2008 Recap
So, another calendar year gone by. I can't believe how happily I have thoroughly entrenched myself in SG-1 fandom...
In Fandom
sg1_debrief continues to be the best source of SG-1 fandom on LJ. I'm proud to have even a small part in it, albeit smaller than I'd like, sigh - write more gen fic, people! splash_the_cat is awesome, and I thank Julie for the privilege of tagging. The newsletter will be shifting to a full weekly format in 2009, and it'll be interesting to see how the change will affect things. I'm looking forward to it!
Then there is redial_the_gate, which is full of squee and a wonderful tribute not only to SG-1, but also to the marvelous people who make up the fandom! It's hard to believe we're in S4 now, and still going strong. Abyssis and Aurora and Pepper, my dear fellow mods - thank you. Here's to dialing the Gate for the next six seasons, and beyond!
Recs are still going strong, even if I'm scaled back just a leetle bit - partially out of an effort to rec the rarer categories, which means I'm more likely to rec only the minimum four per category per month. Still, I managed over 120 recs this calendar year, all neatly archived, in eighteen different categories. All gen, except for four Daniel/Sha're fics. Not bad for our poor despised gen on the moon, huh?
sg1friendathon! I said I wanted more friendship fic in the fandom, and the best way to get some is to nag people into writing it. :) uniquinum was a huge help, and I was delighted to see our brand new little ficathon proving such a success, with 23 delicious friendship fics.
And speaking of nagging people into writing... :) SG-1 Gen Fic Day seems to have turned into a quarterly event, and Alphabet Soup has gone five rounds already. Organization may be a challenge, but the results are definitely worth it!
In Meta
This year, I discovered for myself what splash_the_cat has been saying all along: if you spend a lot of your fandom time on organization, you're going to have a lot less time to create. That, plus ficcing, adds up to a lot less time spent writing meta!
Still, I did manage four editions of Canon vs. Fanon in 2008:
Daniel's glasses
Clumsy, Sneezy Geek
A Jack O'Neill Edition, part 2
Off-world Fanon, part 1
In addition, I wrote several meta essays for redial_the_gate this year: a long and loving essay on Sha're in S1-3, a mock explanation for the glaring plotholes of Legacy, an analysis of Kira/Linea, and a look at Bra'tac and Daniel's friendship throughout the series.
In Fic
I wrote a lot more fic this year! Lots of team fic, even if Daniel somehow manages to figure prominently in most of them. :) However, nearly all of it was short ficlets, so my word count went drastically down. That's one of the reasons I've signed up for next year's stargate_summer (more on this below)! Here's the breakdown for the 2008 calendar year: 27 stories, ~31,000 words.
In January, I wrote ten ficlets by request, collected into a series called Promptings:
Self-interest: Daniel in Threads: "Not until I'm dead... and sometimes, not even then."
You Know Me, Sir: Jack finds out that Hammond always rocks.
Toos: Daniel and Jack, the night after Sha're's funeral.
Coming Down: Sam and Janet, in the aftermath of Upgrades.
With All Due Respect: A still-amnesiac Daniel in Fallen considers General Hammond.
Spectator Sport: Sam and Jack: "I could warn him... but then it wouldn't be as funny."
Leitmotif: Teal'c, Sam, and rock music.
No Place Like Home: Sam listens as Daniel and Jacob and Selmac discuss the "Great and Powerful Oz."
Making BABIES: Sam and Janet and an annoying Jack. The ladies win.
And Now For Something Completely Different: Jack, Daniel, and zombies!
In February, I wrote two ficlets for abysinnia4077's Leapgate:
Bittersweet: Daniel's POV of the closing scene in Pretense.
Multiple Uses: During a struggle for survival, Jack discovers why Daniel never got laser surgery.
I also wrote somewhat cracky Wizard of Oz teamfic to help my fellow mods celebrate redial_the_gate reaching the milestone of 200 members: Pay No Attention to the Tok'ra Behind the Curtain, in which the team discovers an oddly-familiar scenario on the other side of the Gate.
March saw the wonderful beginning to the Alphabet Soup series, with the original, Defining Sam from A to Z, written as tribute to abyssinia4077's birthday. These were much shorter than subsequent contributions, since the whole thing was put together in three days. My ficlet was G is for Gate: Sam will never stop loving the Stargate.
