A little while back, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to start using post-it notes to leave reminders and notes to myself again. Once, back when I was in my first year of taking Japanese, me and a housemate who was also taking it labeled pretty much everything in the house. It was very useful. My usual place for post-it notes is on my computer monitor, and I'm noticing that I seem to be establishing purpose zones or something. Right now, all the notes at the top are things I need to do (the time and place of my classes has central prominence -- and yes, I am completely capable of forgetting this stuff from one week to the next), and it used to be that the bottom was for phone numbers. However, I got an address book for Christmas (a very pointed gift from my grandmother), so now the bottom is... not.
Currently it's filled up with tiny yellow rectangles crammed with notes about characters played by either David Hewlett or Joe Flanigan. I am apparently gearing up to write a number of Hewligan crossovers. We'll see if this actually comes to pass; meanwhile, have an awesome McShep vid:
Save The Day - Switch
Currently it's filled up with tiny yellow rectangles crammed with notes about characters played by either David Hewlett or Joe Flanigan. I am apparently gearing up to write a number of Hewligan crossovers. We'll see if this actually comes to pass; meanwhile, have an awesome McShep vid:
Save The Day - Switch
Title: there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered
Rating: G
Characters: Primarily Rodney and Jeannie.
Author's notes: Episode tag for SGA 4.09 "Miller's Crossing".
( So, do I get to go home now? )
Rating: G
Characters: Primarily Rodney and Jeannie.
Author's notes: Episode tag for SGA 4.09 "Miller's Crossing".
This is just a little snippet I wrote back in July or August, when I had a random burst of Christmas spirit. It doesn't have a title, it's not mentally tagged to be part of anything larger other than "their lives" but hey -- it amuses me, so I share.
( What Rodney got his niece for Christmas )
Stargate/NCIS crossovers
Jan. 16th, 2009 09:57 pmI know someone on my f-list not too long ago was wonder where these crossovers were hiding, but I can't remember who! So, for the edification of any and all, I share this link: it's a list of crossover fic between SG-1 and/or SGA, and NCIS. Note that's it's not a list of recs, just an index of all the available such fic found by the lister.
my thoughts on Keller
Jan. 11th, 2009 10:29 pmHonestly, if TPTB had been remotely able to keep Keller's characterization consistent, I would have had a lot less objection. My main beef with her is pretty much that she wildly oscillated in behaviour and professed background, so that I thought she was a big liar and suspected her of being a bad guy. (Which would have been cool, actually.) Personally, I love Rodney, and I can see how someone as smart as her could therefore fall for him, especially having realized that yes, he is in some ways a huge sweetheart -- and he's not without flaws. Unlike Katie Brown, Jennifer gets that. It grates on me that she's trying to "fix" him, not because he doesn't need improvement but because it's a stereotype being applied to her.
Atlantis cast babies newest addition!
Jan. 2nd, 2009 10:47 pmSo: Joe has three sons, Rachel and David both recently had sons, and now Jason has a son! We need some girls in here. *sends mail to SGA cast encouraging them to breed more*
Jason's baby is named Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa.
I look forward to David mangling this a few time sin con footage. XD
Jason's baby is named Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa.
I look forward to David mangling this a few time sin con footage. XD
A miscellanea, listed.
Dec. 13th, 2008 06:09 pm♠ Caught the last 15 minutes or so of a random episode of the new Biker Mice From Mars today. Rimfire is Modo's nephew? Weird!
♠ So, I did this thing where I figured I'd ask my roomie for season 1 of SGA on DVD, and my parents for season 2. Only I messed up. My parents got the SGA message (and it's in the living room right now, in a sparkly bag with coloured tissue just kinda on top; I swear, they don't even try to curb my spelunking ways any more) BUT I actually asked my roomie for season1 of SG-1. And I apparently even confirmed it, when she asked if I was sure I didn't want SGA. Naturally, I have no memory of this lapse in sanity (aliens!) but now I have season 1 of SG-1 on DVD. I guess I'll be watching me some SG-1, then! And picking up season 1 of SGA for myself some time after Christmas.
♠ Bad fic idea #1: Rodney McKay versus/deals with Sedna! (As most of you probably didn't learn Inuit mythology in grade school like I did, here: Wiki provides.) And no, not as a Goa'uld. She would eat them for breakfast. I mean that literally.
♠ Bad fic idea #2: An SGA/NCIS crossover with McKay/Gibbs! Probably as something that happened before Rodney went off to Atlantis, and now a Marine's been murdered and some of the Atlantis crew were sorta there (I'm thinking the guy was part of their security contingent, and was murdered in a hotel room). There would probably be a cameo by John's ex-wife, and screencaps from And Never Let Her Go might possibly be used for inspiration.
