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Monday, April 2nd, 2012 08:58 pm
Anyone may post prompts -- you do not have to be a writer, artist or mixer. Writers are not required to use these prompts; they're just here in case someone needs or wants some inspiration.

Please keep in mind that prompts may be used multiple times, and adapted to any pairing; there is no "claiming" per se, as part of the fun is to see the different ways that different authors will go from the same starting point.

Most important of all? Have fun! AND GIVE US YER BUNNIES!!!

As a reminder, this what is allowed and what is not allowed in stories written for [community profile] atlantisbigbang:

  • Anything set within SGA pre-canon, canon or post-canon is fair game.

  • Anything set within SG1 pre-canon, canon or post-canon is fair game, as long as the majority of the characters are SGA characters.

  • Anything set within SGU pre-canon, canon or post-canon is fair game, as long as the majority of the characters are SGA characters.

  • Fusions are allowed; crossovers are not, with the exception of crossovers with SG1 and/or SGU.

  • Alternate and mirror universes are allowed -- and encouraged!


And...some hints for leaving good prompts:

  • Try not to be too specific - the point is to give some inspiration, not plot the entire story.

  • Try to be as general as possible with characters -- you may love McShep or Sparky more than anything, but we're are a multi-pairing, multi-genre fest, and pairing specific prompts might put people off.

  • If your prompt is lifted from somewhere else, please give credit, so that authors can too.


Still stuck? Here are some examples:

  • How do you think things were different for the expedition in the Vegas!verse? How did they get there? What happened after they met John? What do you think the other universes were like?

  • Write something set post-season 5 - how does the team manage to get the city back to Pegasus? Are the Replicators really gone? What if the city stays on Earth?

  • Put the SGA team on the Destiny. Either have them be the original team, or have them somehow replace the normal SGU characters, or hey, even have them interacting with the team already there.

  • What if the SGA teams were all actually SG teams in the Milky Way? What if the SGA team was actually ship-based, on the Daedalus?

  • Write a Harlequin featuring your favorite SGA pairing. Or a mystery. Or a steampunk AU.

  • Chose a fork in the road -- maybe the Daedalus never comes to save the day during "The Siege" or the SGA team stays put when the Atlanteans come home in "The Return." What if Ford had come back to Atlantis with Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon in "The Lost Boys" or if Beckett had ascended in "Sunday"?

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 08:10 am (UTC)
It falls to the Atlantis-team to rescue the Destiny.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 08:14 am (UTC)
Atlantis captures a queen.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 11:30 am (UTC)
A time travel accident (tt-jumper? wormhole gone wrong?) sends the team back in time and right in the middle of the Ancients/Wraith war.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 11:31 am (UTC)
The team gets stranded on the home world of the Wraith.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 02:19 pm (UTC)
AU. Carson decides to travel back in time to harvest the nanite virus from Hot Zone to use them against the wraith in order to change history.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 02:28 pm (UTC)
Weir is killed by Koyla during his attempt to capture Atlantis. Either deliberate or accidental. The expedition and the Athosians must deal with the fallout.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 02:29 pm (UTC)
Oooh! I like this one!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 02:32 pm (UTC)
Sumner is rescued by Sheppard.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 12:33 am (UTC)
Fusion: John and Rodney as the Mythbusters - bonus for Teyla, Ronon, and Ford as Kari, Grant, Tory.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 02:42 am (UTC)
Given the strength of John's ATA gene, I think he could learn a lot about Atlantis while he's waiting to be THE LAST MAN. Is there linear time inside Atlantis's computers? Or could John and Elizabeth coexist for a couple of millenia inside the machine? What plans could they draw up--just a failsafe--to guide the expedition's decisions in their absence? Could those plans be transmitted in error, and require heroic efforts to get things back on track?
Sunday, April 8th, 2012 04:12 am (UTC)
Ancients are extremely long lived. The Aurora crew was not aged to death in stasis and the Atlantis crew were able to rescue them.
Monday, April 9th, 2012 04:39 am (UTC)
Well, Joe Flannigan once called Sheppard & McKay the Bob Hope & Bing Crosby of the Pegasus galaxy so how about a fusion with any of the 'Road To..' movies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to
Friday, April 13th, 2012 02:00 pm (UTC)
The Dr. Weir from the alternate time like finds out that she is pregnant. Is it Simon's or did the Ancients do something to her?
Friday, April 13th, 2012 06:37 pm (UTC)
People vanish from Atlantis without a trace.

Is someone committing crimes?
Are they kidnapped by people from a parallel universe?
Is a not yet discovered ancient device deep im the bowels of Atlantis to blame for it?
Or is the reason something completely different?
Edited 2012-04-13 06:38 pm (UTC)
Friday, April 20th, 2012 06:17 am (UTC)
Oh, yes! I love "detective" stories set on Atlantis!
Saturday, April 14th, 2012 11:39 pm (UTC)
SGA/Thoughtcrimes fusion.

Brendan Dean was an undercover identity for John Sheppard while he was in Special Ops, but what happens when Sheppard is drafted for the Atlantis Expedition two years later? Does Freya stay with the NSA, the USAF, or does she follow John to Pegasus?
Sunday, April 15th, 2012 06:53 pm (UTC)
Oh! A fusion between SGA and Avatar: The Last Air Bender. With the different SGA characters having different bending abilities.
Friday, April 20th, 2012 06:23 am (UTC)
love this! I'm almost tempted to power through my Avatar dvds so I could write it. >.>
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 01:03 pm (UTC)
The team finds (and gets trapped in) another Atlantis-like city-ship but this one's computer system is ... well, crazy. And it turns out to be the hostile kind of crazy. Why this AI is not quite sane could be because of various reasons - too old, infested with a virus, development that coulnd't be stopped anymore (and because *that* is the reason why Atlantis does not have this kind of AI).
Friday, April 20th, 2012 06:15 am (UTC)
I love this idea!
Friday, April 20th, 2012 06:18 am (UTC)
A post-canon SGA-SG-1 Crossover. Atlantis is back in the Pegasus galaxy and Jack decides to spend his retirement on Atlantis.
John isn't too happy about it. They have some minor confrontations because for Jack it's difficult not to meddle with John's decisions, and John has to learn that sometimes O'Neill has valuable input.
Then O'Neill is kidnapped and now the whole SGA team has to work together to find him. They call Daniel for help (or Daniel came already to Atlantis with Jack).
During the rescue mission John finds out that Jack and Daniel have been together for years, and seeing that he finally decides to come out to Rodney.
Saturday, May 19th, 2012 08:27 pm (UTC)
Fusion: SGA/His Dark Materials.

All humans have Dæmons. What do they look like, and how does their existance change things for the Expedition?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A6mon_%28His_Dark_Materials%29