Thursday is for "This just in - Breaking News!"

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Hello, everyone. I’m squidgiepdx and today's theme is breaking news! Prompts can be pretty much anything having to do with news or even just the media. Did someone find John and Rodney while they were in San Francisco and ask them about the newly uncovered documents that outed the SGC? Maybe Kevin shows up at a news conference where his husband, Captain Raymond Holt, is doing a briefing and it throws Captain Holt off. Or maybe it's an AU where Cisco is a news reporter and Harrison Wells his cameraman, and they accidentally stumble across the identity of The Flash. If it has to do with the news, we're there!

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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, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, News breaks about the SGC location while John and Rodney are wandering around San Francisco
+ Brooklyn 99, Raymond Holt/Kevin Cozner, Kevin's presence at a news conference shakes the unshakeable Captain Holt
+ Donald Strachey Mysteries, Donald Strachey/Timothy Callahan, A reporter wants to interview Donald about being the most famous gay detective in New York

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[squidgiepdx]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, News breaks about the SGC location while John and Rodney are wandering around San Francisco

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Brooklyn 99, Raymond Holt/Kevin Cozner, Kevin's presence at a news conference shakes the unshakeable Captain Holt

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Donald Strachey Mysteries, Donald Strachey/Timothy Callahan, A reporter wants to interview Donald about being the most famous gay detective in New York

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The Flash, Harrison Wells/Cisco Ramon, An AU where Harry and Cisco are a reporter/cameraman team, and they stumble across the identity of The Flash

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Any, Any Team, An AU where the team is a bunch of newscasters/reporters

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Stargate Multiverse, any, Breaking News - top secret military program called Stargate Command is being declassified!

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BBC Sherlock, John Watson +/ Sherlock Holmes, someone wants to interview John about his blog and Sherlock doesn't know how to feel about that

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Smallville/any, Chloe Sullivan, she gets an exclusive interview with [insert character of choice].

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Smallville, Clark Kent + Oliver Queen, Clark is assigned to interview Oliver Queen about his alternate ego The Green Arrow

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Stargate Atlantis, Evan Lorne/Ronon Dex, AU where Evan is a news anchor and Ronon works as a camera operator

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Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, AU where John is an investigative journalist in DC and Rodney is a staffer for a senator embroiled in scandal

Fill 1/2 (I know nothing about politics haha)

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Rodney floundered awake, confused and disoriented, at the very loud pinging sound going off right next to his head.

He squinted in the dimness of the hotel room, and then an elbow slammed into his ribs, driving the air from his lungs.

He swore in French, furious - and then he remembered. Political convention. Hotel bar. Hot guy with the crazy hair, sexy smirk, and amazing facility for numbers.

Said hot guy looked less hot and more hungover, but he still had crazy hair, and he was attempting to crawl over Rodney to smother him.

Or reach the phone that was pinging insistently on the nightstand.

Hot guy - he’d said his name was John, but who used their real name for a hookups? Rodney always used, well, Rodney, because as far as his boss and coworkers were concerned, his name was Meredith - managed to get one hand on the phone, fumbled it.

The horrible pinging sound ceased.

“What was that?” Rodney asked.

“The find my phone sound,” John said. “My boss uses it when I’m not answering calls. Which - I’ve missed twenty calls.”

John swore in French - hey, he spoke French - and sat up, fumbled with the phone some more.

Which vibrated in his hand, and he almost dropped it, and then a voice exploded out of it.

“Sheppard! What the fuck were you doing last night?” a man roared.

“Um, fucking,” John said, and winced.

Rodney winced too.

“Well, while you were fucking, Lorne and Dex scooped you on the story I very specifically sent you to get,” the man shouted.

John swore in French again.

“I woke up this morning, and there it was, in my inbox, straight from The Chronicle’s headlines, Senator Elizabeth Weir has been in secret talks with Ladon Radom of the Genii on behalf of President Landry,” the man continued, his voice somehow rising in volume, and Rodney realized.

“Merde,, you’re JP Sheppard.”

JP Sheppard was an investigative reporter for the Herald, had been sniffing around the rumors that Elizabeth was helping President Landry strike a deal with the Genii.

And then Rodney’s hotel room door banged open.

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Buzzfeed: Worth It RPF, Steven Lim/Andrew Ilnyckyj, Steven writes a food column

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MCU, Bucky Barnes/Sam Wilson, first time talking to a news reporter

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Lost in Space (1998), Jeb Walker/Don West, headlines on earth after the Jupiter 2 disappears

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Ocean's movies, any, leaving each other notes in newspapers

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High School Musical, Chad Danforth/Ryan Evans, they're outed through a picture of them kissing in the school newspaper

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, Any, starting an Atlantis news blog

Fill 1/2

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Featured Article:

Atlantis’s Most Eligible Bachelor
~Submitted by Anonymous (and certainly not AR-3, nope)

Major Evan Lorne came to Atlantis on the second wave of the expedition in the expedition’s second year. A native of San Francisco, California, he graduated from the United States Air Force Academy with a degree in geophysics. He was stationed in Korea, Afghanistan, and Germany before he was assigned to the SGC as 2IC on SG-11. Now he serves as the Atlantis base’s 2IC and chief logistics officer, as well as the team leader for AR-3. With his dreamy blue eyes and dimpled smile, this handsome flyboy enjoys painting, the introspective music of Joni Mitchell, and cooking and baking. While he has been unlucky in love more than once, he’s still holding out for his special someone. Anyone looking to spend more time with this California Cutie can find him painting on the upper balconies, running along the West Pier, or spending time with his gate team for movie nights, game nights, and sometimes just beer and poker.

