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mac: im a bad bitch you cant kill me
jack: yOU HAVE A KNIFE IN YOUR LEG
at this point mac could fully say like 'oh thank god for the life lesson my grandfather taught me!! get rabies and not treat it for building character!!' like please receive immediate help angus you are so far from okay
Another funny thing about macgyver (2016) is how mac will go ‘I know all this stuff because when I was 10 my grandfather forced me to survive in the woods’. Bestie I hate to break it to you but that is not normal
i just had my first "i like it a normal amount" experience when somebody at work was like "haha you macgyvered it" and i was vibrating shaking clenching my teeth and ass like "yes haha very funny reference i am not obsessed with macgyver and I do not rant to myself about the character development and downfalls of the show whatsoever never me I am so normal"
MacGyver Fanwork Bingo FAQ - September 2023
Who is this for?
Every MacGyver fan is invited to participate. Post a fanwork on Tumblr or AO3 to mark off a square.
What type of fanworks count?
Any type of fanwork counts! Gifs, videos, artwork, and fiction are all welcome. You could also post a story analysis, tell us your feelings on a scene in the show, post a new incorrect quote, or some other related work.
We’ve arranged the prompts to ensure that there are multiple bingo options for fanworks of canon like gifs of the show.
How do I use the bingo card?
There are two bingo cards to choose from: the regular 5x5 square bingo card, and the mini 3x3 square card. You choose which card to use and whether you want to try to cross off one line of 5, one line of 3, or go for a blackout on the mini or regular bingo card.
Each bingo square on the bingo card contains two prompts. Cross off the square after using either prompt. You don’t have to use both.
We’ve also provided two alternate squares. Replace any square on either card with an alternate square to customize your bingo board & change up your prompt options.
Is this a whump challenge thing?
No. Each square contains one casual affection or comfort prompt, and one whump or hurt/comfort prompt. Make any kind of work you want with the prompts you choose.
What about AI-generated or assisted fanwork?
AI generated or AI assisted fic or art is NOT welcome.
I wrote a thing! When do I post it?
The target posting date is every Friday in September, because the show aired on Fridays. (Also there are conveniently 5 Fridays in the month so it’s perfect for bingo!)
What if I miss the target date? Can I post it later?
Yes! Your bingo entries are always welcome.
Is there an AO3 collection?
The collection will be MacGyver Fanwork Bingo 2023. The collection will open on September 1, 2023. Please add your work! :)
What about Tumblr tags?
Tag the event ( #macgyverbingo ) and add a tag for the prompt(s) you used. And please please please don’t forget to @ this blog so we can reblog it.
Who’s running this thing?
The shadowy faces behind the curtain for this event are @impossiblepluto and @rosieblogstuff 👋
MacGyver: Brothers AU
Hey here's just a little world-building for my AU where the original and reboot MacGyvers are brothers.
MacGyver:
They both go by their last name. 1985 hates his first name more because that's how it was in the shows.
2016 can have the first name Angus because he actually gets called that in the show. 1985's first name is Stacey because that's what it was in the pilot episode script.
1985 is the older brother, of course. They have an age gap of about 5-8 years.
Modern setting but OG MacGyver dresses like it's the 80s and also just has a bunch of 80s stuff.
Murdoc:
Pretty much everything that happened in the first reboot episode with Helman is canon in this AU, except Helman is named Murdoc, he's the age he was in the original, and it was his sister, Ashton, who was killed not his wife.
Dennis took Murdoc's favorite alter ego name and also goes by Murdoc now just to piss him off.
Jack Dalton:
Also brothers.
Their father didn't know 1985 Jack was born. Both of them were named after their father and unknowingly given the same name.
They didn't know each other existed until later in life.
Reboot Jack doesn't really like original Jack.
The other characters:
I'm not adding original Bozer or reboot Penny because they were both barely in the shows. I think reboot Bozer and original Penny would be friends though, because they are both interested in show business.
I'm not adding Patricia Thornton because I'm still mad that they rebooted Pete to be a villain while making Matt Webber into a hero.
Matty and Pete are friends and sometimes share tips on how to keep their respective MacGyvers from getting hurt or dying (they are both struggling).
Other stuff:
It is set in the modern setting. I'm definitely more of an OG MacGyver fan but I wasn't around in the 80s so modern setting is just easier for me.
Phoenix is both a think tank and also a secret government agency. Both the MacGyvers work in different buildings but sometimes are called in to help each other out.
I don't really know reboot MacGyver that well so if any of this seems way out of character feel free to let me know and I'll change it. Also, feel free to add any ideas! If anyone wants to use this AU feel free! You don't need to follow this list at all!
Do you have a Cairo Day story that you weren't able to finish writing? Did you miss a previous Cairo Day Celebration Week? Is this the first time you're hearing about a Cairo Day Celebration? Well, this is your chance. Introducing Cairo Day 6.5 (aka Cairo Day Reprise) August 5th-11th
Cairo Day is a week-long MacGyver fandom celebration which usually takes place during the week of April 14th, the airdate of the season one finale. This event has been ongoing since 2019 and every year we hear from people who weren't able to finish the projects they were working on. While we will always happily accept "late" stories, artwork, gifs etc. we also recognize the appeal and hype of working toward a goal or deadline.
Posted below are all the prompts from the previous six years. As all these prompts were submitted and voted on by the participants there were some repeats and we have included them. You can fill as many or as few as you would like. You can do all the prompts from one year or mix and match your favorites. The fandom may not be as active as we were once upon a time but we're still around.
