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Husband is now mostly recovered from surgery and doing well! What a relief.

I'm still struggling to find time to write, but I did start posting my latest story. This one is taking a lot of work and I'm really happy for my betas that are helping me along the way. I feel like beta reading for others and having them beta read for me is like taking graduate level classes. I learn so much. Plus, it's a lot of fun. With comments/kudos so much lower these days in the SGA fandom, the beta reading becomes that much more important for cheerleading comments and just to know there are still people out there.

I did start posting for various reasons despite still working on the final chapter. This one is a doozy. Tags include homophobia, DADT, physical assault, angst with some humor, and more. It's preMcShep with feelings realization, but very little emphasis on the relationship until the last chapter. The main plot is a murder mystery.

I've posted 4 of the 6 chapters.

Title: It's...Complicated

Summary: John investigates the disappearance of one of his lieutenants and ends up uncovering deeply rooted hate within Atlantis. What trouble has McKay found himself in now? How can John protect him if he won’t cooperate?

The beginning few paragraphs:

Lieutenant Brooks didn’t report for duty.


At first, John assumed the lieutenant to be skiving off after having attended Atlantis’ Annual Pegasus Bash the night before. Several drunk attendees called in sick or failed to report on time so there was nothing particularly suspicious about Brooks's absence. John planned to wait for him to arrive, give him the requisite dressing down, and then forget the absence even happened. This was Pegasus, after all, and everyone needed a chance to let loose once in a while.

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Link to the story on AO3

 So many good fics for SGA are coming out now.

nottasha  is posting the fourth part in her gen Ghost series, where Rodney can see an talk to ghosts but no one else can.  The new one promises to be amazing and has hit the ground running. Severe illness and it's written for the sga music festival!

Tipper (tippergreen )  is posting her version of season six. I had the joy of beta reading (maybe more pre-reading) part one and it's so good.  I have her part two I'm going to be diving into soon.  I highly recommend this action packed series.  It starts with Rodney/Jennifer but is actually slowburn McShep.

EPHenderson wrote a lovely fic with McShep post the Shrine with reflections back through the years and dealing with feelings.


In general, though, fandom has seemed fairly quiet and I'm worried about this ebb. Comments and kudos are down for everyone and that means it's harder to get people to write good fic. Hopefully it will pick up soon. I'm feeling a bit lonely in fandom.

I need to write something. It's have the time but no energy.  Husband's illness took it out of me. Four days in the hospital in the isolation room and he was so happy to come home finally. 

I'm finally here to give updates!

First, thanks to everyone who wished me and my partner well on my last post. I'll answer soon, I'm just tired and overwhelmed. Still, your warm wishes were a balm in hard times.


The Emergency Room was a big disconcerting. I posted about it on Tumblr, but I think some of you are not there so here it is again:

Anyway, partner is still in the hospital. It seems he has a mild kidney infection, but it's also really unclear because the doctors can't agree and don't make any sense. The urologist thinks he is fine and should go home. The hospital refuses to release him until he passes through so many hoops such as getting cleared by a the surgeon at a different hospital, finishing IV antibiotics (he's given the 3 times a day), possibly getting another CT scan and who knows what else. Blah.

In better news: Librarychick_94 did a podfic of my story, Respite, and my daughter made a lovely cover for it. She did the art for the story when she was 4. It's 12 years later, and the cover she made is perfect and lovely.  The podfic is so warm. I don't know how she got my fic to sound so awesome and I'm so excited. Seriously, amazing!




I hope you all are doing well. 

Okay, so you know how if something is in a drawer, it doesn't exist? That's how this site is to me. It pops out of existence for a while until something reminds me that it exists and I like it here and I should look around and maybe even write something.

So, here I am. Hi!

I only managed 8 days posting in March. Whoops. I think I’ll try for ten this month! Feel free to nudge me if you notice a lack of posts.

I posted a new McShep fic! This one os about John dealing with DADT and his established relationship woth Rodney. Short. Rodney POV.
Given Away



No, this was not the fic I am supposed to be finishing.  The endless Whump that haunts my thoughts still lurks in my shadow. Oh, cruel WIP, why torment me so??

I have much to say about today but it must wait.  I have work to do.

My middle kiddo has spent the day trying to teach me the first 100 digit of pi. This is a losing battle.

However, I do have two pi day fics I've written. The first one was written 20 years ago in the math lounge when I was an undergraduate student! I revised it a few years ago. The second story was written a long time ago as well.

Pi Day - This is an uplifting story with a bit of post-Trinity backdrop. Rodney realizes the Atlantis expedition is still his family and always will be.

Alien Traditions: The Return of Pi Day - A new madness had come to Atlantis. Lured by the aroma of blueberries and bananas, one by one expedition members found their way to the commissary only to be met by a strange sight. Dressed in white hats and coats, Atlantis's senior staff, along with twenty or so scientists and soldiers, had taken to making culinary delights. Piles upon piles of pie tins covered the tables. Flour painted the floor white.

An outsider POV of the Atlantis Expedition celebrating Pi Day.

 Ooooo I'm feeling so sick today!  Fairly certain I have a fever. My throat is on fire. My head hurts. I'm so tired.

But it's been a good day!  I took the time to rest, look over the FTH auctions, ate homemade chicken soup, watched SGA with the discord group, took a nap, thought of fanfic and fanvids I want to create, played Catan with my kids, and talked on the phone with the rescue about a cat I want to adopt. I would have adopted them today, but I'm sick, so I can get the cat until Friday night!

Meanwhile my kids are now playing their own new version of Catan where they have turned it into a coop game but with lots of infighting and stealing... Intriguing?

I feel like I'm on fire. Blah. 

 Fandom Trumps Hate made a template for tracking bids so I made one that tracks all the bids on Stargate offerings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LdLGAITaj89JRHg1N1lq2bPZAPmV0sQ9Y4fXTKR0VqI/edit?gid=0#gid=0


Things the last few days have been soooooo hard.  I've been a sobbing mess.  Blah.  Does this count as a day 2 post?

 Look at me, coming back to write again!  I managed 6 entries in February. So let's start new in March and see if I can do better in March than I did in February. Nothing like a good contest to get me going :)

AO3 has been down most of the day and I am not okay. I need my fanfic. It is a NEED.  I suppose I could go to my backpack and pickup my eReader where I have a bunch of fics saved that I want to read, but that is work and steps and hard and....

Listen, AO3, I just...I need.... *sigh*

I went to the local cat lounge today and the cats were so sweet and cute and I really need the 3 year old cat that was just so full of love and love and more love. 

I also need my house to magically clean itself and for the garage to stop being worked on. I want my house back!

I have had no spoons to write. I want to write. I know what to write. I just...even with time to do so...just can't.  *sigh*

 I am so behind with everything right now!!!!!  Eeeeeep.  I am drowning in work and more work and everything else. I need all the coffee.  This entry is short. 

Here, a McShep vs. the SGA show writers animatic on Tumblr