Fig Newton

Just four days left to claim a prompt for the friendship ficathon at sg1friendathon! I am so happy to see such enthusiastic beginnings - we've got 25 people signed up already! Is our fandom awesome or what?

I find writing trends so fascinating. When we last did this in 2008, I was very taken aback that Jack and Daniel friendship wasn't claimed at all (although happily, Magistrate did one prompt for the Frenzy). This year, Jack and Daniel friendship prompts went first - in fact, there were more Daniel friendship prompts claimed this time than any other. Interesting, that.

Now, any casual reader of this journal is well aware that I am a shameless Daniel fangirl :) and that I vastly prefer classic team to new team. And I am definitely happy in anticipating all the wonderful friendship fic that we'll be reading about my favorite archeologist and my favorite version of teamy goodness. Still, I think the newer team members deserve a little (gen) love, don't you? So if you're a Cam fan or a Vala fan, I do urge you to wander over to the sign-up post (on LJ only, so there won't be accidental multiple claims) and choose a Cam and Teal'c prompt. Or a Sam and Vala prompt. Or Cam and Sam, or Vala or Teal'c, or... well, you get the idea. :)

Mind you, if you choose a classic team prompt, I'll be pretty pleased with that, too...

Go. Find a prompt that sparks your imagination. And write!

(And many, many thanks to all you lovely people who have boosted the signal on this. It's very much appreciated.)

I do not have the words to describe how happy I've been with the success of this year's sg1friendathon. Years into a closed canon, and we've had over 35 gen friendship fics posted throughout the month! SG-1 fandom, I salute you. :)

Now, my fic has been sitting quietly on my journal since July 31. Originally, Suzannemarie and I planned to insert our fics into the queue according to the same first-come, first-served as everyone else, but after some discussion, we decided that the mods should go last. So today, four weeks after I private-locked the entry and more or less forgot about it, I went back to unlock my story.

And then I remembered -- oh, yeah. I was going to get it betaed.

Oops, that. :)

I admit that I don't get a beta for every single story I write. But when the characters take over the story as emphatically as Daniel (and Teal'c, and a certain Leader) did in this fic, I do feel the need for a beta reader.

In this case, I simply forgot. And it seemed unfair to delay posting for the day or three it would take to find a beta, have it vetted, and then fix any mistakes. So I posted it as is.

You can find it here: Canis Major. It was supposed to be a light-hearted piece, and hopefully parts of it still are, but Daniel would insist on adding some angst into the mix, sigh.

Here's my request: while I always welcome constructive criticism (the old teacher in me has trouble with the word "concrit," I'm afraid), in this case I am particularly asking for it. I'll gladly take any pointers towards typos and grammatical errors, and happily debate characterization -- including Leader and his friends. :)

In any case, I hope you all enjoy the fic.

MUCH YAY.

C'mon. Go sign up...

(Signups must be made on LJ to prevent multiple claims on the same prompt, but sg1friendathon is right here too!)

::waves scepter of the realm of ship-free Stargate meaningfully::

Oh, and Beanpot and Annerb? There are prompts at that list (over 170 of them, whee!) that have your names on them!

So way back in 2008, we had a ficathon over at sg1friendathon: gen stories with an emphasis on friendship. We had twenty authors contributing twenty-three different stories, which is an excellent statistic for gen, let me tell you. :)

After a three-year hiatus, I'm considering another round. I am all too aware that many SG-1 fans have moved on to more current fandoms, but I hope that there are enough of you out there who are still interested enough to participate! suzannemarie will be joining me as your friendly neighborhood mod, and we're both looking forward to lots of new friendship fics.

I expect the majority of the action to take place on LJ -- sadly, the percentage of gen SG-1 fans that moved to DW is pretty low -- but I have created a mirror comm at sg1friendathon here, for those who prefer not to use LJ at all. When the ficathon has reached its triumphant conclusion (I can dream, can't I?), a master list will be posted at both comms that includes links to both LJ and DW.

We'll begin with a poll to determine interest, ficathon type, and dates. Long-winded explanation of poll choices( under the cut, which you can skip if you want. )

Please take the poll at ONE location only -- either here at DW or over at LJ -- so I can have a clear idea of the number. Thanks. :)

( SG-1 Friendathon poll )

Title: 'Tween Weft and Warp
Author: Fig Newton (sg_fignewton)
Rating: PG
Pairing: none
Word Count: ~6,650
Summary: Difficult choices can lead to painful results. Would different pasts offer a better future? In the wake of FIAD, angst and AUs abound as Daniel and Teal'c struggle to find out.
Warnings: none
Spoilers: References to events in COTG, Thor's Hammer, Cor-Ai, Secrets, and Forever in a Day.
Disclaimer: None of them are mine. They all belong to their respective copyright holders.

Author's Note: Written for the sg1friendathon, for the prompt: Daniel and Teal'c. Forgiveness that can never be accepted.

As always, my thanks to that queen of betas, randomfreshink.

( 'Tween Weft and Warp )

The sg1friendathon fics are due in two more weeks, on June 2. That gives me feelings of both wheeee! and eeeeeee!, because at 4,000 words, I'm still not quite halfway there, and hoo boy is Random going to have a lot to do on this one!

Betas are the queens of fandom. I just think that needs to be said more often.

How's your friendship ficathon story coming along? Comment here to commiserate or gloat or lend your moral support - or all three. :)

ETA: Whoops, forgot to ask: is there a Goa'uld term for the DHD, or should I just shamelessly steal Redbyrd's Skaara's term, which, IIRC, means something like "thing that goes with the chappa'ai"?

ETA2: Nope, not Redbyrd's, but Seanchaidh's, from part 3 of her Getting to Know You series:

"Well, Skaara did nickname it a raatan'ai," I admitted, "but I have no clue what the real name is..."

"Raw-what?" Jack frowned.

"What does that mean?" asked Sam, ever the curious.

"Um, 'little thing that goes with the Chaapa'ai,' actually."

Bad Fig Newton! No biscuit! I confused the two marvelous fill-in-the-blank episode rewrites that I've recced in the past: Redbyrd's Setting Up House was recced here, and Seanchaidh's Getting to Know You was recced here.

::collapses::

I think I got rid of all the typos and annoying coding gratuitiously by my stupidity of creating the list in Word.

Go here to see the master prompts list for the sg1friendathon!

(But if you wait until you've finished writing whatever you're doing for SG-1 Gen Fic Day, I won't mind. Really. Because in some ways, my timing is seriously awful.)

( On ficathons )

( On alphabet soup )

And that leads straight to my next topic: ( SG-1 Gen Fic Day )

There's still time to check out the what kind and when poll for the SG-1 friendship ficathon! There's no commitment if you vote, although I will assume that you're at least vaguely interested. :)

The current numbers suggest that we'll probably have an open prompts pool, with prompts submitted in the last week of March and claimed in the week of April. Stories would be due June 1st. That might still change, of course...

And don't forget to leave prompts for Leapgate and spread some anonymous love at beanpot's hurray for fandom post! And there's rolleson's ongoing Sam Carter Drabble-a-thon, too.

Isn't SG-1 fandom great? :)