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Welcome to another year of Chocolate Box reveals. Many thanks to the wonderful volunteers who made this possible. I'm thrilled so many are still romancing John & Rodney.

goddess47

1. Word Cloud for Romancing McShep 2025 by

goddess47

_{In case you haven't already tried it, hovering over a numbered chocolate for each day of the reveal will open that day's link.}

melagan

John/Rodney Penguin fic:

Mating Rituals by karenmcfadyyon

Antarctic Drift and it's sequel Bipeds and the Deep Blue Sea

I see AO3 down for maintenance. You can find the first story here

Mating Rituals

and last two stories on LJ

Antarctic Drift by lavvyan

its sequel Bipeds and the Deep Blue Sea

Free free to add to this list. 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

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.

melagan

art by Mella68

( What is this Romancing McShep Fest of which you speak? )

melagan

_{Banner created by cassiope25}

More information coming.

melagan

I always hate to say we're done for another year. On the other hand, it makes me happy to say -

We had a basketful of awesome entries.

You can find them here: Romancing McShep 2024 collection on AO3.

melagan

Title: Timeless Hearts
Author:

melagan
Fandom: SGA
Pairing/Characters: John/Rodney, Carson and team
Rating: Mature
Length/Size: 4,867
Notes: for the prompts: Immortal Au (challenge 65)

Summary: Due to separate events both John and Rodney find out they are immortal. Neither has any intention of telling the other about their 'condition' until circumstances take that choice out of their hands.

Link: Timeless Hearts

goddess47

Title: Locked Up
Author/Artist:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 785
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

romancingmcshep 2024

For

mcsheplets prompt #38 - locked up

Summary:

The mission was supposed to be a quick in-and-out. Couple of hours, tops.

Locked Up on AO3

tarlanx

Title: Death of a Star
Author: Tarlan (

tarlanx)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing/Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating/Category: GEN SLASH
Content Notes: none
Word Count: 3527
Summary: An Ancient notification pops-up telling them of an imminent Supernova in a star system on the other side of the Pegasus galaxy.

Content Notes: Written for

romancingmcshep Fest 2024 and

tic_tac_toe R03: Stellar disaster/supernova

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54059098

cassiope25

This one moment in time...
When your dream is just a heartbeat away...
you will feel eternity.

Click here to the full-sized image and post on AO3

goddess47

Title: Scary Acknowledgment
Author/Artist:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: PG
Length: 161
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

romancingmcshep 2024

For

mcsheplets prompt #37 - deep

Summary:

"You shouldn't be out here alone," John said, dropping down next to Rodney.

Scary Acknowledgment on AO3

wonkyelk

Title: Achilles’ Heel
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Wordcount: 8495
Rating: Teen and up

Summary: He’d learned a few things over the past six months. How far dragonfire could reach and how it cooked you so fast, you were dead before you finished screaming. How the claws and beak of a griffin tore through flesh like it was the smoothest of butter.

Most of all, he learned that life would be a whole lot more bearable if he could manage not to care.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53981740

brumeier

Title: The Heart of Darkness
Author:

brumeier
Fandom(s): Stargate Atlantis
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Wordcount: 1,287
Warning(s): a much darker version of John Sheppard, mentions of mass destruction, the power of McShep brightens the Darkness

Summary/prompt: Any, any, The Darkness AU

In which John isn't quite himself - or possibly more himself than he's ever been - and the SGC doesn't stand a chance.

goddess47

Title: The Bet
Author/Artist:

goddess47
Character(s): John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: M
Length: 316
Warnings: none

Notes:

For

romancingmcshep 2024

For

mcsheplets prompt #36 - lost

For Writer's Choice (on Tumblr) - hidden talent

Summary:

"You lost, pay up!" Rodney said, holding out a hand.

The Bet on AO3

mific

Title: The New Normal
Author:

mific
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Words: 1664 words
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Fanfiction, Sex Pollen, but not actual SEX pollen y'know, Flowers, Soft, Fluff, Families of Choice
Summary: The story behind my Flower Power artwork.
Notes: I decided to use one of my old artworks as a fic prompt for Romancing McShep. This is so soft and fluffy you could just curl up in it and have a nice nap, but finish the story first!

melagan

Title: Coloring Outside the Lines
Author:

melagan
Fandom: SGA
Pairing/Characters: John/Rodney
Rating: Mature
Length/Size: 5700

Summary:John is desperate to avoid the marriage his father has arranged for him. Dave has the perfect solution. Tell their father that John is already engaged--to a man stuck in the wilds of Siberia.

Link:

Coloring Outside the Lines

mific

This is the final post for the series - the link below is to the collated series post on AO3. They can all be listened to in one sitting, and it's lovely to hear all the readers' voices, and all of dedkake's stories about John and Rodney.

The series post is here

and the list of individual podfic posts to AO3 is here.

This has been such a fun project, with impressive organisation, especially by

cassiope25 and

itstartedwithalex so that 20 separate podficcers in our fandom have all contributed. I mean, apart from anything else, the SGA fandom has at least 20 podficcers! The collated series is a wonderful listen, with everyone's varied voices and accents adding color and variety.

And don't forget to leave kudos and comments for the individual podfic posts on AO3, especially those later in the series which haven't yet gotten quite as much feedback.

Huge thanks to everyone who took part in the project! Congratulations - we made it! 🎉❤️👍🎉

cassiope25

John and Rodney truly deserve every happy ending they can get. 💘💘

Link to AO3 for the full-sized cover
Cover Art "it could've started like this, season 1" [podfic and series]

I loved doing the cover for this amazing podfic project for Romancing Mcshep 💖

mific

Posting of podfics in the series is continuing daily, now the chocolate box lead-up has finished. Here's the updated list (no. 14 "filling in the gap" is posted to Romancing SGA, and you can find it in the series on AO3)

1. adrenaline junkie
2. better and better
3. fight, flight, or freeze
4. all you have to do
5. you're going to let me
6. keep on living
7. historically speaking
8. the most obvious thing
9. mckay versus the dhd
10. like a freight train
11. terrible preamble
12. like indiana jones
13. pretty damn cool
15. what it's like to drown
16. an easier angle
17. fallen down on the job
18. slow to wake
19. fast forward
20. the first wave

Almost there! This is the last of the individual podics in the series. Tomorrow we'll reveal the post for the collated series.

mific

Romancing McShep

A John & Rodney Romance Fest!

Chocolate Box - Day 1

The classic head-slap

Call for prompts

Romancing McShep 2025- info post

Romancing McShep 2025

Romancing McShep 2024 Masterlist

Fic: Timeless Hearts

Locked Up - Stargate Atlantis (PG)

GEN SLASH - Death of a Star - John/Rodney, Stargate Atlantis

Art: This One Moment

Scary Acknowledgment - Stargate Atlantis (PG)

Fic: Achilles’ Heel (T)

FIC: The Heart of Darkness

The Bet - Stargate Atlantis (M)

Fic: The New Normal (G)

Fic: Coloring Outside the Lines (fake engagement au)

The "it could've started like this" podfic series

Cover Art "it could've started like this, season 1" [podfic and series]

The "it could've started like this" podfic series - no. 20

The "it could've started like this" podfic series - no. 19

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