It's Sci-Fi Friday! *cheers!* At last, Friday has meaning again. Other than the usual, wonderful connotation of no work tomorrow, yay. It's so hot here that I cease to function after 11AM; I just sit here, wilting quietly and guzzling water.
I upgraded my cell phone yesterday, after nearly five years with the old phone. You might think I did this because my phone is old and decrepit, but in fact I did it because I lost my charger (I have looked everywhere; I think the house elves hid it) and can't recharge the phone, and so I have to have a new one. Now I'll have a sparkly silver phone with a color screen that does a lot of stuff I don't care about at all, like access the internet and download ring tones and games and stuff. I may actually have to turn the phone on, every now and then, and play with it like a toy. Maybe if I did that, I would notice when the battery goes dead.
Last night, I wrote 'Jack's empty house' porn, complete with nekkid Daniel. It'd been so long since I wrote porny bits of any kind that I was having trouble with pronouns. Darn those masculine pronouns, anyway. I've been thinking about posting bits and pieces of things I'm not going to finish -- like some of the Moebius snippets, and so forth -- and maybe some completed stories that are too flawed to work, like![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2)
troyswann's birthday story that I sent her but wouldn't let her read. I can't make up my mind, tho. My flawed stories aren't like quercus's or Tallulah's self-proclaimed flawed stories, in that my flawed stories are actually flawed. I wonder why I feel so self-conscious, talking about my writing? Even now, I'm thinking about deleting this entire paragraph.
I was also thinking about how badly I want to read some good new J/D stories, which don't seem to exist no matter how hard I search for them, and how although I think Cameron is going to be a great character, I sense no spark of chemistry whatsoever between him and Daniel. Did I mention I'm totally jonesing for a J/D fix?
Let's see, linky things. Pouncer had some lovely insightful SGA commentary about Siege III over here. I think most people were too busy with the squee (and the relief) to get too thinky about SG-1 last week, and I missed a lot of posts, anyway. So maybe this week I'll be more on-the-ball with links.telesilla has an interesting post (and there are also many interesting comments) about RPS over here.
I upgraded my cell phone yesterday, after nearly five years with the old phone. You might think I did this because my phone is old and decrepit, but in fact I did it because I lost my charger (I have looked everywhere; I think the house elves hid it) and can't recharge the phone, and so I have to have a new one. Now I'll have a sparkly silver phone with a color screen that does a lot of stuff I don't care about at all, like access the internet and download ring tones and games and stuff. I may actually have to turn the phone on, every now and then, and play with it like a toy. Maybe if I did that, I would notice when the battery goes dead.
Last night, I wrote 'Jack's empty house' porn, complete with nekkid Daniel. It'd been so long since I wrote porny bits of any kind that I was having trouble with pronouns. Darn those masculine pronouns, anyway. I've been thinking about posting bits and pieces of things I'm not going to finish -- like some of the Moebius snippets, and so forth -- and maybe some completed stories that are too flawed to work, like
troyswann's birthday story that I sent her but wouldn't let her read. I can't make up my mind, tho. My flawed stories aren't like quercus's or Tallulah's self-proclaimed flawed stories, in that my flawed stories are actually flawed. I wonder why I feel so self-conscious, talking about my writing? Even now, I'm thinking about deleting this entire paragraph. I was also thinking about how badly I want to read some good new J/D stories, which don't seem to exist no matter how hard I search for them, and how although I think Cameron is going to be a great character, I sense no spark of chemistry whatsoever between him and Daniel. Did I mention I'm totally jonesing for a J/D fix?
Let's see, linky things. Pouncer had some lovely insightful SGA commentary about Siege III over here. I think most people were too busy with the squee (and the relief) to get too thinky about SG-1 last week, and I missed a lot of posts, anyway. So maybe this week I'll be more on-the-ball with links.
telesilla has an interesting post (and there are also many interesting comments) about RPS over here.
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This is so going to be one for the record books.
I got a new phone last fall and tried out internet access but found it too limited for my needs. It was still astonishing after four years of the same phone. What will they think of next?
Writing, writing, writing. I haven't been able to pen a fictional sentence in ages, even though I'm writing LJ entries just fine. There's a different kind of energy involved with fiction, I think, and my reserves are exhausted right now. The thought of empty house porn makes me happy. Very, very happy.
It's nice, to see some optimism and fun creeping back into people's posts. :) I'm glad people seem to be taking to the new direction, more or less.
I haven't been able to pen a fictional sentence in ages, even though I'm writing LJ entries just fine. There's a different kind of energy involved with fiction, I think, and my reserves are exhausted right now.
*nod* Very true. There's a kind of creative flow that's needed, for fiction, that sometimes I just can't summon up. I hope you are able to tap into that energy soon!
Also, I forgot to email you, didn't I? Please just shoot me. Really. It's too hot to live. *sigh*
*heaves heavy sigh*
I know you have not idea who I am, so forgive me barging in (via
So very, very sad :(
:(
I think I will go to the Fan Awards page and poke around the nominations, as someone suggested below. Although, I think I'd *far* rather read something by you, even if it is flawed in your opinion. Just sayin'.
