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The Connection

And kariesue wrote fic for it! Epic longfic! :)

Title: The Connection
Author: kariesue
Rating: Mature
Pairing: John/Teyla
Warning: (for fic) sexual situations
Word Count: ~37,500
Summary: John's bout with the Iratus retro-virus leaves him with some residual and unusual side effects.

Someone wrote a remix of my story: Untold Things!

Unasked Things (The Questions We Don't Answer Remix)
Sanctuary: Helen, Kate, with some Henry, Will, and Big Guy.
I'm so glad that this is from Helen's POV, considering Kate and her probable history, the things she sees but doesn't ask about, knowing there's only so much she can do.

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Forty Years And Eight Pounds:
Stargate Atlantis: John, Teyla, Ronon, Rodney, Lorne, angst, team, family.
An aching look at John and his need for contact.

Fade Away (It's Just A Kiss Away Remix)
Stargate Atlantis: John, Teyla, John/Teyla, post-Submersion
John and the Iratus, Teyla and the Wraith Queen - learning not to grieve what she is, striving to be a better man.

Dead End Detour (Wrong Turning Remix)
Angel: Faith, Angel, and the Watcher's Council, up to S5.
Haunting and terrible and so sad, and yet...there's still a terrible rightness about it.

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And confession time: I wrote two Remixes (one was a pinch-hit) and two Remix Madness fics.

I'm curious: can you guess which ones they were?

I'll write a ficlet for the first person who guesses the Pinch Hit or the Remix Madness fics. (I'm not allowing my Remix Assignment, because my f-list would be able to find it easily based on the fact that I asked for beta for a very specific set of characters.)

I'm not very good with trilogies.

The ones I write, that is. I always get to the end of Part II and then never finish Part III.

( it's like a graveyard of half-finished trilogies behind me )

A review of SGA Legacy: Homecoming by settiai that says it much better than I ever could!

No spoilers, so if you want to check out what the books are about, she's given enough for you to get a feel for the bits and pieces taking place, without giving away the entirety of the plot.

I'll post some of my own impressions once I get the book (it may very well be languishing in the mailbox up on the street - we haven't collected the mail in two days now) and read it through properly instead of piecemeal. But settiai's review is good for the no-longer-in-SGA fans who are wondering if they should.

(I say you should, but you might want to hear it from someone who isn't me...)

sga_legacy/sga_legacy

A new comm for discussion/conversation about the new Stargate Atlantis Legacy series written by Melissa Scott, Amy Griswold, and Jo Graham, and being published by Fandemonium Books.

I was going to make a big fancy banner for it, but, um, that time thingy got away from me amidst all the stuff I have due. (WRITE THE THINGS! WRITE ALL THE THINGS!)

sholio and I are co-mods, and with Death Game already out and the first book of the series 'Homecoming' shipping, we figured it was a good time/place to put this up for general discussion of all the threads and spoilers and whatnot in the books and series.

Starting with a discussion on Death Game. (I don't have the LJ link at this precise moment, although I can update this post if someone posts me the link on my DW journal: I can't see LJ from work.)

So, jo_graham has put up another set of character thoughts up for the SGA Legacy book series - this time about John.

I recommend reading it, even if you don't plan to read the books. It's just such a complex character profile of John, an indication of how much care Jo, Melissa, and Amy have taken with these characters and how their story arcs work, the things they face, the parts that make up the whole.

The previous character studies are Radek, Teyla, Todd, and Sam (who seems to have very few supporters in SGA fandom, which is a real pity, because she has some really good storylines in Legacy - as a big Sam-fan, I'm really happy with where the storyline takes her and with the stuff that Jo discusses in the post: her vocation and her choices).

( One thing that really hit me while I was reading the drafts of these novels was just how feminist the stories are. )

Incidentally: Death Game by Jo Graham is out sometime in the next couple of weeks. I can't remember if I've got it pre-ordered on Amazon. The ridiculous thing with me and Amazon is that I usually end up paying $50 in books and $95 in postage. Which is just sad and painful on top of 'expensive' and 'almost more trouble than it's worth'. Unfortunately, it's really the only way I'm going to get a whole lot of these books since they're only sold at Galaxy bookshop in the city...

*grumps at ridiculous postage prices from the US*

jo_graham has another meta about Legacy up at her journal.

This one's about the lack of reset button and what it meant for the writers of the series and where they've taken the story arcs. (Specifically, they mention Ronon, so the Ronon-fans should probably go over and take a gander at what's in store.)

I can't say how much it means to me that these writers are writing the story-from-here in the Legacy series: because I've watched TPTB dismiss the characters who weren't white and weren't male, coding them as insignificant, stupid, and unimportant; I've watched the majority of fandom do exactly the same thing, in some cases worse than anything TPTB cooked up.

And all of a sudden there are writers who'll be writing not!John, not!Rodney, not!Jack, and not!Daniel as though they've got hopes and plans and places to go, things to be, actions to do, stories to influence?

Large portions of my f-list and dwircle from SGA are people who struggled with the fact that TPTB and fandom didn't really give anyone who wasn't John or Rodney a fair go.

In the Legacy series, they do. And it's an and, not an or. Neither John nor Rodney are ignored, dismissed, or left with one or two lines but nothing to do. It's not "reverse racism" at all: it's inclusion and acceptance. They're still valued, they're just alongside Teyla and Ronon, Sam and Radek, Woolsey, Lorne, Cadman, Carson and a slew of other characters.

So, really, if you struggled with the show's exclusion of anyone who wasn't John or Rodney, these stories are going to blow your mind. Of course, if you love John and Rodney, they're going to blow your mind as well.

TITLE: A Kingdom, Broken - Part Three
SUMMARY: Their goal was always to defeat the Wraith - or, at least, to find a way by which Pegasus could live without the shadow of the Wraith over them. But there could be no great success without an equally great price.
CATEGORY: action-adventure, drama, with a squidge of romance
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Much of it occurs after Enemy At The Gates, and you will have to know what happened in Prodigal, but no major spoilers.
DISCLAIMER:
NOTES: Okay, so the writing has been a little slow lately. And long. And complicated, what with several ficathons due and massive epic plotbunnies trying to colonise my brain. Did I say the last section was part 2 of 3? AHAHAHAHA. Yeah, no. Um, sorry. Classic case of scope-creep in writing. This chapter I'm writing really is the last. Really. John is going to save the day, we'll finish the story, and everyone gets to go home with cookies. Yay, cookies!

A Kingdom, Broken
Part I | Part II

( A Kingdom, Broken - Part III )

Title: Red Desert, Red Blood
Summary: "At least I'm not a walking dick!" "Depends on who you ask."
Category: AU, action-adventure, drama, UST
Word Count: ~7,000
Rating: PG-13
Characters: John, Rodney, Lorne, Teyla, Ford, Bates
Notes: For the sga_flashfic 'crossing' challenge. Crossover with Susan Sizemore's Vampire Primes universe.

Red Desert, Red Blood

Y'know, I think we have lust pretty well covered. When do the other sins get a show?

Title: Goings And Comings
Summary: Gunsmoke and shouting lingers in the air behind them as they leave the alley.
Pairing: John/Teyla
Prompt: adrenaline
Rating: NC-17

( Goings And Comings )

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I'm back on track with A Kingdom, Broken, and will be posting the next chapter next week. It went epic on me. There will also be New Fic for Valentine's Day. Hopefully. :)