Ficathon updates, and new membership in DWA!

[fignewton]

My sg1teamficathon entry is finally, finally sent off to my marvelous beta. Currently just shy of 8,000 words, although I suspect that by the time Random finishes pointing out a myriad of problems, it’s going to be a whole lot shorter.

 

No time to breathe easy, though, because I also signed up for the sg_ep_ficathon, and that actually goes live at the end of this week. I’m about 1,000 words or so into that one, and I hope to be finished before the November 16^th deadline.

 

Except that… um. Well. ::shuffles feet::

 

I resisted through five SG-1 stories. I’ve embarrassed Daniel. I’ve given him lots of angst. I’ve given him ethical dilemmas. I saddled him with a hangover. He even gets searched very pointedly in my sg1teamficathon story (if this inspired it, my subconscious didn’t tell me!). But aside from the odd scrape or two, I never actually hurt Daniel.

 

…Until now, with story number six.

 

::sighs::

 

So, where do I sign up for Daniel Whumpers Anonymous? Because I’m not sure if it makes things better or worse that I not only whumped him, but I made it a plot point.

 

What is it about Daniel that makes whumping him so irresistable? I’m not talking about cuddling Saint Daniel while he stifles his whimpers of pain, or the team holding his hands in shifts in the infirmary while he valiantly fights for his life, or even the shippy kind of whumping, which is aimed more for the shippy comfort afterwards. Asking as a gen girl who loves a tough, capable Daniel, why is it so much fun to whump him?

 

It can’t just be the pretty. Or the hair.

 

C’mon, people. Try and handwave this one. :)

(And my apologies if you've commented in the last week or so and I didn't get back to you. My notifications have been a bit spotty, and these last days have been insane.)

ETA: And now with added inspired fic! Untitled Whumping Humor, by 6beforelunch. Because SG-1 knows they're insane. :)

Comments

[jjhunter]

Because Daniel will get right back up again (metaphorically, if he can't physically). He won't give up. It's cathartic and reasuring. Whumage is not what Daniel's trained for, so we civilians can identify with him more strongly. Whumpage blatantly reveals the steel beneath his normal velvet, and also reveals the team without Daniel at 100%.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that, yes - because Daniel has what Aurora calls the "weeble gene." It's fun to whump someone that you know will keep fighting to get up again. Very nice.

To be fair, though, no one is trained for whumpage. Except possibly Teal'c and the other Jaffa. :)

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yes, I think this is right on. And I have been very upset when I'm reading a story and Daniel fails to get up. When I first started reading fic, I was working my way happily through Stargatefan in the misguided belief that "CD" meant "character development" and read a few very, very upsetting fics. (Yes, that is a stupid mistake. I did figure it out after the third or fourth time I said to myself, "How could they do that and not warn me?!")

I never meant to whump Daniel, but look at what I did in "Charades" and "Fostering Relations"! Both depend on Daniel getting whumped. "Charades" was actually a response to reading several really angst-filled stories (some good, some...not so much) where Daniel can't talk. Everything was very serious and very sad, except for a few inappropriate remarks by Jack in one or two, and I just couldn't imagine the rest of the team maintaining that demeanor that long. Yes, including Daniel. So I consider the whumping I gave him in "Charades" an empowering whumping.

Hoo boy. And now I've started on SGA, and I started a story where originally no one was going to get hurt, but somehow now almost everyone has (but any SGA fans here will have to wait for me to finish, and then you'll actually have to read the thing, because I'm not telling who gets hurt and who doesn't!). SGA doesn't to me have the same kind of dynamic--maybe because Sheppard and Rodney both get whumped so often, and the writers like to injure Ronon just to see what he can do in spite of his injuries, but more likely because none of them have that combination of innocence and experience (yes, I just stole from William Blake) that Daniel does. Carson comes the closest on SGA, but it's still not the same. And I haven't finished s6 of SG-1, but I'm not getting that vibe off Jonas, either, though he's even more of an optimistic idiot innocent (just kidding, folks! I like Jonas, really!).

So there are my thoughts on comparative whumpage for today. Daniel is the clear winner. There's something special about Our Boy.

Welcome to the club! In the beginning, I never meant to whump him either!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I loved Charades (and recced it!) and yes, it needed Daniel whumping. And Fostering Relations was just plain hilarious. I very much enjoyed how irritated a concussed Daniel could be. :)

There's something special about Our Boy.

That is, quite possibly, the definitive answer!

And yes! I'm pretty sure most memberships are accidental. :)