Bonus Round 2: AUs

SASO 2015 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).

This round is made for exploration of all those "what-if?" scenarios, like "what if my favorite sports anime was actually a spaghetti western?" or "what if everything was the same except everyone was actually a car?"

This round ends at 7PM on June 27 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

Submit prompts by commenting to this post with an alternate universe idea, along with a ship from one of our nominated fandoms.
An AU could be a canon divergence, e.g. "what if [team] didn't win the Inter High in season 1, but [other team] did instead?", or a completely different setting altogether, e.g.s pop idol AU, coffee shop AU, superheroes AU, etc.
Fill prompts by leaving a responding comment to the prompt with your newly-created work.
Remember to follow the general bonus round rules, outlined here.

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

Hello! I would absolutely love any criticisms or advice or perspective you'd like to share. Especially if something comes off as inaccurate or implausible or just flat-wrong, I'd really like to know how I screwed up and how to improve it. That would be awesome!

Choose your preferred method of contact - here, Tumblr, Twitter, or if there's another way you'd find more convenient let me know :D

i'll do my best!! \ o / just a disclaimer for anyone reading this, i'm hoh (basically profound deafness in one ear) and a lot of my perspective/experience comes from growing up with that knowledge and exposure to doctors and etc. :) and i will be using deaf here to refer to all those who have permanent hearing loss, including hoh people!

can i just say i love that other people have deaf/hoh hcs for aoyagi? ;___; they hit such a personal and special place in my heart, augh. i love it so much.

aoyagi's social awkwardness is definitely on par! i was deeply embarrassed by my aids—when i chose to wore them—and absolutely dreaded anyone finding out, mostly because i was ashamed to have them. i hid mine under my hair too! communicating with people verbally was also difficult (i would often miss what people say or mishear things, especially if it was noisy bc deaf people can't single out particular noises a lot of the time; we lack hearing depth perception, basically). his feelings reside very deeply with what i felt back in middle and high school and still feel today at times: a mix of self-loathing, embarrassment, desperation to keep up with conversation, etc.

your depiction of aoyagi is actually hitting me in a very personal place. his problems/struggles were and are my own, uhuhu. ;____; i really like it and think it's pretty accurate!

if aoyagi is using his aids, that means sounds in his environment get louder in volume, so i don't doubt that aoyagi can /hear/ what is being said... but it may be layered over by other noises in the environment, making it hard to distinguish what is being said versus hearing it. does that make sense? i hope it does... if not, feel free to ask! there are definitely more sophisticated hearing aids that have programs or functions developed to help a person single out particular voices but i don't know the efficacy of those... and that gets way into technical detail.

T2 BABIES SIGNING TOGETHER. OH MY SWEET HEART. LORD. KSJFLKDS i'm not a signer and don't know (japanese) sign language myself but have always wanted to learn and it is a way of communicating for a lot of d/Deaf people! i can't attest to the accuracy of its use in your fic but gahhh, thank you for putting it in. T___T

THIS WAS OVERALL VERY VERY CUTE AND THE WAY THAT JUNTA JUST KIND OF BARGES INTO AOYAGI'S WORLD AND ADJUSTS TO HIM INSTEAD OF AOYAGI HAVING TO DO IT?? GAH. SO SWEET. thank you for this gem!! i enjoyed reading it so much!! *____*

Edited 2015-06-24 04:25 (UTC)

Bonus Round 2: AUs

Bonus Round 2: AUs

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G

Re: FILL: TEAM AOYAGI HAJIME/TESHIMA JUNTA, G