Oh, fandom:

It's copyrighted, not copywrited, unless you mean copywritten, which generally you don't. (While we're here: if someone is firing it, it is a cannon. If you are wishing someone would fire the writers, you are talking about canon.)

Also, if you are typing the words "I don't know if this post is allowed in this community, so mods please delete if it's against the rules," you are doing it wrong. If you can't figure it out from the comm rules, ask. Jeez.

Possibly related to my mood today is the fact that the Vegas AU story is at 9000 words, and while it's entertaining me to no end, I'm getting a little concerned about the fact that the end is only faintly in sight somewhere far over the horizon. Is there something in the water in this fandom? I write at this length like, never.

I have given up putting together a reasonable playlist for the Vegas AU story I'm working on out of anything I actually have in my music library, and have just created a Pandora station called "OMGWTFVegas."

I'm not sure it's working yet. I'm not actually sure what working would look like, since I'm not sure my musical tastes and Vegas!John's overlap anywhere. We may spend all day arm-wrestling over the little thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons.

It's now playing Britney Spears. I think I am Doing it Wrong. Probably.

ETA: Have created bizarre split-personality Pandora station alternating between songs that make me want to stab my ears out and songs that would be fine for writing about something entirely different. Am pulling the plug. At least my iTunes playlist for this story takes until the third or fourth time through to make me want to scream.

Tags: writing

"Uphill," SGA, Jennifer Keller and John Sheppard gen, rated PG. Set early in season 4. ~1300 words, for the cliche_bingo prompt Phobias.

Summary: It's bad enough being trapped in a cave. Jennifer's pretty sure that in the Pegasus galaxy, things can always get worse.

( Uphill )

Tags: cliche_bingo, clichefic, sga, sga: jennifer keller, sga: john sheppard

I swear, I dreamed about Torchwood last night, vividly and with an entire weird and angsty plot, and I have never seen a single episode of the show.

My friends list looks something like this this morning:

Torchwood
Torchwood
This bumper sticker, which I agree with artaxastra that John Sheppard totally needs and probably wouldn't find funny.
Torchwood
Torchwood
News about other people's cats, icons for fandoms I'm not in, Sheppard/McKay mpreg, and other things that seem to come standard with my Internets.
Torchwood
Torchwood
Torchwood

I keep expecting to go outside and find that someone has chalked "OMG WTF TORCHWOOD" on the sidewalk.

Tags: fandom

Things I mean to write, when I have time and brain:

ST:Reboot:

"We're all going to die!" clichefic. Kirk/Spock/Uhura, I think, fairly short and light.
Plus I could write some Sarek/Amanda again; it's been a while since I did that.

SGA:

"phobias!" clichefic for cliche bingo. This one's being trouble.
The Lorne story, which may be this story or may not be.
The Zelenka/Lorne story, which may be the same story as either of the two stories above and may not be.
The Athosian history story, which may work for "backstory!" for my cliche bingo card.
The Vegas AU post-ep story, in which there are more rare pairings than you can shake a stick at, and which still needs a working plot.
More playing around with a couple of other people about a possible virtual season 6 project.
The Richard Woolsey story, or five times having rules in Atlantis wasn't actually a bad thing.

PotC:

I have no idea; my pirates seem to be on hiatus. Maybe I can do PotC/something for my cliche bingo crossover story, though? PotC/Merlin? PotC/Temeraire? I've done PotC/Harry Potter already. Or I could do the Lord John/Robin from The Masqueraders story that three people will read.

Tags: writing

Penknife, you say, I am intrigued by your new show, but I don't actually want to watch 100 episodes of SGA, especially since some of them are pretty bad. What should I watch?

If you haven't watched the premiere, watch the premiere, Rising part 1 and 2. It introduces all the main characters for season 1, and will get you up to speed about "what's a stargate?" and "what's a Wraith?" and "who were these Ancient guys anyway?" and "Atlantis, what?"

After that, you have some choices:

( Atlantis, abridged for yer interests )

Anything else you'd like recommendations for? I can talk about this at great length right now. (Stopping me may be harder.)

Tags: meta, sga

Penknife, you say, who are these people you keep writing about lately? I will tell you, behind the cut, with pictures. I could not actually figure out how to do this without any spoilers, so I will tell you that the character descriptions behind the cut will spoil you for the major character deaths over the course of the series and the main late-series canon het relationship.

( Our Heroes, such as they are )

Up next: if you're not going to mainline all 100 episodes in order, what I would recommend you watch.

Tags: meta, sga

... and that's a wrap. Season Five, in which the writers are bored, except when they get to hurt people.

(I don't know if anyone actually knows any spoilers for the hypothetical movie at this point, but don't tell me about them if you do, okay?)

( season 5 episode reactions, with spoilers )

This has been great fun, if mildly brain-breaking in terms of speed (watching 5 seasons of a TV show in 3 months has made me a little dizzy.) I think I had more fun in some ways doing it this way, though, so that I was already spoiled from the beginning for various plot developments that broke people's brains during the show's run.

There are lots of things I want to write. I can't write them all at once, which is what I keep telling my brain. One of these days it will start listening to me.

Does anyone who is not already either in this fandom or in recovery from this fandom want a less spoilery guide to which episodes you might want to watch if you didn't want to mainline the whole show? I will even tell you who all these people are, with pretty pictures and sarcasm.

Tags: sga, sga: episode reactions

"Satedan Bridge," SGA, John/Teyla/Rodney/Ronon (in various permutations, with some mentions of canon het), set in seasons 3 and 4. ~9750 words, rated NC-17. Thanks to p0wdermonkey for beta reading!

Summary: In which the team learns something about card games, and other games for four people to play.

( Satedan Bridge )

Tags: sga, sga: john/teyla/rodney/ronon, sga: ot4

I just can't seem to get this week to work for me.

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Tags: polls