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This journal is mostly SGA. I could use more people in my circle. Please feel free to add me!
I love Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Murderbot, Severance, TMNT, The Untamed, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, SNW, Lower Decks, DS9, Voy…), Red Dwarf, Psych, My Little Pony: FiM and much more.
I read just about anything these days. I don’t tend to prefer any one pairing except I do love McShep in SGA. I am partial to found family, ineffable friendship fics, feelings realization, and hurt/comfort.
I post both publicly and behind an access list. I am always happy to add more people to my circle. 18+ only please
I post my written on AO3 as Tazmy . I’ve written mostly in the SGA and Psych fandoms.
I post my podfic on AO3 as TazmyReads. Several people have kindly made podfic for my stories. Click here to find all podfics of my stories.
Blanket Statement: Creators are welcome to make work inspired by mine including podfics. Please let me know so I can enjoy your work. I love hearing other people read my stories or write something based on something I wrote. One rule: No AI please!
Of note: You are welcome to podfic anything I've already made a podfic for, including my own stories. It's always fun to hear other people's take. I especially love when people podfic my work. I get soooooo excited!
Reflection
Dec. 7th, 2025 12:25 pmOver the last week, I’ve been reflecting on communication styles and how people often hold back what they really mean to say. I’m so tired of this, especially in regards to parent relationships with other parents. So I tried something new. I just started asking “I can’t tell if you mean this or this” and ask for clarification even when awkward. Like “My son wants a playdate but I can’t tell if your son does or is actually busy. It’s okay either way but it would help me to know which you mean.” or “I enjoy having coffee with you. I can’t tell if you want to just hang out for playdates or if you are up for a deeper friendship. Can you please clarify?”
This has been so freeing! Instead of “guessing” if I am being locked out, I’m inviting gentle honesty. So far people have been honest after that and it has kept me from either pursuing a friendship that isn’t really going to happen or feeling unsure on an interaction that was actually mutually positive.
This has been so freeing! Instead of “guessing” if I am being locked out, I’m inviting gentle honesty. So far people have been honest after that and it has kept me from either pursuing a friendship that isn’t really going to happen or feeling unsure on an interaction that was actually mutually positive.
My Alphabet of Stories
Nov. 12th, 2025 04:50 pmBorrowed from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
brumeier
Everyone seems to be doing this meme so why not! Go to your AO3 page and choose "sort by title", then pick one fic per letter of the alphabet (A and The don't count as first words) and make a list. Post how many letters out of 26 you managed.
I managed a lot more letters than I might have expected! I added two stories not on AO3 to fill in the K and L. I am only missing Q, X, Y, Z.
( My alphabet of stories. )
brumeier Everyone seems to be doing this meme so why not! Go to your AO3 page and choose "sort by title", then pick one fic per letter of the alphabet (A and The don't count as first words) and make a list. Post how many letters out of 26 you managed.
I managed a lot more letters than I might have expected! I added two stories not on AO3 to fill in the K and L. I am only missing Q, X, Y, Z.
( My alphabet of stories. )
Sick and Story
Oct. 26th, 2025 11:06 amYesterday was the most sick I think I've ever been. I couldn't even get on my phone for more than 15 minutes without falling asleep. I slept basically the whole day and then through the night. After a nine hour sleep, I figured I'd be awake. But nope, fell asleep after 15 minutes on my phone again. :(
But now I'm rested, I think, and actually moving!
In all of that, I managed to post a story forspook_me ! Yay. I think of it as McShep but people can easily read it as gen: Thumping, Screeching, Prowling
VendyAbby wrote me a story that feels like chicken soup in sick form: Surprise (sickfic, gen)
But now I'm rested, I think, and actually moving!
