Tzzzz

I still don't know who is Sheppard's baby daddy, but I don't think that'll stop me writing more.

Also, I was watching one of the producers talk about how much he loves Jewel Staite and how they were desperate to cast her when they were looking for a doctor (didn't they already have one?) and then also thinking about how she is just too young to be the CMO of anything, no matter how many years of school she skips or how brilliant she might be. 

And then I was thinking, why promote the young barbie doctor when you have the old and very wise Dr. Biro ready to take over once Carson dies?

I am seriously tempted to rewrite one of the stupid Keller = damsel in distress episodes with creepy doctor Biro in her place.  I actually think the one with the runner guy and the kid could have been much improved.  And Trio could have been kind of funny instead of just a waste of time.  And Identity!  OMG, Dr. Biro running around in a leather miniskirt!

In other words, the writers are idiots.  If a story is stupid and patently ridiculous without a beautiful woman, it's probably not a very good story.  

Well, my muse is finally back, but I kind of get the feeling that she's back from a mental institution on an acid bender and has brought a biker gang of disorderly friends (who have an mpreg obsession) along for the ride.

More in what I am tempted to call the Kangaroo'verse. This thing really needs a title.

( the one where John is pregnant with Holland's child before it all goes down )

I was watching some episodes from seasons four and five recently, and John is just such a dick to Teyla about the whole pregnancy thing, I thought it would be interesting if the tables were turned.

( So I wrote this )

Please let me know if I should keep going with this or if I am just crazy.

I was thinking - so you know how there's good!John, who leaves no man behind and is cute and sweet and loves Rodney and is haunted by all the people he's killed?

And then there's bad!John who kills all those people, sometimes for not that good a reason and is kind of a dick and objectifies women when they're not looking and is oftentime childish (in the bad way), and loves to torment Rodney?

And we all attribute John's killing people to how much he cares for his people and his tormenting Rodney to pigtails-pulling syndrome and dickishness to cute emotionally wounded childhood trauma.

But what if there actually were two Johns?

And one of them was his hair?


ETA:  And what if before John was just a rich playboy with slicked back harvard hair like his brother's and one day he's hiking in the forest and sees a spikey thing which comes from a meteor and attaches to his head ala black spidey in that stupid movie and the hair maneuverse him so he can meet Jack O'Neill and go to Atlantis and get out of situations where he otherwise should have died so one day he can find the hair's long lost home planet where it can return to its people and its long lost hair-love that looks kind of like Rodney's hair and then everyone finds out that John is really bald and the girls don't like him anymore, but Rodney still does.  The end.

Kissed any one of your LiveJournal friends? - N
Been arrested? — N
Kissed someone you didn't like? — Y
Slept in until 5 PM? — Y
Fallen asleep at work/school? — Y
Held a snake? — Y
Ran a red light? — Y
Been suspended from school? — N
Experienced love at first sight? — N
Totaled your car in an accident? — N
Been fired from a job? — Y
Fired somebody? —N
Sung karaoke? — Y
Pointed a gun at someone? — N
Did something you told yourself you wouldn't? — Y
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? — Y
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? — No
Kissed in the rain? — Y
Had a close brush with death (your own)? — Y
Saw someone die? — N
Played Spin-the-Bottle? — Y
Smoked a cigar? — Y
Sat on a rooftop? — Y
Smuggled something into another country? — Y
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? — Y
Broken a bone? — N
Skipped school? — Y
Eaten a bug? — Y
Sleepwalked? — Y
Walked on a moonlit beach? — Y
Ridden a motorcycle? — Y
Dumped someone? — Y
Forgotten your anniversary? — Y
Lied to avoid a ticket? — Y
Ridden in a helicopter? — Y
Shaved your head? — N
Blacked out from drinking? — Y
Played a prank on someone? — Y
Hit a home run? — Y
Felt like killing someone? — N
Cross-dressed? — Y
Been falling-down drunk? — Y
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? — Y
Eaten snake? — N
Marched/Protested? — Y
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? — N
Puked on an amusement ride? — N
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? — Y
Been in a band? — N
Knitted? — Y
Been on TV? — Y
Shot a gun? — Y
Skinny-dipped? — Y
Given someone stitches? — N
Eaten a whole habenero pepper? — N
Ridden a surfboard? — Y
Drunk straight from a liquor bottle? — Y
Had surgery? — Y
Streaked? — Y
Been taken by ambulance to a hospital? — N
Tripped on mushrooms? — Y
Passed out when NOT drinking? — N
Peed on a bush? — Y
Donated Blood? — Y
Grabbed electric fence? — N
Eaten alligator meat? -- N
Eaten cheesecake? — Y
Eaten your kids' Halloween candy? — N
Killed an animal when not hunting? — Y
Peed your pants in public? — Y
Snuck into a movie without paying? --Y
Written graffiti? — N
Still love someone you shouldn't? — Y
Think about the future? — Y
Been in handcuffs? — Y
Believe in love? — Y
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? — N

 I was distracting myself from the sad new about Proposition 8 (if men could get pregnant, I bet we wouldn't have this problem) and reading this great Sheppard/Todd fic and then somehow thinking about bees.

