Why I love remix culture: an illustration

So I wrote this story a couple of days ago for sga_flashfic; it's a futurefic, kidfic, with a Rodney/Jennifer/Ronon pairing.

xparrot had some problems with it (though I truly did not intend character-bashing or pairing-bashing, my story isn't especially friendly to John or to the John/Rodney pairing) so she wrote a sequel/tag/fixit which is just beautiful. She worries in her headers that she's overstepping bounds, fixing something that isn't meant to be fixed, but you know what? I don't think she's gone off at all from what I wrote; the original pairings are still intact, and the characterizations click with how I had envisioned the older versions of the characters with their newer, expanded set of responsibilities. John and Rodney continue to be their clueless, geeky, socially inept selves, albeit with a few more years behind them now. It's another chapter in the 'verse I started, one which picks up where I left off and quietly knits back together something I'd taken apart. I absolutely love stories that deal with changes in character relationships over time, and despite her concerns about taking it to a place I wouldn't go, I love that she went there. It left me with a warm glow, and it just makes me want to give fandom a big hug, because I wouldn't have written it, but I'm so happy that she did.

Why I love remix culture: an illustration

So I wrote this story a couple of days ago for sga_flashfic; it's a futurefic, kidfic, with a Rodney/Jennifer/Ronon pairing.

xparrot had some problems with it (though I truly did not intend character-bashing or pairing-bashing, my story isn't especially friendly to John or to the John/Rodney pairing) so she wrote a sequel/tag/fixit which is just beautiful. She worries in her headers that she's overstepping bounds, fixing something that isn't meant to be fixed, but you know what? I don't think she's gone off at all from what I wrote; the original pairings are still intact, and the characterizations click with how I had envisioned the older versions of the characters with their newer, expanded set of responsibilities. John and Rodney continue to be their clueless, geeky, socially inept selves, albeit with a few more years behind them now. It's another chapter in the 'verse I started, one which picks up where I left off and quietly knits back together something I'd taken apart. I absolutely love stories that deal with changes in character relationships over time, and despite her concerns about taking it to a place I wouldn't go, I love that she went there. It left me with a warm glow, and it just makes me want to give fandom a big hug, because I wouldn't have written it, but I'm so happy that she did.