Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup, live now through November

[fignewton]

Today is supposed to be the day for serving Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup: twenty-six different gen fics featuring the Quantum Mirror. And for those of you who are actually ready, Teal'c offers a raised eyebrow, a gracious nod, and a regal "Indeed."

For the rest of us, though... :)

Instead of having all stories posted at once, we're doing it a little differently this time: starting now, Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup will run until the end of November. Any author may post a story between now and November 30th. Leave a link to your story in the comments below and e-mail me a copy of your fic and your filled-out template for the table of contents.

As there are still five letters left to claim, authors may take a second letter once their first story is up. Please go to this entry to claim a second letter, or even your first if you haven't yet chosen to participate!

I look forward to reading all the new gen fic... and ~cough~ finishing my own. ;)

Comments

[topazowl]

I'll have mine finished before the end of the week! It just needs a wee bit of a rewrite in places.

[fignewton]

Sounds great - looking forward to reading. :)

[sg_wonderland]

I've posted mine to ao3 but my desktop and I are having an argument that leaves me unable to email you a copy. I will get it to you after I beat up my computer.....

[fignewton]

Something short of a sledgehammer, I hope!

Don't forget to include a link here . Looking forward to reading!

Q is for Quantum

[watervole]

https://watervole.dreamwidth.org/639780.html

Re: Q is for Quantum

[fignewton]

Hurray! :)

[watervole]

Why not post a list of unclaimed letters?

[fignewton]

In the past, I did have the list of unclaimed letters available. Back then, people claimed letters to start with. The problem is that a few letters always got left for last and then people were reluctant to claim what, to them, seemed like difficult choices.

So now people comment and say "I'm in!" and I reply, "Great, you've got letter Whatever." I also write my own contributions and ignore any lettering until the end, so I can retroactively fit my story to whatever letter is missing. It works, somehow. :)

[sg_wonderland]

p is for precognition


http://archiveofourown.org/works/12466504

[fignewton]

Thanks for the link. :)

I is for Imposter Syndrome

[antonomasia]

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12471796

Re: I is for Imposter Syndrome

[fignewton]

Great! I look forward to reading. :)

Z Is For Zucker, Zeitgeist, and Ground Zero

[ivorygates]

Summary: Master Sergeant David A. Zucker had an impeccable service record. So what was he doing guarding a warehouse in Lincoln County, Nevada?
Word count: 1476
Characters: OMC, Alt Samantha Carter, Alt Charlie Kawalsky
Era: Season 3
Categories: Outsider Viewpoint, Alphabet Soup, OMC
Author's notes: Spoilers for S3e6: "Point Of View" if you squint.

Link

Re: Z Is For Zucker, Zeitgeist, and Ground Zero

[fignewton]

I always love good outsider POV. :D

Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup Entry

[thothmes]

X IS FOR X-TREME CHANGES by THOTHMES

Summary:A butterfly wing stirs the air, a storm is born; a little boy goes flying, and a path through life is forged. Through the mirror, the little boy doesn't fly.
Word Count:2,268
Characters: Jack, Sara, Charlie, Original Characters
Era: Preshow/Season 10/Post show
Categories:Character Study
Author's Note: You know, I planned to do all of the original team, but it got -- complicated and unwieldy, so I stopped at the first one, a meditation on how a life changes when not put to its best and highest use. Maybe mirror!Jack has everything we would wish for our Jack, but somehow I feel it's not entirely a good thing. I think his life has made him less somehow.

Excerpt: Oh, God! No more driveway! Out over the edge, and Jack and the sled were flying through the air! Out! Out! Over the snowy ground of O'Hara's back yard, silent and free, until gravity won, and with a mighty whack that drove every last ounce of breath from Jack's lungs, they were earthbound once more.

Jack was still trying to work out exactly how breathing worked, and whether this airless feeling was what grown-ups meant when they spoke of collapsed lungs, when he realized that the big boys were cheering him. At least by the time they got down to where he was, Jack had managed to suck in a couple of big breaths, and was pretty sure nothing was broken, not even the sled. Probably best if he didn't let his Ma see him without his shirt on though. It felt like there might be bruises.

Link:Here on LJ X IS FOR X-TREME CHANGES
Here on DW X IS FOR X-TREME CHANGES

C is for Consequence

[fignewton]

AU Teal'c perspective of scenes from TBFTGOG.

C is for Consequence

[goddess47]

Finally finished...

W is for Waiting

On LJ - https://goddess47.livejournal.com/129800.html
On DW - https://goddess47.dreamwidth.org/54036.html
On AO3 - http://archiveofourown.org/works/12569992

[fignewton]

Can't wait to read it. :)

M is for Mirror World

[maddersahatter]

OK, so I'm hopeless with links and stuff, but here goes.
If it ends up horribly wrong, please somebody help me fix it.

