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Bonus Round 2: Quotes
Bonus Round 2: Quotes
Sometimes you just have to keep with tradition! Keeping with the SASO roots that SportsFest was born from, Bonus Round 2 is all about quotes.
This bonus round will close on July 13th, 2018 11:59PM PT. [COUNTDOWN]
This Round is CLOSED, but is perpetually open for new FILLS.
Rules
The Rule of Thumb for this round is prominence - did a published author or poet write this line you’d like to quote? Great. Is it from a speech or a historical document? Cool. Did your friend say something funny on twitter the other day? Not so much.
Please DO NOT prompt screenshots of private conversations, Discord convos, or conversations between you and your friends. This can easily and unintentionally bring the prompts into inside joke territory, and can create an exclusionary environment.
Quotes from other SportsFest participants (or yourself) are NOT allowed in this round (for similar reasons to above, and the fact that you could just make anything a quote).
Please give credit to the original speaker of your quote whenever possible.
If prompting with a screenshot, it is polite to post a transcription of the text below the image for accessibility.
Please use your best judgement, and if you’re unsure if something qualifies - ask! The mods are here to help.
And to reiterate, Your prompt MUST include one or more specific nominated fandoms. Please do not prompt "Fandom: Any".
A Few Examples:
“Today is far from Childhood -
But up and down the hills
I held her hand the tighter -
Which shortened all the miles-
- Emily Dickinson, ‘One Sister Have I In Our House’
“Til this moment I never knew myself”
- Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
“SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE!
- Damian, Mean Girls
“It's a quarter past midnight
As we cut through the city”
- Quarter Past Midnight, Bastille
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. Nickname or Official Name are both acceptable
Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.
NSFW Prompts
EXPLICITLY NSFW PROMPTS must be posted to the after-hours comm. “Explicitly NSFW” means that the prompt includes outright sexual content (whether in a photograph, drawing, or in words), and prompts that in the additional requests are asking for explicit fills. Prompts are posted with the same HTML format, in the same manner as a SFW prompt, just under the designated post for that Bonus Round in the after-hours comm. See ‘Filling’ for the procedures for NSFW Fills.
Once you have joined the Afterhours community, you can find the corresponding post HERE.
If Filling
Minimums
Required Work Minimums:
400 words (prose)
400px by 400px (art)
14 lines (poetry)
There is no max work cap.
Format
FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]
Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to. Nickname or Official Name 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
All NSFW fills must be posted in the corresponding Bonus Round post in the After Hours community. If filling a prompt that has been posted on the after-hours comm, simply reply to that prompt. If filling a SFW prompt, let the prompter know by replying to the original prompt on the main comm with a link to your fill on the corresponding after-hours Bonus Round Post. Please do not use the Fill subject line or Fill header when cross-linking. This will cause the BR scorer to count your fill twice.
Once you have joined the Afterhours community, you can find the corresponding post HERE.
Scoring
The scoring for bonus rounds depends on the number of people (n) on your team. You’re welcome to make as many prompts and fills as you like!
For prompts: 5 points per prompt, limited to 5 times the number of team members (5n)
For fills, where (n) = number of members on you team:
First 5n fills: 20 points each
Fills 5n to 10n: 10 points each
Fills 10n to 15n: 5 points each
All fills after 15n: 2 points each
Confused? Don’t worry; math is hard. Check out the Bonus Round Point Widget to help you figure out the point scale for your team.
All scored content must be created new for this round.
PROMPT: Team Bokuroo
Fandom: Haikyuu!! OR Prince of Tennis
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: sorry not sorry?, can be nsfw if you want!!
Do Not Wants: None!
Prompt:
One: Don't pick up the phone
You know he's only callin' 'cause he's drunk and alone
Two: Don't let him in
You'll have to kick him out again
Three: Don't be his friend
You know you're gonna wake up in his bed in the morning
And if you're under him, you ain't gettin' over him
I got new rules, I count 'em
- Dua Lipa, "New Rules
Re: PROMPT: Team Bokuroo
Re: PROMPT: Team Bokuroo
FILL: team reelfriendship, G
fandom: tenipuri
major tags: none
other tags: clumsily done angst, ambiguous
word count: 455
remix permission: yup
idk its tradition at this point that the first fill of the round is kinda awkwards
***
You’ll never win against me by stopping thinking.
That’s what he had told Sadaharu when they met again and he always took pride in being able to predict humans, but right now, more than anything, Renji wished for his brain to shut down, to stop analysing everything, to stop.
