182: SGA: The Long Goodbye.

[thefourthvine]

SGA is ending. And the thing is, I actually got sad when I heard that, and I don't watch the show. (I watched, um, some episodes of season one. And it is not looking like I will have time for television before the earthling is, oh, twelve, so I doubt I'll see even those episodes that are Instant Slash Classics. I'm sorry! I'm just not very good at

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[lucia_tanaka]

I'm really glad I stopped watching SGA after the third season hiatus (or was it fourth? I dunno, Ancients had the city) because I'm tearing up just thinking about this show being over. It must be immeasurably worse for people who stuck with it.

[thefourthvine]

Beats me what season that was. I'm the last person to ask about things canonical. But I also tear up when I think about it being over. *sniffles*

(And, yes, the sadness of people who actually WATCH it must be incredible, if we're sniffly and we don't.)

[bitter_crimson]

This ENTRY made me tear up! *clings to show and fandom*

Argh, I need to somehow make time to go back and re-read these and other fics. *shakes fist at the universe for giving me a busy schedule*

[thefourthvine]

*joins you in the clinging, at least to the fandom*

*shakes fist at the universe for giving me a busy schedule*

Why does the world not understand that fan fiction comes first? PRIORITIES, WORLD: GET THEM IN ORDER.

[auburnnothenna]

Ha, my brain didn't come with a warranty or I'd have returned it long ago. Now I must go stick pins in my ego before it balloons up too much bigger and pops my skull open.

[thefourthvine]

*sad* Your parents went with the no-warranty option, too? It's hard to go through life without the extended coverage plan. We should bond over this.

Now I must go stick pins in my ego before it balloons up too much bigger and pops my skull open.

Some inflation is good for the ego! (And I've heard that if your ego gets REALLY big, you can use it to float through the clouds to Magic Fairy Land, but usually only movie stars manage that.) Also, pins are owie. I'm just saying. There are points to consider before you go this route.

[copracat]

I am very impressed that, of the four you choose, three are stories that I simply cannot bear to read, which is really much more of a compliment to the authors than it might otherwise seem.

[thefourthvine]

I'm guessing Victors is the one you can bear to read? The others - well, I can promise you they're very good, but if you can't, you can't. It's a very good thing to know your fictional limitations. And not to worry - I will re-read them for you! (Not really. Oh my god, that would take forever; I did it once to write this post, and if I did it again it'd be another month before I recommended anything. But I will admire them for you, anyway.)

I'm curious; what aspects of them make you unable to read them? (I'm nosy. I like to know other people's bulletproof squicks. It's a thing.)

[copracat]

I'm guessing Victors is the one you can bear to read?

Hmmm.... how did you work that out? :)

I'm curious; what aspects of them make you unable to read them?

Grief, it is grief that makes them too much for me to bear. When I was a wee baby fan I had such resilience, although it might as well have been ignorance. I could read anything, I could go anywhere, there was no story so sad, no loss so devastating that I couldn't eat it up and enjoy my tears and tears and tears.

Now, loss and pain and grief is not just fiction and I can't enjoy its fictional representation the way I used to, particularly not if it is well done.

Syn, for example, is such a fine and powerful writer I can't even bear to approach her story sideways. The video it inspired sent me into an orgy of happy ending indulgence. If I'd known its inspiration prior I wouldn't have watched it

[macey_muse]

Those last two are my favourite SGA fics, possibly favourite fics overall, in fandom. And the whole multimedia revolution Victors sparked was fascinating to watch (& participate in ~ what, you expect me to resist the chance to record gregorian plain-chant? XD). I have a feeling I read & loved the first one (is it the one where they form an army? kinda? man I've read too much.), but I think the second is new, which is -fabulous- because a) that very very rarely happens and b) it will save me from resorting to trawling ff.net, which is a -bad idea-, yet is the existence I have been reduced to having seemingly read -everything on the web ever-.

So, yay fic! *cheers*

[thefourthvine]

Victors and Freedom are certainly classics of the fandom. (As evidenced by the fact that they get single-word names; we all know what we mean.) And the multimedia Victors phenomenon was, indeed, just about the neatest thing ever. We were transforming our own work! It was like a glorious moebius strip! Only more cool than that unfortunate metaphor would suggest.

is it the one where they form an army? kinda? man I've read too much

It is indeed! Well. I mean, there might be more than one story where Daniel Jackson and John Sheppard team up and form an army, but this is the only one I've read.

And, hey, if you haven't read Water Grinds the Stone, that should keep you occupied for a number of hours, at least. (More if you haven't read the other stories in that series!) Plus, that might mean there are other Big Bang stories from this year that you've missed, and in that case you should be good for most of the rest of October, anyway.

[macey_muse]

...I could be really geeky here, and say it was like the expanding sets of numbers, where integers go to natural numbers go to real numbers and just -keep expanding- but yeah ^.^' it was so awesome! I think it had a lot to do with the format; Victors read like it itself was source material, so that's how we reacted to it. but man, watching that comment-count those first few days... what a ride XD

I think I might go reread that one, actually, I remember loving it last time.

...so I opened the first prequel, and then they went to the 'shroom planet, and then suddentelepathy! happened, and I was all '...oh hi thar story, I remember you!' XD I have read -practically everything ever omg this is not even funny anymore- and I'm actually down to reading -buffy crossovers- in my quest for new epics. this is tragic ;.;

(psst, do you have any obscure!epic-fic hidden in your delicious? like, I read Jake Sisko/castred-vulcan-OMC fic, I will read -anything- except Harry/Snape. don't worry about writing up recs or anything, just, links? feed the