This Year's Model of Humanity

So, for the last couple of weeks, it's been a right crowd over here, watching the good crack Sci-Fi Friday. And it's very squeeful, watching with other fans.

( Stargate SG-1; Season Nine; Spoilers up to Episode Three -- Origin )

Plus, SG-1 is just a lot of fun right now. I'm enjoying the ride.

For saffronhouse.

Title: Milo and Otis
Rating: PG
Summary: After Lockdown, Teal'c has his apartment warming.

Requests: Earth-based story. Nice smile from Teal'c.
Restrictions: No killing of the guys.
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God, I'm busy lately. I'm near the end of moving (I've been moving all this month and will do my final move this weekend, thank God, it'll be done with).

Anyway, I just thought I'd hang out a 'not dead' sign and let y'all now what's going on with me.

So, some thoughts I've been having recently:

I. The idea that a guy can't or shouldn't be a feminist is very disturbing to me -- in a perfect world, all men and women would be feminists, because the definition of a feminist is someone who believes that women deserve the same rights as men. So, I do hold the belief that Joss Whedon is a feminist, because he holds men and women to the same standards and because his female characters are as complex as his male ones. In fact, for each of his male characters, you can generally find a female equivalent, and vice versa. For every Spike you have a Faith, and for every Buffy you have a Wesley (okay, that one may only make sense in my own head, and I do plan to go into more detail on it another time).

II. Shuddering disgust at the idea of het!sex is something that confuses me. I personally know more than one person who has this reaction and it makes as much emotional sense to me as the idea that some women don't get off on boykissing. But this is because I'm very much sexually attracted to both men and women. Therefore, any kind of 'ew' reaction to attractive people getting snuggly baffles me. It's not the visual image of Jack/Sam (Stargate SG-1) that bothers me, it's the legal, emotional, and long-term ramifications. And this emotional confusion is as much an instinctive personal reaction as the disgust that triggers it. Like, I don't get people who do not love Frannie (due South). Frannie is beautiful, funny, and such a sweetheart. This is what I see when I look at her. Other people see different things -- just because I cannot understand what they see doesn't mean that what they see is invalid. I just don't get it. And that's okay, as long as people don't try to tell me that I'm wrong for seeing what I see.

III. I like season six of BtVS. I like season seven of BtVS. I liked them when they were airing. This does not mean that I am a) a moron, b) easily satisfied, or c) someone incapable of seeing the big picture. It just means that I got what I needed out of the show. Every person watching the show is watching for different reasons. Just because my reasons aren't the same as someone else's doesn't make them wrong, it makes them different.

Also, I'm trying out Adobe Premiere Pro for my Wes vid and trying to figure out if I want to invest in getting the program. Any suggestions from vidders in the audience?

In two of the shows that I actually bother to watch regularly these days, the female characters are not well-written (and while this bugs the hell out of me, the guys are written interestingly enough that I don't want to give up on the shows in question). And I think that a lot of the bad female writing comes not from having male writers, per se, but from having male writers who love their female characters too shallowly.
( vague spoilers for BtVS, House, Stargate SG-1, and Smallville )

And this is the last one of this set (though not chronologically the last one) that I'm writing.

Title: Singing Down the Moon
Summary: They both knew that this day would come.
Timeline: Set during my Moebius (part 2) set of stories, between Not Another Jaffa Joke and Bloody Hands.
Warnings: Angsty.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 belongs to (take a deep breath) MGM-UA, Worldwide Television, Showtime, Gekko Film Corp, Glassner/Wright Double Secret Productions, the Sci-Fi Channel and Stargate SG1 Prod. Ltd. Partnership.
( Very spoilery for Stargate SG-1 8x20 -- Moebius part 2 )

Originally, I wrote this story from the other point of view. Then, it was lost, and I just couldn't rewrite it. But I could write the other side.

Title: Beyond Good and Evil
Summary: Daniel watches a sunset. Jack interrupts.
Timeline: Set during Moebius (part 2). Well, it's pretty much speculative at this point. Part of the set that I have going on.
Warnings: Angsty. S/J implied.
Author's Note: The title comes from a Nietzsche quote -- "What is done for love takes place beyond good and evil."
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 belongs to (take a deep breath) MGM-UA, Worldwide Television, Showtime, Gekko Film Corp, Glassner/Wright Double Secret Productions, the Sci-Fi Channel and Stargate SG1 Prod. Ltd. Partnership.
( Very spoilery for Stargate SG-1 8x20 -- Moebius part 2 )

Title: Late
Summary: Samantha wants help. Daniel already gave it to her.
Timeline: Set during Moebius (part 2). Well, it's pretty much speculative at this point. Part of the set that I have going on.
Warnings: Angsty. Some S/J. A touchy subject.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 belongs to (take a deep breath) MGM-UA, Worldwide Television, Showtime, Gekko Film Corp, Glassner/Wright Double Secret Productions, the Sci-Fi Channel and Stargate SG1 Prod. Ltd. Partnership.
( Very spoilery for Stargate SG-1 8x20 -- Moebius part 2 )

The whole thing of sorta writing S/J (even if only implied and on the sidelines) is very odd to me. And yet, it definitely fits with the general theme of the ficlets, which all do fit into the same... timeline. I consider them a set, at any rate.

Title: Bloody Hands
Summary: Daniel tends to go his own way. Jack finds that out the hard way.
Timeline: Set during Moebius (part 2)
Warnings: Very angsty. Some implied ship.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 belongs to (take a deep breath) MGM-UA, Worldwide Television, Showtime, Gekko Film Corp, Glassner/Wright Double Secret Productions, the Sci-Fi Channel and Stargate SG1 Prod. Ltd. Partnership.
( Very spoilery for Stargate SG-1 8x20 -- Moebius part 2 )