#ems talks stargate things

[trainofcommand]

Oh, what time is it? It's time for links to some recent Stargate Kink Meme fills, that's what time it is!

Downtime, by @em-kellesvig (T, McKay/Sheppard, D/s, hurt/lots of comfort ). Rodney McKay is a very good boy.

Debrief, by anonymous (NC-17, John/Rodney/Evan). Oral sex, edging, dom/sub, exhibitionism, getting head while flying a jumper).

The uncertainty of touch, by me (E, Sheppard/Michael, dubious consent). There are some things that gnaw at the edges of Michael's memory.

By Your Side, by @cordeliaperry (Cyber_witch85) (M, Jack/Teal'c, hurt/comfort). Jack O’Neill is recovering from his ordeal with the alien orb, and Teal’c is there to help him.

A better kiss, a hotter touch, by puddlejumperpilot (E, McKay/Sheppard, D/s, rough sex, hair pulling, dirty talk, possessive sex, after care). Rodney is a menace, John is possessive, and John reminds Rodney who he belongs to.

All this and more over at the Kink Meme on Dreamwidth and/or the AO3 collection!

[jadelotusflower]

Stargate rewatch: 1x06 Cold Lazarus

It’s crystal doppelgänger time!

We have abandoned the helmets entirely, now Jack in his cap is the only one with headgear.

Jack’s locker is next to Ferretti’s, do we assume he took over command of SG-2 when Kawalsky died?

In Jack's Van Dyck cigar box o' secrets: a b&w photo of two kids, his wedding ring, a culturally incorporate coin pouch, a picture of Jack with what we can assume is his mother, Jack in military getup, and lots of pics of Charlie at different ages.

Ok we get a timeline clue - Sam says she’s known Jack for “months”.

Oh hey, there’s a female scientist in the lab! Who talks to Sam! Is this the show’s first official pass of the Bechdel test? Okay Daniel is technically present, but the exchange is with Sam about EM fields. Checking the cast list she’s only credited as “laboratory assistant” but I’m going to go ahead and say it counts.

Poor Teal’c’s room is so sparse, and the way he reacts to the tv indicates that it’s new.

Teal'c: "You received permission for me to fire my staff weapon in the gateroom?" Sam: "Oh Yeah." Daniel: "Absolutely!" Hee.

Sam and Daniel are really paired up a lot in these early episodes, not only doing their science twin thing, but for the character moments.

Daniel is wearing surgical gloves to examine the crystal, seems prudent.

I don’t ship Jack/Sam, but I am amused by the physical resemblance between her and Sara. This is a cute outfit too.

You may remember Harley Jane Kozak as Susan (with the bulimia) in Parenthood or Helen (Harry’s ex) in When Harry Met Sally. She’s really great as Sara, she and RDA have a nice chemistry and sense of history and there's a palpable difference in her interactions with crystal!Jack here and real!Jack later.

“Holly Hannah!” Hee, I love Sam.

Teal’c rattles off the sports teams of Chicago - guess he was doing a lot of reading before he got that tv. Jack tells him not to forget the Cubs - earlier we saw a photograph of Charlie in a Cubs shirt so that’s a nice touch.

“I did not understand your injury.” This whole scene hits me, I feel so bad for poor crystal!Jack, just trying to make things right.

Sara is going to need a boatload of therapy after this. I know they intended this episode as closure to Jack/Sara and his grief over Charlie, but I would have liked to have seen her again.

I hope they sent the other crystal back too!

[leaderbanana]

Selena gomez revival album art work

Selena gomez revival album art work tv#

"But just who I am, and I can’t pretend to be anything other than that."Ĭovered mostly by a white backdrop, Gomez's Revival artwork saw the star appear naked as she sat down with her legs and arms covering all her appropriate spots. I’ve tried, you know, like my last album cover, and you know, things like that I thought I could do, working on songs that didn't really add up to my story," she says in an audio recording atop a montage from her photoshoot. "I can’t be anybody else, so that’s the truth. In her new shoot for Dazed, the chart-topper, 27, reminisced about the album in a behind-the-scenes video. Her two best singles during the Revival era are also her most morose: nocturnal promotional single “The Heart Wants What It Wants” (from last year’s greatest hits compilation For You) and now “Good For You,” a presumably confident track in which Gomez, goaded by A$AP Rocky’s guest leching, makes looking good for her man sound like searing a part of herself dead.Selena Gomez's 2015 LP, Revival, was a blockbuster hit, but components of the project weren't exactly true to the superstar. Gomez’s greatest strength may well be, surprisingly, sadness. The album itself is something else, and something more interesting. Top 10 single “Good For You,” she claims, is about confidence “Same Old Love” is presumably not about a breakup but-no joke- a healthy relationship with one’s parents. In almost every interview around Revival, Gomez has claimed it’s a “fun” record the talking points are plentiful and conspicuously angst-free. Gomez has cited Christina Aguilera, specifically on Stripped, as an inspiration it’s tempting to imagine what a Latin crossover record from her, like Aguilera’s, might be like.) (Reversing the equation, Gomez handles the reggaeton-tinged “Body Heat” considerably better than her producers, who contribute a thudding outsider’s try. It’s a strength of her contemporary Charli XCX, who co-wrote Gomez’s single “Same Old Love” built on a rickety piano sample, backgrounded Italo synths and post-breakup feelings, it aims for spitfire and lands on vaguely pained. Where she falters most is what Revival is ostensibly about: bratty confidence. “Revival,” from the spoken-word intro to the tiptoeing synths and vocalise, is New Age in that way that’s increasingly crept into the charts. “Me & the Rhythm” is the sort of lite-disco that’s ruled the charts since 2013, but other songs are a little more au courant, like “Kill ‘Em With Kindness,” which stirs a tropical-house breeze not dissimilar from Bieber’s recent “What Do You Mean,” or “Hands to Myself,” whose stop-start sass recalls Ellie Goulding’s recent “ On My Mind.”Įven the less foregrounded singles are easy enough to categorize. Like Stars Dance, it serves nicely as a snapshot of mid-decade pop production trends and producers, with powerhouses Max Martin and Stargate making appearances, as well as frequent Disney collaborators Rock Mafia. The answer, it turns out, is pretty much what it’s always been-she’ll become whoever pop needs her to. Revival, Gomez’s second solo album without former backing band The Scene, addresses this question outright, on the title track: “Who knows what I’ll become?” she asks. This makes for a reliable worker, but for a pop star it’s fairly low-key, resulting in a little bit of an identity crisis.

Selena gomez revival album art work tv#

Like many former TV stars, Gomez has a malleable, unshowy voice, the kind that can sound a little pop-rock or a little alt-R&B or a little Rihanna without ever settling on one. Indeed, Gomez has spent several albums now shedding her Disney trappings to a couple hits but relatively little fanfare. Gomez in particular comes across as hardworking and almost impervious to scandal even turns in Harmony Korine’s teensploitation film Spring Breakers and a well-publicized relationship with pubescent heartthrob turned tabloid scoundrel Justin Bieber have left her relatively unscathed. Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, meanwhile, are lower-key but reliable hitmakers. Miley Cyrus became famous by running off the Hannah Montana moral-clause rails, then remained famous by finding whole new sets of rails to run off. Of the four, Ariana Grande is the most familiar personality: the Britney Spears teen coquette, with a bit more stage-kid showmanship from her days on drama-school sitcom Victorious. These things always seem to come in fours: first Britney, Christina, Mandy, Jessica now Ariana, Miley, Demi, Selena. Not only do they enter the major-label world with pre-existing, devoted fanbases, they’ve had the equivalent of several seasons of character development. Pop fandom is all about characters and storylines, so it makes sense that Disney and Nickelodeon alums do well.

