Romancing McShep Fest: Prompt post

[melagan]

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 31st.

Feel free to check out the prompts posted in previous years. (If there's an idea you love, feel free to post it again.)

Post as many prompts as you like, but please number them or leave sufficient space between them so it's easy to tell they're separate prompts.

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[otherearths_outthere]

Love this icon picture. I had thought about doing a banner, but a couple of people beat me to it! Still, I’m gonna check out the prompts.

[melagan]

So...an mpreg prompt *g*

The icon is sharable. Credit goes to diek09. I love it too and don't use it nearly enough.

[squidgiepdx]

I used to think MPREG was wierd - and then I got into SGA. ::GRIN::

[respoftw]

I rewatched the Mark Ruffalo/Reece Witherspoon film, Just Like Heaven, the other day and I gotta say, it's screaming for a McShep cover.

Rodney is the work obsessed physicist who has a super great apartment who crashes his car on the way home one night. John is the ex-military vet getting back on his feet who sublets his apartment which Rodney appears to be haunting, Of course, they eventually realise that Rodney's not dead, but in a coma and then have to race to find a way to stop Jeannie from turning off life support.

[melagan]

1. No one knows why, but suddenly Rodney McKay has become like catnip for the Wraith queens.

2.Lord John Sheppard occasionally indulges in watching the sport of fist-fighting. He's even been known to lay a wager or two. When he lays eyes on the man the current champ plans to fight next he can't tear his eyes away. Shocking blue eyes, pale skin, and aside from enviable broad shoulders and a pleasing turn of calf, this virgin contender is hopelessly outmatched.
And yet, John finds himself betting on him anyway.

3.A good, old-fashioned, first - time their eyes meet across a crowed room and everything else falls away. With a twist - they hate it. Resistance and denial rears it's head and sputters loudly.
Of course all that silly denial amounts to nothing. Even they eventually realize they were always meant to be together. <3

[aerialiste.livejournal.com]

okay so I...wasn't even going to try to do anything for this challenge but at 6 am this morning found myself lying in bed laughing my FACE off at Rodney McKay PhD PhD, Wraith Queen Catnip; and somehow now I have several thousand cracky words so...I guess this is happening???!? thank you? I think? we'll see???

[melagan]

WooHOooo!

[aerialiste]

It's literally a year later and I found my McKay-is-Wraith-Queen-catnip fic, which I...finished and then...never shared with anyone? It's pretty cracky. Anyway, I'm getting a friend to beta it and then will post it! Thank you for the prompt! :)

[kagekanecavi]

So I have this idea that I have tried to do and been unable to and maybe it isn't super appropriate for this fest (it feels to me like it should be long but maybe that's what I'm doing wrong?) but I would like to give it up to the community. Anyway, this idea/prompt is basically based around this thing my friend says sometimes when we watch SGA - she says that the relationship between Elizabeth and John seems like that of a knight to his queen. Devoted, endlessly, but not necessarily romantic. So that sparked this idea for a medieval/fantasy AU where Elizabeth is a queen, John is a knight, Rodney is a sorcerer or an alchemist or something, et cetera. Including warring with neighboring kingdoms of Genii and Wraith (though I also tossed around the idea of the Wraith being necromancers of some kind). Anyway, that's the prompt/plot idea. Like I said, I wasn't entirely sure it'd be appropriate for this, but you never know.

Other prompts:
- The start of Send Them Off! by Bastille (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c4mTu-Wjaw) has the spoken lyrics "It was a slight on my honor, so he deserved it. (another speaker) But we're talking about the most brilliant mind this world has ever seen." and if that doesn't sound like someone talking about Rodney being an ass then I don't know what would lol.

- Soulmates. Any kind of soulmates. There is not enough soulmate fic in this fandom. (there is never enough soulmate fic in any fandom)

- "Thought-you-were-dead-and-I-did-something-stupid" - who is thought dead and who is not is up to the writer - I can't decide if it would be more interesting to have Rodney be the one who is nearly killed and escaped death some interesting way or to have him be the one get stupid and reckless after thinking John is dead.

- I saw this post http://kigichi.tumblr.com/post/169335528761/itcomesbetweenus-yotoob-imagine-otp the other day on tumblr about someone (Rodney, for the prompt) moving into a house and their neighbor (in the post, a nice gay couple. for the prompt, probably just John) being SO SUPER NICE to them that the person is like caught up in this niceness COMPETITION. They have to be the NICEST NEIGHBOR EVER lol. Except in the instance of the prompt instead of the new person being the one to make lemon drizzle cake it is the person who already lives there (because when I saw that post the very first thing I thought of was John coming over to Rodney's with a nice cake and Rodney shrieking "Are you trying to KILL ME?!" or "I knew the niceness was a lie!" or something ridiculous because it is an utterly ridiculous prompt)

[otherearths_outthere]

These are really great ideas, but I absolutely love the last one. It is just *so* them. What is the quote? “The course of true love never ran smooth”?

