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Bonus Round 1: Quotes
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!
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)
Format your comment in one of the following ways:
| If PROMPTING: | If FILLING: | If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant: |
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
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FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP], [RATING]
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FILL: TEAM GRANDSTAND, [RATING]
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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!
PROMPT: TEAM KOUSAKA HONOKA/MINAMI KOTORI
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France
write me sousukepyunsuke please
FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G
Words: 1219
Warnings: None
When Sousuke had taken the stag beetle from Momo, it was with all intentions of releasing the little guy in the bushy area behind his home.
No matter what Rin said later, he definitely, absolutely, meant to let it go.
No, really.
Except, as he realized on the train ride home, Pyunsuke had a secret weapon – he was just too cute. His mandibles and antlers were big and strong and his carapace was shiny obsidian black, and whenever Sousuke looked into the jar he’d swear that Pyunsuke made eye contact with him as he wiggled his little antennae. Adorable. Sousuke kept catching himself grinning at the stupid little thing, which he’d correct with a huff and a shuffle until a few minutes later he’d be smiling at the jar in his lap again.
They arrived at the station surprisingly quickly, and Sousuke realized with some embarrassment that he’d spent nearly the entire journey watching the beetle flicking his wings and exploring his tiny enclosure over and over and over.
“Gotta get you a bigger jar,” Sousuke muttered absent-mindedly, followed by a more deliberate “Shit.”
Still, at that point, he’d fully intended to release Pyunsuke that evening. After supper, probably, since stag beetles were supposed to be nocturnal – though this one seemed remarkably active for the middle of the day, very engaged in his surroundings and watching Sousuke through the glass of his jar home. Pyunsuke appeared to have seen him looking in again and waved one segmented leg. Sousuke had to fight the urge to wave back.
Okay, so Momo might have had a point. He really was a very nice beetle. But that didn’t mean he could be kept in a jar his whole life. That would be cruel. So he needed to let little Pyunsuke go. It would be the best thing for him. Right.
He tightened his grip around the jar and nodded once, firmly, resolved, then set off from the station towards his home.
“What do you have there?” his mother asked after the rounds of obligatory hugging. Sousuke just shrugged, mumbling something about doing a favour for a friend, and had gone to put Pyunsuke by the window in his bedroom while the family ate. He placed the jar gently on the windowsill so Pyunsuke could catch the last fading rays of sun and look out on the Eden that awaited him. Sousuke thought that, if he were a stag beetle in a jar, he’d want to have a nice view, at the very least.
Then he thought about punching himself because he was relating to a stag beetle in a jar.
He’d clearly been spending too much time around Momotarou. Yep, that was it. Absolutely.
Sousuke managed to convince himself that the Momo-induced beetle-affection would wear off while he ate his supper and talked with his family. Clearly he needed to distance himself from Pyunsuke or he’d never be able to let him go and wouldn’t that be embarrassing.
That was a scary thought.
“Shit,” he said again later, more emphatically this time, when, sure enough, he couldn’t bring himself to do it. He was standing in the back garden, jar-and-beetle in one hand and the lid in the other, staring down at the most magnificent stag beetle he had ever seen. Pyunsuke looked back at him and flicked his wings before hunkering down into his grassy bed.
“Just dump it out, Sousuke. Just do it. This is stupid. Just put the jar down and go back inside.”
Right. He could just put the jar down and the beetle would crawl out on his own. No need to get too involved. Pyunsuke was surely a smart stag beetle; he could decide where to go once he left his jar on his own. He didn’t need Sousuke to choose the place for him.
Well. Sousuke could choose a little.
He found a nice little hollow at the roots of a tree, surrounded by soft earth and decaying twigs, and crouched down to place the jar gently on its side.
“Bye,” he muttered, feeling both melancholy and incredibly foolish. Pyunsuke waved his antennae again.
Sousuke couldn’t manage to fall asleep that night. He lay awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering if Pyunsuke would find a safe place to spend the night. He was in unfamiliar territory, after all, what if a cat got him or, or an owl, or something? It wasn’t safe to be a bug. Pyunsuke could probably defend himself fairly well, with his big antlers, but he was such a gentle beetle, Sousuke didn’t know if he had it in him to fight off a bigger animal.
Then he realized that it was two in the morning and he’d been too worried about a stupid beetle to fall asleep.
“Fuck this.”
He swung himself out of bed, grabbed his cell phone and a pair of shoes, and slipped out of the house to the garden. Using his phone to light the way, he picked his way over to the tree where he’d left Pyunsuke, hours earlier, just to check. The dim light glinted off the curvature of the jar. Sousuke crouched to peek inside.
Pyunsuke clacked his jaws. Sousuke let slip a relieved “Thank god” before he could stop himself.
“C’mon, buddy. We’re going inside.” When he reached for the jar, Pyunsuke ventured over the lip to crawl onto Sousuke’s hand, where he squatted with a definite air of contentment. Sousuke couldn’t help but feel flattered.
He slept much better for the rest of the night, knowing Pyunsuke was safe on the windowsill.
In the morning, he managed to scrounge up an old terrarium that once had held tadpoles but currently housed an impressive coating of dust. So he washed it off, scrubbed the glass inside and out, and filled it with grass and dirt and rocks and sticks from the nearby forest. It took the better part of the morning to bring the terrarium up to an acceptable state, and Rin would undoubtedly laugh himself silly when he heard, but he was proud of his handiwork. If he were a beetle in a jar, this terrarium would be an excellent upgrade. Pyunsuke seemed to agree, when Sousuke transferred him gently into his new home.
“Is this part of the favour?” his father asked, deeply amused. Sousuke grunted, letting him draw his own conclusions, and continued watching Pyunsuke explore, mentally noting what things Pyunsuke seemed to like and what he didn’t. For the rest of the day, and most of the rest of the break, he pored over internet articles and library books and a few embarrassing texts to Momo to find out the proper way to care for a stag beetle. He wanted Pyunsuke to have a good life, after all.
Pyunsuke sat on his lap all the way back to Samezuka, too. They got back before Rin did, so Sousuke was able to get Pyunsuke’s new home all set up beside their window without interference.
“Yo,” came Rin’s voice from the door, just as Sousuke had gotten everything arranged the way he wanted it, and he straightened up to return the greeting.
“Hey. How was Australia?”
“Really awesome! We went swimming at the – what is that?”
“Nothing.”
“Is that–”
“No.”
“Oh my god!”
“Rin–”
“You kept Momo’s beetle!?”
~Pyun~
Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G
Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G
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Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G
I was literally laughing and squealing out loud like... all through this fic. And you pulled it off IN-CHARACTER like WHOA. Super impressed.
This is legitimately my new favorite thing. Like... yes. Holy hell THANK YOU for writing this masterpiece.
Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G
FILL: Team Fukutomi Juichi/Kinjou Shingo, G
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.
Re: FILL: Team Fukutomi Juichi/Kinjou Shingo, G
Re: FILL: Team Fukutomi Juichi/Kinjou Shingo, G