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[miss_porcupine]

Wait-it's-not-July-oh-look-meta! edition

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[withglassinhand]

"how you consume them"

Quickly. Greedily. Hungrily. And then I'm left with a longing for more. Your stories have quickly become what I think has/is/will happen with/to SGA. (Note, I haven't seen the ending.) Or maybe it's better to say that they're what I want to happen. What I think is plausible.

Also, Lorne.

And I *don't* review as much as I should. Sorry. I fail at LJ.

[miss_porcupine]

You may or may not fail at LJ, but it's not because you don't feedback me. :)

Thanks for the comments and I take the note under advisement.

[lurkerlynne]

Seconded! I am one of many who consider your stuff more canon than what aired. :D

Second the poor reviewer thing too. Apologies for that. ;_;

Re: I like the realism

[miss_porcupine]

Oh, I have no regrets whatsoever about writing about and how I do; I write what I read and I don't come from a background of scifi/fantasy/magic. Which makes it a little odd to me that my biggest fandoms have involved superheroes and space vampires.

That's a very lovely -- and sadly apt -- turn of phrase regarding McKay and marines. In canon, it's true of almost everyone, but in fanon, it's... yah.

[mswalter]

Hm...these are rather fascinating questions. I agree, it does seem like, for some reason, you don't much inspire discussion in your journal, but I'm not sure why. I really enjoy your meta -- you're one of only two or three authors in SGA fandom who I considered the true "realists," and any time you talked about your views of John Sheppard in particular I listened carefully, because I loved your thoughts on Sheppard as a real human being vs. Sheppard as portrayed by TPTB and in fandom. (That's one of my favorite types of meta analysis -- imagining characters in the Real World

[miss_porcupine]

W/rt the lack of extended discussion, I sometimes suspect that I intimidate people into keeping quiet, which is not meant to be a compliment or a positive attribute. I'm not a fuzzy, fluffy person, but I really don't bite and sometimes have trouble displaying that. *tucks canines back in mouth*

I think meta -- or at least opinions on characterization -- can be fully formed without consciously creating anything in fandom. We all draw conclusions and make assumptions about characters in the source material; most of us don't try to build on them.

this is maybe more than you wanted to know

[siegeofangels]

With the caveat that this is how I interacted with your stories before I drifted out of SGA fandom:

Most of them I'd read more than once, when I was randomly in the mood for it or it came up on delicious' recently-bookmarked. Sometimes I'd be like, Man, I really want to reread Ipetia or the one where everybody breaks out of prison and Teyla's carrying a ladle as a weapon.

I never finished reading Quo Vadis (? the Orii one) because I was pretty sure you were foreshadowing Suarez' death and I didn't want to see it happen. I know he gets the happy ending in your canon-verse but there were hints in a lot of stories that made me think he wasn't going to make it out of Pegasus alive

Re: this is maybe more than you wanted to know

[miss_porcupine]

I wish we still had a fandom in common.

I'd make a joke about a fairy tale with Reletti chasing dragons in dress blues and a sword, but I don't remember if you saw Generation Kill.

Honestly, I have no idea what fate Suarez has in Qui Habitat; there are times when I think that I have to kill off one of Lorne's marines because people have to die and I can't kill off Bacon Dude and his Buddy, but... there are other OCs who'd be effective in the role and Suarez really has already lost everything. Most of the time, I think Sheppard's more at risk.

[miss_porcupine]

I am forever grateful for you love of Yoni -- I certainly wouldn't have come up with that casting on my own!

Thank you very much. :)