One is an alternate history of the US and Great Britain. The UK retains political control over the Colonies by sacrificing economic control (i.e. they reduce taxation, and the Colonies don't rebel, possibly with grants of nobility thrown in to various colonial elite and younger sons of nobles from England who are willing to emigrate). With economic affairs largely in control of Americans, economic growth grows roughly the same as it did in our time line, but since we're still part of the UK there's a much higher percentage of British elite investing in factories and plantations and things as they become really profitable, and American elites becoming tied in there. By the end of the 19th Century America is the economic powerhouse of the British Empire, and Queen Victoria moves the capital to America to keep a better eye on us and to cement our position in the Empire. (Before you scoff, remember that when Rome finally fell to the barbarians for the last time, Rome hadn't been the capital of the Roman Empire for several centuries, Constantine the Great having moved the capital to a small town in Turkey called Byzantium which he rebuilt and expanded and renamed Constantinople, which is modern-day Istanbul.) What does that do to colonialism in general? In the 19th Century, the European nations went all-out conquering Africa and Asia; if Great Britain's focus was on America instead of India and China, what would be different? And how would the political situation in Europe change if the UK was focused more on Spain and Mexico than France and Germany and Russia?
Another is a futurefic about Jack Harkness getting therapy to get the inside of his head fixed. Something like, if he could kill himself, he would, but he's going to be around for a long time and he's been wallowing in angst and obsessions for so long and he's tired of it and he doesn't want to have to worry about hurting people he cares about by accident because he's a self-absorbed wanker any more. Because I love him, but I am firmly of the opinion that a good therapist is worth zir weight in gold, and boy does Jack need it.
Another is a futurefic about Jack Harkness getting therapy to get the inside of his head fixed. Something like, if he could kill himself, he would, but he's going to be around for a long time and he's been wallowing in angst and obsessions for so long and he's tired of it and he doesn't want to have to worry about hurting people he cares about by accident because he's a self-absorbed wanker any more. Because I love him, but I am firmly of the opinion that a good therapist is worth zir weight in gold, and boy does Jack need it.
You know how Criminal Minds is, like, always on TV? Just now, it was on two channels at once. One of the eps was the one where, at the end, JJ comes back and shows them Henry, and Derek goes gaga over him and the ovaries of half the women watching explode. Now I want to have Derek Morgan kidfic. (This is the same reaction I had the first time I saw the episode.) But, being me, I'm not fond of kidfic of the woobie "lets throw a kid in randomly!" variety. I like my kidfic to be well-written, with plot. Anyway, I will probably never write CM fic for a variety of reasons, so I hereby release this plot bunny into the wild.
This plot bunny is a CM/SG-1 crossover. In it, the Trust wants more people with the ATA gene, and so (being composed of Goa'uld, amoral businessmen and evil scientists) they decide to breed their own. And Derek has it. (I'm assuming that after Carson identified the gene, the US started looking for people with it, maybe doing gene screenings of government employees, which would be how the Trust finds out.) So, they got Derek's semen by sending a female agent in to hook up with him in a bar, who went home with them and slipped out with the used condom. Two years later, the SGC is following other leads stumble across their little breeding program--Derek not being the only one whose DNA they used--and so Major Davis makes a courtesy call to the BAU, and the team is all "why are you telling us all about this operation if you've already caught them?" and Davis turns to Derek and congrats, you're a dad! three or four times over, because of course the Trust would be using in vitro and going for multiple pregnancies as much as possible. I'm thinking the Trust wanted to breed stronger genes by breeding two gene carriers, so they either kidnapped female gene carriers and impregnated them, or used alien tech to extract ovaries and grow the babies in artificial wombs, or maybe kidnapping female runaways/homeless women nobody would miss and impregnating them with fertilized ova. The SGC probably cottoned on because of the assault/kidnapping of the mothers.
Anyway, I have this elaborate scenario, and no real resolution for it, which is why even if I felt like I could write CM fic, I wouldn't write this one. But I'd love to read it!
