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!

Comments

FILL: SWAG 2016

[(Anonymous)]

SWAG2016 participant #47

People ask Koushi how it feels, the day he gets married, the day after, and he gives them the same answer with he same cheeky grin.

He feels a little heavier. Specifically, on his left ring finger.

Marrying Daichi is the most important thing he's ever done in his life and simultaneously the most ordinary, inconsequential thing ever.

They've been married long before they ever officiated it with a ceremony, he thinks. They've been equated to an old married couple ever since they were teenagers in high school, still trying to sort their feelings out from their friendship. The teasing has only gotten worse as they've gotten older and Koushi's never minded it, knows that Daichi hasn't either.

It's difficult to pinpoint a date, a time, a moment that turned their relationship on its head. It's the little things, he thinks. Their hands, steady on each other's backs, holding each other up the way that together, they held the rest of the team up. The comfortable silences between them, content in each other's presence. The unwavering confidence in each other, happy to follow each other to the ends of the earth, if that's what was required of them.

He lies in bed with his husband, tracing over the gold band on Daichi's finger with his index, and wonders if this marriage began when they first moved in together. He thinks of the first few nights, when most of their stuff was still packed in boxes and they didn't even care because they each other and they had a place to themselves, and that's all that mattered at that moment in time. He thinks of the first time they set their bed up, lying in it together, a sense of ownership and satisfaction that they've never felt when they've slept over in each other's beds in the past. This one belonged to them, and it made all the difference in the world.

They're made of memories, of little bits and pieces of each other woven in amongst themselves, until they can't tell them apart. They're entwined so firmly that it's perfectly normal to think of them as together, as two parts of one whole, and strange to think of them apart from each other. To think that there were thirteen years of Koushi's life where he didn't even know the name Sawamura Daichi feels strange and wrong, like surely he came into the world knowing Daichi, knowing that they were meant for each other, because they fit together so perfectly, so easily that it feels as if they were shaped purely to accommodate each other. It's clear in their bodies, the way they curl against each other as close as possible, it's their in their personalities, in their sense of humour. Perhaps they're the one soul, broken in two, trying to weave itself back together again, and Koushi buries himself in Daichi's strong, familiar arms as deep as he can go, holding Daichi like he never plans on letting go.

Perhaps he won't, he thinks to himself with a smile hidden against Daichi's neck. Daichi is his husband, after all.