In all of that, I managed to post a story for
spook_me ! Yay. I think of it as McShep but people can easily read it as gen: Thumping, Screeching, ProwlingVendyAbby wrote me a story that feels like chicken soup in sick form: Surprise (sickfic, gen)
Writing and Reading Updates
Oct. 22nd, 2025 08:48 pmJust when I thought fandom was slowing down, all the stories are coming out. Maybe it's something to do with October?
nottasha is posting the third installment of her Ghosts story: Ghosts Vanishing into the Vaporous Void. (Written for the new challenge to write a spooky story with three Vs) gen
Tipper (tippergreen ) wrote me a story for way back in the GenMayathon but it's 30 k words instead of 1k so just got finished. I'm ecstatic and loving the fic so far! gen Found (Bookend to Missing)
I'm working on my revision of Deep Down Below and it's basically becoming its own new story at this point. It's a lot of fun to write and thousands of times better than it was. I think my usual readers have mostly left fandom and I find myself still mostly writing for myself. ngl, it's kinda depressing because I like writing with community and I also feel I have a really good story I'm posting. Changing the narration has really opened a lot of doors for the characters and better hurt/comfort (as well as more John caring for his team). The story is gen but I might end up throwing in some John/Rodney hints and make it more ambiguous. Or hell, maybe even not ambiguous given the ending is the most I've ever had John go to save Rodney in any fic I've written. Like....wow, John, that was....far. And if I only have a handful of readers, maybe they won't care if I switch the tags so there's some McShep at the end anyway, especially if it's just at the end.
Thankfully I always have Cassiope25 and Mas_Sharp to keep me going :)
Oh! I did write a gen story after Trinity that takes a completely different turn than any Trinity story I've read. That one does actually seem to have some readers, which was a nice distraction. I wrote about Woolsey coming to talk to Elizabeth about the way she yelled at Rodney where everyone could hear. Blame to Share (gen). And that was great because....
Mas_Sharp liked the sandbox I created enough to write their own story. This time with John. Then, they liked it enough to write another installment, this one with snaked!Caldwell and his POV. It's now a collaboration series and I'll be writing Rodney's view. Cass might even write Radek's view. It's a completely different take on Trinity than most of the stories out there for sure and it's fun to have people inspired by my stories!
Person life right now is.... a lot. It's a lot of crisis mode right now. I lean into fandom whenever it feels that way. Maybe that's why I'm feeling the loneliness of people so not into my current longer story. (Which is probably why my posting has dropped from a goal of daily to now weekly. Motivation...ooooof)
nottasha is posting the third installment of her Ghosts story: Ghosts Vanishing into the Vaporous Void. (Written for the new challenge to write a spooky story with three Vs) genTipper (
tippergreen ) wrote me a story for way back in the GenMayathon but it's 30 k words instead of 1k so just got finished. I'm ecstatic and loving the fic so far! gen Found (Bookend to Missing)I'm working on my revision of Deep Down Below and it's basically becoming its own new story at this point. It's a lot of fun to write and thousands of times better than it was. I think my usual readers have mostly left fandom and I find myself still mostly writing for myself. ngl, it's kinda depressing because I like writing with community and I also feel I have a really good story I'm posting. Changing the narration has really opened a lot of doors for the characters and better hurt/comfort (as well as more John caring for his team). The story is gen but I might end up throwing in some John/Rodney hints and make it more ambiguous. Or hell, maybe even not ambiguous given the ending is the most I've ever had John go to save Rodney in any fic I've written. Like....wow, John, that was....far. And if I only have a handful of readers, maybe they won't care if I switch the tags so there's some McShep at the end anyway, especially if it's just at the end.
Thankfully I always have Cassiope25 and Mas_Sharp to keep me going :)
Oh! I did write a gen story after Trinity that takes a completely different turn than any Trinity story I've read. That one does actually seem to have some readers, which was a nice distraction. I wrote about Woolsey coming to talk to Elizabeth about the way she yelled at Rodney where everyone could hear. Blame to Share (gen). And that was great because....
Mas_Sharp liked the sandbox I created enough to write their own story. This time with John. Then, they liked it enough to write another installment, this one with snaked!Caldwell and his POV. It's now a collaboration series and I'll be writing Rodney's view. Cass might even write Radek's view. It's a completely different take on Trinity than most of the stories out there for sure and it's fun to have people inspired by my stories!
