Thine Own Self (the Lady, Be Good Remix) (2/2)

[beatrice_otter]

Note on the chronology and Carter’s age: I’ve assumed that Carter was born in 1965, the year Amanda Tapping was born. This does not match up with the chronology Christi gives in her fic, in particular, the assertion that Sam was “under 18” twenty-one years before Season Ten starts, which would have required a birth date no earlier than 1968 (1968

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[daisycm83]

Wow. I mean...just wow. I think this is the sort of fic that people always secretly hope for when signing up for the remix and never think they'll really get - this beautiful piece of writing that hints to something I wrote, but takes it further and deeper and makes it just more. I love the layers of detail here - the unexpected twist that while Sam loved her mother, they didn't exactly see eye to eye. The sense of being outcast that really does come from being too damn smart for your own good. The fleshing out of the Jonas situation in a way that makes *sense* to me.

In fact, this is probably one of the first times I've seen a Sam written that I understand - one who loves science more than soldiering (because I think she does too) and who makes mistakes in her personal life because even at 41, her realm of experience is stunted by a life filled with other things.

As for the whole chronology thing, I didn't even notice, so nice job. I vaguely remember picking the Entity birthdate when writing the original, but this works fine as well - better, for your purposes. Gotta love those PTB and their lack of continuity. :-)

Thanks so much for this. You totally restored my faith in ficathons.

[beatrice_otter]

Thank you so much! It was just going to be a short vignette of a character piece. Yeah. Almost 13k words later ...

See, this is the way I've always seen Sam. She's always made sense to me as a realistic person, because let's face it, no one's good at everything and she's been living in a male-dominated society her entire life. (The military and science have always been far more male-dominated and oriented than the rest of society.) So I read other portrayals of Sam and get frustrated because this Sam is so clear to me.

I'm glad it makes you happy. I enjoyed writing it. (Even if it was a bit distressing to watch it get totally away from what I was intending to write.)