Hammond (and Teal'c) Alphabet Soup

[fignewton]

The poll actually turned out to be pretty even in terms of now vs. later, but the later votes won out, in the end. Hammond Alphabet Soup will be delayed to give us all time to do it right.

With that in mind, I have two - well, three requests:

1. A little extra time is a good thing, but too much time might be... too much of a good thing? That analogy doesn't work too well. :) But I would like to have Hammond Alphabet Soup go up, say, in the last week of July. Perhaps on the 29th? 30 days later is appropriate, I think.

A few of you, in the previous post, mentioned various ficathons in the fandom. Could you please comment here and tell what dates they're due, so we can see if this will work out without clashing?


2. Since we've got enough advance notice for this, I would appreciate a little help in keyword suggestions - some of mine aren't very inspired! So please comment here with keyword ideas: T is for time travel and Teal'c and Texas, K is for Kinsey and Keyla, S is for SGC and SG-1, P is for Pentagon and protocol, and so on. I'll gather them all and use them in the claims post when it goes up. (Next week, perhaps? After Gen Fic Day?)


And here's request three, which is actually about Teal'c Alphabet Soup:

3. Teal'c Alphabet Soup will be served on July 8, in honor of Gen Fic Day. At this time, I still have three letters left unclaimed. I will open those three letters to authors wanting seconds tomorrow (and hooray for those of you who have already finished yours!), but to be honest, I would really be happy if we had twenty-six individual authors.

So please, mention this to your flists! Send them here if they want to write 100 words on Teal'c by next Tuesday. Let's show our Jaffa some real love. :)

Comments

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

The J/D Ficathon is due July 14 and the Gateverse Remix is due July 28.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, ow on the remix. Are you involved in that? Minxy's running it, right?

How feasible will it be for participants to finish something by the 28th and have something else written for the 29th?

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Yup and yup! I'm doing both, which is pretty much putting me out of the running for doing anything else this month. I know a few people doing both, and some avoided doing both so as not to overcommit, but it's a good question to throw out there.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

So you're out as far as participating? :( If enough people really find it hard for the 29th, we might have to push it off, but I'm hoping it won't be necessary.

Also, I signed up to rec George this month at stargateficrec, and I want to rec the finished anthology when it goes up! :)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

But what if the anthology isn't good enough to rec...never mind. What a silly question. What was I thinking? ;-)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Yes, what were you thinking?!

Alphabet Soup rocks. Hammond rocks.

Both of them together...?

Wheee!

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's just me! I'm sure there will be plenty ...

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

green grrl gave u the dates i know about; you might check sg1_debrief; they often have a good calendar listing of all current ficathons. i'm not really in touch with the cameron or the sga side of the fandom.

so glad it worked out to wait; i'll be participating!

other alphabet ideas: A is for Air Force, B is for babysitting or blackmail, cancer, command, duty, elegy, friendship, Godspeed, Hammond, Hayes, heart attack, itch, Kayla, loyalty, orders, pilot or parachute or promotion, retirement, service, Tessa, Vietnam, widowhood, Yee Hah.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

The debrief doesn't have a schedule as much as it picks up posts put out by comms. It would mean hunting through weeks' worth of issues and hoping I don't miss anything. I'm just going to hope that people give me the info I need right here.

Your Y word is absolutely made of win. :)

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I think the new timing is excellent and I look forward to playing.

As for cues, allow me to think on this!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Good! I hope this timing will work well for everybody. :)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Trying not to copy princessofg's cool options...

A is for Antarctica, Anubis
B is for band
C is for Carter, computer
D is for Daniel
F is for Fraiser, finding, feelings, fair weather, father (father-figure)
G is for grandchildren, gander
H is for honor, Harriman, homage,
I is for idols
J is for Jacob, Jack, Jonas, Janet, Jackson
K is for knowledge
L is for loss,leadership
M is for media, Maybourne, management
N is for NID, NORAD,
P is for Prometheus
S is for spinning, Sam, "shiny shoes"
T is for Texas, trust, Teal'c
U is for uncle
Z is for ZPM, zoo, zany, zat

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

spinning

Bwah!

A very nice list here!

(U is for uncle? George had nephews and nieces? Surely that's not a reference to Sam, and ::gasp:: FANON?!)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, what I was thinking about was Hammond's unnamed uncle the wedding planner. From "Fourth Horseman Part 2" (http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.11_%22The_Fourth_Horseman_Part_2%22_Transcript):

HAMMOND
It's always darkest before the dawn.

[Daniel, Carter, and Mitchell rise, visibly surprised to see Hammond.]