This plot bunny is a CM/SG-1 crossover. In it, the Trust wants more people with the ATA gene, and so (being composed of Goa'uld, amoral businessmen and evil scientists) they decide to breed their own. And Derek has it. (I'm assuming that after Carson identified the gene, the US started looking for people with it, maybe doing gene screenings of government employees, which would be how the Trust finds out.) So, they got Derek's semen by sending a female agent in to hook up with him in a bar, who went home with them and slipped out with the used condom. Two years later, the SGC is following other leads stumble across their little breeding program--Derek not being the only one whose DNA they used--and so Major Davis makes a courtesy call to the BAU, and the team is all "why are you telling us all about this operation if you've already caught them?" and Davis turns to Derek and congrats, you're a dad! three or four times over, because of course the Trust would be using in vitro and going for multiple pregnancies as much as possible. I'm thinking the Trust wanted to breed stronger genes by breeding two gene carriers, so they either kidnapped female gene carriers and impregnated them, or used alien tech to extract ovaries and grow the babies in artificial wombs, or maybe kidnapping female runaways/homeless women nobody would miss and impregnating them with fertilized ova. The SGC probably cottoned on because of the assault/kidnapping of the mothers.
Anyway, I have this elaborate scenario, and no real resolution for it, which is why even if I felt like I could write CM fic, I wouldn't write this one. But I'd love to read it!
Current WIP List
Oct. 30th, 2010 12:48 pmHere is my current WIP list:
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xover_exchange fic. (And once it's done, I'll probably have Yuletide to start.)
Desert Between sequel, set several years later focusing on Spock's Vulcan wife. And what she thinks of the whole situation. (I'm still not sure this is what would happen, if this is the choice Uhura would make; but![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
laurajv wanted to know what would happen if it did, and upon reflection I realized so did I.)
DS9 original character fic that's been on the backburner for some time but is slowly moving up my priority list. It began out of my fascination with Vulcans, and my love of Bajor and DS9, and my realization that it was highly unrealistic that the only non-Vulcans we see marry Vulcans are Humans, and there's a whole Federation out there. So I set out to write a Vulcan/Bajoran love story. Which then got bogged down. I have since realized that it is not, in fact, a love story. It is a gen friendship story, about growing and learning and respecting culture despite differences, and about being in transition. It's one of those where I'm not sure it will ever be finished, but I like it and so keep going back and fiddling with it.
Batman Beyond--Terry and guns. A short meditation on guns and the way people react to them thathradzka rightly pointed out needed an actual, you know, plot to go with the philosophy. I will get back to it some day.
Superman Movieverse/DC fic to the same plot bunny that spurred![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ljs_lj to write Biopsychology (and are you ever going to get around to writing that new sequel to it?) My version is quite different, as the plot would focus on/be triggered by Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) arriving on Earth. It's mostly about her and her issues and what she thinks of Earth and her cousin (and, eventually, his screwed-up love life, which is where the plot bunny comes in). Since I finished my Richard-focused post-Superman Returns fic "A Family Story," I've had very little motivation to get back to this one, so it's staying on the back burner for now. Maybe next year. (I do intend to eventually get back to it.)
BSG AU called Jumping Time (and this may be the only time in my life I've ever been able to come up with a title before I had to post the fic). Of all my WIPs, the least likely to get finished because while I have quite a number of scenes for it running around my head, I have no plot to tie them together with. Basically, at the end of the series when Kara jumps the Galactica, instead of finding a new Earth they find themselves back in time about 6 months before the Cylon attack, and decide that the best way to save the Colonies is for the Rebel Cylons and the Final Five to infiltrate the Cylons and stage a coup against the Ones
I have several other plot bunnies, but those are the ones that not only have files, they have files pinned to my start bar so I can access them easily and they will stay in my head.
xover_exchange fic. (And once it's done, I'll probably have Yuletide to start.)Desert Between sequel, set several years later focusing on Spock's Vulcan wife. And what she thinks of the whole situation. (I'm still not sure this is what would happen, if this is the choice Uhura would make; but
laurajv wanted to know what would happen if it did, and upon reflection I realized so did I.)DS9 original character fic that's been on the backburner for some time but is slowly moving up my priority list. It began out of my fascination with Vulcans, and my love of Bajor and DS9, and my realization that it was highly unrealistic that the only non-Vulcans we see marry Vulcans are Humans, and there's a whole Federation out there. So I set out to write a Vulcan/Bajoran love story. Which then got bogged down. I have since realized that it is not, in fact, a love story. It is a gen friendship story, about growing and learning and respecting culture despite differences, and about being in transition. It's one of those where I'm not sure it will ever be finished, but I like it and so keep going back and fiddling with it.