Person life right now is.... a lot. It's a lot of crisis mode right now. I lean into fandom whenever it feels that way. Maybe that's why I'm feeling the loneliness of people so not into my current longer story. (Which is probably why my posting has dropped from a goal of daily to now weekly. Motivation...ooooof)
Podfic of I Sometimes Wonder Series
Sep. 19th, 2025 08:19 pm I did it! I finally finished Tipper ( tippergreen )'s I Sometimes Wonder Series. OMG that was so much work, but so worth it. 4 hours and 19 minutes!
Mific was kind enough to collate the parts into one single mp3.
Tipper really knocked it out of the part with this McShep series. Seriously, it's so good. Teen rated and so much drama with John trying to sort himself out after Rodney says he sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss him.
tippergreen )'s I Sometimes Wonder Series. OMG that was so much work, but so worth it. 4 hours and 19 minutes!Mific was kind enough to collate the parts into one single mp3.
Tipper really knocked it out of the part with this McShep series. Seriously, it's so good. Teen rated and so much drama with John trying to sort himself out after Rodney says he sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss him.
Gen and Pantless Challenge
Aug. 26th, 2025 07:46 pmFandom has been a hell of a lot of fun lately. NotTasha got Sablecain and GateBiscuit on the sga discord and we’re all writing complete insanity together. This led to a lot of characters in a gen story without their pants and this the pantless challenge was born:
Make a gen story where at least three characters lose their pants.
I am told more are coming, but so far we already have three entries:
NotTasha wrote NPT
Angw (angw_nz) wrote Tied Up in Knots
Tazmy wrote Pantless with Cabin Fever
I think sablecain is working on one, too.
Other than writing, I’m just enjoying the last of summer with the dark cloud of looming work hanging over my head. Maybe I should reread Wayside School and the Cloud of Doom because that is so much how it feels right now.
How are you all?
Make a gen story where at least three characters lose their pants.
I am told more are coming, but so far we already have three entries:
NotTasha wrote NPT
Angw (angw_nz) wrote Tied Up in Knots
Tazmy wrote Pantless with Cabin Fever
I think sablecain is working on one, too.
Other than writing, I’m just enjoying the last of summer with the dark cloud of looming work hanging over my head. Maybe I should reread Wayside School and the Cloud of Doom because that is so much how it feels right now.
How are you all?
Writing Stuff
Aug. 11th, 2025 06:38 amI can't seem to write much right now despite really wanting to. Brain=Mush. Alas.
I am, however, doing a gen sga round robin story game on discord with a lot of people and that's going great. I realized of the 8 of us participating, 5 of us are from sga fandom of old (NotTasha, Tipper, angw, myself, and one more using a different name). So that's kinda cool to think about writing together now. Plus, I get to write with some of my friends and favorite writers and see their thinking process some. I thought a round robin would be easy for me given we each only do up to 200 words our turns, but I'm finding myself struggling to make words.
In fact, I'm writing this to put off my round robin attempt, lol.
The SGA feed on AO3 has mostly been stagnant. Where are all the great fics that were coming out for a while? Why is everyone posting no gate AU which and OC based future stories? Neither catches my attention or is really why I come to the fanfic world. There's one series that is au but at least with a gate but it's annoying me so much. Each "story" is only 600 words and there are 32 stories in the series. So it has been clogging the feed, making it hard to see when a new interesting story is actually posted. Now it's clear people are liking the series, and I try not to judge how others post or what they create, but I am very much annoyed that it's taking up a lot of the search results pages.
How are you all doing?
I am, however, doing a gen sga round robin story game on discord with a lot of people and that's going great. I realized of the 8 of us participating, 5 of us are from sga fandom of old (NotTasha, Tipper, angw, myself, and one more using a different name). So that's kinda cool to think about writing together now. Plus, I get to write with some of my friends and favorite writers and see their thinking process some. I thought a round robin would be easy for me given we each only do up to 200 words our turns, but I'm finding myself struggling to make words.
In fact, I'm writing this to put off my round robin attempt, lol.
The SGA feed on AO3 has mostly been stagnant. Where are all the great fics that were coming out for a while? Why is everyone posting no gate AU which and OC based future stories? Neither catches my attention or is really why I come to the fanfic world. There's one series that is au but at least with a gate but it's annoying me so much. Each "story" is only 600 words and there are 32 stories in the series. So it has been clogging the feed, making it hard to see when a new interesting story is actually posted. Now it's clear people are liking the series, and I try not to judge how others post or what they create, but I am very much annoyed that it's taking up a lot of the search results pages.
