[update] Far and Far From Land
I tweaked one of the stories I wrote earlier -- added a scene from another story that fit there better, altered a few lines to bring it more in line with the ficton as it had developed, etc.
Far and Far From Land
-setting- AU more or less tracking canon from the beginning of first season, ending before "The Return" would have happened. Gen.
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Far and Far From Land
-setting- AU more or less tracking canon from the beginning of first season, ending before "The Return" would have happened. Gen.
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Sigh. I never know how much to endnote, and when I'm focused too much on the story itself I forget that it even needs doing. ;_;
//But I just wanted to say [...] how much I love this world you've created.//
Thank you so very much!
//Maybe I don't mind because the focus is almost never really on their differences exactly, but on their connections to each other.//
Something like Lin Carter's corollary to John W. Campbell's dictum (which I've always thought was embodied most closely in the differences between the anime series Mazinger, Gundam, and Patlabor: 1. Ooh, look! Giant robot! 2. Okay, assume the existence of giant robots; tell me a story about a world where giant robots exist! 3. Okay, assume giant robots and a world where they exist; now tell me about the people who live in a world to which giant robots are endemic!) Often, when people get ideas like "Hey, what if Elizabeth Weir was a Slayer?" or "John Sheppard is secretly an incubus and astrally travels into people's dreams, taking on the form their fantasies impose on him," that winds up being the main plot of the resulting stories; not that that's necessarily a bad thing (I'd read either of them), but I quite understand that it wouldn't appeal to everyone. (I don't think that either of those ideas have been done, but now I've mentioned them I'll probably find that three people have written takes on one or both of them and at least one of them is insulted by being taken as an example.)
I'm fairly sure plenty of people have written stories where somebody isn't what we thought them and that kicks off an adventure, or where stuff is going on and by the way, somebody isn't what we thought them, but at the moment, I can't think of any aside from the really outright AUs. (Oh, wait. There was that one at sgabigbang, although I'm blanking on its name. ARGH.)
Although... adding up all the changes and tweaks and additions I seem to have made, it does come out to a not insignificant total. Huh.
//To me, all these intertwining stories are basically just one big love story between Teyla and her team, her team and the rest of Atlantis.//
Oh, I like this way of putting it. (I'm one of those people who knows what a good summary ought to look like, but winds up staring at the line for a summary and desperately trying to think of something when it comes to my own stories.)
//I think your Teyla here is one of the best characterizations I've ever read,//
Oh, wow.
This was the story I wrote to feel my way into writing Teyla, back when I'd first realized she was my favorite character and therefore felt the need to write her. (Well, the "The Gift"-tag scene was written later, but still.)
I'm... really flattered.
//and all the thought that's gone into creating a universe that actually feels real and makes sense, out of what canon gives us, is kind of amazing.//
...given that this entire project started when my perfectly justifiable irritation over one canon breaking my OTP and jumping up and down on it with big spiky boots bumped into my lingering resentment for the inconclusive end to end all ends for another canon and made me realize that I could get my two problems to fix each other, I think I'm the one who's amazed.
//So I hope you continue to write more in this 'verse, because I'd love to keep seeing the layers peeling away.//
Oh, I intend to -- there are at least two stories I desperately want to write once I get there, in addition to the fixit from which half of this AU flows that Refuses. To. Jell. ^_^
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*ahem* now that I've gotten that out of the way.
I read ... I think it was Miko and the Bears in stargate flashfic and thought it was a really cool story but then I couldn't find any more of your SGA stories and completely forgot about it. And now I found your lj and read everything all in one day! *bounce bounce*
I want more!
"..and Sheppard's passing as "average flyboy whose interests don't go too far beyond football-Ferris-wheels-and-faster-than-200-mph, nothing to see here" (with more or less success as the case may be),.."
and Rodney's "other thing" and oh oh it's all so GOOD.
And I need to go back and read these all again because I know I missed some (many) of the layers and all the *details* and language and the comments on books I have actually read (or plan to read now) and and everything... It makes me squee in rapturous joy.
and I did read a flashfic story sometime that was "John Sheppard is secretly an incubus and takes on the form people's fantasies impose on him," that was good but I can't think of either the title or author. Sorry. I'm pretty sure it was in stargate flashfic, not in the same challenge as Miko and the bears, but close to then.
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I am writing more whenever bits of it will consent to be so written, although every so often I get distracted by the dinosaur story or parodic crack or the AU where they're detectives.
In re incubus: I think Trinityofone wrote a story that used that name for it and the taking images from other people's subconsciouses, but as that was out in the real world rather than dreams, I wasn't exactly thinking of it at the time (although it may very well have been in the back of my head when I was casting about for random examples).
And if anything I've done has caused people to go read things I've read and loved, I'm really happy for that. ^_^
In short: thank you so much, I'm trying to come up with more, and I'm glad you wrote and told me what you liked about this!
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