Choc-Fic Character-of-Colour Love-a-thon

[tielan]

It's been up and running for several days now.

So far, there are eight Stargate Atlantis-related works that I've seen:

Six Fics:
Understanding by jalabert - Ford/Carson, G
Chickens Don't Dance by fuzzybluemonkey - Teyla/Rodney, PG
The Perils Of Lightbulb Jokes (In Another Galaxy) by apple_pi - Rodney/Ronon, PG
Seawall by wojelah - John/Teyla, PG
Unremarkable by kepp0xy - Teyla/Dean Winchester (SPN), R
Just Crash Here by tielan - John/Teyla, PG

Two Art:
Blindfolded by ileliberte - Teyla/Sam Carter (SG1)
Lost In Atlantis by ileliberte - Teyla/Dean Winchester (SPN)

...I seem to be incapable of typing "Winchester" - both times, I got as far as "Winches" and then put a space in, expecting to go on to the next word. Weird.

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Anyway, wojelah's fic totally inspired me to write, and I got about 2,500 words written yesterday and today on my fic for the 9th. Teyla gen, it's kinda turned into a crackerrific AU somewhere along the way. I haven't even started the two others that are due and I'm kinda tearing my hair out as far as the last one goes...

This is what I miss about Atlantis fandom: having other people writing stories that I can like at more than one level. There are a few John/Teyla writers out on Fanfiction.net but most of them are straightforward romances. I want something with twists, with meat, with complexity, with intricacy. I want to read something and have the writer's skill leap out at me and slap me in the face. I want to read something that's so engrossing that it's all I can do to drag myself out of it.

And I have a feeling that my own stories have lost that depth in the last year or so: maybe because I haven't been challenged by any such writing in the areas I'd like to be challenged.

I haven't really had anyone around to challenge me on the John/Teyla front, to be honest. There are people who write fics that impress me, but they're occasional writers rather than obsessive ones. And since John/Teyla and Teyla are a large portion of what I want to write...nothing gets written. Not the stories I really want to write anyway. Little bits and pieces, fluff and shortfics and drabbles, but the really long, super-plotty, intricate character thingies? Nope.

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." It's a biblical proverb, and it applies in all kinds of ways to me, but particularly in writing. I mean, I've done okay without it, but the challenge - the sense of someone out there who also wants to write about Teyla and John/Teyla and can challenge me with more than your basic romance novel plot, who can help me work out the political structure of a world, think up ways to get the team into trouble and then get them out, who can jokingly say, "OMG! That'll give you bees!" And then wander into another tangent entirely...

I miss having someone like that. I really do. I had a 'writing buddy' in SG1, but she never made the jump to Atlantis and doesn't like Teyla anyway.

All right. Enough reminiscing and grumbling. Let's try to get back to writing, having wasted an hour surfing...

That's a lot of "--ing" words! Pterry moment.

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Final pimp: the 3daychallenge community is going to put up a challenge this weekend for those who are interested in participating. Any fandom, you just have to produce a piece of work to the challenge prompt in three days.

Somehow, I don't think I'll be participating. Too much else to do.

How did it get to be 9pm so fast?

Comments

[caladria.livejournal.com]

The problem being that the good, long, plotty stories tempt the good, long plotty writers to write for a pairing, but until the good, long, plotty writers write, there's no good, long plotty stories out there... Catch-22.

I guess there's always hope - with Teyla having an actual arc in S4 more people may be tempted to write her. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find the plotty ones?

[tielan]

True about the vicious circle.

*sigh*

"Be vewwy vewwy qwiet! We're hunting plotty Teyla fics!"

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Surely the only way to get out of it is to either forcibly drag unsuspecting plotters into being Teyla-fans or to write plotty Teyla yourself? *innocent look*

I'm qwiet... can you see them yet?

[tielan]

Well, it would definitely help if there was much of a Teyla/team nature that I admired...like your Sam&Teyla story that I commented on. :)

Sooo...wanna write some more? ;)

...not yet. It's only the start of plotty-Teyla season, so we might not find too many of them. 'Tis a rare and vewwy difficult bweed of fic to find!

[caladria.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I wrote that after rewatching a lot of Atlantis and reading you suggestions on how to write Teyla, so doesn't that make it your turn? ;)

We should encouwage the bweeding of this bwand of fic wherever it may be found. *nods sewiously*

[tielan]

Hehe. It seems that essay helped a couple of people. Eek. I have to dig out the Teyla-centric fic I located via ileliberte and rec that.

As for it being my turn...hasn't it been my turn for pretty much the last two years? :)

Okay, okay, I'm writing a biiiiig Teyla-centric plottyfic that's due on Sunday 9th, and hopefully I get through it without too much brain-eatage. (Famous last words.)

Indeed! Dis wascally fandom has been hiding the Teyla Owiented fic for some time now.

...got any wecs?

