Crickets chirping...? Appeal for gen fic! (Let's call it SG-1 Gen Fic Day.)

[fignewton]

I have the immense privilege of tagging for sg1_debrief, which mostly entails skimming through the newsletter's flist in search of gen fic. (The maintainers do the really hard work, and I think the other taggers cope with a lot more volume than I do.) There's always less gen fic than ship fic, but I'm resigned to that as par for the course by now.

But what's going on here, people?

Since the 17th, there has been one gen fic posted throughout all of LJ SG-1 fandom that gets tagged for the newsletter. ONE. (Thanks for that, dknightshade! I don't follow the jack_built AU, but it was a fun snippet.)

So here's my appeal: write some gen fic today, please! It can be commentfic posted here, or a drabble on your LJ, or a snippet of your current WIP. Fic recs are good, too, like the ones posted below: here and here. Anything. Gen is the one kind of fic that embraces all aspects of the fandom, so let's have some SG-1 love!

Erm... but not that kind. :)

[And yes, I'll try to post something ficcish myself today. I can't ask for it if I don't chip in myself, right?]

ETA8: Monday, 6:45 p.m. ::smushes all ETAs together:: I've compiled a roundup of all the fantastic participants! You can find the complete list for Gen Fic Day right here.

Comments

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

It might be a lot of factors, including the stark reality of the first time in TEN YEARS that there's no fresh eps. Without new inspiration, authors might be turning to SGA or whatever else interests them. Sigh.

OTOH, I am insanely gleeful in anticipation of sg1teamficathon, to the point where I've already snagged Team for next month's category. :) The two weeks' wait will give me more time to post Sam and Teal'c friendship recs first, yay!

Snippets, drabbles, you name it! And saying "please" always helps, I've found. ;)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm not scared of closed canon killing the fandom. I'm sure there will still be new people discovering it. Though, part of that may just be because I've always been in closed canon fandoms. Plus. MOVIES!

I think a lot has to do with the rush of ficathons right now, personally.

Wow, you are ALL prepared for next month. And WHEE Sam and Teal'c friendship! I love their friendship so much!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

No, it's not a question of closed canon vs. open canon. Like you, I came to SG-1 from a closed canon - one that I discovered years after it had closed, and it's still thriving beautifully now. But I think that closed canon PLUS new canon for other fannish interests might divert, for the moment, most fanfic writing into the fresh blood of new episodes appearing weekly.

I can't work up enthusiasm for the movies. I've tried my hardest to give Mitchell and Vala every chance, but they haven't wriggled their way into my heart the way the way that Sam and Jack and Teal'c and Daniel have.

The Sam and Teal'c friendship fic request was posted MONTHS ago. There's quite a long queue there; I'm so pleased to see the "Friendship: Other" category is so popular! Maybe Sam and Daniel friendship fic will get its own category one of these days, just like Team? We can always hope. As for team, well... that was deliberate. When the sd_ficathon stories came out, I think we had to wait two months (it might only have been one, but I think it was two) before we could start reccing it! So I wanted to head that problem off. That, and snag the month for myself... :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

It's true. But...it's like I'll talk about new episodes of other shows, but SG-1 is still my fannish one. I just have fewer posts about SG-1 because I'm not watching it new anymore.

Aw, I hope you enjoy the movies! I admit I did like Mitchell and Vala, but then I like just about every character and I can see that the dynamic is different from the original team.

It would be so cool if Sam and Daniel got their own category!!!!!!
(and, yes, the friendship other category does get really backlogged. *sigh*)

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

I see what you see. There are a lot of ficathons right now, and that sucks up people's energy. I have sworn off ficathons, but I have so many bunnies! aieee!

I've always been in closed canon fandoms, but boy are they different from open canon fandoms. It's scary. SG-1 is the first true open canon tv show fandom i've ever been in.

yay for movies.

the thing that encourages me is that the sg-1 people seem to tolerate all the sides of the fandom, romance and gen/noromo, adult and all-ages, very well. less dissing of what one doesn't prefer, you know?

so glad you're here.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Once I finish the ficathons I'm still in the process of, I'm totally swearing off them for a while. Too many of them, and too little writing my own thing.

I've always been in closed canon fandoms, but boy are they different from open canon fandoms. It's scary. SG-1 is the first true open canon tv show fandom i've ever been in.

I hear you! I was terrified of writing in open canon when I first started. I've found it's not that bad now, but it is different.

Yeah, I think SG-1 fandom had it's explosions and then it grew up and learned to tolerate and squee and enjoy whatever is there, and I'm glad of that and glad I missed most of those growing stages.