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Hmm. Meme.
Seen aaaaaallll over the place ...
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Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
You can ask about any story, though, SGA or not, even original stories if you want, with the caveat that some of my stories (fanfic and otherwise) have a ton of backstory/context/research, and others pretty much spring fully formed from my head.
I've also broken down and signed up for
sticksandsnark, because I miss my fandom. Signups close today, in case you were thinking about it ...
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I did the Ronon thing-a-thon last year, and it really was a lot of fun. These thing-a-thons with so few people are rather...cozy. :)
And let your fandom comfort you, darling, when the canon is full of issues... *pats*
Also. I may or may not manage to participate in genficathon this year, but OH how I look forward to reading what comes out of it!
ETA: The meme! How could I forget the meme? Knights Errant, plz?
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Hee!
Jeannie is a single mother. Kaleb died tragically when Madison was a baby, and so Jeannie brings her to work (aside from the whole issue of childcare, Maddie is probably safer at Weir Industries than anywhere else). Madison spends most of her time getting underfoot in Jeannie's workshop and building tiny scale models of Uncle Mer. I originally wanted to have her in the scene where John is introduced to the car, but couldn't come up with a graceful way to work her in. However, she's a little genius-in-training and Rodney is gruffly, adorably devoted to her (and vice versa, only without the "gruffly" part). It takes her awhile to warm up to John because she's very jealous. She wanted to be the driver! Sadly, she's only six, and even though Uncle Mer does all the driving, people give odd looks to a car with no one in the driver's seat but a tiny blond head. (This does not stop Rodney from taking her for a spin occasionally, though Jeannie hates it.)
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Glad you're going to play. Can't wait to see what you come up with.
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They did say UST was okay, so you could do really gen-ish romance ...!
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I'm happy to hear you've signed up for a ficathon. I won't be signing up myself for this one as I don't write ship, but I'm starting to read the odd ship fic here and there - especially if I like the author's gen stories! I think I was put off my badly written ship in the past and so now I'm careful about who's ship fic I read.
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Reading Jeannie's letters is a social event. Rodney hates this, or at least he claims to, but there's not much he can do about it. Teyla saves each new envelope or package from the Daedalus until she can open it with her team around her -- in the cafeteria at breakfast, usually, but sometimes in the infirmary, or keeping Ronon company late at night (he insists on taking watches in the gateroom like the other soldiers, even though John says he doesn't have to). Once Rodney tried to prevent this by stealing one of the envelopes and hiding it. No one is really sure what happened next, but Teyla showed up in the cafeteria a couple of days later with the envelope just as if nothing had happened, and Rodney never tried it again.
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Now I need to reread the story with all of this in mind...
Thank you for doing this!
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And sadly, I'm already signed up for a ficathon due this month, so I'll have to bow out of
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Rodney comes very near losing two fingers on his left hand. He spends a number of days with the fingers of his hand all taped up, painstakingly (and somewhat resentfully) typing with one hand. He becomes quite fast at one-handed typing. Sheppard hovers a lot and spends a lot of time staring guiltily at Rodney's hand. It's Teyla who finally drops enough hints that Rodney realizes that Sheppard, inexplicably, feels guilty about this. Rodney doesn't know how to react to this, and instead swears revenge because Sheppard is driving him insane, what with the hovering and the glooming and the staring. He gets his chance a couple of weeks later when Sheppard twists his ankle on an offworld mission. After being hovered over and having his ankle stared at nonstop for two days (Rodney is really persistent when he's in payback mode, and also, he just got his hand untaped so he's feeling a lot better), Sheppard reverts back to throwing random objects at him to make him go away, and Rodney feels that the universe has been set back in order. Also, he conspicuously wiggles his fingers a lot whenever Sheppard looks in his general direction, and types random crap just to prove that he can.
