Friday: AU
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tigriswolf and today's theme is alternate universes! Prompts can be anything about canon going sideways or being in a different genre or anything else you can imagine.
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
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 2019 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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tigriswolf and today's theme is alternate universes! Prompts can be anything about canon going sideways or being in a different genre or anything else you can imagine.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
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 2019 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: 2019-05-10 01:12 pm (UTC)Hamilton (theater), author's choice, if Angelica hadn't stepped back for Eliza
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Date: 2019-05-10 01:13 pm (UTC)Easy Virtue (film), Jim Whittaker/Larita Whittaker, soulmark AU: Jim's words have always been thank you and Larita's and very welcome.
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Date: 2019-05-10 02:43 pm (UTC)Fill!
Date: 2019-05-11 02:39 am (UTC)“No,” Rodney said shortly. He finished pouring off the draft beer and slid it across the bar. “Pick something else.”
The girl looked confused. “But…I really want an appletini.”
“We all want things we can’t have.” Rodney poured her an apple jack instead. “Try this instead.”
“But –”
“Take it or leave it.” Rodney moved down the bar, taking more orders, not caring if the girl took the apple jack or not.
Bartending was a pain in the ass. He didn’t mind mixing the drinks, but he hated having to deal with people. They were so demanding! And some of them mistook ‘bartender’ for ‘therapist’ and he had zero interest in listening to people whine about their lives. He had a hard enough time managing his own life, what with grad school classes and being a TA and having to work a night job to help get by.
“Screwdriver,” a guy with a stupid hat said. Not even asking.
“Not a chance. Why don’t you try a less frou-frou drink?”
Rodney made the guy a Manhattan instead, which he still considered to be a girly cocktail. There was some grumbling, but it was a good drink and the guy eventually paid for it.
Mr. Rum and Coke at the end of the bar raised his hand to get Rodney’s attention, then held up one finger. Rodney mixed him another drink and refilled his bowl of pretzels while he was at it. The guy was a good tipper.
“You’re not very accommodating for a bartender,” he said.
“Plenty of other bars in town,” Rodney pointed out. He pulled out a rag and wiped down the bar, not that it needed cleaning. He just really wanted an excuse to linger, because Mr. Rum and Coke was drop-dead gorgeous. Dark hair and blue eyes were always a winning combo, and this guy could also add dimples to the mix. He was sitting alone.
“You don’t make the ones with lemon or orange juice,” the guy said, sipping at his drink. “Are you morally opposed to those cocktails?”
“Some of them,” Rodney admitted. “And I have a deadly allergy to citrus.”
“Kind of risky, working at a bar with that kind of allergy.”
Rodney shrugged. “Hasn’t hurt business any.”
Which was true. They were just as busy as they’d always been, it was just that now they were saving money on orange juice and lemons. At least on the nights Rodney was working. A lot of people seemed to like the alternative cocktails he came up with for them.
“You go to school here?”
“Grad school,” Rodney replied. “Double major in astrophysics and aeronautical engineering.”
“Art major,” the guy offered with a grin. “Minor in geophysics.”
Wow. Smart and bohemian. That was a nice combo. And Rodney was pretty sure he could see part of a tattoo peeking out from the sleeve of the guy’s black t-shirt. He wasn’t big on body adornments for himself, but on the right person…well.
“How often do you work here?” Mr. Rum and Coke asked. He dipped his finger into his drink, then sucked that same finger into his mouth. Rodney was pretty sure his brain short-circuited. That was flirting, right? He wasn’t imagining it?
“Wednesdays, Thursdays, and every other Friday,” he said, certain he was going to swallow his own tongue.
“I’ll have to remember that.”
Rodney wanted to talk more to Mr. Rum and Coke – or maybe get a taste of that rummy finger for himself – but he was being hailed from the other end of the bar and had to leave to pull some beer. When he had a free moment again, the guy was gone, and Rodney felt a pang of disappointment. At least until he scooped up the way-too-high tip and saw the napkin that had been left behind for him.
Name’s Evan. Call me if you want to get together for some citrus-free adult beverages some time. 555-5309.
There was a rough sketch of Rodney on the napkin as well, scowl on his face and martini glass in his hand. It was a good likeness. Rodney slipped the napkin into his pocket.
“Bourbon,” said the next customer.
“Good choice,” Rodney replied.
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Date: 2019-05-11 03:58 am (UTC)Re: Fill!
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Date: 2019-05-10 03:08 pm (UTC)Fill: The Hobbit, Thorin Oakenshield/Bilbo Baggins
Date: 2019-05-10 06:07 pm (UTC)“That’s correct,” Thorin replied, “I’m Thorin Durin, and I have all the necessary qualifications.”
“Yes, yes, I’m sure you do. It’s just …”
“There are a few people who prefer to send their children elsewhere, but not many. If you would like to, then I’m sure there will be no problem if you have a word with the school manager.”
“No, it’s not that at all.” Bilbo couldn’t say I’m not sure I can cope for the next year with my son’s teacher being drop dead gorgeous. “It’s just that I’m a single father, so I was hoping, Frodo, this is Frodo by the way, would have a bit more female influence around. You know, for balance.”
“Hello, Frodo,” Thorin said. Frodo smiled at him. “I am the only male member of staff in the nursery, so he will have plenty of female staff around.” Thorin beckoned over one of the other members of staff. “Tauriel, this is Frodo, who’s starting today. Could you take him over and show him where to put his coat and bag?”
Tauriel held out her hand and Frodo took it happily. “Bye bye, Papa,” he said, and trotted off.
“He’ll be fine,” Thorin said.
“I know he will.” Bilbo tried not to sniff. “It would have been nice if he’d been just a little sad to see me go.”
“Better this way.”
“I know. And thank you, I’m sorry for my reaction to you earlier. It was unwarranted.”
“It wouldn’t be the first time. And you, at least, have a good reason for looking for female staff. And now I must go and get started. I’ll see you this afternoon.”
“Oh yes, I won’t be late.” Bilbo smiled and when Thorin smiled back at him, he wondered whether there was more to his words than simple expectation he would be collecting Frodo.
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Date: 2019-05-10 05:54 pm (UTC)Kingsman (films), Eggsy Unwin + or / Harry Hart, (canon compliant, if possible) one of them is a serial killer; the other figures it out and either joins in or helps cover it up
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Date: 2019-05-10 06:38 pm (UTC)Kingsman (films), Eggsy Unwin, (royalty au) the king is dead; long live the king
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