Bonus Round 2: Quotes

[sportsfest_mods]

 

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 Is it from a speech or a historical document?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.

(Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html, when applicable; these apply to content *only in the prompt itself* and is NOT an implication of what you're looking for in a fill. If No tags are required, enter ‘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 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> (N/A or what you absolutely do not want to see in a fill - whether its a trigger, squick, or something you’re simply not interested in seeing. ) <strong>Prompt:</strong> (The actual prompt. Make sure you adhere to round theme. Specific requests/details are permitted as an additional line in this field)

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.

(Please delete all text in parentheses as you go. LEAVE THE HEADER HTML ALONE or the bonus round scoring program can't parse your comment. Don't forget a comment subject!) <strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html, 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 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> (This line is optional. Please list specifications or caveats, if any.) (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks. Leave the asterisks alone or you may not get points!) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks.)

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.

Additional Information

If you're hunting through the prompts looking for what to fill, a good trick is to view top-level comments only (see the line of links below this post). We’ll also have a prompt/fill database up and running soon that will help you filter through BR posts.

If you’d like more information, you can look at the [BR GUIDELINES]

You can also post your Fills to the Official AO3 Collection.

A Tip: We all want SportsFest to be a fun and safe environment. If you notice someone has made a mistake in their required tagging, or any other html or rules related aspect of their comment, do let them know, message them privately rather than replying - if you reply, they can’t edit the comment! If you aren’t comfortable letting the commenter know directly, contact a mod and we will make sure they update the required tags.

If you have any other concerns about Bonus Round Prompts/Fills, you can use this anonymous form to bring them to the mod team. You can submit Bonus Round concerns using this Google Form.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask a mod.

Comments

FILL: Team Come @ Me Bro, M

[mousapelli]

Ship/Character: Yuri/Otabek
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: post-canon (aged up), distance relationship, skype sex (not explicit in this fill)
Word Count: 509


I kept typing Yuuri instead of Yuri and that was super weird.

***

Otabek knows that he's in trouble the second he answers the Skype call. Yuri is draped across his pillows comfortably in his bed, the laptop propped up on something at the other end of Yuri's bed. He's just wearing leggings and a T-shirt, but it's one of Otabek's university t-shirts that Yuri had stolen and cut the collar out of so that it always hangs off a shoulder, just like it's doing now.

He's got a sly smile on and one of Otabek's ties in his hands.

"Yura," he tries for a warning tone, but it only makes Yuri grin wider. "Yura."

"What?" Yuri asks, all innocence. It's the red silk tie that Otabek had worn to the banquet last time they competed together, which his mother had given him express orders not to wear his old yellow one while being interviewed ever again. When he and Yuri had been packing up their hotel room the morning after, he'd searched high and low for it in with no success, giving it up as another casualty of a Nikiforov-Katsuki dance party.

Now, with Yuri winding the silk casually around one hand, the mystery is clearing up.

"I can't imagine what your plan is," Otabek says, keeping his voice neutral as he rests his elbow on his desk and his chin in his hand. "I'd love to see you tie yourself up, and unless you have an app I don't know about, I doubt you'll be doing it to me via Skype."

"Interesting to know being tied up is what you thought about first, and I will definitely be filing that away from later." Yuri looped the tie around his neck, rubbing the silky end of it casually against the edge of his jaw. "But I'm pretty sure I can do something to you with it via Skype."

"Yura, come on…" Otabek shifts in his chair, swallowing as Yuri rubs his cheek against the tie, motion deliberate, his eyes fixed on Otabek's face.

Then he doesn't something even more ridiculously unfair, which is to loop the tie around his neck to hang there while he reaches up to the messy knot of hair on top of his head. He does something with his fingers—Otabek never understands how this hair knot thing works—and it cascades down all at once in a golden mass over Yuuri's face and shoulders. Otabek hisses a slow breath through his teeth because he knows exactly how warm Yuri's hair feels falling over his skin like that, what it smells like when he buries his nose in it just behind Yuri's ear.

"I love it when I have your full attention," Yuri says, looking unreasonably pleased with himself as he drags fingers through his hair to tousle it the whole way loose. "Any requests?"

Otabek gives into it, because there's no way to resist, leaning back in his chair and looking Yuri up and down, since he wants the attention so much. "I might have a few."