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Polar Explorer RPF - Prompt Post 1
This is for prompts for all things general Polar Explorer RPF.
If you've filled (or started filling) a prompt, please make sure to link it in the comments of the Fills Post. And if you would like to cross-post your fills on AO3, here is the collection!
Under this umbrella you can prompt:
Prompts in line with adaptations of Heroic Age stories can also fit here, for example if you want to specifically prompt Hugh Grant!Cherry from The Last Place On Earth getting wrecked (which someone really should).
No blorbo too obscure for this post! EXCEPT: NO PEARY ALLOWED. God I hate that guy.
Rules:
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If you've filled (or started filling) a prompt, please make sure to link it in the comments of the Fills Post. And if you would like to cross-post your fills on AO3, here is the collection!
Under this umbrella you can prompt:
- Historical versions of Franklin Expedition(-adjacent) guys (Rossier, Gore/McClure, etc)
- Madhouse at the End of the Earth/Belgica Expedition
- Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration - Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, Mawson
- Andrée Expedition
- Karluk Expedition
- etc
Prompts in line with adaptations of Heroic Age stories can also fit here, for example if you want to specifically prompt Hugh Grant!Cherry from The Last Place On Earth getting wrecked (which someone really should).
No blorbo too obscure for this post! EXCEPT: NO PEARY ALLOWED. God I hate that guy.
Rules:
1. Be fucking nice. YKINMATO/KINKTOMATO at all times.
2. This meme is CNTW (Choose Not To Warn) but warnings are highly encouraged.
3. Prompts should use this format in the subject line: [SHIP], [DESCRIPTION]
e.g.
Mertz/Ninnis, sex crying
Solo gen can be prompted as well alongside (a) character name and description
e.g.
Gen, Emil Racovitza, discovering a crazy new fish
4. Fills should use this format in the subject line: FILL: [TITLE], [PAIRING], [RATING], [ANY WARNINGS]
e.g.
Fill: The Very Next Day, Cherry/Birdie, E, cw self-harm
5. One prompt per comment please.
6. Multiple fills for each prompt are welcome!
7. You don't have to be anon for your prompts or your fills but we do encourage it because of the vibe. You're also welcome to deanon your stuff by posting on AO3/Tumblr as you please!
8. Feedback on prompts and fills is AWESOME; please take longer conversations to the discussion post.
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FILL: Inexplicable, Scott/Wilson and Oriana/Kathleen, G, modern domestic AU
(Anonymous) 2023-09-27 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)“So, let me get this right...” is the most common response when strangers encounter the Scott-Wilson-Bruce-Souper clan. It’s not that difficult to understand, really.
Between the four of them, there are two houses, two cars, three bicycles, one dog, four cats, any number of half-tame birds of prey, squirrels, foxes, badgers, and weasels, six chickens, one guinea pig, and one human child.
Robert Scott and Edward Wilson are married, and everyone calls them Con and Bill. They run the Discovery Wildlife Sanctuary together, rescuing and rehabilitating injured animals. Bill is an ornithologist who also studied medicine and is also an extremely talented artist and also somehow finds time to volunteer for his church. He may or may not ever sleep.
Con was in the Navy, and is now a happy house-husband. He is the father of Kathleen and Oriana Bruce-Souper’s son Peter, and co-parents with them. Oriana is also an ornithologist, and went to university with Bill. They were a couple for six years, until she persuaded him to act on his feelings for his friend Con, whom he’d been obsessed with since they first met. (It’s normal to agree to go on a two-year research trip to Antarctica with someone you’ve spoken to for half an hour at a party, right? Right?)
Anyway, Bill and Ory are still best friends, and she works with him at Discovery part-time, when she’s not teaching and carrying out her own research. Ory met Kathleen at a life drawing class, won over by the classic pickup line, “Let’s ditch this bullshit, I want to take you home and sculpt you.” A couple months into dating, Ory introduced her to Bill and Con, and Kathleen promptly informed her that they were having a son and Con was to be the father.
To be more precise, Kathleen planned to have Con’s son, and Ory could be along for the ride if she wanted. Some women might have objected, but Ory loved an adventure, and she loved Kathleen. Some men might have objected to being spontaneously selected as a sperm donor, especially on discovering that Kathleen had no intention of involving medical professionals when they could do the job perfectly well themselves. But Con agreed, and he loves his son.
Anyone seeing Kathleen and Bill interact would assume that they hated one another, and they gleefully tear each other apart like the pair of old queens they are. However, they are quite resigned to sharing two of their favourite people and sometimes even say kind things behind one another’s back, as long as there’s no chance of the other finding out.
Collectively, their domestic arrangements perplex neighbours, Peter’s nursery school, visitors to the wildlife sanctuary, and anyone else who might at first glance mistake them for two heterosexual couples. For reasons best known to himself, Peter calls them Dad, Mum, Mama, and Uncle Bill. Con gets called Mr. Bruce-Souper often enough that he has just started to answer to it. Ory’s nickname around Discovery is Mrs. Bill. Only Ory is permitted to call Kathleen Kath– everyone else must pay her the respect of two full syllables.
This harmonious arrangement is only disturbed occasionally, when the mountain-climbing, poetry-quoting sailor Ernest Shackleton comes to visit. Rumour has it that he and Bill had a fling in Antarctica, and there was definitely some sort of subsequent falling out over publication rights for research data. Fortunately, Ernest’s husband Frank is a determined peace-maker, and Con only ends up going round to sit in Kathleen and Ory’s kitchen fuming about once per visit now. Every time after he leaves, Ory tells Kathleen that Con should just sleep with him too and have done with it, but Frank would probably object to that.
Every once in a while, Con and Bill talk about going back to Antarctica, so that Bill can continue his studies of emperor penguins. Kathleen tells him that he can see penguins at the zoo, to which he loftily replies that most UK institutions only have Humboldts or Gentoos, which is not his area of speciality at all. Ory adds that she would rather not have another two years of wondering whether the two of them have frozen to death in some lonely tent somewhere. “But wouldn’t that be romantic?” says Con, and this is really the most inexplicable thing about any of them.
Re: FILL: Inexplicable, Scott/Wilson and Oriana/Kathleen, G, modern domestic AU
(Anonymous) 2023-09-28 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)