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I've dealt with any errors that were reported by various authors, and the Table of Contents are now up: on LJ and on DW. Whee!

If you're signal-boosting, direct people to one of the TOCs, please. And authors, please edit your stories to include links to the TOC as well.

I will ask everyone again to quickly check out their own fic: ensure that the TOC and the feedback links in the anthology go to link you want and that I haven't messed up any of the HTML anywhere.

A few interesting statistics:

Stories range in length from 200 words to over 15,000.

We have all sorts of kidfic flavors: nine "downsizing" stories, seven pre-series of team members are children, four fics of the team dealing with children, and five fics told from the perspective of children (ranging from Cassie to Shifu to Adria to kid!Tok'ra). Also, one of mine that doesn't actually fit into any category. ;) I am really happy that we got such a variety!

Once again, my thanks to all the participants. I do regret that we only managed 19 authors in total, which meant that many of us ended up writing multiple stories (very, very much appreciated!), but YAY for moar gen fic. Let's hope that the next Soup, in 2017, will see more authors joining in the squee! :D

Okay, folks, Kidfic Alphabet Soup is live!

Letters A-M are here. Letters N-Z are here.

The TOC is going to have to wait until Sunday, as Shabbos is coming and there's no time to finish the coding. Please ignore all the TOC links, as they're blank for now.

Authors, please glance over your stories. See if I messed up your HTML or lost a paragraph or anything. Comment if you find any problems, misdirected links to your own journal/website, or I've used the wrong nick. I have even, on occasion, accidentally left a name out of the authors' list, so check that too. If you were a new author and that's no acknowledge, please point that out as well. Or anything else you can think of, really! And please be patient, as I won't be seeing your replies here for some 30 hours.

Thanks, all of you. :)

This is the second half of Kidfic Alphabet Soup. Other links are Kidfic Alphabet Soup (A-M) and the Table of Contents.

( N is No One Gets Left Behind )

( O is for Other Perspectives )

( P is for Penguin )

( Q is for Quest… for Courage )

( R is for Reading, by antonomasia09 )

( S is for Shadows and Substance  )

( T is for Teal'c )

( U is for Uncommon Threads )

( V is for View From The Past )

( W is for Water )

( X is for Xipe Totec )

( Y is for Young Samantha Carter )

( Z is for Zen )

Table of Contents / Kidfic Alphabet Soup (A-M)

Here's the roundup for SG-1 Gen Fic Day of November '16!

Nineteen authors collaborated to write Kidfic Alphabet Soup.

Here the rest of the links from SG-1 Gen Fic Day:

( older fic )

( fic recs )

Many, many thanks to all those who participated! And I'll get the Soup up as soon as I can. :)

With many, many thanks to those of you who got your stories up on time... :)

Twenty Kidfic Alphabet Soup fics are up. Two more authors have been in touch to tell me their stories should be up shortly. The other four have been e-mailed or PM'd and will hopefully get back to me sooner rather than later.

After that, coding time!

In the meantime, feel free to comment here or at the official SG-1 Gen Fic Day entry with links to old and new fics or recs, whether or not they're kidfic. Just make sure they're gen. ;)

A contribution to Kidfic Alphabet Soup. As usual, Daniel took control and went in unexpected directions. He's good at that. :) This came out as much meta-ish as fic-ish, I think.

Summary: Few people expect the former First Prime to be so good with children, but SG-1 knows that Teal'c has vast and unexpected depths. A Daniel retrospective on a friend. References various episodes throughout the series (mostly those with kids). 1,710 words. Rated PG.

( T is for Teal'c )

Tomorrow we will be celebrating SG-1 Gen Fic Day, complete with Kidfic Alphabet Soup!

Well, I say "complete," but we are a few authors short. So if you feel like dashing off at least 100 words of gen kidfic for tomorrow (or the day after), please comment either at LJ or DW to get a letter.

