disappears.

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

Re: PROMPT: TEAM KAGEYAMA TOBIO/OIKAWA TOORU

FILL: TEAM AKAASHI KEIJI/BOKUTO KOUTAROU/KUROO TETSUROU, G

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

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

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

FILL: SWAG 2016