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I'm not quite sure how this came about -- probably it came into my head from the combination of a discussion on rereading Harry Potter and something I saw in the Thirty Days of Fanfic meme that's going around -- but I have been thinking about Fandom Firsts. Okay, you've got a new fandom: what was the first fic you remember reading? Did it make any lasting impact on your experience with said fandom? &c.

Here are some of mine!

( Harry Potter, Good Omens, SGA, Doctor Who, due South, and Highlander. Most of these are RIDICULOUS. But I happily own my fannish absurdity! )

And what about you guys? If you do absurd things like imprint on old fic enough to remember it, I'd be fascinated to hear what it is. And seriously, don't be embarrassed. My stuff is all old school slash or Eliza Snape, okay, I will really not judge you.

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I don't even care about SGA fandom, but oh my god, this post! It is all about how John Sheppard is an emotional moron and also really gay. I think my face is going to break from grinning soon.

Can anyone tell me what it is about summer that makes me want to watch stupid TV? I should be catching up on three seasons of True Blood or doing more of my Babylon 5 rewatch, but no, now I have a desire to watch bits of SGA. What is broken in me??

Brb, going to ~~rewatch some Highlander so I can write Methos fic dskldfsjk~~ the local grocery store to do some errands, oh my god, self.

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Wow, I had a weird and vivid dream last night. First I was Merlin -- the boy wizard, not the awesome old man -- and I was swimming across a lake along with Arthur and Uther (?!); on the other side I met Morgause in a public washroom, and she tried to convince me that Uther must die. But I'd seen that episode many, many times, so I went off and discovered that Kolya was trying to take over Atlantis, as he often does. Obviously at this point I stopped being Merlin and became John Sheppard; then me and Kolya had close hand-to-hand combat with knives! I got stabbed in the side, which hurt like hell but did not much bother me because I was John Sheppard, so instead I stabbed Kolya in the hand. [My friend down the hall, upon hearing a recount of this dream: "There were knives, and you got stabbed in the side?" Me, knowing where this was going: "I was Sheppard at the time! It meant homoeroticism, not pregnancy." My friend, in delight: "That's a sentence that should be said all the time."] Anyway, Kolya called a forty-minute break to regroup, and I went downstairs to the dining deck of the cruise ship because I'd gotten turned around; really I was trying to find Ursula K Le Guin, because she was running the convention and had bandages (???). I knew that if I went back upstairs to fight Kolya again, I was absolutely going to die, but I'd be saving everyone in the process, so that was all right. Also, by the time I made this determination I ... may have been Fraser, because apparently I ascribe them similar worrying motivations. Then I started drifting awake, and was deeply annoyed because I still wanted to die and save the world! What is this even.

Perhaps relatedly, some results from yesterday's poll:

John Sheppard & Ray Kowalski: 8
John Sheppard & Benton Fraser: 7
Rodney McKay & Benton Fraser: 6
Rodney McKay & Ray Kowalski: 5

I am not able to make any exciting sweeping conclusions (nor would I even if the numbers were much more skewed, because this is a skientific poll, not a scientific one); the only one I will venture to draw is that wow, we as a fandom must really love experimental hair. Also, despite being a John girl myself, I'm sad that there's not more Rodney love. I'm pleased to see that it's horrendously difficult to choose between Fraser and Ray, though.

Now enough of this nonsense.

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I am taking a break from being almost disgustingly productive in order to conduct a VERY IMPORTANT POLL. And if you've been paying any attention to me for the last ever, you'll know that by very important poll, I mean I love asking arbitrary questions!

Today's are born of my continuing reaction of being completely weirded out by the fact that finding Sheppard/McKay fanfic is easy: you just find someone who wrote Fraser/Kowalski way back when and click forward a little. I have convinced myself that there must be some deep mystical connection here, partly because I want fandom to be less shallow than "pretty boys! yay!" and partly because I'm fighting a losing battle against plotting a massive crossover instead of writing my Yuletide. In the spirit of that, by which I mean deep mystical connections, I want to see if there is a favorite character pattern! (For example: Fraser & Sheppard are kind of One True Characters for me. Maybe this means I have a thing for The Heroes? Maybe you like Fraser and McKay best! Snippy Canadians for the win? I don't know what I'm trying to prove here but, by god, I am going to skientifically prove it.) So!

