Miércoles: Sporty🎖🎾⚽️
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little_huntress over here and today's theme is SPORTY. Which means prompts can be anything about sports. Your favorite sports fandoms, AUs, etc. Prompt away! 🏄♀️
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 spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
+ DC Bombshells, The Batgirls, Baseball team au
+ Merlin BBC, Arthur Pendragon/Merlin, One of the is a famous snowboarder
+ MCU, the Avengers, They're a hockey team
We use 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 2018 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
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little_huntress over here and today's theme is SPORTY. Which means prompts can be anything about sports. Your favorite sports fandoms, AUs, etc. Prompt away! 🏄♀️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 spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
+ DC Bombshells, The Batgirls, Baseball team au
+ Merlin BBC, Arthur Pendragon/Merlin, One of the is a famous snowboarder
+ MCU, the Avengers, They're a hockey team
We use 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 2018 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets 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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Date: 2018-05-02 02:02 pm (UTC)Mini-fill
Date: 2018-05-02 02:13 pm (UTC)Whenever someone tossed something to Rodney, he caught it, and when he tossed something to someone else, he never overshot or undershot.
When they were on an alien planet and had to learn a dance as part of a trading ritual, Teyla and Rodney were the ones who mastered it first.
It wasn't until Jeannie came to visit that John fully understood: Rodney was a fantastic athlete.
"Oh, yeah," Jeannie said over breakfast one day. "Mer did it all when we were kids - swimming, running, soccer, baseball, basketball, hockey."
"Ice hockey?" John echoed. It was such a violent sport.
"Canada," Jeannie said sagely. "I wanted to learn figure skating, and if I was at the rink, he had to be too, so -"
"But when we have pickup games of football and basketball, he never joins in."
"Not anymore. He kinda quit sports around the time he quit music and drama, when he decided to focus on science. Fit body makes for a fit mind, but the risk of injury was - well, imagine who he'd be today if he'd suffered a lot of nasty concussions in rugby? I get it." Jeannie cast a fond smile over at Rodney, who was having a heated discussion with the KP Marines running the chow line. "Don't let him fool you, John. He's tougher than he looks."
John knew that. Rodney had survived being tortured by Kolya, had marched into danger in situations John was pretty sure no other scientist with gate training would. John had seen footage of Daniel Jackson in the field, and if John hadn't known who he was, he'd have thought the man was another of O'Neill's airmen for how he responded to CREs and handled firearms.
Rodney had always eschewed anything but the bare minimum of firearms and weapons training, and John had never wanted to push the issue.
But now he would.
"Why?" Rodney protested two days later, after Jeannie had gone and he and John were on the mats in the gym, working on more hand-to-hand.
"Because you're on a front-line first contact team, Rodney. Your safety is paramount to the expedition."
"I've been perfectly safe up to this point," Rodney said, and John raised his eyebrows.
"As safe as can be, in this galaxy," Rodney amended, "because you've got my back. You and Teyla and Ford and now Ronon."
John offered up the bitter truth he'd had a hard time swallowing, that he'd been forced to drink down in the wake of Mitch, Dex, and Holland's deaths. "I may not always be there to have your back."
"Yes you will," Rodney said.
"Rodney -"
"Don't say things like that, John."
John paused, startled by Rodney's use of his first name.
Rodney stepped closer to him. "I know you'll always be there for me."
John shook his head. "Rodney, don't -"
Rodney caught his wrist. "I know you will."
Finally John said, "I want to be." He looked up, met Rodney's gaze. "But we both know I can't always be. And your safety is paramount to me."
Rodney looked at him for a long time. "All right." He let go of John's wrist and stepped back, assumed a fighting stance.
John did the same. "Now come on. Drill it again."
Re: Mini-fill
Date: 2018-05-02 02:50 pm (UTC)That exchange between them at the end? ::melts:: So perfect!
I love this, thank you so much!
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Date: 2018-05-02 02:52 pm (UTC)But he'd gone.
When they'd had Grace that weekend, Steve had gone running with her that Saturday morning, to work on her cardio. Then he and Grace had done some internet research together, watching some Ted Talks and lectures on YouTube about how flexibility worked, how to improve it or maintain it.
Danny considered it a personal victory when Steve didn't whine and gripe and complain the next time he had to go to cheer practice with Grace in Danny's place.
But then Danny came home and found Steve and Grace in the living room, watching a recording of Grace's cheer practice on Steve's TV.
"There, see?" Steve said, pointing at the screen. "That angle of her arms is really precise. Make sure you hit that angle."
Grace nodded earnestly.
"What's going on?" Danny asked, pausing in the doorway.
"Step-Steve records our practice routines so I can practice on my own more," Grace said, "look really polished for competitions."
"That's a good idea," Danny said. He'd usually just sat in the bleachers and answered emails and texts and tried to ignore the thumping techno remixes every cheer squad did routines to.
The look Steve cast him was smug and irritating, and of course, here it was, the fierce McGarrett competitiveness.
But then Danny woke up early one morning, hoping to make breakfast for Steve and Grace after their Saturday morning run, but instead of the two of them heading off for showers, they unrolled a pair of yoga mats and did yoga together to some soothing lady's voice on Steve's phone.
"What is this?" Danny demanded, gesticulating with his spatula.
"It promotes mindfulness for Grace so she can be present and focus during her cheer routines," Steve said, "and also improves her core strength, balance, and flexibility."
Okay, that made sense, but, "Why are you doing it with her?"
"I like to stay fit. And flexible," Steve said pointedly, and Danny remembered some of the more adventurous, athletic things Steve had been willing to try in bed recently, so he kept his mouth shut.
But then two weeks before Grace's first cheer competition of the season, Danny came home from his Saturday morning run and found Steve and Grace sitting in front of the TV, watching a YouTube tutorial. Grace was sitting between Steve's knees, and Steve was braiding her hair.
Grace held up her phone for Steve to see - something in Pinterest. "Think we could curl some ribbons like that?"
"Yeah, that's easy. All you need is a sharp blade," Steve said.
Grace thumbed through some more pins. "What about this eye make-up? Think we could do that?"
"That blending looks complicated," Steve said, "but the other day I did find this makeup tutorial channel you might like. Her name's Sailor J. She swears sometimes, so don't repeat those words around your dad, but I bet we could figure that out."
"Thanks, Steve, you're the best."
And Danny realized - this wasn't Steve being competitive. This was Steve being committed. This was the same devotion Steve paid to repairing classic cars, cleaning firearms, and seeking vengeance on the people who'd killed his father and tried to kill his mother.
After Grace's cheer competition when her squad won, Danny watched the other little cheerleaders swarm Steve and hug him, tell Grace that her other stepdad was the coolest, and Danny was grateful that Steve was committed to their family.
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Date: 2018-05-02 02:57 pm (UTC)Thank you so much!
Re: Mini-fill
Date: 2018-05-02 03:00 pm (UTC)Sei and I were watching The Instinct last night and noticed that Rodney, while he clearly dislikes running, does keep up with the others way better than a squishy scientist would, and of course discussion of his athletic ability ensued, so this happened!
And of course some McShep, because why not?
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