“Enjoy, oui?” Moustache says; he seems to find it even funnier when Rodney begins shouting at them once more, asking them what the hell is there to enjoy about being manhandled into a cold, damp, empty cell in the middle of the night on charges that are

The thing is, I think they LIKE him. He’s just crazy. and he might yell at you.

My personal definition of “theme”, and it kind of meshes with the classical definition and kind of doesn’t, is “the universal message, statement, subject, or lesson you’re conveying with your work”. I generalize it as saying that, when describing a stor

So, let’s start with the different definitions of “beta”.

“Hey, Rodney,” John says. “Remember that wager with SG-1? Do you think we just lost?”

What does it take to get Sheppard to pose for pictures in the buff? A great story, satisfying and surprising and subtle.

Above all, worldbuilding is not technically neccessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn’t there.

The present king of France is subtle and insiduous, and he creeps into your writing without you even noticing sometimes. Tracking him down and kicking him out of your fic is one of the most critical things you can possibly do.

Oh, Fandom had walked on the wild side before. It had dabbled in AUs, done the circle jerk thing. Gotten high on reviews, and wanked with the best in BNFs. But Meta. Meta knew Fandom, knew what it needed even if sometimes it seemed that Meta despis

Then he heard someone saying, “Hey, hey, hey!” in a moderately loud yet somewhat breathless voice, and suddenly Rodney was having a flashback to three nights earlier, being on his knees in the Major’s room, about ninety seconds away from having the culi

In the last few months, however, there’s been a trend in “genderfuck” (people changing gender) stories in Stargate: Atlantis fandom, as well as a concentrated analysis of the politics of genderfuck. These stories and essays interrogate what it is to be

Spawned in equal turns by an essay I’m tentatively co-writing on genderswap and discussions withfairestcatandcarolyn_claire, I decided to put my various responses and thoughts (mostly eith and againstheyiyaandthingswithwings) into coherent prose and wro

Mckay’s bound to fix some offworld device in exchange for a ZPM.. But the local political situation is complex, and the device has a central place in it…

“You will have great renown among us,” the king said. “Your name will be written with those

John moved from dreams to partial awareness when the bed dipped under a second body, and he uncurled himself sleepily into a gentler curve so Rodney could settle behind him, front to back, and wrap an arm around him and go to sleep.

John is dead; Teyla leaves Atlantis to deal with her guilt.

“It wasn’t your fault,” Rodney told her, but he helped her fold her largestblanket, the purple Actassi velvet. When he didn’t have anything left to do withhis hands, he stood helplessl

z_rayne: The Limitations of Force

“This place is really weird,” John said. “Can I go home now?” Not that he had any idea where home was for him.