For the purpose of this exercise, you do have to choose. Also, I'm not going to lie, I'm just kind of curious to take a headcount on how many people actually know wtf I'm talking about.

Poll #1879

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

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CHOOSE

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Rodney McKay
12 (42.9%)

John Sheppard
16 (57.1%)

CHOOSE

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Benton Fraser
14 (48.3%)

Ray Kowalski
15 (51.7%)

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There are many things I should be doing right now, but I'm actually too panicked to do them (and I got a lot done today! just not the one specific thing that is panicking me) so I decided to celebrate/distract myself from feeling sick/&c by finishing up my extremely haphazard Stargate Atlantis rewatch. Although for s5 "rewatch" is a misnomer, because I hadn't seen any of these before.

( The Daedelus Variations, The Shrine, Remnants, Vegas, and Enemy at the Gate: hey, they all looked watchable when I read the wiki summaries. )

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Oh my god what is this I don't even.

( Letters from Pegasus, Kowalski edition. )

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The conclusion I'm reaching right now has very little to do with what is sane and probably quite a lot to do with the fact that my mind scrambles wildly for distractions when I'm overworked, but: the slow start of s1 and the more painful bits of the Michael arc aside, I think I want to do a genuine rewatch of Stargate Atlantis. It's not that I've been doing a fake rewatch, but I have been doing a very haphazard patchwork one; I mean, I've had barely any Lorne and not nearly enough Zelenka. I'm sure I've missed important conversations about Batman. My rewatch seems to be weirdly skewed in favor of Rodney Being Epic rather than John Being Epic, and although I approve of these ratios I would like to watch my ridiculous space boyfriend some more. And there are so many things about s2-4 that I really love!

I don't think SGA is ever going to be one of My Fandoms, affection for the fic and my ever-more-elaborate plotting for the SGA/due South crossover aside; I've had very few great and sweeping fandom loves, and since my SGA revival is coming in the middle of an apparently long-lasting and happy relationship with due South, it really doesn't have a chance. Still, I'm feeling great affection for it.

The s4 watch notes are cut for screencaps. Blame Doppelganger.

( The one with more Jeannie, and Sheppard beating himself up. And probably some other things too. )

And now to soldier bravely on to the wilds of never-before-seen-s5! I only have three non-arc-y random episodes cued, plus the finale, so I'm sure my thoughts will be scattered and useless and quite sans context, but I shouldn't be looking for fannish contexts during exam time anyway.

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When I said I wasn't bringing any TV on vacation with me, I lied.

I think s3 may in fact be far and away my favourite. How much I love something is directly proportional to how much I write about it, and this is the first season that I need to stick behind a cut.

( SGA s3, or: the one with TEAM!! episodes and Jeannie Miller and awesome Wraith and near-ascensions and gkds I can't even. )

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S2 feels to me like that's when SGA hit its stride, although that might be my brief fandom flirtation circa 2006 talking. Or alternately I just have a huge crush on Ronon. I also had plenty of respect for David Hewlett's acting the first time through, but after watching Jamie Ray Newman on Eastwick for a couple of months, Duet kind of blows me away. 80% of that episode consisted of me going, "Look, Rodney's doing another Kat mannerism!" Crazy.

Like unto due South (wherein I have an OTP but also an OT3), I have found, SGA gives me an OTP but also an OT4. (The only permutation that I can't figure out: Ronon/Rodney. And to a lesser extent Rodney/Teyla. But I have three more seasons to work out the logistics.) Basically I can't stop shipping Ronon/Teyla and John/everyone?

