And nearly six years later, the soup is COOKED

[fignewton]

I do not have words. goddess47 has written so many fics to help bring the Off-Screen Mission Alphabet Soup to completion and she has just done TWO MORE and people, I can't believe it, the Soup is DONE!

You can find the complete TOC of the Soup here:

Off-Screen Missions

I'm a little ambivalent, I think. The Alphabet Soup had an incredible run - there's been 24 of them over the years, starting sixteen years ago. It might be accurate to say we had 23 in ten years, I suppose... :)

I will never ever figure out why such a fun prompt of filling in the blanks for all the missions that have been teased or referenced in canon turned out to be the one that we most struggled to accomplish, but, well, here we are. I'm glad to turn off the stove for the last time with feeling of well-done, but I'm also a little saddened to know it's never going to happen again. When we first started this last Soup, I had optimistic thoughts of a gen fic revival, with maybe even enough interest sparked to create another round of the Friendship Ficathon too. But I think that SG-1 has been a closed canon for a little too long to find enough writers out there.

I want to thank all the many, many authors who contributed over the years to the Soups. Some have long since moved on to other fandoms; some are no longer with us; and, happily, many are still around, if a lot more quiet (she said, looking wryly in the mirror). My thanks, too, to the readers who enjoyed the fics, especially those that took the time to comment and warm the author's heart.

Here's to SG-1. And squee. :)

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Thank you for running these challenges all these years.

[goddess47]

It is bitter-sweet to see that last Soup complete... but thank you for so much work over time, organizing Soups and compiling lists for prompts. They were always fun to do!

Yes, SG-1 writing has gotten very quiet over the last bit...

(Although, fwiw, I have a bunch of Soup recs prepped for the next few months on StargateFicRec, to let folk know what sorts of things are out there!)

[cesy]

Hooray!

[hooloovoo_42]

Congrats all round 🥂

[beatrice_otter]

The soup was always such fun, and some really great ficlets came out of it. Thank you for running it!

[watervole]

I don't think the problem is closed canon per se. It's the sheer number of available new canons.

I write very little fanfic now, becuase by the time I've fully done the research and worldbuilding that I really want to do, the potential readers have already flitted to a new show.

[ivorygates]

The Soup was always such great fun to play in (*splash!*) and I'm sorry/glad the last one is done. Hail the Traveller.