META & FIC REC: Season 9 Vala + Sensitive New Age Daniel
VALA: I can see why you wouldn’t want to become involved with someone so pathetic. I wasn’t always like this, you should know. There was someone once. In fact, I was engaged. Then I was taken as a host and, even though the Tok’ra eventually freed me, the damage was already done. And once you have been spat on, and stoned by the people of your own village…Well, you try forming lasting relationships.
DANIEL: Vala, wait. Just wait. Please. Stop. All right, I’m sorry. Okay? I’m sorry. I just…Sometimes I just…I forget what you’ve been through….If you’ve actually been through any of that. Are you messing with me?
VALA: Is it working?
DANIEL: Get out. Go. Get out. Go.
(Stargate SG-1, “The Ties That Bind”)
mini-picspam on Tumblr by badgerling
campylobacter: Reason #23 why everyone thinks Daniel’s gay.
aerynsun: /\ lol Yes.
thefifthsister: It worked on me! Forget Daniel!
ellie5192: Gay or SNAG? You be the judge.
evrymeevryu: I stand firm in the belief that she was completely honest here, but saw his “are you messing with me?” as an out so she didn’t have to betray her true feelings.
sokorra: Given what happened later on, I’m going to agree with you. Vala seems to like telling the truth of her past only when she can hide it as a lie.
Vala's character development is one of the main reasons why she's endlessly fascinating to me; her self-preservation skills are what help her survive disappointment, being host to a Goa'uld, failed heists, rejection, abuse, and betrayal. The moments when she confronts the unpleasant memories of her past, she doesn't wallow in them, but spins them into levity to deflect further inquiry, to go forward instead of dwelling on a past she can't change.
I just read a Vala short story linked from the 10 March 2011 edition of sg1_debrief written by thothmes in an impromptu response to a list of humorous lines typed by medical secretaries: While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home Part 1 and Part 2 (because it's slightly longer than comment fic). It's a light-hearted, PG-rated piece that shows the contrasting sides of Vala without blunt-force angst or vapid fluff.
DANIEL: Vala, wait. Just wait. Please. Stop. All right, I’m sorry. Okay? I’m sorry. I just…Sometimes I just…I forget what you’ve been through….If you’ve actually been through any of that. Are you messing with me?
VALA: Is it working?
DANIEL: Get out. Go. Get out. Go.
(Stargate SG-1, “The Ties That Bind”)
mini-picspam on Tumblr by badgerling
campylobacter: Reason #23 why everyone thinks Daniel’s gay.
aerynsun: /\ lol Yes.
thefifthsister: It worked on me! Forget Daniel!
ellie5192: Gay or SNAG? You be the judge.
evrymeevryu: I stand firm in the belief that she was completely honest here, but saw his “are you messing with me?” as an out so she didn’t have to betray her true feelings.
sokorra: Given what happened later on, I’m going to agree with you. Vala seems to like telling the truth of her past only when she can hide it as a lie.
Vala's character development is one of the main reasons why she's endlessly fascinating to me; her self-preservation skills are what help her survive disappointment, being host to a Goa'uld, failed heists, rejection, abuse, and betrayal. The moments when she confronts the unpleasant memories of her past, she doesn't wallow in them, but spins them into levity to deflect further inquiry, to go forward instead of dwelling on a past she can't change.
I just read a Vala short story linked from the 10 March 2011 edition of sg1_debrief written by thothmes in an impromptu response to a list of humorous lines typed by medical secretaries: While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home Part 1 and Part 2 (because it's slightly longer than comment fic). It's a light-hearted, PG-rated piece that shows the contrasting sides of Vala without blunt-force angst or vapid fluff.