In the deafening silence of the empty house the faintest murmur reminded of a notification sound, and in the darkness of a late evening every passing car’s reflector casted a bright ray of light onto his nightstand where he had laid his phone in the vain hope of eliminating the nasty habit of checking it for no reason. This has proven itself to be ineffective, however, as from the corner of his eye it was awfully easy to mistake a flashing reflection for the screen lighting up.
Sorry about the silence, Renji, I’ve been busy lately. I could make it up to you this weekend, if you have time?
(One Unread Message)
…is what you’ll say.
from: Akaya
>> sorry abt the hour senpai but i have an english test tmrw and i forgot abt it pls help me DD:
Renji groaned in frustration and refrained himself from throwing his phone against a wall or sending a rude response to Akaya’s request. Realistically, it wasn’t his junior's fault.
It wasn’t Sadaharu’s either, really, no matter how much he wanted to blame him. They weren’t friends anymore, but it was easy, falling back into old patterns and revisiting old feelings. History liked to repeat itself, but in the end no one can turn back time and despite all the calculations he’s made and carefully executed steps in his plan he was unable to bring their relationship back to the state from before they parted.
He’s forgotten to account for the fact that he wasn’t Sadaharu’s priority anymore, he’s moved on. They both have, but Renji was the only one who was fully consciously walking back, while his friend remained steadily pacing ahead with his new teammates. Renji was an afterthought is his life, present only when he chose to look back or stumbled and fell behind.
Sadaharu has taken to calling him after a few weeks of silence, apologizing, sincerely, it would seem, and then repeating the pattern again. Always after dark, drumming his fingers against something and rushing through his words. Nervous for some reason.
The last time he seemed aware of this. For someone who analyses everything, he was surprisingly clueless about his own emotions.
I’m sorry, I sound strange. I haven’t been feeling too well lately, maybe I’m falling sick.
Renji was certain he wouldn’t call this time, he expected a text instead.
The phone stayed silent the whole night.
Re: FILL: team reelfriendship, G
FILL: team Grandstand, M
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: you know what they say about people that assume, sexual encounter,
Word Count: 977
Remix Permission: sure
This is mostly Mark's fault. It's also partly Mousapelli's fault for beating the Sportsfest drum really hard, I haven't written fic in 15 years or something.
***
Tsukishima was caught behind the storage rooms. Tonight he had been Karasuno’s delegated clean-up person at Nationals which was annoying to say the least. He’d planned to trick Hinata into taking his turn by telling him the storage rooms contained professional volleyballs that glowed in the presence of true talent but Hinata had disappeared somewhere with Kenma and there was no way Tsukishima was going to message him voluntarily. Even Yamaguchi hadn’t agreed to help, mumbling something about Yachi and team management.
So now Tsukishima was behind the storage rooms and trapped against the wall with his arms full of volleyball net.
Full of volleyball net and Kuroo.
Okay... now it was just Kuroo.
He smelled clean and fresh in comparison to the musty storage rooms and so familiar that Tsukishima shut his eyes and just inhaled out of habit. His stomach swooped. Fuck. He told himself he wasn’t going to do this anymore. That he was going to see Kuroo across the net at Nationals, (that Karasuno would then beat Nekoma), and Kuroo would retire from volleyball and go on to university where teens become adults. Adults that make mature friends that don’t care to know the taxonomy of dinosaurs. He’d seen it happen with Akiteru. Kuroo was smart and charismatic and it stood to reason that Kuroo was going to leave behind his juvenile flings. Tsukishima was fine with that. He’d worked out a strategy to deal with it. He’d made up Rules. Numbered ones even.
He opened his eyes to be faced with Kuroo’s awful handsomeness. Tsukishima was unfortunately really into Kuroo’s handsomeness, though he he was used to seeing it with a smirk and not this indecipherable expression. Before he could think his traitorous fingers twisted into the hem of Kuroo’s shirt and Kuroo’s eyes widened.
Kuroo pressed his body closer causing Tsukishima to gasp. This was not how the Rules were supposed to go.
“You didn’t pick up my calls, Tsukki.” Kuroo was sliding his hands down Tsukishima’s back, the way he first learnt how to at the Tokyo training camp all those months ago. Tsukishima tensed as his hands slid lower and lower.
“I never pick up your calls,” Tsukkishima tried his best to sound deadpan.
“Rude.” Kuroo grabbed his butt with both hands and brought their groins together. Tsukishima groaned. He loved this feeling. It wasn’t fair. “A senpai might think that his kouhai no longer cared about him. I thought we were friends.”
