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I feel like I should say something fannish, once in a while, since most of you are probably here for fannish things. Only, none of my shows aired last week (apart from Men in Trees and CSI, which I don't talk about, and BSG, which I don't talk about anymore.) So, uhm, fannishness. What can I say?

Spent yesterday reading about pretty boys having sex, often while drunk and coming from a bar. Have developed unexpected taste for blowjobs given while kneeling on said bar's bathroom floor. Not me personally, I just like it when Jensen is the one on the floor. You all know how much I love Jack and Daniel, or Duncan and Methos or many others, but you have to admit that neither of them lend themselves to bar-bathroom-blowjob-fics. Well, maybe Daniel, but he doesn't really spent much time in bars and if he does, these days he's more likely to be there with Cameron than with Jack. Not that Daniel/Cameron wouldn't be nice, too. And Cameron, he might just be crazy enough to go for it.
*mind wanders off*

Anyway, there wasn't much fannishness this week, but today there will be new NCIS and new The UNIT! Bob! To pass the time until then, I watched "For Love of the Game", one of my favourite baseball/wanna marry a superstar/tragic love movies ever. See how I'm almost not ashamed that I'm a Kevin Costner fan? Come on, who else could have played that role? Hmm?
No one, that's right. The world needs a Kevin Costner for movies like "For Love of the Game" or "Bodyguard" (*happy sigh*), or "Tin Cup", oh "Tin Cup"! Don Johnson and Kevin Costner in the same movie! How my fannish little heart leaps at the memory.

There, that was your fannish content for today. It's what happens when my shows aren't airing. But for the future, I promise not to talk about KC anymore, I can tell I'm alone in my fannishness.The guy doesn't even have a livejournal community dedicated to him. Other thandie_costner_die, I mean. It's sad.
*goes off to watch Tin Cup. Or maybe Open Range. Or Bodyguard, one can always watch Bodyguard*

I haven't watched much Atlantis lately, and I haven't talked about it all. Why, I asked myself?
I like the show, I like the characters, I even stopped calling Rainbow Rainbow, well, most of the time anyway. Many wonderful writers write Atlantis slash. Most of them are on my friends list, so it's not as if I didn't know where to look for the fic.
I just haven't felt like reading it.
The problem is that I don't understand the characters.
John and Rodney have sex. Lots of it. That much is sure. But why?

When I watch Stargate, I see Jack and I know that he loves Daniel.

I see Daniel, and I know that he thinks that Jack is a pain in the ass whose idea of retiring and settling down with Daniel, complete with christmas tree and family dinners, is way too much commitment for Daniel. And that Daniel will keep coming back to Jack, no matter what, because the alternative is unthinkable, because it's always been about Jack, even when it wasn't.

I see Teal'c and I know that he thinks they are all terribly cute when they are young, and btw, did I mention he is having a midlife crisis where he wants to be the big Jaffa hero who has a groupie girl on every planet, because his wife's dead and his son's a grown-up, and his God has a snake in his head, so could he please have a life now, preferably one that involves group sex with the rest of his team on the weekends?

I see Sam and know that she should get over the whole girly marriage-children-cookie-baking thing and just accept that she is meant to have kinky leather sex in biker bars for the rest of her life, so that she can sit in the briefing room on Mondays, look at Jack and think: "I got laid, did you?", because it will sure make her happier than anything she does at the moment.

See, Stargate, no problem. I know the characters, and I love them.
(though I am aware that my version of the characters may be a bit different from yours.)

( Atlantis is a lot more difficult. )

See what I mean? There is no love. The one certainty in (Stargate) life is that Jack loves Daniel. I haven't found the Atlantis equivalent of that love yet. And it's driving me crazy, cause here they are, having more sex than you can shake a stick at, and I just can't figure it out. What if tomorrow Ford falls in love with Rodney? Or Weir starts an affair with Beckett? It could happen. There is no rule that says "Jack shall love Daniel and no one else, for the rest of his life, even when he is making out with Jonas in the Pel'tac."

I think I need to watch more Atlantis, maybe i'll figure it out then.

Meanwhile: who wrote that Atlantis fic from Rodney's POV, where he thinks of John as a sex god? I'd like to read it again, see if it clears thing up a little bit.

It just occured to me that I never read a slash story where one of the characters doesn't like the taste of semen.

A year ago, on February 6th 2003, I read my first Stargate SG-1 slash story.