♠ I saw the final half hour or so of the NCIS episode where they bury Kate. ;_; Kaaaaaaaate! (Is it my imagination, or is the shifty redhead director played by the same woman as the evil redhead hypnotist-psychotherapist on Eureka? And what is with evil hypnotist-psychotherapists? The final boss in Birds of Prey (the TV series) was Harley Quinn, and she was an evil hypnotist-psychotherapist! Dude.)
♠ Bad fic idea #3: SGA/NCIS again. McKay/Gibbs again. Maybe Gibbs could use his Snow White-esque animals-love-me mojo on McKay's cat. (Look, Mark Harmon is way prettier than Jewel Staite. I am trading up, here, people!)
♠ Bad fic idea #4: Rictor/Darkstar. Just, no. Why is my brain doing this to me? What do they even have in common? Being mutants, knowing Bobby Drake, and being on the Paris Corp-X team. She is too old for him.
♠ Work progresses on my latest stab at my
random_30 prompts. I have something in the works for each of y claims, but I'm worried they're boring. :/
♠ Me so tired.
♠ So, I did this thing where I figured I'd ask my roomie for season 1 of SGA on DVD, and my parents for season 2. Only I messed up. My parents got the SGA message (and it's in the living room right now, in a sparkly bag with coloured tissue just kinda on top; I swear, they don't even try to curb my spelunking ways any more) BUT I actually asked my roomie for season1 of SG-1. And I apparently even confirmed it, when she asked if I was sure I didn't want SGA. Naturally, I have no memory of this lapse in sanity (aliens!) but now I have season 1 of SG-1 on DVD. I guess I'll be watching me some SG-1, then! And picking up season 1 of SGA for myself some time after Christmas.
♠ Bad fic idea #1: Rodney McKay versus/deals with Sedna! (As most of you probably didn't learn Inuit mythology in grade school like I did, here: Wiki provides.) And no, not as a Goa'uld. She would eat them for breakfast. I mean that literally.
♠ Bad fic idea #2: An SGA/NCIS crossover with McKay/Gibbs! Probably as something that happened before Rodney went off to Atlantis, and now a Marine's been murdered and some of the Atlantis crew were sorta there (I'm thinking the guy was part of their security contingent, and was murdered in a hotel room). There would probably be a cameo by John's ex-wife, and screencaps from And Never Let Her Go might possibly be used for inspiration.
♠ I saw the final half hour or so of the NCIS episode where they bury Kate. ;_; Kaaaaaaaate! (Is it my imagination, or is the shifty redhead director played by the same woman as the evil redhead hypnotist-psychotherapist on Eureka? And what is with evil hypnotist-psychotherapists? The final boss in Birds of Prey (the TV series) was Harley Quinn, and she was an evil hypnotist-psychotherapist! Dude.)
♠ Bad fic idea #3: SGA/NCIS again. McKay/Gibbs again. Maybe Gibbs could use his Snow White-esque animals-love-me mojo on McKay's cat. (Look, Mark Harmon is way prettier than Jewel Staite. I am trading up, here, people!)
♠ Bad fic idea #4: Rictor/Darkstar. Just, no. Why is my brain doing this to me? What do they even have in common? Being mutants, knowing Bobby Drake, and being on the Paris Corp-X team. She is too old for him.
♠ Work progresses on my latest stab at my
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♠ Me so tired.
This Bud's for ...John.
Dec. 9th, 2008 03:35 amA lot of people have commented on how when we see John Sheppard drinking labeled beer (example: in "The Shrine") it's Budweiser, and they'd have thought that he'd have had better taste than that having been raised rich and traveled around the world some, etc. What they are failing to take into account is that Joe Flanigan, he who plays John, is the son of the (now retired) VP of the company that makes Budweiser.
This is partially due to Joe describing his dad as a farmer, I'm sure. He does own a farm. It's just that Joe hasn't totally gotten over that "painfully shy" thing that was the whole reason he got into acting in the first place, and, in case you hadn't noticed, tends to be close-mouthed about his private life to some degree whenever he can get away with saying less than the whole truth. It's easy to omit things when you're just showing up for a short interview segment in a morning talk show, for example.
Anyway, given that when we see John in civvies it's inevitably Joe's clothes that he wore to work that day (again, in "The Shrine", that evil panda T-shirt he's wearing as PJs is what Joe showed up to work in that day); given that the picture of a little boy with Evel Kneivel on John's nightstand is actually Joe as a kid; given that the skateboard and the surfboard are Joe's -- just, never be shocked when little details have to do with Joe, or are, at least, his doing. For example, the guitar? John has a guitar because Joe thought he was the kind of guy who could play guitar. Joe started learning to play the guitar in case it came up (and by his own admission, he sucks. Especially as compared to Jason.)
tl;dr The Budweiser product placement is out of respect to Joe's dad.
