This Valentine’s Day, let’s show some love to the prompts on the MI6 Cafe Prompt Exchange with the 2026 Adopt-a-Prompt event!
The Schedule:
Now through Saturday 02/14: Browse the MI6 Cafe Prompt Exchange and pick out one (or more!) prompt(s) that you’re interested in filling. There’s no need to “claim” a prompt; they can be filled multiple times.
Between Valentine’s Day 02/14 and White Day* 03/14, post your fill (fic, pic, photo manip, etc.) somewhere people can enjoy it, such as your tumblr or AO3 account. To be featured in a weekly spotlight, @-tag the @mi6-cafe tumblr account and #-tag with “adopt-a-prompt”, or add your work to the “MI6 Cafe Prompt Fills” AO3 collection.
And that’s it! Short, sweet, and simple. ♡
If you have any questions, feel free to ask a mod (@spiritofcamelot, @myndelling, @kitten-kin), the Cafe email ([email protected]), post the question in our Discord (click for invite), or comment to this post!
* White Day is a companion holiday to Valentine's Day in Japan! One month after Valentine's Day, people who received a gift give a thank-you gift in return, and traditionally it is something white, like marshmallow or a handkerchief.
Something I don't think I'd ever end up writing, but was sitting in a fic ideas compilation doc;
Luke didn't join the BAU - he's Spencer's guardian angel.
He's also stressed out (Reid is allergic to proper safety precautions)
Spencer couldn't see or hear him, but he could drive him mad.
Here we are again with another concept because I don’t have the time to add this one to this list amidst other projects!
Note that “Gladiator” is in quotations because it’s a loose concept around Gladiators and arena fighting and such that could easily be set in a fantasy universe rather than a historical one because my grasp of Ancient Rome isn’t exactly superb. Also because certain happenings make it complicated - like, uh, who the rulers are in it.
Contains: Political Intrigue, Lies and Misdirection, Pining
More below the cut!
After Tony’s country was conquered by Asgard he’s found himself attempting to survive in public battles in a Gladiatorial arena. He’s reasonably successful due to a combination of ingenuity, intelligence, and some training during the war. He’s a highly competent smithy and has created various sets of armour to help protect him in battle, along with some rather peculiar weapons that have left his audience absolutely enamoured with watching him.
None moreso than the royal physican, Stephen Strange. After several months of watching this, Stephen decides he’d like to actually meet this Gladiator in person, finally, though the royal advisor to the King, Loki, suggests it might be best that he not wander into the filth and muck of the area dressed in his best. Despite their differences, Stephen sees a certain wisdom in that and changes his attire to something more suiting of the chirurgeons below in order to finally meet Tony.
Watching him fight was one thing, but Stephen can’t help but find himself utterly enthralled by the flirtatious - if mildly delirious - man he tends to, and for weeks he continues to attend to the man, getting to know him steadily better. Finally, he makes a decision: he wants Tony. He doesn’t want to watch him die.
Knowing better than to try to convince Loki, he takes up his desire to liberate Tony with the boisterous King Thor, who makes it clear he can understand where Stephen’s admiration and attraction come from, given what an impressive warrior Tony is. He issues Tony five challenges, not willing to give Tony up easily, but being a reasonably fair man in general. If Tony accomplishes those challenges, Stephen is free to take him from the Colliseum.
Stephen, uncertain how to properly approach the situation with Tony, tells Tony after one of his battles that Thor has issued Tony five challenges that will set him free of the arena, but he’s not sure how to tell Tony that being freed from the arena will wind him up indentured to Stephen. He hopes that Tony would consider it worth it, at least, since it means Tony’s not risking his life anymore as a part of Stephen’s household, but he hasn’t exactly admitted to Tony what his station is, yet, either.
Thor’s challenges are fair ones, though challenging regardless, and with each of Tony’s victories Stephen attends to Tony who becomes more and more excited at the idea of his freedom. He shares his hopes and aspirations about his freedom with Stephen as his victories mount up, and their friendship - and Stephen’s affections - continue to grow.
Tony’s thoughts of freedom steadily begin to cause guilt in Stephen, who realizes that the way things are Tony will never get the freedom he wants, and that his lies of omission are only going to hurt Tony in the end. He is consumed by a growing fear that the moment the truth is revealed, everything he and Tony have built will come crashing down, and Stephen can’t bear the thought of it.