2019
Family
Best Friends
The Sandbox
Sickfic
Close Calls
Blood Brothers
Return to Cairo
2020
Family
Improvise Day
This is Going to Hurt
Outsider POV
In Sickness and in Health
The Ties that Bind
AU
2021
If You Go Kaboom, I Go Kaboom | Kidnapped
Tell Me Where it Hurts | Army Days
Improvise
I Have an Idea and You’re Not Going to Like It | Warmth
Jack Lives | Hurt/Comfort
Murdoc |
Faked Death | Sandbox
2022
Jack Lives
Fever
Hurt/Comfort
Tell Me Where it Hurts
Undercover/Secret Identity
Found Family
Bedside Vigil
2023
Answer Me
Hidden Injury
Respiratory Distress
Sandbox
Improvise
Is That Blood?
The worst things (To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.)
2024
Collapse | Eclipse
Crash Course | Hidden Injury
Polaroid | Swim With the Fishes
Midnight Rituals | Jack Lives
Shot | Locked In
In Flight | Shh, You’re Okay Now
Photo prompts:
2022
2023
2024
riley: jack, would you still love me if i was a worm? jack: yes, and i'd make you a little worm cowboy hat and a little worm house 😊😊
Ok i just started watching Macgyver (i was a convert via fanfic) and Ive only watched a few episodes but Ive already counted half a dozen times that Jack has teared up.... its just so sweet! I love it especially in such a conventionally masculine character
Welcome!! So excited to have you join in on the fun!
Oh gosh, I think that’s why my love for Jack Dalton knows no bounds. It would be so easy for him to just be a rough and tumble, masculine, military ooh-rah (yes, I know he’s a Delta not a Marine) type character, but he’s so much more than that. And even though he occasionally says things like “I’d tell you I love you, but you know I don’t do that kind of stuff” he’s a big ol’ liar liar pants on fire.
Who loves ya, baby?
And his absolute panic as he lands the helicopter and races to where Mac landed on the highway after Mac’s improvised parasailing out of the truck carrying the bomb and bioweapon
Getting off track here, sorry, but I could write a dissertation on why Jack is my favorite. But lets move onto the next episode.
You can say whatever you want, but I’ll be forever grateful that the MacGyver writers decided to give the second episode of the series (the very first episode after the pilot) to Jack Dalton… to diving into his character and his past and so many lovely moments where he just knows his boy so well.
It might be my favorite cold open. Jack turns off the radio to express his concerns about Mac, to Mac privately.
he sits here and lies to Thornton’s face that Mac is alright, when he is very clearly not. When just hours ago, he was calling Mac on the same concerns that Thornton is expressing now.
Apparently leaves this meeting and goes right to find Mac. In Nicki’s apartment, and again calls Mac on the fact that he is not okay.
But I’m getting off track again…
Tears. The whole point of this was about tears. Well, we got them and they are glorious, and oh so painful
Not many shows would let “the muscle” cry, especially this early in the series. And the level of heartbreak. The minute details in the moments right before he cries, the devastation…
excuse me while I cry for minute.
I’m going to trip you, man!
I just found out that Jared Padalecki starred in Young MacGyver and now everyone else has to know too.
I don't think it aired much, or at all but if you're interested I found a playlist on YouTube of it. :D
Someone said it!!!!
I am 100% ready to love Desi if she’s loveable.
I also 100% still want Jack back and always will.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Desi: Whatchya reading there, Jack?
Jack: A book of things I love.
Desi: Jack, that's just a photo album of Mac and Riley.
Jack: Oh, what a coincidence!
Olvera was at least a hundred and fifty pounds heavier, and about a foot taller, than Riley. Given the condition of his body when they’d found him, as well as Riley’s small size, he estimated she had maybe thirty minutes to live, with some margin for error. Mac didn’t like his lack of clarity when the stakes were so high, but without doing more tests to narrow down the exact type of cyanide compound in her system, he could only work within the known variables. He didn’t have time for anything else.
He knew better than anyone else how off kilter she’d felt recently. Bozer tried to help, he did everything he could, but he just couldn’t understand the two of them the way they could understand each other. Even if that wasn’t the case the fact remained; she was happily dating someone else. For that reason alone he should shut down these feelings and just be grateful she considered him a friend.
He was grateful, everyday.
Mac also wasn’t naive or selfish enough to think that he was the only one feeling lost right now. So, fuck his feelings and his angst, he had to at least pretend to pull it together for the rest of the team.
He could be Riley’s friend, and let her be his. He would learn not to want her so badly. He could do this. He had to.
“How much do you know about babies anyway, Mac?” she asked, her voice just a little too shaky to be normal.
“Not nearly enough,” he answered, still checking the child for injuries. His hands shook like he was scared he might break her. “How are we supposed to do this Riles? I think she’s okay, but I don’t know. What do we do if we run into trouble? We can’t fight. I can’t make a bomb or anything else I normally would without putting her at risk. How am I supposed to get you both out of here? I don’t know what to do.”
While the security team was busy trying to take cover, Mac slung one of Riley’s arms over his shoulder and hauled ass back to the van.
Jack would have said that they ran like they had the devil on their heels. Actually, Jack probably would have just been cussing them both out for putting themselves in danger like this, but Mac didn’t have a lot of room in his head for things that weren’t connected to keeping Riley alive just then.
Life had been pretty good for Mac recently. Which of course meant he should have been prepared for the cosmic kick in the balls that came with their next mission.
you are fine and fierce and beautiful when you’re at rest, too.
for @starryhc