Batman Beyond--Terry and guns. A short meditation on guns and the way people react to them that
hradzka rightly pointed out needed an actual, you know, plot to go with the philosophy. I will get back to it some day.Superman Movieverse/DC fic to the same plot bunny that spurred
ljs_lj to write Biopsychology (and are you ever going to get around to writing that new sequel to it?) My version is quite different, as the plot would focus on/be triggered by Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) arriving on Earth. It's mostly about her and her issues and what she thinks of Earth and her cousin (and, eventually, his screwed-up love life, which is where the plot bunny comes in). Since I finished my Richard-focused post-Superman Returns fic "A Family Story," I've had very little motivation to get back to this one, so it's staying on the back burner for now. Maybe next year. (I do intend to eventually get back to it.)BSG AU called Jumping Time (and this may be the only time in my life I've ever been able to come up with a title before I had to post the fic). Of all my WIPs, the least likely to get finished because while I have quite a number of scenes for it running around my head, I have no plot to tie them together with. Basically, at the end of the series when Kara jumps the Galactica, instead of finding a new Earth they find themselves back in time about 6 months before the Cylon attack, and decide that the best way to save the Colonies is for the Rebel Cylons and the Final Five to infiltrate the Cylons and stage a coup against the Ones
I have several other plot bunnies, but those are the ones that not only have files, they have files pinned to my start bar so I can access them easily and they will stay in my head.
Plot bunny for a wanky wormhole
Oct. 25th, 2010 04:55 pmOkay, I've had a few people ask if Wanky Wormhole Remix will get a sequel, and I couldn't see anything more to do with it.
But. I was just re-reading it, and it hit me.
What if I do an "excerpt" from a sociology study of the SGC published after declassification? A sociologist would probably find the SGC's e-mail archives fascinating, and the implications of the busman's holiday nature of being obsessed with WX, and the intense clannishness of gate teams, and how it all mixed together.
It's something I'd love to read, but I'm not sure if I could write it. (Would anyone else care to?)
Maybe it just needs some time to percolate.
But. I was just re-reading it, and it hit me.
What if I do an "excerpt" from a sociology study of the SGC published after declassification? A sociologist would probably find the SGC's e-mail archives fascinating, and the implications of the busman's holiday nature of being obsessed with WX, and the intense clannishness of gate teams, and how it all mixed together.
It's something I'd love to read, but I'm not sure if I could write it. (Would anyone else care to?)
Maybe it just needs some time to percolate.
So, I read irnan's post about Padme, and trying to figure her character out, and in the process of rambling on in giving my two cents worth gave myself a plot bunny.
It's an AU. Anakin kills Palpatine instead of Mace, and they read Palpatine's last transmissions and find out where the Separatist leadership is, and Anakin leads the team to go capture them, and when he gets back instead of going to the Temple he goes to Padme's apartment (because, you know, he's upset about Palpatine, and also that the Jedi didn't trust him until he turned Palpatine in, and he's just ready to say "screw it"). And Obi-Wan comes to drag him back to the Temple, and realizes Padme's pregnant and Anakin is the father, and the Jedi don't throw Anakin out, but a compromise is reached where he's "on leave" for a while. So Anakin and Padme go to Naboo, and her family's overpoweringly thrilled about the baby and upset they didn't tell them and neither Anakin nor Padme can really take it, so they go someplace else. A quiet planet, not directly involved in the war but still marked and shaped by the underlying issues that caused it. And in this backwater, Anakin and Padme have nothing to distract themselves and things start to fall apart as they realize that they really don't know each other and don't know how to talk to each other and both are more in love with the idea of the other they've built up in their head than they are with the other person and both have serious issues to work through. (Anakin's issues are that he's a whiny emo brat; Padme's are that she's a privileged twit who doesn't have the first clue what privilege means and she's spent so much of her life playing the roles of princess-queen-senator that she has no idea who she is without those roles.) And it's hard and complicated and takes time and they both have to grow and they have therapy both as a couple and as individuals and they have to learn how to be parents. I don't know if they stay there or go back in the end. I may or may not write it someday.
