assorted memes

[tielan]

"spread the love" meme from beanie_j

The moment you see this post, go hug somebody, virtually or for real. Leave a kind entry in somebody's LJ. Give somebody chocolate. Tell somebody how nice s/he looks today. In short: Use your creativity, make somebody's day. (Self-hugs are allowed. ;D) Then post this to your LJ, spread the love.

I could do with chocolate right now. I'm thinking I might go up the road and have a big fried-up breakfast and to hell with my cholesterol levels. I have a hockey game later tonight, so I'm telling myself that it'll get run off... *sigh* I wish I could believe it worked that way.

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"Pimp yourself out" meme from mahoni

Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five fic-favorites you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

For me, at least part of why my favourite stories are my favourite stories is because I'm satisfied with how they turned out. So they're more likely to be the best thing I've written.

The Astonishing Persistence Of Memory

John-centric team with a John/Teyla and John/other component. I really love how much detail I put into this. It's the kind of story I would beg, kidnap, blackmail, and bombthreat to have written by someone else just so I could spend most of a day reading it to come out at the end going OMGOMGOMGOMG. It was painful to write, but I'm satisfied with what came out of it. And I wish I could write the sequel, but it's not looking very likely.


Discomfort Zones

John/Teyla, angst. I like angst, particularly in this period of SGA, and this has loads of it. I wanted something that balanced out Teyla's feelings for the two men in her life, and elaborated on John's difficulty with emotion and particularly his feelings regarding Teyla. And although I find it a painful read, it's also very satisfying.


A Hanging Offence

John/Teyla, humour. I don't write too many humour fics, so when I do, I have a fondness for them. The UST - both emotional and physical - was fun to write. And there's something enjoyable about a dreadfully funny situation to everyone else, which is dreadfully embarrassing to the people it's happening to. I really need to write another one of these.


Share And Share Alike

College Househare AU, team, humour. I love this story because it encapsulates not only a lot of team interaction, but a lot of my life philosophy as well: clean up after yourself, pay for what you take, sometimes you have to accept that you're just not gonna make it, and family is not the same as blood relatives. And the teamy-ness gives me warm fuzzies.

Now I want to run a Team Fic-a-thon.


Feint

Teyla, team, humour. Because I wrote it in 15 minutes, flipped the damsel-in-distress paradigm around, and had fun writing it.


I tag allisnow, greenconverses, kristen999, renisanz, and azure_horizon.

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I was thinking of doing the 'top stories in terms of comments received' meme (again, seen with mahoni), but it's a bit difficult to dig back through three years of fic, especially given how much I've written.

I do know that my most-commented on story is To Serve A Queen (Ronon/Liz). Even three years after I wrote it, I still get comments on it. Of course, I also had people saying that they felt dirty after reading it (because it had John/Teyla ship in it, too). It was an epic fic.

The team story that stands out in my mind as being most-commented on was Where The Running Stops. Ronon-centric, post-Sateda, team. This one was popular for a combination of team-fuzzy and humour, I think. But it was a one-off popularity - it's not something that people comment on anymore.

The John/Teyla story that's been most-commented on is probably The Barista - that one was another crackerrific series, though (which have a tendency to be commented upon more, because people follow it). Fire At Midnight would probably be the standalone story with the most comments. And that one had the UST and humour.

I didn't include In The Game because it's not yet finished.

Humour seems to be the key ingredient for my most popular storys - that or sheer epic-ness. It's an interesting thing to consider when writing fic.

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Comments

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

Team Fic-a-thon

I approve! I'd also help if you wanted. :)

[tielan]

I've just got so much happening in the next few months! I don't know if I can justify a team ficathon right now.

Although I might talk to the mods of team_sga and see if they're interested in hosting a Team Teyla Ficathon in the new year...

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you. I don't know if I could even participate in one; but I figured I could help run one. :D

[tielan]

New year. New year. New year.

Theoretically. :)

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That would be an interesting challenge for me, as I've never written a team fic. I think I may be getting desperate, though, because I actually considered whether I could write a McKeller fic.

[tielan]

LOL.

Why do you want to write Rodney/Keller?

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

I guess it would be an interesting challenge. But really I can't see the pairing working unless Rodney experienced another lobotomy. *shrug* It was just a thought, mind you.

Something you wrote in you frustration post made me think of something. You mentioned how the writing isn't necessarily bad, this season, but it's moreso the direction they're choosing to take the stoyline. Actually, I haven't been too thrilled with the direction they've taken with Keller. I know she's the CMO, but she just seems out of place in some scenes, and I can't quite figure out why. The supposed love triangle definitely isn't helping, though. I guess I liked the possibility of Ronon Keller as it was in "Quarantine." But now that it's playing out on the show, especially with recent episodes, I'm like . . . I wonder what's going through the minds of the writers. Maybe they should just let certain writers handle certain scenes.

