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

[squidgiepdx]

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!

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...
+ 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

[squidgiepdx]

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

[squidgiepdx]

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

[squidgiepdx]

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

[squidgiepdx]

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

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

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

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

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

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

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

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

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

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

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

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

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

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

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

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

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

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

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

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

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

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

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

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

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

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

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

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

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

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

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

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

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

Fill -- Old News is Good News

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

“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!”

…

Re: Fill -- Old News is Good News

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

LOL! This is very funny! The contrast between Trixie and Jupe here is really good, I like their different perspectives on the task at hand. And Trixie is vindicated of course! ::grins::

Thank you so much for the fill!

RE: Re: Fill -- Old News is Good News

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I see Tricia as having led a more sheltered life than Jupe, so she turns up her nose at the idea of a skin magazine, and Jupe doesn’t care about the content, but he knows what it’s worth. As you say, contrast!