Scratching Post

Day 10 of halfamoon.

Teyla Emmagan led her people, saved her people, save the strange new people, befriended the strange new people, saved them some more, and then helped save an entire galaxy for good measure. Because she could.

This is a mini-tribute to the tiny little "alien" woman who fought the Wraith, and won.

Preview:


( SGA - Protector )

Feedback is always welcomed.

So, at work and so totally concentrating on my very few remaining follow ups, I went digging through some old folders on my computer that were happily brought along from my old one and stored in a file in a file in a file never to be seen again. One such file is marked Cat – Personal, so I look and find a crap ton of old stories I must have worked on here at one time. Some are from 2004 people.

So I did what any normal person would do and started clicking randomly to see what’s what. I found a couple I had already posted, but found a SG-1 story from January 2007, another from 2008, ten pages of a SGA kid fic from 2008, and some of my original notes from my K-series stuff from 2004 - including the names and such I went looking for two years ago, could not find, said screw it, and reinvented from scratch.

Things I have learned:
1) I should probably clean these things out more often.

2) I have a bad habit of writing pages upon pages of fic, and then moving on to something new (I’m looking at you, you 50 pages of “Days of Forever”).

3) I have worked for the same company for far too long.

4) They, like, totally don’t look at what’s on our personal drives in ancient folders, do they?

5) I may, possibly, have the attention span of a gnat today.

Sending the kid fic one home to possibly poke at while on the trip because it amuses: I downsized McKay, Sheppard, and Kavanaugh. Might send one of the SG-1 ones home as well because I have a crap-ton of notes on Anat for an Anat and Ba’al loose on Earth fic.

So I was thinking – dangerous, I know – that maybe part of the reason I keep stalling out on the crossover is that it is told from the POV of the SGA characters and, quite frankly, I have not written anything SGA for quite some time. For lack of better phrasing, I’m out of practice. Re-reading what I’ve written so far, I think it’s close, but needs some tweaking.

So I was thinking – again, twice in one day even – that maybe I should try some sort of writing exercise to try to get back into the thought/feeling/flow of it all. Sort of an “ask for prompts and write small comment fic responses” type of thing. Anyone game?

Suggest a character or characters (preferably from Carter’s time in charge) and add a prompt or situation you would like to see them in. SGA only, please. I’ll respond with something somewhere between a drabble and a comment fic and hopefully get a better feel for the characters again.

Anyone interested? Or should I go to a corner and hide?

I finally got a chance to sit down and read the story gifted to me from sga_santa tonight.

Bound to Heart, Bound to Home is an AU fic that sets the team in the time of the expansion to the prairies in the 1800's. There is drama and danger and a bit of angst and a whole lot of team. It is mostly team-y friendship, but could also be seen as leading to near OT4-ness as well. Be warned though, it is about 25,000 words and you will likely settle in for the long haul and read it to the end. :)

Now, an admission:
I've been feeling very separated from the SGA fandom as of late. Merlin fandom has been my pretty shiny to obsess over and swim in the seas of fic being created for it. A lot of SGA fic lately has seemed far too similar with the same aspects being brought up again and again and again. Kind of like there's a set of plot points and people pick and choose from them to make their stories and never really venture out to see if there's anything else they could add to it. While the stories may be good, it's like they aren't as good as they could be.

I don't mean to knock anyone with this as I noticed it in my own fic as well, which is why it was put on the back burner while I played with my new toys. Maybe it was the lack of new canon to play with, or maybe people just need a break for a while, I'm honestly not sure.

This story actually broke away from a lot of that. It's an AU, but it's still the team and still very much recognizable as the universe we're used to, only it's being looked at in a new way that made it all sorts of interesting to see. I would love if there were more fics like this, where they took the chance and tried something new even knowing there may not be the set audience of X number of people to respond or reply to it because the newness makes it interesting and oh so very worth it for the readers.

I honestly don't know if I will ever get back into SGA the way I was, but just reading something so well written in a fandom I at least once loved does make me want to try again. At the very least, it makes me want to take a look at what's on those back burners and think about what I could make of them again.

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PS: If anyone has recs of truly excellent SGA stories out there that do break the molds, I would love to hear them.

Finished draft of sga_santa fic! Just shy of 5K words and at beta. Nothing like cutting it close... *head desk*

Now, for cake...