[stardustinthesky]

rewatching farscape for the bazillionth time while reading cam x vala fic at the same time might not have been the best of ideas now i’m twice as messed up as usual

[rodneymckays]

oh my god is that why they killed elizabeth?!? that’s such a nightmare. i really love stargate but they seem to have a problem of having characters that develop beyond the writers intentions and then they panic and do something drastic (usually not great) to try and “fix” them. like their characters break archetypes and then they aren’t sure where to go with them. and they have such good characters!!! that’s literally why i love sg1 and why i’m getting the same way about atlantis!! i love that the characters become more than the surface stereotypes. like starting sga i thought john was going to be a really cookie-cutter hero character but he isn’t! he’s so much more layered and i love him a ridiculous amount because of it. -mc anon (i’m so sorry i’m just ranting about this show back & forth with you now shshshd)

SORRY this took me forever to answer, dear anon. i was gathering receipts for what i mentioned before about the writers/producers re: elizabeth's arc which can be found here (big thank u to mizz-magenta, who provided the link for that in one of their posts from awhile back!) TLDR for the link: pretty much exactly what u just said bahaha.

like u, my enduring love for stargate is due to my enduring love of it's characters. it's crazy how they took on a life of their own, and became so much more than they were written/intended to be. and i think a lot of that is thanks to the actors' performance and love for their characters. sheppard in particular!!!

it was clear that john was supposed to be the o'neill of the group. the every man, action hero of the story. and john does play that part for the people around him. but a lot of it comes off as just that, performative, at least to me, because of the way joe delivers those heroic lines and snappy one liners: a little self-deprecating, sometimes sarcastic, a lot drawly. and there are tons of other subtleties (or not so subtleties BAHAH) of acting and character moments that i could literally spend ages talking about, but are actually stated much better by other ppl more eloquent than i, such as in this lovely post by merelyn!

thank god for stargate fandom, so these characters' can be explored and their potential can be untapped by people who love 'em a whole bunch, through fic and meta and other means.

AND NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR CHATTING WITH ME ABOUT STARGATE 😤😤😤 it's my favourite thing to do!! if anything, pls chat with me more!!!

[ultranos]

If we're talking Stargate crossovers, there are some decent Buffy ones on TTH, or at least I liked them. They can get a little military porn-y I'll admit, same as anything Stargate related. But I liked 'em.

Yeah, the military thing is more or less just going to be something you're going to run across, just because of the fandom. It's just the extent, you know? As for crossovers, I'll take your word on it for those. I watched Buffy but never really got into it enough to read fic for it, so I can't really judge that well.

[itwoodbeprefect]

stargate atlantis 1x03 hide and seek, thoughts:

carson injects rodney with an experimental drug to give him the ata gene that contains a “mouse retrovirus” and rodney is nervous about that so carson jokes about it giving rodney an irrestible urge to run on a small wheel, but as someone who knows nothing about medicine but has seen the episode in which john slowly turns into an iratus bug because of a wraith retrovirus... AU in which half the atlantis expedition starts to display mouse characteristics.

fjdkfd one thing about john gleefully shoving rodney off a balcony (to test rodney’s personal shield device) that i don’t see mentioned that often (which is fair btw, because “i shot him :D” eclipses a lot) is the perfect timing of it. elizabeth is walking down the halls with grodin updating her and he’s like, major sheppard is taking his sweet time okaying sections of the city for people who need living space, and elizabeth is IN THE MIDDLE of a sentence defending john going “well, the safety and security of this expedition-” and that’s when they see john do the thing. amazing. one week in atlantis and their replacement military commander has decided to just straight up murder some people.

rodney’s smug “that’s not the first thing we tried!” followed by that partners-in-crime look of excitement he shares with john always strikes me as... suggestive. so you got john to try some things with you, huh, rodney.

john getting really into recounting earth horror movie plots to extremely confused athosian kids while being seemingly totally oblivious to how much they’re not getting it is my FAVORITE THING.

john: “hope i didn’t scare ‘em too much.” halling: “i don’t think so.” THIS IS THE EARTH/PEGASUS DYNAMIC I WANT.

john, clutching his HUGE bowl of popcorn, swaying left and right because he’s so engaged in the football game happening on screen: “oh! that is beautiful, can you believe that?” teyla, not really sure what’s happening: “s- should i not?” PERFECTION.

god i just. want to live in these little minutes of this episode. teyla asks what a hail mary is and john goes “it’s a play that you just saw” and when he realizes that’s not enough he keeps going until he realizes he’s now talked himself into a corner where he’s on the verge of having to explain all of christianity to explain who mary is and goes “did i mention i like ferris wheels?” which is nice but also. oh my god john. going by how you’re doing at explaining stuff, teyla is probably still under the impression that a ferris is an earth method of transportation and john has an obsession with its wheels. (teyla, a social person trying to learn and make friends: “how many wheels does a ferris have?” john: “just one.” teyla: [now imagines earth as a planet full of people on unicycles])

fjdkfjk. okay so jinto is missing and his voice is leading a group to where he went, which is a transporter except nobody knows about those yet, so we get like. john and rodney standing in front of these doors that slide open and where there should be “boxes from earth” so rodney’s like “someone thought that would make a nice closet” and then john and rodney step inside together. god. okay

“definitely not a closet,” john decides, once he’s inside this closet, with rodney. but he’s RIGHT it’s NOT a closet it is in fact A TRANSPORTER that can take you anywhere you want. there’s some complicated metaphor here about finding the control panel of being gay and realizing it’s actually a magical thing that will take you places you never thought you’d go. it’s somewhat narnia.

wait. so jinto went into the room with the boxes at point A and transported both himself and the boxes to point B, and then he left the transporter but the boxes were still there, and when john and rodney go from A to B, the boxes leave B and show back up at A, seen by elizabeth and teyla and halling who are still there. which means that if you transport to a transporter, whatever is in that one will get taken to your location, as in, it’s a literal swap of the contents, which has many potentially hilarious implications. you step into a transporter, you lift your arm to hit the spot you want to go to on the map, but before you can you’re suddenly in a different transporter on the other side of the city, because someone coming from there wanted to go to yours. if you’re really unlucky and you’ve hit peak transporter hours you might get zapped around the city a few times and you will need to be very quick in getting out if you reach wherever you wanted to go, because otherwise you might unwillingly start another round trip. at a certain point just walking might be faster.

out of everyone working on the problem of the energy-sucking alien darkness teyla is the only one who actually stops to think about what this strange being might want and that is just!! very good!! and says very much both about how she thinks and how the people from earth are thinking!! AND is also very much why the expedition’s “the athosians can help but only in ways we think are good” is so bad, because those athosians (very obviously, come on guys, COME ON) have perspectives and knowledge that the earthlings do not but that are extremely valuable to the survival of everyone involved.

rodney’s fearfully heroic moment is also very good, obviously. so much good character stuff happening here!

“that was a hail mary,” john tells teyla, still greatly failing at explaining anything whatsoever. a worthy ending of an episode full of john talking to pegasus people who are endeared but confused by him.

[aw-eather]

Heather Watches Stargate SG1: Upgrades

I have some rare time off and deicded I would like to spend it writing another post because its been a long time and I love this show and it’ll help me be less stressed about life and work!  We all love Upgrades so I thought this could be a fun one to do today! I also just love how much you guys enjoy these posts so thank you for being wonderful  As always, I’ll almost defienitly swear so consider yourself warned. 

Nice shot of the gate

SAM’S HAIR

SHE’S SO CUTE

Tok’ra are starting to annoy Jack and honestly same

“Don’t get me wrong Carter, your dads great, love him like a brother”

What about a father in law???

just a thought

Boys stop gagging over a pretty girl

Ew Daniel thats so gross

“Looks like trouble to me” ew

Sam’s fucking face

She’s so C U T E

Daniel stop flirting with every woman you meet

Anise annoys me tbh

Sorry not sorry

No shit Daniel

Jack is judging SO HARD

I’m actually a fan of the caterpillar on Teal’c’s face. 