We celebrated April with Daniel Alphabet Soup, to which I contributed two ficlets:
A is for Abydos, in which the angst dial is turned on maximum and Fig plays with tenses.
E is for Exchanges, which, in happy contrast, in unadulterated fluff and explains why the Goa'uld are convinced the Tau'ri are telepathic.
In May, I managed one little ficlet: Speeding Again?, in which Sam is on a gleeful roll, and Daniel is very unwillingly along for the ride.
In June, I wrote 'Tween Weft and Warp: angst and AUs abound, as Teal'c and Daniel struggle to find the right answers in the wake of FIAD.
I wrote two stories in July:
Guilty Pleasures. Sam and Jack friendship: is it their fault that rescuing Teal'c and Daniel is so much fun?
Then there was T is for Tabloid for Teal'c Alphabet Soup. Teal'c, tabloids, and his relationship with his fellow teammates.
August saw our tribute to Don S. Davis with Hammond Alphabet Soup, and I made two contributions:
F is for Fine Line. George considers the fine line he has to walk every day.
G is for Gamekeeper. Hammond debriefs the team, and discovers how they see him.
In September, I wrote Respect for Ritual. Sam POV of yet another mission in which SG-1 gets drunk. Happily, Teal'c's pwnage is through the roof, as usual.
I also wrote Famed in Song and Story (The Forbidden Fruit Remix). This one was a back-up for gateverse_remix, for majorsamfan's The Forbidden Fruit. My first experience with remixing, and I was quite pleased with the result - I only hope majorsamfan was, too! The original fic took place in S3 or S4, but my own story takes place in S8, and includes really bad poetry and much mocking by Daniel.
I managed one more fic that month: Just a Little Trouble, in which Daniel and Bill Lee deal with a small problem and Daniel enjoys tweaking Jack.
October was celebrated with Jack Alpha-Bits, to which I contributed two ficlets:
B is for Blood, a viscerally creepy stream-of-consciousness for Jack in Abyss.
U is for Undomesticated Equines, a Jack and Teal'c friendship ep tag for Point of No Return.
No fic written in November or December, I'm afraid! Too busy with meta, I suppose.
Favorite fic bits
I snurched this from Abyssis, because it's just too tempting! In no particular order:
"It was for ourselves," she repeated. "If Daniel Jackson had returned and died immediately thereafter, his residual memories of this experience would have enabled him to properly Ascend without assistance."
There was a long moment of silence.
"With him as a full Ascended," she noted, "our ability to monitor his subsequent actions would have been extremely limited."
There was a second, longer pause as the Others contemplated a fully Ascended Daniel Jackson who could not be easily ignored, manipulated, or dismissed.
"Well done," the Other finally said.
And if the woman noticed the slight shudder that he suppressed, she was wise enough to say nothing about it.
- Self-interest
Jack halted two feet away and narrowed his eyes. "Daniel."
"Jack." Daniel drew out the name, almost in a singsong, and gave him a pointed look.
Jack snorted with indignation. "Daniel!"
Daniel didn't quite roll his eyes, but he did uncross his arms so he could flail meaningfully with one hand. "Jack!"
"Daniel," Jack sighed, frustrated.
"But sir," Sam tried to protest, but Jack held up a warning finger to silence her.
"Aht!" he snapped. She subsided, a little sulkily, and Jack resumed with his main argument. "Daniel," he repeated, his tone weighted with menace.
- E is for Exchanges
"Daniel."
Daniel.
he doesn't know if the word is plea
or prayer, or profanity
- B is for Blood
Back in his quarters, Teal'c perused the magazine with the same careful intensity that he invested in any new source of information. It did not take long for him to understand that the magazine's stories were little more than absurdist escapism, but he found himself charmed by the sheer magnitude of the effort invested into writing what every reader must recognize as lies. And in truth, was it so different from the exaggerated tales he had heard as a child of legendary Jaffa heroes, striding unscathed across the battlefields?
He was fascinated, too, at the obsession with the celebrities that provided the Tau'ri with their entertainment. These were human beings, with as many faults as the other people of Earth, if not more than their fair share. Yet the Tau'ri cheerfully placed them on pedestals of their own making, and worshiped their words and their actions... until they themselves tore those pedestals down, and threw the celebrities from their status of glory to suffer in ignominious obscurity.
