New fic: Ex Post Facto (SGA)

[corinna_5]

I came up with the idea for this story during the sga_flashfic "Earthside" challenge, but then I thought "Nah...."

Which goes to show that in this fandom, you should always write your flashfic ideas before the show writers get to it first. (You hear that,

Comments

[gchick]

I'm once again impressed with your knack for finding room for such subtlety and restraint when canon feeds you GIANT SPACE BUGS. Lovely!

[corinna_5]

Well, it would be nice to do something that had subtlety and restraint AND giant space bugs....! I'm working on it. Thanks!

[ratcreature]

Oh, I really liked this glimpse of John's past!

[corinna_5]

Thank you! I'm a total sucker for John backstory, and "Intruder"-fic, so, I figured, why not write some myself?

[abbylee]

Oh, I like how you take this outsiders perspective.

(Also, on the website, the livejournal links aren't quite right.)

[corinna_5]

In re website: I know! I know! The trauma of not having login access of my own, and LJ eating my original post. You don't want to know.

Livia pointed out that I'd managed to write an SGA story which wasn't science-fiction. I was taken aback, and then pleased. (John, of course, is still in a sci-fi story, but it's not his POV...)

[corinna_5]

Fixed, thanks to the inestimably awesome gchick

[cathexys]

That was really lovely! And here they say us slashers can't write good female characters and never want to see our boys with anyone :D

I loved how there's so much back story, so much failure, do much disappointment in the silences and the unspoken. And I like how John finally gets it and want to tell someone who used to matter.

They'll never give us an ex-wife that good...

[corinna_5]

All the more reason to write her ourselves!

The germ of the story was him getting it, and wanting to make that right in some small way where he hadn't gotten it. It was the Spike who pointed out that she should have something she has to give him as well -- which balances it, and anyhow, it takes two to make a marriage, right?

[the_girl_sleuth]

That was good, in an "ow, ow, ow" kind of way. You don't have any problem staring down those hard truths, do you?

Hey, I've decided on a POV for the story, which is a start? Its omniscient. Exciting, no?

[corinna_5]

You don't have any problem staring down those hard truths, do you?

Sure, in somebody else's life! That's easy!

I might be about to buy an apartment. Eeeeee!!!!

[the_girl_sleuth]

Eeeeeee!

[corinna_5]

At different points today, I have been convinced it should be apartment A, apartment B, or none of the above. I'm a wreck. Eeeee!