I genuienly don’t hate it

Of course it doesn’t work on the Tok’ra. 

Why would anything 

Wow Anise you seem awfully suspicious with how desparate you are to get those bands on our space babies...

Sorry Sam is so beautiful 

like SO BEAUTIFUL

CREDITS

They’re so boring this season no offence 

END CREDITS

JANET

she looks so fucking good omg 

her HAIR

Anise go HOME you’re so ANNOYING 

Jack’s neck I-

Jack and Teal’c fighting is cute

I love their friendship

aw poor Teal’c

he’s out cold 

Jacks hair is messy and cute

Janet is not impressed at all

“I’m sorry”

“no you are not”

“You’re right about that!

fucking Jack making a comment about his strength and Janet’s face I love them

Jack reading super fast and Daniel not being able too is hilarioius to me

Mostly because I dislike Daniel

Lol “want me to read it to you?”

Sam sitting in the dark

Janet visiting her with her messy hair and looking so cute and wonderful

I love her

lemme protect her

she’ll need it

Sam, I don’t trust Anise

Jack chil you’re gonna break the machine 

that fucking beanie

i hate it

Jack broke the ball

I’m quiet during this scene because I Do Not Care TM about Daniel and Anise

Janet looks so annoyed 

and I don’t blame her

I agree with Janet

take them off

ah but they can’t 

janet and hammond are ready to slap anise and I’m HERE FOR IT

Jack might not be concerned Teal’c, but I am

jack what did that punching bag ever do to you, you dork

SAm is WRITING  a BOOK with her new found power I hate her

Sam and Janet are beautiful 

and their friendship could have been beautiful

if TPTB knew how to write decent women

“its just so damn exciting sir” I love him

poor Siler omg

why is it always him

can’t he catch a break

aw they’re all locked up

Steak. 

THEY’RE BREAKING OUT

FUCK SHE LOOKS GOOD

LIKE SO GOOD

AND THEY’RE BOTH WEARING LEATHER JACKETS 

THEY LOOK SO GOOOD

FRENCH FRIES INSTEAD OF POTATOES 

I LIKE THE TASTE BETTER 

SAM STOP 

YOU’RE TOO MUCH

MY TINY COLD HEART CANNOT TAKE IT 

defying a direct order but who cares

Jack there is a large, huge MASSIVE difference between steak and earth

the story about that shot with the pool is always funny to me 

JACK LOOKS GOOD

SO GOOD 

WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS AND THE LEATHER AND THE GREY AND I-

he is a geek

Daniel don’t do it

oh he did it

Sam’s even telling him not to do it

bloody hell 

can we have a chat about how hot Jack and Sam are? 

Not make them stupid lol 

they were already stupid, Hammond 

they’re space babies

they’re looking so sory for themselves 

no you can’t Daniel

VERY HUNGRY SIR

more of a scuffle sir

ACTUALLY IT WAS YOUR IDEA... SIR

the fucking sass

the FUCKING S A S S 

ugh

UGH 

I AM SO SICK OF ANISE 

bitch  you brought those arm bands there so they could do stuff for you

the Tok’ra are always out for themselves and no one else

they barely do anything to help the taur’i and it pisses me off

Sam looks so cute

Hammond, every mission is a suicide mission 

sam is SO CUTE

HER HAND-

SORRY 

SHE’S REALLY HOT 

AND ADORABLE

I WANNA PROTECT HER

Thta was a lot of science talk 

aww the little hat 

so CUTE

look at em go

kicking jaffa butt

speeding around the place

HER HAIR 

I CANNOT STAND HER

SHE’S SO CUTE

wow thats a big ship

arm band is no longer working 

surprise surprise it happens in the middle of an important mission 

oh Hammond is MAD MAD 

Anise and you can bugger off

Janet’s face is like “did this bitch really just say what I think she just said”

NO SAM

JACK NO

OH BOY 

OOOOOOHHHH BOOOOOYYYYY

FAM I HATE THEM AND I LOVE THEM

THIS IS HONESTLY HEART BREAKING 

BECAUSE THEY OLY NOW REALISE HOW IN LOVE THEY ARE 

FUCK OFF

I LOVE THEM AND I HATE THEM 

BUT I LOVE THEM MORE 

i got a new computer today and the SOUND QUALITY IS SO MUCH BETTER

Aw Sam woke up first 

lol he wakes up funny 

he’s gonna do anything he can to help her

“you gotta get out of here sir”

“so do you” 

STOP IT YOU LOVE STRUCK NERDS

RUN BABIES RUN 

GET YO ASES OUT OF THERE

Look at that little jump over the rock

they’re in soooo much trouble

the fact these space babies didn’t get court marshalled a mllion times still shocks me 

ouch

that had to hurt

nice camera work

I AM VERY WELL GENERAL HAMMOND

lol 

i fuking love Teal’c 

what a sweetheart

i love him

could be a little less sarcastic to the Tok’ra Jack

I hate them as much as you do but no need to make things worse for yoruself 

this is why they never help you 

cause you are sassy to them

Final Thoughts: 

I love this episode

I love the silly space babies

I love Sam and Jack’s outfits when they go for steak

I love Sam’s hair

A lot

I love Sam in red

its a good colour for her

I genuienly hate the Tok’ra 

they’re useless

Jacob is ok

Martouf is mostly ok

the rest kinda suck tbh

Janet Deserved Better

all in all its a fun episode and I love it and it gives me the giggles which is what we all need right now

So tell me, beautiful people, what is our favourite moment from Upgrades? Lemme know and thanks for reading! 

[aromantic-eight]

This is part of a series of gen fic recs I’m making for Genuary 2021, organized by fandom. I’ll be putting these together quick, and many of these I have not read in a long time, so they’ll mostly just have a length range, either some general content tags I used for organizing or AO3 tags depending on the age of the bookmark, the summary, and a hopefully-still-working link.

Following up on my list of gen longfic for Stargate SG-1, here is part 1 of several shorter fic, many of which are fluffy friendship or team focused. I have several hundred genfic bookmarked for this fandom, so this post and the next will be showcasing only my very favorites of those bookmarks. For the rest, head on over here. Note that some bookmarks on there lead to websites that no longer exist- many of those fics have since been migrated to AO3 or are on Waybackmachine, so check those places if you see one you like.

In the following list, I have endeavored to link to the AO3 version of a fic whenever one is available and there shouldn’t be any broken links here.

Stargate SG-1: One-shots Part 1

The Point at Which We Break by kellifer (PG)

Words: 1-500

Tags: hurt/comfort, episode tag to ep 01x01

Everyone has a breaking point. When Daniel reaches his, he calls Sam.

 Alienism by Jb (PG-13)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: episode tag to ep 5x03, ascension repercussions, hurt/comfort, angst

Daniel confronts Sam after the events of Ascension, upset about something that Sam can't quite figure out.

 Nailed My Faith to the Sticking Pole by sixbeforelunch (PG)

Words: 500-1k

Tags: episode tag to ep 10x19, teamfic, trust, character study

It's okay, they've got each other's backs. Takes place just prior to Dominion.

 Damage Control by redbyrd (PG-13)

Words: 10-50k

Tags: episode tag to ep 4x13, outsider pov, casefic, rumors/misconceptions

On his way to Egypt to try find the answer to an age old puzzle, Steven Raynor ponders the mysterious murders of Dr. Jordan and the museum curator-- Could his old friend Daniel possibly be the killer?

 Role Model by Em (PG)

Words: 1-500

Tags: episode tag to ep 9x09, character study

It’s not something they ever talk about, but somewhere along the way Daniel's taken Jack's place.

