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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 TSUKISHIMA KEI/YAMAGUCHI TADASHI, T
content warnings: swearing, referenced animal/pet death
notes: ah... so... as I went to post this, I noticed that next to your username it says your name is Amanda... so I’m just going to. apologise for this. I hope you like it though!! c:
(REPOSTED BECAUSE I FORGOT THE RATING!!)
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The reason that Hajime is not browsing the relationships section of the classifieds is the same reason as it is every week, every Sunday when he's had a cup of coffee and a healthy breakfast and jogged around the block to come home to the newspaper on his doorstep. That reason is, despite what his friends are telling him, that he is not looking for a relationship, that he's happy being single for now, thank you very much. He's been quite happy living on his own and with his pet gecko Hatori—only Hatori is no longer of this Earthly plane, and now Hajime is on a Reptile Quest, scouring the pet section of the classifieds—not the relationship section—for any sort of reptile.
For three weeks—nothing. And now, suddenly, there's an ad for sixteen reptiles:
Yaho~! it opens, and then goes on to detail the owner's messy break-up with their girlfriend, their impulsive purchase, and the different ways their flatmates have threatened to dispose of them and their new reptilian friends. They write that they have a ball python, seven different geckos, a bearded dragon, and two red slider turtles—which is only ten, and Hajime's scared to find out what the other six might be—all named Amanda.
Hajime feels like responding to this ad might be comparable to stepping on a landmine, but there are seven geckos. Surely the owner might not mind if Hajime only bought one? At this stage, he was getting desperate, and he'd pay good money for a reptile in his life.
The ad says the owner's residence is in Sendai, and there's an email address. Hajime opens up his laptop and types out an email.
Minutes later, there's a reply. Hours later, Hajime finds himself on a train with an empty reptile habitat clutched in his arms. People are giving him weird looks. It's okay, he thinks, I'm only getting one reptile. Not sixteen.
When he gets to the flat, address written in smudgy ballpoint on the back of his hand, he puts his habitat down by the wall and rings the doorbell. It's a fairly affluent part of town, actually, and these are nice flats. Hajime feels a bit out of place in his jeans and joggers.
A tall guy with short-cropped light hair opens the door. "Are you here for the Amandas?" he asks.
"Just one Amanda," Hajime says. "I mean—a gecko. Just a gecko."
The man at the door pulls a face. "I was so hoping you'd be taking all of them."
"That's alright," another man says—this one's even taller, with messy black hair. "One less just means we only have to think of fifteen ways to ruin Oikawa's life."
There's a piteous whine from somewhere inside the flat, and a small, sniffly voice says, "I can hear you, Mattsun." Hajime figures that the voice belongs to the person who thought that impulse-buying sixteen reptiles after a break-up was a good idea.
"Um," Hajime says, as the two at the door start laughing between themselves, "can I come in and see the geckos?"
"You have to call them Amanda," the first guy says.
"That's right," the other one says. "If you don't, Oikawa cries."
"That's not true!" Oikawa wails. He is quite clearly crying.
Hajime frowns. He doesn't know how Oikawa's weird flatmates are keeping such straight faces through all this. Still, they step aside to let Hajime into the flat. It's spacious and pristine, decked out with modern furniture and a tv the size of Hajime's shower. All this slips by his notice, however, because his attention is drawn to the sixteen reptile habitats stacked on a light blue leather couch.
"Holy shit," Hajime says. "This is—this is practically a zoo."
A hand snakes over the edge of a second couch, back to Hajime. This must be Oikawa.
"You're here for Amanda?" Oikawa asks.
"That's right," Hajime says.
Only, now that he's here—physically here, and not just dubiously eyeballing an ad in the pet section of the classifieds—well, there are seven geckos, a bearded dragon, two red slider turtles, three corn snakes, a green anole, two toads, and a ball python. Hajime has always been fond of reptiles—it's why he chose to keep a gecko as a pet in the first place. But this is different.
This is love at first sight.
"Oikawa-san, is it?" Hajime asks.
(He lives in a small flat. He doesn't have room for sixteen reptiles.)
"Just Oikawa is fine," says the hand waving around above the edge of the couch. "You're Iwaizumi?"
(He could put the toads in the same habitat. The corn snakes could share until they got bigger. Some of the geckos wouldn't mind sharing, right?)
"Right," Hajime says. "So, how much for Amand—for one of the geckos?"
"Oops, he broke the rules," one of Oikawa's flatmates comments. Hajime ignores him.
(Never mind space, he can't afford sixteen reptiles. He only came here for a gecko.)
"Fuck it," Hajime says, better judgement aside. "How much for the lot?"
At that, Oikawa's head pops up over the edge of the couch in a flash. "All of them?"
Oikawa, as it turns out, would probably be incredibly good-looking if it weren't for the bird's nest hair and the snot and tear tracks streaking his face. That, and the practically diabolical grin on his face, which seems like it almost reaches up to his manic wide eyes.
"Yeah," Hajime says. He can barely believe the words leaving his mouth as he says, "I work as a vet and I've got lots of experience with reptiles. I'd have to come back with my car, but—"
"Iwaizumi, are you stupid?" Oikawa asks.
Hajime is mometarily stunned into silence. "Um... ?"
"Did you read the ad?" Oikawa continues. "I said no rehoming fee."
"Shit," Hajime says. "I mean, that's—"
Oikawa's flatmates cackle somewhere behind him. "Oh, this is too good," one of them says.
"It's like one of those weird stories you read on the internet, where you're like, how could this happen to real people?" the other says.
Oikawa narrows his eyes at the space behind Hajime. "Why are Makki and Mattsun so cruel to me? What have I done to deserve this?"
Hajime turns around just in time to catch the tail end of some very crude hand gestures. When he turns back, Oikawa has a finger pulling down under his eye and his tongue sticking out.
"Can you take me with you too?" Oikawa asks.
Hajime glances between the reptiles, the snickering flatmates, the gross guy on the couch, the fancy furniture, back to the reptiles—and back to Oikawa, strangely earnest despite everything.
"I'll consider it," Hajime says.
(His friends are going to laugh at him so hard when they find out that Hajime actually followed up an ad in the pet section of the classifieds—and came out the other end with a relationship.)
Re: FILL: TEAM TSUKISHIMA KEI/YAMAGUCHI TADASHI, T
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