Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

Adult Ed, by Kass [continuing education challenge]

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:51:22 GMT

Many thanks to sihayab for beta!

Adult Ed
John/Rodney
2321 words

Oh. That's right. He slept in the lab because John decided he'd rather watch porn by himself than have actual sex.

( Rodney's in a good mood... )

ADMIN: Continuing Education Challenge

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:03:49 GMT

We've opened all five gifts in the gift challenge: thank you all so much!

Now elementalv suggests a really awesome prompt: a "continuing education" challenge: "Not just Rodney forcing John at gunpoint to get a Ph.D, but maybe Radek having to learn how to negotiate or Ronon being required to learn the Pegasus version of ballroom dancing or Teyla studying to become Atlantis's sysadmin because Rodney doesn't want to deal with it anymore."

Edu-macate someone today! It's January 16th; this challenge will stay open until February 16th at midnight.

ADMIN: Gift Challenge

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:54:05 GMT

Finally closing the Aliens-Made-Them-Do-It challenge; you can read the responses here and here.

New challenge: linziday suggested that, since its the start of the holiday season, we do a gift giving challenge: "team gifts, good gifts from outsiders, bad gifts from the Ancients, gifts of life or love... so many gift possibilities!" (Not to mention The Gift!)

Today's November 26; this challenge will not close before December 15 at midnight.

Interplanetary Relations for Beginners by facetofcathy

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:13:23 GMT

1,700 words - Gen - contains some profanity and mature themes - mentions cannon pairings, and the discerning eye may notice some UST here and there.

Ronon has to participate in an Alien ritual, but he's got other things on his mind.

( right this way for the ritual... )

ADMIN: Aliens Made Them Do It (AMTDI) Challenge

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:21:00 GMT

Very very belatedly closing the In Memoriam challenge, which (wow) you might want to check out if you didn't see it, because there was some gorgeous writing on display. You can find the 12 stories here and here, using the challenge tags, or in the community memories.

And now--at kriadydragon's request--an Aliens Made Them Do It challenge. She was surprised we hadn't done one before, but it looks like we haven't! However, she suggests that we think outside the box in terms of "it": Aliens make the team dress up as clowns and scare Sheppard just for laughs (or as lemons to scare McKay). Aliens make Ronon write romantic poetry. Aliens make Rodney babysit. Aliens make Teyla babysit Rodney. The possibilities are endless :D"

Make them do it! Today is October 12; your humble mod will be busy toward the end of this month, so we'll give this one a full month. Challenge will run until Nov 12, 2009 at midnight eastern.

Remembering The 19th- by Quin Firefrorefiddle

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:46:10 GMT

Remembering The 19th
Author: Quin Firefrorefiddle
Rating:: G
Pairing: gen
Warnings: none in particular
Challenge: In Memoriam
Summary: The people of Atlantis know it is not only science that got them to the Pegasus galaxy. It is the determination of those who have gone before.

( Quite short, really )

ADMIN: In Memoriam Challenge

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:51:42 GMT

The H/C Challenge is over (you can read the 15 challenge responses here or using the h/c challenge tag).

An anonymous commenter has suggested that we follow up with an In Memoriam challenge:

"The other day I was thinking about how terribly sad it was that no one ever mentions Peter Grodin anymore. This got me thinking about Abrams and Gaul, Aiden, Kate, and Elizabeth. So, how about an In Memoriam challenge? Visiting with families, or AUs where lost characters never left, or fics where there's a little quiet remembrance of past characters?"

Feel free to interpret the challenge broadly: there's a lot of mental mileage in memory, remembering, In Memoriam ("It is better to have love and lost...") etc.

Today's September 1; the challenge will stay open until at least Sept 18, 2009.

ADMIN: The H/C Challenge

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:49:15 GMT

First of all, this is your official notification of the closing of the Inhuman Intelligence Challenge: you can find the 3 stories and 1 vid here and here.

But NOW--we've had any number of calls for an old skool, classic hurt/comfort challenge; Sholio's (aka friendshipper's) was just the latest. Break them and make them better, people.

It's August 6th; stories will be due no earlier than August 20th, 2009.

"Barlyk River" by kass [inhuman intelligence challenge]

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:02:21 GMT

Yay! I get to sneak this one in under the wire! Many many thanks to bironic and renenet for beta & encouragement.

Title: Barlyk River
Music by Huun Huur Tu

Learning to communicate.

download: 26.6mb divx (please right-click & save)
or stream: at BAM or at blip.tv

ADMIN: The Inhuman Intelligence Challenge

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:21:45 GMT

Turns out a picture was worth just about a thousand words: you can read the 4 challenge responses here and here. (But never fear: we are in challenge season, competing with the SGA big bang and McShep Match and kink_bingo and cliche_bingo etc. etc., so we'll just keep beating on against the current, etc.)

malnpudl dropped us a line noting that, "I was just reading a fascinating article. New research opens a window on the minds of plants about how plants appear to respond to their environment in ways that meet many definitions of intelligence.