 You Sleep in a Palace by Paian (PG)

Words: 1-500

Tags: character study, 2nd person pov

Where Daniel goes in his dreams.

 A Small Error in Translation by dsudis (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: friendship, humor, off-world mission, rumors/misconceptions, hijinks

Daniel makes a teeny error when trying to explain SG-1's relationship off-world.

 Walkabout by cofax (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: post-apocalypse, off-world, drama

Jack escapes Earth after the worst happens. Now he's wandering, hoping to find a friendly face.

 A Mournful Rustling by Otter (PG-13)

Words: 5-10k

Tags: suspense/horror, repercussions, hallucinations

Daniel's getting flashbacks to his time as an Ascended. It isn't all pretty.

 SG-1, Ninja Style by FigNewton (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: friendship, humor, hijinks

Jack, Sam and Daniel don't quite remember how they celebrated last night, but Teal'c is only too happy to refresh their memory.

 Five memories Daniel got back that Jack absolutely didn't want to know about by GateGremlyn (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: episode tag to ep 7x01, amnesia, friendship, humor, hijinks

A Five Things tag to Fallen and Homecoming.

 The Company He Keeps by xparrot (G)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: episode tag to 10x03, crossover with Stargate Atlantis, off-world

Dr. Rodney McKay isn't Cam's first choice for an astrophysicist; he knows that before he ever meets the man in person.

 Many Sins by Kellifer (PG-13)

Words: 1-500

Tags: episode tag to 5x22, friendship

Today was the first time Daniel had seen Jack slip up behind someone and slide a knife in, silent death.

 Out of Step by FigNewton (G)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: teamy goodness, Humor, Training exercises, Daniel whump, Janet is awesome

Janet wants to know how SG-1 managed to land Daniel in the infirmary this time! Slightly cracky team fic set just before Proving Ground, but with no spoilers.

 The Way Things Are Now by sixbeforelunch (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: crossover, outsider pov, friendship

Crossover with Without a Trace. Daniel and Danny were foster brothers once, and kept in touch. Daniel needs to get away from things for a night.

Note: The link to the fic series this is based on in the author’s notes is broken. You can find one of the original fics on waybackmachine here: http://web.archive.org/web/20060528233049/http://azar.ink-and-quill.com/common.php?threads

 Clearing Skies, Chances of Insight by Randomfreshink (PG)

Words: 5-10k

Tags: episode tag to 5x19, repercussions, reconciliation, amnesia, friendship

Target practice and talking. Daniel and Jack. Post Menace. Fallout, honesty, and clearing the air.

 Good Man by Random (PG)

Words: 5-10k

Tags: episode tag to 10x09, character study, repercussions

Where Daniel is upset at almost losing Sam, and Cameron learns that nobody on SG-1 fits into a box.

 Uncommon Threads by Dira Sudis (G)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: episode tag to 1x04, off-world

Sam talks with one of the women dressing her.

 Unspoken by Lady J (PG)

Words: 1-5k

Tags: episode tag for 7x01, character study, repercussions, came back wrong

Sam has noticed that Daniel is different since descending.

 Roll With the Punches by izhilzha (PG-13)

Words: 500-1k

Tags: episode tag to 2x01, character study, 1st person pov

In black-ops, you learn to roll with the punches.

[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

Of Aliens and Alpha Centauri: Space in Good Omens (1/3)

. So just yesterday, in one of the many discussions of Alpha Centauri and the practicality of our two favorite disasters running off together, @theniceandaccurategoodomensblog raised the perfectly valid question: “Why are we assuming there are no aliens?” And I said I had a lot of thoughts on the subject. This meta is the result of those thoughts and questions.

Broadly, the question of whether or not there would be aliens comes down to “what is the purpose of all that space in the Good Omens universe?” Everything we see is focused on Earth and the creation and destruction thereof, which, when you consider the scale of the whole universe, is really not that Big a story at all.

But the treatment of space is a little different depending on which version you use as your source material. If you try to combine the book and the TV show, you get some contradictions.

So I’m going to tackle each separately, starting with the book below the break, pulling together all my observations and thoughts on What does Good Omens really have to say about space?

I’m not going to do this on a strict schedule, but I have three parts planned and will post them as I find the time to write them!

(Source: I’m a huge sci-fi nut and think way too hard about everything, but I’m not any kind of expert. Other insights and comments are 10000% welcome.)

Good Omens Book

The book has, perhaps, the simplest approach to space: it’s barely mentioned.

For those unfamiliar, there is no mention of Alpha Centauri, or running away, or Crowley helping create stars/nebulae/whatever it is he made. Unless I missed one, all references to space in the book are:

The Earth is a Libra (p.17)

Crowley’s amazing drunken rant about the bird and the spaceship (p.54-57)

Adam and The Them talking about aliens and how aliens are now all about peace and harmony and being some kinda space cops “They all have this bright blue light around ‘em and go around doing good. Sort of g’lactic policemen, going round tellin’ everyone to live in universal harmony and stuff” (p. 156, part of a slightly longer discussion)

Newt meeting aliens who talk about peace and harmony while being some kinda space cops (p. 197-199)

That’s it; Crowley (then Crawly) doesn’t even ask about putting the Tree on the Moon, the line is instead “why not put it on top of a high mountain or a long way off?” (p.10).

Just because it’s simple, however, doesn’t mean we can’t learn a great deal.

Humanity has watched the stars for all of our history; they can be used to navigate, to tell time; the constellations are used to record stories; astrology attempts to make sense of the chaos of everyday life through the motions of heavenly bodies. The motions of the stars and planets has been calculated and recorded for as long as we’ve had enough knowledge of math to do that (so ancient Sumeria and Egypt, and by ancient I mean 4-5 thousand years ago), while less predictable events such as eclipses and comets have been taken as  ill omens or signs of Heavenly disfavor.*

The prevailing model in the West was geocentric (Earth in the center) and contained what we call the “Heavenly Spheres”; Earth was a globe surrounded by clear layered spheres, and across each sphere one of the seven planets moved in its predictable track. (The seven planets were: The sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn - a planet being defined as a “wandering heavenly body that does not follow the fixed course of all the other stars”). Beyond all these was the final sphere, containing all the stars like a painted ceiling, and all moving together, rotating around a point near Polaris, the North Star.

The stars were predictable, but mysterious, unexplainable - but they existed to serve the story of mankind because why else would they exist? 

This mindset carries into Good Omens - at least the book, and probably the Radio Drama as well (I haven’t heard it in ages, but I don’t think it deviated from the major points). The universe is vast and huge and filled with “loads of buggerall” (p. 56) - Aziraphale’s comments confirm that, at the very least, angels and demons are confident that the universe is a vast vacuum (matching our modern ideas of cosmology) and also that it has a physical end somewhere (due to the way space-time curves, this might not necessarily be the case).**

And yet.

All these vast loads of burgerall are slated to be destroyed along with the Earth, aren’t they?

It certainly seems they were created at the same time. We know that there had only been “rather more than seven” days as of the start of the book, and that “rain hadn’t been invented yet” (p. 9). The language suggests not only that Earth is a new thing, but that there isn’t another planet out there that already experienced days and rain. Crowley, at least, believes that God created the whole universe (p. 373) and there seems nothing in the book to contradict this.

As for Armeggedon, it’s referenced as the “final test” and as “testing everything to destruction” and so forth (p. 48). At the final showdown on the airbase, Metatron refers to the great plan of a world lasting six thousand years (p. 352), and again this could refer to Earth only, or it could be the universe as a whole. In fact, as a general rule, the book simply conflates the earth and the universe, as if they were the same thing. And they are. Much like in the more Medieval and Classical worldview outlined above, there could be lots of stars and things out there but they only serve as a backdrop to the real important things going on here on Earth. Everything was created at the same time, and the only reason it might not be destroyed all at once is if the winning side decides they like the view and want to keep it.

