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The All Fanwork Gateverse Extravaganza
I just finished rewatching SGA with my daughter and was reminded all over again how much I love all things Gateverse. To that end, I would like to host a low-pressure fanwork fest focused on SG-1, SGA, and SGU.
How The All Fanwork Gateverse Extravaganza Works
1. All fanworks allowed! This means icons, artworks, gifsets, fic, rec sets, meta, vids and any other fannishness you want to share.
2. All ratings and genres of fanworks allowed! This means het, slash, and gen; this means Adult and rated G; this means AU and cross-over and fusion and Gateverse actor RPF; this means kinky and vanilla; this means drabbles and long fics.
3. All incarnations of the Gateverse allowed! This means SG-1, SGA, SGU, actor RPF, and movieverse.
4. Please respond to this post with fanwork prompts. In the subject line, indicate what kind of fanwork you are prompting for and for which show. (Examples: Subject line: Meta Prompt; SGA or Subject Line: Fic Prompt; SGU) Remember, prompts may differ between the LJ/DW versions of this post, so you might want to check them both.
5. You do not have to sign up for a prompt. You do not have to create a fanwork to leave a prompt. Everyone is free to leave as many prompts as desired with no obligation to fill any of them.
6. If you get inspired by a prompt, create a fanwork and post it wherever you like. Drop a link to your fanwork in this post under the prompt that inspired it just like you would on a kinkmeme or other kind of comment fest. Please indicate if your fanwork requires any warnings. At the end of May, I will make a master post linking to all the prompt fills for easy readability.
7. You can also link to any Gateverse fanwork you create during this time *not* inspired by a prompt to this post. Sometimes inspiration doesn't quite fit the dictates of a prompt, but those fanworks have a home here, too!
9. Please promote this in your personal journals and in any communities you think might be interested. I think it would be wonderful if we could get the fannish momentum rolling in the Gateverse again.
To Recap:
Sometime between now and the end of May, play in the Gateverse sandbox and then come and tell me about it, pretty please. LOL
ETA: we now have banners courtesy of the very talented![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mific!!!!! Many thanks. :)
How The All Fanwork Gateverse Extravaganza Works
1. All fanworks allowed! This means icons, artworks, gifsets, fic, rec sets, meta, vids and any other fannishness you want to share.
2. All ratings and genres of fanworks allowed! This means het, slash, and gen; this means Adult and rated G; this means AU and cross-over and fusion and Gateverse actor RPF; this means kinky and vanilla; this means drabbles and long fics.
3. All incarnations of the Gateverse allowed! This means SG-1, SGA, SGU, actor RPF, and movieverse.
4. Please respond to this post with fanwork prompts. In the subject line, indicate what kind of fanwork you are prompting for and for which show. (Examples: Subject line: Meta Prompt; SGA or Subject Line: Fic Prompt; SGU) Remember, prompts may differ between the LJ/DW versions of this post, so you might want to check them both.
5. You do not have to sign up for a prompt. You do not have to create a fanwork to leave a prompt. Everyone is free to leave as many prompts as desired with no obligation to fill any of them.
6. If you get inspired by a prompt, create a fanwork and post it wherever you like. Drop a link to your fanwork in this post under the prompt that inspired it just like you would on a kinkmeme or other kind of comment fest. Please indicate if your fanwork requires any warnings. At the end of May, I will make a master post linking to all the prompt fills for easy readability.
7. You can also link to any Gateverse fanwork you create during this time *not* inspired by a prompt to this post. Sometimes inspiration doesn't quite fit the dictates of a prompt, but those fanworks have a home here, too!
9. Please promote this in your personal journals and in any communities you think might be interested. I think it would be wonderful if we could get the fannish momentum rolling in the Gateverse again.
To Recap:
Sometime between now and the end of May, play in the Gateverse sandbox and then come and tell me about it, pretty please. LOL
ETA: we now have banners courtesy of the very talented
mific!!!!! Many thanks. :)
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
Honestly, I'm really frustrated with idea that Jennifer wants to change Rodney. I have yet to see many people float the idea that maybe she knows he's poorly socialized and arrogant, and kind of an ass, and she still loves him. Because you can love someone and have it not be in spite of their bad qualities, nor because of them, but just because you accept them as a flawed individual. Dealing with all that is part of the package that is a relationship with someone flawed.
That's why I find Jennifer/Rodney to be one of the more realistic pairings we've seen on Stargate. It's not epic, or tragic, or terrible (all of Daniel Jackson's pairings, right there, you know?), it's just two people who meet and fall in love (in fantastic surroundings) and who learn about each other and who learn to accept each other, flaws and all.
ETA: So I guess this thread is turning into a meta discussion? Which I am happy with.
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
That's really the crux of my meta piece, addressing this pervasive idea that Jennifer wants to change Rodney drastically into something he's not and that ultimately he'll chafe under as opposed to John who accepts and revels in Rodney's Rodney-ness.
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
Elizabeth and Rodney. They're pals. He wrote a 500 page biography. Of her! He could have spent his time with superpowers doing anything, and he made sure to write five hundred pages to try and make everyone see her the way he did.
Which is to say that clearly there are plenty of people on the expedition who can accept Rodney, even with his flaws, and who have from the very start. And people who call him on his mistakes! (Which is okay, and not a sign that he needs to consume an entire lemon chicken stir fry dish, a la some fics out there.) So why should it only be one person who does?
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
And John is one of those people who calls him out on his flaws while still clearly accepting him and feeling fond of him, so I find the Jennifer/John dichotomy disingenuous to say the least.
I love the Rodney & Elizabeth friendship. Super hard. Oh, the hurt little boy look on his face when Elizabeth is dying. Be still my heart.
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
It was clear that he would do anything - and I do mean anything - to save her. Because he loves Elizabeth. I'm not even talking about romantic love; I'm talking about that fierce protectiveness that you feel for your chosen family. I think Rodney knew Elizabeth would die for him (and for all of them) and thought it would never happen. So watching it happen in front of him drove him to do something he knew she wouldn't want, just to save her life.
Re: Meta Prompt: SG-1/SGA
Oh, man. Chosen family. One of my favorite things of ever, and I really, really, really like the way that plays out in the Gateverse with Sam&Jack&Daniel&Teal'c and Sam&Daniel&Vala&Mitchell (with Hammond and Landry in the mix as well) and John&Rodney&Teyla&Ford and John&Rodney&Teyla&Ronon and John&Rodney&Elizabeth and Rodney&Carson. I could satisfy myself with reading iterations of that trope and never need romance. LOL