On LJ Link: https://madders-ahatter.livejournal.com/11076.html

On DW Link: https://maddersahatter.dreamwidth.org/2517.html

On AO3 Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12498120.html

Quantim Mirror Alphabet Soup Entry -B IS FOR TO BE OR NOT TO BE by THOTHMES

[thothmes]

B IS FOR TO BE OR NOT TO BE by THOTHMES

Summary: Well, okay, for today's story it is not a butterfly beating its wings that rocks a world, it's a common fly. And you get to be a fly on the wall for a day in the life of seven year old Daniel Jackson.
Word Count:2,425
Characters: Daniel, Claire, and Melburn Jackson, Jack, Catherine Langford, Sam, and Original Characters
Era: Preshow/Stargate [the movie]/Season One and Season Two
Categories:Character Study
Author's Note: Daniel has had a tough life. Why is his heart still so warm? Why is his faith in humanity so strong? This is my answer.
Brief quotes from Stargate the movie, and The Torment of Tantalus are the work and words of the writers of those scripts. Please don't sue the pants off of me. I'm only borrowing, and I'm a slightly pudgy middle aged woman. The nekkid and pantsless look is not what you are after, I promise!

Excerpt: Marble archaeology was a fun game. Every day after breakfast, until it became stiflingly hot and his parents came to get him to eat lunch in the cooler semi-dark of one of the tombs cut into the walls of the cliffs near the dig and then nap through the worst of the day's heat, and again in the late afternoon as the heat was fading, and even after dinner, as the night grew cool, Daniel would dig slowly through his filled in hole, little grid square, by little grid square, being careful to note any changes in color or texture or color, and how far down from the string grid that marked the original surface they fell. He tried to make sure that he wrote down everything he saw right away, because if he didn't, sometimes he couldn't remember exactly how it had been.

"Archaeology is a process of destruction," his Mom had told him. "You have to be sure your records are good, because you will never be able to put it all back the way it was. In a hundred years if another archaeologist wants to know how it all was, your notebook will be the only way for him to find out."


Link:Here on LJ B IS FOR TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Here on DW B IS FOR TO BE OR NOT TO BE

N is for Not Quite

[fignewton]

An alternate POV of an alternate reality. Canon, more or less, from POV. ~840 words. Rated G.

At Dreamwidth or at AO3.

Y Is For Y Not, by Ivorygates (PG) (2017 Quantum Alphabet Soup)

[ivorygates]

Summary: Daniel looks down at his hands. Scrubbed and manicured, French cuffs, discreet cufflinks, shark-grey designer suit and very shiny shoes. He wonders which avatar of Daniel-ness he is: the lunatic, the lover, or the poet?

On his way to a post-"Ripple Effect" debriefing, Daniel wonders about a lot of things.

Word count: 2238

Characters: Daniel Jackson

Era: Season Nine

Categories: Written for the 2017 Stargate (Quantum) Alphabet Soup. Spoilers for S9e13 "Ripple Effect". Darkfic. Daniel needs a hug.

Author's notes: I have no idea where this came from or where it would go from here, but it probably means it is not a good idea to read Synecdochic and Paian in the same morning...

https://ivorygates.dreamwidth.org/463324.html

T is for Teal’c and the Quantum Mirror

[topazowl]

T for Teal’c and the Quantum Mirror By Topazowl (Gen)
Summary: How did Teal’c cope after meeting his doppelganger?
Word count: 730
Characters: Teal’c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill, Sam Carter, alternative Sam Carter, General Hammond, Charles Kawalsky
Era: Season 3, after Point of View
Categories: I suppose it could be counted as a tag
Published at: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12666012
Teal’c and the Quantum Mirror

“How could I have still been serving Apophis?”

SG1 were in Jack’s living room, contemplating the close call they had all had after the events of the past day. Another alternate universe and this time Jack was married to an alternate Sam. He’d found that very difficult to get his head around.

Re: T is for Teal’c and the Quantum Mirror

[fignewton]

T is for terrific too! :)

Please e-mail me a copy. Thanks.

H is for H-Bombs and Haruspices, by Ivorygates (PG)

[ivorygates]

H is for H-Bombs and Haruspices

Summary: General Hammond told Area 51 to destroy the Quantum Mirror. Now Jack's dead, he's in Hell, and Hell is listening to Daniel Jackson lecture on quantum states for all Eternity.

Word count: 4100

Characters: SG-1 Team, General Hammond, minor OCs

Era: S3, any time after "Demons"

Categories: Deathfic But They Get Better; Quantum States' Rights; That's No Way To Run An Apocalypse; Gate Teams Who Live In Glass Houses

Author's notes: Um, Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow USAsians? I have no idea where this thing came from, but I am going to be having nightmares about Brane architecture and Boltzman Babies for months now and I don't even Physics. You have been warned. I think.

