SF2020 - Bonus Round 1: Three Words

[sportsfest_mods]

Three words can mean the world! Whether it is a sentence or disconnected terms, what will you choose to convey with limited words?
This bonus round will be open until Saturday, June 27th at 11:59pm (midnight) EDT. (Countdown)

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This round is now closed!

The screening period is over! You're still able to post prompts and fills for this round but they won't count for points!
If you posted or edited a fill while comments were being screened, please use the comment unscreening form to let us know so we can unscreen it!

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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:
  • I love you
    
  • Home, keys, together
    
  • Let them go
• Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by all three words, or only one or two! The choice is yours.
  
• Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
  
• 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 nor delete a line! If this is your first time participation please read over our Bonus Round Guidelines.

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)
  
• Fake Social Media - 4 images min
  
• 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 your comment:

PROMPT: [Your Team]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of your team (Grandstand included!). Please use your Official Team Name!
  
• You must include at least one specific character/ship and fandom in your prompt. You may add "any" after listing a few characters/ships/fandoms!
  
• That said, remember that "any" really means any. If there are characters/ships you don't want to see, feel free to list them under "Do Not Wants" or put "ask for other ships".
  

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 comment:

FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]


• Reply as a comment to the prompt you are filling.
  
• Replace [Your Team] with the name of your team (Grandstand included!). Please use your Official Team Name!
  
• 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/1Y1iX56fSJhK0Dqy4suBFAXgpCW01w3StSe-UeJO4iag/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 in the corresponding Bonus Round post.
You can find the After Hours post for BR1 here.

Scoring

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual member! It means, for instance: "The first 10 prompts by any team members grant 5 points each".

Prompts

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

Fills

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

Additional Information

• Code for inserting links: <a href="LINK">your text</a>
  
• Code for inserting images: <img src="LINK" width="600px">
  
• 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 29 Balls to the Face, G

[joshllyman]

Title: you have always known
Ship/Character: Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou
Additional Characters: none
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: POV Second Person, "he" is bokuto, "you" is akaashi...i don't know where this came from?, angst
Word Count: 205/24 lines
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet


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you have always known it was never going to last.

he is a star, bright, shining, streaking through the sky
a god, powerful, mighty, imperfect
avert your eyes, don’t look too close
that boy will burn you up

you are inconsequential
a piece of space dust lucky enough to pass through his orbit
an unholy and unworthy spectator
to the grandeur of his splendor

you offer nothing because you have nothing to offer
you offer yourself because it’s all you have to give
take these hands, you pray, this simple sacrifice
and he holds you like you are something worth holding

you tally the minutes, the hours, the days
you know he will not stay forever
there are thousands of worshippers ready and waiting
to praise him on their knees

in the early mornings he whispers to you
so strange, the words that tumble from his mouth
he wraps you tightly in his arms
and he tells you “you are loved”

you watch him as he sleeps
he has always looked so beautiful in the moonlight
but you are not meant to witness his brilliance
you leave behind only your heart, clutched in his hands

you have always known it was never going to last.

Re: FILL: Team 29 Balls to the Face, G

[lilija_yuuzel]

This was so sad and well written. I just want to shout at Akaashi to go the back to bed and accept that his boyfriend loves him!

Re: FILL: Team 29 Balls to the Face, G

[joshllyman]

it's possible i projected myself onto akaashi a little too hard with this one lol