Relatedly, though, I'm enjoying SGA in much the same way that I enjoy due South, and I can't figure out quite why. Where in the Venn diagram of Stuff I Like From Shows do they overlap? With both genre and general tone I got nothing. I'd say maybe it's the fandom overlap but there has to be a reason for the fandom overlap in the first place. While I half-suspect that the answer is "Pretty boys to slash!" or even specifically "An intelligent snippy Canadian with spotty social skills and an American with funny hair and emotional issues and a gun, who frequently save each other, to slash!" which is ... pretty damn specific, actually, it still seems like an easy and shallow answer? Maybe it's just that they're both fun, in the way that you know you're not watching for the plot, you're watching for the character interactions, and unless you're compulsive about your TV like I am, you might as well just read a fandom primer and then all the fabulous fic instead of bothering with the show at all. Maybe that's it.

Or maybe we just enjoy watching characters we love almost die in wildly bizarre ways. :D?

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Today I have done all my work (except for the art that is due tomorrow morning; way to go, self), revisited some source material for my Yuletide fic, and ... uh, watched first season SGA. Not all of it, not by a long shot (more Genii, fewer Iratus bugs!) but ... I did finish all of the ones that I wanted to watch, possibly so that when I'm done with my art homework I can, um, watch Duet, specifically for Jamie Ray Newman. I will take my Canadian Actor Bingo where I can find it, okay! In the meantime, a few random notes about first season:

+ KOLYAAAAAAAA. That is all.
+ Despite being all about the Sheppard/McKay, partly by most-fleshed-out-characters process of elimination and partly because they gradually get the whole Partners thing that I am very easy for, I ... really don't ship them first season, probably in large part because they have Elizabeth and/or Teyla as buffers in most scenes. Dr. Gall the redshirt scientist from The Defiant One, however, does ship them. A lot. "You've changed, Dr. McKay! Now go out there and ~rescue the Major~." Ahaha. <3
+ I really am embarrassingly fond of Sanctuary. Is it because Rodney's jealousy reads weirdly like he's jealous of Chaya? Is it because I, like John, am weirdly easy for Ancients? Is it the metacommentary on Kirk? Is it that Chaya's "sharing" is the best thing since sliced bread? Probably all of the above! I bet I am completely alone here.
+ Letters from Pegasus breaks my heart about ten different ways. Rodney's awkward ramblings and Weir's list of the dead were awful enough the first time, but knowing what happens to everyone is just -- augh.

In conclusion: I am really enjoying myself! I am also increasingly terrified that I will cave and look for fic, which -- that way madness lies. Exams & fic exchanges (&, let's be honest, probably the current ds_flashfiction challenge, because I'm incapable of not doing those) first; then unhealthy amounts of SGA fannishness.

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Jfc I totally just watched the Stargate Atlantis pilot and it was a HUGE MISTAKE because I am full of due South levels of happyglow.

Really, though. John Sheppard is my boyfriend! I friendship him and Teyla so hard, and I leadership him and Weir more than I thought I would, and I am preemptively brokenhearted about both Weir and Ford, augh. (But then there is Ronon! Am I planning to skip like half of s1 in order to get to Ronon faster & have lots of TEAM? Why yes probably!) I am almost helpless to not watch the second episode right now because that's the one with the personal shield and John throwing Rodney off balconies and things! John's speshul speshul Ancient gene and the way the city wants to date him make me so happy. Wraith and their wacky organic hiveships make me so happy. (I want Wraith hiveships and Cylon basestars to hang out.) In conclusion I am screwed, not least because I was (am!) resolutely not taking any TV with me over Thanksgiving break.

I really am completely incoherent about this. When it is a more reasonable hour I'm sure my priorities will be saner and not include things like "Make a list of all the episodes that are not actually skippable." Even when it is a more reasonable hour, though, I'm pretty sure my priorities will still include "Write lots of Sheppard/Kowalski puddlejumper sex," but I think that's okay.

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Although by some miracle I have trained myself out of reaching November and going into full-on procrastination mode, it is still November and this means that I am being mostly responsible but still flirting with the idea of procrastination.