He knows Thor well enough to know that renegotiating the terms with him won’t go over well, and after weighing his options he realizes that Loki is his last resort - and no favour from Loki ever comes for free, or with ease.
Loki sets Stephen five challenges of his own which must be completed before Tony completes his challenges, and Stephen accepts, his concerns about Tony overriding his better judgement. He genuinely believes that Loki wouldn’t do anything to bring harm to Thor, but as he completes each of his challenges he realizes that doing this is causing instability in the realm and undermining Thor’s power.
He knows he’s playing a dangerous game, at he has to make the decision between following through with Loki’s schemes in order to free Tony, or letting everything between him and Tony fall apart.
Eventually, believing he’s failed his final challenge, Stephen returns to Tony on the day of his victory to admit to his actions, and his deception, telling Tony who he really is. Tony is, naturally, heartbroken over the lies, so when Loki and Thor arrive to grant him his full freedom - much to Stephen’s confusion - Tony accepts gracefully but doesn’t acknowledge Stephen’s presence in the slightest.
... and that’s about what I’ve got for this one. I hope you had fun and if anyone’s inspired and wants to take the concept and run with it, by all means! But also send me a link!
I have decided that in fact, there is! Thank you to everyone who chimed in on this Twitter post with encouragement! Introducing Adopt-a-prompt, which is exactly what it sounds like. I’ll reblog this with little scene starters, using the tag adopt-a-prompt (or adopt a prompt, I’ll be watching both), and you the lovely people of writeblr are free to run wild with it! Change names/pronouns, details, tense, whatever! I just like to write little mood setting scenes, and I never come back to them. If my silly little brain children can be put to good use, I’d love to see it happen!
It’s a nice cozy rainy night here, and my brain is still mushy from post-Weddageddon crash, so have another adopt a prompt to play with. As always, these are yours to do with as you wish, play with the pronouns, tense, etc. Just tag me so I can see what you’ve created!
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The rain dripped steadily outside their window, a backdrop of pleasant white noise. It went well with the little flicks of candlelight dotting the room. The space was cozy, full of cushions and fluffy blankets, the smell of coffee hanging in the air. All in all, it was the perfect place to curl up and read.
Except their mind wouldn’t stop racing.
The drip became a steady beat of distraction, until they opened the window to let the patter of more irregular rainfall in. The shush and scatter of chaotic drops was devoid of pattern, and it helped soothe the snarl in their head. The world should be messy right now, disorderly, random. The world had just turned upside down, and it was fitting that the outside should match the inside.
They pulled all the cushions off of every chair, couch, and lounge, piling them all into a giant nest in the center of the library. Then came the blankets, ringing the nest like a bird lining with feathers. Then a great pile of books, pulled at random from this shelf and that. Finally, the little silver tea tray—or coffee tray, rather—with its neat little box of delicately stamped cookies, and its steaming carafe of coffee. They balanced the tray precariously atop the stack of books, clambered carefully over the nest’s edge, and poured themselves a mug with lots of cream. Wiggling their shoulders, they settled into their little cushy world, falling into the words of their book and the sounds of the rain.
Okay, so I’m going to propose a prompt for adoption: Chicago!AU for OUAT .
Think about it:
Emma can be Roxie Hart, who kills her lover (Hook) after she finds out he was using her for sex. She tries to get her loving but stupid husband (Baelfire) to take the fall.
Regina is Velma Kelly. She walks in on what appears to be her husband (Robin) cheating on her with her sister (Zelena). It can be legit or it can be a mega misunderstanding, but either way, Regina kills them both in a fit of rage.
Rumple gets the role of Billy Flynn, the best lawyer in Chicago. He never loses a case. Things get complicated when Emma begins to draw attention, thus pulling Rumple away from his work with Regina and more into Emma’s case.
Matron “Mamma” Morton: This can be either Cora or Evil!Snow. She accepts bribes and helps her inmates to the best ammenities.
Belle is the columnist Mary Sunshine, who follows both cases closely, as they could result in the death penalty. She is also super sweet and sympathetic (and I head-canon that she’s sleeping with Billy Flynn, so it works that way too!)