My mind works in mysterious ways.

It goes like this: Wraith are like insects.  They have a Queen, like bees.  But all bees except a few kept around for mating are female.  There are complicated genetic reasons why this is the case, but so far as I know, there is no reverse situation.  Which leads me to the conclusion that though they may appear male, all the Wraith workers are really genetically female.  And while they might not be reproductive with Wraith, like they still have a digestive tract, maybe they still have the required equipment, which leads me to:

Sheppard/Todd Mpreg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have two codes, for anyone who wants them.

I just posted a response to a request over at sgastoryfinders (someone was looking for Mona Lisa Box, yay!  I  enjoy  having my fics searched for almost more than recs) and my comment was screened!

What the hell?  Are the mods really so scared people will answer genre requests that they are screening now?  I hope this is just a glitch.  Otherwise, I'd be upset.

Hopefully this crossposting thing works.

In other news. I saw Star Trek tonight and I just don't know how I feel about it. On one hand, I really liked the deeper focus on the characters than seemed to be the case in the original and the more accessible, modern reboot with very pretty cinematography. On the other hand, I'm not sure the plot was anything special. Better than Enterprise (except Connor Trineer, who kicks ass), but not better than the other movies, IMHO.

Title: Feliz Navidad
Author: Tzzzz
Rating: PG
Pairing: McKay/Keller McKay/Sheppard O'Neill/Carter
Spoilers: General Season 5 (McKeller). SG1: The Brocca Divide, Brief Candle
Genre: SGA/SG1 crossover
Word Count: 2,250
Author's Notes: Got this idea from my Watchmen fusion. Just playing.
Summary: For John's birthday, Jack gives him a secret.

( Story here )

Normally, I don't really care what the powers that be are saying, because they're kind of pathetic, but the idea that there was supposedly one character that Mallozzi always thought was gay but never had the opportunity to reveal it really annoys me, because I'm pretty sure he's at the very least full of shit and just pandering to slash fans, or so homophobic (maybe subconsciously) that he's incapable of even thinking about any character as gay.

( Read my rather obsessive analysis )

I really should be studying. But absent that, I should be working on Twilight of the Fifth Sun. But ever since my muse just seemed to up and leave last winter, it's taking time to get back on the horse. I understand that fic is essentially derivative, but twilight of the fifth sun is just original enough to frighten me.

My last fic got me back in the habit of writing, but it was just sort of an extended scene from Watchmen blended with SGA.

Now the only thing my stupid head wants to work on is a Jurassic Park fusion in which Rodney is an alcoholic paleontologist who is desperate to revolutionize the field so he never has to dig again (and also guardian for orphaned Madison, so I can fit in as many fandom cliches as possible), Teyla studies raptor behavior, Ronon is a safari hunter, Woolsey a bloodsucking lawyer, and John is sexy version of John Hammond (just to not go to the obvious choice of making him the chaomatician dressed in black).

The fic is going to have enough differences so its not just a slash romance of the original, but I'm starting to wonder what the point of making a derivative work from something that is already inherently derivative. I wish I had some honest to god creativity left, but I seem to be fresh out.

P.S. Why is everyone doing this dreamwidth thing? Is it any good? Free? I'm confused.

Title: Forever Approaching Infinity
Author: Tzzzz
Rating: PG13
Pairing: John/Rodney, Rodney/Jennifer, Jennifer/Teyla
Spoilers: Outcast, Trinity, Common Ground, Intruder, Ark of Truth (SG1 Movie), Runner, Rising, Epiphany, The Seige, Watchmen (Movie/Graphic Novel)
Genre: SGA/Watchmen fusion
Word Count: About 7,900
Author's Notes: If you haven't seen Watchmen, then this will most likely still make sense. All you really need to know about the movie/graphic novel is that there are a bunch of masked heros with no super powers at all, plus Dr. Manhattan who is blue, near omnipotent, and doesn't experience time. I don't think this will truly spoil the movie if you haven't seen it yet, but it may give away a few plot points. If you haven't seen the Ark of Truth movie, basically the Ark of Truth, when opened, makes people see the truth of reality. SG1 wants to use it to take away the power of the Ori by making all their followers stop believing in them. Thanks to dossier for the beta.
Summary: To Rodney, all of time happens in an instant, but he still can't seem to grasp the future. SGA/Watchmen fusion.


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Watchmen finally kicked my muse into shape and I wrote an SGA/Watchmen fusion.  Anyone familiar with the movie, or preferably the graphic novel, willing to beta?