It was a habit unique to the Tau'ri, and impossible to imagine among a population that was oppressed by the Goa'uld. Teal'c was pleased at this proof of independence that was simultaneously a quirk of foolishness among his adopted people, and by the time O'Neill returned to Earth, Teal'c was already a regular subscriber to a number of tabloid magazines.
- T is for Tabloid
"Daniel."
"No, Jack."
"Daniel!"
Teal'c raised his head then, and the frown that dragged at the corners of his mouth deepened. "What do you propose, O'Neill?"
Jack ignored him, too. "Daniel," he said again, and now his voice was edged with something other than sharpness. "Daniel, we have to deal with now. You've gotten yourself past it. Now, you can just... help Hanno get past it, okay?"
Daniel licked his lips. "Maybe I haven't gotten past it as much as you think I have," he whispered. His gaze flicked to Teal'c, then back to Jack again. "I am standing right here, and I am ready to champion Teal'c, and I want him to be able to walk away. Let that be enough, Jack."
"It can't be enough." Jack circled the witness stand to lay a hand on Daniel's arm. It conveyed both reassurance and warning at once. "We need every weapon we've got here, Daniel."
"Some weapons cut both ways." Daniel tugged away. "Drop it, Jack. You'll be sorry if you don't."
And then I'll be sorrier, and Teal'c will be sorriest of all. And even if we get out of here, SG-1 will be shattered.
Hanno interrupted, then, as he declared the recess over. And Daniel stepped forward to do what he could to appeal for leniency for the man who took his wife from him, trying to ignore Sha're's grieving shadow casting crazy patterns on the walls.
In the end, all of Daniel's eloquence failed. It was Teal'c's personal heroism that persuaded Hanno to relent. The shell of SG-1 trudged back to the Circle of Woe in brittle, bitter silence.
Daniel's request for a transfer to a different team was on General Hammond's desk before the day was out.
- 'Tween Weft and Warp.
Reviewing the recap
My favorite story this year (of my own): Probably 'Tween Weft and Warp, because it's a story I've wanted to write for a long, long time. It's Teal'c and Daniel friendship, which always deserves greater attention; and it explores the choices they've made, and how the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the quantum mirror. It's certainly not a happy fic, but I feel that it's a good fic, which I think is more important.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I've always been amazed and grateful for the enthusiastic responses I get to my fic writing, so this is a hard question for me. I think I'd go with Leitmotif, though, because the story that emerged from the prompt surprised me as being unquestionably right, and a tribute to both Sam and Teal'c.
Most fun story: Hmmm. Guilty Pleasures and Pay No Attention to the Tok'ra Behind the Curtain are definitely in the running, but E is for Exchanges unquestionably wins this one. The ficlet wrote itself and is exactly what I wanted!
Hardest story to write: B is for Blood, probably. Not only did it hurt to write it, but I was anxious to do the subject matter justice.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Last year, I said that I wanted to write more fic. I did do that, but I also wrote shorter fic, which I hadn't really taken into consideration. So the answer, I suppose, is both more and less.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I played with tenses, and tweaking my writing style. I think I've broadened my perspective a bit, which can only be a good thing.
Do you have any goals? Yes! I want to write long fic again. Happily, stargate_summer looks like it's going to be marvelous. Imagine all those SG-1 stories, 50,000 words plus, going live in June, one delicous story a week, stretching into the autumn and maybe even beyond. Each author with a beta and cheerleader for support, with art or vids being created to enhance the celebration... ooooh, yes, it's going to be good. And since I wanted to write longer stories, this is tailor-made for me!
Admittedly, the story I want to write is actually composed of several shorter fics, strung together by a common theme. But it will arc over at least seven seasons, and maybe eight. We'll see how it goes. I am comforted by knowing that randomfreshink is the best beta reader in three galaxies, and that I was fortunate enough to get splash_the_cat to be my cheerleader for my story. Here's hoping it turns out to be something that I like - and that readers, like too!
I have one other specific goal, and that is to write a fic without any kind of prompting by anyone else. Sounds silly, I know. :) But every single fic I wrote in 2008 was based on a request, a prompt, or a birthday. That's not a bad thing, of course, but... Well. It would be nice to just write that Sha're POV fic someday, that's all.
Also, I want to finish my very first Stargate fic, which is a crossover and still very much in the WIP stage. The poor thing has been terribly neglected.
Other than that? I hope to write more meta, and more squee. Do another podfic or two. Write more ficlets by request, despite the first two goals on my list. And enjoy another year in my corner of the SG-1 fandom, which is wonderful and a very delightful place to be!
