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sportsfest2018-07-01 12:02 am
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 Is it from a speech or a historical document?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 Victuuri, G
Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: a little pining, stuck in an airport, airport craziness and too much caffeine, Victor mention, too much King and the Skater, pre-Victor days, Detroit days
Word Count: 970
Remix Permission: Yes
Phichit wanted to be in here instead of Victor, sorry!!
***
12:03 a.m.
They’re on their way back to Detroit from the Four Continents Championship when it happens.
“What do you mean our flight’s been cancelled?” Phichit says, voice rising to dangerous pitches. Yuuri hasn’t had nearly enough sleep for this, so instead he focuses somewhere out the enormous glass window. Outside, the headlights of a luggage shuttle swell and disappear around a corner on the tarmac, and he’s reminded, for some reason, of watching Victor skate on the little TV back in Hasetsu. There’s the take-off, the flight, the landing, and he can almost see it arc in front of his vision like the headlights.
Phichit’s still trying to bargain with the info desk representative when Yuuri snaps back to reality. “Phichit, it’s okay,” he says. And then, to the woman: “We’ll just get on the next flight out.”
It turns out that the next flight is at nine a.m., which means they have almost eight hours to kill. “We could try to get a hotel,” Phichit says.
Yuuri checks his phone. “It’s after midnight,” he says with a yawn. “It’s too late. Besides, eight hours isn’t really enough time to find a hotel and get back through security.”
“My hamsters,” Phichit says softly. “I told them I’d be back in the morning. What are they going to think of me?”
Yuuri blinks. “I’m sure they’ll be fine. And we should probably call Celestino.”
They drag their carry-ons to a more secluded corner of the gate and plug their phones in to charge. Yuuri makes the call, assures Celestino they’re getting on the next plane out, and Phichit makes an impassioned plea on behalf of his hamsters.
“I thought you weren’t allowed to have pets in student housing,” Celestino says before making them promise to call back in the morning. Yuuri agrees and ends the call.
It’s nearing 12:30 now, and Yuuri’s torn between sleep and caffeine.
The airport at one a.m. is a place between universes, Yuuri decides, and normal rules don’t apply. He leaves Phichit to scroll through his hamsters’ Instagram page, and heads a few gates down for the biggest cup of coffee he can find.
2:40
It turns out that Starbucks offers something called a trenta, so now Yuuri is almost vibrating in place as he finishes the 43rd level of Mushroom Madness on his phone.
“How are you awake?” Yuuri asks Phichit as the tinny inter-level music rings out through his phone speakers. “I was the one with all the coffee.”
“Sheer willpower,” Phichit says. He’s got one earbud in his left ear and the other dangling helplessly near his stomach. “That, and I’m about to listen to The King and the Skater soundtrack again.” Yuuri nods. Playing the soundtrack on repeat is how Phichit gets through midterms and finals, so it’s a wonder he knows any other music. “Want to join me?”
In his current state of caffeine-induced wakefulness, Yuuri will almost certainly hurt someone if he has to listen to Shall We Skate? three times in a row. (Which is what will happen if he accepts the earbud, because apparently Phichit never “appreciates it as it should be appreciated” the first time around.) “I’m good,” he says instead, and Phichit shrugs.
He’s about to go back to his game when he suddenly feels his heartbeat more intensely. Maybe the trenta should have included a health warning on the $17 receipt, or maybe it’s the combination of the empty airport concourse with the darkness outside. Besides a few lights, it’s pitch-black outside the enormous glass-paned windows. Without as many flights leaving and coming in, too, there’s something unsettling in the stillness.
“I’m going for a walk,” he says suddenly. “Want anything?”
5:19 a.m.
Phichit is on his fourth round of listening to The King and the Skater and the fact that the terminal is virtually empty means that Yuuri is too. His earbuds broke somewhere in the second listen, so Yuuri brought back a pair of crappy $15 replacements with a plastic Spiderman decoration on the side. The replacements aren’t very good, which means that the music strains out thinly, just enough for him to hear the beginning of Shall We Skate? and more than enough to hear the chorus.
Phichit has listened to the soundtrack four times, which means this is – Yuuri tries to do the math in his head – his twelfth listen to this particular song? The soundtrack times four, playing this song three times each…
He gives up and checks his bag again for earplugs which, despite the odd magic of the airport at five a.m., have not managed to appear.
There’s a loud ping on Yuuri’s phone, and he checks it to find that Victor Nikiforov just tweeted. Maybe it’s a picture of him. Maybe it’s a shirtless picture of him. Maybe it’s a picture of Makkachin. He unlocks his phone with a yawn, and wonders vaguely when the caffeine started to wear off.
@V-Nikiforov: On my way to lovely New York for a photo shoot with @Vogue!
There’s a cute selfie of him at the airport, sitting at his gate with a giant airplane outside the window. Yuuri yawns again and looks over at Phichit who is still miraculously, astonishingly wide awake.
Yuuri slumps a little more against the wall and his mind drifts to Victor. Victor, sitting in a chair, waiting for a flight just like him. Waiting with luggage in tow, and carrying all his love for Makkachin. As his eyes droop shut, Yuuri wonders what it would be like to wait for a flight with him.
Re: FILL: Team Victuuri, G
I can't decide what I loved most: overcaffinated Yuuri, the endless delirious loop of the King and the Skater, or the cheap-yet-overpriced airport goods bought out of sheer necessity.
In conclusion, this is exactly the kind of sleep-deprived ridiculous shenanigans I had in mind when I made this prompt, and I've already read it like, twice today (after reading it at nearly midnight last night). Bless your soul for it. <3333