Once again borrowed from lavvyan:  Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

1.  Katie sighed, "I didn't want to tell you until Mr. Woolsey gave us anything official, but there are quite a few children in your situation, John, and one of the proposed solutions is to have couples take them in, basically adopt them."

2.  They'll probably have to tie him down to keep him from suicide missions now, because he'll see himself as even less of use.

3.  Mitchell makes an aborted move to reach for John, but then they both remember where they are, which is in the seat of John's beamer with Mitchell looking decidedly turned on and John a whole hell of a lot less drunk than he should be, considering the enormity of the risk he's taking.

4.  "Velociraptor was smart," Rodney said, "you're the behaviorist, you should know."

5.  But he remembers that heart-stopping moment of the horses spooking, Dave flying through the air as if in slow motion, and the sound of his tears as he sat there in the dirt clutching at his arm - all John could think, even as his heart pounded and he rushed over to his brother almost on autopilot was that this was <i>his</i> fault, and his little brother and his job to keep him safe.

6.  He was slim, even slinky looking in tight black jeans and a black t-shirt that made the slight bulge of pierced nipples distractingly obvious.

7.  Well, not the stinking horde of fratboys shouting, "Full moon on the quad, baby, woooooooh!" that, he wasn't looking forward to

8.  Cameron was 67% sure John was referring to her sweater, which Jenn had assured her was girl-next-door-sexy.

9.  Metal, on the other hand, rising up to form itself into the figure of a human with steel grey eyes and an uncompromising jawline, that's another thing.

I love sgastoryfinders don't get me wrong.  It's never let me down when I've been looking for something and its a great recs community in a way. 

But sometimes it leads to defeat and heartbreak.  I've been watching a request on there for the better part of a day now and I really, really want to read it.  But it hasn't been found!

Oh, how I long for the days when I didn't know there was a fic out there will John calling Keller on her horrible problem with doctor-patient confidentiality (like how she doesn't do it).  Woe is me!

It's been more than a month since my early New Year's Resolution to comment on all fics that I enjoy enough to read in their entirety instead of just skim. 

It has not traded of with my reading time.  Leaving short comments just to let someone know that I read and enjoyed takes very little effort at all and the long time-consuming ones I would have done anyhow.  It's made me use my reading time more effectively, but skimming and skipping more stories because I'm thinking about them instead of just consuming.  And it makes me appreciate the fics I do read much more.

What I have noticed, however, is that I have written maybe 2,000 words since my resolution and posted none of it.  Not for lack of time over the holidays either.  I hate to say it, but I think that somehow commenting takes my energy off writing. 

I don't know what.  There's not a lot of logical connection.  I guess that instead of going to my stories after some good reading, instead I go through my open windows and comment and lose the inspiration that the stories gave me.  Or maybe it's that I'm more involved in reading now (a good side-effect of commenting).  Perhaps I have become more complacent in just sitting back and reading and resentful of the act of writing.  Or perhaps there's no connection, though my gut tells me there is one.

Would I be a bad person if I stopped commenting in order to see if I could write more?  Then again, I think that commenting on other people's stories might be a better use of my energies than writing myself.  SGA is slowing down after the cancelation and I think that writers really need to be appreciated now more than ever and there's a good chance that my muse has fled for reasons unrelated to the commenting.

kensieg gave me a paid account! 

Thank you so much.  I don't know what to say!

Except that I will be shopping for more icons very soon.  *grins mischievously*  And also get another chapter of Twilight of the Fifth Sun out.

Whenever I go to post something long and possibly able to produce wank, it freezes and I end up keeping out of it.

Dear Gen Writers,

Are you trying to make me not read your stories? I like gen. Sometimes I like it better than slash. But slash writers make my life so much easier. They:

1. Do not post their stories on ff.net
2. Generally post longer stories in one page, or at least to an archive that allows you to view the story as a single page
3. Do not write a full story and then post it as a wip over a period of a few days, causing me to skip it each day and forget to read when the whole thing is up.
4. Use quotes or something specific in their summaries instead of generic things like. Sheppard and Rodney are trapped. Major Whumpage!

The thing is, fic is a modern media and a hobby. Supply definitely outstrips each individual reader's demand in a fandom like SGA. If I read everything I saw, I'd never get anything done, so I like to skim to see if a story is worth reading. I can't skim on ff.net. I also like to *gasp* read summaries to see if I might like a story. Putting the word whump in your summary instead of maybe as a genre does not convince me you can string two words together well enough to write a story.

Gen writers, I really want to read your stories. I am a good reader and a fairly diligent reviewer, especially when a story is good. But no matter how good a story is, if it's on ff.net or post in lots of little parts, I guarantee you I will never read the entire thing.

I'm aware that I may be judging a book by its cover, so you can ignore me if you like, but if you do, no shiny reviews for you (especially if you hold me hostage by pretending an already completed story is a wip).