X Never Marks the Spot

The sga_genficathon author reveals have been posted! Lots of great stories, and the bonus round is now open for more - go check it out!

My story was (as pretty much everyone guessed, gee I wonder why... ;):

SGA: The ATA Affair (or read it on AOOO) {~26,000 words}
PG-13; gen, Team; AU
Two of the S.G.C.'s top secret agents, Teyla Emmagan and Rodney McKay, are sent to the Casino Atlantis to investigate the suspicious business dealings of one John Sheppard...

It was written for the AU genre, and as you might be able to surmise from the title and summary, it was a wee bit influenced by my shiny new Man from UNCLE infatuation. It's also my longest completed SGA story, and rather indulges in my Rodney & Teyla friendship kink. What can I say; they make awesome partners. Teyla's level-headed patience and stone-cold coolness play off Rodney's brilliance and panic attacks perfectly.

In addition to MUNCLE, there's a few other crossover nods in the story, solely because I'm easily amused. Knowledge of any of the other series is unimportant to the actual plot, but since folks were asking, here's the complete list of crossovers, not counting SGA and SG-1:

( crossover references )

January is almost up. Ever had that feeling that time itself is whizzing by you like the steepest street of San Francisco after your trolley car's brakes were cut? Yeah, it's been like that. It's not even that I've been busy, particularly, it's just that I constantly am feeling like I have no time for anything, that I'm losing hours no matter how tightly I try to hold onto them.

This hasn't stopped my TV watching, however. Random thoughts in no order (mostly spoiler-free, cut when not)

Burn Notice: The only reason I can't slash Michael/Sam is that Michael is so Fiona-sexual that it hurts. So, obviously - threesome! (maybe the two of them together can make Fi eat something. I love her but her shoulder blades freak me out.)

Starsky & Hutch: I've had most of it on DVD for a while but gnine hasn't seen a lot of it, so we're sampling. It's easy to forget just how smarm-y this show is, in the best of ways. I mean, yes, slashy obviously, but it's so, hmm, innocent about it, that it's really more smarm, the ideal fraternal love. Oh, the touching! So much touching of faces and gripping shoulders and hugging and stuff. (That being said, really, yes, SLASHY with a capital OMG-SO-DOING-IT. Also, I'm not usually into order, I don't tend to care or spend much time contemplating who's topping who, but Hutch is such a classic bitchy uke, making jealous faces in the background whenever laidback bi seme Starsky is shmoozing the ladies.)(And what was with the episode with their murdered cop friend who turned out to have been having a gay affair, and Starsky was tweaked and Hutch was very, hmm, circumspectly understanding about the whole deal...)

Soul Eater: naye is dragging me back into animanga, and I have to admit I missed it. Loving a shounen means never having to say you're sorry that your favorite character is not only named Professor Stein (first name Franken) but also has a GIANT BOLT THROUGH HIS HEAD. No, seriously, A GIANT BOLT. Oh, anime!

Scrubs: I'm enjoying the new season. ( Just a bit of spoilers, through the most recent ep )

The Sentinel: S&H made us reminisce, so we went and got a few eps to watch. SO slashy. I wasn't into slash then and I'm still amazed that I missed it (seeing as I wasn't into slash when I was in the fandom, does anyone happen to have any good Jim/Blair fic recs lying around? Preferably h/c-laden, you know me!)

SGA: My fic mojo slipped its leash and ran away. :( If you happen to see a big ol' ball of fluff with adorably geeky OTP ears and a few angst-spots, please call 555-TEAM.

I actually watched the leak of this a couple weeks ago, and haven't had a chance to rewatch it yet, but my el quicko reaction was: ( Spoilers, natch. All squee, here! )

( Concerning the divide in the SGA fandom at present - cut because I'm trying to figure out some stuff; if you're in a squeeful holiday mood right now, just ignore this! )

Now I'm going to go wake up the sis and bro in the other room, and we can open the Christmas presents we left until after we got back from Hong Kong! Yay, presents! (Also, Hong Kong is wonderfully warm this time of year, and delicious. Christmas dinner was roast goose at the best Chinese restaurant I have ever been to. Oh man. SO TASTY. But someday I have to go on an Asian eating tour with people who actually eat seafood; gnine is allergic and the bro doesn't like it, so I was left drooling over pictures of crab and shrimp and shellfish but not ordering any because I can't finish whole dishes on my own...)

Hmmm. ( spoilers - a tiny bit of squee, more puzzlement. Basically safe for Keller-fans, but McKeller fans proceed with caution. )

Yup, I've got better things I ought to be doing - but I didn't get much sleep last night, so I'm not doing them. So here, have a poll!

I'm seeing a lot of divergent opinions around about Dr. Jennifer Keller 'round SGA fandom these days, and I'm terribly curious about the stats (my apologies to everyone who's heartily sick of this.) As is apparent to anyone who reads my lj regularly, I'm not exactly unbiased about this, but I've tried to make this poll as neutral as possible; please speak up if you think it fails in that.

( The Keller poll: Keller, Keller vs Beckett, and Rodney/Keller )

*yawns, waves* I had a bad cold that put me mostly out of commission, feel like I've been living in a hole for the last week. Hi, everybody! Did you miss me?

Anyway. New SGA. ( spoilers. bitchy unsqueeful ones. sorry! )

Last fall naye mailed us DVDs of a little show you might've heard of, goes by SGA. And we all know how that turned out. Now she's subjecting us to Life (entertaining bit of cop-show surrealism) and NCIS (which is not, I was surprised to learn, a CSI variant. Am rather amused by how often the show itself sees fit to belabor that point...well, it's an easy mistake!) While I'm not likely to completely fan on it (it's not scifi, plus it has the same problem that so many shows that are not SGA suffer from, namely a crippling lack of Rodney McKay), NCIS is an entertaining popcorn show. By which I mean it's pretty much impossible to eat just one ep, not when there's another right there, sitting in the bucket and soaking up delicious faux-butter grease.

( a bit more on NCIS, as of mid-season 2 )

In other news, this still has me high. YES WE CAN!!!

(So who's writing the RPF-ish thing wherein our new President-elect's intelligence briefing includes a summary of the Stargate Program? "We spend how many billions on archaeological research in order to defend the planet from alien spaceships made from giant pyramids? And what was that about intergalactic vampires, again?")

ETA: ariadne83 informs me that Ladycat777 is writing this!

( Spoilers, mostly on the whiny side )

In other news, I've watched through ep 4 of Merlin. ( Minor spoilers for that. Also, it is totally the anti-Smallville, have you noticed? )

Watching with gnine, naye, utopiantrunks, and crashtestskater is much fun, if a bit of a tight squeeze 'round the old laptop. Fun ep, too.

( the obligatory spoilers )

Also, in the BBC department, Hustle = <333, and saw the first two eps of Merlin - cute!