dragojustine (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dragojustine) wrote2008-04-18 10:18 pm
dragojustine) wrote2008-04-18 10:18 pm
In which I love Daniel Jackson
Anybody watch Pushing Daisies? Anybody willing to beta somewhere under 2k of Ned/Chuck?
Random thoughts on Stargate:
I &hearts shows that do Groundhog Day episodes. SO MUCH. And now I want tons of "Jack bangs Daniel right on the ramp of the Stargate because tomorrow, no one will remember!" porn.
Sam, love, I completely understand how the show had basically no choice but to give you and Jack a Thing, but please don't let it take over your life (or, for that matter, the show). You are brilliant and strong and competent and kick-ass and if you end up pining for a man, I will be sad. Go spend more screen time being friends with Janet, I was really really liking that dynamic.
In fact, I really like Sam/Janet. This is my first femslash pairing ever (I mean, not the first one I've read, because I'll read anything that fandom produces, but the first one I've seen and shipped all on my own). I really like the dynamic between the two of them- the way it seems like they take very different strategies to cope in an overwhelmingly male environment, and seem to be able to let down some of those guards around each other.
Daniel, dear, you really need to grow your hair back out. How is Jack going to tangle his hands in it now that it's all short? Bad form.
Teal'c, you are a walking bundle of cliches with two facial expressions. Your dialog is cringe-inducing and your delivery is a parody of William Shatner. Blocks of granite have more personality than you do. So how- I ask you, HOW- did you become such a complex, kick-ass, multilayered, fascinating, sympathetic, truly intriguing character? HOW?
Hammond, you old son-of-a-gun. I started this show thinking that you were going to be the stodgy authority figure foil, and instead you wander around blasting Jaffa turrets from a figher plane, rappelling down caves in Antarctica, and going undercover in Jaffa cities, while never once losing your dignity, authority, or unbelievably wise decision making skills? ROCK ON, man.
Jack. Oh, Jack. Never change. I just... *hands* love you, and your intellectual inferiority issues, and your kind but decisive command, and your hints of dark backstory, and your martyr inclinations, and your snark, and everything.
I hate it when people attempt to sound erudite by using "whom" instead of "who" in grammatically incorrect ways. (Yes, Teal'c, I'm looking at you!)
I adore how Daniel is "the guy who communicates with anything." I love how, like, for the last five Daniel-centric episodes we see him doing something BIZARRE and WEIRD and when asked why, his answer is that he's trying to communicate. Duh. The guy has chatted with robots, crystal skulls, ascended beings, cave beasts, birds, WATER, fercryinoutloud. I love how ALL you need to know about him is "Alive or not, he will communicate with it. Volubly. And sexily" and you can just go from there. Best. Character. Ever.
Things about Daniel Jackson that are sexy, in no particular order:
Daniel's immediate grasp of the importance of- and his fanatical desperation to preserve and understand- the "meaning of life stuff" in 1x10.
Arrogant!Daniel in 2x05, when he was addicted to the sarcophagus. SO HOT, in that AU evil-twin sexy-dominant way. There's this one moment when he's just lazily sprawling across this huge throne while Jack kneels before him- a thousand AU slave-fics were born, I tell you, and I want to read EVERY ONE.
Daniel speaking Egyptian funerary rites over the body of Apophis' host. His compassion is so genuine and immense and unshakable.
The time the 1969 American military guy spits a string of Russian at him, and Daniel answers "Nyet!" without a moment pause. And then Jack is like, "what just happened?" and Daniel says "He asked if we were Russian spies, and I said-" and then he realizes what he did and sort of facepalms. And Jack is giving him this furious, incredulous look, and just goes "NYET?" while being hauled off to the brig. Oh, Daniel. Of COURSE. How could it ever have occurred to you to pretend not to understand? As well ask a fish to pretend to not be able to swim.
His arms. And shoulders. And abs. Really, from the waist up, by the beginning of season 4. Our boy has been hitting the gym, and it WORKS on him.
Those military holsters, with the strap around the thigh. Okay, those are hottest on Sam (Yow!) but they're pretty hot on Daniel too. Or maybe they're just hot in general. I am SO FETISHIZING the thigh strap. I can't stop.
His hair, pre-cut. Oh god. Just MADE to tangle your fingers in.
