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Fic rec: The Pegasus Conditioning

2011-08-28T21:05:45Z

teh_helenables just posted an awesome Ronon and Teyla ficlet called The Pegasus Conditioning. It's short but wonderful, you should all go read!

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Fic rec

2010-05-14T02:27:20Z

tielan just wrote a beautiful short fic about Teyla, and what she was doing while the Terrans were back on Earth and the Ancients were in Atlantis. It's very good, go read!

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beatrice_otter @ 2010-03-27T22:17:00

2010-03-28T02:31:54Z

Gaaah! I hate misogyny in fic!

People get upset when it gets pointed out that some slashers are misogynists. I know that many (hopefully most) slashers aren't.

But, people? When the only women in your fic are horrible, backstabbing, petty, immoral bitches? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a fucking misogynist duck.

This brought to you by the Atlantis fic I just read half of, in which Teyla never appeared and in which Keller got her revenge on McKay for breaking up with her by passing a note outing Sheppard to a homophobic Marine she knew to be mentally unstable because she'd altered his records so he could stay in Atlantis and owe her. There were some warning signs, but when it all started coming together... gah.

(To console myself, I am using my Honor Harrington icon. The world needs more heroines.)

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TTH Drabbles--Challenge #95

2010-02-20T01:05:54Z

Title: A Burden Shared
Author: beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Atlantis
Notes: Sequel to “Reflexes” and “Back in Atlantis”

( A Burden Shared )

Title: Potential Problems
Author:beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Sound of Music
Notes: Sequel to “A Problem Like Maria,” “Georg’s Surprise,” and “Freedom”

( Potential Problems )

Title: A Superhero Team
Author: beatrice_otter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/DC Comics

( A Superhero Team )

Title: All This Has Happened Before
Author: beatrice_otter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Battlestar Galactica

( All This Has Happened Before )

Title: Duty
Author: beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Shakespeare (Henry V)

( Duty )

Title: Play-time with Sweetums
Author: beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/The Muppet Show

( Play-time with Sweetums )

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Fic: A Child of Athos

2009-12-01T16:20:51Z

Title: A child of Athos
Author: beatrice_otter
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: G
Characters: Teyla
Written for: tielan , to cheer her up
Word Count: 1,204
Summary: These are the stories Teyla tells her son.

( Now listen to this tale of our people, for it is wise and true. )

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Story Index

2009-11-12T19:07:09Z

A listing of all my fic. My personal favorites are marked with asterisks. My fic can also be found at An Archive Of Our Own.

( Crossovers )
( Stargate: SG-1 )
( Star Wars )
( Stargate: Atlantis )
( Babylon 5 )
( Battlestar Galactica )
( Batman )
( Superman Movieverse )
( Terminator )
( Doctor Who/Torchwood )
( Buffy: the Vampire Slayer )
( Star Trek )
( Vorkosiverse )

( Miscellaneous Fandoms--Enchanted Forrest Chronicles, Starfire Series, Rio Bravo, Big Fish, the Bible, Honor Harrington, Pride and Prejudice, and Chalionverse )

( Disclaimer and Creative Commons License )

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On Stargate and Fail, and a plot bunny.

2009-08-19T09:16:50Z

So, if you're in the Stargate fandom you've probably heard about the massive amounts of fail (multiple different kinds, no less!) inherent in the casting sides for an episode of Stargate: Universe, and the defense from Gateworld, and all that. sheafrotherdon has an excellent rebuttal to Gateworld's defense of the fail, and cereta has an older post on living in a systematically misogynistic society and why don't "nice" men take a stand which then links to khalinche's post on the levels of harassment your average woman experiences on a daily basis, and why men don't really get it. And someone in the comments mentioned the Vagina Monologues, which I've never seen.

And I've been thinking. I love Stargate, but not the fail, and it seems like the fail has been growing over time, and the way they consistently play issues of rape and torture and such for titilation/humor or in other ways abuse white male privilege.

And lo, at 2 o'clock in the morning, an idea has formed for a story I will never write but which would be Made of Awesome if someone else would do it:

Teal'c is sensitive to power issues as they relate to the whole Jaffa/slave thing, but not so much (which is to say, not at all) as they relate to male/female relationships. He's very secure in his male privilege, and uses it, particularly with Jaffa women. He has great respect for Sam, treats her like an equal as a warrior, true, but look at how he treated the Jaffa women he was with. It's not that he's a bad guy, he just responds as his culture has taught him and doesn't really seem to think about the issue that much. And then in the episode Family Ties, Teal'c gets given tickets to The Vagina Monologues.

I want to know what Teal'c's reaction was. I want it to be done seriously, not played for laughs. I want to know how he related that to his experiences of Jaffa life and working with Sam for ten years. I want to explore Jaffa culture and Teal'c's perspective on it beyond the 'Jaffa revenge thing.' I want to see him talk about it with Sam, and with Ishta, and maybe his daughter-in-law Kar'yn. I don't want him to turn into an enlightened feminist Western male, but I do want him to understand.

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