[tielan]

The writers don't do emotional closeness between men and women. They tend to leave that up to the actors.

Which isn't much good if the actors are ambivalent, or feel otherwise to how the scene is written.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

LOL. As I was reading through the intro, considering what memes I might do, I was all, "Oh, I'll pass on this one, I haven't written that much." Then I saw that you'd tagged me. *head desk* Guess I can't get out of it now. :)

It was painful to write, but I'm satisfied with what came out of it.

It's so good to hear you say that. I know you didn't get the response you were expecting, but it seems that's the nature of this whole writing-for-hobby business. It really was an awesome story, and I'm glad you wrote it. :)

A Hanging Offence - I'm pleasantly surprised you mentioned this one, because it's one of my faves. And it was pretty freakin' hilarious. It is a bit different from what you usually write, but I think that's what made it so great. I remember thinking about when I wrote one of my fics, which was I'll talk about when I post this meme. ;)

[tielan]

You don't have to if you don't want to - I've ignored memes that I didn't want to do before.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

I actually do want to. I feel like I've done one of these before, though, or maybe I just read someone else's and that's why it's so familiar. I just figured that since you tagged me, you were interested in what I had to say about my stories. ;)

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

*hugs*


Team ficathon sounds like a great idea... =)

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

(((glom!))) This world could do with more love! And I would gladly give you chocolate, babe, but alas. We live in different hemispheres. So instead I will eat some chocolate in your honor as I get started on the massive amounts of catching up I have to do now that I've dragged myself out of my stupor enough to re-engage with Teh Interwebz a bit.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

Team Fic-a-thon

I approve! I'd also help if you wanted. :)

[tielan]

I've just got so much happening in the next few months! I don't know if I can justify a team ficathon right now.

Although I might talk to the mods of team_sga and see if they're interested in hosting a Team Teyla Ficathon in the new year...

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you. I don't know if I could even participate in one; but I figured I could help run one. :D

[tielan]

New year. New year. New year.

Theoretically. :)

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That would be an interesting challenge for me, as I've never written a team fic. I think I may be getting desperate, though, because I actually considered whether I could write a McKeller fic.

[tielan]

LOL.

Why do you want to write Rodney/Keller?

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

I guess it would be an interesting challenge. But really I can't see the pairing working unless Rodney experienced another lobotomy. *shrug* It was just a thought, mind you.

Something you wrote in you frustration post made me think of something. You mentioned how the writing isn't necessarily bad, this season, but it's moreso the direction they're choosing to take the stoyline. Actually, I haven't been too thrilled with the direction they've taken with Keller. I know she's the CMO, but she just seems out of place in some scenes, and I can't quite figure out why. The supposed love triangle definitely isn't helping, though. I guess I liked the possibility of Ronon Keller as it was in "Quarantine." But now that it's playing out on the show, especially with recent episodes, I'm like . . . I wonder what's going through the minds of the writers. Maybe they should just let certain writers handle certain scenes.

[tielan]

The writers don't do emotional closeness between men and women. They tend to leave that up to the actors.

Which isn't much good if the actors are ambivalent, or feel otherwise to how the scene is written.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

LOL. As I was reading through the intro, considering what memes I might do, I was all, "Oh, I'll pass on this one, I haven't written that much." Then I saw that you'd tagged me. *head desk* Guess I can't get out of it now. :)

It was painful to write, but I'm satisfied with what came out of it.

It's so good to hear you say that. I know you didn't get the response you were expecting, but it seems that's the nature of this whole writing-for-hobby business. It really was an awesome story, and I'm glad you wrote it. :)

A Hanging Offence - I'm pleasantly surprised you mentioned this one, because it's one of my faves. And it was pretty freakin' hilarious. It is a bit different from what you usually write, but I think that's what made it so great. I remember thinking about when I wrote one of my fics, which was I'll talk about when I post this meme. ;)

[tielan]

You don't have to if you don't want to - I've ignored memes that I didn't want to do before.

[renisanz.livejournal.com]

I actually do want to. I feel like I've done one of these before, though, or maybe I just read someone else's and that's why it's so familiar. I just figured that since you tagged me, you were interested in what I had to say about my stories. ;)

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

*hugs*


Team ficathon sounds like a great idea... =)

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

(((glom!))) This world could do with more love! And I would gladly give you chocolate, babe, but alas. We live in different hemispheres. So instead I will eat some chocolate in your honor as I get started on the massive amounts of catching up I have to do now that I've dragged myself out of my stupor enough to re-engage with Teh Interwebz a bit.