(HI, DES.)
I love to geek out over writing (as you've no doubt figured out by now *g*), so I'm always happy to go, "oh this didn't work, let's inflict it on the masses for their amusement/education"... *g*
Anyway. I would write you J/D but at the moment I'm balancing saving the world and the intense desire to write Daniel as a shovel bum. Sigh.
It's certainly easier for me to write about why a story doesn't work than to talk about it. Pesky words. They flow better when they come out of my fingertips. *g* It might be interesting to post a story, and then a day or two later post why I think it's flawed, if people were really interested. I probably wouldn't explain why I think it's flawed up front, because that will shift reader perspective before they even begin. I just have a...thing...about putting up stories I can't get behind 100%. *g*
I'm sad that you must save the world before there can be J/D, but vastly intrigued by the whole shovel bum concept.
So, I think until we see Cameron and Daniel actually being part of a team, I will reserve judgement. At the moment, Daniel is running from Cameron as fast he can, and it's hard to see how they play together.
Yay tension! *g*
Is it 8 pm yet?
I edit
/end pimping
But yes! More Jack/Daniel! WHERE?! *g*
BLASPHEMER!
But I have my ways to convert everyone. They involve...well, you know what the SooperSeekritTeal'c&Jack song of love is though. But others will fall overthemselves to get to the goodness. I think I'll make it inbetween now and the start of SciFi Friday. Ha!
You know, after my nap.
I got a slight sense of Daniel, in the early scenes with Cameron, drawing some firm boundaries with him. Not in a mean way, but perhaps purposefully in a, "no, I am *not* letting you in the way I let Jack in" way, perhaps for any number of reasons. Of course, lines in the sand are challenges that invite crossing. But for now, I kind of like that, and I'd sort of like to see it continue. Apart from all the other reasons why I don't want to see Daniel-Cameron becoming the same kind of relationship as Daniel-Jack, I just think it's more interesting if it's clearly *not* the same.
Anyway -- immensely looking forward to tonight.
But, J/D fic? *blowing tumbleweeds* Dude. I'm not sure I can recall the last really good new J/D fic I read, but it was probably posted on LJ somewhere. *sigh*
I think I heard that the SG Fic Awards nominations were up now, and they haven't yet said when the voting will be. So I suppose that one strategy would be to go and peruse those to see if there's stuff I haven't seen before. The same quality crap-shoot as always, but at least it's a new source. A new source that isn't Area52, because there lately? *shudder*
I hope that, especially once we get past S9.3, some fics pop up addressing J/D post-S8... that'd be nice... but in truth, while that's on my wish-list, it's not at the top. I'd just love to see some classic, pre-General Jack J/D.
I don't want much, do I? :P
It was a real disadvantage, being away from LJ on the night of the premiere. Except for the fact that most of the folks whose posts I read were live in the room. Now *that* was entertaining. *g* But I still feel like I missed a lot of good stuff. Texty stuff, you know? Words, glorious words. It's not the same to backtrack a week later.
I got a slight sense of Daniel, in the early scenes with Cameron, drawing some firm boundaries with him. Not in a mean way, but perhaps purposefully in a, "no, I am *not* letting you in the way I let Jack in" way, perhaps for any number of reasons.
Hmmm, interesting. I didn't really get that vibe at all. Mostly what I got was Daniel being polite but distracted, in a hurry, all his attention already focused elsewhere. And he's irritated, and disappointed, that he missed his chance to go to Atlantis *again*. I don't actually read anything between the lines in Daniel's behavior, at this point; I think it was all up front.
Dude. I'm not sure I can recall the last really good new J/D fic I read, but it was probably posted on LJ somewhere.
I can. There were several good stories posted in the J/D ficathon June 1, and then
I hope that, especially once we get past S9.3, some fics pop up addressing J/D post-S8... that'd be nice... but in truth, while that's on my wish-list, it's not at the top. I'd just love to see some classic, pre-General Jack J/D.
I don't want much, do I?
LOL! Oh, no. Not at all. *g* Sadly, my empty house porn will probably not suit you, then. But I'm with you, I really would love some pre-General J/D, too. As a reader, that would be fabulous to see.
And I'm terribly jealous and sad not to have been in on it. *sniff* (Cause, you know -- all the people *I* most enjoy reading were off having fun together someplace where I wasn't, and thus *not posting* for me to read 'em, either.)
It's not the same to backtrack a week later.
*nods* I felt that way when I wasn't around for the airing of the finale. I did go back and read. But since it was much later, the idea of participating in the commenting didn't feel the same.
I don't actually read anything between the lines in Daniel's behavior, at this point; I think it was all up front.
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me if I'm seeing things in it that aren't necessarily there because I *want* them to be there; putting an interpretation on it because of what I'd like to see.
