Bonus Round 1: Three Words

[sportsfest_mods]

A lot can be said in just three words, and we're challenging you to do just that in this bonus round! From your "I love you"s to your "red, white, blue"s, you'll have just three words to prompt and be prompted.

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This round is now closed!

However, it is perpetually open to new fills!

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Rules

• Submit prompts by commenting any three words of your choosing! This can be a phrase or a list of words. Example:
  • Please don't go
    
  • Morning, flower, kiss
    
  • Past, Present, Future
• Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
  
• Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by all three words, or only one or two! The choice is yours.
  
• You cannot earn points by filling your teammate's prompts or your own! (That said, we won't stop you from doing so for fun!)
  
• You must use the prompt/fill headers below, and you cannot leave any line blank!

Format

Required Work Minimums:

• 400 words (prose)
  
• 400px by 400px (art)
  • Traditional art is also allowed with a good quality photo/scan
• 14 lines (poetry)
  
• Playlists - 5 song minimum with artists. Link to either a video playlist, or each song separately. Be sure to warn for content in the music videos, and you may find linking to lyrics helpful. You may also write an explanation of why you chose each song.
  
• Moodboards - 9 photo min, source all photos, and no fanart allowed (unless it's your own)
  
• If you’d like to use a different medium, please contact the mods if you have any questions about minimum requirements.

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If Prompting

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Please use the following subject line for prompt:

Prompt: [Your Team]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames or Official Names are both acceptable

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. You must include at least one specific ship/character.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from. Do not write “Any”) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Underage, or Chose Not to Use Tags, when applicable; Otherwise, write "None".) <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> (Anything you feel requires tagging or mention. Not required, but it is highly encouraged to check the additional tags on the tags page (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html) as they are things your fellow participants have asked to be tagged for! May also be humorous, tumblr-style tags.) <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> (Anything you do not want to see in your fills including triggers, squicks, and even minor things like ships you do not like. Please use this space responsibly and not, say, to create crazy limitations for your fillers.) <strong>Prompt:</strong>

Future bonus rounds will have a much more simplified header to copy-paste!

NSFW prompts
All explicitly NSFW prompts must be posted in sf_afterhours in the corresponding Bonus Round post. You can find the After Hours BR1 post here.

If Filling

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Please use the following subject line for your fill:

FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames and Official Names are both acceptable
  
  
• Replace [Rating] with the rating of your fill (G-E).

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Title:</strong> (Optional. Titling your work makes it easier to rec during the Rec Round, however, this is not necessary.) <strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. You must include at least one specific ship/character.) <strong>Additional Characters:</strong> (Optional. Any additional characters who are significantly present.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Underage, or Chose Not to Use Tags, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; Not required, but it is highly encouraged to check the additional tags (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html) on the tags page as they are things your fellow participants have asked to be tagged for! May also be humorous tumblr style tags.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") <strong>Remix Permission:</strong> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dL2xqWSMDtUI-SUUkWzBuLiK_VqmcLtGd15T0jT6vG8/edit?usp=sharing">See Permissions Sheet</a> (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks.) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks.)

Future bonus rounds will have a much more simplified header to copy-paste!

NSFW Fills
NSFW Fills must be posted in sf_afterhours. If you are filling an NSFW prompt, you may reply to it normally. If you're filling a SFW prompt with an NSFW fill, post your fill as a reply to the "Fills for SFW Prompts" comment, then cross-link it here.

You can find the after hours post for BR1 here.

Scoring

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual member!

Prompts

• Prompts 1-10: 5 points
  
• Prompts 10+: No points !

Fills

• Fills 1-10: 15 points each
  
• Fills 11-20: 5 points each
  
• Fills 21+: 2 points each

Additional Information

• If you're having trouble finding prompts/fills, Icie's bonus round database is a great tool!
  
• The Bonus Round Guidelines further explain how bonus rounds function along with examples.
  
• We also have an official Ao3 Collection for you to post your fills to!
  
• If you see any prompts/fills improperly tagged, in the wrong community, or otherwise in need of mod attention, please use our mod contact form to let us know! In fact, this form can be used to report many things, anonymously or not!

If you have any further question or concerns, please contact us!

Comments

FILL : TEAM WITH THE WIND, M

[hibari1_chan]

Title: Saeko/Akiteru (I'm tired ok XD)
Ship/Character: Tanaka Saeko/Tsukishima Akiteru
Additional Characters: None
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Rated M for suggestive moment/comments, Saeko centric, established relationship and reflection
Word Count: 554 words
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet

I don't know how good you'll find it but I found this solid plot and ran with it XD

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Akiteru was not like any other man Saeko had come across in her admittedly quite young life. He was polite, sweet, funny, kind and easy on the eyes. In short, he was the kind of guy you’d take home to introduce to your parents and absolutely not in a billion years had she ever thought she would date such a person.

However, it’s not like she was unhappy with her relationship, on the contrary. With him, she had achieved the kind of satisfaction none other had come close to give her. It was in the way his eyes would soften and his smile widen every time he looked at her, the amusement in his voice when he would jokingly agree with her suggestions with a “You’re the Boss”, how at ease he moved around in her apartment or engage in conversations with her brother and friends. Actually, he seemed to fit so perfectly into her life that it was always baffling to remember that there have been a time where she wouldn’t have even glanced his way.

Saeko had changed a lot since her high school days, the way she liked to think most people did even if Akiteru’s was still unclear to her but hey, it’s not like she knew enough about the guy back then to be the judge and so, mentally made herself a memo to ask his brother next time she ran into him. If she had to describe her past self she would say that she was “An edgy dumbass”. She would skip class, hang out with “questionable” people and look down on “proper” kids, thinking they were imagining themselves to be too good for her while in reality she was the one putting up a barrier between them. It’s only growing up that she understood that none of those stuff actually mattered and properly did her big sister’s job to pass on the knowledge down to her brother.

Life was funny this way, she thought. The “problem kid” finally ending up with the jock and she internally laughed at how Akiteru would never have qualified himself as a jock, not even in high school when he lived and breathed volleyball. But it was still true that he had been one of the “proper” ones. A nice guy.

It was quite strange that such a title would be considered to be the epitome of a catch by the elderly but avoided like the plague by the youngsters. They definitely had gotten a very bad reputation in the last decade, ironically. But Saeko was dating Akiteru. The Real Deal. The “Yes Sir, I’ll have her home by 10” kind of guy, who hesitated before taking her hand in public and would keep his to “safe zones” while they were making out in her van even though there was no one around and she had clearly given him carte blanche.

It was a bit annoying, she guessed, but mostly because she wasn’t used to guys giving instead of just taking. In theory, she would love for him to be bolder, but in private it was exactly those little things that made her so glad she had given him a chance.

Because now, if you asked her, Saeko would say that the only place nice guys finished last was in the bedroom.