Military brat

Title: Mysteries and politics
Rating: PG-13 for mentions of sex
Fandom: BSG/SGA crossover (only BSG characters are present, but there are multiple references to the Stargate universe)
Pairing: established Roslin/Adama
Timeline: BSG: season 4.5 / SGA: no specific references, but in my mind this occurs after The Real World.
Summary: Just an A/R vignette set on Atlantis after the Galactica ends up on Lantea in our future.
A/N: This little piece follows “It was a dark and stormy night”, which I wrote, I kid you not, over 5 years ago. This is probably the first time I've actually written Adama/Roslin, despite their being one of my main OTPs.

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Title: Air and Water
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Liz UST.
Rating: PG
Summary: Unable to go to sleep, Colonel John Sheppard heads down to the pool for a late night swim.
A/N: For vickysg1, who gave me the prompt insomnia months ago

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Title: War diary
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: SGA and its characters are not mine.
Summary: A bit of late night reading.
A/N: real life got in the way of me writing something more serious so here's some shameless fluff. It *is* Sparktober, after all.
Written for Sparktober 2014.

( The battle was short... )

I could not NOT claim Vala for this, as strange as it may sound. Vala and I are probably very close to being polar opposites, name similarity notwithstanding. Even as I found myself grimacing at Daniel's treatment of her on screen, deep down I knew that I would have probably done the same thing in real life.

And yet, there is something oddly fascinating about what lies beyond that shallow façade of hers. I blame most of her inappropriateness and apparently reckless action on bad writing. They pushed the comedic aspect too far but they were dealing with a character that had very little comedy, or cheerfulness in her life. They turned it into a farce at every chance they got, and while I found Vala's antics entertaining, and Black's performance spot-on and thoroughly enjoyable, the character suffered in terms of consistency and depth.

There was so much more about Vala Mal Doran than the few snippets of bare humanity we saw in seasons 9-10. She was never a poster girl for honesty and ethics, but when she was first introduced, we saw a cunning con artist, smart, tech-savy, who could hack and take command of a huge ship based on unfamiliar technology. We learn that she's an ex-host, a survivor, and that she has to deal not only with the haunting memories of the atrocities that her Goa'uld committed materially through her body, but with the knowledge that she can never go back to her old life.

I will try to discuss different aspects of the character during this week, and try and bring to the fore what quite obviously simmered under the surface and yet - almost - never had the chance to emerge on screen. Tonight I'm leaving you with a song that I included in a Vala fanmix back in 2007 and that I feel strongly relates to her emotional story:

( Dido - Life for Rent )

I still had few of these lying around....



( moar )

My Muse should get into advertising. She made this snippet look all bright and shiney and enticed me into writing it, but the actual product? not so satisfying. I think I want a refund. Or a new plot bunny.

Title: Weapon of choice
Rating: PG
Fandom: Farscape/SGA
Character/Pairing: Elizabeth/Aeryn friendship (UST?)
Timeline: Season 2 of Farscape, somewhere between season 2 and 3 of SGA
Summary: Peacekeepers weren’t always like this

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Another day, another ficathon...

Title: Farewell to a kindred soul
Author: valeria_sg_1
Pairing: Daniel/Elizabeth, hint to Elizabeth/Simon
Rating: PG
Prompt: Daniel and Elizabeth have dinner after the events of New Order
Author Notes: For the sg1sga_ficathon. Written for million_moments, betaed by my wonderful venom69

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I'm not feeling so peachy at the moment, so...

The Work-in-Progress Meme! When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around.

I'm posting all of the WIPs but the two I'm currently working on. I'd like to get at least a few of them done in the future, so I'd appreciate if you'd 'voted' for one or more of those, like in that ficathon I couldn't sign up for due to lack of time. XD

SG1, Daniel/Vala. Missing scene from 'Unending'
( Unending )

SGA, Elizabeth/Ronon. This one has been sitting on my HD for a year and a half. It was a response to the cliché 'stranded on a planet' challenge.
( Left behind )

SGA, AU, Elizabeth/Carson, Elizabeth/Janeway, Janeway/Chakotay. Set in the same universe as Folding Time and Transcendence (by venom69).
( dysfunctional ship )

SGA, AU. John/Rodney/Elizabeth After the events of Trinity, Weir and Mckay are removed from the Atlantis expedition, and neither of them seem that keen to go bak to Earth. Sheppard comes up with an improbable solution...
( OT3 AU )

SGA, AU. John/Rodney/Elizabeth. In the early 80's, young Rodney McKay is looking for two other bikers to form a team and enter the Atlantis race. He'll find much more.
( Biker AU )

SGA, AU.Elizabeth Weir, newly appointed Captain of the Federation Starship Atlantis and her crew are about to embark on a mission beyond the borders of the Milky Way thanks to an experimental device designed to create artificial wormholes. My idea for last year's NaNoWriMo. I never even finished the first chapter.
( ST:Atlantis )

I've had this fanmix on my iTunes playlist for months, and I've forgotten how many times I've changed it, adding or deleting songs as S10 episodes aired and Vala's character kept unfolding and growing. It started out as a crack-mix, and I ended up with this.

Edit: Meh, I just saw there's a glitch in the back cover. I know these are more decorative than anything, and no one is going to actually print and use them. But if you are, drop me a line and I'll fix it for you.

( cover art and songs )

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