How are you all doing?
Thoughts and Fic
Aug. 3rd, 2025 01:25 pmRewatching Stargate Atlantis's Ghost in the Machine today and I just still can't, even after all these years. It's basically murder/suicide at the end and poor poor Rodney having to program the dialing computer to space them. The way he says it was all his fault from the beginning. I just can't...
Stargate Atlantis fic wise, I'm really happy with the series I posted this week. I got some incredibly sweet comments as well with people saying it's the finale we deserved instead of the one we got. I hadn't thought of it as a finale, but it really does mirror well the end scene, except this time with everyone happy and not John oddly alone and separate from everyone.
This is Our Chance Series
Teen rating, McShep, Team as Family, Ronon/Amelia, Ronon & Rodney friendship
Story 1: This Second Chance at Happiness: Ronon considers proposing to Amelia, but it feels a bit like betraying Melena's memory. Rodney goes to find Ronon and offers him comfort. There's drinking. Lots of friendship feels.
Story 2: This Journey We Share: Rodney wakes up after his drunken conversation with Ronon. The two had made a deal to tell the people they love how they feel, and now it's time to see that through. Only Rodney feels absolutely terrible and ends up in the infirmary. Turns out it's not just a hangover.
Stargate Atlantis fic wise, I'm really happy with the series I posted this week. I got some incredibly sweet comments as well with people saying it's the finale we deserved instead of the one we got. I hadn't thought of it as a finale, but it really does mirror well the end scene, except this time with everyone happy and not John oddly alone and separate from everyone.
This is Our Chance Series
Teen rating, McShep, Team as Family, Ronon/Amelia, Ronon & Rodney friendship
Story 1: This Second Chance at Happiness: Ronon considers proposing to Amelia, but it feels a bit like betraying Melena's memory. Rodney goes to find Ronon and offers him comfort. There's drinking. Lots of friendship feels.
Story 2: This Journey We Share: Rodney wakes up after his drunken conversation with Ronon. The two had made a deal to tell the people they love how they feel, and now it's time to see that through. Only Rodney feels absolutely terrible and ends up in the infirmary. Turns out it's not just a hangover.
I wrote an sga story yesterday. About 3.3k words and posted the same day, which is rare for me. I don't have the time to spare to write, care for kids, clean the house, and deal with the day-to-day, but if I don't write...well, that's hard, too. I wish I had so much more time to write because I truly love it and it brings me such joy.
Yesterday's story was a bit different for me. I was trying to write McDex but that wasn't really what Ronon wanted. Instead I ended up with a. story where they are both drunk and Ronon's expressing that just because he finds happiness in the current day by day, it doesn't actually relieve all the pain of what he's been through. It's a story about loss and figuring out how to hold that loss while still moving forward. I'd link it but AO3 is down.
I keep having the weirdest dreams about work. I'm not usually stressed in July thinking about the upcoming fall term. I've been assigned so much and I want to cry. I don't think I'll be able to write or do any of the multitude of other things I'm supposed to do. *sigh*
Yesterday's story was a bit different for me. I was trying to write McDex but that wasn't really what Ronon wanted. Instead I ended up with a. story where they are both drunk and Ronon's expressing that just because he finds happiness in the current day by day, it doesn't actually relieve all the pain of what he's been through. It's a story about loss and figuring out how to hold that loss while still moving forward. I'd link it but AO3 is down.
I keep having the weirdest dreams about work. I'm not usually stressed in July thinking about the upcoming fall term. I've been assigned so much and I want to cry. I don't think I'll be able to write or do any of the multitude of other things I'm supposed to do. *sigh*
Hi all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been working on lots of stuff, enjoying Murderbot (Gurathin!!!!!!!), about to watch SNW, and continuing in SGA fandom. Imagine my surprise when I saw liketheriver not only moved a few stories to AO3 but actually wrote a new story! And NotTasha wrote a cute story with Rodney and his pets through the years (so good!!!). I’ll post links soon.
