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So I'm currently in Season 3 of Sg1 and I have been hit with another difference between Sg1 and Atlantis.

The SGC is a job. Atlantis is home.

Don't get me wrong, the sg1 team is pack bonded and absolutely feral about each other. They are family. They are friends. They are also coworkers. They commute to the sgc. They have houses and apartments and lives outside of the stargate program. (Well, some of them do.) They get paid, go on vacations, and get benefits. In the end, this is a job. A job you love, with people you would die for, at a place that could be a second home, but a job.

Atlantis is a home first and a job second. They live there. They fall asleep to the sound of waves lapping against the piers of Atlantis. They go for runs in the catwalks. There's a chess club, a mensa chapter, an outdoors club, they go fishing and play volleyball together. They go for dates in the cafeteria, have Atlantis movie nights, and meet up for breakfast. They're a tight knit community.

The SGC is also a military base and it shows, it's barren and impersonal, there are a few exceptions to this, like Daniel having a picture of Sha're on his desk, but for the most part there's little to no personalization. Even the lighting is often very sterile and military. Again, there's exceptions, like the often warm and yellow lighting used in Daniel's office, but the hallways are all extremely sterile. (There's something to be said for the way that Daniel is most often the one breaking up the uniform and military vibes of the base, but that's another post)

Atlantis, on the other hand, is heavily personalized. They hang posters on their walls, they have golf clubs, art supplies, and remote control cars. There's dirty clothes on the floor of their quarters, a mini fridge tucked into the corner, and books left open on their beds. There's something so familiar and comfortable about Atlantis. A sense of belonging that doesn't come across as much as in Sg1.

Honestly, I think it comes back to how militarized the SGC is and how civilian Atlantis is. The vibe is less found family military heroes and more Atlantis is a home to the lost and the broken.

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imagine if they gendered you from birth and then assigned you a list of interests and personality traits even if that felt horrifically untrue for you and you hated when people did that for as long as you could remember but every time you complained about it people got confused

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A cool Fibonacci’s clock design

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portrait of the archivist

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i love the -with mama trend but sometimes i get sad because that is clearly papa and he aint getting any credit raising those darn kids...

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nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

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no animal was harmed during the making of this video. not one. for the few minutes that we were shooting film, the guns of each hunter fell silent. the industrial bolt throwers observed a moment's peace and the jaws of every predator hung softly open. no fish bit any hook and the bait worms held off on drowning only until the cameras stopped. the tails of ruminants ceased to flick just as their attendant flies, in unison, landed on their flanks to catch their tiny breaths. a spider instantly stopped winding silk around a wasp, patiently waiting for the caesura to end. a young veterinarian paused with the syringe in their hand. somewhere, a colicky baby stopped biting its mother's nipple and nursed happily for the very first time. we're sorry. we're sorry it couldn't have been longer. we didn't know this would happen.

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High Noon over Camelot character designs!

Some notes:

The only one with real actual humans! Maybe! Who knows. No one said the space station came from earth. Also, not pictured here because unfortunately we don’t have a Saxon main character aside from Mordred, who spends the majority of the show topside, but I very strongly feel that the Saxons wear gas masks. Just wanted to get that out there.

Music inspo: obviously this one is cowboys. I don’t even have to say it. I did try to be a little realistic, specifically with where their clothing comes from, so most of the armor is meant to be scrounged scrap metal. Another thing to remember is that they’re actually bikers, so it was a lot to balance.

The fashion style is meant to be a mix of 830 (King Arthur) and 1700s (western theme).

OUATIS

UDAD

TBI

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What the hell is going on? It's not a real episode, it's just been... rubbish.

TASKMASTER 19.8 Science All Your Life

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The Corruption won when it attacked The Institute in Season 1.

Sure, Jane Prentiss and the worm's were destroyed, but the lingering effects of the attack causes toxicity between every relationship in The Institute.

Jon becomes paranoid in the way that strains his relationship with Martin, destroys his relationship with Tim, and fundamentally effects every relationship he has for the rest of the series.

Jon's paranoia also end's up breaking Tim and Martin's friendship, with Martin being being dismissive of Tim's feelings in favor of Jon's, and Tim being too caught up in his anger to prioritize the feelings of anyone else.

Sasha get's replaced and Not! Sasha end's up dealing the final blow to all the problem's the cast is already having. They add fuel to Jon's paranoia fire as he knows something is wrong but can't place it. They put Martin in a bad place by putting him in the middle of Jon and Tim's heightened emotion. And they start pulling away from Tim, and when their identity is revealed, that destroy Tim's trust in other's completely.

The events of the corruption attack on The Institute end up leaving things...well, corrupted. It breaks multiple relationships and changes Tim and Jon for the worst, while also causing a few of Martin's more negative traits to be on display. So while The Corruption may not have won the battle, it won the war, and it's honestly devastating that the first attack the character's go through is the one that end's up leaving behind the rot.

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"Elias, am I still human?"

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The Magnus Archives MAG 85 || "Antigonish" || Michael Distortion

🚪 word art for a student project 🚪

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Beholding & Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Characters: Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist, The Beholding (The Magnus Archives), Sasha James, Elias Bouchard | Jonah Magnus, Martin Blackwood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Morally Ambiguous Character, Father-Son Relationship, Jon is Raised by Beholding, POV Alternating, Martin Blackwood Has a Crush on Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Summary:

On the newly revealed page, the spider looked furious, its face a horrible, terrifying scowl; but it wasn’t looking at Jon. It was looking over his shoulder.

“Mr Spider has been very greedy,” Jon read. “Mr Eye thinks he’s had quite enough for now.”

Or: Jon is rescued from Mr Spider, by an unexpected ally; and grows up … different.

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I shouldn't do this

I shouldn't laugh at him

It's supposed to be a tragic horror story

But-

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can i have a cigarette?