A listing of all my fic. My personal favorites are marked with asterisks.




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So, if you're in the Stargate fandom you've probably heard about the massive amounts of fail (multiple different kinds, no less!) inherent in the casting sides for an episode of Stargate: Universe, and the defense from Gateworld, and all that. sheafrotherdon has an excellent rebuttal to Gateworld's defense of the fail, and cereta has an older post on living in a systematically misogynistic society and why don't "nice" men take a stand which then links to khalinche's post on the levels of harassment your average woman experiences on a daily basis, and why men don't really get it. And someone in the comments mentioned the Vagina Monologues, which I've never seen.

And I've been thinking. I love Stargate, but not the fail, and it seems like the fail has been growing over time, and the way they consistently play issues of rape and torture and such for titilation/humor or in other ways abuse white male privilege.

And lo, at 2 o'clock in the morning, an idea has formed for a story I will never write but which would be Made of Awesome if someone else would do it:

Teal'c is sensitive to power issues as they relate to the whole Jaffa/slave thing, but not so much (which is to say, not at all) as they relate to male/female relationships. He's very secure in his male privilege, and uses it, particularly with Jaffa women. He has great respect for Sam, treats her like an equal as a warrior, true, but look at how he treated the Jaffa women he was with. It's not that he's a bad guy, he just responds as his culture has taught him and doesn't really seem to think about the issue that much. And then in the episode Family Ties, Teal'c gets given tickets to The Vagina Monologues.

I want to know what Teal'c's reaction was. I want it to be done seriously, not played for laughs. I want to know how he related that to his experiences of Jaffa life and working with Sam for ten years. I want to explore Jaffa culture and Teal'c's perspective on it beyond the 'Jaffa revenge thing.' I want to see him talk about it with Sam, and with Ishta, and maybe his daughter-in-law Kar'yn. I don't want him to turn into an enlightened feminist Western male, but I do want him to understand.

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Title: In a Strange Land
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: G
Characters: Ronon, Teyla
Spoilers: Enemy at the Gate
Word Count: 662
Summary: “I had not understood,” Teyla says at last. “What a world could be like that did not face culling.”

 

( In A Strange Land )

( a WTF? episode if ever there was one )

It wouldn't have bothered me anywhere near as much if this had been somewhere in the middle of the series, with time for episodes featuring other characters and space battles and running-for-the-gate etc. around it. But as the second-to-last episode? It really sucked. I tend to be a lot more charitable than a lot of fans, and I've never suffered the delusion that my personal vision is the ONLY POSSIBLE WAY THE SHOW SHOULD GO as some fans do. Avoiding that kind of thinking is why I largely avoid Gateworld and communities other than pure fic communities. But this was crossing the line, for me.

grumble, grumble, grumble.

*icon shows what kind of show I would have rather had.

Title: Survivors
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Doctor Who/Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some violence
Spoilers: early season 4 SGA, season 3 New Who
Word Count: 7,402
Written For: Tali (aworldinside) for the Multiverse 5000 (multiverse5000)
Betad by: lilbakht
Summary: The Doctor doesn’t know why he’s here, but he knows it’s not an ordinary stop.

( “This is all just a misunderstanding,” the Doctor protested )

And when you're done reading, go check out the cool manip Methos made for this story.

Is there anyone who would be able to beta an Atlantis/Doctor Who crossover, and get it back to me tomorrow if I sent it to them today? It mostly needs help with plot and characterization, and a double check to see if I'm being too wordy.

It's for the Multiverse 5000, and it's due the 30th. I can get the first draft done, but it doesn't feel like it's "clicked," to me. I don't know if it just needs some polishing or if there's something that needs to be fixed. Or if I'm being a nervous writer panicking over a deadline.

Go check out all the lovely stories in remixredux08. Here is part one of my list of recs:

Desert Glass (Ordinary Time remix). In his years on Tatooine, Obi-Wan finds he has a lot to learn. Lyric, painful, but full of life.

Lucid Diamond Sky (the Misogynistic Lash cut-up). Two's company, three's a crowd. Doctor Who, the Master/Lucy.

More of the Stars and Sea (The Three Meals Remix). Stargate: Atlantis, Teyla and Radek. They were merely colleagues who dined together from time to time. Strangers on the cusp of becoming friends.

Copper and Moonlight (The Mimi & Rodolfo Remix). B:tVS, a beautiful, heartbreaking look at Giles after Becoming.

She Bangs the Drums (Losing, Losing, Lost Remix). Doctor Who, the year that wasn't. Lucy's tragedy is that she loves him.

Reverb (Three Toasters, One Dead Body, and Ellen Tigh Walk into a Bar Remix). BSG, written for me! Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. Spoilers for Crossroads II.

I Have Become (Death) (The J.Robert Oppenheimer Remix). Babylon 5, Lyta Alexander and the Telepath War. You never forget your first. Or your last. Lyta Alexander would know.

