A wise man once said there is no Sportsfest without Quotes round! For the last BR we'll take inspiration from others' words.

This bonus round will be open until Friday, August 16th at 11:59 PT. (Countdown)

This round is now closed!

However, it is perpetually open to new fills!

Rules

Submit prompts by commenting a quote of your choice.
There is no hard rules regarding the quote's length but please don't put the entire work in a single prompt.

The source may be a book, a speech, song lyrics, a movie line, popular tweets, memes, etc.

It CAN NOT be taken from a private conversation.
Quotes from other Sportsfest participants or yourself are NOT allowed either as the intentions can be easily misunderstood or create an exclusionary environment through private jokes.

Unlike last year's Quotes round, prompting images is NOT allowed.

Please give credit to the author of the quote whenever possible.

Example:
- "My name, my real name, that is not the point.
  The name I chose is the Doctor."
  ― Matt Smith in Doctor Who
- "I've come back to the land I'd lost"
  ― Joywave, Tongues
- "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
  ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by the quote.
You cannot fill your teammate's prompts or your own!
You must use the prompt/fill headers below, and you cannot leave any line blank nor delete lines!

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

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.

NSFW prompts
All explicitly NSFW prompts must be posted in

sf_afterhours in the corresponding Bonus Round post. You can find the After Hours BR4 post here.

If Filling

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.

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.

Learn more about posting in After Hours here, and you can find the after hours post for BR4 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!

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Ship/Character: Mihashi Ren, Kurahara Kakeru, Bokuto Koutaro, Any
Fandom: Oofuri, Kazetsuyo, Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: Uncle Iroh with his endless wisdom, depression, I didn't list ships because any can work, do whatever you want
Do Not Wants: None

Prompt:

“In the darkest of times, hope is something you give yourself.
That is the meaning of inner strength."

- Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Ship/Character: kurahara kakeru
Additional Characters: haiji kiyose
Fandom: run with the wind
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: future fic
Word Count: 402
Remix Permission: yes See Permissions Sheet

***

Six months.

Six months since running and placing tenth in the Hakone Ekiden. Six months of rebuilding, moving forward, saying goodbye.

Haiji doesn’t have much time to think about it, Kakeru assumes. He’s made no effort to move out even since graduating, only acknowledging Yuki and King’s departures when he mulls over how many vegetables he should cut up for dinner or buy from the supermarket.

It’s odd, still having him around when Kakeru had been preparing himself for endless nights without him. He’d thought of their abysmal chances of getting three more people to move in without Haiji’s… for lack of a better word, charm, the amount of money they’d all have to spend on takeout, the empty space next to Prince during practice that the rest of them would acknowledge but never say anything about. Never verbally.

But he’s still here now, and Kakeru’s grateful. There’s more than one reason, really. With so many Kansei University students approaching them with boundless bursts of energy, there’s only so many residents left who can handle it. Logistically, it works completely in Kakeru-- in the team’s favor. Running practices without him would be a nightmare, as is there are enough freshmen with immature antics to worry about.

Then, there’s the practical parts. After finding out half of the Aotake residents didn’t even know how to do laundry, let alone cook, or clean their own rooms-- maybe Haiji had made it his own personal mission to stay behind until they became more stable.

The reasons he’s stayed behind aren’t all practical, though, and Kakeru mulls over the thought one summer day while attempting to learn how to cook one of the apartment’s favorite dishes. It’s part of Haiji’s dream, Kakeru knows. Running at Hakone was only part of it: surrounding himself with running and finding a purpose in his passion. But there’s something else, something more in Haiji’s eyes, something that for as long as Kakeru’s known him has always been there. He looks at Kakeru, and there’s a pure, unadulterated belief in him that overwhelms Kakeru to his core.

Haiji lit a fire underneath Kakeru, Kakeru found solace in its warmth.

It was enough to fuel him, make him stronger. Enough to, at the edges of his despair, help Kakeru find the hope in having a future in running again.

Kakeru hopes he’ll stay a long time.

ooooh i love the slight building tension in this so much!! i also love haiji sticking around to look after his team and support them<333 c'mon, kakeru. you're almost there, kakeru. u can do itttt

Bonus Round 4: Quotes