Also, I now have a LibraryThing widget on my dreamwidth journal, courtesy ofsuncat in ![[site community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_nifty.
irnan's post about Padme, and trying to figure her character out, and in the process of rambling on in giving my two cents worth gave myself a plot bunny.It's an AU. Anakin kills Palpatine instead of Mace, and they read Palpatine's last transmissions and find out where the Separatist leadership is, and Anakin leads the team to go capture them, and when he gets back instead of going to the Temple he goes to Padme's apartment (because, you know, he's upset about Palpatine, and also that the Jedi didn't trust him until he turned Palpatine in, and he's just ready to say "screw it"). And Obi-Wan comes to drag him back to the Temple, and realizes Padme's pregnant and Anakin is the father, and the Jedi don't throw Anakin out, but a compromise is reached where he's "on leave" for a while. So Anakin and Padme go to Naboo, and her family's overpoweringly thrilled about the baby and upset they didn't tell them and neither Anakin nor Padme can really take it, so they go someplace else. A quiet planet, not directly involved in the war but still marked and shaped by the underlying issues that caused it. And in this backwater, Anakin and Padme have nothing to distract themselves and things start to fall apart as they realize that they really don't know each other and don't know how to talk to each other and both are more in love with the idea of the other they've built up in their head than they are with the other person and both have serious issues to work through. (Anakin's issues are that he's a whiny emo brat; Padme's are that she's a privileged twit who doesn't have the first clue what privilege means and she's spent so much of her life playing the roles of princess-queen-senator that she has no idea who she is without those roles.) And it's hard and complicated and takes time and they both have to grow and they have therapy both as a couple and as individuals and they have to learn how to be parents. I don't know if they stay there or go back in the end. I may or may not write it someday.
Also, I now have a LibraryThing widget on my dreamwidth journal, courtesy of
suncat in dw_nifty.This bunny is kind of vague, but it intrigues me:
The ghost of Hamlet's father is some kind of non-corporeal alien that feeds off of negative emotions, trying to manipulate events in Denmark to make itself a banquet. The Doctor is there to investigate, and in the process of saving the day manages to both save Ophelia from going crazy due to the alien's influences, and cut through Hamlet's grief-and-rage-fuelled egotistical funk. The Doctor and Horatio get along quite well, saving the day together while Hamlet's off soliloquizing.
(xposted to![[community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
prospectus, the plot bunny adoption community.)
The ghost of Hamlet's father is some kind of non-corporeal alien that feeds off of negative emotions, trying to manipulate events in Denmark to make itself a banquet. The Doctor is there to investigate, and in the process of saving the day manages to both save Ophelia from going crazy due to the alien's influences, and cut through Hamlet's grief-and-rage-fuelled egotistical funk. The Doctor and Horatio get along quite well, saving the day together while Hamlet's off soliloquizing.
(xposted to
prospectus, the plot bunny adoption community.)Meme stolen from ljc :
ljc : - The Watchmen/BSG crossover about Doctor Manhattan, going off to explore the universe and create life. All this has happened before, all this will happen again. He doesn't like being called God.
- The BSG AU where, when Kara jumps them using the coordinates from that song at the end of the last episode, they wind up back in time in the colonies just before the Cylon attack.
- The Criminal Minds/SG-1 crossover where the SGC is negotiating with a planet that doesn't really want any of the standard trade goods, but they've got a high-profile serial killer but no law enforcement types with the psychological training to catch him/her. So someone suggests that hey, maybe we should lend them a BAU team for a few weeks, catch the serial killer, and give them a start on developing their own profilers.
- The Stargate Goes Public story that focuses on the reactions of the US military peeps who weren't in on the program. Navy guys complaining about the Air Force having starships. Special forces guys pointing out that having four-person teams is really stupid; six is a much more tactically flexible number, and if they hadn't given the Stargate to the Chair Force maybe they'd have had fewer screwups like that. JAG lawyers trying to figure out how to fit the de facto decisions made by the SGC over the years because they face situations nobody's ever thought of before into the UCMJ. Marines being ooo-rah. Etc.
