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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!
FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
also excuse the typos
no major content warnings, implied sexual situation and.. >__> angst // 1k+ wc.
He wants to ask, “and you’re okay with this?”
The words don’t quite make it off the tip of his tongue and it might be, just maybe, because Nijimura isn’t even sure if he can live up to his own end of the request. It’s always been like this with him—excruciating decisions executed like slipshod, haphazard back-up plans, no indication of the hours, days he probably spent poring over what to do, what to say. People take offense to his being, the way he’s jagged around the edges in that child-friendly way (cracked, shattered, beaten up one too many times but worn down so the sharp edges are gone, nothing but a husk left behind). He’s used to it, his own mistakes, the fucked up future he imagines himself in, the hopeless ending other people expect him to befall. He’s used to all of that but most of all, he’s used to something he refuses to call sacrifice (instinct, he’s wiped the word from his vocabulary so mom never had to hear it). Strategic giving up is his art so he can’t really figure out why he feels so winded now.
(They meet in middle school when Nijimura’s friends swing their arms around his shoulder and joke around that he and Akashi are a married couple.)
In the end, he’s the foolish one, he supposes. He looks Akashi in the eye and says “I’m done,” when he means to say “I think we’re both tired.” Akashi knows him though, reads through his every move like he does whenever Nijimura gets corralled into a shogi game he knows he’s bound to lose. He can probably read Nijimura’s gaze like the back of his hand, see past the unspoken you deserve to do better to catch a glimpse of the repressed, silence, muffled, please, you should be doing better.
(They meet again after high school. Nijimura’s still the same, working part-time jobs to support a family he’s always fiercely protected. Akashi is more or less the same too, and when Nijimura tips his head in greeting and says “oh? Captain Akashi?” there’s a shock and relief that floods Akashi’s face that makes him feel like a god damn hero.
Later, he finds out it’s because he’s Akashi’s new anchor. “You remember me as we met,” Akashi says, and Nijimura still hardly gets it.)
So in the end, he’s the foolish one. This, he knows. He knows because there’s that tiny, minuscule, barely visible sliver of his mind that’s kind of begging, hoping, waiting for Akashi to say no, to say this isn’t where it should end. He doesn’t. He’s a little too fine-tuned, a little too polite for that. He asks the appropriate questions (why? Are you sure?), watches as Nijimura fumbles through responses he practiced in his head just thirty minutes earlier, and then he calls out Nijimura’s name like he’s the one who chose it for him and—
(The name Shuuzou slips past Akashi’s lips for the first time when Nijimura has him pressed up against his bedroom door, knee slipped between his legs, hand sneaking beneath the fabric of Akashi’s shirt— and he memorizes it. Memorizes the way Akashi says it in between breathless little gasps that make Nijimura wonder if this is what he’s been looking for.)
One, Nijimura wonders if anyone else in the world has been able to look at Akashi without feeling—terribly, terribly overdone and cheesy, but—kind of blindsided, taken aback. It happens to him all the time, sometimes from the simplest things like when he wakes up ten minutes earlier and can’t find a single blemish on Akashi’s sleeping face.
Two, he wonders who Akashi will find after this. He’d like to imagine the mystery person to be the type that understands highbrow humor and doesn’t get scowled at by Akashi’s father whenever they drop by to visit. That’d be nice, Nijimura thinks (nice for Akashi, mostly, and he figures that’s really all that matters at this point).
Three, he thinks of terrible matching mugs and coffee, black, with just three spoonfuls of sugar. The spoonfuls are careful measurements, just half-inch mounds on the spoon with the flat handle. He should have written notes, filled page after page in fifty journals on things to do for Akashi, things not to do for Akashi—
(Akashi is untouchable. He’s wealthy, well-mannered, handsome—the kind of privileged that makes other people shudder with hate and envy that seems out of line to express. It’s always been there, that nagging feeling at the back of Nijimura’s mind telling him that he’s holding Akashi back, that he is hardly who Akashi is supposed to end up with. It’s not really having little faith, Nijimura realizes.)
