Comments | bratfarrar: 5 ways to go crazy without trying [sga]

bratfarrar

5 ways to go crazy without trying [sga]

Jan 07, 2010 23:07

um. this was not what i expected would happen when i started writing.

( the title is not joking, folks )

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trishkafibble January 10 2010, 05:05:01 UTC

Wow. So very creepy because they're all just a little too possible...*shiver.*

Don't get too weirded out about producing these, though. Take a look at any really riveting SGA situation, and I think you'll see a similarly horrid possibility lurking behind all of that lovely dramatic tension. It's simply your wonderful instinct for storytelling that brought these to light!

bratfarrar January 13 2010, 02:27:15 UTC

Well, it's mostly just that I expected to write something at least semi-silly, and instead wound up with this.

trishkafibble January 13 2010, 04:38:18 UTC

Heh. Reminds me of my most recent attempt to write an SGA fic! I thought it was going to be a longish h/c Teamy thing...and it came out a short, stark, and macabre horror story with an exaggeratedly external POV and almost no character involvement (and, of course, no ending. I've never managed to end a story yet!).

It's amusing to talk in terms of being led by a "muse"...and yet, I can very much see why the Greeks came up with the idea. Inspiration really does seem to have a life of its own!

kristen999 January 30 2010, 20:45:54 UTC

oh wow, these are breath taking yet so tangibly scary. Amazing how five lives are so intertwined and how lost and broken they are without one another.

bratfarrar February 6 2010, 03:08:26 UTC

Thanks! (I think; this isn't exactly the kind of story I want to tell with any frequency.)

michelel72 January 31 2010, 07:20:53 UTC

Oooog. Poor everybody. Very well rendered, and chilling.

bratfarrar February 6 2010, 03:08:56 UTC

Yeah. 'Oooog' indeed.

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bratfarrar February 14 2010, 20:51:49 UTC

Thanks!

schneefink April 29 2011, 10:04:05 UTC

Whoa, chilling and all too plausible. (I don't completely understand John's part - he activated the wrong Ancient device? He has Atlantis-withdrawal?) Elizabeth's and Teyla's parts are especially well done. Ouch.

bratfarrar May 5 2011, 23:58:25 UTC

Thanks!

The John section plays off of my tweak to canon, that he has a bit more of a mental connection to Atlantis than in the show; here it's gone wrong somehow, so that he's basically been driven crazy by the city whispering away at the back of his mind all the time.