(Also, in a small way, it's my coping mechanism for the fact that, one way or the other, and despite my teeny tiny microscopic hopes for tonight and next week, the show is just not going to give us a Farewell To Jack, at least not in the way I'd like to see. I.e. character moments. Maybe it'll surprise me. And while I'm not exactly mad *at* the show about it, I can still be disappointed that we get comparatively little send-off for the departure of a character who's been such a huge presence for 8 years. I mean, you know -- S5, we got an entire ep that was about coping with losing Daniel. That said, I don't want to grind that axe too hard -- for one thing, I bet it had a lot to do with production logistics that they couldn't do anything about. But, I'm looking hard at the eps to see what use they make of what they *did* have to work with. And if I'm looking at stuff on-screen and reading into it more of an echo of Jack's absence than is supposed to be there... I don't see much harm in it.)
*crickets chirp*
Yeah. As I say -- there's been some stuff on LJ. (In some cases I'm having a hard time remembering *when* stuff was posted, how long ago Komos's last story was, or Icarus's; plus I'm actually having a hard time separating in my mind good LJ fic I've enjoyed from good *J/D* I've enjoyed -- like, you know, enjoying Cofax's WIP, but that's not J/D precisely... yet... etc.)
Sadly, my empty house porn will probably not suit you, then.
No no -- I didn't mean "nice" in a "damning with faint praise" way. I think the empty house porn sounds great! And I am looking forward to seeing people tackle the post-S8-ness or early-S9-ness of J/D. It's just... hard to explain...
It's just that, I've never felt like the steady advance of the show's storyline, and fanfic's attempts to keep up with it, digest it, and reflect it, were the only things or even the main things that I wanted to see. New seasons, new episodes, result in an understandable flood (or, trickle) of such "processing" fic. It's not that I *object* to that. I just don't need *all* fics to be about processing new developments.
(This is not, mind you, a charge levelled particularly at J/D. I've seen it in non-J/D stuff, too. Post-S7, there were just a lot of "Jack functioning as/dealing with being a general" fics. Of course. But you know -- I wasn't even sure how I felt about that development on the show, or how the show was dealing with it. I would have liked fanfic to provide me with more of a variety.)
Maybe that's too much to ask of a lot of writers. Everybody processes their relationship to the show differently. I imagine there are a lot of folks who, once exposed to the canon storyline developments, cannot "un-know" them, and feel really compelled to deal with them. I tend to think about it differently, is all.
(I have *got* to figure out what to do about an SG icon. All my SG-related icons are Jack-centric. Shocking, I know. I need to decide whether to try to make a more generic one, or just brazen it out.)
I can understand your reluctance to show your flawed work to others. I feel immense admiration for the bravery and thick skins of those who do so -- but the idea of it makes *me* so intensely, irrationally uncomfortable that I don't know if I could ever bring myself to do it. And it wouldn't matter how many people rationlized with me -- or pointed out, for example, that while something may look horribly flawed to me, others may find it enjoyable. That others might see the flaws, but consider them minor, or not bad enough to have an impact on their enjoyment of it, no matter what *I* might think.
So -- I could make all those arguments to you. But I know that the squick factor doesn't always respond to rational argument. I'm sure you know in an intellectual way that nobody would think the worse of you or your skills, even if you posted something that you thought was flawed and people read it and said, "yup, that *is* kind of flawed, here and here". My sympathies.
*nod* Actually, I did that, when I posted The Restless Dream a couple of years ago. The story, tho I like it, is fatally, fundamentally screwed up in two major ways, and when I said so, there was some cool discussion about it, because people could see what I was getting at.
I'm weird in that I like discussion of my stories very much, and always have -- skin like rhino hide, y'know -- but I also prefer to have it be on stories that I'm sure are the best I can make them. When I know I can't make them any better, then I have a disconnect on the sharing part of the equation. *g*
Well, here are my recs. There are way more than five. Watch at will. *g*
Season five:
Threshold
Red Sky
Beast of Burden
Between Two Fires
The Warrior
Menace
Season six:
Allegiance
Paradise Lost
Unnatural Selection
The Changeling
Full Circle
Season seven:
Fallen and Homecoming
Fragile Balance
Orpheus
Enemy Mine
Heroes part 1 and 2
Season 8:
New Order parts 1 and 2
Zero Hour
Lockdown
Reckoning parts 1 and 2
Threads
1. Beast of Burden
2. Menace
3. Unnatural Selection
4. Orpheus
5. Paradise Lost
(Actually move 5 to the top of the list.)
*g*
please write more, and yes...i'm hoping for a j/d fix too. *g*
and seriously, i'm thinking that your "flawed" stories are much better than you are giving yourself credit for. i'm just sayin'.
congratulations on your new cel phone.
And yep, the J/D has dried up considerably. As for sparkage between Cameron and Daniel, I think it's too soon to tell for the reasons others have put forth. But yeah, I wish Cameron would get off the "Jackson" thing. I really, really hope that ends at some point as they get to know each other better.
Good lord, yes. Some phones I've seen are so complicated that people can't figure out how to turn them off! *g* That's just not good.
But yeah, I wish Cameron would get off the "Jackson" thing. I really, really hope that ends at some point as they get to know each other better.
Me too. Maybe that'll be the turning point, for them. I guess we'll see.
*waits for the user's manual to arrive*
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/ph
Audiovox has a feature where you can look up user manuals online, but it takes forever to download and one time it froze on me. If you get tired (or impatient *g*) of waiting for the manual, you can try their website.