Fig Newton

I had a splendid vacation and am now back!

::looks round::

Hmmm. Still standing, I see.

Soooo, stories for Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup should be posted in less than a week, by August 8th. This is a tad problematic, considering that half the letters are still unclaimed.

::sighs::

I know I'll take a second one myself, but I was really hoping that this Soup's theme would be a fun and inspiring one.

Please, add signal boosts to your own journals, so the SG-1 Alphabet Soup series can go out with a bang, not a whimper:

Signup and claim an off-screen mission at this entry

Soup cooks, how are you all doing? Simmering nicely, slightly burnt, still trying to get the fire started?

Several delicious servings are already available, as you can see from scanning the comments of the official Off Screen Missions Alphabet Soup entry. However, as of this writing, only half the alphabet has been claimed.

I will already be extending the deadline by another week; it was originally August 1st, but RL circumstances mean that I will have no internet access at all in the week leading up to that. So now, Soup fics aren't due until August 8th.

The Alphabet Soup series has been a joy to arrange and a delight to read. I would hate to have to stop these ficathons, but there are limits. I assumed that the challenge of finishing the Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup was an outlier, not a trend. If it's just as difficult to finish this one, then, well...

So. If you haven't yet claimed a letter, I hope you'll consider one of the many, many prompts available. Please signal boost on your own journal, too. Let's try to get the word out and keep these Soups cooking.

Here's where you sign up

Here's where you post about your finished fic

Happy Souping!

What are some of your favorite (gen) Daniel fics, either your own or others'?

Here are a few links to my own work:

Remember the canon vs. fanon series? Those were mostly Daniel-focused.

Oh, Danny-boy explains why Jack doesn't really use "Danny" as a nickname very much, and Daniel, Pacifism, and Weapons Skills explains why the Daniel-the-pacifist trope is definitely fanon.

And because I am definitely not a fan of Saint Daniel:

The Fanonization of Saint Daniel, part one and part two

And because I am definitely not a fan of easily cowed Daniel: Clumsy, sneezy geek, which, of course, directly inspired sixbeforelunch's fantastic The Wrath of Daniel. My fic-enabling skillz may have receded of late (we are going to get the latest Soup cooked, right?) but I have a grand record on which to rest my laurels. ;)

On that note, I will link to my own Team Effort, in which the team that trains together, breaks out of prison together.

This will be Alphabet Soup #24. Because I apparently have the eternal optimism of the shameless SG-1 fangirl. :)

Not sure what I'm talking about? Visit the Alphabet Soup index for past anthologies.

Our theme this time is Off-Screen Missions. These are missions that are either referenced or clearly implied in SG-1 canon as taking place off-screen. It does not include missions that are created out of whole cloth, although I tend to be pretty generous in my interpretations. If you can find a hook via a throwaway line of dialogue, I will accept it.

This is how it works, and read through carefully, please, because this one is a little different has changed:

Under the cut, I've listed episodes and the implied/referenced missions that are suggested by the episode. If inspiration strikes, comment and ask me for a letter, which I will assign randomly. By making such a claim, you are commiting yourself to writing at least 100 words of gen fic. It could be in the form of a report, a single snippet of a scene from the mission, the briefing afterwards - or, of course, a multi-chapter epic of the mission that we all wish we could have seen on screen... :)

If you have an idea for a mission that's not on the list, go right ahead and do it!

Once an actual fic has been posted, I will strike out that particular prompt on the list. (This is because, sadly, many prompts were claimed and ultimately never filled.)

Signups will last until all 26 letters are claimed. Stories may be posted as soon as they're written, although they will be officially due by August 1st. [Edit: ::cough:: yes, that was more than eight months ago.] [Edit again: yeah, this is going to keep going until we're done...] [Edit in 2021: GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE LET'S FINISH THIS THING.] Stories can be posted anywhere the author pleases, although they must be open to the public without requiring a login or password. If one of your posting sites is AO3, please add your story to the Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup collection.

Authors who want to cook a second helping may come back and claim a second mission as soon as their first is posted.

