Entries tagged with challenge: backstory

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Saturday #2 by easilyexcited (Amnesty 2008, Backstory challenge)

Title: Saturday #2
Author:

easilyexcited
Pairing: John/OMC
Rating: NC-17 (sexual activity between consenting adolescents)
Wordcount: ~3500
Summary: Boarding school isn't what John expected.
Notes: PWP. Could someday be the second scene in a story about how John Sheppard became John Sheppard, but for now: PWP.

( Saturday #2 )

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And now my memories turn pale by less_star (amnesty 2008, backstory challenge)

Title: And now my memories turn pale
Author: less_star
Characters: Rodney, McKays, honorary uncles, Torren
Word count: 1900, give or take
Rating: PG
Warning: OC death

Summary: You grow up and leave your family. That’s how it’s supposed to be.

A/N: I love, love, love stories where Rodney’s childhood is positively gothic, but my personal canon has shifted a bit and I now see the McKays as ordinary, rather sad people who tried their best. I also think the ancient gene is recessive, with a very random pattern of inheritance.

My profound apologies to anyone who knows anything about Euclid, or geometry. It made sense when I translated it at 4 am.

( A long time ago, our family came from the sea )

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The Superhuman Crew by Mad Maudlin (Amnesty 2008, Backstory)

Title: The Superhuman Crew
Author:

mad_maudlin
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: AU/mashup
Spoilers: none
Pairings: McShep, others implied
Summary: Eight years later, Rodney gets an unexpected visitor with some surprising news.

Disclaimer: SGA belongs to MGM. Watchmen belongs to Alan Moore. Dr. Who belongs to the BBC. The title at some point related to Bob Dylan. I think that covers it.

Notes: This may be the first in a longer series of pseudo-brainy mashup fics I dream of writing to explore the idea of fanfic as literary criticism, or, you know, not. You can't really play with the concept of timeline in a prose work they way you can in a graphic novel, but I figured my attempt at honoring Moore's awesometasticality made this fitting for the Backstory challenge. All hail MA and

lofro for getting me to actually read Watchmen in the first place.

( At midnight, all the agents... )

Current Mood: nervous

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Roads Taken by ariadne83 (backstory challenge, amnesty 2007)

Title: Roads Taken
Author: ariadne83
Rating: adult
Spoilers: Minor one for Sunday
Word count: 1100
Notes: This is a plot bunny that bit me when I was writing an angsty Mcshep break-up fic that I never had the heart to finish. I'm posting it now in honour of the backstory challenge at SGA flashfic (hooray for amnesty!) Feedback/con crit always appreciated ( I can take it and I so want to get better)

( They had been stuck in the cave for just forty minutes when Rodney had an epiphany )

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Crash by cat_77 (Backstory, Amnesty 2007)

Title: Crash
Genre: Gen, Challenge
Rating: PG
Length: 500 words
Synopsis: The first time he crashed it was in a rusted red Radio Flyer wagon.
Author’s Notes: For the Backstory challenge, though I think I also wrote it in just under 38 minutes. Amnesty 2007.
Disclaimer: I don’t own them, people with a lot of money do. I’m just borrowing them to play and making no profit from the experience.

( Crash )

Feedback is always welcomed.

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The Power of Words by Vecturist (amnesty 2007, backstory challenge

Title: The Power of Words
Characters: Radek, Sheppard
Rating: PG-13, Gen
Spoilers: Primarily ‘Sunday’
Disclaimer: I own nothing, except for a couple dozen soy sauce packets in the fridge.
Note: I originally wrote this for the backstory challenge, but didn’t have the time to publish it here, but it has been posted in another community.
Summary: Radek's trying to deal with some guilt and finds he's not alone.
( Read more... )

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For Reasons Not Worth Going Into by slybrarian (amnesty 2007, backstory)

Title: For Reasons Not Worth Going Into (Backstory Challenge)
Author:

slybrarian
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen
Characters: Chuck, Col. Dixon
Words: 1173
Series: Dramatic Exit
Notes: Apparently, I can't stop writing flashfic. Luckily there's no limit, right?

Summary: "So what you're saying," Sheppard said, "is that you're here for reasons..." Chuck cut him off. "Please don't say it, sir."

( Moose! )

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ADMIN

Fast-forward--the Backstory Challenge is over. You can read the 39 challenge stories here or using the Backstory Challenge tag.

New challenge coming right up!

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Fat My Dust, by Speranza

Title: Fat My Dust (2805 words)
Author: Speranza
Pairing: McShep
Author's note: Mod's prerogative; thanks to Lim and Terri for beta. Also GIP, icon by

ileliberte made for me me me!

( From 1976 to 1979, or, in other words, from the third to the sixth grade, John's family moved no fewer than thirteen times. )

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Paging Colonel Sheppard, by Quasar

[Tiptoes in, peers around] Not closed yet? I made it? Well, 8000 words isn't very flashlike, but I started writing on Friday when the deadline was extended. I've had this one in mind for a while but didn't think I could get it done in time. But I did, so that's . . . sort of flashy?

Title: Paging Colonel Sheppard
Author: Quasar
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard preslash
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~8000
Warnings: language, rampant homophobia
Summary: Rodney learns that Sheppard's gift for getting into trouble is genetic.

( Paging Colonel Sheppard )

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FIC: To Soar, To Sing by Roga

Title: To Soar, To Sing
Author: Roga
Characters: John
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1330
Summary: John knows aircrafts like old friends. Written for the Backstory challenge.

