Fall Fandom Free For All, October SG-1 Gen Fic Day, and Jack Alpha-Bits prompts

[fignewton]

I never seem to hear about these things...

Has everyone seen the Fall Fandom Free For All? Such a lovely tribute to the sharing, social nature of fandom - you leave a comment with ten fandom-related requests (fic you'd love to read, art or icons or vids you want to see, LJ layouts or headers you'd like to have, whatever) and then trawl through everyone else's comments, looking for a request that you can grant. Spreading the squee far and wide... what's not to love?

It comes as no surprise that very, very few of the requests out there are for gen fic. I finally did find one for "too much alien beer," which seemed rather promising! Once I got the fic well underway, I went ahead and posted my own requests. (I'm on page 12, heh.) If anyone on my flist has commented there and I missed it and my style fits with what you'd like, please comment at this post and point me in the right direction. And if you haven't yet joined the FFFFA - well, why not give it a try? :)

(I finished my first draft this morning and sent it to the always-marvelous Random for her usual stellar beta, so I hope to post what is currently titled Respect for Ritual some time this week. Yay!)

And on the subject of gen fic not being overly popular... Sigh. When I did my regular tagging for sg1debrief today, I was delighted to tag two gen fics - the first ones to show up in a week. ::grumbles:: Clearly, it's time for another SG-1 Gen Fic Day! The next six or seven weeks are not conducive to my organizing anything, though, so I'm tentatively scheduling SG-1 Gen Fic Day for October 27th. Let me know if there's a fandom conflict I should consider! You should all know the drill by now :) but if you don't, the very first one took place last October, and here are the four roundups: October, January, April, and July.

As has become traditional, we will also be having Alphabet Soup on SG-1 Gen Fic Day! (If you're new to Alphabet Soup, take a look at Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, and Hammond. It's Jack's turn this time, so of course it has to be Alpha-Bits instead of Alphabet Soup. :) No, I'm not taking claims now. But I would like to get some prompt suggestions, because I loved the ones you all gave me when I asked for them for our tribute to George. So comment here, please, with suggested prompts for Jack Alpha-Bits.

I know this seems insanely early, but I will be offline for almost two weeks and mostly unavailable for a third week in October, so I want to get everything set up before the end of September. You don't mind, do you? :) 

Comments

[rdamel.livejournal.com]

Hooray, finally it is Jack's turn! And to quote a doctor from a different series, I'm a reader, not a writer, but I
am surely looking forward to reading some good Jack stories.
I know you can write them, people!

Thanks in advance--
Melissa M.

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

I think it's so fantastic when people take action to generate more of what they want to see in fandom. If a person wants more gen, then, yay: Do what you're doing.

I will be cheering and lurking, mostly; I have a new job that is eating my brain. But my squee for all things SG-1, especially all things Classic Team, remains undimmed.

*confetti* for the fic opportunities.

[lokei.livejournal.com]

I'm so in for Alpha-Bits. *grin* Am about to go have breakfast myself, so I shall consider prompts over my English muffin. I'll go troll through the free-for-all in a bit as well, looks like fun. I think I have a gen fic or two up my sleeve that I could hammer out in time for Gen Fic Day...

[lokei.livejournal.com]

And prompts (though really, isn't it interesting how many of these overlap with previous Soups? I tried to make them Jack-centric, but some of them just tie naturally to others as well):

a - alien, Abydos, anger, Air Force, alternate realities
b - bomb, battle, beginning, Ba'al
c - Charlie, crystal, command
f - F-302 (is that the right plane or is it the 301 where they end up in deep space? can't remember the designations)
g - general, grave, grin
h - Harlan, Hadante, Hathor
w - watch, wings

sorry if I've included a few repeats

[crevanfox.livejournal.com]

A-
B- Brat'ac
C-cabin, Cassie, Carter, career
D-Daniel, dogs,
E-evil
F-flight/flying, Fraiser,
G-gravity, General West,
H-hell-hole, Hammond, Homer
I-Iraq
J-Jonathon, joke, joker,
K-killer, Kowalski
L- Laira(ugh, the S/J shipper inside me just died a little)
M-Minnesota, memo, mission
N-
O-orders,
P-prison,
Q-
R-reports, robo-Jack, replicaters, repliCarter
S-Sara, Samantha, Simpsons, snakes,
T-truck, trees, Teal'c
U-
V-
W-worlds
X-
Y-yasureyoubetcha,
Z-

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

S FOR SARA!!!!

*ahem*

oh, did you want others? ;)

[randomfreshink.livejournal.com]

Some prompts for Jack.....

A - Ancients, Academy, astronomy
B - better, beer, bugs
C - Chicago, career, comtyra
D - Dorothy, dogs, dogtags
E - Earth, Euronda, Enkarans
F - fidgets, fishing, footholds
G - guns, graves
H - headsucker, hockey, honor
I - infirmary, instinct
J - jets
K - kids, Kelownans
L - legacies, losing, light
M - Merrin, Machello
N - Nox, Nem
O - Oz
P - Pie, peridot, P90
Q - quiet, quick
R - roofs, revenge, Reese
T - temper, telescope, team
S - sniper, scientists
U - universe, understood
V - victory, vanquished
W - wizard, what, words
Y - yo-yo
Z - zelous, Zales

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! I've been whining to myself about the lack of Gen stories lately and here you are fixing that for us! Can't wait!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

"He's dead, Jack!"