Meanwhile I wrote a but and made some podfic.
How are you all?
Meanwhile I wrote a but and made some podfic.
How are you all?
Resistance Day and fic
Jul. 7th, 2025 01:06 pm I think I'm renaming Independence Day to resistance day because right now I don't feel like celebrating freedom while those freedoms are getting eroded fast. After last year's fire, I was really worried about the cut-de-sac doing fireworks this year. We put out some tables filled with food. We offered bubbles, sidewalk chalk, outdoor games, and blared Hawaiian music. The people who rescued our house came and we debated politics (they were on the right and had been given a lot of propaganda but were actually willing to listen). It was all around a lovely day.
I posted a new fic for Fandom Trumps Hate. 12-year-old Madison asks Rodney for help talking to Jeannie about accepting the child she has and not the one she planned for. Rodney plays the good uncle who drops everything to come and help. I'm really proud of it and people seem to like it. I was pleasantly surprised it already got rec'd on stargateficrec.
It has domestic McShep (they've been dating for 5 years) but the most shown is a quick kiss. It also takes place in the same universe as my fic Festering Wounds, Hurting Souls, Loving Hearts which is the one fandom seems to have embraced the most. In that story, Woolsey presses Rodney to talk to John about the teasing/bullying.
Title: Accepting Me
Some tags: nonbinary character, Rodney's a good uncle, Established McShep
Rating: Teen
Description: When Rodney receives an email from 12-year-old Madison, he drops everything and heads to Earth with John in tow.
I posted a new fic for Fandom Trumps Hate. 12-year-old Madison asks Rodney for help talking to Jeannie about accepting the child she has and not the one she planned for. Rodney plays the good uncle who drops everything to come and help. I'm really proud of it and people seem to like it. I was pleasantly surprised it already got rec'd on stargateficrec.
It has domestic McShep (they've been dating for 5 years) but the most shown is a quick kiss. It also takes place in the same universe as my fic Festering Wounds, Hurting Souls, Loving Hearts which is the one fandom seems to have embraced the most. In that story, Woolsey presses Rodney to talk to John about the teasing/bullying.
Title: Accepting Me
Some tags: nonbinary character, Rodney's a good uncle, Established McShep
Rating: Teen
Description: When Rodney receives an email from 12-year-old Madison, he drops everything and heads to Earth with John in tow.
Today has been a day. Ooooof. Parenting is hard.
I’ce got the outlines now for my Fandom Trumps Hate stories and I’m excited to get to work in them. When I finally have time to myself….
I’m reposting an old gen story of mine: Weakness. Revising my old work has really shown me how far I have come. I can spot passive voice better now, make more believable action sequences, and make a more compelling and sensical story. The trick has been tempering my “Change everything!!!” with “Keep true to who I was and what my original readers enjoyed.”
NotTasha is posting a sequel to her story Ghosts of Atlantis and I couldn’t be happier! Both are gen and this new addition is for the genMayathon. I’m two chapters in and it’s a wonderful follow-up that takes place right after Grace Under Pressure. Rodney can see the ghosts again. Rodney’s struggling. Everyone’s worrying over him and trying to care for him. And there’s a certain ghost Rodney gets to talk to that is so…. Gah!!!
Go read: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66346744
Go read: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66346744
We're full halfway through May and I have yet to start my exchange fic for the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sga_genmayathon . But at least I did post one gen story! (My tiny Rodney one)
And a new podficcer just told me they are planing to podfic my recent story! Yay. I'm so excited. I can't say just how exciting it is when someone wants to podfic my stuff and I love listening to stories. My eyes have been funky lately when I'm tired, so I'm finding podfic listening is much easier that reading. I need to go get new glasses. Hopefully ones that won't give me the migraines my current ones do (and thus I don't wear them and deal with the blurry words which is probably not great for my eyes)
It's near the end of term! I can't wait to take a teaching break and hopefully have mounds of time for writing. As always, my mind is full of so many ideas including a sequel to a story collaboration I've been working on for two years. One would think I would finish the collab first, but not, my brain is full into the sequel. This has to be the first time it's taken me two years to write something.