[antares_dw]

Rodney is the leading scientist of a research station/weather station on an remote island. When the bi-monthly supply vessel arrives there's not only new coffee on board for Rodney but also some new scientists. One of them is John Sheppard.

a) Rodney is fascinated from the first moment on and struggles (in vain *g*) with the attraction he feels
b) Rodney and John start with a misunderstanding but they have to work together at least the next two months

[popkin16]

When I read your first sentence, I thought this was going to go in a mysterious vein: Rodney works on a remote island, and suddenly his radio comes to live with a call that originates on the island...

I really love this idea :D

[antares_dw]

I love your idea! I only hope that Rodoney isn't alone on that island when the radio comes to live.... :)

[popkin16]

Thank you!

Nah. Maybe John shipwrecked? Or Rodney's employers have a secret they haven't told Rodney...either way, Rodney is no longer alone *grins*

[kagekanecavi]

I thought of another one! There's this quote in the 1978 Robin Hood cartoon that I just adore and always makes me think of AU ideas for my current OTP. (quote grabbed from IMDB here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070608/quotes/qt0454782 )
For context, Robin Hood and Little John are talking as they're cooking dinner (which Robin manages to burn spectacularly while think of Marian, hence the comment about mooning and moping) and the quote goes:
Little John: Look, why don't you stop moonin' and mopin' around? - Just - Just marry the girl.
Robin Hood: Marry her? You don't just walk up to a girl, hand her a bouquet and say, "Hey, remember me? We were kids together. Will you marry me?" No. It just isn't done that way.

The prompt is the "Hey, remember me? We were kids together. Will you marry me?" part, or even just the idea of it. If whoever uses this prompt can't work the quote in, no big deal.

(I mean I guess there could also be a Robin Hood!AU in there, or using more of the quote, but I was imagining it as basically canon but with them having spent time together as kids and having fallen in love as kids either without realizing it or without saying it and then coming together again as they do in canon)

[mezzo_cammin]

Scuttlebutt. The day's gossip, brought to you by various Atlantis personnel. Seems a certain gate team went to a certain planet where something very...interesting...happened. Only they're not talking about it. Or at least, two of them aren't. Have fun! :)


Quickies. Nooners. It seems all their sexual encounters lately have been rushed, and one of them decides to do something about it. A nice relaxing day on an abandoned outpost near the water sounds nice, right? This could go one of two ways, y'all. Very porny, no plot, which, yes, please. OR, the abandoned outpost isn't quite as abandoned as they thought, and boom, plot! But also porn, maybe just not as...romantic?

And, since I'm a Big Bang Theory nut, how about one where Rodney and Radek are roommates, and John is the sexy new neighbor, a la Penny? You know, they're coming up the stairs, arguing about string theory or some other physicist babble, and as they pass the open door, John's unpacking his guitar or doing yoga or something, cause he would so be a yoga instructor in this story (only maybe he's really been sent from the Air Force to recruit Rodney, but let's not get too angsty here) and Rodney does a double take, and Radek is SO going to win the betting pool at the university - the ones who bet on Rodney being asexual are such losers! If you could work Ronon in as the engineer who lives with his mom (seriously, how funny would that be) and Teyla as the shy astrophysicist who can't talk around strange men, I would love you forever. :)

And I think I'm done, for now. I may be back, though.

[squidgiepdx]

Oh. My. God. Your TBBT prompt is the bestest thing EVER!!!

Scuttle butt

[mcparrot]

I think I could have some fun with the gossip idea. :)

[otherearths_outthere]

An Adjustment Bureau AU, but John and Rodney, of course. I love movie au’s

[mezzo_cammin]

Does anyone remember Jumping Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg? Sort of a slapstick spy thriller, where her character stumbles across a British spy (Knock knock appears on her screen and she is intrigued) being chased by the KGB and she becomes embroiled in getting him the 'code' so he can escape? Simplify the plot a bit, and have John trapped on a planet and Rodney at a university (and instead of the embassy, he has to break into area 51!) and the Trust involved, and well... It kind of writes itself, doesn't it? :)

[brumeier]

OMGosh, I love that movie! That would make a great McShep fusion, for reals. ::nods::

[otherearths_outthere]

this is kind of a dumb suggestion, but I haven't been able to think of a new story idea. I think a "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" kind of story might be fun. I can see the team exploring a ancient off-world facility, getting miniaturized, and having to fight their way back to the gate.

[otherearths_outthere]

Um, can I post/submit something that is not tied to a prompt?

[melagan]

Absolutely! There's a place to sign up Here.

[kagekanecavi]

The info post said prompts can still be submitted until the 31st, I think? Can I add one in that case?

The prompt is: I saw a post last night on Tumblr (http://onemuseleft.tumblr.com/post/170019182534/send-me-a-pairing-and-a-number-and-ill-write-you) about drabble ideas and one of them was "You made us enemies. I never wanted this." And it occurred to me that I'm not sure I've ever seen a McShep fic where they are enemies for a while. So the prompt is that at some point they are enemies. (To potentially help with ideas, I was previously part of the Marvel fandom, shipping Steve/Tony, and there are a lot of fics in that fandom with that general idea, and usually it is because Iron Man was labeled a dangerous vigilante when he first showed up. One of my favs is Secrets of a Successful Marriage by valtyr https://archiveofourown.org/works/247356 )