In Fandom
sg1_debrief continues to be the best source of SG-1 fandom on LJ. I'm proud to have even a small part in it, albeit smaller than I'd like, sigh - write more gen fic, people! splash_the_cat is awesome, and I thank Julie for the privilege of tagging. The newsletter will be shifting to a full weekly format in 2009, and it'll be interesting to see how the change will affect things. I'm looking forward to it!
Then there is redial_the_gate, which is full of squee and a wonderful tribute not only to SG-1, but also to the marvelous people who make up the fandom! It's hard to believe we're in S4 now, and still going strong. Abyssis and Aurora and Pepper, my dear fellow mods - thank you. Here's to dialing the Gate for the next six seasons, and beyond!
Recs are still going strong, even if I'm scaled back just a leetle bit - partially out of an effort to rec the rarer categories, which means I'm more likely to rec only the minimum four per category per month. Still, I managed over 120 recs this calendar year, all neatly archived, in eighteen different categories. All gen, except for four Daniel/Sha're fics. Not bad for our poor despised gen on the moon, huh?
sg1friendathon! I said I wanted more friendship fic in the fandom, and the best way to get some is to nag people into writing it. :) uniquinum was a huge help, and I was delighted to see our brand new little ficathon proving such a success, with 23 delicious friendship fics.
And speaking of nagging people into writing... :) SG-1 Gen Fic Day seems to have turned into a quarterly event, and Alphabet Soup has gone five rounds already. Organization may be a challenge, but the results are definitely worth it!
In Meta
This year, I discovered for myself what splash_the_cat has been saying all along: if you spend a lot of your fandom time on organization, you're going to have a lot less time to create. That, plus ficcing, adds up to a lot less time spent writing meta!
Still, I did manage four editions of Canon vs. Fanon in 2008:
Daniel's glasses
Clumsy, Sneezy Geek
A Jack O'Neill Edition, part 2
Off-world Fanon, part 1
In addition, I wrote several meta essays for redial_the_gate this year: a long and loving essay on Sha're in S1-3, a mock explanation for the glaring plotholes of Legacy, an analysis of Kira/Linea, and a look at Bra'tac and Daniel's friendship throughout the series.
In Fic
I wrote a lot more fic this year! Lots of team fic, even if Daniel somehow manages to figure prominently in most of them. :) However, nearly all of it was short ficlets, so my word count went drastically down. That's one of the reasons I've signed up for next year's stargate_summer (more on this below)! Here's the breakdown for the 2008 calendar year: 27 stories, ~31,000 words.
In January, I wrote ten ficlets by request, collected into a series called Promptings:
Self-interest: Daniel in Threads: "Not until I'm dead... and sometimes, not even then."
You Know Me, Sir: Jack finds out that Hammond always rocks.
Toos: Daniel and Jack, the night after Sha're's funeral.
Coming Down: Sam and Janet, in the aftermath of Upgrades.
With All Due Respect: A still-amnesiac Daniel in Fallen considers General Hammond.
Spectator Sport: Sam and Jack: "I could warn him... but then it wouldn't be as funny."
Leitmotif: Teal'c, Sam, and rock music.
No Place Like Home: Sam listens as Daniel and Jacob and Selmac discuss the "Great and Powerful Oz."
Making BABIES: Sam and Janet and an annoying Jack. The ladies win.
And Now For Something Completely Different: Jack, Daniel, and zombies!
In February, I wrote two ficlets for abysinnia4077's Leapgate:
Bittersweet: Daniel's POV of the closing scene in Pretense.
Multiple Uses: During a struggle for survival, Jack discovers why Daniel never got laser surgery.
I also wrote somewhat cracky Wizard of Oz teamfic to help my fellow mods celebrate redial_the_gate reaching the milestone of 200 members: Pay No Attention to the Tok'ra Behind the Curtain, in which the team discovers an oddly-familiar scenario on the other side of the Gate.
March saw the wonderful beginning to the Alphabet Soup series, with the original, Defining Sam from A to Z, written as tribute to abyssinia4077's birthday. These were much shorter than subsequent contributions, since the whole thing was put together in three days. My ficlet was G is for Gate: Sam will never stop loving the Stargate.
We celebrated April with Daniel Alphabet Soup, to which I contributed two ficlets:
A is for Abydos, in which the angst dial is turned on maximum and Fig plays with tenses.
