SGA Saturday

Happy Saturday, and for folks in the United States, happy 4th of July! It may feel like we're surrounded by a Wraith-filled government, but we're stronger than them and we will get through whatever they can throw at us!

In celebration of a new month and new prompt, we're going for "policy" and/or "sheet" for this month's prompt. Now policy is pretty straightforward, but it can be taken quite a few different ways. Like Elizabeth trying to find a policy on if a certain Lieutenant Colonel has to file any extra paperwork to be able to move in with a certain double PhD head scientist.  But there was a wonderful take in a comment a few days back about having a policy prompt. Like what if there's a whole policy manual for how things should go on Atlantis - and every time they pick up a stray (Ronon) or rescue another group from certain death, what has to be updated in the policies? Like is there some sort of ridiculous policy of, "All alien marriages need to be approved by expedition leader and then signed off by leadership at Stargate Command" - and then Weir comes back to Cheyenne command with two handfulls of documents showing dozens of marriages between just about everyone on Atlantis. Some real, some ceremonial, and some thrown in just for fun. Hey, who can say, right?

And then we've got "sheet".  You can take that just about any way you want, from a spreadsheet of marriages that Weir hands a hapless administrative assistant, to the physical cloth-based kind. Like a certain Major waking up in a certain botanist's bed with just a sheet draped over his lower half. Or a quartermaster in charge of supplies trying to figure out just exactly why Markham and Stackhouse would need sixteen sets of rubber sheets for a single king-sized bed. And how the hell would you document that, military-wise, anyway?

So for the next four weeks, if it's got to do with policy and/or sheet, get it written, painted, documented, or recorded, and get it posted!

At ease for now!

With many thanks to all the wonderful authors who were inspired by the prompt(s) to share their works with us!

brumeier  gave us Echoes of the Dead
goddess47  gave us Stuck Lock
lucy_roman  gave us The Puzzle Box
melagan  gave us Falling Into Place - A Soulmate AU

Lots of great fills - and even a Sheppard/Beckett fic! YES! Thank you to everyone for the fills; a new prompt coming up soon! Meanwhile, if you're working on a fic for one of these prompts, you've got until Sunday night, June 7th, to get it posted. Or you can just ping me and let me know you're going to be late and we'll let you be part of the round-up. 

Look at that - actually inspired by an SGA episode. Okay, not puzzle, but echo because Season 3, Episode 12 was called "Echoes".  So you can take these prompts any way you'd like.  Maybe John likes to do puzzles in his downtime, and one of the puzzles he does gives him a clue about Rodney or Elizabeth or Carson. Maybe two adjacent crossword clues are "kiss" and "her" (John/Elizabeth) or maybe the clues reveal "love" and "you" and "always"?  As for echo or echoes, you have a couple different ways of tackling something.  First, you could write how Ronon likes to track people by listening to the echo of their footfalls in the hallway. Or maybe Lorne is trapped on a planet, freaks out, and screams so loud that he's sure his voice is echoing off the walls of his prison.  

But there's another way to take this, and that's after the Echoes episode itself! Maybe you write a little scene that's missing from Echoes - John and Rodney in the infirmary because of busted eardrums. Or maybe because of said busted eardrum, Rodney's muttering too loud and people can finally understand his usual under-breath mumblings.

However you'd like to approach it, you've got five weeks this time.  And don't forget to leave or take a prompt in our ongoing promptfest!

With everyone posting challenges and such for the 3weeks4dreamwidth festivities, we'd like to join in!  To do so, we're running a prompt drop and fill fest from now until mid May. Basically how the CommentFic community works, but only for Stargate Atlantis (and crossovers, as long as SGA is the primary focus, either in a multi-fandom crossover OR an AU of some kind).

If you're not familiar with prompt drop and fill fest, it's where you leave a fandom - which will of course be SGA - plus a pairing or characters or "ANY", and then a prompt of some kind.  Feel free to leave as many prompts as you want as comments to this post, and then you or someone else can come in behind you and fill that prompt.

The fest will go from today until May 15th, 2026. All prompts and prompt fills should be within this post (unless you end up filling a prompt for this month's prompts and want to post it afterward as an official fill for that challenge as well!).

Sound good? Let's go!