The only hint that there might be more to the universe than Heaven, Hell and the little stage for their cold war (Earth) is the appearance of the aliens to Newt.

And yet, what are they described as? One is “stubby and green,” the one that talks to Newt is “a yellow toad dressed in kitchen foil...wearing the kind of mirror-finished sunglasses that Newt had always thought of as Cool Hand Luke shades” and the third is “a pepper pot.”

Two aliens as designed by a child, one clearly doing some vague Space Cop look, and a Dalek. The ship itself “looked like every cartoon of a flying saucer Newt had ever seen” (p. 197). I never ever got the impression these aliens were anything other than figments summoned from Adam’s head, spouting buzzwords he’d seen in New Aquarian (acid rain, albedo, polar ice caps) while acting like cops do in movies. And their message “We give you a message of universal peace and cosmic harmony an’ suchlike” (p. 198) - the “an’” instead of “and” is one of the distinguishing marks of how Adam and The Them talk. This is another one of his stories and games, played out on a much wider scale.***

My primary conclusion here would be that aliens cannot exist in the Book!Omens universe. The universe is the backdrop, Earth is where the real drama plays out. The universe has only existed for 6,000 years, not nearly enough time for other life to have evolved separately. God could have created life on the other worlds, but there is no indication that this ever happened, that there are other playgrounds on which this fight is being acted out - Crowley and Aziraphale never even consider the possibility that they’ll be reassigned elsewhere. It’s Earth, and then eternity in Head Office, no other options.

Book Omens: Other Possibilities?

I do think there is one alternative possible for Book!Omens: if we are willing to throw away the strictly supernatural elements of the book, it could be re-envisioned as a sci-fi story, in which God, angels, and demons are actually super-dimensional aliens who, by Clark’s Third Law, are sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from actual angels and demons. I refer to this as the Stargate Interpretation.****

More accurately, God would have to be the super-dimensional being, and would have created the Earth as a place to let the story play out; the angels and demons are then direct creations who buy 100% into the narrative they are given. Everything else can still exist - Lucifer rebels because of the same reasons, takes along all the unsatisfied angels, Heaven and Hell are only concerned with Earth because that’s all they’ve been told to concern themselves with. Their afterlives exist still, but only because humans were created to fit into that system.

Meanwhile, literally anything could be going on in the rest of the universe. There could be alien races thousands of years older than the earth. There could be galactic empires. Who knows? Not people on Earth. Our world was isolated from all that by superdimensional shenanigans.

But, and this is important, in order to maintain the illusion, angels and demons must be kept as much in ignorance of all this as humans. Might lead you to question the power of the being with the Ineffable Plans if those plans only extend to the edge of the solar system and don’t even go particularly far back in time.

Now, do I think this is the best headcanon for the book? Nope. This is a supernatural story, the threat of Heaven and Hell is so looming and menacing because there’s no other force out there, nowhere to appeal except the “higher authority” that isn’t, apparently, listening, and there’s no option to escape just by relocating to a new world. I think trying to force the Stargate Interpretation on it would diminish the story, and I really don’t think it’s what the authors intended at all.

However, I also think this would make for a very interesting fanfic in the hands of the right writer. Book Aziraphale or Crowley suddenly discovering that the scope of Head Office’s powers is much more limited than they’d thought? Who knows about this - have the Archangels and Lords of Hell been covering this up to keep the lower-level angels and demons from rebelling? Would their “miraculous” powers still operate the same on these alien worlds? Are there other beings out there more powerful? Or going the other direction - are there other worlds also playing out their own little pantomime of Eden and Armageddon? Are they created by the same God, or other members of the same race, and what are the implications either way? Does each world have an Aziraphale and a Crowley, or is the main GO world the first to screw up the Apocalypse so badly they survive it - and what is the implication of that?

There’s a whole lot of scope for interesting AUs out of this, and I’d be rather surprised if no one has written any, seeing as the book came out thirty years ago. (If any are available on AO3, send us links - this sounds a bit niche, but I’d love for fans to be able to find these!) I would consider them AUs though; the default assumption of the book is no aliens and including them is a deviation, just as adding in Hogwarts or Charles Xavier’s school while keeping everything else the same is a deviation.

However, in the TV series, space is certainly more present in the narrative, and the Stargate Interpretation doesn’t work as well. Can we reach any clear conclusions? I’ll attempt to find out in my next meta!

(Too important to footnote: We know that Atlantis vanished (p.372) so most likely Adam’s aliens did as well. There is, still, the possibility that they continued to exist after the end of the world. I think their somewhat shoddy appearance and very cliched dialogue suggest the aliens would, at best, continue to cycle through similar interactions to what we saw with Newt until Adam either “deactivated” or “updated” them. What would they do then? Did he create entire races and homeworlds for them or - as I rather suspect - did he just make the one ship full and then move on to the next?)

-- Footnotes --

*Note: the math for predicting eclipses has also existed for thousands of years, but was more difficult for ancient cultures to confirm because only a fraction of eclipses are visible from a certain spot. Several ancient cultures were eventually able to work out the pattern, notably ones that either ruled over a lot of land or else had good information exchange with their neighbors. Comets took a LOT longer, and indeed as late as the 16th century many believed each comet was unique and traveled linearly through the solar system, never to return. Edmond Halley (working partly from observations by Isaac Newton) was able to demonstrate that comets did in fact orbit the sun, and predicted the return of the comet now named for him in 1758. He also was the first to observe and describe the proper motion of stars, that is, the fact that they don’t actually travel in one large fixed group. 

**Also, I find it delightful that, along with thinking dolphins are fish, Aziraphale says the bird crossing the universe would need a generation starship - which as a sci-fi trope has been somewhat out of fashion since the 1970s, in favor of faster-than-light starships. This alone says volumes about his taste in literature and science.

***The fact that the alien refers to its own message as “one of them pheonomena” (p.198) - a term Shadwell uses - does suggest that Newt’s own imagination is filling in the gaps left by Adam.

****Just gonna go ahead and out myself as a lifelong Stargate fan don’t mind me. That said, Terry Pratchett also explores a world made in this style in his pre-Discworld novel, Strata, which contains a flat world in a sci-fi setting, where everything operates according to a medieval worldview. It is a fascinating read, not least for the inclusion of several elements that would later find a permanent home in the Discworld series. If you can find it, read it.

tagging the commenters who said yesterday they would be interested:

@sarahthecoat​ @ineffableove​ @akawestruck​

[strangefable]

Catch Up Meme

Rules: tag as many people as you want to catch up with or get to know better!

I was tagged by @the-laridian (Thank you! I hope you don’t regret it.)

Three ships (I am tempted by a certain archaic Christmas carol, but I shall refrain.)

Serenity, Enterprise-D, and the Flying Dutchman.

No? Okay. Uh... Vicar Max/my captain (but no one but me knows her yet so this doesn’t even count)

I’ve been Having Thoughts about whether Udom Bedford and Alex Hawthorne ever had, like, A Thing before his untimely end?

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of Feelings about Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn and various people she meets in game. Working on my second playthrough right now, is why.

Look, shipping is weird for me. I like ships, but I like to read everything. Fanfic is such a cool, broad medium that I could wax on about for ages. I enjoy other people’s OCs. I like seeing ships I never would’ve thought of myself. Hell, I even read whole-ass fandoms in which I don’t have direct knowledge of canon sometimes. I used to severely limit myself to “Only These OTPs Are Real” kind of thinking when I was much, much younger, and it was a shitty attitude that I’d like to never have again.

