It was sheer self-indulgence from end to end, which is fun when it's done this well.
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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Theodosia - May 09, 2005 7:35:32 am PDT #9948 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Fay - May 09, 2005 7:36:35 am PDT #9949 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
What fandom are we talking? Links?
Dana - May 09, 2005 7:37:28 am PDT #9950 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Stargate: Atlantis. shalott's site is www.intimations.org.
Jars - May 09, 2005 7:38:46 am PDT #9951 of 10000
It was sheer self-indulgence from end to end
Yeah, there was a sense of inevitibility from the very beginning, but getting there was a fun ride.
Dana - May 09, 2005 7:39:31 am PDT #9952 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Well, it's shalott. You're pretty secure in the knowledge that John and Rodney aren't going to die in a horrible accident.
God help me if she ever decides to write that story.
Katie M - May 09, 2005 7:40:17 am PDT #9953 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, they could die in a horrible accident and then get better...
ETA: Wait, have any of the Atlantis folks died yet? Not counting alternate versions? Sheppard, in 38 Minutes, I guess.
Theodosia - May 09, 2005 8:07:47 am PDT #9954 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Weir, of old age!
Dana - May 09, 2005 8:09:51 am PDT #9955 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Man, they are way behind on deaths and resurrections.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 09, 2005 12:17:07 pm PDT #9956 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What's sad is that before reading any of the fanfic, I absolutely didn't see any subtext on the show (while rolling my eyes that the then Xena-esque Teyla and Sheppard were so obviously headed for coupledom). Now not only is Teyla cool, but I can't watch Sheppard and McKay hopping with excitement after the former flings the latter over a railing without thinking "yeah, they're doing it."
Consuela - May 09, 2005 3:17:02 pm PDT #9957 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Man, they are way behind on deaths and resurrections.
Give them time. By this point in SG-1...
Okay, yeah, by this point Daniel had already died twice. No, three times -- isn't The Nox season 1? In which case Daniel had died three times and everyone else once.
I'm with Katie: the story was great fun, but oh so... self-indulgent. That's as good a descriptor as any. A steady diet of that would give me ulcers, but once in a while, and as well-written as it is, I don't mind. And I'm not even a Shep/McKay shipper, it's just that much of the best writing in SGA appears to be that pairing.