Happy birthday, Daniel! It's Gen Fic Day!

[fignewton]

Dr. Daniel Jackson turns 43 today, and he's gone years now without dying even once! Well done, that man. :)

We are celebrating the auspicious occasion with SG-1 Gen Fic Day! Comment to this post with a drabble or commentfic; link to a longer story; recommend a favorite fic, whether it's new and shiny or a well-loved classic; post part of your current WIP. Anything goes, as long as it's gen and related to SG-1! I'll post an organized round-up of all the links on Wednesday.

If you're one of the twenty-six wonderful authors who are helping cater the party with a generous serving of Teal'c Alphabet Soup, please follow the instructions detailed under the LJ cut.

Hurray for gen fic, and SG-1!

How to serve Teal'c Alphabet Soup

In the subject line of your comment, type the title of your ficlet: A is for Apophis, I is for Ice Cream, and so on. If you are posting on behalf of the author, please include the author's name in the subject line as well.

If your ficlet is too long for a single comment, you have two options:

1. Reply to your first comment with the second (or third) half so that readers can follow it easily.
2. Post your ficlet in its entirety on your own LJ, but add a comment to this post with the name of the ficlet in the subject line, a line or paragraph or summary in the main body of the message, and a direct link to the post on your own LJ.

Tomorrow, together with the round-up Gen Fic Day post, I will also post the complete anthology of Teal'c Alphabet Soup. Stories that are below a certain word length will be included in their entirety; longer fics will be excerpted, with links to the complete fic in the author's LJ. This is due to posting constraints, to get all 26 stories in a single post.

Whether or not your ficlet will be included in its entirety, I strongly recommend that you repost it on your own LJ for archiving and feedback purposes. The anthology post will include links to each author's LJ post.

Thanks for your contributions, and helping us celebrate Teal'c, Daniel, and the rest of SG-1!

Comments

B is for Beauty, by Yvi

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Teal'c appreciates the beauty around him more than they realize. If you asked his fellow team members what Teal'c would characterize as beautiful, they would likely answer something about weapons and ships. They are wrong.

Teal'c often remembers the beauty he has left behind: the fields of Chulak, the gentle curves of his wife's body, the first rays of sunlight reflecting on his still sleeping son's face. He misses these things.

There are beautiful things on Earth, he has seen them on the television screen in his spartan quarters. Big oceans with strange, majestic animals; yellow and brown deserts that go on forever; buildings that seem taller than Goa'uld motherships, but are made of glass and steel and appear vulnerable, yet are strong. He wants to go outside and explore this beautiful world, but he has to to patient.

In all his years, Teal'c never lost the sense of wonder that all creatures possess, he just hid it deep within hin. The Goa'uld do not encourage curiosity and Teal'c conformed to this. But hidden isn't lost and so it lies in his heart, waiting to get out when he is done with his mission. When the Jaffa are freed, he will have time for beauty again.

Re: B is for Beauty, by Yvi

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Love Teal'c depths! Because he is soooooo deep. ::nods::

And I love him looking to the future.

Re: B is for Beauty, by Yvi

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

Nice!A sense of Aesthetics like that, and living in a concrete bunker! Poor Teal'c