Stolen from icarusancalion:
Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

Because it's me, some are longer than a sentence...

1. He forced his eyes open, and as they adjusted to the dim light surrounding him, the voice repeated, “Can you hear me, my Dan-yel?”

2. Not bothering to wait for pleasantries and the chance of a dropped call, he rushed, “This is Doctor Daniel Jackson. I’m about two miles from the base and there’s been accident; there was an avalanche."

3. He could have made witty remarks about Jumpers and bombs and their history, but his heart wasn’t in it and his mind was miles away.

4. “Quantum Mirror?” Sheppard guessed a bit sheepishly, rubbing a hand through his already thoroughly mussed hair.

5. “Hey, I’ve learned a lot from the internet,” Rodney insisted. “You should see some of the stuff out there written about us. Oh, the things we could be doing if you were cuter and I was more flexible...”

6. “So all we have to do is track down a life-sucking space vampire on a planet full of Wraith Happy Meals and put him on a timeout?”

And I kept it down to only 6! Some are actively being worked on. Some, er, not-so-much...

Running away now...

A guy apparently attacked Jason Momoa (the actor who plays Ronon Dex on SGA) in LA. The reports say his face was shattered with a pint glass of beer and needed to be rebuilt.

WTF?

That just... makes no sense.

Link to article

I seem to have an obsession with bad fics today. Cracky, purposely poorly written prose that makes you want to spork your eyes. Maybe it’s a phase. Maybe it’s because work really and truly sucks today and I can’t concentrate worth crap. Maybe it’s just because it’s fun. I blame threnodyjones. Don’t ask why, I’m sure I’ll think of a reason eventually.

Anyway…

Five Bad Fics I’m Totally Not Writing [SGA Style]

1- Caldwell & Hermiod’s Cross-Galactic, Cross-Species Love Affair
It’s a tale as old as time: Two people from strikingly different backgrounds forced to work together in close quarters for weeks on end. Eventually, the dam has to break and their true desires are revealed.

2- The Bearing Fruit
A native fruit source is inadvertently exposed to an Ancient device, causing the most peculiar reaction: Everyone is pregnant. Everyone. The more fruit they ingest, the faster the gestation time. Unfortunately, it’s not even that easy. Not when a captured Wraith feeds on a father-to-be and finds out just what it’s like to be a Queen.

3- The Dance of Passion
Ronon has a secret, and it’s not just where he hides his knives.

4- Fast Hands, Faster Lips
Just how did Rodney afford all his degrees when the grants ran out? And why is everyone so interested in discovering firsthand just how well he multitasks?

5- Olive Branch
Sheppard inexplicably shows up on a populated planet weeks after being taken from by the Wraith and presumed dead. His memory of the events are foggy, but things start to become clearer when the Hive Queen returns roughly nine month’s later. Will he learn to love little Olive? Or will her Terrible Twos be too much for him (and the rapidly dwindling number of babysitters)?

There are a couple other kidfic stories floating around on my computer right now, but none were anywhere near complete enough to be posted in time for the current sga_flashfic challenge. This one came to me the other night though so, after a bit of editing, here it is. It's not kidfic in the traditional sense of the genre (the others are more the standard way), but I think it still fits the bill.

Title: Hunters
Length: ~ 820 words
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Season: Season 5 Search and Rescue (mild spoiler)
Synopsis: “Let me tell you of the Hunters...”
Author’s Notes: For the sga_flashfic Kidfic Challenge.
Disclaimer: Not mine, they belong to people with far more money than I have. I am simply borrowing them to play and making no profit from this.

Hunters

Feedback is always welcomed.

So, apparently it's okay to post a link to your fic over at sga_flashfic on your journal while the challenge is still going on, but you can't post the fic itself anywhere else until after the challenge. Yes, I'm slow.

Anyway...

Title: Home
Length: ~ 1850
Rating: PG-13 for mild language
Genre: Mostly Gen, with a tiny hint of femslash (Mehra/Vega)
Spoilers: 5.07 “Whispers”
Synopsis: They brought her home.
Author’s Notes: For the sga_flashfic Comfort Challenge.
Disclaimer: Not mine, they belong to people with far more money than I have. Just borrowing them to play and making no profit from this.

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