Tuesday: Book Titles

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone. I’m nagi_schwarz and today's theme is Book Titles. Prompts can be the name of a book within a book, a whole book itself, or a series of books, fiction or nonfiction, or fusions or crossovers with specific book fandoms.

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay, Infernal Devices (Cassandra Clare)
+ MI-5|Spooks, Lucas North + Ros Myers, The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom)
+ BBC Merlin, any knight, The Initiation (LJ Smith)
+ Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, The Chosen (LJ Smith)
+ Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sam Wilson + T’Challa, Black Dawn (LJ Smith)

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2020 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.


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Comments

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, How to Be A Normal Person (TJ Klune)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Title: Bound for Normalcy

Summary: Malcolm is just a normal kid, or at least that’s what he wants to be.

Find the story here. (https://archiveofourown.org/works/28572411)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay +/ Any, If You Did What I Asked in the First Place (Lori B. Duff)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators, Trixie Belden/Jupiter Jones, Meddling Kids (Edgar Cantero)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Multiverse, Any, Between Now & Never (Laura Johnston)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes +/ Any, Murder Takes the High Road (Josh Lanyon)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any, any, The Tightrope Walker (Dorothy Filman)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any, any, Summer of the Dragon (Elizabeth Peters)

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard + Rodney McKay (Nanny John 'verse)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

John accepted full responsibility. It was his fault, for introducing Rodney’s kids to the movies Flight of Dragons and Pete’s Dragon. They’d been favorite movies when he and his brother were just kids, and he thought it would be fun to introduce them to Eleanor and Jaxon.

The fun ended when John found himself in the garage trying to wrangle chicken wire into a vaguely dragon-shaped form.

“That was a stupid promise to make,” Rodney said, watching from the door that connected to the house.

“No kidding,” John replied. “Feel free to lend a hand. You’re the engineer, right?”

Rodney grinned. “You’re Mary Poppins. Spoonful of sugar and all that.”

He left John alone in the garage with rolls of chicken wire and random bits of lumber.

It took John and the kids all summer to work on the dragon project. Once it was properly shaped, to the exacting standards of two small children, weeks of papier-mâché followed. They had to work around swim lessons and judo lessons and sleepovers and birthday parties and a trip to Disneyland.

Eleanor and Jaxon loved slathering the frame with paste-covered pieces of newspaper, adding layer after layer to help make the thing sturdy. Each layer had to dry before the next one could be applied.

Once the dragon was fully formed, John primed it for painting. And then it was time to take the kids to the paint store to pick out dragon colors.

“Purple,” Eleanor said definitively.

“Green,” Jaxon said.

John was learning that his best bet was to compromise. “Both.”

The color choices, even narrowing it down to just two, were overwhelming. After a couple of emotional meltdowns, Jaxon settled on Derbyshire green and Eleanor chose Impulsive purple.

Rodney refused to assist at any stage of the process, though he had fun filming it and offering tips and suggestions for ways to make things run more smoothly.

“Stop painting your brother!” he said, lips twitching up in a grin as he held his phone up, capturing the moment.

Somehow, they got the dragon painted, though both Eleanor and Jaxon had to have lengthy baths afterward that turned the water different colors.

“He’s beautiful,” Eleanor said, eyes wide. “Thank you, Mr. John!”

John didn’t think ‘beautiful’ was quite the right word. Lumpy and malformed, yes, in a shape that vaguely suggested a dragon if you squinted at it just right. But the kids loved it, playing with it for the rest of the summer, making up stories and adventures for the dragon they named Milo.

“You’re really good with them,” Rodney said.

He and John watched as Eleanor, dressed as a knight, and Jaxon, dressed as a king, prepared for some sort of battle. Milo was wearing a crown on his lumpy head.

“They’re good kids,” John replied.

And they were. He’d never planned on becoming a nanny, had quite literally been dragged into it, but he was enjoying it more than he thought he would. Not the least because John found their father so interesting. Genius level smart, handsome as hell, and the kind of dad John wished he’d had growing up.

The summer of the dragon was the best summer John had had in a very long time.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Any Louis L'Amour, any She Walks These Hills (Sharyn McCrumb)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

BBC Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes +any, The Family Vault (Charlotte MacLeod)

[ami-ven.livejournal.com]

Any, any, Princess Diaries AU

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Rodney McKay, Infernal Devices (Cassandra Clare)

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

MI-5|Spooks, Lucas North + Ros Myers, The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom)

Fill: warning for adult themes - nothing graphic!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Lucas and Ros were in the middle of searching the hotel room, when they heard voices, and the door started to open.

“Quick, hide!” Ros ordered.

She slipped inside the wardrobe, and Lucas, having considered the ensuite bathroom, slid under the bed.

Their suspect entered, a woman behind him. She pushed him onto the bed and tore off some of his clothes. Lucas breathed in as the bed moved up and down beneath them.

It didn’t last long, for soon the woman got off the bed, straightened her clothes and said, “We need to be in the lobby in less than ten minutes. Don’t be late.”

She left and the man went into the bathroom for a very hurried wash, before he too departed.

Once he had gone, Lucas re-emerged from under the bed. “Don’t say a word,” he muttered.

Ros wasn’t able to; she was unable to stop laughing.

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

BBC Merlin, any knight, The Initiation (LJ Smith)

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, The Chosen (LJ Smith)

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sam Wilson + T’Challa, Black Dawn (LJ Smith)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Clint Barton +/ Any, A Good Man With a Dog (Roger Guay)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, Notes From a Small Island (Bill Bryson)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, Any, The Zombie Survival Guide (Max Brooks)

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any, Rubyfruit Jungle by RITA MAE BROWN

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any, The Color Purple by ALICE WALKER

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, In the Dream House by CARMEN MARIA MACHADO

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any, Middlesex by JEFFREY EUGENIDES

[cozy-coffee.livejournal.com]

Any, any, The Hours by MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Astro, any m/m, The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)