Call for prompts

[melagan]

I don't know how everyone else is doing, but I could use some help coming up with story ideas. I'm sure I'm not the only one. So...


Let's help our artists and writers by giving them some prompts for the 2025 Romancing McShep Fest!

Please comment to this post with your prompt suggestions. Prompts may be anything including, but not limited to, pictures, poetry or song.


You may offer as many prompts for the fest as your romantic heart desires, but please number them or leave sufficient space between them so it's easy to tell they're separate prompts.


For inspiration, you can check out the prompt tag for previous years. (If there's an idea you love, feel free to post it again here.)


eta: Prompts are for fun and inspiration. There is no obligation to choose one of the prompts and no guarantee your prompt will be chosen.

Comments

[mific]

Might as well repeat some earlier prompts I did. (and I have my eye on no. 2 as a sequel to a fic I already wrote!)

1. Sheppard Air: This used to be on the Apple app store - maybe it still is:

Obviously, John Sheppard's running a small company as a flight instructor and he wants an app to help his students get qualified. So he goes to one R. M. McKay, a software developer, for help designing the interface... romance ensues!

2. Lupercalia coincides with Valentine's day, so how about a fusion with A Companion to Wolves where John and Rodney (and others) are bonded to psychic wolves. Maybe one of them's bonded to a wolfsister, in fact, who goes into heat... The wolves are most likely adapted Marine wolves bred specially for the SGC.


3. A crossover set after the end of the movie "Treed Murray" (surprisingly good!). Murray (David Hewlett) decides that he needs to learn martial arts to defend himself if he ever gets mugged again. He goes to a dojo where Ronon and Teyla are instructors - but it turns out Brendan Dean (Joe Flanigan from "Thoughtcrimes") also goes to that dojo...

[melagan]

Very excellent prompts. I'm looking forward to what you do with number two. 😊

[logicgunn]

Throwing some things here. IDK if I'll have time or energy to write, but they are free to all!

Vegas-verse soft landing.

John and Rodney are forced to take annual leave on Earth.

Somehow it gets around their pegasus trading partners that John and Rodney are looking for a suitable location to get hitched. Bonus points for our oblivious and avoidant boys who have not yet expressed their feelings.

Coffeeshop/bookshop/library/florist/aviation tutor AU (or any other AU) with a "lonely on Valentine" spin.

SGC shenanigans, with matchmaker SG1 character.

Dishonourably discharged and newly divorced John is absolutely not interested in his new neighbour/guy at the coffeeshop/client. Ditto newly disgraced scientist and recently divorced Rodney is absolutely not interested in the tall, dark and brooding mess of hair in the corner of the bar/lasertag/social event his friends dragged him to.

[melagan]

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. :)