Readers who comment are important, too!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, you've been busy lately! But cheering is hugely important, too.

Hey, I can either write it or rec or nag for it. Or all three. ;)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Yay for Lokei fic! And, y'know, it doesn't have to wait for Gen Fic Day. You could always write more!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Bwah!

No surprise there. :)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Just as long as you do your part, too! :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Or, given "Fallen" "He's dead, Jim" would work too :)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Oh, totally for the WIN.

[lokei.livejournal.com]

The question is always time, not desire. *grin*

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

w00t!

A- apocalypse
B- big, honkin' space gun
H- human, hashack
M- magnets, Mary Steenburgen, mik'ta

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

But of course! : )

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

As much as I appreciate your pointing out good fics...and join you in the nagging...I'm really voting for more of option one myself. o:-)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hah! Thank you. :)

(and from you I am EXPECTING Sam and Jack friendship fic!)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I might even have finished and then fixed the fic that I'm now working on by October 27! (I think it's either going to be pretty awesome or pretty awful. The jury is still out.)

And I pledge right now that if I sign up for Jack Soup, I will do a story of under 1,000 words even it it does focus on my beloved Jack. Probably under 1000 words. Well, I'm going to really, really, really try. (I'd say 500 words, but, come on, let's at least stay in shouting distance of reality.)

As for possible prompts. There are probably some repeats here. Many are tongue in cheek, but that doesn't mean they couldn't turn into cool stories if someone were inspired.

A is for Abydos, acorn, answers
B is for bugs, banished, betrayed
C is for Cassie, camel, closet
D is for danger, dungeon, dark
E is for elsewhere, everyday, example
F is for fish, fantastic, funny
G is for green, goa'uld, grift
H is for happy, hostile, hustle
I is for icy, insanity, island
J is for Jupiter, Jacob, jinx
K is for Kheb, Kanaan, kid(s)
L is for launch, laugh, look
M is for moon, mace, MALP
N is for next, never, nachos
O is for Osiris, orphan, oreos
P is for prince, paint, pastime
Q is for Queen, quest, quaint
R is for roster, ruse, roadtrip
S is for slave, sieve, staff
T is for time, tarry, tease
U is for unrest, unseal, unicorn
V is for vial, vile, vex
W is for west, wheel, water
X is for x-ray,
Y is for yea, yellow, yummy
Z is for zat, zebra, zoo

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just published super-teamy fic. *grumble grumble* [goes back to looking at my WIP list]

(At least I made the icon for it).

[gategremlyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, this sounds like fun! I've never done this (so forgive me if this isn't right) but here are my suggestions for Jack. I know there will be lots more. I'd love to participate (time permitting) so I'll be watching for the claims post.

A Antsy, Apothis, Anubis
B Bedpan, briefing, beer
C Chicago, crossword
D D'oh, diplomat
E Energy
F Flaky, Fish
G General
H Hot, Hockey
I Infirmary, Incoming
J Jello, Jail
K Katherine
L Loss
M Minnesota
N NID
O Opera
P Pie
Q Quintessential
R Reports
S Silver (as in fox), sarcastic, Simpsons
T Training, telescope, truck, team
U UAV, Uma Thurman
V Victory
W Warning, wit
X Wormhole eXtreme
Y Yadda
Z zaytarc detector, zat,

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

P P2-wherever-the-heck

:-)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I haven't been commenting on prompts, but I must say that this one made me laugh out loud. :)

May I change it to "P3-whatever"? The P3 designation is more common, I think.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

P3, sure!

[thraesja.livejournal.com]

Hmm. May have gone a little overboard here...

A – artefact, astronomy, Aschen
B – Burns, Bregmen, Brigadier General
C – clone, captured, con
D – doohickey, doctor, destruction
E – ego, element, eye candy
F – Froot Loops, frustration, Felger
G – Golf, Guinness, grief
H – hat trick, Harry, Honduras
I – ice, irritation, insolence
J – Joe, jousting, Jacob
K – Kinsey scale, Kanan, Kawalski
L – Loki, lottery, Langaran
M – memo, Martisse, mustard
N – Nick, nanite, Neptune
O – orb, ouch, Ori
P – pheromone, poison ivy, politician
Q – quarks, quiet, quest
R – retirement, robot, Russian
S – snake, squeal, Sha’re
T – Tyler (Lt.), Tollan, trust
U – Urgo, urge, unity
V – virgin, vital, Vala
W – Webster’s, wheel, whine
X – Xerox, xenophobe, xylem
Y – yell, yen, yadda
Z – zits, zither, zoinks

Is it pathetic that I just now realized why Froot Loops was an appropriate breakfast for Window of Opportunity? Wait. Don’t answer that.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Is it pathetic that I just now realized why Froot Loops was an appropriate breakfast for Window of Opportunity?

Considering that it didn't occur to me until you just pointed out? Probably not! :) But now I need a meta explanation for the significance of the oatmeal...

[thraesja.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Meta oatmeal explanantion...meta oatmeal...

Maybe Jack sowed all his wild oats during the looping, so now he can eat them? Or it's just a boring breakfast he wouldn't normally want but is now desperate for...yeah, the latter's more likely, but I think the former's more entertaining for the imagination. I've always loved fics that explore what else he (and Teal'c) got up to during the off loops.