Happy Galentine's Day
Not so relevant to this post, except that it's a story about a woman who is awesome: against my better judgment I got antsy and posted fic on a Saturday evening, even though we all know that's a bad time to do these things if you want anyone to see it. So in case you're interested and missed it, A Fairer House than Prose (or on DW) is my long-
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I could totally go for more Sarah Connor/James Ellison. Fic, pics, meta, whatever. OOOH, and please link me to your SCC fic, because I don't think I've read all of it since I hadn't watched the show yet when you were writing SCC fic...
Or anything else. Dessert is dessert is dessert, whether it's chocolate cream pie or banana nutbread.
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My favorite TSCC fic--and the only "real" fic I've written for this show--is a bailar: post-series, Sarah and James and the dance that they do.
I also wrote Five Times James Ellison Didn't Feel Like a Father. And in what I believe has the distinction of being the first Sarah/Ellison fic ever (it's possible I'm wrong here, but I've certainly not seen any that preceded mine), a couple of porn battle snippets from January 2009: If You Want to Live and A Small Crime.
But I think I do have a really proper, multiple-drafts-with-the-beta fic about them in me; I just have to find my angle and write it.
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Her memories of her biological mother are a little sharper but not altogether pleasant. (These, too, she can incorporate. "My mom isn't very good at showing affection, but she does try, in her own way.")
Eeep. I'm torn between laughter and a sadface, because that would be very true for a life with Sarah as a mother figure.
Sarah and James became Mom and Dad, and they all mostly lived in the car. They practiced names and stories every morning at breakfast.
Nice sharp detail here.
...her dad picked her up and said that it was all over, and they would be okay now. Her mom said, "it's never over."
Sneaky, putting this in Savannah's POV, so we don't know exactly what happened. Heh. Interesting way of presenting some kind of closure.
"Just be careful. You know we're never really safe."
Awwww... I'm amused that this line makes me feel all happy about their little permanently robot-bent family.
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Mostly, I'm glad you enjoyed this! It's probably not the future I think might actually happen, but it is something I've thought about, in terms of the larger details, so I actually do know more or less what I think happened to stop Judgment Day (though Savannah, of course, doesn't really know--though perhaps at some point she will). But whether that whole story ever gets written remains to be seen. I don't exactly do long and plotty, after all.
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OH ROBOT FIGHTING UNRELATED FAMILY. I'm...even a little sad she didn't get a brother. But mostly it's awesome the way Sarah is an awesome a sucky Mom and of course she's closer to James, and the way you show the early parts of her life bleeding together into a strange bedtime nightmare story. The way obviously Sarah is honestly and upfront with her about the threat even after it's "over" but Savannah's perspective itself never affirms or denies an adult belief in her childhood with killer robots.
In conclusion: ♥
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(And Savannah has a brother in her stories: his name was John, and he died in the car crash with their dad, when she was little, and this is why her mom is sad sometimes. But there won't be any new brothers or sisters, even though she wanted one for a while there, because that would make her mom even sadder.)
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maybe especially the dancing - I have a Sarah/James heart made of pudding!
<3 Me too! I really cannot resist my desire to squish them together, in their slightly awkward, slightly snarky ambivalence toward each other. And for some reason, in my head they always dance.
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