So, apparently the Gatefic Awards are going on again? If I had known, I would've made a point to nominate some of the awesome fic I've seen out there.

However, I'm happy to see some of my flist have (rightly) gotten nominated, so congratulations to all the nominees! Good luck!

Okay, I have a few lovely friends off in London, many of whom are attending that convention for Amanda Tapping. And I hope they're all having a lovely time.

Who do I get a first con report from? Amanda Tapping herself from the dw twitter feed:

amandatapping: AT5 cocktail party was wonderful! Very excited about tomorrow! Seems like an amazing ( Read more... )

redial_the_gate has taken a turn to the cracky lately, and I'm loving it. Take for example the last two weeks.

Newbie recapper annienau08 handled Avatar for redial_the_gate, and if you haven't read it yet, go check it out! It's complete with Action Figure MST3K commentary!

Pepper's recap of Affinity is even crazier.

(BTW, pepper gave up Reckoning Part 1 to do this week's recap, so ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian friends and Happy Columbus Day to fellow Americans ( Read more... )

cleothemuse and a few others have created a new Stargate Awards for SG-1. Gatefic.com is also a whole fic/artwork archive site. And the nominations have ended. You MAY BE A NOMINEE AND NOT EVEN KNOW IT!

Here's the list of authors they haven't heard from yet. If you're on here, or if you know how to get in touch with some of these names, I think the mods ( Read more... )

If you haven't been following the latest "Is fanfiction illegal" brou ha ha... Well, that's what I've been doing the past few days to distract me from real life flailing--some due to my own overactive imagination.

Basically author is shocked SHOCKED I tell you to find there's such things as fanfiction on the interwebz. (Granted, the poor lady ( Read more... )

The signups for redial_the_gate Season Seven Meta and Recaps went up last night (my time ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm doing it again.

Phoenix Gate Rises Again
phoenix_gate is starting up its ficathon again (please note that while I'm listing the lj variation, this thing is running on dw this year. I just fail at making cross platform "user links"). Prompts are being requested here. Phoenix-gate is resurrecting all those dead and/or forgotten secondary characters ( Read more... )

There's some cool promptage out there for people who have a hankering:

gate_women is doing their ficathon/art-athon celebrating all the cool ladies of Stargate fandom (all three series). Take a gander and pick a prompt! (There's a few I'm eyeing myself).

sg1_five_things has their new prompt list out of some new ways to strike the muse. They picked one of my prompt ( Read more... )

People on my flist are feeling blah-ish or having crises or just winter blues. (And yes I'm amongst them).

So I thought I'd just post a little pick me up. 2009 may have been the year of glee, but I still need mine. So here's a bit of joy for all:

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