I was thinking how odd it was that I managed to find a thriving sga community two years ago, right when I needed it the most. By all rights, this show is so old it shouldn't easily be finding a new audience, but it really has. I found a season six McShep story written in 2020 by Halestrom that had 888 kudos on it! and oh poor Atlas, the worlds a beast of burden. In 2020! It's a good fic so far, but it's really really really long so we'll see if I manage through it. My patience isn't very long these days and I fall into skimming when fics get over 60k. My own fics seem to be doing well enough to keep me feeling supported and part of a community, which to me is an important part of fandom. So now I'm reflecting on nearly two years in fandom and feeling...so happy it's here. Beyond all reason, hope, or expectations.
It looks like I'm getting my daughter's ADHD coach back as she moved to a direct care model. She went out of network a few years ago and it was too expensive, but now she's foregoing insurance entirely and I can afford her "subscription" fee for the whole family. Which means maybe *I* can get some good ADHD coaching as well.
sga_genmayathon . But at least I did post one gen story! (My tiny Rodney one) And a new podficcer just told me they are planing to podfic my recent story! Yay. I'm so excited. I can't say just how exciting it is when someone wants to podfic my stuff and I love listening to stories. My eyes have been funky lately when I'm tired, so I'm finding podfic listening is much easier that reading. I need to go get new glasses. Hopefully ones that won't give me the migraines my current ones do (and thus I don't wear them and deal with the blurry words which is probably not great for my eyes)
It's near the end of term! I can't wait to take a teaching break and hopefully have mounds of time for writing. As always, my mind is full of so many ideas including a sequel to a story collaboration I've been working on for two years. One would think I would finish the collab first, but not, my brain is full into the sequel. This has to be the first time it's taken me two years to write something.
I was thinking how odd it was that I managed to find a thriving sga community two years ago, right when I needed it the most. By all rights, this show is so old it shouldn't easily be finding a new audience, but it really has. I found a season six McShep story written in 2020 by Halestrom that had 888 kudos on it! and oh poor Atlas, the worlds a beast of burden. In 2020! It's a good fic so far, but it's really really really long so we'll see if I manage through it. My patience isn't very long these days and I fall into skimming when fics get over 60k. My own fics seem to be doing well enough to keep me feeling supported and part of a community, which to me is an important part of fandom. So now I'm reflecting on nearly two years in fandom and feeling...so happy it's here. Beyond all reason, hope, or expectations.
It looks like I'm getting my daughter's ADHD coach back as she moved to a direct care model. She went out of network a few years ago and it was too expensive, but now she's foregoing insurance entirely and I can afford her "subscription" fee for the whole family. Which means maybe *I* can get some good ADHD coaching as well.
I wrote my first entry for the SGA GenMayathon 2025! It's based off the tiny Rodney comic and animations made for me.
Title: The Tales of Tiny Rodney
Gen, no ships, John & Rodney friendship
Description:
Despite assurances even a toddler could pass the test, Rodney somehow failed. As though this weren’t embarrassing enough, the trial cursed him, as the locals ridiculously put it, dooming him to shrink whenever his frustrations got the best of him, growing back only as he calmed.
“It will wear off eventually,” they told him, but it wasn’t all that reassuring when they added, “probably.”
“No one’s actually failed before,” another villager explained.
Title: The Tales of Tiny Rodney
Gen, no ships, John & Rodney friendship
Description:
Despite assurances even a toddler could pass the test, Rodney somehow failed. As though this weren’t embarrassing enough, the trial cursed him, as the locals ridiculously put it, dooming him to shrink whenever his frustrations got the best of him, growing back only as he calmed.
“It will wear off eventually,” they told him, but it wasn’t all that reassuring when they added, “probably.”
“No one’s actually failed before,” another villager explained.
SGA GenMayathon and stuff
Apr. 29th, 2025 07:06 pmWe just rolled out directions for the SGA GenMayathon. I'm super excited to see people Tumblr excited for gen works! And we have a dream width page: https://sga-genmayathon.dreamwidth.org/
Meanwhile, I've been playing with legos. Lots and lots and lots of legos! I have a John and a Rodney lego figure (made by kiddo) and they are getting up to all kinds of trouble. Here's some highlights since I know several of you aren't on Tumblr.
