Prompt post 2015

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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. We'll continue with our shameless begging for prompts until midnight Jan 8th.

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Inversions of some common themes...

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Aeronautics grad student John Sheppard missed out on getting a TAing position in his department and ends up being taken on sight unseen as a research assistant to the new Professor McKay, who came to the university this year with a huge DoD grant and a demand for no classload other than high level invitation only seminars. On his first day, John waits impatiently in McKay's office, only to have what he assumes is some undergrad barge in. Rodney starts his first teaching position by having some jerk (who looked smart enough on paper to do some of the grunt work on his theories) snark at him and try to throw him out of his new office. On a whim, he claims to be his own teaching assistant and tells John that "Dr McKay" doesn't do office hours and will mostly be sending out instructions on what simulations and calculations need attention via email. And wackiness ensues.

In an AU of BDSMverse AUs, doms - especially those without a collared submissive - are considered unsuited for positions involving teamwork, management or negotiation, due to their dynamic tendency to try to control others and unwillingness to compromise. In spite of his successes after Sumner's death, Sheppard is almost certainly going to be replaced as Military Commander of Atlantis unless they can convince the IOA that he's been in a non-public relationship with a submissive the whole time... Like maybe his teammate and friend, Rodney?

The other scientists get confused when McKay and Sheppard announce their relationship and move in together. Sure, John is hot if you like skinny wookies, but does Rodney really think he can have a partnership with someone so far below his intellectual level? Rodney defends him as being smart enough to bounce things off of (No Mary Sue supergenius John) but more importantly, someone who he can have fun with and communicate with on a personal rather than theoretical level. (And he's is hot, which doesn't hurt.)

Re: Inversions of some common themes...

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see the 2nd. I can't write that 'verse to save my soul but I'd love to read it.

I put a prompt list up with the prompts numbered. I wasn't quite sure if the 3rd on your list was a separate prompt or part of the second. It works so well either way. I compromised by calling it part b. :)