- The Stargate story that focuses on the diplomatic teams: how they figure out what to trade with each world, and the person who noticed that most worlds are resource-rich and manpower-poor, and that the thing most useful to most worlds is technology just a leetle more advanced than whatever they've got--still within their manufacturing capabilities, but just a little more energy efficient. Cotton gins. Spinning jennies. Better plows. Better mettalurgy. Etc. Or some worlds want sheep with better wool, or larger horses, or other agricultural things. And then having to figure out how to convince General Hammond that what they really need is for the engineers (who want to be studying Ancient or Goa'uld or Asgard technology) to figure out how to build these things and teach the locals how to make and use them. Or convince General Hammond that the SGC needs to buy Merino sheep or what have you. And then figure out how to get them through the Stargate.
- Babylon 5. The one about the Centauri princeling in The Lost Tales that Sheridan takes home to Minbar to keep him from turning into the monster Galen says he will.
- Doctor Who/Atlantis. The sequel to Survivors.
- BSG AU. The stories hinted at in Five AUs I Will Never Write.
- Batman Beyond. The one where Terry's in college, still Batman, but moonlighting with the Justice League when they really need him. And they've got a list, really heavily encrypted somewhere, of family members of JL heroes, so that they can whisk them away to a secure location if necessary, and of course Terry's mom and brother are on that list but they still don't know he's Batman, and consequently are sure someone's made a mistake when they get kidnapped to a safehouse with superhero families. The security people guarding them are all, no, you're on the list, Mrs. McGinnis.
- Star Trek Reboot. Away team beams down, locals don't like Spock because of his brother, and Spock's all, I don't have a brother, but what's Sybok done? And it turns out that he had forced a telepathic marriage bond on one of the women in town and raped her during his Pon Farr, and now she's pregnant, and Spock has to deal with figuring out how to help her and track down his brother to bring him to justice (which traditionally would be putting him to death, but so many Vulcans have died already, but on the other hand Vulcan doesn't have the resources to deal with a prisoner and most other Federation worlds don't have prisons designed to hold such powerful telepaths as Sybok). Also, Spock has to deal with his friends and crewmates now that part of the story about Pon Farr has come out in the worst possible way.
I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PLOT BUNNY!
Apr. 19th, 2010 11:38 amI'm a student, right? With a month till the end of the school year. In that month, besides all the homework and final projects, I have four fics I am currently working on:
A post-Paladin of Souls Iselle and Ista fic for![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
femgenficathon
A Sarek/Amanda fic fortrekreversebang
A Spock/Uhura reboot post-movie fic currently being betaed by the lovelylaurajv.
A Remix fic (for which I have yet to select a story).
That's a good number. Enough that I'm regularly working on something, not so much I can't keep track or get the ones with deadlines done before the deadlines.
Anyway, the S/U fic is all about them discussing "where we go from here" now that Vulcan is gone and T'Pring is dead and Spock explaining all about Vulcan culture and the possibilities for their relationship within Vulcan culture and Uhura Not Happy about all the stuff he's springing on her and his lack of flexibility on what it would mean for her and possible ways of blending their two cultures rather than her just going native like his mother did. Basically, it's my excuse to explore Vulcan culture and gender roles in fic, the fic which grew out of my meta on Vulcan culture and how it affects Worldbuilding in the New Reality. And one of the options Spock mentions is him marrying a nice Vulcan girl who stays home and takes care of the children (hers and Nyota's) and the home, while he and Uhura stay in Starfleet and have adventures together, and come home to visit on leave. Andlaurajv mentioned that now she really wants to read a fic about the nice Vulcan girl who's staying on the new Vulcan homeworld raising the kids, including some who are only 1/4 Vulcan. I was like, "dude, whatever, I ain't got time to write it and the reason for stopping the fic where I do is that I genuinely have no clue what Uhura's going to decide, or if she'll figure out some kind of workable compromise." And now, while I still don't know what the hypothetical wife's name would be, I know her backstory and who her best friend is and ... and I don't need another fic right now! I don't have time for it! And this is not something I could hand over to bunny_support or prospectus because it's so tied up in my views on Vulcan culture and the backstory that has created itself and (unlike most plot bunnies I have) it would give me hives to try and read someone else's take on it.
A post-Paladin of Souls Iselle and Ista fic for
femgenficathon A Sarek/Amanda fic for
trekreversebang A Spock/Uhura reboot post-movie fic currently being betaed by the lovely
laurajv.A Remix fic (for which I have yet to select a story).
That's a good number. Enough that I'm regularly working on something, not so much I can't keep track or get the ones with deadlines done before the deadlines.
