Thursday - Home Sweet Home

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Good morning and welcome to Thursday! I’m evil_little_dog, still filling in, and today's theme is the Comforts of Home. Prompts can be anything that evokes a homey feeling.

The rules still haven't changed:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.

Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
- Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry, cuddling in front of the fireplace
- BtVS, Buffy+Scoobies, They always christen each other's new place with the watching of a Bollywood movie
- Any fandom with animals, Any, It's not right unless there's a pet or two waiting for you

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Visit the lonely prompt archive and brighten someone’s day. 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.

Tag = Comforts of Home

Comments

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any male, he's an attractive guy but nothing is hotter than watching him cook

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Haven, Nathan/Duke(/Audrey), lazy Sunday morning lounging around the house

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Avengers, any/any, finding it amusing that he keeps 23 different types of cookies in his pantry

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Whedonverse (any), any, when you move around a lot, all you need to feel like home is _____

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry, cuddling in front of the fireplace

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

BtVS, Buffy+Scoobies, They always christen each other's new place with the watching of a Bollywood movie

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Any fandom with animals, Any, It's not right unless there's a pet or two waiting for you

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Eliot/Parker/Hardison, Home isn't a place, it's the people waiting for you

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward/Winry+Alphonse(/any), No matter where the three of them go, Risembool is always home

[ran-dezvous.livejournal.com]

Detective Conan, Kogorou/Eri + Ran + Goro (the cat) + Conan (optional; depends on whether you think Kogorou and Eri will reconcile before Shinichi gets his body back), [learning to become] a happy family once again

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Avengers, Steve Rogers (+ any), the little things that don't exist anymore, and the little things that do

[silver_sun]

Doctor Who/Torchwood, Jack Harkness/any, there have been so many places he's called home, so many people he's thought of as family.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

BSC, Mary Anne, coming home to Tigger and Richard

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Emelan, Daja, her house is starting to feel like home

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

LotR, any hobbit, there's no place like the Shire for a pint of ale and a good feed

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Any, any gen, all the creature comforts

[adlanth.livejournal.com]

The Silmarillion, Anairë and/or Finarfin and/or Eärwen, They thought they were staying home, but home seems to have disappeared with their children.

[radondoran.livejournal.com]

Phineas and Ferb, Roger Doofenshmirtz, a diplomatic visit to Drusselstein

Pros and Cons of Living in a 21st Century Home

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Pro: Steve likes answering machines.

The idea just makes sense. It's too easy to miss a phone call. He has a cell, but he also has a landline.

Because how can somebody not have a phone.

But he likes his landline and he likes his answering machine. Even if it's not like he gets all that many messages.

Not counting the ones from Tony. Who keeps leaving prank messages. That are obviously from Tony.

But prank calls were invented a long time ago. Steve knows how to make them too.

Which is why Tony was now convinced that that chess playing computer has a crush on JARVIS. And was becoming quite overprotective about it.

Steve told JARVIS before playing the prank of course -- no reason to lead the poor guy on. But JARVIS was amused enough to agree to go along with the prank. If artificial intelligences can be 'amused.'

Philosophical questions aside, Steve was pretty sure that Jarvis was very, very amused.


Con: Steve doesn't like refrigerators. Yes, they had them in Steve's time. Rich people had them.

Steve grew up using an icebox.

There were few things more satisfying than chiseling off big crooked chunks of ice to put in the biggest glass you could find, and filling it up with water from the tap on a sweltering hot day.

Getting ice cubes from the ice maker in the door was less hands-on. And louder. And often involved going into the mechanism to chip at the blocked passage.

Not nearly as fun.

Plus, Agent Hill told him that people drink bottled or filtered water these days, not the stuff from the tap.

Steve was glad when Natasha and Clint told him that that was crap.

Pro: Coffee makers. The kind that make really, really good coffee.

Steve's was a gift from Coulson.

It almost made Steve feel like a traitor, liking his coffee more than the swill at his favorite diners (then or now).

Almost. But not quite.

It really was damn good coffee.


Con: Steve complained once that he didn't like energy efficient light bulbs as much as the old fashioned kind. The glow was different, he claimed.

Tony scowled at him, and Steve didn't know why.

The next day, a large crate of Stark light bulbs showed up at Steve's apartment. Apparently Tony was quite offended that Steve tried a lesser brand over his.

Steve had to admit, though. The light shone like the old-fashioned kind.

He called Tony to thank him. Tony said "You're welcome" and proceeded to ask Steve advice on how to convey a sense of old-fashioned courtship rules to computers. Because he may have sowed his wild oats, but he didn't want his AIs to do the same.

Steve, with great effort, managed not to laugh.

Pro: Steve has a nicely decorated apartment. He has plenty of space all to himself.

Con: Steve sometimes looks around his spacious apartment and realizes: he's all by himself.

Pro/Con: Steve's teammates notice that he has plenty of room and take the opportunity to invite themselves over to watch football games, relax after missions, watch DVDs, or order pizza.

Steve finds it rather annoying but is too polite to say anything. He is very, very patient with his new teammates, trying hard to be the kind of leader that they all are happy to follow.

Eventually, it gets to the point that when no one on his team is around, the place feels too quiet.

At that point, Steve realizes how glad he is to have lots of space, lots of good coffee to offer his friends, and a refrigerator full of food his friends can pilfer.

It makes him like his new apartment much more.

Re: Pros and Cons of Living in a 21st Century Home

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, I love this. So much love for Steve pranking Tony, JARVIS being amused, pro/con team, everything, so much.

Though, weirdly, I think it's the detail about chiselling the ice that I like most. And I have no idea why.

*hugs Steve* This was perfect. Thank you!

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, home is where they'll judge you - but they won't turn you away

[tigriswolf]

author's choice, author's choice, home-made cookies, hot from the oven

[tigriswolf]

Inception, Arthur/Eames, the books in their home library

[tigriswolf]

Up/Despicable Me, Agnes/Russell, their dream home

[tigriswolf]

Glee, Kurt(/Blaine), the perfect night in