In the spirit of this, I should be using my hour-before-bed free time to, say, work on fic or perhaps catch up on Merlin and SJA and maybe Flashpoint. Instead I find myself rereading all the due South fic I have bookmarked, listening to a lot more Barenaked Ladies than is perhaps healthy, and steadily losing my internal battle to not rewatch Stargate Atlantis. This is how it goes in my head:

PROS
+ He's an emotionally inarticulate guy with a failed marriage, funny hair, and mad skills with a gun! He's a snippy Canadian scientist with a genius IQ and very few people skills! Together, they fight Wraith!!
+ RONON. Enough said.
+ The first time I watched it, it was literally one of the first TV shows I'd sat down to watch in a remotely fannish way, and although I certainly enjoyed it I was mostly watching it as Something To Do With Friends and it didn't particularly speak to me. Now I think of it and the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees, okay.
+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds: go after the old due South stuff and work forwards!

CONS
+ I can probably find all the good fic and meta in about 0.5 seconds. My life would disappear!
+ It's not -- uh, it's really not that good? Obviously I would be in it for the fandom, and I am starting to get spoiled and like shows where I can just watch the show without getting a headache. (First Michael plotline, end of s2: I WANT TO BEAT EVERYONE WITH CLUEBATS. For example.)
+ Did I mention that the idea of writing John Sheppard makes me go weak in the knees? I think the only real question here is, how many fic projects do I need? (I understand that this may be only my own personal con.)

The fact that I am even mentioning any of this means I am tipping dangerously close to just caving and doing a (possibly selective, Best Of, Watch Rodney Do Awesome Things) rewatch, and I am about 80% sure that this is a thinly veiled ploy to get someone to talk me into it. On the other hand, this should probably be a project for the new year.

On the mutant third hand I really desperately want to write improbable Fraser/Ray/John/Rodney fic, but shhh.

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I just made the accidental discovery that I actually have the first two seasons of Stargate Atlantis on DVD. (I did buy s1! And s2 was given by a friend! But it was ages ago and went right out of my head.)

My point here is that I have about a billionty due South fics to write and I'm about to return to school and run out of time to do anything non-academic, but: Canadians! some guy with a gun and emotional inarticulation and funny hair! wacky hijinks! IN SPACE! Despite the fact that the show was generally rubbish unless it was about Rodney being trapped underwater or dealing with his sister or nearly ascending or communing with whales or, y'know, all those other things Rodney does, and despite the fact that I used SGA fic as a gateway into dS fandom and that doing it in reverse would probably be a trainwreck of me never sleeping again from fic overload, I am ... deeply tempted.

I need to just write more of the stuff I'm already working on and not give myself any extra fannish stuff. Otherwise Fraser and RayK will end up in Atlantis (is it just an American military presence? if so, Fraser is civilian crew and does diplomatic missions in a Teyla-esque capacity and wears a red shirt akin to Elizabeth's) and then my brain would explode. Meanwhile Ronon and Dief become friends. I MEAN NO ARGH.

Possibly I will just panic and watch Hard Core Logo again only this time I know I will cry at the end. I want to write the massive s2 AU. I want to write the massive s2 AU.

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The Top Five meme, answers edition!

( A good deal of talk mostly about Harry Potter and CKR. And lesbians. )

Feel free to ask me for more top fives!

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a conspiracy of cartographers

every day is taako tuesday

like the wayback machine, but MORE HILARIOUS

I love how ridiculous I am during the summer

in which aria has watched way too much tv

it's a ship. it goes through the gate.

sga (warnings for only scattered coherence)

I do not have TIME for this

this just in: john sheppard is still my space boyfriend

in the way that a friend feels about another friend

in which aria is apparently in the midst of a very fast-moving sga renaissance

notes from pegasus

ferris wheels, college football, & things that go more than 200 mph

those crazy messed-up things that you do

warning: this post is useless

a way to get up from down

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