If you go to Heliopolis
blinks
....I'm going to assume that this is a website? Because that was a weird collision of fandom and my reality just there.
...of course, I'm typing this
looking out over the Valley of the Kings,
so the past couple of days haven't exactly lacked for
Stargate
material. (It's odd how fiction infuses your take on reality. I swear, I more than half expected Amelia Peabody's Emerson to come and yell at me when I photographed a dig with a hand-written 'No Photographs!' sign stuck up haphazardly (and only visible once one had already taken photos and wandered on). And I found myself looking at these extraordinary tomb paintings and thinking 'Hmm...lot of snakes there. Huh. Guess we know why THAT would be, eh?' It's ...odd.)
Wow. Those alternate endings sound pretty heady. I'm not sure I could read much more from that 'verse, though, at least not right now.
I really like the creativity shown in the plotting, but I wouldn't mind less focus on romantic relationships, given the length of these stories.
Mmm. I agree. I hate to contemplate it, and it might just be that fandom has scarred me for life on this, but at times Dani seemed kind of Mary-Sueish. In a particularly tolerable way. I mean, come on: four PhDs? excelling in hand to hand combat? the only person who could figure out the Furlings' trick? That being said, it's not that I enjoyed it any less for those qualities, but much along the same lines, coming into a story and getting both Jack AND Daniel, even when you happen to *be* Daniel is kind of a feat.
Though that may not be quite what you're talking about.
Someone once described a Mary Sue as someone who doesn't laugh at themselves. I've always thought it was a particularly apt description.
....I'm going to assume that this is a website?
Indeed it is. Heliopolis. I'm perfectly willing to bet, though, that yours is cooler.
I don't think you're necessarily wrong, SA, although Daniel himself is pretty much statistically improbable. But, you know, there's MarySues and MarySues, and nearly every characterization has an element of wish-fulfillment in it.
I found the whole thing to be just a classic fannish engagement with the text. It's pure id, but with plot, and a readable style that just keeps dragging you along.
In that way, it reminds me a bit of KodiakkeMax's In the Company of Ghosts, although it's not as well done.
Funniest Whofic ever. When people get annoyed by badfic, wonderful things happen.
A cute little House/HP sort-of-crossover [link]
OT: Dana, insent to Yahoo.
Gitchyer entirely steamy Cameron/Vala (SG-1) pron here: [link]
Yikes! Just got several pages into a post-Atlantis SG-1/SGA crossover that I was liking pretty well when it suddenly turned into Sheppard and Jonas Quinn making like Heathcliff and Catherine. I was not ready for that.
