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It’s been good times in SGA fandom.

nottasha  is posting Cold as Ice (gen, 4/8 chapters posted so far, prompt: F Ice)

Sablecain posted Shake, Rattle, and Cold (gen, fully posted, prompt: F Ice)

I finished content betaing an amazing fic that I can’t wait to link here as soon as the author posts. Seriously, it’s sooooo good and the first part of a longer season six series!

I wrote a story with the content of making a short idea longer. So I wrote a 2000 word sickfic and added on until it became it’s own McShep feelings admission/first kiss story. Heard You Kissed

Fandom seems to have dramatically slowed with kudos and comments for all which is disappointing, but oh well. I am enjoying coming here on dreamwidth. It’s nice to have community and people to talk to/write with. I’m slowly growing my circle.

I’m at work but in my car. I don’t want to go in…. But I need to. Maybe I can find time to write. I really want to.

 So it's the 13th of March and somehow I'm only on day 5 entry!  Whoops.  But I'm here and I'm writing so that's something. 

It was... a Week with a capital W and a big sigh for emphasis. But the good news is that I did manage some writing and I'm almost done with a story. Yay!

Oh, and this Sunday we get a cat. Yay!

 I missed out on my chance to be at David Hewlett or Rachel Luttrell’s table at the con, but I see the person who played Na’Toth on B5 will be there and I am very tempted to sit at that table…

Bidding is open until March 7!!  Come help out amazing organizations.

There are 12 Stargate entires in total

My offerings:

Offering 1: Fic. and   Offering 2: Podfic

 Fandom Trump's Hate is happening again this year. I'm so proud of the creations I made last year and I'm excited to put my name in the bucket again.  I'll be offering fic and podfic.

It's browsing time right now and then bidding time starting on the 3rd!

There are 12 Stargate entires in total, including podfic by librarychick_94 , stories by melagan , goddess47 , and Cassiope25 and more!

Offering 1: Fic. and   Offering 2: Podfic


If you are interested in seeing what I made last year, here were my creations:

Accepting Me - Rodney gets an email from his sibling which send him rushing back to Earth. (future, established McShep, nonbinary character). Available as a podfic read by MalihiniMoon.

This Journey We Share - Directly follows  This Second Chance at Happiness to make the series This is Our Chance. Both are short stories. Whump, Angst, Humor, Chosen Family, infirmary stay, and a Series Finale full of hope and joy. Ronon/Amelia, McShep

Podfic of Take a Chance by cassiope25 Rodney after Quarantine dealing with self worth issues. McShep

Yay, day 4 of posting!

My writing group went really well, I think? One of my friends from the sga discord came over along with a few of my local friends. We wrote for a bit and we played a game of "Five Why's". My entry:

Five Why's: The Deviled Egg

( My entry for Five Why's )





Anyone else want to try?  It can be for any fandom or original. 

I had no idea the painter for our garage would be here on the weekend so I was not ready for the house to smell of paint and the heat to have to be turned off for the event. My AO3 bff neighbor offered for us to use her house, but it worked out in the end. I hope to do another group next month. Maybe keep the momentum going.  Maybe even try running an online one next term when I'm less busy (anyone interested?  It would be more of a "live" writing group via zoom or something. I'm in enough asynchronous writing stuff but not enough synchronous ones)

In other news, I signed myself up for Fandom Trumps Hate again. I had so much fun last year and I'm really proud of the creations I managed. Last year, thanks to very generous fandom friends, I brought in $180 with my 3 works. I do not think anything close to that will happen this time, but I'm happy to take part. It's good motivation and it does something good.

Oh!  I impulsively reserved a hotel for me to go to the scifi convention Shore Leave over in Lancaster, PA in July. Lots of amazing writers will be there as well David Hewlett and Rachel Luttrell.  I think I will take my middle who was very upset she didn't get to meet DH last time.  I'm hoping I'll know some people going. It's so much more fun to go with people. But either way, it should be fun.

 Day two!  I'm writing here again. Yay. I remembered.  See Dreamwidth is really hard for me to remember. It's not like Discord that gives me reminders it exists. Dreamwidth is in the drawer I only remember to open when I realize it's been forever since I've opened that drawer.

So what am I up to?

I'm betaing an amazing story and so excited to get to beta it.

I'm still working on Deep Down Below and I think I finally have the next chapter in my mind worked out. It is so not at all like the original chapter...whoops.

I keep meaning to remember to read books. Like actual books that aren't fanfiction. I mostly forget books exist. I have several books I really want to read and I start them, but then I forget they exist. I am enjoying reading to my youngest. We are reading The Vanderbeekers of 41st Street. It's a kids novel about a family getting evicted and the kids trying to convince the grumpy landlord to let them stay. Neither of my older kids would read the book with me, so I'm excited to read it now.

My eldest is reading Murderbot. She's fairly far into the series and I just now finished book two.  At first she didn't like it, but the whole series has grown on her. 

So anyway, I did it. I wrote. I'm here!  Yay.

 Hi everyone!! It's been....a while.  I keeps seeing the snowflake challenge going around and I think I should join, but I guess I'm not really sure how it works. Do you have to sign up?  Do you have to do every day? Obviously, I already missed most of it.

My life continues to get more and more difficult but there is some good mixed in with all the bad. It's made it hard to write, which is sad because writing is what keeps me happy.  I did manage to write a story for the Secret Santa on my sga discord, though, so that's great.  Only something went weird with the bot and it seems to have assigned multiple people the same person, lol.  As an organizer, I know it was me assigned at first and I think I know how it got mixed up, but it's still hilarious.

Story is either gen or established McShep so I tagged it as both / and & to let both audiences know the story would work for them. Once again, humor. There's something about humor that works well for me when times are hard. I haven't written much in Deep Down Below because I'm right where I just killed off Teyla and Rodney and I'm supposed to write John's grief before he goes into the depths of hell to bring them back, but that doesn't sit right with me dealing with my dad getting hit by a car, the accident my mom had, bad news on other fronts, and stuff that's just...not the mindset to deal with that story right now.  I could post it as written, but I've edited the entire tone of the story and made it so much better. I don't want to give up on it.

So my recent story that is gen or established McShep is:

Zero Days Since McKay's Last Injury
Rodney's minions try to save him from himself. 1500 words. Humor.

Borrowed from 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.  )

Just 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)