If you are a Soup author and never got your letter, or if you already sent me your story and I have not replied to acknowledge receipt, please let me know IMMEDIATELY. Thanks!

...Except that we still are missing authors for multiple letters.

Kidfic was voted as one of the most popular options, so I'm hoping there are a few authors out there willing to take a letter and write at least 100 words of gen fic that are somehow related to kids. This can be canon children (like Cassie or Charlie), pre-series stories featuring a character as a child, someone interacting with an original character who is a child, or "downsizing" fic. All those qualify, so if you're interested, please comment at either LJ or DW and get a letter.

I've already received two submissions; one is classic downsizing, and the other is pre-series. I'm looking forward to lots of variety!

If you're already writing a Soup fic and you're interested in second helpings, you can comment and get a second letter, too.

Here's to more gen fic, in any flavor. :)

Who's up for another round of SG-1 Alphabet Soup? :)

This will be our 22nd round, and the theme, by popular vote, is Kidfic. The following types of stories qualify:

* "downsizing" fic, in which one or more characters are technologically hand-waved into children (temporarily or permanently, with or without their adult memories)

* stories set pre-series, featuring any SG-1 character during a time when they were actually, y'know, kids

* stories featuring children within the SG-1 universe; these can be canonical [Cassie, Loran, Ry'ac, Charlie (the original), Charlie (the Reetou), Shifu, or even young!Adria] or original

The following types of fic DO NOT qualify:

* next-gen featuring the children of any major character that is not canon. A story featuring an adult Cassie training Janet Wells as a member of a new SG-1 team would be fine, but stories featuring Sam and Jack's (or Vala and Daniel's) children are not.

What about alternative timelines or AU fic, in which a character was always a child to begin with? I'm willing to consider those, but the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis, and I get to be arbitrary about it. :) So please discuss it with me before you start writing!

Your story may include any character and any era (pre-series, post-series, early season, late season, whatever), as long as it's gen, related to SG-1, and fits our theme. We've had somewhere along the lines of 140 different authors contributing over the years, but whether you're a dedicated regular, an occasional dabbler, or a brand new chef, your participation is more than welcome!

This is how it works: comment below to sign up. By commenting, you are committing yourself to writing at least 100 words of gen kidfic by November 28th. In the past, signing up included claiming a letter of the alphabet; this time, I will PM you with a randomly assigned letter.

On November 28th, comment with a link to your fic in the SG-1 Gen Fic Day post, using the title as the subject of your comment (A is for Adria, D is for Developments, W is for What Just Happened, or whatever). Send me a copy by e-mail and your TOC template as well, as soon as they're ready. When all the letters have been submitted, a master post for the anthology will be posted, complete with the detailed table of contents.

For more detailed instructions of the posting process, click here. Even if you've cooked Soup before, please double-check; the detailed instructions have been edited over the years.

There are only four rules: your fic must be at least 100 words, although there is no maximum limit; it must be some kind of kidfic, however you choose to interpret the theme; the fic should be canon compliant, although it does not have to reference canon specifically and may be set in pre-series or future eras; and it should be gen. This is part of SG-1 Gen Fic Day, after all. :) You may write about any character, including original ones, that fit these criteria. You may mention canon ships - for example, Teal'c/Drey'auc or Jack/Sara - but no romance, please, and no sneaking in references to your favorite non-canon ship. If in doubt, feel free to ask.

Please spread the word - I'm always delighted to have new authors join us (just as I'm ecstatic when loyal regulars join us for yet another round.) Signal boosts are always appreciated! And if you're a newcomer signing up, make sure to mention it so I can welcome you properly. With so many different authors over the years, I tend to lose track...

...Or, I suppose, the cat named after him, which may or may not be alive after the Tollan got wiped out.

(yes that was a bad joke)

Feel free to comment here with recs for fic about Sam's cat. Or the Tollan. Or reread that fic in which Daniel grumbles about Schrodinger's archeologist. Or any kind of SG-1 squee, really. :D