( In which we learn that the banter is kinda deep-set. )

It's always fun to look at a story and say, "All right. I need to construct this in such a way as to bring out my MC's absolute worst coping mechanisms.

( Life On Mars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the Damaged People panoply. By their powers combined... )

I HAVE NOW CROSSED OVER TETRIS AND SILENT HILL. WORSHIP ME.

....

...send help

So I got a review to Antipodes, a salient part of which was this:

"I must say it would be great to see *your* take on a "what if Daniel doesn't die in Meridian"-scenario; a sort of an AU follow up on Antipodes (hint, hint, nudge)"

...and the problem with seeing this is that it immediately kicks magibrain into top gear. (Though not Top GearAnd the problem ( Read more... )

magibrain: Okay. So, get this--a soft, Daniel'd-POV, Sam-focused fic about Sam learning Russian so she can reconnect with this crazy Russian scientist who she knew once but who the Russian and American governments won't let work with her. You call it Ya Vas Lyubil* and make references to Pushkin a lot. Also, have fun with the words Daniel doesn' ( Read more... )

Standard disclaimers apply. This is based on my own theories and intuitions and is assumed to be neither infallible nor universal. The Echidnafic Manifesto is a work in progress and has not yet passed beta. Hell, it hasn't passed alpha yet.

A bit ago rionaleonheart posted the "give me something to write that you know I'd never write" meme, and I gave her a ( Read more... )

Dear magibrain,

I am not learning Ugaritic just so I can write this fic. You already have me deriving conlangs from Classical Greek and Ancient Egyptian. Ugaritic is pushing it way, way too far.

Thank you,

the management

[EDIT: ...she says, right before making the appropriate section in the meta file and scouring the web until she figures ( Read more... )

La la la la la BRAIN THIS NEW BRAINTIC REQUIRES ME TO DEVELOP TWO ARTICULATED CONLANGS &/ LEARN TWO LANGUAGES. TWO IS NOT MORE SIMPLE THAN ONE.

[Edit: Well, I've just added a forth gender to Classical Greek. THIS NEEDED TO HAPPEN.]

Aw, fuck, Egyptian, your attribuive adjectives are postnominal while your predicative adjectives are antenominal. Do you have any idea how much this is going to confuse me? Especially since Russian is the opposite?

Aw, fuck, brain, I wanted a 1000 word fic and instead you've given me an SG-1 AU/Crossover epic*. I hate you, man.

*Daniel becomes ( Read more... )

Wednesday is a hard day for me anyway, since I start so early and end so late, but this Wednesday I just kinda want to curl up and die. Stupid weather. Stupid looming exams. Stupid existential crisis.

I am apparently incapable of writing anything. Hooray!

magistrate: I want to write a fic with hefty emotional/moral/political/historical issues ( Read more... )