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This is more of an out-of-universe than an in-universe answer, but the anaphylaxis scene ... I researched the hell out of that scene, including asking a doctor that I know for her advice on the lingering after-effects of such a severe allergy attack. Up to that point, I'd seen a fair number of anaphylaxis scenes in fanfic, but none that really seemed to fit with what I was reading on medical and first-aid websites, so I took a lot of pains to make it as true to life as I possibly could. I had also just taken a first-aid certification class, and I asked them a lot of questions about severe allergies and treatment. (They must have thought I was some kind of ghoul. :D )
Okay, and now the in-universe answer:
The kids are placed with the Athosians on the mainland. They still adore Rodney, who steadfastly maintains that they're obnoxious little brats, but oddly enough, he seems to have developed a sudden interest in working on the Athosians' water treatment system, a job he used to pawn off on underlings, which means he's out there every couple of weeks. He always brings more tools than he needs. Part of this particular job (and the reason why Rodney always used to pawn it off on the new people) is teaching the Athosians how to fix their own damn equipment, but despite all his complaining, Rodney never chases away anyone who wants to learn -- especially the kids. And his lessons aren't limited to "How to fix the damn water treatment equipment", either; he wanders off into tangents ranging from the inner workings of the Stargates to quantum mechanics to how to sabotage and blow up hiveships "without, and I repeat without, anyone needing to go kamikaze and blow themselves up along with the ship -- are you listening to this, Colonel?"
The kids drink it all in. And somehow, no one is surprised when some of them end up on Atlantis, ten and fifteen years later, working in the labs.
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eta: And now I see someone just asked for that. If you don't have anything to add, how about That Which Is Broken?
Here's a secret fact about that story from me. In my head I always think of the title as being something like "The Rift Within the Lute" after the oft-repeated phrase in Jeeves and Wooster used to signify a relationship that has been damaged. *g*
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Running on Empty:
I'm not sure how much of this came through in the story, but at the time, I saw Sheppard as being really, really good at wilderness survival ... moreso, I think now, than later episodes showed him to be in canon. I was working off the Storm/Eye/Defiant One version of Sheppard -- incredibly self-sufficient, a total commando type, entirely capable of surviving for days in the woods with nothing but a knife.
That Which is Broken:
One of the reasons why I originally started writing this story was because I wanted to deal with the fallout from Teyla and Ronon's rift as much as Sheppard and McKay's; I'd seen so many stories dealing with John and Rodney, but none at all having to do with the other main plot in the episode. Of course, the John/Rodney stuff kinda took it over anyway...
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This? Makes me insanely happy. *G*
Regarding the meme: either "Ghost in the Machine" or "Blind Justice", you choose. :-)
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Ghost in the Machine:
The original idea for this story was to have John be the crazy old mountain guy. One of the ideas that I'd had for a while was the team, or just John and Rodney, meeting a grizzled mountain man who turns out to be an AU or time-traveling alternate version of John. But when I started writing it and developing the plot, it worked much, much better to have the old guy be Rodney (though, as I wrote it, I kept thinking that John's identity would have been much easier to hide, because his speech patterns are not as distinctive).
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Lately it seems the day doesn't have enough hours for getting everything done I want to get done, let alone make time to write comments or LJ-entries. Though I'm still lurking and watching whenever I have few minutes of free time. :-)
>>I kept thinking that John's identity would have been much easier to hide, because his speech patterns are not as distinctive).<<
But I'm glad you didn't because part of the joy of reading this story was suspecting that the old guy might be Rodney and the resulting delight when it was revealed that this was actually true. :-) It also added to the thrill because - even when I suspected that the old guy might be Rodney and his precious little box might contain John's tog dags - I didn't see a connection between John and the "monster" and wondered what happened to this Rodney's John, *if* the old guy actually was Rodney (which he was, as it turned out). It truly surprised me when the facts were revealed and I actually cried a little for old Rodney and monster John when they died together in the end. The twist that old Rodney couldn't kill monster-John before, not for lack of ability but because he just couldn't kill a creature that was John, well ... yeah ... *sniff*.
I was and still am very impressed with this story and up to this day it's among my favorite gen-stories. :-)
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Awww, thank you! :D
It was tough to write, but I was very happy with it in the end.
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Hopefully not too late for another story prompt: Between The Lines?
(so happy so see you sign up for sticksandsnark...)
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Between the Lines:
Hmm, the story itself basically is missing bits of "canon" for various episodes, and I'm having trouble coming up with anything I didn't manage to work in. :D For some reason, the idea of John and Rodney really disliking each other on sight (not realizing how they'd feel later on) is something that appeals to me quite a lot -- though I think it's largely a case of mapping one of my favorite character paradigms onto a character relationship that doesn't really fit it; many of my favorite character relationships involve mutual dislike or friction turning slowly into respect and affection, and I think this is why I find it so appealing to put that particular spin on John and Rodney.
I originally wanted to use all missing scenes for actual episodes, but ended up fitting in a few non-canon events because, a) canon didn't quite provide everything that I needed at the point in the story I needed it, and b) it gave it more of the "behind the scenes" feeling if I threw in a few things that we never saw at all.