( They're crashing. )

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Fic: Dear Laurie by velocitygrass, G

Title: Dear Laurie
Author:

velocitygrass
Pairing: John/OFC, implied John/Male
Rating: G
Wordcount: 495
Summary: John still wrote her a Christmas card every year, 17 years after their divorce.

( Dear Laurie )

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Preexisting Conditions by darkrose & telesilla

Preexisting Conditions
Author:

darkrosetiger &

telesilla
Pairing Rodney/Ronon
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4,889
Disclaimer: The SGA characters do not belong to us. Duh.
Summary: Ronon and Rodney's Big Gay Atlantis Courtship continues with their second date.

Notes: This is a sequel to Reasonable and Customary and will only make sense if you read that one first. Many thanks to

cesperanza for extending the deadline of the

sga_flashfic Background challenge for us; we really appreciate it. And yes, the title is another common insurance term; why break a streak?

( ''So maybe you can tell me...on Earth, how many dates do you have to go on before you can have sex?'' )

Current Music: Jesse Sykes - Reckless Burning

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To Entangle So To Know by Idyll

For the Backstory challenge.

Title: To Entangle So To Know
Pairings: Ronon/John, mention of Ronon/Melena
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~2900
Beta: By the incomparable

poisontaster, who went above and beyond the call of duty with her review.

Summary: When Ronon was ten his mother sat him down and sectioned his hair.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: determined

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(no subject)

Title: The Call
Author:

blue_underwing
Rating: PG-13
Category: Gennish, Angst, Sap
Characters: Rodney and Jeanie McKay
Spoilers: McKay and Mrs. Word count: ~550
Series: Prequel to Reversals, This one will spoil that one.
Warnings: Unbetaed, Dyslexics Untie, Refers to trans-gender surgery
Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate: Atlantis, sadly enough
Author’s note: Recent feedback on Reversals kick started the bunnies on the prequel I always wanted to write. I’d suggest reading that one first, if you haven't already.

Summary:
It was a little more than a year after their parent’s death that she got the call. That’s how she would always remember it: “The Call”.

( The Call )

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: Nashville
Current Music: Live Earth

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Fic: Back Story,by HYPERFocused M/S Rated PG13

Title: Back Story
Author: HYPERFocused
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Summary: Rodney is an open book; John speaks volumes.
A/N: For the Backstory challenge. Perhaps I took it a bit too literally? 707 words, Finished at 7:07 p.m on 07/07/07, and posted at 7:17.

( Back Story )

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Permafrost by Liondragon [PG][backstory]

Title: Permafrost
Author: Liondragon
Challenge: Backstory
Word Count: 4500
Summary: Rodney marched willingly into the deep freeze.
Warnings: PG for the swear jar, extensive spoilers for Stargate SG-1 and Rising, subtle spoilers for the rest of Stargate Atlantis.
Thanks to

spoke and

lillian13 for beta and audiencing. This has not been Canadian-, Russian-, or Chinese-picked, and I apologize if I made any mistakes. Shamelessly: I would love to see more of this, anywhere, gen or shippy. This one's gen.

Permafrost
by Liondragon

( The last phone call Rodney made before being loaded onto a railcar for Siberia was to his sister Jeannie. )

Current Mood: contemplative

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Lessons of Loss by Miriel (PG)

Title: Lessons of Loss
Author:

miriel
Beta:

scififreak
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: I just about strangled

cesperanza through the web over this one - I scrambled and scrambled to get it done for the midnight deadline, and then she extended it (so I went and got a beta to look it over). Written for the

sga_flashfic prompt Backstory, at the behest of

cupidsbow.

Summary: ( For as long as she can remember, Teyla has known death. )

Current Music: Everybody Ought To Have A Maid (movie version)

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Three (Overcrossed) Pasts John Sheppard Might Be Hiding, by Sophonisba [backstory challenge]

-title- Three (Overcrossed) Pasts John Sheppard Might Be Hiding
-author- Sophonisba (

saphanibaal)
-rating- Mostly suitable for general audiences; some foul language.
-spoilers- I'm not sure that a character's name counts as a spoiler. Either one of them.
-characters- Sheppard; guest appearance by Holland and, more subtly, by Rodney and Teyla, as well as references to other characters.
-disclaimer- Not mine. Not, not, not mine -- except maybe the Egyptian transcriptions: since we know little beyond the fact that Amon's name had come to be pronounced "Ama'ana" by the New Kingdom, that final "t" sounds were probably dropped in the singular, and that Ra's name had added an "ah" sound to elide the sound-made-while-narrowing-the-back-of-your-throat-into-a-tube following the probable "ree," I have indulged in the ancient and honored practice of Making Vowels Up. More disclaimers at end.
-word count- 5321
-summary- Three crossovers, three pasts that might lie behind Major Sheppard's facade.

( I was originally trying to write Sheppard with measles, but he wouldn't let me into his head enough for it to flow smoothly, so I set that aside and had fun with this instead. )

Current Music: A "best of Bollywood" CD

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Takes on Spots: Four, by Sophonisba [backstory challenge]

-title- Takes on Spots (4/5)
-author- Sophonisba (

saphanibaal)
-rating- Suitable for general audiences.
-spoilers- I still haven't managed to see "Sateda" yet, so I don't know if any of this would be contradicted by something in that.
-characters- Ronon
-disclaimer- SGA, of course, is not mine.
-word count- 2962
-summary- In which the meaning of "inoculation" before it became used as a synonym for "vaccination" is demonstrated.

( The inoculators had come through when he was five and a half, but his mother had thought that he was really too little to suffer even a mild case and put her foot down when his father wanted to send him. )