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

[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.