Team Dave♥Jade!

Is HERE!!! Finally. No points for prompts this time but since there's nothing else on our plates (besides the shhh thing, see below unless you're Aaron), maybe we can really tear into filling these.

Also, scores went up for R2. We didn't place, but we still did amazing, guys, I really mean it. I loved that round, even if I didn't get to participate in it. And also we got fanart for it. Win/win!

Anyway, here's the details of the bonus round c/ped for your convenience:

Bonus Round 5

Tales from the Road

Hey, shippers! HSO is winding down, so we thought we'd take a look back at the journey, so to speak. With that in mind, this next bonus round is going to be roadtrip-themed! Give us a little taste of your characters' life on the road, whatever form that takes.

Rules

1. Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of one ship (friendship/gen is fine too!) and a location. This cannot be your team's ship! This round we will not be giving points for prompts.


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.

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 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 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!





As always, please showcase your prompts and fills here, because I'm always curious to see them!

Bonus Round Three is up, too! And we're allowed to work with our own ship for this one, though of course spreading the love is awesome. Here's your usual copy-pasta:

Bonus Round 3

Retro Gaming

Hi shippers! Welcome to Bonus Round 3.
In this round, you'll be creating fanworks based on video and computer games from before 2000!

Rules

1. Choose a game that was released before 2000, and post a fanwork based on the game in some way. Make sure to use the appropriate title format (see below). Examples include: character inserts, rewritten dialogue, costume redesigns, alternate soundtracks, theme song covers, photoshopped promo art, etc.


2. Your fill should not be focused on Homestuck characters playing the game--the point of this round is to make a crossover.


3. For this challenge, you are allowed to submit fills based on your team ship. You don't have to, of course!


4. For this challenge, there is no minimum wordcount. We are trusting you not to abuse that fact!


5. This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT July 21. After that time, even if it's just by a minute according to the timestamp, no submissions will be accepted for points.

Title Format
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.
Replace [GAME TITLE] and [YEAR RELEASED] as appropriate.

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
(as stated here)
First 5 entries per team: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+: 5 (per entry)

All content must be created new for this round.

We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to us at homestuck.shipping AT gmail! 

First, quick reiteration of an announcement: the HSO mods are looking for first readers! Your duty would be to read works as they come in (I assume you're not responsible for reading ALL of them, but an assigned chunk) and make sure that tags have been correctly applied and that the works correctly follow the rules of HSO and of the round itself.

Second, a reminder to check out the revised tagging policy. This is really important, so make sure you read it thoroughly!

Third, and of course most excitingly for everybody, Bonus Round 1 has gone up! Copying and pasting here, as usual:

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.


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.

[This part didn't copy right, whoops, it's just the boxes with the format for comment titles for prompts and fills. You'll already be on the BR1 page when that's relevant, so get it from there!]

Scoring
For prompt posts: 5 points each

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! 



So basically, you get to ask for anything you want and you can fill anything you want AS LONG AS IT'S FOR SOME OTHER SHIP. I think maybe a good rule of thumb would be to only make as many prompts as you're willing to fill for other people, or as many as the team can cover for you. Basically: don't go TOO crazy making prompts but have lots of fun and do as many as you're able! Of course, I'm not going to hold you to this, it just seems like maybe a cool, polite thing to do, and a good way to make sure the team does a lot of fills.

I'll definitely be participating as much as I can in this round, since it seems like you guys have Round One pretty well covered. I'm really excited to see how that comes out!

Also, if you have AIM, let me know if you want to join the atomicclocks Blast Group. It's like a buddy chat that never goes away. Also, we have a permanent chatzy room here. If you guys ever want to make a time to just hang out and chill and bounce ideas and share things and maybe just flail about Homestuck and life, make sure you give a specific time--that's the best way to make sure people will come, instead of just waiting for someone else to name a time. XD

Anyway, have fun, you guys, and I'll see you around!

Your lazyfail palhoncho,
Asher

OH and before I go: link your prompts and fills in comments below, okay? We can't fill prompts from our own team members, but I definitely want to see them!

Geez, I should upload some of those awesome banners and icons to the comm, shouldn't I.