SGA Saturday

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. 

So it's time to wrap up our adventures in Reading and/or History, and we've had a couple of submissions - so thank you to the wonderfully creative people who submitted works!

brumeier  gave us The Past Reconfigured
melagan  gave us Printed on Your Skin
sgatazmy  gave us Heard You Kissed

If you're working on something around "reading" and/or "history", then you're in luck 'cause even though the challenge is ending, I know a guy who'll help you out. Just ping me and I'm sure he'll let you on the list. Otherwise, wrap up what you're writing and submit it by Sunday evening to get officially counted in the festivities. Otherwise, it'll have to wait for another prompt or for amnesty at the end of the year.

A new prompt coming soon!

Well, we all knew February into March was going to be busy what with all the Valentines Day themed events going on. So far we've only had one entry for the last prompt of "dinner" and/or "date":

melagan  gave us Dinner Date

If you're working on a fic for these prompts, you've got until tomorrow night, Sunday March 8th, to be included in the roundup (or an extra few days if you let me know). Otherwise it'll have to come under another prompt or wait for amnesty this December.

New prompt coming soon!

Sometimes trying to come up with prompts is definitely a challenge in and of itself.  But this morning, all I got on the brain is my cup of tea to start my day.  So why not try and make a thing of it, huh?

Coffee is what makes Atlantis run, but what happens when they run out of coffee?  Is Tea something that you think Rodney McKay would drink? I mean, if he's out of coffee and wanted some sort of caffeinated boost in the morning, tea is pretty much it.  They wouldn't have energy drinks out in Pegasus.  And cup?  Well, cup can mean so many different things.  Sure, you can write an AU where single dad Caldwell is trying to make a cake for his birthday kiddo and needs to borrow a cup of sugar from their prickly neighbor, Ambassador Weir.  Or you could go the other way around.  John Sheppard watches as Rodney goes to grab a cup to get something to drink only to accidentally break it - so John learns ceramics from the Athosians and makes Rodney a new cup.  Or maybe it's a stolen moment together where Carson cups Cadman's cheek before kissing her - or Lorne drinks a cup of liquid courage before he asks Parrish out on a date.

For the next FIVE weeks, you've got "cup" and/or "tea" to try and put something together for the prompt.

And...GO! 

That's right, it's amnesty time!

For the four weeks of December, we're letting you run as free as you'd like to be. You can run wild and go with any prompts that are in the archive - no holds barred. But if you want to make it extra interesting because maybe you had something you started for a previous challenge this year but didn't quite get it finished? Guess what! You can submit it this month without issue.

So you have four weeks to go with anything from the Tags section. Or, if you choose, you can just choose from the last 12 months. Those would be:

• "bounty" and/or "card"
• "kiss" and/or "heart"
• "limit" and/or "medic"
• "spring" and/or "loss"
• "horse" and/or "wine"
• "century" and/or "theory"
• "whisper" and/or "scream"
• "wait" and/or "survive"
• "grand" and/or "storm"
• "haunt" and/or "scare"
• "office" and/or "visit"

Whatever your choice is the one you're supposed to make. Enjoy your month, and get creative if the mood strikes!

We had some great fills for the last few weeks, so thank you to everyone who filled our "haunt" and/or "scare" prompts! So much to read!!!

brumeier  gave us Walk in Darkness
goddess47  gave us A FootHold Situation
lucy_roman  gave us How to Explain Halloween
mific  gave us Scared and THree Scary Drabbles
sgatazmy  gave us Thumping, Screeching, Prowling

A new prompt will be coming soon! Meanwhile, if you're delayed for some reason in posting for this period — like you'd love to finish your story but you're having to fight off zombies or something — it's cool. Just let me know, and you can scoot in past the deadline - which is Sunday, November 2nd.

Happy round-up Saturday! For the last few weeks people have been writing to fill prompts for "grand" and/or "storm" - and we are here for it! We even have a new poster - welcome lucy_roman !

The harvest was good this period!

brumeier  gave us A Gathering Storm
lucy_roman  gave us Perfect
melagan  gave us 12
mific  gave us Storm Off Grand Banks
squidgiepdx  gave us Beta-Omicron-Omicron

More prompts to come! And if you're working on a fill for "grand" and/or "storm" but you're not quite done, you have until Sunday evening, 10/5/25 to get it posted. Alternatively, you can simply ping me and let me know when you're done and I'll add you to the round-up.

Mucho kudos to everyone who took a shot and gave us some amazing works for our last two prompts, "wait" and/or "survive".

brumeier  gave us Forged in Fire
esteefee  gave us A Suspicious Lump
melagan  gave us Heaven and Hell
mific  gave us Earth [Podfic] and Sateda Lives While Any Sons Survive [Podfic]

As always, if you're working on something for this prompt, you have until Sunday night, September 7th to get it posted - unless you let me know, and I'll let you sneak it in when it's ready.

A new prompt is coming up next!

I tried to pick something that would be intriguing - but I've got this song from the 1980s that has been blaring in my head all day.  So instead of having something more intimate, more thoughtful, you're going to get prompts from a song that I listened to in high school.

But when you think about it, "whisper" and/or "scream" can be really, really interesting as prompts.  It can be Rodney's whisper of "I love you" that floats in the air as John falls asleep that finally gives him a good night's rest, or maybe Ronon thinks about his previpus life with Amelia and how the whisper of her memory brings him comfort.  Or it could be the scream of anguish from Parrish when Lorne is captured.  Maybe Ronon offers himself up as sacrifice to the Wraith, and the scream Melena yells is so startling that that they're able to escape.

Think about it.  Your favorite character(s), one of these prompts - as Martha says, "It's a good thing."

And, GO!

Yes, I'm a day later than normal. But in my defense, I'm a bit tired, have an ear infection, and am possibly hosting a hangover. Or at least I think that's why my brain feels funny. Anyway, thank you to our three amazing authors for providing us with these fills!

brumeier  gave us  Bottled Poetry
goddess47  gave us Planning for the Winter Solstice Celebration
melagan  gave us Hold Onto Your Horses

If you are still working on something for "horse" and/or "wine", you've got until tonight to get it posted here to the collection. Otherwise, it'll have to wait for amnesty at the end of the year. Meanwhile, a new prompt is coming soon!