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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 Is it from a speech or a historical document?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.
FILL: Team Sowlmates, G
Fandom: Haikyuu!!
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Angst, unrequited feelings, then requited feelings, because guess who’s a sap and will never pass up a chance for KonoSemi?
Word Count: 624
Remix Permission: Sure!
This is a bit of a mess.
I went angsty and then not, because I needed a happy ending
***
Akinori sits in class, looking through the window, pen in hand, staring at nothing, until his gaze lands on class 2-6 on the training field and suddenly he’s staring at something - someone.
What’s the saying again?
‘Fake it ‘til you make it’?
It’s a shame they don’t give any time indications to go with it. How long is he supposed to fake it exactly for it to be effective? It would help if he even had just a vague guideline.
He’s so tired, exhausted even. Not physically, no, physically he’s almost in peak form. But emotionally ?
Not so much. It’s been going on for almost two years now, ever since he first caught sight of dark curly hair and forest green eyes, and he can’t wait for it to be over. Maybe once he graduates and he doesn’t have to see him day in and day out, it’ll be more bearable.
Maybe the pain of it will ease off, give him time to pick up the pieces and try to put them back together.
He’s not sure that’s really feasible, with how small the pieces are getting, smashed and shattered smaller and smaller every time he sees Akaashi interact with Bokuto, both pairs of eyes lit with a fire that sets his own being to ruins. The dusty glass of his heart left blackened by a second hand flame.
Akinori faces forward, looking to the blackboard, and tells himself he’ll get over him,
Maybe, if he tells himself enough, he’ll get over him.
-
He’s graduated and finally, finally he should be healing, giving his heart reprieve.
Then why is he not healing ?
Maybe it’s because of the messages. Of the fact that they all still stay in contact over the holidays. Go out as a group, and that here, outside of school, Akaashi and Bokuto are so openly in love it hurts.
-
Somehow, he makes it through the holidays, all the way to his new life in college, a heart shaped hole in his chest and glass in his hands.
He breathes a little easier, his heart is still only an echo of itself, ground into fine dust as it is, but at least it’s stopped shattering over and over.
He makes it through his first year, and though his heart remains but a lifeless powder, he feels better, more alive than he has in a long time, Akaashi but a phantom pain now.
But then someone new comes along, someone he bumps into, who introduces himself as Semi Eita, who smiles and asks for directions. The feeble ashes of Konoha’s heart shimmer as it beats once again.
He lay awake and thinks of hazel eyes and pale, dark tipped hair, of a gentle voice and kind smile. The pieces of his heart ache and he wishes this cycle would stop.
Maybe, if he tells himself enough, he’ll get over him.
-
There’s a fire in hazel eyes as they stare at him, a furnace that makes him forget about anything else.
A fire directed at him, so hot, so blazing, so very intense and typically Eita that it engulfs him, melts the shimmering glass of his heart where tender hands reforge it to their will, strong and shaped perfectly for one Semi Eita to cradle close and protect, leaving open the hole in his chest that happens to be the perfect size for Eita’s own heart.
Maybe, he’ll never have to get over him
-
Akinori leans against his kitchen counter, looking through the window, coffee in hand, staring at nothing, until his gaze is interrupted by a gentle hand under his chin and soft lips against his.
What was the saying again?
‘Until death do us part’
Re: FILL: Team Sowlmates, G
How did you know I'm weak to heart metaphors and healing and becoming whole again and GHDHDGFHDHDFF
Re: FILL: Team Sowlmates, G
Re: FILL: Team Sowlmates, G
ow. i love this
i've never considered konosemi before (probably because i'm so far behind in the manga. slaps myself) but omg this was sooo good. i hope konoha gets all the happiness to make up for his previous heartache!
Re: FILL: Team Sowlmates, G
I accidentally got into konosemi via an rp with a friend, and now I'm stuck in rarepair hell. I've made it my mission to populate the ao3 tag for them.
And don't worry, Semi gives him all the love and happiness ♥