Anyway, the S/U fic is all about them discussing "where we go from here" now that Vulcan is gone and T'Pring is dead and Spock explaining all about Vulcan culture and the possibilities for their relationship within Vulcan culture and Uhura Not Happy about all the stuff he's springing on her and his lack of flexibility on what it would mean for her and possible ways of blending their two cultures rather than her just going native like his mother did. Basically, it's my excuse to explore Vulcan culture and gender roles in fic, the fic which grew out of my meta on Vulcan culture and how it affects Worldbuilding in the New Reality. And one of the options Spock mentions is him marrying a nice Vulcan girl who stays home and takes care of the children (hers and Nyota's) and the home, while he and Uhura stay in Starfleet and have adventures together, and come home to visit on leave. And
laurajv mentioned that now she really wants to read a fic about the nice Vulcan girl who's staying on the new Vulcan homeworld raising the kids, including some who are only 1/4 Vulcan. I was like, "dude, whatever, I ain't got time to write it and the reason for stopping the fic where I do is that I genuinely have no clue what Uhura's going to decide, or if she'll figure out some kind of workable compromise." And now, while I still don't know what the hypothetical wife's name would be, I know her backstory and who her best friend is and ... and I don't need another fic right now! I don't have time for it! And this is not something I could hand over to bunny_support or prospectus because it's so tied up in my views on Vulcan culture and the backstory that has created itself and (unlike most plot bunnies I have) it would give me hives to try and read someone else's take on it. ... and with the theology of "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash. But if I knew how to make a vid, and I were going to make a BSG vid, I think that's the song I would pick.
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!"
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!"
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light
You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
On Stargate and Fail, and a plot bunny.
Aug. 19th, 2009 01:54 amSo, 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. ![[livejournal.comt profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_other.png)
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.
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.
Attack of the Plot Bunnies
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:19 pmI have two ficathon stories that are due the end of the month, neither one of which am I anywhere close to finishing. tealc_ficathon is barely started, and my multific fic is, well, I should have just committed to the 7-10k new words rather than actually finishing it.
Am I writing either of those? No. I'm writing a BSG fic about Kara Thrace's dad.
tealc_ficathon is barely started, and my multific fic is, well, I should have just committed to the 7-10k new words rather than actually finishing it.Am I writing either of those? No. I'm writing a BSG fic about Kara Thrace's dad.
So my kid brother watches a lot of Pokemon DVDs. I now know I've spent too much time in the same room with him while he does it: I got a Pokemon plot bunny. (The main character's other Pokemon being jealous of Pikachu, if you're really curious.)
It was annoying ten years ago when my other brother was a fan of the show. It's still annoying. I thought it would have disappeared by now ...
It was annoying ten years ago when my other brother was a fan of the show. It's still annoying. I thought it would have disappeared by now ...
I just watched the BSG finale with Mom. Last few minutes, with Head!Six and Head!Baltar, in present-day Earth, talking about how all this has happened before and all this will happen again and complex systems and different results and God not liking to be called God.
And had a plot bunny (which I WILL NEVER WRITE, and am therefore donating free to a good home):
End of Watchmen, the apocalypse has been (we hope) averted by staging a mini-apocolypse. Dr. Manhattan decides to leave the planet and go off by himself to explore the universe, thinking maybe he'll create life somewhere along the way. What if he's the divine force/whatever you want to call it working in the BSG universe? Creation of life, watching everything fall to pieces, trying to help them grow beyond that so that maybe this time there won't be an apocalypse.
It works. But I am not writing it. Watchmen breaks my brain, and I'm not too fond of the way BSG ended. No matter how well it fits together, I'm not writing it.
And had a plot bunny (which I WILL NEVER WRITE, and am therefore donating free to a good home):
End of Watchmen, the apocalypse has been (we hope) averted by staging a mini-apocolypse. Dr. Manhattan decides to leave the planet and go off by himself to explore the universe, thinking maybe he'll create life somewhere along the way. What if he's the divine force/whatever you want to call it working in the BSG universe? Creation of life, watching everything fall to pieces, trying to help them grow beyond that so that maybe this time there won't be an apocalypse.
It works. But I am not writing it. Watchmen breaks my brain, and I'm not too fond of the way BSG ended. No matter how well it fits together, I'm not writing it.