~*~

Recipe of the Week: Mochi Ice Cream
~submitted by Dr. Miko Kusanagi

Pre-cooking tips:

• Keep your kitchen cool while handling ice cream
  
• Wear latex gloves to prevent sticking
  
• Use generous amounts of starch on working surfaces to prevent sticking

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup of glutinous rice flour
  
• ¾ cup of water
  
• ¼ cup of granulated sugar
  
• ½ cup of corn starch
  
• ice cream of choice

Directions:

• Scoop number of desired ice cream
• balls, freeze
  
• Combine flour and sugar in a bowl, whisk
  
• Add water, whisk till well-combined
  
• Cover bowl lightly with plastic wrap
  
• Microwave on high 1 min
  
• Remove, stir with wet rubber spatula
  
• Cover again
  
• Microwave on high 1 min
  
• Remove, stir again
  
• Cover again
  
• Microwave on high 30 sec
  -mochi should be translucent-
  
• Sprinkle work surface with starch
  
• Sprinkle surface of mochi with starch
  
• Roll out to thin layer with rolling pin
  
• Transfer to parchment paper
  
• Refrigerate 15 min
  
• Remove, cut into circles
  
• Put plastic wrap on a plate
  
• Put mochi on plastic
  
• Put ice cream ball on mochi
  
• Cover ice cream ball with mochi
  
• Seal opening quickly
  
• Cover with plastic wrap, twist to close
  
• Place in cupcake pan to maintain shape
  
• Freeze
  
• Remove from freezer a few minutes before serving

Itadakimasu!
(Ref: Just One Menu)

~*~

Annual Rope Pull
~ submitted by Sgt. Chuck Campbell

This week Atlantis held it’s seventh annual Rope Pull! Teams included Team Science, Team Marines, Team Air Force, and Team Civilians. Crowds gathered in the Gate Room to watch the different teams face off in a round robin competition. Atlantis’s denizens cheered on the competitors with signs, banners, pom poms, and noisemakers (see updates to the Banned Items List).

For those who didn’t get to see the competition (or hack into the security footage), here are the results, and they are surprising!

Science v. Marines - Marines win, dragging all of the scientists onto their faces after Sgt. Reis, the anchor for Team Marines, exhibited Herculean effort.

Air Force v. Civilians - Civilians win, only two people losing their feet after Ronon, the anchor for Team Civilians, really put his back into it. Ronon continues to be a crowd favorite at the annual Rope Pull.

Marines v. Air Force - Air Force wins in a surprising upset after Major Teldy rearranges the Air Force lineup and makes Major Dorsey the anchor.

Civilians v. Science - Civilians win again, with Ronon bearing the brunt of the effort.

Air Force v. Science - Air Force wins again, Major Teldy’s new line-up proving the better strategy.

Marines v. Civilians - Civilians win for the third time, making this the fifth year in a row that they have held the championship after Ronon literally pulled all of the Marines (and several of his own teammates) off their feet.

Hope to see everyone at next year’s Rope Pull! Start thinking about those lineups now!

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Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, getting jobs as newsboys when they were kids

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Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett, the local news has a McGarrett Watch segment to highlight the crazy stunts of the week

[squidgiepdx]

So, it's not a total fill, but I managed to incorporate McGarrett Watch into my "Into A Bar" fic here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14693430 :)

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Stargate Multiverse, Any, Weather Channel reporters out in the field

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Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators, Trixie Belden +/ Jupiter Jones, finding something interesting in a stack of old newspapers

Fill -- Old News is Good News

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“Extr! Extra! Read all about it! My uncle is a lunatic!” Jupiter Jones grumbles as he sorts through the stack of newspapers..

Trixie Belden glances over at him. She has a stack of her own papers to scrutinize, which she’s doing with considerably less belly-aching. “Why do you say that? You’ve told me more than once that people hide things in the craziest places.”

“They do--did I tell you about the time we found a pillow full of money?” It’s hot in the sorting room, which is one reason Jupe is grouchy. “But newspapers?”

“One time, Honey and I found a key in a stack of newspapers, and it turned out to be important. And those were nasty old newspapers, not bagged like these are.”

The stack of newspapers that Titus Jones hauled back to the salvage yard from an estate sale dates back to the 1950’s, according to the wife of the man who’d collected them and carefully stored them in clear plastic. Most of them have darkened from age, and some are crumbling within their wrappers. Still, Titus insists, there might be something good in there--so they’re charged with sorting them.

So far, they’ve found papers with headlines that the collector had thought would be historic--various election results, the assassination attempt on President Reagan, the first Space Shuttle flight, the Apollo 11 moon landing. Occasionally, a commemorative magazine will emerge from between to papers in its own neat sleeve of plastic--the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, the Bicentennial. John Glenn orbiting Earth…..

“Hello!” exclaims Jupe, brightening. He holds up a magazine. “Playboy, issue number one!”

“Oh, please!” says Trixie, rolling her eyes. “A girlie magazine?”

Jupe is grinning broadly. “That’s Marilyn Monroe on the cover,” he tells her, and Trixie, startled, takes a closer look. “If I remember correctly, that’s worth enough to remunerate us for whatever Uncle Titus spent on the rest of this crap.”

Thus vindicated, Trixie smiles. “See, I told you--you never know what you’re going to find!”

…

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Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Tony sees a news report about Steve and his crew doing good out in the world

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MCU, T'Challa, he'll have a say in how his country is portrayed by the media

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DC, any villain pairing, "Hey, look! Our mug shots are on TV!"

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Coco, Ernesto de la Cruz, even years after the incident, footage of him nearly throwing Miguel to his death is still all over the news