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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!
PROMPT: TEAM Dirk<3Equius
FILL: TEAM ERIDAN<>ROSE
Both of them were exiles from their own races.
The minotaur was cast out because he was small and gentle and weak; he enjoyed playing games with smaller, weaker creatures, and wanted nothing more but to befriend those who would come to his labyrinth. But minotaurs take too much pride in defending their homes and slaughtering that which would defile them to ever allow him to have even a cavern of his own, and so he was forced to wander the surface, far away from his brothers and sisters.
The centaur was cast from his race because of his gracelessness and his brutish strength, and because he did not fit into their simple and natural lifestyle. For the centaurs were nomads, and he grumbled about lacking a place to lay his head. They took pride in crafting from stones and sticks, and he learned the ways of metalwork and of crafting with fire. They were graceful and slender and beautiful, combining the most elegant traits of human and horse. This one, however, was massively muscled, too strong to draw a bow without breaking it. He was shunned by his fellows, and so he, too, wandered until he could find a place to call home.
It was sheerest chance that the minotaur and the centaur found each other one day, sitting by the side of a clear blue pond, and at first they were hardly inseparable. The minotaur could barely keep up with the centaur's mighty gallops and leaps, and at first the centaur had believed he'd left his would-be companion behind... only to see him, following the lead of a wild dog he'd entranced, or even carried on the back of an enormous roc.
It took the centaur a long time to realize that the strange feeling in his chest that he felt when he saw the small, slender minotaur return to him was happiness. He'd known little joy in the company of others. But the minotaur was happy to be near him, to travel with someone of such great strength who did not use it to rip other living beings to shreds for the sheer joy of it.
And since then the two of them have been inseparable, finding a pleasant cave that opens to the air where they can both feel comfortable, and decorating it with garlands and bunches of dried flowers, and with the centaur's finely wrought ironwork. They have much to teach each other, but both of them are eager for it, and happy for each other's company, for - for the first time in their lives - each of them has found someone who understands.