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.

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Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru (Haikyuu!!)

― I Give My First Love to You (2009)

FCUK DAMN IT

reply to this so i have in my inbox pls

just fuck me up

dont do thsi to me.........

this is hwat you do on twitter.. im just returning the favor........

no major warnings apply. canon; reincarnation fic
850 words

the first time, hajime is not quite himself and tooru is also the same. hajime can remember, in smudges, color and light and sound--tooru is loud, so loud, and happy and different and strange. but not a stranger. hajime is a fighter and tooru is not; tooru is a coquettish princeling of a boy who tells hajime where to stand and what to do in his pouting, whining voice and his hands on his hips.

he looks like he hates him when they grow, tooru taller than hajime and hajime never quite catching up. tooru’s reach is longer with a sword in his hands, straight-edged blade keen and singing, whirling in neat patterns that hajime picks apart in practice. he never lets up on him, doesn’t ever allow him an easy match. hajime can pull back the thread in time and jiggle at the memory of tooru’s face, golden in sunlight, sweaty and alive and enthralled by the give-and-take of swordplay. hajime shouting and grinning, tooru laughing while he parries swift strikes. (he remembers how tooru dies only because he goes first--and learns a simple pattern. where tooru goes, hajime follows.)

the second time is stranger than the first. hajime barely remembers anything but tooru knows everything--he remembers so much about hajime that he should have forgotten, a mind that was never wiped clean before it was turned out, factory-new.

tooru finds hajime after they’ve grown. he is no longer a prince set to inherit anything but he walks like it, talks like it, and hajime nearly cleans his clock when tooru does not shut up. but it’s comforting to put a face at last to the voice that talks in his dreams, the person that hajime’s always felt like was missing.

tooru is a stargazer and hajime does not realize that there is so much out there, not until tooru shows him the path of moons and planets. he sees beyond the world that hajime inhabits, so he yanks tooru in by the lapels to force him back down to earth. it’s a good life, a long life, and there is no kingdom--but also nobody watching when hajime presses kisses to tooru’s body, stargazing eyes full of wonder and a familiar delight.

(somewhere between the countless turns of discovery--revelation--loss, it is not as straightforward as his spirit expects. sometimes he misses tooru entirely. sometimes the door in his head stays locked and neither of them see each other, until the next life. where tooru goes, sometimes hajime forgets to follow.)

as neighbors, tooru is very nearly hajime’s first conscious memory. he is babyfaced and puffy-cheeked, pouting with his hands on his hips. he watches curiously as hajime nets stag beetles and cicadas in midsummer, points up at the night sky while their mothers chat.

hajime never grows taller than him. “iwa-chan” is a diminutive nickname, twice as irritating when tooru grins down at him while saying it. he is stupid, and impulsive, a sore loser, and the most dedicated, obsessive volleyball nerd hajime has ever grown up with.

“we’ll take nationals this year,” tooru says, iron will behind his words, and his team follows his every order. they put their faith in him and his absolute skill, his drive to win whetted by years of coming in second-best. hajime has no time to appreciate the hard-won arc of his arms and the curve of his back, straight shoulders and thick legs--not in the middle of a match, not in practice.

besides, tooru winks at girls in school, gets ambushed by waves of them coming from the main building to the gym. he waves long fingers at them and smiles when they giggle. “hey, stop that,” hajime usually says, and whaps him on the back of his head for good measure.

“iwa-chan, so mean,” tooru whines, and hajime rolls his eyes. today, he pats where he’d slapped him, ignores the circles under his eyes. (tooru confides to his oldest friend, iwa-chan, i haven’t been sleeping well lately. i dream about dying.)

he sets to hajime for an hour, hour and a half, and their legs shake during cooldown. hajime stretches, careful to watch tooru and his knee. tooru’s need to prove himself is a double-edged sword. he is also careful not to say, me too, i haven’t been sleeping well either. i dream about you. successfully does not say anything about it at all while walking home, splitting up only at tooru’s doorstep.

hajime’s dreams are populated by different faces and a well-worn spirit similar to his own. but invariably, there is always tooru somewhere in the dream: bathed in sunlight and laughing, playing one long game of volleyball on a court that stretches to a far, far point in the horizon. hajime’s body settles down, shoes squeaking on the gymnasium floor. his hands are waiting for tooru’s serve, for a toss that comes unfailingly to him. distantly, he can hear the referee’s whistle.

when tooru jumps, as if he’d torn himself loose from the weight of the world, hajime can very nearly see a crown.

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL, I'M EMOTIONAL

"he remembers how tooru dies only because he goes first--and learns a simple pattern. where tooru goes, hajime follows." AUGH THIS KILLS ME!!! IWAIZUMI ALWAYS FOLLOWING OIKAWA... GROUNDING HIM AND PULLING HIM BACK TO EARTH.. THEY ARE SO GOOD FOR EACH OTHER

"I dream about dying" "i dream about you" YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!!! oikawa being vulnerable to iwaizumi... iwaizumi's thoughts reflecting both their past lives and his love YOU'RE SO CLEVER ASDFGHHJJ IM WEAK

IM SO SORRY FOR THIS MESS OF A COMMENT I'LL STOP QUOTING EVERYTHING OTL

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! YOUR WRITING STYLE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

THANK YOU FOR PROMPTING THIS !!! ;A; GOD THIS PROMPTED RUINED ME i was like ??? om g???? and lmao reincarnation au is so overdone but .... but .... g o d

I FEEL LIKE IWA-CHAN IS DEF OIKAWA'S CENTER OF GRAVITY LIKE. WHERE WOULD HE BE WITHOUT HIM. PROBABLY? IN A DUMPSTER. ~~OR AT SHIRATORIZAWA~~ IWA-CHAN IS SO GOOD FOR HIM. HE IS THE GREATEST GOOD OIKAWA IS EVER GONNA GET. lays down and cries bcs iwaoi is truly my achilles' heel

THANK YOU !! FOR CALLING IT THIS !!!! I LIKE YO U R W RIT NG TOO IM SO EMBARRASSED OMG U_____U

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

Bonus Round 1: Quotes

PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

Re: PROMPT: TEAM GRANDSTAND

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