SGA Saturday

Oh, the lazy days of Summer, with the September premiers coming just around the corner!

Yes, those are our two prompts for the next FIVE weeks! Now Premier can be used in a number of ways - maybe some reality TV producer wants to create a reality TV show about Atlantis now that it's back on Earth, and the premiere episode is going to air soon (and you'll be SHOCKED by what people from other planets look like! Shocked and Disturbed! - I can see that being the tagline of the show. Or maybe the Premier (yes, you can spell it however you want - homophones are fine!) of Australia goes to Atlantis when it's in Pegasus, and promptly gets kidnapped.

And then we've got lazy/lazy. Summers tend to be lazy when it comes to some outdoor activities because it can be so hot - so maybe there'a a heatwave and people on Atlantis are complaining while doing little (except John, who has to remind everyone that he was on Atlantis 5,000 years in the future and THAT was both hot and uncomfortable. And then he'll turn to Rodney as he remembers, "And you waited for me." And then they'll start to make out, and Elizabeth'll go, "Oh god, well I guess meeting dismissed. Everyone can go about their business, and I'll just ask someone to disinfect the conference room table. Again. When they're done."

Hey, it could happen!

Anyway, five weeks this time. You can do this!

And....GO!

Title: First, There's Coffee
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1,629
Pairings/Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir
Notes: This is set in my "Acting Your Truth" 'verse so you should probably read that if you're new. But if not, John and Rodney are actors in Hollywood, and Elizabeth Weir is Rodney's agent.
Summary: John is woken up by a ringing phone far too early on a chilly January morning.

Found over here on AO3.

Happy Saturday, and for folks in the United States, happy 4th of July! It may feel like we're surrounded by a Wraith-filled government, but we're stronger than them and we will get through whatever they can throw at us!

In celebration of a new month and new prompt, we're going for "policy" and/or "sheet" for this month's prompt. Now policy is pretty straightforward, but it can be taken quite a few different ways. Like Elizabeth trying to find a policy on if a certain Lieutenant Colonel has to file any extra paperwork to be able to move in with a certain double PhD head scientist.  But there was a wonderful take in a comment a few days back about having a policy prompt. Like what if there's a whole policy manual for how things should go on Atlantis - and every time they pick up a stray (Ronon) or rescue another group from certain death, what has to be updated in the policies? Like is there some sort of ridiculous policy of, "All alien marriages need to be approved by expedition leader and then signed off by leadership at Stargate Command" - and then Weir comes back to Cheyenne command with two handfulls of documents showing dozens of marriages between just about everyone on Atlantis. Some real, some ceremonial, and some thrown in just for fun. Hey, who can say, right?

And then we've got "sheet".  You can take that just about any way you want, from a spreadsheet of marriages that Weir hands a hapless administrative assistant, to the physical cloth-based kind. Like a certain Major waking up in a certain botanist's bed with just a sheet draped over his lower half. Or a quartermaster in charge of supplies trying to figure out just exactly why Markham and Stackhouse would need sixteen sets of rubber sheets for a single king-sized bed. And how the hell would you document that, military-wise, anyway?

So for the next four weeks, if it's got to do with policy and/or sheet, get it written, painted, documented, or recorded, and get it posted!

At ease for now!

With many thanks to all the wonderful authors who were inspired by the prompt(s) to share their works with us!

brumeier  gave us Echoes of the Dead
goddess47  gave us Stuck Lock
lucy_roman  gave us The Puzzle Box
melagan  gave us Falling Into Place - A Soulmate AU

Lots of great fills - and even a Sheppard/Beckett fic! YES! Thank you to everyone for the fills; a new prompt coming up soon! Meanwhile, if you're working on a fic for one of these prompts, you've got until Sunday night, June 7th, to get it posted. Or you can just ping me and let me know you're going to be late and we'll let you be part of the round-up. 

Look at that - actually inspired by an SGA episode. Okay, not puzzle, but echo because Season 3, Episode 12 was called "Echoes".  So you can take these prompts any way you'd like.  Maybe John likes to do puzzles in his downtime, and one of the puzzles he does gives him a clue about Rodney or Elizabeth or Carson. Maybe two adjacent crossword clues are "kiss" and "her" (John/Elizabeth) or maybe the clues reveal "love" and "you" and "always"?  As for echo or echoes, you have a couple different ways of tackling something.  First, you could write how Ronon likes to track people by listening to the echo of their footfalls in the hallway. Or maybe Lorne is trapped on a planet, freaks out, and screams so loud that he's sure his voice is echoing off the walls of his prison.  

But there's another way to take this, and that's after the Echoes episode itself! Maybe you write a little scene that's missing from Echoes - John and Rodney in the infirmary because of busted eardrums. Or maybe because of said busted eardrum, Rodney's muttering too loud and people can finally understand his usual under-breath mumblings.

However you'd like to approach it, you've got five weeks this time.  And don't forget to leave or take a prompt in our ongoing promptfest!