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!

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

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First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
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Gamzee♥Tavros - Passion play & found poetry

ALL THE BONUS POINTS for a suggestion of a central story the Cult of the Mirthful Messiahs has that could parallel the Passion. \o/

(I'm not really pleased with how this came out, but hopefully I'm just being overly critical, as I am wont to do. Used texts at the end.)

THE TRADITION OF RELIGIOUS PROCESSION
He was always a madman,
crazy, like a kid.
Just cracked out
on the smell of the drug that could make shadows move.
“Now I'm a magician.”
His hand curled around mine;
the gloom seemed to be coalescing.
Indistinct shapes
Mouths crowded with teeth
Full of domes and spires
The air stank of
fire,
burnt sugar,
&
cans of paint laid in the corner.

THE CURTAIN RISES
Performed every year
requires the entire population-
Watched the whole procession from
the rainy streets.
Death of a religious figure
two becoming one in a twisting, sweating
Grabbing the handle on a pot of boiling water.
He died in the morning.
They took her to the cem'try
But they did not bring her back.
The holiest of their mysteries:
You can't hurt me.
(It'll cost me a bottle of soma, though-- and the man with the dark hair sighs)
Tumbling down the tower of skulls
plummeted down in a rush of thunder
Too clear
Too bright!
Candy-colored neon signs
welcome
Welcome
welcome

anagnorisis: a transition from ignorance to awareness
Drug addict freaks
to
Messiah reborn.
(Clowns)

DENOUMENT:
Groggy, shaken, he picked it up
and I lay there, legs uncooperative.
“No Vices.
That's what I decided.”
as he lit up a clove
Mixing pills with booze
“I meant well.”
I just want to go home.
Video games don't make you violent
(they make you curious
and now I feel sick again.)

Texts used:
Key Concepts in Drama and Performance by Kenneth Pickering
HEAVY LIQUID by Paul Pope
Valiant by Holly Black
Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
Fell volume 1 by Warren Ellis
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Oh, this is gorgeous -- fragments pulled together just right to suggest the narrative that fills in the spaces between them.

I'm so glad you liked it!

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

PROMPT: TEAM Dirk<3Equius

FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT

Re: FILL: TEAM GAMZEE♥KARKAT