for gen_drabble thing 2: key

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He should’ve been more freaked out about being (basically) nothing more than a walking key for the expedition-should’ve been, but at the time he was mostly trying to pretend this didn’t suddenly mean his mom was an alien.

And now, when he’s alone in the city (his city) and no one can hear, he tells Atlantis she’s ( Read more... )

for gen_drabble thing 3: armor

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If asked, Rodney will admit that the Nomex survival-suit makes sense (and the memory cloth is a brilliant excuse for having a cape). It makes sense and looks pretty cool, and Rodney’s maybe just a little bit in love with Lucius Fox (not that he’d ever admit that to anyone, ever, John), and Batman’s all about being ( Read more... )

for gen_drabble thing 16: timeless ( Read more... )

To be Satedan is to be taller, faster, stronger. Smarter. Braver. Satedans stand toe to toe with Wraith, stare them in the eye and laugh ( Read more... )

for gen_drabble challenge 19: tousled. don't like it as much as my former attempts, but. *shrugs* it's something written and finished, anyway ( Read more... )

for gen_drabble; Nepenthe, "the one that chases away sorrow".

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“Why don’t you meditate?” Teer asks one morning, gently incurious.

“I do,” John says (lies), twiddling a grass-stem.

“You sleep,” she corrects, her expression sweet but humorless. (Nobody ever really smiles here.)

“I don’t want to ascend,” he says; don’t want to leave them behind, he doesn’t ( Read more... )

Time spent translating carvings on stone arch encountered on PX-3042: 178 minutes
Time spent isolating search terms: 36 minutes
Time spent navigating unnecessarily complicated search screens: 14.5 minutes
Time spent waiting for search to run: 92 minutes
Discovering that there are only two results and one of them is a sentence fragment:

"You'd ( Read more... )

Written at kensieg's not-quite request, and inspired by the genius that is this. I probably used the word "iguana" a few more times than strictly necessary, but oh well ( Read more... )

I am working on my NaNo thing. Really. But I find I have to write it by hand or I get sucked into the computer, which is not condusive to getting anything done. Well, not with any speed ( Read more... )

Here, as inspired by pentapus's very cool artwork ( Read more... )