Hush-A-Bye Baby (The Blackberry Remix). BtVS, Dawn and Drusilla. At night, the dark-haired girl without a name glowed at her through eddies of green light.

Enemies & Friends (The “Ogron, Ogron, Ogron” Remix). Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who. In which there are Ogrons and Sarah Jane Smith struggles to figure out what the hell is going on. Starring Sarah Jane Smith, Vislor Turlough, Luke Smith, Maria Jackson, Clyde Langer, K9 Mark IV, Mister Smith, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Ace, Chrissie Jackson and Lots And Lots Of Ogrons.

The Art of Memory (Bold and Lonely Remix). Doctor Who. The Doctor's a hard man to forget.

Five Pay Phones Buffy Almost Called Giles From. BtVS, the summer she ran away.

Some Mother's Son (The A-Z Remix). Stargate: Atlantis, pre-series. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The Great Bikini Incident (The Key to Time Remix). Doctor Who/BtVS. Dawn’s suspicious of the three electricity inspectors outside her sister’s Rome apartment.

There's going to be an all-girl recon team! Headed by Dax from DS9! OMGYAY isn't that awsome!!11!!eleventy!

Please, please please please, tell me there is some glimmer of a reason for this besides someone wanted to put more women on the show. I mean, I'm all for having lots of strong women characters ... but there's got to be a reason for it in the plot. And an all-female team? I can find no logical, in-universe reason for it. Not considering the higher ratio of men to women on Atlantis, combined with its relatively small population, a relatively small amount of whom are on regular gate teams. There are more men in the military and more men in the sciences and engineering, both very realistic real-world skews; I may not like them (particularly the sciences one, as there's actually some reason besides prejudice for the military skew--there's still a lot of prejudice, but not exclusively so), but they are facts of life in the real world. One of the reasons I like Stargate is that it deals with a "real world" that could be ours. This ... this just feels like a Hollywood publicity stunt.

If they're only there to be an all-girl team, I hope they're there to be strong female characters, not Atlantis' answer to Seven of Nine. And I really hope they don't take away from Teyla and Ronon's screen time. (Sheppard and McKay get enough screen time we don't really have to worry about them.)

Total Words Written: 5k
Percent of minimum wordcount: 1/8
Time left: 3.5 months

Favorite bit so far: Marshall stared at her, feeling gut-punched. “Those are my men out there risking their lives, Elizabeth.” His voice grated out, low and harsh. “Mine. I picked them for this mission, each and every one of them. I trained them. I planned the tactics, I chose which one to use. I ordered them into the field. You’ve been—” he forced himself not to say off playing happy families—“overseeing the whole Expedition and establishing diplomatic ties. You don’t even know all of their names. So don’t you dare think I don’t care what happens to them.” He held her gaze until her eyes dropped.

Progress made on non-sgabigbang writing projects (i.e. Multiverse, fic prompts, and my ongoing SR fic): none this week.

Anybody got a floor plan to Weir's office? I don't have my DVDs handy, and considering how much time she spends there it's kind of important. And how far is the Jumper bay from the control room?

Panic over sgabigbang has been soothed away by the realization that the completed fic isn't due for four months, which means it only requires an average of 340 words per day to achieve the 40k words total. (This assumes the length of the piece will be around 40k words and that it won't balloon out to be something bigger--it's been so long since I've tried something this long that I don't have a good idea how many words my idea will take up.)

Currently at 2k words and counting.

title: A Problem Like Maria
word count: 100
fandoms: The Sound of Music/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Given the challenge, I couldn't resist.

( The Reverend mother looked down at the letter onher desk and sighed. )

title: Georg's surprise
word count: 100
fandoms: The Sound of Music/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Sequel to the above, but can stand alone

( Georg's surprise )



title: Back in Atlantis
word count: 100
fandoms: Stargate: Atlantis/Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
challenge: #73: favorite things
notes: Sequel to Reflexes, but can stand alone

( When she got back to her quarters, Jennifer Keller took a deep breath. )

Because I've been trying to get there since last night, and keep getting "Sorry, there are no results for “http://www.gateworld.net”. As of last night the Alpha Site was up, though with no details on what was going on, but now I'm getting Sorry, there are no results for “http://www.gateworldalphasite.com/”

Goshouisshou by kansasinthewind-- Ronon/Miko, PG.  (Written for me!)  Prompt: Two quiet people together; backstory for Ronon w/r/t Melena; reference to art, literature, or music.  It's a wonderful look at the world inside Ronon's head, and what it's like to be among people again.

Nonlinear Phenomena by daisycm83.  McKay/Cadman.  Prompt: costumes/disguises, bonfire, mutual genuine affection and/or romance.  Makes the pairing understandable in the wake of Carson's death.  But not angsty.