Also it's cheap and easy to get to the set. And probably wouldn't get them drunk filming (she said with typical Canadian beer-related arrogance, despite not drinking...)
This is partially due to Joe describing his dad as a farmer, I'm sure. He does own a farm. It's just that Joe hasn't totally gotten over that "painfully shy" thing that was the whole reason he got into acting in the first place, and, in case you hadn't noticed, tends to be close-mouthed about his private life to some degree whenever he can get away with saying less than the whole truth. It's easy to omit things when you're just showing up for a short interview segment in a morning talk show, for example.
Anyway, given that when we see John in civvies it's inevitably Joe's clothes that he wore to work that day (again, in "The Shrine", that evil panda T-shirt he's wearing as PJs is what Joe showed up to work in that day); given that the picture of a little boy with Evel Kneivel on John's nightstand is actually Joe as a kid; given that the skateboard and the surfboard are Joe's -- just, never be shocked when little details have to do with Joe, or are, at least, his doing. For example, the guitar? John has a guitar because Joe thought he was the kind of guy who could play guitar. Joe started learning to play the guitar in case it came up (and by his own admission, he sucks. Especially as compared to Jason.)
tl;dr The Budweiser product placement is out of respect to Joe's dad.
Also it's cheap and easy to get to the set. And probably wouldn't get them drunk filming (she said with typical Canadian beer-related arrogance, despite not drinking...)
splish-splash
Dec. 3rd, 2008 05:22 pmYou know, I love the SGA episode "The Shrine", I really do, but there's one nit I have to pick that would have basically not have it happen if the writers had stuck with their own logic. The Stargate can't engage if there's something blocking the inner surface of the ring, so it has been said. I'd like to think that all that water would have counted.
Marines doing the Cha Cha Slide
Nov. 27th, 2008 11:14 pmI read a lot of SGA fanfic. I've already mentioned that they tend to involve a disproportionately high amount of US Marines for what we see in the show, but another thing is that the Marines tend to get kind of a bad rap. (Not always; soemtimes they are human and rock, like in Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda.) But sometimes they do. It's like some writers think the USMC as a whole are humourless bastards who will throw a blanket party for the first person to deviate from a ridiculously stringent standard of masculinity.
Meanwhile, I've been watching Marines in Iraq doing the Cha Cha Slide. Both videos I linked were taken down while I was posting, alas.
Suffice to say, they're people. They have senses of humour. They do silly dances together!
Let's try this again:
Meanwhile, I've been watching Marines in Iraq doing the Cha Cha Slide. Both videos I linked were taken down while I was posting, alas.
Suffice to say, they're people. They have senses of humour. They do silly dances together!
Let's try this again:
SGA gen teamfic rec: "Board Wars"
Nov. 26th, 2008 03:48 pmBoard Wars is about team bonding and playing games and life (but not the game, Life). It's really good, it's sweet and at times poignant and at other times (or the same times) silly, and it has pictures!
Jaime Ray Newman (who played Laura Cadman) is pretty and also hilariously teeny compared to some of the guys she's worked with. There's also one in that gallery that I suspect is from Bones; David Boreanaz is making faces behind her back.
Hey, did you know they guy who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce voiced Mirror Master on JLU? Rogues ftw!
Hey, did you know they guy who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce voiced Mirror Master on JLU? Rogues ftw!
SGA 5.13: "Inquisition"
Oct. 28th, 2008 12:04 am:D Seriously?
That is not how I expected that to go down.
Also, something that occurred to me a little while ago: on screen, the cast boggled that Woolsey brought a huge wooden conference table with him to Atlantis. Off screen, I would bet money that the cast cheered, considering all the bitching about the furniture that used to be in that room done in commentaries and interviews.
That is not how I expected that to go down.
Also, something that occurred to me a little while ago: on screen, the cast boggled that Woolsey brought a huge wooden conference table with him to Atlantis. Off screen, I would bet money that the cast cheered, considering all the bitching about the furniture that used to be in that room done in commentaries and interviews.
SGA gen fic rec
Oct. 15th, 2008 09:46 pmAncestor's Gift -- it's non-slash mpreg! Also, I think Ronon would make a great dad. Or mom. Or uncle -- luckily for Torren! ;D
a few fic recs (SGA)
Oct. 5th, 2008 06:31 pmHave some dialogue from the episode "Underground" in SGA's first season!
McKay: "I built an atomic bomb for my grade six science fair exhibit."
Ford: "They let you do that up in Canada?"
McKay: "It wasn't a working model. Still, I was questioned for six hours by the CIA, who believed I was part of a secret preteen organization, actually, it led to my first job--"
Sheppard cut him off, which is a shame. I've always wondered what the rest of the story was. Ask Me Something is one possibility.
