Fig Newton

Someone who writes science better than I do, please incorporate this fascinating technology into a fic in which, say, the SGC can communicate with the host of Apophis. Or Ba'al. Or Sha're in Amaunet. Something.

Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text

(I am endlessly amused at my ability to read articles like this and immediately leap to, "Oooh, shiny! Look how this can be incorporated with SG-1!")

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 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 )

If you're a fan of old skool SG-1 fic, you might want to check out The Tablet, as Jb has informed me that it won't be around much longer. Many of the authors hosted there have moved on to AO3, but there are also fics there that might not be available after the site goes down in a few months.

The Tablet was one of the first SG-1 fic sites that I discovered, back in the day. Daniel-centric, lots of drama, very good authors. Mostly gen, with a side serving of "zipfic" which slews sideways, just a bit. :)

Admittedly, SG-1 already is firmly in the "unbelievable" category when it comes to writing science stuff... ;)

But since our wonderful fanfic authors often do a better, more credible job than the show writers, this is a fascinating article that I think a lot of you might enjoy.

Writing Believable Nanotechnology

Even if you're not an author, it's an interesting read. :)

I'm home! Exhausted but very happy after a lovely trip and a lovelier homecoming. :)

The monthly roundup will have to wait until next week, but here's a few links in the meantime:

The sg1friendathon had 25 fics! \0/ Suzannemarie put up the master post here. My own contribution was Left Unspoken.

The Ficathon Frenzy is currently live and will last until Monday. This is your chance to write any unclaimed (actually, any unwritten) prompt left over from the Friendathon, with no mimimum word limit required. The prompts list is here; the official rules for the Frenzy are here.

If you are interested in reccing at least two fics over the course of November for stargateficrec, you can do that here. SGA is always well-represented, but SG-1 usually needs a bit more love - there's only one SG-1 volunteer so far.

(BTW, did you all know you can schedule entries to be posted while you're away? I'm probably the last one to discover this...)

Eep! Here it is, five minutes to midnight, and I've just remembered that several people have suggested we should celebrate SG-1 today, in honor of the fifth anniversary of Continuum's release: our last SG-1 canon.

No time to write, so I will offer several links instead:

My Continuum-based fic (both Alphabet Soups, heh) are Vala in A is for Aspect and Cameron in O is for Optimism.

sg1friendathon is going live this year again! Our third round has already started with prompt submissions. You can submit screened prompts here, with no commitment to write fic involved.

Also, sg1genrecs is doing an "other media" theme, where you rec media other than stories (podfic, meta, picspam, vids, etc.) I would love to see some good recs there!

If you want to do the more classical kind of reccing, there's next month at stargateficrec. Here's the link to the signup post.

And finally, I will just say this:

Stargate.

SG-1.

SQUEE!

:)

Well, hi there!

I'm back, although I'll only be able to drop by only two or three times over the next twelve days or so. :)

I would first like to thank those of you who sent me birthday wishes in my absence, including, to my astonishment, paid free time on DW for my own journal, the rec archive, and sg1genrecs. Wow. Thank you, lovely anonymous person! And thank you, too, to the not-so-anonymous lovely person who gave me paid time on LJ. I do love my icons :) and now I can revel in them all over the place! I hope I can continue to generate SG-1 squee in the next twelve months for you all.

Speaking of which, Gen Fic Day and SGC Alphabet Soup is in less than three weeks, on October 15th! Thanks to wendybnyc, all of the letters are now claimed. Soup cooks, please remember to send me your stories by e-mail at sg1.fig at gmail when they're done, and I'll happily accept any beta requests at the same address.

If you've posted anything SG-1 related while I've been gone, I'd love a link so I can go and check it out... :)

Scientists Make Reggae Music with Star Data

This is just crying out to be incorporated into a Sam fic. The music of math and the stars is just so perfectly her.

Any takers?

I'm looking at you, Magistrate. Heh heh heh.

Item the first: there are still four letters left to claim for Cam Alphabet Soup. If you are interested in writing 100 words (or more!) of gen fic on the topic of Cam by January 30, go to this post and sign up!

Item the second: this week, redial_the_gate did The Shroud. I was personally a bit disappointed when the ep originally aired that so many people wrote non-gen ep tags, but that's my problem. :) Redial, however, is all-inclusive, and I'm very surprised to see that no one has bothered linking to the many fanworks -- with the exception of sg1danny, who posted some stunning artwork. So if you've written a fic or done a vid or posted meta or created art or anything else related to The Shroud, please drop a link at the fanworks entry so others can enjoy it, too.