This looks like inspiration for SGA fic to me. The show's budget limited it mostly to humanoid "alien" species, but fic lifts that limitation. How about an "inhuman intelligence" challenge in which the SGA folks encounter or explore life forms that are entirely unlike us, whether animal, vegetable, mineral, or something even stranger?" (Icon only a suggestion, but whales FTW!)

So how about it? Stretch your worldbuilding imagination and discover intelligent life of a different kind. Today's the fourth of July; I'll probably leave this challenge open a bit longer considering its challenge season, but we certainly will not close before July 25, 2009.

Best of Breed

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:24 GMT

Title: Best of Breed (A Picture's Worth 1000 Words Challenge)
Author: slybrarian
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG
Words: 230 + a doggy picture
Series: Discontinuity
Notes: Character blatantly lifted from clan_mitchell
Summary: In which Cam shows off his new pets.

( Warning: Image Below )

ADMIN: Picture = 1000 Words Challenge

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:08:22 GMT

I think I'm finally coping well enough to close the Coping Mechanism Challenge. You can read 13 stories: 10 on Livejournal and 3 on Dreamwidth.

New challenge (to minimize cross-posting) RIGHT HERE:

Prrreesenting: the A Picture's Worth 1000 Words Challenge

enviropony asked for a Picture challenge: Give words to a picture, whether it's a screen cap from SGA, or an image of something totally unrelated. Describe an image that a character has, or creates, or sees in someone else's possession. Attach a story to the pictures in Rodney's quarters, or the painting Ronon took from Sateda, or tell us what Lorne did with the one he was working on during "Sunday."

To be clear, this is not an art challenge: all submissions should feature words, but you can submit words PLUS a picture (screencaps, art, etc) or words ABOUT a picture (meaning a story about an image, a photograph, a painting.) You don't have to give us a thousand words, but all entries must feature some words.

Today's June 3rd; this challenge will run until at least June 17th at midnight.

Cover Stories by Nora Charles - Coping Mechanism challenge

Sun, 24 May 2009 21:26:32 GMT

Title: Cover Stories
Author: Nora Charles
Rating: suitable for all audiences
Summary: Ronon and Amelia are living together in San Francisco while Stargate Command uses Atlantis as a training facility. Nothing has been declassified, and they can't tell anyone the whole truth about themselves.
Pairing: Ronon/Amelia

Word count: 1430 (oops)
Thank you nicci_mac for audiencing! You're a sweetie, and an inspiration.

( Click here to read Cover Stories )

Coping With John, by Kass [Coping Mechanism challenge]

Wed, 13 May 2009 01:45:00 GMT

Many thanks to sihayab for beta suggestions!

Coping With John
by kass
1869 words
John/Rodney

"I'm not into him," Rodney said to the wall of his room.

( story beneath the cut )

The Bomb Does Not Kill by facetofcathy - Coping Mechanism Challenge

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:32:42 GMT

Author: facetofcathy
Rating: Adult for depictions of violence.
Wordcount: 1, 500 words.

Summary: Rodney's fantasy life.

Notes: This is the first fic post here at sga_flashfic on Dreamwidth. If you are reading on the LJ feed, you should see a link that takes you to the story on DW. You may comment there using Open ID or if you want a DW account code, go here.

If you experience any problems, please comment here on Livejournal, and if I can, I'll sort out the problem.

(Also--this needs a tag!)

( The Bomb Does Not Kill )

ADMIN: The Coping Mechanism Challenge

Sat, 02 May 2009 20:40:21 GMT

elementalv suggested a "coping mechanism" challenge, noting that "Pegasus has to be a psychoanalyst's wet dream, and Team Atlantis probably goes through coping mechanisms like they were popcorn (with lots of butter and salt and a cold orange soda Coke to wash it down)."

While she provided a link to a whole huge list of coping mechanisms, all fabulous and potentially challenge-worthy, I thought it would be best to limit them to five: that way, we get the chance to someday do Coping Mechanism II: Electric Bugaloo with five different mechanisms, plus also we might get some 5 Things stories from some of you willing to take on all of them. *g*

So let's call our five coping mechanisms for this challenge: DENIAL, AVOIDANCE, REPRESSION, SUBSTITUTION, AND FANTASY.

DENIAL - refusing to acknowledge that an event has occurred.

AVOIDANCE - mentally or physically avoiding something that causes distress.

REPRESSION - subconsciously hiding uncomfortable thoughts.

SUBSTITUTION - replacing one thing with another.

FANTASY - escaping reality into a world of possibility.

You only have to do one of them, but feel free to use more or to write five stories on five themes, or to give five characters the five symptoms. Denial, meet Repression! Fantasy, meet Avoidance, etc.

It's May 2; the challenge will not close before May 16th at midnight.

