I'd say Jack and Sam need to be spanked and shown who's boss, but that's really me getting distracted.

I'm reading The Scarab, and I like the way they've tied the mythologies together in the little ways -- the nish'ta, for instance.

And, have I said lately how much I love In the Wrong Story? It may be my favorite story in this fandom. Cause it's got teamliness, and hints of sex, and witty banter, and drunk!Jack, and The End of the World!

Not lately, no. Feel free. I'm a veritable black hole for compliments, and am easily flattered. (Thank you.)

Yeah, I was gonna have Jack hallucinate Daniel while having sex with Carter (thus contributing a virtual apocathreesome), but it's just not working.

See, now, that's funny. Virtual apocathreesome! I'm sorry you can't make them cooperate. I'd suggest that you try to lure them into it by promising to make it a comedy, but I suspect they're too depressed.

It did occur to me recently that they could just as easily never find out what happened to Daniel because they all die and he survives. I'm not sure if I'm being perverse or overly attached to Daniel with that one, though. Hmm.

It did occur to me recently that they could just as easily never find out what happened to Daniel because they all die and he survives.

Okay, now that's fucking depressing. I was bemoaning my fate with Viv over Mexican the other night, that I'd locked myself into this with a throw-away line at the end of the Teal'c snippet. And I can't go back, because it was definitely omniscient voice there. Argh.

No retconning, no.

I'm reading The Scarab, and I like the way they've tied the mythologies together in the little ways -- the nish'ta, for instance.

Yeah. Maayan wrote a short piece with O'Neill and Buffy and vampires and stuff, and I told her I had a real hard time getting over the incongruities. But for some reason this one flows easier. Possibly because the writer spent so much time building up to it, and everyone on both sides got to spend some time going, "Huh?"

had a real hard time getting over the incongruities

How was her characterisation? I'm not sure what's off to me in this one -- I'm finding myself skimming for plot points more than anything else. None of the people are sending me to my happy place, and the writing isn't as smooth as the integration, I think.

Oh, and I always adore the idea that the NID and Initiative are linked. I've seen that somewhere else too, and it's just perfect.

How was her characterisation?

Fine, but it was a very very short piece, part of the seven-part apocalyptic series she wrote in honor of Apocalypse Later. But I think maybe that's the problem -- the crossover only really works if you have the time to build into it, and work at smoothing the incongruities.

the writing isn't as smooth as the integration, I think.

No, but those sorts of things rarely are. I'm a little more flexible when it comes to be plotty adventure pieces like this, willing to cut the writing some slack if I can tell it's a bang-up job plot-wise.

Yeah. Maayan wrote a short piece with O'Neill and Buffy and vampires and stuff, and I told her I had a real hard time getting over the incongruities.

You mean the stealth crossover in Five Billion Years Of Sunshine? I admit, I really didn't 'get' that segment. I had no clue what the hell Jack was doing there, and the future tense kind of threw me off. I love all other segments in the story though, especially the one with the transsexual and the Sam & Teal'c one with that killer last line.

BK the Irregular, who wrote The Scarab, spent a lot of time establishing links between two worlds--The Nish'ta bit and how that gets incorporated into Buffyverse was particularly clever, I thought--and she/he had a really nice grasp on both the Buffyverse and SGverse dialog rhythm. The voices and characterizations were spot-on.

Okay, now that's fucking depressing.

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I was bemoaning my fate with Viv over Mexican the other night, that I'd locked myself into this with a throw-away line at the end of the Teal'c snippet. And I can't go back, because it was definitely omniscient voice there. Argh.

No retconning, no.

Sigh. What I really want to do is to encourage you to call a mulligan and get around it--give the guy amnesia again and say no no, I meant what happened to him that day! or something--but I cannot in good conscience do that. Oh well.

You could always go the quantum mirror route, I suppose, but that would require rather more plot than I think you're wanting to write.

The voices and characterizations were spot-on.

I don't like the Riley, and Teal'c was never meant to talk this much, but I see why the plot requires it.

Mostly it's their internal stuff that feels off to me. The dialogue's not distracting.

I'm also adoring where the specialities overlap.

He, actually.

Which makes me think about why so many big plotty crossovers are written by guys, and does it have to do with the endless argument about whether the Enterprise would survive a run-in with the Death Star, and so forth...

why so many big plotty crossovers are written by guys

Andrew ... fic ...

I'm just saying.