Daniel when he's imprisoned. Or muscled around. Or tortured. Or tied up. God yes, when he's tied up. Especially if the ones kicking him around grab him by the hair. (I'm just gonna go splash some cold water on me, okay?)
Daniel when he's tied up and his reaction is to talk- wryly and chattily and geekily and volubly- to his captors until he's made friends. Oh, Daniel. This has happened TWICE now (1x12 and 4x08) and those are FAR AND AWAY the two sexiest Daniel episodes.
Sweaty, stubbly, muscle-shirt-wearing hard-manual-labor-doing Daniel in 4x10. *happy purr*
Daniel in archaeologist-mode, with the camo bandanna, taking rubbings of inscriptions and brushing dirt of fossils (pet peeve: difference between archeology and palaeontology. This show seems convinced that people come in two types, "not scientist" and "scientist," and any scientist can handle pretty much any branch of science interchangeably. Daniel really shouldn't be analyzing fossils. But I digress.) Anyway, when you see him actually at a DIG, labeling and marking out little squares in the dirt, it makes me squirm. Alternatively, in the storage rooms of the museum in 4x13. There's just something about that "natural habitat" vibe that is so hot.
The fact that he comes from a line of, like, four generations of archaeologists. I'm not sure why, but I love that so much.
Daniel talking into his little note-taking tape recorder. With perfect sentence structure and sparkling wit, of course. Shivers down my spine, I'm telling you.
The way Daniel talks SO MUCH and SO CONSTANTLY- and yet, when it really matters, he and Jack always manage to communicate with one syllable or less.
The way Jack's snark has so totally rubbed off on him.
The horribly horribly ugly suits he wears on formal occasions.
How much he truly, deeply and genuinely and enthusiastically, LOVES what he does. Loves the study, the learning, the understanding, the communicating, the digging around in the dirt and the cross-referencing in dictionaries both. LOVES it, and that love just shines right our of his body language and his voice and is impossible not to see. &hearts
Me: I spent a week being very very sad. Now I am nearing the end of a week spent battling the Flu From Hell. Muscle achy, feverish, can't get warm, can't breathe, can hardly get vertical, barely coherent for large sections of the day- you name it, I did it. Now it's just "hacking cough and exhausted" territory. Have accomplished nothing, on any front- getting a job, writing, other personal projects- since I moved here. Really... becoming problematic. Sense another week of being sad and moping unproductively coming on. Not sure what to do about this. Sorry if I am being antisocial and uncommunicative. I'm working on it, I promise.
Oh yes- let's file "starting to read The Stand with a flu coming on" under "things wot are creepy."
Random thoughts on Stargate:
I &hearts shows that do Groundhog Day episodes. SO MUCH. And now I want tons of "Jack bangs Daniel right on the ramp of the Stargate because tomorrow, no one will remember!" porn.
Sam, love, I completely understand how the show had basically no choice but to give you and Jack a Thing, but please don't let it take over your life (or, for that matter, the show). You are brilliant and strong and competent and kick-ass and if you end up pining for a man, I will be sad. Go spend more screen time being friends with Janet, I was really really liking that dynamic.
In fact, I really like Sam/Janet. This is my first femslash pairing ever (I mean, not the first one I've read, because I'll read anything that fandom produces, but the first one I've seen and shipped all on my own). I really like the dynamic between the two of them- the way it seems like they take very different strategies to cope in an overwhelmingly male environment, and seem to be able to let down some of those guards around each other.
Daniel, dear, you really need to grow your hair back out. How is Jack going to tangle his hands in it now that it's all short? Bad form.
Teal'c, you are a walking bundle of cliches with two facial expressions. Your dialog is cringe-inducing and your delivery is a parody of William Shatner. Blocks of granite have more personality than you do. So how- I ask you, HOW- did you become such a complex, kick-ass, multilayered, fascinating, sympathetic, truly intriguing character? HOW?
Hammond, you old son-of-a-gun. I started this show thinking that you were going to be the stodgy authority figure foil, and instead you wander around blasting Jaffa turrets from a figher plane, rappelling down caves in Antarctica, and going undercover in Jaffa cities, while never once losing your dignity, authority, or unbelievably wise decision making skills? ROCK ON, man.
