Prompt me with gen Sam drabble prompts!

[fignewton]

I hope you're all enjoying these as much as I am... :)

Prompt me with gen Sam prompts! No promises of first come first served, and classic team will more likely get a response than S9-10, but I hope to do twelve all together.

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[karathephantom]

A birthday-related story, perhaps? (It's my own birthday today, and I have something of a one-track mind.)

[fignewton]

Happy birthday! :D

They'd celebrated birthdays on Hanka, but Cassie didn't know how to translate her birth date to Earth's calendar. Sam suggested she choose one instead.

"Can I have the same birthday as you?" Cassie asked after a moment.

Sam opened her mouth to suggest, Don't you want your own special day? She stopped when she saw Cassie's eyes.

"Of course," she said warmly, and hugged Cassie. "It will be our day together."

They couldn't always commemorate it on schedule -- Sam was off-world sometimes, or busy saving it -- but no matter how belated, Sam and Cassie always shared a birthday celebration.

[karathephantom]

Awww, this is lovely! Thank you!

[fignewton]

I hope your birthday was wonderful. :)

[zats_clear]

Last Man Woman Standing

[fignewton]

Daniel's head had dropped to the table long ago. His peaceful snores underscored Jack's bleary glare.

"Go on, Carter," he slurred. "Showya hooz boss."

"You're on. Sir," Sam returned.

"Bottoms up!" Jack shouted, and knocked his drink back. Sam's head tilted up as she swallowed.

They glanced at their referee. Teal'c gave a grave nod.

"Gimme another," Jack challenged, then blinked twice and tipped sideways. His collapse was slow enough for a deadpan Teal'c to catch him before he crashed.

Sam took deep breaths before lifting her final glass of tequila. "Cheers, Teal'c," she managed, and drank, the clear winner.

[zats_clear]

perfect!

[fignewton]

Yay! :)

[beatrice_otter]

A star is born

Things are only impossible until they are not.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Things are only impossible until they are not

[fignewton]

Analytical thinking is an absolute requirement in the hard sciences, but the greater universe beyond the Stargate confounds Sam's perceptions of possible and impossible. When she first travels to Abydos and Daniel Jackson questions her certainties, Sam slowly realizes, with incredulous joy, that impossible will no longer be practical. The word seems to have little or no meaning at the SGC.

The habit of years of scientific method still trips her up on occasion. But for the most part, Sam doesn't worry about impossible anymore. Instead, Sam begins with what she wants to achieve, and turns it into the possible.

[thothmes]

Paul Erdős expressed his views on the ineffability of mathematics when he said, "Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is."

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
-Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

[fignewton]

Sam sees beauty in getting things right: accurate equations, working machinery, efficient solutions. There's an elegance there that transcends color or texture or sound -- it's the feeling engendered by rightness. By truth.

Sam hates being wrong -- it's an ugly scar on the beauty of perfection. But she'd rather be corrected and learn the truth than remain blissfully ignorant.

What's right on Earth isn't always right off-world, but there's a beauty even to that, Sam feels. She'll find the truth -- in physics, in space, in the ebb and flow of time itself. All she has to do is keep looking.

[thothmes]

Yes. This. A wonderful look at what propels Sam, and always has. I think this is an essential part of who she is.

[fignewton]

::nods:: Sam loves knowing, full stop. I think this was the hardest drabble to write, and I'm glad you liked how it came out.