HAMMOND
My uncle used to say that all the time, he was a wedding planner.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh, like I'm so fluent in S9.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Hey, you're the one accusing me of ::gasp:: FANON, babe. :-D

Can't you just see a cute little ficlet of Hammond's wedding day with his uncle organizing it?

oh wait, that wouldn't be very gen-like would it? Ah, well. Cute woobie young (lieutenant?) Hammond.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do hope we get at least one ficlet about 1969-era Hammond! Really, that actor nailed DSD's mannerisms as well as clone!Jack did with RDA.

[samantilles.livejournal.com]

U is for uncle, as Hammond secretly screams "say uncle!!" in his head everytime some gould system lord gets it from his team... it would be unprofessional to scream it out loud of course...

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

There's also the whimsical route. Like seeing if anyone actually would take up the challenge of using unicorns or truffles as the basis of a story.

A is for apple
B is for bee
C is for collateral damage
D is for dance
E is for edict
F is for family
G is for glad
H is for horror
I is for icy
J is for jazz
K is for knowledge
L is for lake
M is for music
N is for nature
O is for omen
P is for pal
Q is for quest
R is for rules
S is for stalwart
T is for truffle
U is for unicorn
V is for valiant
W is for watchful
X is for x-ray
Y is for yesterday
Z is for zebra

*ahem* I'll show myself out now.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult to imagine someone doing a defining Hammond ficlet with unicorn or truffle, but the fandom never fails to amaze me... :)

And some of these aren't whimsical at all.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult to imagine someone doing a defining Hammond ficlet with unicorn or truffle, but the fandom never fails to amaze me... :)

Hey you never know what horrors are treasures might be around an unexpected corner. ;) Still, something like stalwart seems a little more, uh, usable.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I always want to hug the puppy when I see your icon of Tom. :-)

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Y is for "Yee-hah!" and I SO want to claim it.

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Hmm, some more letter suggestions- I think I got a couple that were otherwise missing (and tried not to repeat other lists, though there may be a couple):

awesome, androids, armbands, Anise
bane, Bra'tac, Barber
casualty, caveman
Davis, Drey'auc
Egeria, Edora
generals, gate, graduation, Gamekeeper
Hathor
infection
Judgement, Joint Chiefs, Jaffa
Kinsey, Kelowna, Kanan
Lockdown, Landry
navy, Nirrti
Osiris
Pentagon, president
question
Rayner, Reese, red phone, Ry'ac, Reetou
Simmons, Siler, skull, Shaun'auc, submarine, Shifu, Spirits
Tessa, Tokra
Urgo
Vala, virtual reality, virus
Walter, Wildfire (the code for lockdown in Message in a Bottle, I think)
X-ray, X302
yawn, year

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

I'm spamming you today!

I don't believe any of these have previously been named:

A is for arguments, of which he's had many
B is for bald, but if he hadn't been, he might have pulled all his hair out anyway
C is for command, and the SGC was his
D is for drink, 'cause some days, he could use one
E is for egalitarian, since he believed in equal rights
F is for foothold, a situation in which he never wanted to be
G is for Grandpa, and he made a good one
H is for humor, 'cause he could appreciate a good laugh now and then
I is for iris, which he ordered open and shut quite often
J is for journey, and it was a hell of a ride
K is for Kearney, the major from "Lockdown" who looked so much like a young Hammond ;)
L is for life, and he hated when one of his people lost theirs
M is for money, which he "loaned" to Jack in 1969
N is for need-to-know, and he tried to enforce it
O is for Oval Office, which he had to visit a few times
P is for portly, 'cause he had a few extra pounds
Q is for quiet, like before all hell broke loose
R is for retirement, which he finally got
S is for stars, those shiny bits on his shoulders
T is for treachery, against which he had to guard
U is for USAF, which he served so many years
W is for wisdom, for he was a wellspring of it
X is for xenoexploration, which is a creative way of saying "off-world exploration"
Y is for young, like the men and women who served his command
Z is for zoo, 'cause the SGC resembled one, sometimes

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

Here's a few:
A - Alien
B - Blast Doors, Bravery
C - Courage, Cheyenne
D - Defense
E - Erroneous, Essence
F - Freedom
G - Goa'uld
H - Honor
I - Integrity,
J - Jalapeno
K - Kindness, Kinsey
L - Loyalty,
M - Meeting
N - Night, New
O - Officer
P - Protocol
Q - Quetzalcoatl
R - Restraint
S - Stargate
T - Transfer, Texas
U - Untimely, Unas
V - Valor, Vis Uban
W - Warrior, Woolsey
X - *I got nothing*
Y - Yelling
Z - Za'tarc