“Sorry,” Nijimura says thoughtlessly, rubbing at his face with his hands. “Seems rushed, doesn’t it?”
Akashi glances at him, expression neutral, restrained, as he shakes his head. “Not at all,” he says calmly. “You have no reason to apologize.”
He thinks he does. He thinks he has plenty of reason to apologize—maybe for the two years he’s taken from Akashi’s life, or for every other fight they had over stupid things because Nijimura really could never understand why anyone on earth should feel so compelled to have two entirely different faces to wear. He doesn’t say anything, stares at his hands, at the corner of Akashi’s eye to avoid feeling shaken.
(He feels smaller these days, kind of like he’s shrinking, maybe because the more and more he looks forward, the less significant he feels. So it’s a selfish decision in the end, at least fifty percent of it. He looks in the mirror and thinks it’s time to stop being selfish (for Akashi); he looks in the mirror and thinks it’s time to stop being selfless (for Akashi).
In another world, things might have been better. That’s what he’ll tell himself for days to cope with the gaping hole in his chest. That’s what he’ll chant as a mantra when he remembers he honestly would have fought for Akashi, would have dealt with the way he acts differently around his father if it meant they'd be (together) (together) (together) okay. He’ll move on, probably, maybe, eventually. He’ll feel better about this in the future, when he realizes he made the decision for someone too important to him instead of for himself.)
A faint laugh, quiet and hollow, slips past his lips. “Sorry,” he repeats, gaze dropping downward, away. “It’s for the best.”
He wants to ask, “don’t you want to stop me?”
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
REE!!! THANK U FOR FILLING ANOTHER PROMPT OF MINE BUT U NEED TO STOP BREAKING MY HEARST....... IT CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH HONESTLY....
THE CONFLICTING FEELINGS NIJIMURA HOLDS BACK... AKASHI'S CALMNESS... frick im too emotional
“You remember me as we met,” Akashi says, and Nijimura still hardly gets it.
FUUUUUUCK!! FUCK!! JUST FUCK ME UP REE I CANT EVEN WRITE A COHERENT COMMENT
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
SHOHGOHD THANK U FOR PROMTPING BEAUTIFUL THINGS.. I WISH U WOULD STOP THO.. I'M LIEK THAT WEIRD FIREND U WANT TO SHAKE OFF WHO KEEPS WRITING THINGS FOR U EVEN THOU GH UR TOO COOL FOR ME, U KNOW....
IM GLAD U ENJOYED IT IM HOENSTLY SO HAPPY .. also i'll bbbe back ont witter tomorrow sowe can yell at each toher in peace
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
why would you do this why ughhhhhhhhhI was not ready for this angst. But this was beautifully written.
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
AHH im so glad you enjoyed it... this means a lot to me coming from team nijiaka hehehe <33 THANK U SO MUCH
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
OH YG OD BECAUSE U WROTE!! NIJIAKA!!! RREE!!!!!!! FRICK!!!! THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL IDEK WHAT TO SAY PLEASE THROW ME OFF A CLIFF
WHEN NIJIMURA FINALLY DECIDES TO STOP BEING SELFLESS AND SELFISH ALL AT ONCE AND WHAT THE HELLLLLL MY WEAKNESS :'( :'( :'( :'( I CAN'T CRY ENOUGH
YOU REMEMBeRED ME AS WE MET
honestly pleas e wrte a book or i'll print a book with everything you have written
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
ur my favorite wife.. honeestly.. true lvue
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
"something he refuses to call sacrifice", "strategic giving up is his art" FUKC WHY MUST YOU REMIND ME OF HOW MUCH HE SUFFERED IHU, AND NIJIMURA FEELING INFERIOR KILLS ME
JUTS TAKE MY HEART I DON'T WAN T IT
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T
JUSTICE FOR NIJIMURA SHUUZOU HONESTLY... WHEN WILL HIS SUFFERING END
i will gladly take ur heart though thank u .. veeree romantic
Re: FILL: TEAM IWAIZUMI HAJIME/OIKAWA TOORU, T