For some reason, a lot of my notes to myself start with that one or some variation. Like...
It's that fic where Jonas stays on after Daniel comes back and Jack is pretty sure that he didn't actually see Daniel during Abyss because Daniel is a professional rule-breaker and failed to break the rules when it mattered and Jonas is way too perceptive and starts Actually Grokking all the weird idiosyncracies in SG-1's interrelationships and Sam and Jonas end up superbonding over being weirdly outsider types even though they're yes vital parts of SG-1.
Or...
That one where all of SG-1 are terrifying, self-serving, selfish, and unstable, except somehow as a unit they're the best they could ever be.
Or sometimes...
That one where the team runs into a giant hall of mirror artifacts and Jack and Teal'c get sent through a malfunctioning one into a universe where Sam was never allowed to join the Stargate program and Kinsey probably took over and some other weird crap also happened, but the upshot of it all was that Earth got taken over by Mars or someone and the entire global and interstellar political arena has gone totally bizarre and crapsack? Like, the main economy in this universe is a sort of panem et circensis industry where the slightly-nuked Earth is only half-controlled by any Goa'uld, but that doesn't matter because the only way to bring in money and goods to survive is to be amusing to them, as they've more or less given up on converting the population into slave labor, and anyway, the punchline is that Sam spent the last six or so years of her life making a name for herself by pitfighting Jaffa.
Also, man, I have those, too. Where you have the general overarching feel of the thing, and that one awesome moment that happens in the late third act, but it makes absolutely no sense why it would be happening? And you know you had it all worked out how you could logically get the story to that point, but you never wrote it down because you thought it was so vivid and clear that you'd be sure to remember it?
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Date: 2012-06-03 12:07 am (UTC)It's that fic where Jonas stays on after Daniel comes back and Jack is pretty sure that he didn't actually see Daniel during Abyss because Daniel is a professional rule-breaker and failed to break the rules when it mattered and Jonas is way too perceptive and starts Actually Grokking all the weird idiosyncracies in SG-1's interrelationships and Sam and Jonas end up superbonding over being weirdly outsider types even though they're yes vital parts of SG-1.
Or...
That one where all of SG-1 are terrifying, self-serving, selfish, and unstable, except somehow as a unit they're the best they could ever be.
Or sometimes...
That one where the team runs into a giant hall of mirror artifacts and Jack and Teal'c get sent through a malfunctioning one into a universe where Sam was never allowed to join the Stargate program and Kinsey probably took over and some other weird crap also happened, but the upshot of it all was that Earth got taken over by Mars or someone and the entire global and interstellar political arena has gone totally bizarre and crapsack? Like, the main economy in this universe is a sort of panem et circensis industry where the slightly-nuked Earth is only half-controlled by any Goa'uld, but that doesn't matter because the only way to bring in money and goods to survive is to be amusing to them, as they've more or less given up on converting the population into slave labor, and anyway, the punchline is that Sam spent the last six or so years of her life making a name for herself by pitfighting Jaffa.
Or even just all of these.
Also, man, I have those, too. Where you have the general overarching feel of the thing, and that one awesome moment that happens in the late third act, but it makes absolutely no sense why it would be happening? And you know you had it all worked out how you could logically get the story to that point, but you never wrote it down because you thought it was so vivid and clear that you'd be sure to remember it?
I hate it when that happens.