E is for Exchanges, which, in happy contrast, in unadulterated fluff and explains why the Goa'uld are convinced the Tau'ri are telepathic.
In May, I managed one little ficlet: Speeding Again?, in which Sam is on a gleeful roll, and Daniel is very unwillingly along for the ride.
In June, I wrote 'Tween Weft and Warp: angst and AUs abound, as Teal'c and Daniel struggle to find the right answers in the wake of FIAD.
I wrote two stories in July:
Guilty Pleasures. Sam and Jack friendship: is it their fault that rescuing Teal'c and Daniel is so much fun?
Then there was T is for Tabloid for Teal'c Alphabet Soup. Teal'c, tabloids, and his relationship with his fellow teammates.
August saw our tribute to Don S. Davis with Hammond Alphabet Soup, and I made two contributions:
F is for Fine Line. George considers the fine line he has to walk every day.
G is for Gamekeeper. Hammond debriefs the team, and discovers how they see him.
In September, I wrote Respect for Ritual. Sam POV of yet another mission in which SG-1 gets drunk. Happily, Teal'c's pwnage is through the roof, as usual.
I also wrote Famed in Song and Story (The Forbidden Fruit Remix). This one was a back-up for gateverse_remix, for majorsamfan's The Forbidden Fruit. My first experience with remixing, and I was quite pleased with the result - I only hope majorsamfan was, too! The original fic took place in S3 or S4, but my own story takes place in S8, and includes really bad poetry and much mocking by Daniel.
I managed one more fic that month: Just a Little Trouble, in which Daniel and Bill Lee deal with a small problem and Daniel enjoys tweaking Jack.
October was celebrated with Jack Alpha-Bits, to which I contributed two ficlets:
B is for Blood, a viscerally creepy stream-of-consciousness for Jack in Abyss.
U is for Undomesticated Equines, a Jack and Teal'c friendship ep tag for Point of No Return.
No fic written in November or December, I'm afraid! Too busy with meta, I suppose.
Favorite fic bits
I snurched this from Abyssis, because it's just too tempting! In no particular order:
"It was for ourselves," she repeated. "If Daniel Jackson had returned and died immediately thereafter, his residual memories of this experience would have enabled him to properly Ascend without assistance."
There was a long moment of silence.
"With him as a full Ascended," she noted, "our ability to monitor his subsequent actions would have been extremely limited."
There was a second, longer pause as the Others contemplated a fully Ascended Daniel Jackson who could not be easily ignored, manipulated, or dismissed.
"Well done," the Other finally said.
And if the woman noticed the slight shudder that he suppressed, she was wise enough to say nothing about it.
- Self-interest
Jack halted two feet away and narrowed his eyes. "Daniel."
"Jack." Daniel drew out the name, almost in a singsong, and gave him a pointed look.
Jack snorted with indignation. "Daniel!"
Daniel didn't quite roll his eyes, but he did uncross his arms so he could flail meaningfully with one hand. "Jack!"
"Daniel," Jack sighed, frustrated.
"But sir," Sam tried to protest, but Jack held up a warning finger to silence her.
"Aht!" he snapped. She subsided, a little sulkily, and Jack resumed with his main argument. "Daniel," he repeated, his tone weighted with menace.
- E is for Exchanges
"Daniel."
Daniel.
he doesn't know if the word is plea
or prayer, or profanity
- B is for Blood
Back in his quarters, Teal'c perused the magazine with the same careful intensity that he invested in any new source of information. It did not take long for him to understand that the magazine's stories were little more than absurdist escapism, but he found himself charmed by the sheer magnitude of the effort invested into writing what every reader must recognize as lies. And in truth, was it so different from the exaggerated tales he had heard as a child of legendary Jaffa heroes, striding unscathed across the battlefields?
He was fascinated, too, at the obsession with the celebrities that provided the Tau'ri with their entertainment. These were human beings, with as many faults as the other people of Earth, if not more than their fair share. Yet the Tau'ri cheerfully placed them on pedestals of their own making, and worshiped their words and their actions... until they themselves tore those pedestals down, and threw the celebrities from their status of glory to suffer in ignominious obscurity.
It was a habit unique to the Tau'ri, and impossible to imagine among a population that was oppressed by the Goa'uld. Teal'c was pleased at this proof of independence that was simultaneously a quirk of foolishness among his adopted people, and by the time O'Neill returned to Earth, Teal'c was already a regular subscriber to a number of tabloid magazines.