( More Lego Adventures )
Meanwhile, I've been playing with legos. Lots and lots and lots of legos! I have a John and a Rodney lego figure (made by kiddo) and they are getting up to all kinds of trouble. Here's some highlights since I know several of you aren't on Tumblr.
( More Lego Adventures )
Oh, it's been a bit since I checked in, I think. I hope you are all doing well.
I've been working a lot, but really enjoying it right now. I hope that enthusiasm keeps up. I haven't written much, but I did start a new GEN story based on this artwork that my daughter drew me.
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I think I never posted here, but I did recently create a fic that was made into a podfic by itstartedwithalex as a gift for cassiope25. I so enjoy doing collabs with her and getting to surprise cassiope25 was a huge plus. Since we made it at the same time, we put the podfic and fic in the same post:
Possibly Hypothetical by Tazmy, read by Itstartedwithalex. Link to written fic and podfic. McShep, rated gen, Love confessions, feelings admission, a whole sea of emotions with humor. Rodney returns from an IOA inquiry with an important question for John.
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This May, I'm hosting a genMayathon for SGA. We're going to have open prompts for people to answer and it will be some laid back fun to get some gen fic out there. I'm also running a closed exchange for my discord friends at the same time that will pair with the genMayathon. I'm so excited to see some brilliant authors signing up who I don't think have ever written gen before! Much as I like my romance, I really have been missing some friendship and other gen style stories. I'm sooooooo excited!!!
I'll post the genMayathon pages for the general prompts challenge soon as we get them set up.
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I can't stop thinking about Babylon 5.sholio posted about The Long Night of London Mollari, and that episode was always so special to me. Especially now with how everything is going. When G'Kar tells London that it doesn't matter if people stopped. It doesn't matter if it was a stranger or his worst enemy. He had a responsibility to say something.
Oooooof I feel we all have to keep repeating that right now.
I've been working a lot, but really enjoying it right now. I hope that enthusiasm keeps up. I haven't written much, but I did start a new GEN story based on this artwork that my daughter drew me.
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I think I never posted here, but I did recently create a fic that was made into a podfic by itstartedwithalex as a gift for cassiope25. I so enjoy doing collabs with her and getting to surprise cassiope25 was a huge plus. Since we made it at the same time, we put the podfic and fic in the same post:
Possibly Hypothetical by Tazmy, read by Itstartedwithalex. Link to written fic and podfic. McShep, rated gen, Love confessions, feelings admission, a whole sea of emotions with humor. Rodney returns from an IOA inquiry with an important question for John.
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This May, I'm hosting a genMayathon for SGA. We're going to have open prompts for people to answer and it will be some laid back fun to get some gen fic out there. I'm also running a closed exchange for my discord friends at the same time that will pair with the genMayathon. I'm so excited to see some brilliant authors signing up who I don't think have ever written gen before! Much as I like my romance, I really have been missing some friendship and other gen style stories. I'm sooooooo excited!!!
I'll post the genMayathon pages for the general prompts challenge soon as we get them set up.
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I can't stop thinking about Babylon 5.
sholio posted about The Long Night of London Mollari, and that episode was always so special to me. Especially now with how everything is going. When G'Kar tells London that it doesn't matter if people stopped. It doesn't matter if it was a stranger or his worst enemy. He had a responsibility to say something. Oooooof I feel we all have to keep repeating that right now.
Cute Art!!!!
Apr. 6th, 2025 07:01 amMy kid was bored so I told her to draw me chibi, cross Rodney. So she did. On her phone. With her finger.
Then later she made me John finding mini Rodney:
Then later she made me John finding mini Rodney:
So each day just seems about getting through the minutes and finding ways to just enjoy what I can. So I've made lots of podfic and done some writing. It's nice to podfic. There's not pressure to come up with the ideas and make it awesome. I just read. If people like my reading then they like it. If not, I'm betting the author is going to be excited no matter what. And yes, sometimes I am the author because I find listening to my own stories relaxing.
