BONUS ROUND 1

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Bonus Round 1

Genre-Mixing

Hey, shippers! Welcome to your very first bonus round proper--we hope you have lots of fun with it! This time around we're going to be asking you to mix it up a little--each fanwork posted for this round will be a mish-mash of two different genres, blended together in a delightful incestuous slurry to create an UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVE CONCOCTION--er. Or. Something.

Yeah, we're genre-mixing. That's what we're doing this round.

Rules

1. Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of two different genres and one ship. This cannot be your team's ship! These are worth 5 points each, for a maximum of 100 points per team.


2. Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!


3. You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.


4. Fills should be posted as replies to the prompts which they are for, following the format below. They may be any medium.

Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, please use this format in your title.
PROMPT: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

If you are filling a prompt, use this format in your title.
FILL: TEAM [YOUR SHIP]
Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
For prompt posts: 5 points each (maximum of 100 per team)

For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)

All scored content must be created/assembled new for this round.

If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!

Comments

FILL: TEAM Aradia<>Dave

[eremiticantiquarian]

There were soldiers, brothers,
shouldered his gun,
kept his eyes well to the front,
wore the smartest red uniform

they heard in their new world,
crying, “Soldiers, soldiers!”
he differed from the rest
he was made last,
not quite enough left to finish him.

he stood well to become famous.

but the thing which caught eye was altogether charming,
the prettiest thing
a little maiden too, was cut
but she wore a dress
dainty little shoulders,
brilliant
her whole face.

stretching out both arms,
for she was a dancer,
and in the dance,
so high into the air
the soldier could see absolutely nothing

“That would be the very wife for me!” he thought;
he could have a good lady,
who continued without losing her balance.

soldiers, and the people
Now was the time for fighting battles,
soldiers rustled about
turned somersaults,
There was such a noise

the soldier and the dancer.
She stood as stiff, arms spread out;
he was equally firm on his leg,
and he did not take his eyes off her for a moment.

pop!
no!

the tin soldier feigned

In the morning,
they put the soldier on the frame,
a puff of wind,
all at once burst open,
and the soldier fell

The maidservant and the little boy
ran down at once to look for him;
they could not see.

to shout when he was in uniform.

the drops fell faster and faster,
till there was a regular torrent.

“Look!”
and sailed away down the gutter;

“Stop him, stop him, he hasn’t paid his toll! he hasn’t shown his pass!”
the current grew stronger and stronger;
the daylight before him at the end of the tunnel;
but he also heard a roaring sound,
strike terror to the bravest heart.
rushed straight into him
to shoot rapid.

He was so near the end now
impossible to stop.
dashed out;

the poor soldier held himself stiff
no one should say of him that he even winced.

sank deeper and deeper.
limper and limper,
and at last
he thought of the pretty little dancer,
whom he was never to see again,
and rang in his ears:—
“Onward! Onward! Soldier!
For death thou canst not shun.”

how dark it was;
the soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun.

frantic movements.
quite quiet,
a flash like lightning
some one called out loudly,

The fish had been caught, taken to market, sold, and brought
She took soldier up by the waist, traveled about in the stomach of a fish; not at all proud.

She still stood
You see she also was unbending.
so much moved
ready to shed tears

He looked at her, and she looked at him,
but they said never a word.
At this moment
without rime or reason,
threw him into the fire.

the warmth of his feelings,
his perilous journey,
it might have been from grief, who can tell?

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him;
and he felt that he was melting away,
but he still managed to keep himself erect,
shouldering his gun bravely.


caught the dancer and she fluttered like a sylph,
straight into the fire,
to the soldier,
blazed up and was gone!

the soldier was reduced,
took away the ashes
she found all that was left
black as a coal.

[Source]

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN&lt;3DAVESPRITE

[puppyloverpearl]

Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
<333333

I'm seriously crying right now, this is amazing ;u;

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE<3DAVE

[nextian]

mother

of

fuck.

I'm overcome with feelings. This is a great, great, great fic that's everything I love about Karkat<>Kanaya.

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

[cerulean_neuf]

I really need some shenanigans with Aranea and Vriska (each session's troublemakers) and Aranea (sometimes the voice of reason, other times dangerous pirate).

Aranea/Meenah/Vriska/Aranea...

Medical romance, and Gangster

PROMPT: TEAM BRO<3JOHN

[kuumpiim]

AR <3 Roxy
Western + Wizard Rock

FILL: TEAM JADE<3ARADIA

[marrow]

have John and Karkat as magical boys(?) fighting... something!