Other recent responses to the "kidfic challenge" over on
sga_flashfic include a story where Woolsey runs afoul of a de-aging machine and this entirely dysfunctional, not safe for kids Romper Room story about sad, grumpy Rodney looking for a friend with alternate slashy ending and paper doll.
Good reading!
McKay: "I built an atomic bomb for my grade six science fair exhibit."
Ford: "They let you do that up in Canada?"
McKay: "It wasn't a working model. Still, I was questioned for six hours by the CIA, who believed I was part of a secret preteen organization, actually, it led to my first job--"
Sheppard cut him off, which is a shame. I've always wondered what the rest of the story was. Ask Me Something is one possibility.
Other recent responses to the "kidfic challenge" over on
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smirk + bowtie = WIN
Oct. 3rd, 2008 01:12 pmCHECK OUT MY NEW ICON.
Julian Lodge. ♥
Yes, a Joe Flanigan character. From First Monday, which only ran a season and wasn't terribly good -- it wasn't terrible, either, but it just wasn't as engaging or exciting as JAG or NCIS, the two other shows in the same continuity.
But I lovelovelove Julian. ♥ And his bowties. ♥
Semi-relatedly (due to a Flaniganian connection), a fic rec! (You are shocked.) It's an AU SGA fic. (So very, very shocked.)
Blue Colorado Skies is an Old West story which the author bills as steampunk -- it's not, really; there's no steam and only a little punk. But there are dirigibles and clockwork/mechanical prosthetics. It's also a gen teamfic, with a McKay bias. Hey, this is me reccing the thing. Anyway, it's only like 11,410 words long, so check it out when you've got a few minutes. :3
Julian Lodge. ♥
Yes, a Joe Flanigan character. From First Monday, which only ran a season and wasn't terribly good -- it wasn't terrible, either, but it just wasn't as engaging or exciting as JAG or NCIS, the two other shows in the same continuity.
But I lovelovelove Julian. ♥ And his bowties. ♥
Semi-relatedly (due to a Flaniganian connection), a fic rec! (You are shocked.) It's an AU SGA fic. (So very, very shocked.)
Blue Colorado Skies is an Old West story which the author bills as steampunk -- it's not, really; there's no steam and only a little punk. But there are dirigibles and clockwork/mechanical prosthetics. It's also a gen teamfic, with a McKay bias. Hey, this is me reccing the thing. Anyway, it's only like 11,410 words long, so check it out when you've got a few minutes. :3
"Never gets old."
Sep. 27th, 2008 06:20 pmIt's not so much that I like seeing Sheppard get dominated by Wraith Queens, tied to chairs and/or posts, flung through the air, beaten up, or shot -- but seeing so many of these instances all at once is pretty much hilarious. XD Especially as it brings home juts how much it happens! Oh, Lordy. Fail, Shep. Just... Fail. XD
P.S. There's clips after the credits, too!
P.S. There's clips after the credits, too!
SGA quote meme
Sep. 17th, 2008 01:02 amWhen you see this, post a quote from Stargate Atlantis in your journal.
Sheppard: Shouldn't you guys be bickering or something?
McKay: Ah, we've got nothing to bicker about. He's run out of bad ideas... finally.
Zelenka: If we survive this, I'm putting in for a transfer.
McKay: Oh, please. We both know that you've done your best work under me.
Zelenka: Under you?! I'm my own department head, you know.
McKay: Please! We both know that department is a joke.
Zelenka: What?!
Sheppard: Why don't you two just make out and get it over with?
Sheppard: Shouldn't you guys be bickering or something?
McKay: Ah, we've got nothing to bicker about. He's run out of bad ideas... finally.
Zelenka: If we survive this, I'm putting in for a transfer.
McKay: Oh, please. We both know that you've done your best work under me.
Zelenka: Under you?! I'm my own department head, you know.
McKay: Please! We both know that department is a joke.
Zelenka: What?!
Sheppard: Why don't you two just make out and get it over with?
SGA: "The Queen"
Sep. 16th, 2008 09:20 pmEhhhn. *waves hand* Not my favourite episode ever, but it didn't suck. I've been wanting to see something Teyla focussed, but this wasn't really what I had in mind.
( A couple of spoilery comments )
SGA fanfic: "A Whisper In The Night"
Sep. 7th, 2008 09:49 pmTitle: A Whisper In The Night
Author's Note: Lorne thinks about what he's done (episode related -- SGA 4.20 "The Last Man" future timeline)
( Evan Lorne stared unseeingly at the dark ceiling of his bedroom and thought about time. )
Author's Note: Lorne thinks about what he's done (episode related -- SGA 4.20 "The Last Man" future timeline)