Tsukishima would be impressed with how smooth Kuroo was being if he had not noticed the slight tremble in Kuroo’s palms. Who knew that practicing observing people during volleyball was going to come into play in his personal life? But before he could examine it further Kuroo began to rock back and forth slowly, causing his brain to short out. The volleyball shorts they were wearing did not act as much of a barrier and Tsukishima had missed the feeling of Kuroo’s cock against his. Missed knowing that he could affect Kuroo like this. Tsukishima grabbed a fistful of Kuroo’s nest of hair with one hand and held onto Kuroo’s taut waist with the other and began to rock along with him. He could feel Kuroo’s breath in his ear getting shorter and shorter as Tsukishima rocked harder. Their bodies were getting impossibly warm. He didn’t know why he wanted to give this up. Tsukishima could do this up until Kuroo stopped it. It would be worth the heartache later. The glorious pressure was beginning to build at the base of his spine and his calves were tensing when he heard Kuroo mumble something...
“Pachycephalosaurus.”
“What?!”
Tsukishima came in his pants.
“Tsukki did you just…”
“Shut up. Did you just say Pachycephalosaurus.” Tsukishima grabbed Kuroo’s face in both hands. He could die of embarrassment later.
“Yeah. The name is derived from the Greek "pakhys" meaning ‘thick’, and “kephale” meaning ‘head’ and I learnt it in my college prep class and it describes you perfectly you stubborn idiot.” Kuroo’s smirk had come back. “I thought you were avoiding me and you didn’t want to do this anymore but evidently -”
Tsukishima kissed him.
Kuroo’s body sagged in relief and Tsukishima had to bend his head down to keep their mouths connected. Kissing Kuroo was better than strawberry shortcake. Better than dinosaur shaped strawberry shortcake. He wanted to do it forever and not have to explain but it was best to get over with.
“I was trying to get over you.”
“Over me! I’ve been trying my best to get you under me. Hey hey hey!” Kuroo raised an eyebrow and grinned his best lascivious grin. “Shit. I’ve been hanging out with Bokuto too much.”
“I figured you would leave for university and this would end and...”
“Hey. I like you, Tsukishima Kei. I like you, and when I go to University it gives me more freedom to take the train down and see you on weekends which is way more often than I see you now.”
“Oh.”
“Did you want it to end?”
“No.”
Tsukishima slumped his head onto Kuroo’s shoulder. He was going to have to recalibrate his rules. They clearly didn’t work. Staring at the ground he watched a green beetle make its way over their feet - Kuroo’s black shoe then his white shoe, Kuroo’s black shoe, his white shoe.
“You’re thinking too hard.” Kuroo smiled into his hair. “You’re always thinking too hard.”
“That’s a Carabus insulicola”
Kuroo looked down too.
“Nerd.”
“It’s ‘Aoosamushi’ in Japanese.”
“Rhymes with Kuroo-and-Tsukki.”
“No it doesn’t. Plus that’s the worst thing you’ve ever said.”
“Nope, we have a beetle blessing our relationship now. That’s romantic. Now can we please move this somewhere else where you can help get me off? I am not always this generous!”
Tsukkishima hid his smile in Kuroo’s shoulder.
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
jsyk I full on belly laughed for 30 seconds and had to put down my beer that's how good this line was. I love this, I love them, they're so insecure for being such aloof knuckleheads. ngl I find it extremely hot that Kuroo knows nerd stuff that ends up getting Tsukki off, good work. honestly I wouldn't have known you hadn't written in so long, this is magical. more plz, whenever you feel like it. I'm here for it. *clicky hands*
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Kuroo is totally smart and in a college prep class and would totally know shit just to impress Tsukki
Tha ms Shabz, my anxiety over posting it was through the roof and I feel so much better now
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
My phone autocorrected that to The Neediest and maybe that's not wrong
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
this was perfect for the fill, and i loved all the stupid nerd talk, i loved the beetle?? idk why, something about a random bug in the fic seems very them. it was also a nice surprise to get something not angsty for it (or not ending angsty, at least) because i couldn't really wrap my head around how that would work. BUT NOW I SEE!! THE LIGHT IS ON!!!!!
they're sweethearts, they really are, even if they would never agree with me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ♥
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
I'm glad you liked it. And glad I could join in cos I love everyone's work so much I am basically Ai from free and you're like Rin or Haru or something
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
I'm so happy you are doing this this summmer! Because now I get snarky Tsukki and mildly insecure Kuroo and making out in volleyball closets and awww this is so sweet and fun and ridiculous.
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
i love kurotsuki so much. i love when they're both a lil insecure but they like each other So Much, i love both of them being BIG NERDS. especially kuroo. this dumb boy i love him so much, we have a beetle blessing our relationship now. PLEASE
i'm really happy with the way you took this prompt, thank you for giving my favorite boys a happy ending!!
Re: FILL: team Grandstand, M
Everyone deserves a happy ending! Thank you for the lovely comment