I used to think no one would podfic my works if I didn't do it myself, but now I've got a good handful of fic with podfics made by others and that's made me extra happy. It's interesting and fun to read how differently people hear what's on the page from how I hear it in my own head. Each new reader adds their own flare and it makes the story that much more wonderful to hear.
I did record two McShep podfics this week (McShep light. Some cuddles in the first and the second is all pre-slash. They don't even get to the feelings admission, just a lot of pining!John). Sniffles by Mas_Pebbles_Sharp (short sickfic) and (Not an) Evil Robot Overlord by WonkyElk (hilarious! with Red Dwarf skutters!). I also wrote a story that I'm getting finished up for posting soon.
Description for (Not an) Evil Robot Overlord (HIGHLY recommend): John Sheppard had experienced quite a number of surreal moments in his life, most of which he’d simply accepted and ploughed right on through, with a shrug and a quip, saving his private internal freakout for later.
But his best friend getting arrested on charges of conspiring to overthrow Atlantis with an evil robot army, was one of those occasions when his attempts to control his shock and agitation ended up being about as effective as a T-Rex trying to hide behind a lamp post.
I'm also through 4 of the 5 part series by Tipper. Almost there!!!!
In Gen news: We've decided to have a genficathon again (other creations aloud so working on the name). Details should come out soon. I'm so excited to get more SGA gen stuff out there. Also, since the fandom seems to be slow not be creating over the last two months, it will be really nice to have more new posts.
How are you all?
I used to think no one would podfic my works if I didn't do it myself, but now I've got a good handful of fic with podfics made by others and that's made me extra happy. It's interesting and fun to read how differently people hear what's on the page from how I hear it in my own head. Each new reader adds their own flare and it makes the story that much more wonderful to hear.
I did record two McShep podfics this week (McShep light. Some cuddles in the first and the second is all pre-slash. They don't even get to the feelings admission, just a lot of pining!John). Sniffles by Mas_Pebbles_Sharp (short sickfic) and (Not an) Evil Robot Overlord by WonkyElk (hilarious! with Red Dwarf skutters!). I also wrote a story that I'm getting finished up for posting soon.
Description for (Not an) Evil Robot Overlord (HIGHLY recommend): John Sheppard had experienced quite a number of surreal moments in his life, most of which he’d simply accepted and ploughed right on through, with a shrug and a quip, saving his private internal freakout for later.
But his best friend getting arrested on charges of conspiring to overthrow Atlantis with an evil robot army, was one of those occasions when his attempts to control his shock and agitation ended up being about as effective as a T-Rex trying to hide behind a lamp post.
I'm also through 4 of the 5 part series by Tipper. Almost there!!!!
In Gen news: We've decided to have a genficathon again (other creations aloud so working on the name). Details should come out soon. I'm so excited to get more SGA gen stuff out there. Also, since the fandom seems to be slow not be creating over the last two months, it will be really nice to have more new posts.
How are you all?
Writing. Stuff.
Mar. 20th, 2025 07:47 pmI managed 1000 words of a new story today. This is huge because I haven't been able to write at all for 3 weeks. Reading Tipper's I Sometimes Wonder series (McShep) reminded me of how much I really love this series and why I can't seem to walk away from it. Then WonkyElk's story with the skutters (McShep) got me so very excited. Finally the words came. Phew. I know at some point I should move on and switch fandoms again, but SGA just captures my heart in a way nothing else does.
I started revising my most dreaded (by me) story. Weakness. Written in 2006. I loved it at the time and then negative feedback later led me to delete it. And then Case reminding me of the story and how much she loved it... It felt like it was finally time to go back, fix it up if possible. I feel like previous me was obsessed with the words "but" and "and". Some of the writing is good. Some is okay. Some is in serious need of revision. It's a HUGE project. We'll see how it goes?
How are you all doing?
I started revising my most dreaded (by me) story. Weakness. Written in 2006. I loved it at the time and then negative feedback later led me to delete it. And then Case reminding me of the story and how much she loved it... It felt like it was finally time to go back, fix it up if possible. I feel like previous me was obsessed with the words "but" and "and". Some of the writing is good. Some is okay. Some is in serious need of revision. It's a HUGE project. We'll see how it goes?
How are you all doing?