But uhm. Right now I’m exclusively writing Vicar Max/my captain.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Last songs listened to

I legitimately have no idea. According to my music player, it was either the TOW soundtrack or one of my ridiculous writing playlists that I make and then don’t use. I don’t listen to a lot of songs any more. I miss it, but I just... can’t. It’s an attention problem. Lyrics distract my brain too much when I’m doing something else, but I’m terrible at sitting down and just listening, either. I can occasionally listen to instrumental stuff while doing other things. Big surprise: those are usually game soundtracks. Or the LOTR soundtracks if I’m feeling fancy.

Currently watching

Er, currently? Not much. Couple random animes that probably aren’t worth mentioning. I should get it together and watch The Mandalorian Season 2 already, though. Oof. (No worries, I do not care about spoilers. At all.) But will probably avoid it and go watch some Trek show or Stargate again instead. (I like me some star shows, y’all.)

Currently reading

Fanfic. It’s kind of the only thing I can read right now, which is frustrating as a lifelong book nerd. But it is what it is. Fic is getting me through this rough reading year and I’m grateful for it. Fic writers, you guys do not know what a bunch of unsung heroes you are. (I’m making a conscious effort to change my former lurker ways and leave copious comments. Hence that post I made a while ago.)

And, like, if you have any recs? Throw ‘em at me. Your stuff, your friends’ stuff, the guy you talked to at the store last year’s stuff, just anything. Any fandom, pairing, whatever. No rules or parameters. The limit does not exist.

How’s it going

AHAHA. Oh, boy. To give you an idea: COVID has had no real, direct effect on my life. It was more like the universe saying, “Here’s a cherry to put on top of the shit sandwich I already gave you,” after it had already lit me on fire.

Ugh, I don’t mean to sound this alarmist. I am totally okay. All my needs are met. Geez, I have internet! I have four very affectionate, needy pets who love me. I have a good therapist whom I don’t need health insurance to see. I'm doing fine! I’m even fairly...if not happy, exactly, then, content, most days.

I’ve just had a lot of very hard setbacks in recent years that pretty much decimated my support network and exacerbated my mental health diagnoses to a minor flashpoint, and it’s been a slow, uphill battle toward some semblance of “normal” for a while. But I’m getting there.

The mere fact that I’m on tumblr and trying to participate in something again is kind of a big deal for me. And it’s going great! You have all been welcoming and wonderful. And like, I really really hope this level of honesty doesn’t drag anything down or make things weird, because I don’t mean to do that. I’m just a painfully honest person; I can’t help it. Fandom shenanigans are what I’m here for. If I can also maybe make a few friends? That would be amazing extra icing on the cake, but for real, I’m just wildly happy to be here!

Tagging

I don’t feel like I have the authority to tag anyone. I am a newb who’s just glad to be in the metaphorical room. I love reading these, though. Y'all are some seriously cool people.

[starrybouquet]

Darkness and Dawn, ch. 3

Chapter 3 now up! Story is new and improved with actual plot. XD

AO3 link

Full chapter under the cut:

THREE DAYS LATER

Sam tugged on her dress jacket yet again as she stepped through the Gate room doors. After briefing them on what he was planning for the Kairellian visit, General Hammond had sent her and the Colonel off with orders to wear Class A's and to "try to be diplomatic"--the latter aimed pointedly at O'Neill. Daniel and Teal’c were due back any minute, along with the Kairellian’s commander and her entourage.

Behind Sam, the blast doors opened again, admitting one Jack O'Neill, hair mostly tamed. Not that it was any surprise, but damn, the man cleaned up nice. And his shoulders in his dress blues--

She stopped that train of thought abruptly. God, even though she hadn’t been able to go on that stupid date, she couldn’t keep thinking this way. The Colonel had clearly gotten over his feelings ages ago, if he had ever had these particular feelings in the first place. That was clear enough after her return from the Prometheus, when she’d accidentally called him Jack. Excuse me? She winced as she remembered the annoyance in his voice.

Be friendly. Nothing more, nothing less, Sam told herself. She could talk to the Colonel--in fact, she could even be his friend. She just couldn’t go thinking about his shoulders. Or any other part of him.

God, Carter was the only woman who wore dress blues as well as she wore an evening gown. Jack stole a glance at her out of the corner of his eye as he came to stand beside her. For a moment, he felt an insane flutter in his stomach and had the sudden urge to double-check that he’d buttoned his shirt correctly.

Why do you care if she thinks you're a slob? his inner voice groused at him. You’re just her old, grumpy CO, Jack. Have been for seven years. She’s moved on--not that she ever confessed her feelings in the first place. She’s not gonna notice you, not in the way you’re hoping. But despite his thoughts, his heart beat just a little bit faster when turned to him. Was that a hint of appreciation in her blue eyes?

Keep dreaming, Jack, his inner voice replied sarcastically.

"I took the liberty of putting the yoyo I found in the briefing room in your locker, sir."

Despite his somber inner thoughts, the banter came naturally. "What! Carter, you know that yoyo lives in the briefing room!"

Carter put on her best innocent look, and he was mesmerized by the mischievous sparkle that seemed to be complemented by her sky-blue shirt. "Why would you need a yoyo in the briefing room, sir?”

He mock-glared at her. Carter smirked.

And that was exactly why he couldn’t move on. Carter was brilliant, drop-dead gorgeous, had a secret rebellious streak, and knew exactly how to wind him up without ever stepping a foot into the territory of insubordination. She was perfect.

And he was a hopeless old sap. Jack shoved those thoughts into the back of his head and searched for something else to think about.

“So, tell me again why we have to meet these Krillans?”

“Kairellians. And Daniel and Teal’c have been with SG-9 the past two days negotiating with them. They have ring transporters, and they’re willing to share. In fact, they’ve been remarkably interested in trade given how advanced their technology is in comparison to ours.”

Jack raised his eyebrows. “Oh? What’s the catch?”

The Stargate began to spin, and General Hammond entered the Gate room.

“According to Daniel, they're having a bit of trouble smoothing out the details of the trade agreement,” Carter said as they lined up at the base of the ramp. “We’re hoping a visit to Earth might help address that.”

The ‘Gate kawooshed outward in a cascade of blue, and then SG-9 plus Teal’c and Daniel stepped through the blue puddle, followed by a group of six humans dressed in an array of satin tops and black pants.

Daniel smiled and gestured to the shorter woman at the front of the group, who was clad in a satin purple shirt secured by a copper sash of the same material. “General Hammond, this is Commander Minerva Hallis of Kairellian Central Transport. Commander Hallis, General George Hammond, commander of the SGC.”

Commander Hallis smiled. With dark, piercing eyes, black hair streaked with white, and skin bronzed by the sun, her strong presence belied the fact that she couldn’t have been over 5”4’. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, General Hammond.”

“Likewise, Commander. I’d like you to meet my second-in-command, Colonel Jack O’Neill. Colonel, why don’t you show them to their quarters, and then we can begin discussions in the briefing room?”

Jack embellished the trees behind the lake in his drawing, thoroughly bored. He’d tried to listen. He really had. He liked Commander Hallis--she was a no-nonsense woman who seemed as keen to fight the Goa’uld as they were. But her, Daniel, and Hammond had been discussing the same details of the treaty for going on two hours, and they weren’t getting anywhere. Jack would feel worse, but Carter and Teal’c looked just as bored as he was--they just weren’t entertaining themselves by doodling on their notepads.

Across from him, Daniel was still talking, gesticulating with his hands. "...have been from offworld archaeological digs. To be completely honest, I'm not sure what you need from us, Commander. Your technology is far ahead of anything we have."

Commander Hallis smiled grimly. "Daniel. As you are well aware, any allies in the fight against the Goa'uld are priceless. But even setting that aside, I will remind you that we only have transporter technology because we were able to copy it from ring transporters left behind centuries ago by those Goa’uld who used to enslave us. Many of our technologies were similarly obtained. Your people seem to be quite resourceful and innovative. I am sure your world has something to offer. Perhaps something that we have never thought to build--things we of which have no knowledge."

