Prompting Post V

[cabinpres_fic]

Please see the most recent MOD NOTE and ADDENDUM

(updated 5 July)

Welcome everybody. How you got here I have no idea but thank you for coming and welcome again, nonetheless . As you may have gathered this is a Fic Prompting Meme dedicated solely to the hilarious and oh-so-addictive BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Cabin Pressure. I'm aiming for this to be pretty anything goes - but in order for everything to run smoothly, there are a few guidelines. Don't worry - they're not too restrictive.

FILLING GUIDELINES

As you probably all know - our meme now has it's very own database created and maintained by the great Enigel. It both catalogues each and every prompt that we post and provides links to fills. You can find it here: Google Spreadsheet

We also have a Pinboard archive which has been put in place by the lovely oxfordtweed in the place of our late Delicious Archive. This Archive contains a list of all the prompts this meme has to offer - you can find it here: Pinboard Archive

This is a great step forward in making our meme just a little more organised (but not too organised of course. This is Cabin Pressure) which is always a good thing.

So in order to make things easier to archive - Please nest your fills.

This can be done by either posting each part as a reply to that part's immediate predecessor, OR by replying each time to Part I OR - well you get the idea :D

It makes it simpler for Enigel and myself to link fills in a clean and clear manner. Following these guildelines will be very much appreciated guys :D

REPROMPTING

Reprompting is allowed but please include the URL of the original prompt when you do so. It will make it infinitely more easy to Archive which would make both Enigel and I very happy :)

As for everything else

1. Be respectful to one another. Disagreements are fine, but not everything disagreeable is trolling. If you suspect someone of trolling, just ignore it. If you cannot respond to a comment without attacking or trolling someone else, keep it to yourself.


2. No bashing prompts. It might not be your cup of tea - but obviously someone wants it enough to go to the effort of requesting it. So just scroll past it.


3. Prompt away as much as you like guys - seriously, go wild - but please try to fill as well.

NEW - If your fill includes a major element that veers from the original prompt (crossovers, established universes, kinks, et cetera), please take a few moments to check with the OP that such additions are welcome. This has caused problems in the past and it only takes a few moments of your time.

4. Please no RPF. I'm not trying to oppress you RPF writers and enthusiasts, I would just really like to avoid any legal problems.


5. When you post a fill (or post a new part of a WIP) please go over to the Filled Prompts Post (if it is complete) or the WIP Post (if there are still more parts to come) and, following each post's guideline's, post a link to this fill or new part.

REALLY IMPORTANT ADDENDUM

According to numerous Child Safety laws it is illegal to provide pornographic material to minors. Seeing that the majority of the stuff we have here is rather adult in nature, this Meme is consequently an 18+ zone. Failing to comply to this rule could result in the Meme getting shut down. So if you're here and you're under 18 please back button now.

+ Please do not post anything regarding minors in a sexual situation. It really doesn't matter how tasteful or crass it is, there are laws that classify that sort of thing as child pornography and as such, I'm afraid we're going to have to go with the attitude that safe is better than sorry.

It really is VERY important that these rules are upheld as the consequences are severe.

Other than that - go crazy guys. Any problems please just message me and I'll try my best to work it out.



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Comments

Ice

[crocodile_eat_u]

*feeble wave*

It's nice to be back. While I'm going through what I've missed(OMG SO MUCH PORNNNNNNN *faints*) while I was away, I thought I'd leave this here.

It's hot. Very, very, very hot. Major indian heat-wave hot and Martin and Douglas are for some reason stuck at the airfield. Douglas is a smarty-pants though and brings ice! And he watches, stupified as Martin drags those cool, slippery, wet cubes down his hot, blushed skin. So, fun with ice? I'm sure they can both get very creative with it.

Established relationship or not (I'd love you forever if you can somewho work them not being in a established rel with this prompt) but I'm just aching for a bit of smut. Unsurprisingly.

Re: Ice

[tracionn.livejournal.com]

Ungh. I hear (and share) your ache and add WANT.

Father Ted Crossover

[inkstained_scrivener]

Arthur Shappey meets Father Dougal. It's a match made in heaven.

Re: Father Ted Crossover

[(Anonymous)]

TOTALLY SECONDED. Actually, when I first started listening to Cabin Pressure, Arthur reminded me very much of Dougal.

Martin, have you seen my keys?

