Hmm. Meme.

[sholio]

Seen aaaaaallll over the place ...

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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[patk.livejournal.com]

>>I've also broken down and signed up for sticksandsnark,

This? Makes me insanely happy. *G*

Regarding the meme: either "Ghost in the Machine" or "Blind Justice", you choose. :-)

[sholio]

Hi! Haven't seen you around LJ much lately ... :)

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).

[patk.livejournal.com]

>>Haven't seen you around LJ much lately ... :)

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. :-)

[sholio]

I was and still am very impressed with this story and up to this day it's among my favorite gen-stories. :-)

Awww, thank you! :D

It was tough to write, but I was very happy with it in the end.