hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 1

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

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.

Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!

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

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.

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.

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Rose Lalonde is an exceptional desktop football player. Her thumbs and index fingers make steady goalposts and she folds excellent symmetrical paper footballs. The trick, she says, is running a thumbnail along the creases. Karkat looks at his bitten-down nailbeds and believes that he'll stick to defense for now.

Sometimes he bites his cuticles bloody. Sometime blood comes out his palms, and from a spot on his side. Sometimes when he takes communion he feels the wafer catch fire inside his mouth. At these times he clenches his fists and holds his jaw shut.

On a Sunday in March the fire does not go out. He keeps his mouth closed until homeroom on Monday. Rose looks at him with her cool violet eyes, and folds paper, making perfect creases.

She puts her fingers on his chin and her thumb on his lips, and feeds him the paper football with her other hand. The flames extinguish into minty smoke.

She turns away and closes her notebook.

Karkat has an exam next period, and knows most of the answers. The rest is guesswork.

Whoa. Whoa. That was beautifully written and it felt... very intimate, and yet slightly detached which is kind of a strange combination and slightly paradoxical but it works. Maybe detached is not the right word. I don't know. All I know is that it was flipping good. Thank you, so much.

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

FILL: TEAM DAVE <> ARADIA

Re: FILL: TEAM DAVE <> ARADIA