Jack. Oh, Jack. Never change. I just... *hands* love you, and your intellectual inferiority issues, and your kind but decisive command, and your hints of dark backstory, and your martyr inclinations, and your snark, and everything.
I hate it when people attempt to sound erudite by using "whom" instead of "who" in grammatically incorrect ways. (Yes, Teal'c, I'm looking at you!)
I adore how Daniel is "the guy who communicates with anything." I love how, like, for the last five Daniel-centric episodes we see him doing something BIZARRE and WEIRD and when asked why, his answer is that he's trying to communicate. Duh. The guy has chatted with robots, crystal skulls, ascended beings, cave beasts, birds, WATER, fercryinoutloud. I love how ALL you need to know about him is "Alive or not, he will communicate with it. Volubly. And sexily" and you can just go from there. Best. Character. Ever.
Things about Daniel Jackson that are sexy, in no particular order:
Daniel's immediate grasp of the importance of- and his fanatical desperation to preserve and understand- the "meaning of life stuff" in 1x10.
Arrogant!Daniel in 2x05, when he was addicted to the sarcophagus. SO HOT, in that AU evil-twin sexy-dominant way. There's this one moment when he's just lazily sprawling across this huge throne while Jack kneels before him- a thousand AU slave-fics were born, I tell you, and I want to read EVERY ONE.
Daniel speaking Egyptian funerary rites over the body of Apophis' host. His compassion is so genuine and immense and unshakable.
The time the 1969 American military guy spits a string of Russian at him, and Daniel answers "Nyet!" without a moment pause. And then Jack is like, "what just happened?" and Daniel says "He asked if we were Russian spies, and I said-" and then he realizes what he did and sort of facepalms. And Jack is giving him this furious, incredulous look, and just goes "NYET?" while being hauled off to the brig. Oh, Daniel. Of COURSE. How could it ever have occurred to you to pretend not to understand? As well ask a fish to pretend to not be able to swim.
His arms. And shoulders. And abs. Really, from the waist up, by the beginning of season 4. Our boy has been hitting the gym, and it WORKS on him.
Those military holsters, with the strap around the thigh. Okay, those are hottest on Sam (Yow!) but they're pretty hot on Daniel too. Or maybe they're just hot in general. I am SO FETISHIZING the thigh strap. I can't stop.
His hair, pre-cut. Oh god. Just MADE to tangle your fingers in.
Daniel when he's imprisoned. Or muscled around. Or tortured. Or tied up. God yes, when he's tied up. Especially if the ones kicking him around grab him by the hair. (I'm just gonna go splash some cold water on me, okay?)
Daniel when he's tied up and his reaction is to talk- wryly and chattily and geekily and volubly- to his captors until he's made friends. Oh, Daniel. This has happened TWICE now (1x12 and 4x08) and those are FAR AND AWAY the two sexiest Daniel episodes.
Sweaty, stubbly, muscle-shirt-wearing hard-manual-labor-doing Daniel in 4x10. *happy purr*
Daniel in archaeologist-mode, with the camo bandanna, taking rubbings of inscriptions and brushing dirt of fossils (pet peeve: difference between archeology and palaeontology. This show seems convinced that people come in two types, "not scientist" and "scientist," and any scientist can handle pretty much any branch of science interchangeably. Daniel really shouldn't be analyzing fossils. But I digress.) Anyway, when you see him actually at a DIG, labeling and marking out little squares in the dirt, it makes me squirm. Alternatively, in the storage rooms of the museum in 4x13. There's just something about that "natural habitat" vibe that is so hot.
The fact that he comes from a line of, like, four generations of archaeologists. I'm not sure why, but I love that so much.
Daniel talking into his little note-taking tape recorder. With perfect sentence structure and sparkling wit, of course. Shivers down my spine, I'm telling you.
The way Daniel talks SO MUCH and SO CONSTANTLY- and yet, when it really matters, he and Jack always manage to communicate with one syllable or less.
The way Jack's snark has so totally rubbed off on him.
The horribly horribly ugly suits he wears on formal occasions.