[tiwtin]

triggered from a dodgy conversation about a cucumber on another prompt -

Martin has a bizarre little fettish - object insertion. Anything he can get his hands in when he's in the mood, he just can't help himself. He's been refered to a psychiatrist because Fitton A&E know him by sight - 'Hi Martin, back again already? Go wait in cubicle 3.'

Douglas finds out - how is up to you, perhaps by calling his own mobile phone to find it and Martin's arse rings :-D

Oh jezus, what's wrong with me?.

Re: Martin, have you seen my keys?

[lunard136.livejournal.com]

Nothing is wrong with you, dear, because that would mean something is wrong with me for wanting to read that very, very much!

sounding.

[(Anonymous)]

He fully expected to hate every second of it, but it turned out to be the most intense, most intimate and most incredible sexual experience of his life.

Martin with anyone would be my first choice, but do feel free to pick any character you like!

Re: sounding.

[tiwtin]

Oh, oh, oh....

This might have to happen...

[(Anonymous)]

It's Arthur's birthday. But due to being a really bad week, everyone forgot. How does Arthur react?

[citruspocket]

Poor Arthur. Not sure if I could handle the feels. Of course I'd read it anyway. (:

[(Anonymous)]

Martin and Douglas are big nerds of something. Star Wars, Harry Potter, you choose. They end up meeting at the movies/convention. At first they're a little embarrassed, but then they have the most awesome time of their lives fanboy-ing out.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm seconding, and suggesting Firefly.

I Can Ear Them but Where are They?

[lunard136.livejournal.com]

Aww dammit! The Snowbirds are practising for their big annual spring show right at this moment and every time I hear on of them, I turn to the window in the hopes of catching a glimpse, but, of course, what with breaking the wall of sound and all that, once you ear them they are already gone. *grumble* and now I feel stupid for rushing to the window every single time because my neighbour was outside and looked at me strangely. *blushes*

Can I have Martin doing the same (with what ever the equivalent of Snowbirds [http://www.snowbirds.dnd.ca/v2/] is in the U.K.)? maybe on a delivery, or at home with the student, and blushing every time someone spot him because he forgot himself?

A happy ending (of either Douglas taking him to the show with tickets, or of a day at the air field where of course Gerti can't fly because of the show going on or one of the pilots seeing him eyeing the sky while he's in his Captain uniform, going home, and inviting him to chat with the boys and get a front row view or something) would be appreciated.

:D

Re: I Can Ear Them but Where are They?

[(Anonymous)]

They mention the UK equivalent in Abu Dhabi, when they're talking about planes flying upside down. Red Arrows?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by above prompt.

Arthur give Douglas two tickets to a highly anticipated air show. He and Carolyn can't go for some reason. "You and Skip should go!"

Douglas was planning just to give the ticket to Martin... but why not make him work for it? Cue Douglas making Martin jump through hoops just to obtain a ticket that was his anyways. Your choice on how it ends.

d+a or D/A, alcoholism and tragedy

[(Anonymous)]

Something very bad happens for Douglas. There's nothing he can do about it, he's not telling anyone what happened, just carrying on as usual, but he's really in deep emotional distress and he's struggling very hard not to start drinking again.

Arthur finds out by accident and distracts Douglas with cuddles.

Re: d+a or D/A, alcoholism and tragedy

[linguini17]

I just finished a fic that's something like this, except there aren't cuddles. Arthur does save the day after Douglas starts drinking again, though

It's here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/480474

Hope it's a bit what you were looking for.

[(Anonymous)]

Martin, Douglas, Arthur, and Carolyn fight about Doctor Who.

[(Anonymous)]

And of course, when there's a prompt I think I can actually fill, I can't think of a nice little controversy from DW that they can debate >_<;

Seconded, with hopes I can think of something later...

'Jolly-On Crieff' = Julian Crieff, Martin's Grandfather(?)

[random_nexus]

Background: Mr. Birling mentions a 'Jolly-on Crieff' and Martin scoffs at the notion of having a relative named 'Jolly-on'.

Prompt: Martin finds out his Grandfather went to uni at a rather young age and had a lot of adventures, leaving him with the nickname 'Jolly-on' instead of Julian, because he was 'so jolly to be on' or some such. He was the dormitory bicycle, everyone had a ride... etc etc. You get the idea.

How does Martin find out, who's there when he does, what happens next?

Fly, my pretties, fly!

Cracky mini fill though not really

[(Anonymous)]

Julian Crieff decided he liked Facebook. It was so much fun reading the updates from his grandkids, so great to be actively in their lives even though he lived in France, currently. He was always happy to get emails from them, pictures and 'Likes.'

