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lierdumoaSo, I've taken to getting up very early in the morning and then getting nothing noteable done for the rest of the day. And while I'm being non-productive, I manage to generate about twelve times the number of ideas I generate when I'm actually accomplishing crap.
The BIG SGA META post is currently at 2196 wds and will probably be around 3000, maybe less, by the time I'm finished. If I ever finish. Gah. I haven't finished the Rodney section, and I can feel imaginary!Rodney staring at me accusitorily right now.
That, and the Harlequin challenge on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sga_flashfic. Okay, it started with my vague remembrance of the worst romance novel I ever read (and I read a lot of bad ones), this one in particular involving a woman managing to through some mistake with ancient texts to accidentally summon herself up a personal viking. The fic was published in the early 90's and she had shoulder pads and hmmm. Hmmmm.
Anyway, so then came the Atlantean!John idea. See, someway or somehow John manages to get himself demolecularized and trapped in stasis (not the slowly aging stasis of alternate!reality!Elizabeth, but actual stasis) and the stargate expedition manages one day to discover him purely as a fluke.
Imagine if John were Atlantean! His parents would be career military who died when he was three at the beginning of the wraith wars. He was raised by the system, but still ended up with an excellent education because this is Atlantis' system we're talking about. Just picture him trying to do the Atlantean equivalent of explaining to Telya what a hail mary was. It would be high-larious, I'm telling you. He would know how everything in the city worked, mainly because he spent the majority of his rebellious teen years making it not work in humorous ways.
He was drafted for the wraith wars at some point. Managed to get royally drunk on leave and ooops, got himself trapped in stasis.
Or something. All of this open to change.
And then. Then. I realized that John would have angst. In fact, he would have AAAAANGST. Because he'd fall into stasis and wake up 10,000 yrs later to be like, OMGWTF ALL MY PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND/OR GONE?!?
He wouldn't hit on Chaya, because he thought the whole ascension thing was pretentious bullshit anyway. But they would bond in being the last two real ancients around.
He would be annoyingly brilliant and bug the hell out of Rodney because Atlantean!John would actually have the education to back up his math brilliance, considering the Ancients were probably teaching their kids linear algebra at the age when we're still muddling through high school trigonometry.
And Cadman would play dress up doll with him because she'd just have to get him out of those nasty glimmerly retro clothes and the shoulder pads? Hmmm. Hmmmm.
I need a plot. Haaaaaalp!
In other news, I have about 50 unaswered comments in my inbox, one of which is a beta request, but I think I'm going to avoid them for a few more hours.
The BIG SGA META post is currently at 2196 wds and will probably be around 3000, maybe less, by the time I'm finished. If I ever finish. Gah. I haven't finished the Rodney section, and I can feel imaginary!Rodney staring at me accusitorily right now.
That, and the Harlequin challenge on
sga_flashfic. Okay, it started with my vague remembrance of the worst romance novel I ever read (and I read a lot of bad ones), this one in particular involving a woman managing to through some mistake with ancient texts to accidentally summon herself up a personal viking. The fic was published in the early 90's and she had shoulder pads and hmmm. Hmmmm.Anyway, so then came the Atlantean!John idea. See, someway or somehow John manages to get himself demolecularized and trapped in stasis (not the slowly aging stasis of alternate!reality!Elizabeth, but actual stasis) and the stargate expedition manages one day to discover him purely as a fluke.
Imagine if John were Atlantean! His parents would be career military who died when he was three at the beginning of the wraith wars. He was raised by the system, but still ended up with an excellent education because this is Atlantis' system we're talking about. Just picture him trying to do the Atlantean equivalent of explaining to Telya what a hail mary was. It would be high-larious, I'm telling you. He would know how everything in the city worked, mainly because he spent the majority of his rebellious teen years making it not work in humorous ways.
He was drafted for the wraith wars at some point. Managed to get royally drunk on leave and ooops, got himself trapped in stasis.
Or something. All of this open to change.
And then. Then. I realized that John would have angst. In fact, he would have AAAAANGST. Because he'd fall into stasis and wake up 10,000 yrs later to be like, OMGWTF ALL MY PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND/OR GONE?!?
He wouldn't hit on Chaya, because he thought the whole ascension thing was pretentious bullshit anyway. But they would bond in being the last two real ancients around.
He would be annoyingly brilliant and bug the hell out of Rodney because Atlantean!John would actually have the education to back up his math brilliance, considering the Ancients were probably teaching their kids linear algebra at the age when we're still muddling through high school trigonometry.
And Cadman would play dress up doll with him because she'd just have to get him out of those nasty glimmerly retro clothes and the shoulder pads? Hmmm. Hmmmm.
I need a plot. Haaaaaalp!
In other news, I have about 50 unaswered comments in my inbox, one of which is a beta request, but I think I'm going to avoid them for a few more hours.
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-01 04:57 pm (UTC)Damn. I swear I'd be more helpfull if it wasn't at the end of my workday and I wasn't starving.
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Date: 2005-09-02 01:14 pm (UTC)um. okay. plots!
ummm.... John is all weirdly Ancient!serene and Accepting of Everything, and it offends Rodney personally and makes him insane. They quarrel like cats and dogs. then: the flood of new people here with Ancient genes that are really a strain of Ancient and not pure cause the city to adapt itself and start responding to their gene format and not John's! And then there is the wacky, oh the wacky! and angst! Now he is truly a fish out of water! and he starts losing that nice Ancient calm under his skin, but still all serene on the outside, and Rodney's all, "omg, you will KILL yourself like this", and John is all, "I DO NOT NEED YOUR HELP
PUNY WOMAN-THINGPUNY HUMAN," but Rodney nags and stalks and won't give up, and finally teaches him how to totally lose his shit and freak out about everything. at least on occasionally. While spending so much time together, they fall in luuuuuurv.no subject
Date: 2005-09-02 05:46 pm (UTC)And I think John would have thought the whole concept of ascension was pretentious and bullshitty. He would have been one of the ancients that decided to return to earth, rather than ascend.
Elizabeth has this very idealized view of the Ancients. Rodney pretty much thinks they were no smarter than he is, only they had the benefit of a much longer legacy of knowledge, which I'm somewhat inclined to agree with.
So, like, hmmmmm. I dunno.