She turned to the officers seated at the table. "Daniel tells me that many of your world's advancements are used in your military. What unique technology does your Air Force have?"

Jack jerked his eyes up from his doodling and shifted in his seat. "Well, we're the Air Force. So, airplanes. Fighter jets."

Hallis blinked. "I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the term. Airplanes?"

Daniel broke in. "Air transportation."

She tilted her head. "But we have established you do not have ring transportation."

"No, not beaming technology. More like your, ah, coaches and rail cars--except through the skies."

Hallis’ young science counselor, Ayadra, sat forward. She’d been relatively quiet so far, leaving her commander to do the talking, but now her eyes sparkled with interest. "Fascinating. We've considered such a thing, of course, having seen the Goa'uld death gliders. But our research stalled. Transportation has never been a primary research area of ours, what with the rings and all. What are these...airplanes...used for?"

Jack and Sam exchanged a glance. No airplanes?!

"Well, in general, we use them for faster transportation since we don't have ring transportation, as you mentioned. In the Air Force, as a military organization, we specialize in aerial defense,” Hammond explained.

"That would be helpful indeed--a fleet of vehicles capable of stopping Goa'uld death gliders as they descend through the sky," Hallis said gravely. "This would be an excellent item for trade, if you are willing to share this technology."

Hammond nodded. “We’d be happy to share some aircraft blueprints with you.” He stood. "As a matter of fact, since you’re so interested, how 'bout a demonstration?"

And he couldn't help but smile when his two best officers turned to him with identical pleading looks in their eyes.

"Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter, yes, permission granted. I'll call ahead to Peterson."

[stargate365]

Stargate Continuum

Whoo! Squad time!

Where are we going??

Jack?? Yay!!

Wow. Love the gun!!

Vala remembering Quetesh getting her just deserts is… interesting??

Wow. The new Tok’ra homeworld is pretty.

Mum: This extraction thing sounds a lot like my divorce…

Wait. Where did Vala go???

Cake? Where??

And now we’re suddenly in 1939??

Is that Cam in a beard? Did they not have enough Extras, or is he meant to be a family member??

There’s a Stargate on the boat??

Um, dude, that’s not a good place to stand… yep… he dead…

Erm… what???

People just disappearing from existence…

Jack!! ;w;

What’s with the bomb??

Old Cam is smart. Tossing the bomb out the giant hole and into the ocean… poor fishies tho.

Okay now the wormhole is a trippy colour… and they came out into the boat… but it’s frozen??

This… this is an awkward situation.

“What was that” “Oh, the explosion must have dislodged the ship from the ice.”

“Don’t tell me, we’re sinking.”

“The ship was warmer!” “You wanna go back?” “No, I’m good.”

Erm… that’s not good.

Why does Daniel always have to get himself into trouble?? ;w;

“Oh shit.”

Mum: These people never complain about being hungry…

Whhhaattt?? Jack?? A Jack who doesn’t know Sam…

Dead Astronaut??

Daniel!! He lives!! Guess they finally got tired of killing him off!!

Wow. That’s a cool image…

Daniel being offended by Jack not knowing who he is.

This version of Jack is both rude and an asshole.

Well, that’s one way of summing up the debriefing…

Oh god… I hope they get therapy. They’re basically being set up to be suicides waiting to happen, by taking away the last remnants of their old lives and the only real emotional support they have.

1 year later…

Daniel ringing himself to try and give himself a pep talk… Sam putting frooties in her trolly… my heart is breaking.

Holy shit. Aliens in DC!!

Well crap. I guess now we know what Ba’al has been up to.

And now he has Teal’c…? Wait, what? Teal’c is working for him, and kidnapped Apophis?

Wait… Ba’al got the Jaffa onside by promising them freedom?

And he’s got Quetesh? Well crap.

“And what’s coming next?”

“Death. Slavery. Then more slavery, and more death.”

I wonder if McKay is there??

Well hell… this is madness.

These kids are better people than I am… I’m too spiteful.

Teal’c is eyeing Ba’al suspiciously…

“What do you mean he’s on the phone??”

What’s Quetesh doing…?

Oh, she’s assassinating Ba’al. That’s cool too.

“He hung up on me.”

Aaah hell. This just got worse…

Whelp. That’s this version of John and Rodney probably dead. I’m really pissed off now.

Holy shit!!!

“The Russians have the Other One.”

Daniel being a snarky little shit is my jam

“What do I say?” “We’re Americans, please shoot the people chasing us!”

Well hell… “Indeed.”

SG1 volunteers to help avenge Ba’al’s death. I love it.

Cam: Well, that sounds great. We’ll help out, right guys?

Sam: Sure, why not.

Daniel: I’m not busy.

Well now, this is an interesting place…

Activate the time machine!!

Well now, isn’t this the party of the century…

Oh shit… they killed Daniel after all… they really like doing that, don’t they.

Sam!!! ;w;

Cam is the only one to make it??

Oh snap. Teal’c dropped the mic, and a grenade with it.

Not this time bitch. Cam is ready for you!!

Chuck em all overboard!! Let the ice have them!

“Who are you?” “You night say I’m a friend of the family.”

Maybe Cam just slips in to the family that way then…

Wow, that doesn’t look fun. I almost feel bad for Ba’al… nah, I’m good.

Moon base???

Hmmm…

[stardustinthesky]

been reading a vala centric fanfic and i’ve finished it this morning and now i have to go on with the rest of the day pretending that i haven’t died inside

btw it’s all your fault @shiggityontherocks

[ducksbellorum]

beats, rhymes, and life (listen/download)

a gangsta!au mix - stargate atlantis fandom - arranged by ducksbellorum

1) I’m So Hood - DJ Khaled The general (albeit stupid) premise of this ‘verse, everyone is a gangsta. Yeah. And I got these golds up in my mouth If you get closer to my house Then you know what I’m talkin’ 'bout I’m out the hood 2) Ridin’ Dirty - Chamillionaire Meet John Sheppard (or J Shep as he’s known in the streets). He’s an original gangsta and rap star, Ferrari sittin’ on 26’s, hat turned sideways. And he’s not exactly sure why the feds think that he’s special, even if stuff does light up when he touches it. They see me rollin’, they hatin’ Patrollin’ and tryin’ to catch me ridin’ dirty Tryin’ to catch me ridin’ dirty My music so loud, I’m swangin’ 3) White and Nerdy - Weird Al Meet Rodney McKay (his few friends call him Rod Mac). He doesn’t really fit in with the gangsta world. Sure, he packs heat and talks smack and his Volvo sits on very modest 22’s, but that’s about it. They see me mowin’ My front lawn I know they’re all thinking I’m so white and nerdy 4) I’m Dumb - Gorilla Zoe Meet Elizabeth Weir (Liz W to some). She’s a mediator between the ghetto and the feds. She’s a wild partier and her hood loves her. They found her dancing on tables when they came to call her up for the Atlantis expedition. Everywhere I go, I bet the girls take photos Spend a hundred on a old Chevrolet And I can’t change my ways I’m so hood, man, the hood loves me

