Fig Newton

I do not have words. goddess47 has written so many fics to help bring the Off-Screen Mission Alphabet Soup to completion and she has just done TWO MORE and people, I can't believe it, the Soup is DONE!

You can find the complete TOC of the Soup here:

Off-Screen Missions

I'm a little ambivalent, I think. The Alphabet Soup had an incredible run - there's been 24 of them over the years, starting sixteen years ago. It might be accurate to say we had 23 in ten years, I suppose... :)

I will never ever figure out why such a fun prompt of filling in the blanks for all the missions that have been teased or referenced in canon turned out to be the one that we most struggled to accomplish, but, well, here we are. I'm glad to turn off the stove for the last time with feeling of well-done, but I'm also a little saddened to know it's never going to happen again. When we first started this last Soup, I had optimistic thoughts of a gen fic revival, with maybe even enough interest sparked to create another round of the Friendship Ficathon too. But I think that SG-1 has been a closed canon for a little too long to find enough writers out there.

I want to thank all the many, many authors who contributed over the years to the Soups. Some have long since moved on to other fandoms; some are no longer with us; and, happily, many are still around, if a lot more quiet (she said, looking wryly in the mirror). My thanks, too, to the readers who enjoyed the fics, especially those that took the time to comment and warm the author's heart.

Here's to SG-1. And squee. :)

First fic in two years! A contribution to the still-incomplete Alphabet Soup!

No, this is not an alternate universe. :)

Summary: In the post-mission briefing after Maternal Instinct, Daniel insists that he needs to make one more trip through the Stargate.

Jack POV, angst level high. Team, Hammond and Bra'tac. ~1,150 words. Rated PG.

Author's notes: Possibly apocryphally, Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a six-word story. The result was this fic's title.

( (E is for Ernest Hemingway) For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn )

Hooray, the Soup is still simmering! Marzipan has posted a new Soup fic and my hopes are rising that yes, this final SG-1 Alphabet Soup will end with a bang, not a whimper.

I've added her entry to the top of the Table of Contents. And I hope some of you will be inspired to look at the many prompts and sign up to write a fic, too!

So, the Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup was technically supposed to be finished last week.

As of this writing, we have ten stories posted (you can find links to them all in the comments of this entry, including by one new cook (hi smilebackwards!). One author had to withdraw; two others will helpfully be posting theirs soon.

For those of you even slightly slower than Sam, the math is pretty obvious: that's 12 out of 26. :(

The minimum for these is 100 words. It shouldn't be that hard to find sufficient authors to write gen fic that offers options over the course of 10 seasons!

If you'd like to join this final SG-1 Alphabet Soup, please go to this entry and claim a mission. :)

Two weeks to go, people, and HALF the letters are still unclaimed.

...I think this is going to be our last SG-1 Alphabet Soup. The interest isn't there anymore. There are the wonderful people like Wonderland who have been writing in every single Soup since it began, and relative newcomers who have been enthusiastically writing one (or more) stories in the last few years, and there's almost always a new cook or two. But we can't seem to find enough authors for a full Soup, and it's getting a little too discouraging.

Still! I have hopes that this will be a good finale. So if you want to join this last Soup, please sign up here. And if your story is finished, then post the details here.

I'll be AFK until the 1st, so if you're signing up, please double-check to see if any comments posted since today, the 24th, have already claimed the episode you want. Letter assignments will be distributed when I get back, but you can start writing your fic; I'll be happy to help you find ways to make your letter fit. (Half the time, I write a fic and then figure out which letter needs claiming...)

Signal boost, people! The more the merrier, or at least the more the more complete. :)

For Off-Screen Missions Alphabet Soup: the aborted mission at the beginning of Solitudes. Daniel's annoyed at wearing a helmet, but it turns out to be a very good thing. ~1,100 words. Rated G.

( H is for Helmet )

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 )

I have never had so much trouble with a Soup before. :(

As I have mentioned more than once in the last few months, the Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup is still short several letters. Some wonderful authors submitted multiple entries. I personally wrote a third entry just to keep things moving. Yet the letters A, G, and K are still not yet done.

I understand that it's a challenging theme, although it actually garnered one of the highest number of votes in an old poll about future themes. But we can't move forward to the next one until this Soup is complete.

There's a fantastic theme ready for the next Soup (courtesy of a chat with IG) and I am looking forward to that one... if we ever get this Soup done.

So how about it, people? Even drabbles qualify. We need 3 more fics to see Quantum Mirror Alphabet Soup complete. Any takers?

Edit: Two people have stepped up already! We are down to the letter G now...

Argh. And the letter L too. Two to go, folks.

Quantum Alphabet Soup is up, MUCH YAY. Still missing five letters, though.

Here is the Table of Contents. If you are an author, check both your TOC entry and the story itself at the anthology. See if the HTML coding was executed properly, if links work, and if anything is altered/missing. If there's an alternate link you want used or a typo you've caught that you want fixed, this is the place to leave a comment and let me know.

Yes, we still need those last five entries. Yes, they are now available to anyone who cares to write them. Let's hope our anthology is completed soon!

Many, many thanks to all the cooks. You wonderful people who come back Soup and Soup are a delight. You amazing authors who submit multiple entries are a ficathon organizer's dream. You new cooks are a reassurance and a promise that the fandom still thrives. Amd you readers who leave feedback keep the rest of us going!

::squishes all of you::

My thanks to the authors who made Quantum Mirror Soup a reality (an inadvertent pun, there!): Thothmes, Ivorygates, Topazowl, Wonderland, Jedibuttercup, Watervole, Sallymn, Fig Newton, Goddess47, Gategremlyn, Anthropos Agnostos, Maddersahatter, Antonomasia, and Eilidh. My deepest appreciation to our regular cooks; a respectful salute of the ladle to our new chefs, Watervole and Anthopos Angostos; and a crisp new linen hat to Ivorygates, Wonderland, Thothmes and Topazowl for their multiple entries. (I wanted to go with gold-encrusted ones, but the Goa'uld swiped them.)

We are, sadly, still five entries short. In the meantime, though, enjoy some 33,000 words of gen Quantum Mirror fic! Stories range from pre-series to post-series, with ratings from G to PG-13.

Please follow the links to offer feedback to the authors!

( A is Angst )

( B is To Be Or Not To Be )

( C is for Consequence )

( D is for Daniel )

( E is for Eight to the Right )

( F is for Feigenbaum )

( G is for Gribbles )

( H is for H-Bombs and Haruspices )

( I is for Imposter Syndrome )

( J is for Just One More Thing )

( K is for Kaleidoscope )

( L is for Lost )

( M is for Mirror World )

( N is for Not Quite )

( O is for Occasional Opportunity )

( P is for Precognition )

( Q is for Quantum )

( R is for Refuge )

( S is for Splintered )

( T is for Teal'c and the Qunatum Mirror )

( U is for Unknown )

( V is for Variations )

( W is for Waiting )

( X is for X-Treme Changes )

( Y is For Y Not )

( Z Is For Zucker, Zeitgeist, and Ground Zero )