Re: FILL: TEAM TEREZI >3> VRISKA

[cest_what]

Writing something self-contained for this kind of thing is definitely a challenge, although a few people have done it excellently! I'm glad you liked this :)

Re: PROMPT: TEAM DAVE <3 JADE

[cephelapoda]

I'm working on a fill for this! :O

Re: FILL: TEAM JOHN<3DAVESPRITE

[mr2bonclay]

BLESS

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3FEFERI

[theseaisagreatplace]

Natural Disaster + Comedy
Dave<3John

FILL: TEAM DAVE <> ARADIA

[binners]

Used text: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett




You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone too.
Do you want me to go away?
Look at me.

(Vexed.)

I see what it is, you are not from these parts, you don't know what our twilights can do. Shall I tell you?
Time has stopped.

(Pause.)

We're used to it.

(Pause.)

It is pale and luminous like any sky at this hour of the day.
Pale for weariness.
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.

Come on. It's cold.

(They listen, huddled together.)

(Huddled together, shoulders hunched, cringing away from the menace, they wait.)

Come on, get up, you'll catch a chill.
Don't worry about me.

(Long silence.)
(Barefoot, head bowed.)
(They do not move.)

Where were you? I thought you were gone for ever.
Don't touch me!

Do you want me to go away?
Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
Did I ever leave you?
You let me go.

Then why do you always come crawling back?

I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a strange thing?

You don't know if you're unhappy or not?
You'd make me laugh if it wasn't prohibited.

(Silence.)

Where are all these corpses from?
They crucified quick.
Do you not remember?



Pity we haven't got a bit of rope.

FILL: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

[makingtriangles]

((I'm pretty sure that's a spade there and not a heart?))

Kanaya held her microphone with grace, her long green coat billowing out behind her as she walked. "I am now in the presence of the newest incarnation of the S2-5900, developed early this year in the workshop of the Institute for Robotics and..."

"What the fuck are you doing in here?" a scowling troll shouted from a catwalk up by the robot's face. "What the fuck is she doing in here?" he directed at someone behind the robot. There was a muffled reply, and a scowl full of the utmost loathing was aimed at Kanaya. "And why in the name of this robot's giant titanium crotch wasn't I notified?"

He was coming down the ladder, now, surprisingly fast, and Kanaya looked around at her camera crew in alarm.

"I had the express word of the institute that there would be no publicity until after the first series of operational tests." He was getting right up in Kanaya's space now, waving an angry finger in her face. "This doesn't look like 'no publicity'. This looks like a huge fucking camera crew standing in my own personal workshop, wasting my precious goddamn time. Who the fuck do you think you are?"

Kanaya could feel the heat rushing to her face. She gritted her teeth. "I am Kanaya Maryam, and if you don't mind, we are here to make a documentary about the Institute..."

"Oh, of course, that changes everything. How silly of me. Let me just rip up all my personal convictions about my own work and use them to wipe my own ass because someone famous deigned to grace us all with her godly presence. Should the adulation begin now or a little later on when we have the buffet ready?"

Kanaya actually growled.

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

[cerulean_neuf]

Vriska <3 Jake

Adventure and Documentary

Re: FILL: TEAM TEREZI >3> VRISKA

[cest_what]

Thank you! Ahaha, I probably couldn't write 5000 words of Jade trying to make exclamation marks sound noir, but I'm glad you liked it ♥

[cest_what]

Thank you *g*

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

[makingtriangles]

Paranormal Romance + Urban Fantasy, Kanaya<>Karkat

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

[makingtriangles]

Southern Gothic + Lovecraftian Horror, Dave <3 Rose

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

[makingtriangles]

Historical Fiction + Sea Story, Jane<3Jake<3Roxy<3Dirk

Somebody do this pleeeeease XDD

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

[cerulean_neuf]

Dave <3< Karkat

Disco and Comedy

PROMPT: TEAM DIRK♥JAKE

[yucari]

Rose♥Jade - Lovecraftian horror, Western

PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3<KARKAT

[makingtriangles]

Science Fiction Robinsonade + Military, Dirk<3<Karkat

PROMPT: TEAM ENGLISH

[cerulean_neuf]

Terezi <> Mayor

Legal Thriller and Cooking

Re: FILL: TEAM JADE<3ARADIA

[ephemeraldelusion]

YES I LOVE YOU.

Re: FILL: TEAM JAKE<3JANE

[swagmageddon]

oh wow, this doesn't disappoint at all. way to make me squish my cheeks and aww.

thank you so much! <3

PROMPT: TEAM ERIDAN<3FEFERI

[theseaisagreatplace]

Eridan<3Karkat
Mermaid + Fairy Tale