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Atlantis Waits by Dzurlady (Documentation Challenge)

Jan 23, 2006 23:37

Title: Atlantis Waits
Author: dzurlady
Rating: G
Spoilers: Rising, Before I Sleep
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis is not mine
Summary: Extracts from the main status logs

( Power conservation mode initialised )

author: dzurlady, challenge: documentation

Comments 31

buddleia January 23 2006, 12:58:33 UTC

Oh, lovely. I really like this kind of thing, it gave me goosebumps when cesperanza did it in a flashfic and it gives me goosebumps now.

jen_chan13 January 24 2006, 04:18:43 UTC

flashfic?! where???? cause, okay, yeah, this rocked so~o much, and flashfic of this? EVEN BETTER!!!!! it was so interesting to read through the entries and match them up to what was happening, it really mkes me think. this in conjunction with 'before i sleep' is awesome. ^____^

dzurlady January 24 2006, 10:32:59 UTC

Thank you! I'm pleased to hear you were trying to match it all up, because that was what I was aiming for but I was afraid I'd lose people along the way. :) It was great fun to write, too, even if the dates did my head in slightly until I got them all worked out.

buddleia January 24 2006, 17:15:32 UTC

It was Breathe, and the little section of data in the middle made me absolutely shiver.

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just_eunice January 23 2006, 13:11:07 UTC

Oh wow. I was surprised by how much this affected me. The sparse system reports evoked all the emotions I felt watching Before I Sleep (OMG TEN THOUSAND YEARS), and then hammered them home with the simplicity and repetition. Really interesting, thank you so much.

dzurlady January 24 2006, 10:27:31 UTC

Thank you! I thought about cutting out some of the reports, to make it shorter, because I worried that I'd lose people along the way; but that was kinda the point - that there had been 10,000 of very little activity, and all of it routine. Altantis was just hanging around in limbo until the expedition arrived. :) I like the status report at the end as well, because we know that Elizabeth is still there, and the expedition won't discover her for several months yet.

spike21 January 23 2006, 14:40:56 UTC

man. I can't believe how moving this was. Just brilliantly done.

dzurlady January 24 2006, 10:17:42 UTC

Thank you - I'm glad you liked it.

z_rayne January 23 2006, 17:11:07 UTC

So simple and elegant, yet so very affecting. Wonderfully done, thank you!

dzurlady January 24 2006, 10:21:30 UTC

Oh, good - I'm glad it worked for you. I wasn't sure that I would be able to communicate what I was getting at without confusing and/or boring people, so it's really nice to hear you say that.

allisnow January 23 2006, 17:53:20 UTC

This was... unexpectedly awesome. :) Very nice.

dzurlady January 24 2006, 10:28:41 UTC

Thanks! I'm happy to hear you liked it.