I started reading Stargate because I had noticed Stargate recs on some of my favourite recs sites, and Stargate stories by some of my favourite authors, so I decided to give it a try, even though I have never been a scifi fan. I read the first stories when I hadn't even seen the show, and I had to look at pictures to even imagine the characters. Fortunately, Stargate was being shown in German TV at the time, and so I started watching. The first episode I saw was "Foothold", and it was a little confusing with everyone looking like everyone else, but Daniel and Jack were pretty together in the sun.
Next step was ebay, where I bought videos, and that was it: instant addiction. It got worse when I got my LJ, and met all these other wonderful Stargate addicts (yes, I'm looking at you).
And after a year, the love is still going strong. Sometimes I spend a day without anything Stargate related, but it doesn't happen often. I moved on from the first months, where it was all Stargate and nothing else, and went back to some of my "older" fandoms, and I also managed to get some new ones (as if I need more), but I can't seem to get enough of Jack, Daniel, Sam and Teal'C, so I always come back to them.

That first Stargate story I read a year ago was "Meetings" by eliade.
And to celebrate this event, I decided to list some of my favourite Stargate stories.
This list isn' a list of recs, and it is far from being exclusive or complete. Lots of wonderful stories won't be mentioned. To give you an impression of the amount of Stargate fic I read during the last year, let me tell you that I save every "good" story that I read, not just the excellent ones, but also the ones that were "alright", just solid fiction. I even save stories that I don't agree with, because sometimes there is a moment that won't leave me alone, or a scene that I liked and that I might want to read again. Today, I have 439 stories saved on my computer. Considering that I also watched every single Stargate episode and most of them twice in the last year, I wonder how I even managed to graduate from University, let alone get the good grade I got. Hm.
Anyway, the stories I will list aren't meant to be the "best" though most of them belong in that category.
They are a list of stories that left an impression on me, be it because of their setting, or because of a certain moment. Things I think about when I think about Jack and Daniel. Moments that haunt me (in a good way).
I will tell you why those stories left an impression, or which scene is one that I can't stop thinking about. And because this will inevitably involve spoilers, I'll give you a list of links first, and then the explanation.
So I suggest that you read the stories first (in case you don't know them already), unless you want to get spoiled. And that could also include spoilers for the end. Consider yourselves warned.

( Here's the list: )

And here are the attempts to explain why these stories left such an impression on me. If I need to warn you about the NC-17 content of these, then what are you doing here?

( Explanations )

So, this is it.
My journey in the world of Stargate slash. And apparently het, however that happened. I have read many more wonderful stories this year (remember, 439!), but these are the ones that I'll celebrate my
first year anniversary of reading Stargate slash with. And I thought I'd share my joy with you!
I hope you enjoyed this little experiment.

slippery_fish linked to this site, and I decided to give you all a good laugh and quote some of it here:

Slash - Another big offender. Slash fiction written about characters who are in their original creation heterosexual, no matter how prosaic it is or how good the actual mechanics of the story are, can never be good writing in terms of fan fiction. It simply doesn't work, because it violates the fundamental tenets of the character so completely. It's a hallmark of bad writing. The same applies for homosexual characters being depicted as heterosexual. It's simply a fact that sexual orientation is one of the most important and defining aspects of anyone's personality, and changing it for a story indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the character in question and thus a marked inability to adequately portray said character. In other words, it automatically makes you a bad writer.

Thank you for these wise words.
The girls has made it her "holy, heaven-ordained quest " to write reviews of badfiction, because "it was fun to see teenage girls freak out about someone telling them for the first time that they weren't special." and "to educate the stupid, the overweening, and the hopelessly terrible to the realities of their writing."

It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. In other words: get a life!

But there is more! She has obviously thought this through!
Although I don't particularly enjoy reading about graphic homosexual love scenes, I don't have a problem with stories written about romances between characters who happen to be gay. I don't want to read them, but I don't have a problem with them existing. It's when known heterosexuals are paired up in gay relationships of any sort that I have an objection. I am not against gay people. I'm against idiots trying to portray characters as their sexual inverses. I feel the same way when gay characters are made heterosexual.

Thank god that Jack O'Neill is not only a slut, but also a slut who doesn't make differences between genders. And Jim and Blair are so very gay. And you can't tell me that those weird wand-swinging people in robes aren't gay. Only the other kind of slash, the one that uses heterosexuals is wrong. *g*

Now, if someone could please make me a "Birthright icon with "Some people are afraid of slash." - "Why, because we have penises?". That would make me very happy. And I seem to need one a lot these days.
*shakes head at other people's stupidity*
*stops head shaking because it makes her dizzy*

I'm going back to bed.

I am terribly terribly bored. Browsed through friends page and found that _bettina_ did something I had planned to do for a while (but I always forgot do to it, since I forget my own head if nobody reminds me).

Here is ( the (not so short) history of me and my fandoms )