Re: H is for H-Bombs and Haruspices, by Ivorygates (PG)

[fignewton]

Wow, you really know how to tempt me. Must avert eyes and do RL stuff, must avert eyes and do RL stuff.... :)

O is for An occasional opportunity

[topazowl]

O is for An Occasional Opportunity

By Topazowl/Topazowlet

Summary: Jack and Daniel discuss the merits (or otherwise) of keeping the Quantum Mirror

Word count: 803

Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill

Era: Season 3, after Point of View

Categories: I suppose it could be counted as a tag

An occasional opportunity

Daniel sat down next to Jack on the roof, unwanted beer in hand. He was very unsettled by the events concerning the quantum mirror and was in desperate need of some reassurance; he also knew that Jack was disconcerted by the events, especially the married to Dr Samantha Carter bit. That had to be distressing as Jack had confided in Daniel that, although he was very fond of his 2IC and she was a great woman, he had no desire to become involved with her, USAF regs notwithstanding.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12804171

Re: O is for An occasional opportunity

[fignewton]

Got it, thanks! :)

[gategremlyn]

The fic can be found here: U is for Unknown

A missing scene from Continuum. Jack O'Neill visits Daniel Jackson. It doesn't go well.

Snippet: In the carefully neutral tone, Daniel heard the condemnation. A Jack of any universe couldn't hide that from him.... This Jack didn't know anything about Daniel's world or Daniel's life. He didn't know anything about the Jack O'Neill who mattered to Daniel, nothing about his world or his life or the man who had earned Daniel's respect for more than a decade.

J is for Just One More Thing ...

[jedibuttercup]

DW link here: J is for Just One More Thing

(A missing scene for 3.06 "Point of View".)

Sam hadn't been all that impressed by the archaeologist slash linguist at first sight; she'd been too caught up in him not being Dr. Rothman, and there being a Jaffa on the new reality's SG-1, to give him much thought. But despite all the rambling, he was charming when he wanted to be, brilliant, and fairly open-minded, three things not often found in the same person.

"Thank you, Dr. Jackson," she replied. "Maybe I will look our world's version of you up. You think he'd change his mind?"

"Given that all the theories that got him mocked back in academia just came true?" He chuckled. "I don't know why he originally said 'no', so I can't say for sure, but I also can't believe there's any version of me out there that wouldn't listen to a Samantha Carter."

[jedibuttercup]

Commenting again to add the AO3 link:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/12887055

E is for Eight to the Right

[eilidh17]

Title: E is for Eight to the Right
Author: eilidh17
Genre: Gen
Word Count: 333
Spoilers: None
Notes: Written for Fig Newton's Alphabet Soup.
Summary: A different reality, a different career path.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12970236

A is for Angst, by mific (G)

[mific]

Title: A is for Angst
Author: mific
Summary: Some things are too tempting. Some memories are better left to rest.
Word count: 1274
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson, Charlie O'Neill, Sara O'Neill
Era: classic team
Categories: "character study" and "team", I guess.
Author's notes: This has very probably been done in some form before, but anyway, here's my take on it. Contains grief and the anniversary of a loss.

Excerpt:
There was a whole lot of excitement after SG-7 found another quantum mirror in an ancient facility, but they soon found it wasn’t a lot of use. In fact, it was mostly just another weak point in their defenses, even after Daniel found the remote and Carter figured out how to program it.

You had to be persistent to the point of obsession to click through an infinite array of universes so as to find anything vaguely promising. Anything that wasn’t hard vacuum, an asteroid belt, molten lava, a cloud of toxic gas or suchlike. Anything remotely Earth-like, remotely similar to their own universe. The scientists plugged away at it for a few weeks, before giving up and locking the thing away in a big industrial safe just in case anything lucked into Earth’s address and tried to come through.

Link: A is for Angst

Re: A is for Angst, by mific (G)

[fignewton]

Wheee! :D

Can't wait to read it. One story to go!

And, er, a bit longer than a drabble, here. Not that I'm complaining. ;)

G is for Gribbles, by mific (G)

[mific]

Title: G is for Gribbles
Author: mific
Summary: It's another foothold situation at the SGC, thanks to the quantum mirror, but the team are onto it. Sort of.
Word count: 980
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson.
Era: classic team
Categories: "humor" and "team".
Author's notes: Well, it's an attempt at humor, but note the warning for harm to alien animals.

Excerpt:
When the first one came through the quantum mirror into Carter's lab at the SGC it looked like some sort of weird plant, like a mini-tumbleweed or a giant dandelion.

"Actually, I think it's an animal," Daniel said thoughtfully, passing it off to Carter. Another one had rolled through by then and Daniel picked it up, turning it over in his hands.

Link: G is for Gribbles

Re: G is for Gribbles, by mific (G)

[fignewton]

Eee just from the excerpt I'm grinning!

Thank you, you sweetie. :D