ADMIN POST: AN EXPERIMENT

Sat, 02 May 2009 20:16:14 GMT

Welcome to DW's home of sga_flashfic. I'm not sure what you were expecting when you subbed here, but in an attempt to make this community interoperable with the LJ version of the community, I'm trying something experimental this month rather than just using this site as a mirror.

If you're here on DW, you were probably a member of the LJ version: sga_flashfic, and you probably still are. But I have created a feed to that community here on dreamwidth. It's here: sga-flashfic-feed. This is for reading LJ's sga_flashfic comm on your DW reading list if you don't want to read two separate flists/reading lists.

(I have also created a feed of THIS comm, the DREAMWIDTH version of sga_flashfic, for use on LJ: it's sga_flashfic_dw. This is for reading this Dreamwidth sga flashfiction comm on your LJ flist, if you're still using that.)

Please note that this means that there are now FOUR SEPARATE LINKS connected with sga_flashfic: a LJ community, a DW community, a feed to the LJ community, and a feed to the DW community.

Here's what I--in my crack-addled state--am suggesting for this month's challenge:

1) If you have a primary reading page (LJ or DW), subscribe to the COMMUNITY housed on that site and to the FEED of the opposite site.

That is to say, if you're reading on LJ, subscribe to sga_flashfic and to the flashfic FEED on DW sga_flashfic_dw. This will let you get all stories on both sites.

If you're reading on DW, subscribe to sga_flashfic on Dreamwidth and to the FEED of the LJ version: sga-flashfic-feed. This will also let you get all stories on both sites.

If you do not want to have a primary reading page, which is to say, you're reading two flist/reading pages, you can just subscribe to both comms and no feeds: sga_flashfic and sga_flashfic. You'll see the DW stories on your DW reading page and the LJ stories on your LJ page.

With me so far?

2) All ADMIN posts will be posted to BOTH COMMUNITIES, and this is important: only ADMIN posts will be crossposted. Why? Because seeing double of everything SUCKS, so we want to keep it to a minimum on the feeds. Which leads me to #3.

3) Challenge responses--i.e. stories!--can be posted to EITHER community but NOT to BOTH communities. In other words: pick ONE: post EITHER to LJ's sga_flashfic OR to DW's sga_flashfic. Why? Because if everyone does what they're supposed to vis a vis #1, everyone will get ONE COPY of every story posted to THE GREATER ENTITY OF SGA_FLASHFIC on either community on their flist/reading list of choice. Comments will be centralized at one place, too, because there will only be ONE POST for every story.

Everybody with me on this? The goal here--let me be totally clear!--is for people to be able to pick the journaling platform they're happiest with and not have to deal with the other one if you don't want to. If you're a LJ person, one click and you get all the DW stories posted here without having to pay any attention otherwise to DW. If you want to be a DW person, one click and you can get the stories posted to LJ's sga_flashfic community delivered to your door and never deal with Frank the Goat again.

OK, problems I can already forsee: DW version.

Q: But I have both LJ and DW accounts! and now I don't know where to post my flashfic! Where will more people see my story? Where will I get more comments?
A: Dude, I don't know; this is all pretty experimental. If you're really worried, post to LJ the way you've always done; I haven't seen many unsubbers, and with the feed, you should get read by the DW converts too. Or might I suggest writing two stories for the next challenge and posting one to each community if you've got both as a sort of test? *g*

I'm sure I've missed a bunch of other potential problems, but I'm in a "nothing ventured, nothing have" kind of mood. So let's give this a shot. I'm going to post a version of this also to LJ, and then shortly after, we'll get the next challenge posted to BOTH communities and see how it goes. Please please do give me feedback over the course of the challenge--and I'll be requesting it specifically at the end--to see if this works and maybe shows a way forward or was just a colossal pain in the ass. Thanks for your patience and <3 you all.

Edited to add: I'm sure this list will keep growing, as you guys are smart and know things I did not!

1) Don't comment on the feeds! Ideally, the feed will take you to the story, and you should comment there. That is a tricky thing, but I'm sure we'll get used to it!

2) There is some question as to whether LJ feed will respect DW-cut tags (I've set the DW community to respect the LJ cut tags already). I haven't had anything to test it on, and it could be a real dealbreaker if it doesn't: nobody wants a whole big story cluttering your flist. I'm hoping that as with other feeds, LJ might just cut DW stories into a para and a "read more", but hopefully there's a code wank for this, because this could bring down the whole house of cards. *shakes fist at the sky*. Update: A couple of solutions--including using the LJ-cut tag at DW--look possible; stay tuned.

3) I'm already wondering if I made the wrong choice about posting ADMIN to both places, or if its only because I just made two large posts (mostly challenge and closing posts are pretty small.) I want the ADMIN to be NEUTRAL, dammit, but even doubles of two posts a challenge might be too many! Maybe I can alternate in the interests of fairness...? Feel free to weigh in.