When a familiar ding brought his attention to his smart phone, Julian grinned. "Ooh! An update from Martin!"

It only had two words.

Grandpa, why?

Verbal slurs

[(Anonymous)]

For some odd reason, there's a rumor going around that Martin is quite the slut. He doesn't know where it came from, how it got started, but now he's getting unwanted attention.

Re: Verbal slurs

[(Anonymous)]

seconded!

The World According to Arthur

[(Anonymous)]

A day (or more) in the life of Arthur Shappey, as described by Arthur Shappey.

Re: The World According to Arthur

[(Anonymous)]

I'm suddenly thinking of that "a day in the life of a dog" joke that goes around now and then.

Seconded. I could do with a solid dose of seeing everything as brilliant.

Incest

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by this fill: http://cabinpres-fic.dreamwidth.org/4207.html?thread=6760303#cmt6760303 (which is absolutely wonderful and you should go read it now!), and because I'm possibly a horrible person.

Douglas got a girl pregnant when he was very young. The girl wanted to have nothing to do with him, so she moved away and never contacted him again. He was fine with it, he was too young to even want to be a father.

Three decades later, Douglas starts a relationship with his Captain, who looks a bit like the girl he knew when he was a teenager. But Martin never mentioned being adopted, or that the man who left him his van wasn't his biological father, so Douglas didn't give it a second thought.

One of them learns the truth. Does he tell the other? Do they stop their relationship, or maybe carry on and pretend there's nothing different? or take a lot of kinky pleasure from it How does it end?

Re: Incest

[crocodile_eat_u]

....

Oh god. Anon you have succesfully prompted something that was sitting in the back of my mind for ages but I've been too chicken to prompt.

Oh god I want this.

Martin hits his head

[(Anonymous)]

Martin hits his head and starts to think he's Sherlock Holmes. It's up to the author whether Sherlock is a real detective who lives in London or fictional character from ACD's books and BBC TV Show, but Martin definitely isn't him, doesn't have a mystical bond with him, wasn't him in the past life etc. Martin's deductions are crap, his attempts at "Sherlock voice" are a source of amusement to everyone, the police arrest him when he tries to trespass on their crime scenes, he sees nonexistent crime/plots everywhere etc.

tl;dr Martin thinks he's Sherlock, but utterly fails at doing Sherlock-y things.

TW Suicide attemt. Long prompt is long.

[(Anonymous)]

Martin is going through a terrible bout of depression, it's not even brought on by his circumstances, not him being miserable, though the situation doesn't help any. He finally makes the decision to end his own life, and goes through the motions of putting his affairs in order and tying up loose ends with a sort of numbing calm.

One of the things he decides to do, is to tell Douglas how he feels about him, convinced 100% that the man does not reciprocate at all, and not waiting to hear the other's reply. (Whether Douglas does reciprocate or not would be up to the author, though I'd prefer it ended D/M, but that Douglas hadn't been pining for Martin, or aware of any feelings for him)

Martin survives the attempt, and Douglas feels incredibly guilty, thinking he is to blame for the attempt.

If at all possible, I'd like a happy ending.

Re: TW Suicide attemt. Long prompt is long.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a happy ending would be possible, with lots of understanding on both sides. Douglas would need patience and Martin might need to start believing how much Douglas does care.
Seconded.

Douglas Whump (Contains bonus Tamara Drewe Spoiler!)

[(Anonymous)]

This meme sure does love to whump on Martin, and having Douglas swoop in to save the day is always a joy, but I'd like to see it play out the other way around.

Douglas's luck runs out. Maybe he gets really properly ill, or crashes the Lexus, or one of his smuggling deals comes back to haunt him or, perhaps, he just gets trampled by cows... Which leaves Martin in the position of needing to swoop in and fix things.

Naturally he's rubbish at it. But at least he really tries, and Douglas is probably more touched than he'd like to let on.

Re: Douglas Whump (Contains bonus Tamara Drewe Spoiler!)

[lunard136.livejournal.com]

Douglas!Whump? Yes please!

Recreational drug use

[(Anonymous)]

Arthur is not slow, he's always high

And / Or

Douglas, Martin and Arthur sharing a joint

*hides*

Re: Recreational drug use

[(Anonymous)]

If Arthur is always high, I wonder what he's like when he's sober.