- T is for Tabloid
"Daniel."
"No, Jack."
"Daniel!"
Teal'c raised his head then, and the frown that dragged at the corners of his mouth deepened. "What do you propose, O'Neill?"
Jack ignored him, too. "Daniel," he said again, and now his voice was edged with something other than sharpness. "Daniel, we have to deal with now. You've gotten yourself past it. Now, you can just... help Hanno get past it, okay?"
Daniel licked his lips. "Maybe I haven't gotten past it as much as you think I have," he whispered. His gaze flicked to Teal'c, then back to Jack again. "I am standing right here, and I am ready to champion Teal'c, and I want him to be able to walk away. Let that be enough, Jack."
"It can't be enough." Jack circled the witness stand to lay a hand on Daniel's arm. It conveyed both reassurance and warning at once. "We need every weapon we've got here, Daniel."
"Some weapons cut both ways." Daniel tugged away. "Drop it, Jack. You'll be sorry if you don't."
And then I'll be sorrier, and Teal'c will be sorriest of all. And even if we get out of here, SG-1 will be shattered.
Hanno interrupted, then, as he declared the recess over. And Daniel stepped forward to do what he could to appeal for leniency for the man who took his wife from him, trying to ignore Sha're's grieving shadow casting crazy patterns on the walls.
In the end, all of Daniel's eloquence failed. It was Teal'c's personal heroism that persuaded Hanno to relent. The shell of SG-1 trudged back to the Circle of Woe in brittle, bitter silence.
Daniel's request for a transfer to a different team was on General Hammond's desk before the day was out.
- 'Tween Weft and Warp.
Reviewing the recap
My favorite story this year (of my own): Probably 'Tween Weft and Warp, because it's a story I've wanted to write for a long, long time. It's Teal'c and Daniel friendship, which always deserves greater attention; and it explores the choices they've made, and how the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the quantum mirror. It's certainly not a happy fic, but I feel that it's a good fic, which I think is more important.
Story most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: I've always been amazed and grateful for the enthusiastic responses I get to my fic writing, so this is a hard question for me. I think I'd go with Leitmotif, though, because the story that emerged from the prompt surprised me as being unquestionably right, and a tribute to both Sam and Teal'c.
Most fun story: Hmmm. Guilty Pleasures and Pay No Attention to the Tok'ra Behind the Curtain are definitely in the running, but E is for Exchanges unquestionably wins this one. The ficlet wrote itself and is exactly what I wanted!
Hardest story to write: B is for Blood, probably. Not only did it hurt to write it, but I was anxious to do the subject matter justice.
Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? Last year, I said that I wanted to write more fic. I did do that, but I also wrote shorter fic, which I hadn't really taken into consideration. So the answer, I suppose, is both more and less.
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? I played with tenses, and tweaking my writing style. I think I've broadened my perspective a bit, which can only be a good thing.
Do you have any goals? Yes! I want to write long fic again. Happily, stargate_summer looks like it's going to be marvelous. Imagine all those SG-1 stories, 50,000 words plus, going live in June, one delicous story a week, stretching into the autumn and maybe even beyond. Each author with a beta and cheerleader for support, with art or vids being created to enhance the celebration... ooooh, yes, it's going to be good. And since I wanted to write longer stories, this is tailor-made for me!
Admittedly, the story I want to write is actually composed of several shorter fics, strung together by a common theme. But it will arc over at least seven seasons, and maybe eight. We'll see how it goes. I am comforted by knowing that randomfreshink is the best beta reader in three galaxies, and that I was fortunate enough to get splash_the_cat to be my cheerleader for my story. Here's hoping it turns out to be something that I like - and that readers, like too!
I have one other specific goal, and that is to write a fic without any kind of prompting by anyone else. Sounds silly, I know. :) But every single fic I wrote in 2008 was based on a request, a prompt, or a birthday. That's not a bad thing, of course, but... Well. It would be nice to just write that Sha're POV fic someday, that's all.
Also, I want to finish my very first Stargate fic, which is a crossover and still very much in the WIP stage. The poor thing has been terribly neglected.
Other than that? I hope to write more meta, and more squee. Do another podfic or two. Write more ficlets by request, despite the first two goals on my list. And enjoy another year in my corner of the SG-1 fandom, which is wonderful and a very delightful place to be!