There are only a few rules: your fic must be at least 100 words, although there is no maximum limit; it must have some connection to a mission referenced or implied in SG-1 canon, however you choose to interpret that; the fic should be canon compliant, although it does not have to reference canon specifically; and it should be gen. There are many, many ficathons out there to accomodate ship; please don't sneak in references to your favorite OTP. Canon ships may be referenced, but they should not be the focus of the story.

Please note that I will no longer be asking writers to send me a full copy of the text of their fic, as I am not going to collect all 26 stories into a single-entry anthology. The table of contents will be the one-stop shopping place for all stories in the anthology, with links going to the authors' journal. It is therefore even more important that each author sends me a detailed entry for the TOC. You can find complete instructions at this entry.

Here's to SG-1. And gen squee. And Alphabet Soup!

( episodes and suggested missions under the cut )

This brilliant idea is the brainchild of ivorygates, and I am shamelessly stealing it for the next Alphabet Soup.

(Which needs a name. "Canon-implied Alphabet Soup" lacks a certain oomph. Any suggestions?)

Edit: green_grrl suggests "Off-screen missions." I like that one!

The premise is simple: many episodes of SG-1 reference a past or future mission. The most famous of these, I think, is the mission referenced in Emancipation to P3X-595 where Sam "drank that stuff that made you take off..." and the final frame of The Enemy Within, which ends with the team striding through the Stargate for their first mission together.

Other examples:

Establishing the base on Hanka, before Nirrti unleashed the plague in Singularity.

Missions to help the Enkarans, since Scorched Earth begins with the people settled in their new home.

The first mission to Juna, before Cronus showed up in Double Jeopardy.

Missions to establish peaceful relations with the Unas after The First Ones but before Beast Burden.

Followup to Beneath the Surface, getting the brainwashed victims moved to a safer, warmer planet.

Teal'c's adventures off-world during Solitudes, trying to find Sam and Jack.

All these popped into my brain after two or three minutes of glancing over a list of episodes. There must be many, many more, and they don't necessarily have to be SG-1 (how many times did Reynolds take his team to Thilana's planet?). So I would like to invite you all to comment here with your suggestions. The format of my examples above would be just fine. Include the name of the episode or an obvious plot line - "what happened to Sam and Jack and Teal'c while they were stuck off-world until they got the Stargate back up" is a good reference to Small Victories, but "that ep where Jack fires his P-90" won't be much help. ;) I'll go through the comments and collate them over the next several days and we'll see what we can come up with!

( collated list under the cut )

MUCH YAY.

This way to the final TOC!

I am going to be insanely optimistic and assume this was an outlier, because good grief six months to finish an anthology is beyond ridiculous.

But I am insanely optimistic, so look out in about two weeks or so for new Soup info. Ivorygates had a great idea of a new Soup and I'm really looking forward to it. :)

For ivorygates, who gave me the prompt: Teal'c, "You can't go home again." Four times Teal'c walked away from home, and the many times that he didn't. Includes references to Teal'c's arc throughout the show, and specific references to COTG, Affinity, and Unending. Just over 2,000 words.

I played around with tenses and narrative voice, but it's all Teal'c's POV.

( Wherever He Prospers )

...that Jack gave one of these to Daniel, with lots of bad jokes about the pen being mightier than the sword.

...and that Teal'c took that expression literally.

If anyone puts something like this in a fic, please point me to it. :)

Summary: If quantum is the smallest possible bit of a thing that retains that thing’s essential qualities, how (or what) might define a quantum mirror? 780 words.

Author's Note: Written for the poor Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup, which is still, even after this, four letters short of completion. Yes, that would be the Soup that should have ended three months ago.

I don't often write what I think some people would call "metafic," but this probably qualifies. Many thanks to Ivorygates for the beta, the suggestions, and the shamelessly stolen summary!

Also, please bear in mind that this is probably Stargate-level science competence, if that much. :)

See below for more notes.

( V is for Variations )

New calendar year upon us...

2017 was a very busy RL year for me - mostly for family reasons and mostly for good ones at that, but crazy busy. So here are my fannish accomplishments of the last 12 months:

( details below the cut )