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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

NSFW Sexual content and mentions of alcohol, 405 words

It started as all the most important things in life do, without you realizing it. You met, shook hands, and never said a word to each other from the other side of the net.

This happens two more times, this time on a public court in front of an audience. Both times were hallmarked with tears. The first time from you, the second time from him (or so you've been told). The third time you meet you shake hands and stay on the same side of the net. You stay there. For two months you stay on the same side of the net, the only setter in your year, setting to the best wing spiker in your year, before you find yourself falling into the same bottle of cheap tequila.

That night you find yourself falling into the same bed as well.

Strong arms had bracketed you as Iwaizumi had moaned into the side of your neck. You remember how he felt inside you -how he felt around you- every night since then, and once a week you relive it. It's wonderful. As a friend and a bed partner, Iwaizumi Hajime is strong, giving and endearingly gruff. More than once he's made you laugh within his embrace, gasps of amusement mixed with gasps of pleasure.

He's burrowed under your sheets next to you, his chest rising and falling in a deep sleep. You smile fondly down at him, remembering the scrunched up look on his face when you chuckled at him earlier that night.

"Oh c'mon." He'd mumbled, his hips rotating against your ass, enjoying the playful teasing more than he'd ever acknowledge, "give a guy a break."

Your hand drifts to his face, your thumb brushing across his cheek, chasing the strip of moonlight cast from between the blinds to where it ends at his bruised lips. His eyebrows, furrowed before, relax under your touch and your heart swells.

This is the moment you wait for every night after he drifts into sleep, and it's just you and the bruises he sucked onto your body awake next to him, so much love in the room that it hurts. Each time is filed away like a snapshot in your mind, a frozen moment of perfection, of bliss. He mumbles something the first time you did this, that tequila-soaked first night, and he does it now, as always.

You still let him say the wrong name.

Edited 2015-05-31 22:55 (UTC)

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WAHT THE FUCK MY EYES ARE BURNING HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OHHHHH that last line IM YELLING ;o;

oh YM GOD I AM YELLLLLLLLLLINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

JUST. OH MY GOD. SLAMS MY LAPTOP SHUT. I NEED A MOMENT TO ABSORB THIS. I'M GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is amazing, you are amazing, I cannot, I LITERALLY, I AM JUST. This drew me in from start to finish and that last sentence struck like a BULLET, god I'm going to hold my head in my hands and just think about this the rest of the day, the pain is here, it's arrived.

Thank you for this wonderful fill!!! Your writing is fantastic, I loved the descriptions of intimacy and reflection of their past games, it created a really perfect setting to establish these two in nOT TO MENTION HOW HARD THAT LAST SENTENCE HIT AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH All the little bodily mentions of bruises and skin touching, clenches my chest, clenches my everything, what a perfect summary of the quote.

Gosh just!!! Thank you!!!!!! I'll definitely need to check out more of your fills, your work is stunning!

this was heartbreaking, but in the best way, honestly
my heart was leaping reading this beautiful fill, and then that last line, i just―
(YELLS FOR 100000 YEARS INTO THE ABYSS)

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

FILL: Team Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, M

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

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

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

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

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