YURI SHIPPING OLYMPICS 2024 - BONUS ROUND 7

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For this round, we want to see prompts that are based on settings or locations! For your prompts, please provide a location or setting. It can be as specific or as abstract as you want, and can be in any medium you prefer!

POINTS - BONUS ROUNDS
For prompts: 10 points each (maximum of 150 prompt points per team per round)
For fills:
First 4 fills by any member of your team: 100 points each
Fills 5-10: 50 points each
Fills 11-20: 40 points each
Fills 21-50: 30 points each
Fills 51+: 25 points each

Comments

Fill: Team Webcomics/Webtoons

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Inspired by miyukitty's fills, I decided to try my hand at a chiptune as well: Parking Lot (originally by Mineral)

Parking Lot is the final track from Mineral's 1997 album The Power of Failing. It's one of the classics of the raw, lo-fi emo of the 90s, but it's also unusual for having a recurring theme of religious guilt and inadequacy. I associate this song in particular with Harrow's last appearance in Nona the Ninth:

She looked away from him, and she said: “I want to journey to find God. Maybe, at the end of that road, I will find God in you, Teacher … the God who became man and the man who became God. Or, perhaps, the child of the Nine Houses will recognise a different divine. But I am the Reverend Daughter—I am the Reverend Mother, the Reverend Father—I must find God, or some aspect of God, and understand it for myself … even if she lies, right now, within the Tomb.”

The album starts off the same place Harrow does in Harrow the Ninth - lost, miserable, and burdened by inexplicable guilt and inadequacy. It ends in parallel with Nona the Ninth too - still feeling like shit, but feeling like shit optimistically.

Idk. I have lots of feelings about Harrowhark being devoutly religious. Yes, she was raised in a cult founded by a con man that lives on the suffering of its members while weaponizing them to hurt people on the outside. She became a heretic because she believed too hard, not because she believed too little. This is definitely all real and not just me projecting. I am desperate for Alecto the Ninth because Gideon and Harrow have not had a single fucking conversation with each other for the last 67% of the series and I NEED that to change. But I also can't wait to find out just where, exactly, Harrow's devotion to Alecto will take her, and what the two of them will do to the man who became God and the God who became man.