Anyways, seconding!

desperation (warning: pee)

[(Anonymous)]

On a long flight back from somewhere, after Martin has drunk a hell of a lot of very fine coffee and is bursting to pee, the plane's toilet unexpectedly breaks down mid-flight. For whatever reason, there is no other option for peeing (due to Martin's personal habits or regulations that state no waste in the sink drains, what ever suits) and he needs to hold it until after landing. Douglas talks to him, encouraging him to hold it. Martin finds this unbelievably arousing.

No established relationships beyond friendship at the outset. Switching Douglas and Martin or adding in Arthur and swapping him in as a second voice or the one needing to pee is welcome.

Re: desperation (warning: pee)

[citruspocket]

Gah, secret kink. I need this - seconded.

Douglas-Carolyn friendship fic -- romances past

[aura218.livejournal.com]

So, I'm reading a lot of fic where Douglas muses, "Martin wasn't his first boyfriend; there was that time ...." "but that was years ago..." "but anyway..." Gah! I want to know!

Who are these lucky men Douglas went out with, when, how long ago? How did Douglas come out, how did he take it? How did the wives take it?

And for some reason, I really want to hear Douglas tell Carolyn about his past. I just want a good Carolyn/Douglas friendship piece where he talks about his romantic past. She probably opens up about her marriages, too. I'm imagining a sort of one-shot-per-question situation, until they're so drunk they're telling each other all sorts of secrets.(Oh, god, how will they face each other the next day?)

Re: Douglas-Carolyn friendship fic -- romances past

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding

“You will always be fond of me, Martin....

[aura218.livejournal.com]

... I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

Rupert Graves has been reading Dorian Grey to me all morning (guh. Yes, eme and I'll send it.) and I'm finding a strong similarity between Dorian's Lord Henry and our Douglas. The droll, world-weary, seen-it-all sarcasm, the way he joys in corrupting young men.

I'd love to see an AU in Edwardian times, Douglas as a sinning, widowed, bisexual veteran of life perving abuot the life and mind of young dork-about-town Martin. Who is engaged to Money and trying his hardest to stay positive as he crawls into middle class.

Btw I haven't finished the book yet, so don't tell me if this won't pan out. It works FOR THE PROMPT so that's what I'm asking for!

Plz to include Dame Knapp-Shappey and her charming yet hopeless scion. And feed Gordon to a tiger in the Boer War.

Martin Crieff, aka DJ Icarus.

[(Anonymous)]

First, I blame tonight's episode of Kathy on Bravo.

Douglas finds out that Martin has a Facebook page devoted to his one-man electronica project.
Electronic dance music isn't Douglas's cup of tea, but Martin's tracks are surprisingly catchy.

Limerick bored sex -voyerism kink

[taynney.livejournal.com]

Based on first part of Limerick: It doesn't look like we'll be landing until the last syllable of recorded time. So if anyone on board knows any card tricks, ghost stories or would like to have some sex, please do make your way to the flight deck. Thank you.

Someone (OFC preferably) comes to the flight deck to have sex. Martin who is "in control" is not as controlled as he seems as he listens to Douglas having loud sex in the chair next to him. Douglas can tell this is turning Martin on, so he plays it up for him. Cue Martin getting off while Douglas cures his boredom.

Bonus points for fogging up the windshield, and triple points for D/M sex at the hotel or at home.

Re: Limerick bored sex -voyerism kink

[(Anonymous)]

HHNNNFGG. The bonus points. Oh dear. Second the prompt and second especially the bonus points.

I HAVE 10 AO3 INVITES

[aura218.livejournal.com]

bing bong!

Due to ff.net deleting explicit fic, I requested and received 10 invites for archiveofourown.org. If you'd like one, email me at nardo218 at yahoo dot com.

Please do not respond to this message. It will self destruct when the invites are gone.

Re: I HAVE 10 AO3 INVITES

[mogwai_do]

Ooooo me? Can you PM me one please?

1000 Paper Cranes

[(Anonymous)]

Douglas' daughter gets sick. Not terminal, but possibly dangerous. Douglas is worried out of his mind. Either Martin or Arthur remember the story of the 1000 paper cranes and the sheer desperation to do something drives them to try and fold all those cranes on the off chance that it might actually grant them a wish. They enlist the other's help (Martin gets Arthur or vice versa) and go for it. Douglas finds out and is genuinely touched by the gesture.
Would prefer a happy ending.

Re: 1000 Paper Cranes

[tracionn.livejournal.com]

Alone the prompt is incredibly touching. Would love to read a possible fill.