Bonus Round 5: Remixes

[referees]

Bonus Round 5: Remixes

SASO 2016 is over, but this round is perpetually open to new fills (no new prompts).


Congrats, this is the home stretch! You've worked hard and created hundreds of fanworks for sports anime fandom to enjoy. This round encourages you to look back at everything the SASO has made and use it as inspiration.

This round ends at 7PM on August 8 EDT. Countdown Timer.

RULES

• Choose a fanwork created by other participants in a previous main or bonus round of SASO and create a new piece based on it. You could create a fanart of another work, an FST inspired by a piece’s style, retell another person’s fanfic from another point of view, create a new fanfic inspired by a great piece of art... go wild!
• You cannot remix your teammates' works.
• You must have permission from the original creator. There's a blanket permissions post here (feel free to add yourself to it!), or you can leave a comment on their original post asking for permission.
• You must include a link to the original work in your post.
• Since all fills are based on previous works, there will be no prompts for this round. Simply post your fill as a comment in response to this post.
• 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 FILLING:

If FILLING as a TEAM GRANDSTAND participant:

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), and LINK to the original work you are remixing 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 fills as you want!

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.

Have a question? Check The FAQ first. If you still need help, feel free to contact the mods. Happy fanworking!

Comments

FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T

[catlarks]

Major Tags: None
Word Count: 655
Pairing: Maki/Rin/Hanayo

Remixed from this fill by dandywonderous as prompted by simpleruser, blanket permission has been given! It's not meant to be a direct sequel, just in the same kind of vein as the fic it's remixed from.

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Maki arranges her sheet music against the piano, fastidiously fixing the pages so that all their edges lay perfectly in line. The cover over the keys is rolled back, left that way after the numerous repetitions of the song she's already run through. After so much practice, she hardly needs the sheet music. She rolls the cover back down, letting the click of the wood sliding into place signify that this is it, it's done.

She walks into the front room of the apartment, the one stuffed with Hanayo's DVDs and Rin's knick-knacks and million other tiny pieces of each other's lives, and glances at the clock above the small kitchen stove.

Still a good twenty minutes until Hanayo and Rin return home, at least. Twenty minutes for her to fidget and fret, the melody for the song she'd been working on — the song she is finally going to show to her girlfriends, finished or not — playing hauntingly underneath every movement she makes from the inside of her own head. She stares at the clock over the stove, looks to the door, and breathes out.

She walks again toward the piano, and rolls the key cover back out of the way.

After so many repetitions, Maki hardly needs to play the song again. She knows every note that's written down on the paper — nudged into place by her precise, exacting hand — with absolute certainty. Her fingers find the keys in spite of this. There are a few places in the song where the melody grows weak, where the procession of notes seem to stumble over each other.

She begins to play, walking her fingers backwards and forward over the troubling bits of the song, adjusting, correcting. The music rises on the air, dancing in her ears and seeping into her head, the individual notes tangible underneath her fingers as they fly across the keys. On her fifth pass through the song, everything falls into place, and as the song draws to a close, she allows the last notes to linger and die away.

"That was beautiful, Maki-chan," Hanayo whispers, voice soft with awe.

"Yeah!" Rin says, without the same amount of delicacy. "It's been so long since you've played something new for us that I almost forgot, but your songs are so good."

Maki's head jerks toward them sharply enough to make it spin, her eyes springing wide.

"Rin! Hanayo!" she exclaims, her cheeks flushing warm. "I didn't hear when you came in."

"But Maki-chan," Rin says. "That was a whole, uhh..." Her eyes roll up, like she's counting in her head. "Five minutes ago, at least! Maybe ten!"

"You were feeling the music," Hanayo says, nodding slowly as if this makes sense to her. "I almost got lost in it myself, from the way you were playing."

"I didn't mean to," Maki says, glancing down.

She's embarrassed to have been caught in practice, rather than being given the opportunity to prepare for them and perform as if in a recital. Then it hits her all at once — they were praising her song, the new, finalized version of her song where everything came clear.

"I'm... Really glad you both liked it," she says, not quite meeting either of their eyes.

"Of course we did," Rin says, hunkering down so she's on Maki's level, so Maki is caught looking down into Rin's smiling face. Rin wiggles a little where she's crouched, and beams wider. "We always love the music you make."

"Rin is right," Hanayo says. "It's lovely because you love it so much, we can tell."

"Oh... Hanayo..." Maki starts to say, and before she can stop herself, reaches up to pull both of them down into a hug. She tilts her face against Hanayo's hair, even as she feels Rin nuzzle in against her shoulder. She's whispering when she finishes, the last words softest of all: "...Rin. Thank you."

Re: FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO, T

[dandywonderous]

Oh goodness this is so cute! Good job Maki, haha. I'm flattered you liked my fic enough to continue it, thank you! I loved this!!

[catlarks]

I'm glad you liked it! I love first years OT3 and your fic was cute, so I'm glad you gave me the opportunity to write a cute thing of my own in return. ;u;