How much he truly, deeply and genuinely and enthusiastically, LOVES what he does. Loves the study, the learning, the understanding, the communicating, the digging around in the dirt and the cross-referencing in dictionaries both. LOVES it, and that love just shines right our of his body language and his voice and is impossible not to see. &hearts
Me: I spent a week being very very sad. Now I am nearing the end of a week spent battling the Flu From Hell. Muscle achy, feverish, can't get warm, can't breathe, can hardly get vertical, barely coherent for large sections of the day- you name it, I did it. Now it's just "hacking cough and exhausted" territory. Have accomplished nothing, on any front- getting a job, writing, other personal projects- since I moved here. Really... becoming problematic. Sense another week of being sad and moping unproductively coming on. Not sure what to do about this. Sorry if I am being antisocial and uncommunicative. I'm working on it, I promise.
Oh yes- let's file "starting to read The Stand with a flu coming on" under "things wot are creepy."
no subject
Daniel when he's tied up and his reaction is to talk- wryly and chattily and geekily and volubly- to his captors until he's made friends. Oh, Daniel. This has happened TWICE now (1x12 and 4x08) and those are FAR AND AWAY the two sexiest Daniel episodes.
Sweaty, stubbly, muscle-shirt-wearing hard-manual-labor-doing Daniel in 4x10. *happy purr*
These are some of my favorite things about Daniel too.
And you think he's hot now? Wait until you get to Ripple Effect. Not the episode itself...Just the concept. Gives me chills...and fic...
no subject
I've already read two fics to that effect (set in the earlier episode, with the android clone) and it pretty much fries my brain. More than two? Yow. I shall have to seek out your fic.
Your icon is SO HOT. My god, those arms.
no subject
I love tortured Daniel. It's a bit of a thing for me. A kink if you will. Hee.
I lost a lot of my fic links when I had to get my new computer so i don't have a lot to rec to you, fic wise. But there's some awesome stuff out there.
And the holster thing? Yeah. Fucking GUH. I... have no words regarding how hot those things are.
So, how are things?
no subject
And I go, "wait... you mean... those holsters with the thigh strap...?"
And he goes, "the what? Nope, never heard of it"
And I ALMOST CRIED.
I cannot stop staring at Amanda Tappings thighs when she wears those. Or, for that matter, Michael Shanks'.
(Things are... uh... sickly. But getting better, thanks for asking)
re: holsters with thigh strap
obviously your friend has not been in combat. Husband tells me the weapons are beautifully accurate and I have photos of my very own beloved with a holster and thigh strap, tac vest, clipped-on backpack, clip for the big gun off the front, etc. I have, so far, resisted having him put it on for me since he has returned LOL.
Re: holsters with thigh strap
(Good God, those thigh holsters. I find it impossible to believe they were designed for any kind of combat practicality. They might as well be strapping on a flashing neon "Look! CROTCH HERE!" sign)
Re: holsters with thigh strap
Ok, right now, I am laughing my ass off because I did google "soldier, thigh holster" images because honestly, the best shots I have seen are in my spouse's youtube Afghanistan vid, which I did not figure you wanted to see, and pictures of Ben Browder came up!
And I guess they must have some practicality because there is a godawful amount of stuff attached at the belt in RL.
Oh, and if you did not know, the AF loves Stargate SG-1, had an official advisor for the show, provided them with "stuff" and was probably the reason why all Jack/Sam was in AU and not real life. The uniforms are not always colors the AF uses, but hey, if we went off world, use whatever you bloody well feel like! For those of us who were (or are) in Space Command, it is the ultimate show! Friends in Cheyenne Mnt have been dying to use a supply closet to set up the edge of a Gate to accidentally open during tours, and have wanted to put Level 28 on the elevator menu. Oh, and two Generals have had cameos on the show. Soooo, no laughing from the AF :)
GIP-ing you with my cutest Daniel icon!
Some Pushing Daisies candy for you.
(Anonymous) 2008-04-27 01:17 am (UTC)(link)http://www.thepiemaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dandy_highfive.gif
...Spent 5 minutes giggling then thought of you.
Hope you're feeling better.
-C
My weapons-kink tag in del.icio.us, let me show you it
nice to see you among those obsessed with Daniel's finer attributes! Did you see the Michael and Lexa at the Toronto Con clips on youtube? You will fall in love with her too!
Re: My weapons-kink tag in del.icio.us, let me show you it
Re: My weapons-kink tag in del.icio.us, let me show you it