[caladria.livejournal.com]

*sits and waits for Teyla-centric plotty-fic*

Don't tell anyone, but I'm a mawauding invader from SG-1 so I bawewy wead any Atlantis fic *ducks and runs*

[tielan]

*eyes mawauding invader suspiciouswy*

*hauls out the wecommendations*

For good Teyla-centric (most of it with a John/Teyla slant), I recommend:
allisnow:
Sunrise Prophecy
Helpless
Fractured
...actually, I recommend all her Atlantis work... Try Three Days In Limbo. Darkfic, angst, drama, eek!

Actually, I might as well just hand you the keys to the rec cupboard and let you knock yourself out!

But I strongly recommend just about anything by allisnow and purple_cube for depth and awesome, greenconverses for cute, and agriope23 for powerful angst. Oh, greenconverses was writing a 'Sam in Atlantis' series that got recced over at seldear, about a month or two back. You might like that.

Hm. There's also the last round of the gate_women ficathon, which wanted stories featuring one of the women of SGA and one of the women of SG1.

Eurydice Turns Left is also a great story with some significant Teyla in it, although the "John and Rodney BFF" vibe keeps coming up in the writing.

...but perhaps you are wegwetting mentioning it after all? Hahahahaa!

[caladria.livejournal.com]

will twy not to weck the wec cupboard

Ooh! allisnow used to write really good, plotty S/J stuff - didn't realise she'd switched to J/T, in which case I'll have to definitely check out her stuff (I'm "don't-mind" about every single ship in Atlantis at the minute, neither pro- or anti- anything, but a good story is a good story even if writing anything that couldn't fit into canon brings me out in hives because I'm odd)

And I'll definitely check out the gate_women stuff, cos I've just got my assignment for the next round. *wibbles*

well, I know what I'll be weading for the fowseeable fwuture!

*bookmarks recs*

[caladria.livejournal.com]

The problem being that the good, long, plotty stories tempt the good, long plotty writers to write for a pairing, but until the good, long, plotty writers write, there's no good, long plotty stories out there... Catch-22.

I guess there's always hope - with Teyla having an actual arc in S4 more people may be tempted to write her. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find the plotty ones?

[tielan]

True about the vicious circle.

*sigh*

"Be vewwy vewwy qwiet! We're hunting plotty Teyla fics!"

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Surely the only way to get out of it is to either forcibly drag unsuspecting plotters into being Teyla-fans or to write plotty Teyla yourself? *innocent look*

I'm qwiet... can you see them yet?

[tielan]

Well, it would definitely help if there was much of a Teyla/team nature that I admired...like your Sam&Teyla story that I commented on. :)

Sooo...wanna write some more? ;)

...not yet. It's only the start of plotty-Teyla season, so we might not find too many of them. 'Tis a rare and vewwy difficult bweed of fic to find!

[caladria.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I wrote that after rewatching a lot of Atlantis and reading you suggestions on how to write Teyla, so doesn't that make it your turn? ;)

We should encouwage the bweeding of this bwand of fic wherever it may be found. *nods sewiously*

[tielan]

Hehe. It seems that essay helped a couple of people. Eek. I have to dig out the Teyla-centric fic I located via ileliberte and rec that.

As for it being my turn...hasn't it been my turn for pretty much the last two years? :)

Okay, okay, I'm writing a biiiiig Teyla-centric plottyfic that's due on Sunday 9th, and hopefully I get through it without too much brain-eatage. (Famous last words.)

Indeed! Dis wascally fandom has been hiding the Teyla Owiented fic for some time now.

...got any wecs?

[caladria.livejournal.com]

*sits and waits for Teyla-centric plotty-fic*

Don't tell anyone, but I'm a mawauding invader from SG-1 so I bawewy wead any Atlantis fic *ducks and runs*

[tielan]

*eyes mawauding invader suspiciouswy*

*hauls out the wecommendations*

For good Teyla-centric (most of it with a John/Teyla slant), I recommend:
allisnow:
Sunrise Prophecy
Helpless
Fractured
...actually, I recommend all her Atlantis work... Try Three Days In Limbo. Darkfic, angst, drama, eek!

Actually, I might as well just hand you the keys to the rec cupboard and let you knock yourself out!

But I strongly recommend just about anything by allisnow and purple_cube for depth and awesome, greenconverses for cute, and agriope23 for powerful angst. Oh, greenconverses was writing a 'Sam in Atlantis' series that got recced over at seldear, about a month or two back. You might like that.

Hm. There's also the last round of the gate_women ficathon, which wanted stories featuring one of the women of SGA and one of the women of SG1.

Eurydice Turns Left is also a great story with some significant Teyla in it, although the "John and Rodney BFF" vibe keeps coming up in the writing.

...but perhaps you are wegwetting mentioning it after all? Hahahahaa!

[caladria.livejournal.com]

will twy not to weck the wec cupboard

Ooh! allisnow used to write really good, plotty S/J stuff - didn't realise she'd switched to J/T, in which case I'll have to definitely check out her stuff (I'm "don't-mind" about every single ship in Atlantis at the minute, neither pro- or anti- anything, but a good story is a good story even if writing anything that couldn't fit into canon brings me out in hives because I'm odd)

And I'll definitely check out the gate_women stuff, cos I've just got my assignment for the next round. *wibbles*

well, I know what I'll be weading for the fowseeable fwuture!

*bookmarks recs*