Eight Days of Happy: Day 6 (I think)
Today's happy is getting a Dreamwidth invite code -- squee! \o/ I used it on my personal account, not this one, because I had liked the idea of moving that one somewhere fresh anyway. (You're not missing much; it's mainly just random little anecdotes about my life and staying in touch with old friends from college etc.) So I've been poking around, customizing, and exploring. I used their import feature to move all my old posts over, with comments -- it took about an hour to finish, and seemed to get everything, as far as I can tell. Very cool! Works as advertised!
Today's other happy is this story by vain_glorious: Men in Stiff Procession (SGA, gen, PG, about 21,000 words). There has been a real dearth of plotty team fics lately, and I really loved this one. I already rec'd it at stargategenrec but figured that I'd rec it here too, for those who don't follow that community. It's an AU of "Inquisition" in which Sheppard is exiled by the tribunal and subsequently declared dead by the SGC when he can't be found; Mitchell is brought in to take over as military commander of Atlantis. I am not a Cameron fan, but I surprised myself by really enjoying him in this -- I loved his outside POV on Atlantis as he tries to fit into a group of people who resent him for stepping into Sheppard's shoes, and his observations on the team members and their dynamic in Sheppard's absence was really interesting. (The story actually begins here with a brief "Inquisition" coda; the much longer story is a sort of sequel to it.) If you want to know if this one is a deathfic or not before reading it, highlight the span-coded text (spoils the ending!): Not a deathfic; there is a happy ending.
Today's other happy is this story by vain_glorious: Men in Stiff Procession (SGA, gen, PG, about 21,000 words). There has been a real dearth of plotty team fics lately, and I really loved this one. I already rec'd it at stargategenrec but figured that I'd rec it here too, for those who don't follow that community. It's an AU of "Inquisition" in which Sheppard is exiled by the tribunal and subsequently declared dead by the SGC when he can't be found; Mitchell is brought in to take over as military commander of Atlantis. I am not a Cameron fan, but I surprised myself by really enjoying him in this -- I loved his outside POV on Atlantis as he tries to fit into a group of people who resent him for stepping into Sheppard's shoes, and his observations on the team members and their dynamic in Sheppard's absence was really interesting. (The story actually begins here with a brief "Inquisition" coda; the much longer story is a sort of sequel to it.) If you want to know if this one is a deathfic or not before reading it, highlight the span-coded text (spoils the ending!): Not a deathfic; there is a happy ending.