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dragojustineOh my God, Canadian politics is fucking fascinating. Seriously, the current crisis is a beautiful, beautiful thing for the political gawkers among us. It turns out that the PM of our neighbor to the north has been a brilliant, scheming, manipulative, beautifully Machiavellian tool for a really long time now. Why did nobody inform me I should be paying attention? *glees*
SGA: On the one hand, the writers sure do suck balls, don't they? On the other hand, they ship Bill Nye/Kaylee. I can't hate them, just for the awesomeness of that.
Chuck: When did this become the Weekly Adam Baldwin Feeds the Slashers Hour? Because I really approve.
Pushing Daisies: I want to find whoever wrote the "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to stress baking" conversation and kiss them. How is this show so wonderful?
Reason to love Rachel Maddow #3,754: She has a cell phone ring tone on her site titled infrastructure porn. *hands* I am so hot for that woman.
An open letter to the SG1 fanfic community:
Dear writers,
The Air Force does not court-marshal anyone. Ever. For any reason, even sleeping with people of the same sex directly under their command. They also do not court-marital people, though I admit that's a pretty funny image and possibly more appropriate to the crime. And let's not even get started on what the plural is of that word you keep trying and failing to spell.
Amused,
-me
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wyomingnot asked my why there isn't more Daniel/Jon chan in SG1 fandom. The answer, of course, is that synecdochic has pretty much carved out the entire niche of clone!Jack fic, such that trying to write him at all feels like stepping on her toes. But it's planted in my head, and now Daniel and Jon have taken up residence and won't shut up. Daniel is pretty regularly making beer runs for Jon, and they have these hilarious, wildly tipsy conversations about the horrors of high school a second time. Jon has taken up with the marching band, so you can imagine how amused Daniel is by that. Daniel thinks it's wonderful- like he has Jack back, back the way it was before year five when Jack pushed him away and he still doesn't know why, back when it seemed like they genuinely... had something. But poor Jon. The cracks are starting to show. I don't know how much longer he can go on like this.
Of course, all this is happening in my head, not on paper, and I will lose all the best bits if I try to write it down. But they won't shut up.
SGA: On the one hand, the writers sure do suck balls, don't they? On the other hand, they ship Bill Nye/Kaylee. I can't hate them, just for the awesomeness of that.
Chuck: When did this become the Weekly Adam Baldwin Feeds the Slashers Hour? Because I really approve.
Pushing Daisies: I want to find whoever wrote the "fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to stress baking" conversation and kiss them. How is this show so wonderful?
Reason to love Rachel Maddow #3,754: She has a cell phone ring tone on her site titled infrastructure porn. *hands* I am so hot for that woman.
An open letter to the SG1 fanfic community:
Dear writers,
The Air Force does not court-marshal anyone. Ever. For any reason, even sleeping with people of the same sex directly under their command. They also do not court-marital people, though I admit that's a pretty funny image and possibly more appropriate to the crime. And let's not even get started on what the plural is of that word you keep trying and failing to spell.
Amused,
-me
wyomingnot asked my why there isn't more Daniel/Jon chan in SG1 fandom. The answer, of course, is that synecdochic has pretty much carved out the entire niche of clone!Jack fic, such that trying to write him at all feels like stepping on her toes. But it's planted in my head, and now Daniel and Jon have taken up residence and won't shut up. Daniel is pretty regularly making beer runs for Jon, and they have these hilarious, wildly tipsy conversations about the horrors of high school a second time. Jon has taken up with the marching band, so you can imagine how amused Daniel is by that. Daniel thinks it's wonderful- like he has Jack back, back the way it was before year five when Jack pushed him away and he still doesn't know why, back when it seemed like they genuinely... had something. But poor Jon. The cracks are starting to show. I don't know how much longer he can go on like this. Of course, all this is happening in my head, not on paper, and I will lose all the best bits if I try to write it down. But they won't shut up.
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:14 pm (UTC)Imagine watching Brain Storm if you've never seen Bill Nye in your life. Pretty deadly, no? You may pity me now.
Mini!Jack and the H.S. marching band! If there were a Pulitzer for fanfic and you actually, you know, wrote that, you would so win it. :-)
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:29 pm (UTC)Gah. Eye-sporkage, right there.
Imagine watching Brain Storm if you've never seen Bill Nye in your life.
Eeeek. No, that really had to be watched with prior knowledge of Bill Nye.
And yeah. Colleges love that sort of thing, right? Jack played the clarinet back in school the first time around. He still kind of remembers how. A little. Anyway, he's already pretty good at the marching, and already pretty good at the wearing ridiculous uniforms, so why the hell not?
Now if only Daniel would stop LAUGHING about it...
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Date: 2008-12-04 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-04 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-04 09:03 pm (UTC)Also, I had no idea where Chuck was these days. I stopped watching in the first half of the first season (but still kept downloading). I guess I need to go play catch-up. Once I'm done with NCIS, of course. ;)
Now get to writing.
:)
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Date: 2008-12-05 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-05 01:21 am (UTC)It does deserve its own category in rec lists, tho, doesn't it? And Syn would be the last person to say that anyone else tackling clone!Jack was stepping on her toes, lol.
catspaw also wrote a great fic that is our Daniel/clone!Jack called Ten Years Gone. No clone!Daniel in that one.
There's plenty of clone fic out there, and plenty more that needs to be written. Oh and -- that fic trees comm had two unfinished round robin fic feature clone Jack and clone Daniel on the run -- I was sorry those got stalled.
Hi!
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Date: 2008-12-05 06:03 am (UTC)And Syn would be the last person to say that anyone else tackling clone!Jack was stepping on her toes, lol.
Oh God, I know! But still. And it does deserve its own rec category- I think outside of the way Syn just completely made him her own character, the idea of clone!Jack is probably my favorite character to think about in SG1, just because of all the things that show did thematically with doubles and clones and such. The very thought of him is... emotionally pretty intense and hard to wrap your head around. I mean, an adult man just having his life snatched away from him like that!
er. Hi!
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Date: 2008-12-05 11:59 am (UTC)If I think of others, I'll send em on, and this would be a great thematic list for somebody. I imagine one of our recs collectors has gathered them up already if I only knew where to look....
It's so interesting that for you, one great story can overshadow your vision of an entire character. It's not like that for me at all. I agree that JD is a huge achievement and a wonderfully realized character, but reading about him makes me want to explore the possibilities even further, not stop there. And I agree: Thinking of Jack as a teenager again is just... totally guh and amazing, and I wish canon had done more with that idea.
*cheers*
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Date: 2008-12-05 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-05 08:07 pm (UTC)