Life A Storm Inside by anr.  Ronon/Teyla.  Five times Teyla surprised him.

Yay!

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974591.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

So, just watched Doppelganger, the latest episode of Atlantis. Nice episode, though nothing stand-out. However, the Teyla femmeslashers, the John/Teyla shippers, the anti-John/Teyla shippers, and the Sheppard/McKay slashers all got something. Don't know if I've ever seen a single episode that threw so many bones to so many ship/slash groups.

I'm in the mood to rec some vids. Here are a selection of my favorites for which I can still find download links that work. All links are to the pages you can find them on.

Stargate: SG-1
Bring Me to Life (Skaara)
Fall Guy (Siler)
Killer Queen (Osiris)
Time in a Bottle (Daniel/Sha're)
A Thousand Suns (Daniel/Sha're)
Sibling Rivalry (Sam and Teal'c, humor)
You're So Vain (Ba'al)

Stargate: Atlantis
Bad to the Bone (Ronan, Shep)
Missing (Michael)
Thriller (Ensemble)

Star Wars
Hurt (Vader)
Lulaby (Anakin)
The Girl All the Bad Guys Want (Obi-Wan/Padme)

Babylon 5
What About Everything (Ensemble)

Superman Returns
You Don't Know Me (Clark/Lois)

Battlestar Galactica
I Enjoy Being a Girl (Six)

Buffy/Angel
This One's For All the Suckers Who Still Believe in Love (Ensemble)
Lost Inside (Illyria)

Doctor Who
I'm Gonna Be (Ten/Rose)

Vega (losyark) is a talented author in the Atlantis fandom. A few months ago, she took Miko (a female Japanese scientist we see only in "Letters from Pegasus") and decided to flesh her out. Thus begins Nohingo, a series of fics about Miko, about being Japanese, about being one of the few non-Western people in Atlantis. It's a perfect example of characterization through world-building; the prose is gorgeous, and you learn about Miko as you learn about the world she grew up in. It's also a perfect example of how to take a character with maybe three-minutes of screen time and turn her into a fully-fleshed person. The third story isn't about Miko, as much as it is about Ronan adapting to Atlantis; the show writers tend to forget that his basic cultural matrix isn't Western, but Vega doesn't. (And the fact that bringing Ronan in here was my idea isn't influencing this rec at all. ;) )

The Nohingo series:
Zoh-onna Omote
In Japan, it is not too much to say that everything is about appearances.
It is a habit cultivated over a life-time, and not one easy to break.

Tadaima (set after Return 1)
Returning wasn’t easy for any one. How can you go from that to this? Miko Kusanagi – though she suspected that she ought to get herself used to being Kusanagi Miko again – knew that as well as any of them.

“Tadaima,” is generally translated as ‘I’m home’, but what it really means is just a cold and clinical ‘here; now.’

Ohashi
“Here. Try these. They work great.”

Ronon stared at the flat, blunt knife, the shovel-like fork. Tools meant for fields and gardens, not for dinner tables. It struck him, suddenly, how crude these young pretenders were. These posing Ancients.

Having spent way too much time yesterday and today reading Remix fics instead of doing my homework, here are my favorites:

SG-1:
Trigger Finger (The Eleven O'Clock Remix). Daniel has an unexpected brush with danger, and his team members find out. Also check out the original, Trigger Finger by Kathryn Andersen. It's not quite a ninja!Daniel fic, but it's good.

Atlantis:
We Swim Here One Stroke at a Time (The Post Hoc Remix). Rodney re-acclimates to Earth, or doesn't.

The Pledge and the Turn (The Paramnesia Remix). It takes a special kind of magician to make the extraordinary ordinary. Lorne and McKay and AAR's.

Buffy:
Dragon Heart. Buffy and Giles go searching for a weapon, and have a heart to heart.

What a Father Is (the DNA Remix). "I realize you’ve a dearth of male role models in your life, but a father is more than just an older man who happens to be around or who just happened to supply half your DNA." What the monks didn't say about Dawn.

Star Trek:
Power Corrupts (The Absolute Absolution Remix). It's the trial of the aeon. The Q Continuum vs. Kes, for the destruction of the Borg.

Narnia:
Legacy (The Spy Who Loved Me Remix). The most important asset to sovereignty is intelligence.

And a Doctor Who fic series that I found through its remix: Cheer Up, Emo Time Moppet. Life through the eyes of the Doctor and Romana's teenage daughter.

Go, read, and feed the authors!

Go read all the great stories! If you think you see mine, let me know! And don't forget to check out Control (Atonal Cadenza Remix), which is a remix of my fic Adrift, done from the hive ship's POV. It's a lot shippier than my original, which isn't a bad thing; for some reason I like to read shippy stories but not write them.

For some unfathomable reason, my story didn't unflock when they unflocked the journal; I had to go in and do it manually. It's a good thing I checked.