5) Early Morning Trapping - OJ da Juiceman Meet Carson Beckett (C Bex to the rap world). Carson is a rapper. And, oh yeah, a doctor, because his rap career just hasn’t quite taken off yet… Early morning trappin’, down to make it happen Workin’ 50 brick, we bring them chicken out the plastic Getting them bitches gone, we call it dope boy magic Pull up in that stanky thing, man, that thing nasty 6) Welcome to My Hood - DJ Khaled Welcome to Atlantis (aka the ATL). Atlantis quickly becomes the new hood, because no one knows if they’ll get home again. Pegasus, prepare to be turned upside down. They outside playing hopscotch And everybody know this is the hot spot Welcome to my hood Them boys will put you down on your knees 7) Corner Cuttin’ - Gucci Mane Naturally, the first thing J Shep does when he finds out there are spaceships is to trick one out with rims (who needs rims on a jumper?) and a sound system you can hear in the Milky Way. He rolls like a boss. Corner cuttin’, trap shakin’ Booty hoppin’, you hear that beat knockin’? (Is that that beat knockin?) That’s that beat knockin’ (Is that that beat knockin?) Yeah that’s that beat knockin’ 8) Flossin’ - Shop Boyz The Wraith quickly become quite a problem. J Shep stabbing their warden and waking them all up didn’t help much. “Oops, my bad, I ain’t mean to make her mad!” See I make 'em sick, When they see me they coughin’. They gonna love it, they gonna hate it When we come through flossin’ 9) Bossy - Birdman Meet Teyla Emmagan of the Athosians. J Shep dubs her Tey Em, but they find out very quickly that the Athosians are so very Not Hood. At all. Teyla agrees to join them anyway. I love it when she bossy Sexy when she bossy I know I am the boss I kinda like it when she boss me 10) All the Above - Maino Meet Ronon Dex (R Dex). He takes to the gangsta culture right away. Sometimes Teyla thinks she’s the only sane one around here. I done been through the pain and the sorrow The struggle is nothing but love I’m a soldier, a rider, a ghetto survivor And all the above 11) Out Here Grinding - DJ Khaled The street runners of the Milky Way don’t let Pegasus change them. They stay hood and do what they do and they continue to kick the Wraith’s ass regardless. Cause I’m out here grindin’ I ain’t slept in 8 days I can go for 8 weeks Ain’t nothin’ to me cause I am the streets. 12) You Know What It Is - T.I. R Dex and J Shep hit it off immediately. Within weeks of meeting each other they’re already road dogs. Every time something epic happens, they look at each other and go “You know what it is!” I’m a real homie, throw six figures on me Got a pistol you don’t want it, boy, you what what it is Ay, I’m way flyer, my pay’s way higher If they ever mention sire, boy, you know what it is

13) Look At Me Now - Chris Brown No one really respected Rod Mac as a gangsta. Until during one rap session, the scientist walked in, said “Hell, Sheppard. Lemme show you how to keep the dice rollin’ when you doin’ that thing over there, homie. Let’s go!” and proceeded to spit some of the fastest rhymes Shep had ever heard. When he finished, Shep blinked, then extended a hand and slapped skin with the other man. “Respect, bro.” I don’t see how y'all can hate from outside the club Y'all can’t even get in! 14) Yeah - Usher After that, the team started to rap and sing together on a regular basis. Teyla still refused to join and Ronon was still hesitant about his skills, but everyone gathered up to watch Shep and Rod throw it down. Take that and rewind it back R Dex got the beat that make your booty go Take that and rewind it back J Shep got the voice that make your booty go Take that and rewind it back Rod Mac got the flow that make your booty go Take that and rewind it back Tey Em got the booty make your booty go 15) Do the Ricky Bobby - B-Hamp However, there is that one song that all of them will go absolutely crazy and dance to… Do the ricky Bobby, stop, pose for the frame Do the ricky Bobby, stop, pose for the frame Do the ricky Bobby, stop, pose for the frame And I dip and we do the same thing 16) Up All Night - Drake Life out here isn’t always slangin’ and bangin’ and rappin’ with your homies. The danger is very real and there’s no guarantee you’ll be here tomorrow. Everyone in the city is acutely aware of this. I be up all night, whole crew’s in here Cause I don’t really know who I'mma lose this year Man I love my team, man I love my team, I would die for them 17) All I Do Is Win - DJ Khaled Simple explanation: the Atlantis expedition are bad-ass kings of the street. No lie. And they win at life. All I do is win win win no matter what Got money on my mind, I can’t ever get enough And everytime I step up in the building Everybody’s hands go up and they stay there 18) Right Above It - Lil Wayne No matter where they go, everyone tries to stay on their good side. Their rep is the baddest in the galaxy and nobody wants to mess with the ATL. Now tell me how you love it You know you at the top when only heaven’s right above it It’s Young Money, motherfucker If you ain’t runnin’ with it, run from it, motherfucker, all right Bonus Tracks: 19) Bed Intruder Song - Antoine Dodson It takes the abduction of her people to make Teyla go gangsta. After returning from New Athos, she dragged Jennifer Keller (J Kels) into her room and when they came out, this song was born. He’s climbin’ in your stargate He’s snatchin’ your people up Tryin’ to take 'em so y'all need to Hide your kids, hide your wife 20) Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta - Ghetto Boyz There is really no excuse or explanation for this song. I just find it hilarious and kind of apt. :) J Shep: And all I gotta say to you wanna-be- Tey Em: Gonna-be- Rod Mac: Pussy-eatin’- R Dex: Cock-suckin’- C Bex: Pranksters: Liz W: When the shit goes down, what you gonna do? All: Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta!

[pass-the-bechdel]

Stargate SG1 s08e19 ‘Moebius part two’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

No.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Two (15.38% of cast).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Eleven.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Also fun.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Yeah ok.

Female characters:

Alternate Carter.

Samantha Carter.

Male characters:

Alternate Daniel.

Alternate Hammond.

Alternate O’Neill.

Alternate Kawalsky.

Alternate Rodney.

Alternate Teal’c.

Alternate Apophis.

Teal’c.

Katep.

Daniel Jackson.

Jack O’Neill.

OTHER NOTES:

Poor Alternate Bosworth, he’s just there to be an extra guy so they have someone for Daniel to shoot, he doesn’t even get any lines. Total redshirt.

“I wonder if future-me has a boyfriend,” Alternate Carter muses, so that we know that she’s like, such a sad nerd. Just in case we doubted that her life was garbage in this timeline. Kinda a weird choice to play that part of the cliche, considering our regular Carter almost never had any actual romantic entanglements - let alone actual BOYFRIENDS - throughout the whole series, and shock-horror, that didn’t make her a loser. It’s almost like using the presence or absence of a significant other as a yardstick to measure the success of one’s life is...idiotic.

O’Neill implies that he got the impression that Daniel was gay; in the first half of this two-parter, young Carlos maybe-not-so-accidentally bungled his sentence about the weather to tell Daniel that “you make me so hot”. No one behaves in an egregiously poor fashion about these things, but ‘haha gay’ is still certainly the joke here, and it’s not great. This show is pretty aggressively hetero, and this might actually be the first time they’ve acknowledged that gay people might maybe actually exist? and they actually DIDN’T acknowledge it anyway, they just sorta implied it without saying it out loud. It’s really not great at all.

Y’know, they cop out on showing any real battle here with the rebellion against Ra, and they did the same thing with both the Jaffa taking Dakara in ‘Reckoning part one’, and with the Jaffa on Dakara being attacked by Anubis in ‘Threads’. It’s not that I have any great love for explosion-y shoot-y action scenes, but it seems excessive to skip out on them three times in a row and just have characters talk about how action happened while the audience wasn’t looking. Did they run out of budget for battle scenes or what?

Anyway, this was quite nice, and it had a good end-of-an-era feel to it that was rather sweetly concluded by having the members of SG1 go fishing at O’Neill’s place. You know you’ve done right with your character dynamics when you can have ‘em sit down by a pond and it feels fulfilling. Doing a story with Ra on Earth also has a nice symmetry about it, acknowledging the time in the narrative’s history when Goa’uld enslavement was an active part of Earth life, the time at which the freedom SG1 has been fighting for on behalf of other planets and displaced peoples for eight seasons was actually a struggle on home soil. There’s a good balance about the way this season ends, and considering it’s been eight seasons in the making, that’s no mean feat.