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Oh _lovely_. Everyone go turn this off:

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Haters: “Why do you ship them? He’s old! You must have daddy issues.”

Me: “or, just hear me out…

A woman whose professional life has been fulfilling, but whose personal life has been full of loss and disappointment

Has finally found a reason to smile, and it doesn’t look like she’s faking it anymore.

And the great part is, he gets it. He understands loss and he understands disappointment. And he knows she understands it too.

So, when she smiles like this, he knows it comes from somewhere inside her that he’s managed to access that’s untouched by the pain of the past. And she gave that part of herself to him.”

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The thing is, the writers couldn’t get along on what to do with… or even what to think of the ship.

There were, disappointingly, quite a few anti/non shippers in the writer room. And turns out the Beneath the Surface writer was one of them, much to my utter surprise and disappointment (I mean… Beneath the Surface ? The episode with « feeling feelings » and all ? How ? Whyyyyyy 😫 ?) when the interview popped up.

The Thera/Jonah situation really didn’t scream or fit a « whoops, we’re actually just bros, my bad » scenario. Everyone (well, almost eh) always assumed they found each other again (and gravitated towards each other first) because SJ’s love was one of the rare things that endured memory loss… which will always come across as extremely romance coded (plus, I’m sorry but these characters were engaged/married twice before in AUs… implying they mistook the nature of their affection later on would have felt like a weird retcon if it had made it on screen). And any « this feels like we shouldn’t be doing this » vibes (which was definitely there during the cuddling scene) were about their « not allowed to be together » dilemma/personal tragedy back at home.

But, yeah, while one of the writers (Malozzi) was friendly to the ship, others were not.

Cooper, who did s9/10, didn’t seem to care one bit about them… and then there’s plain stated recent examples like that BtS writer we talked about… who seems to think it’s misogynistic for a main male and female character to hook up and be happy. Overdone ? maybe. But done really well ? rarely… but that’s why we need BETTER attempts , not LESS.

Brad Wright, who is probably the biggest writer of the show (I mean, if we have to pick a head chief among TPTB, I guess he was) is, I guess, what I would describe as ambivalent. He seems to agree something happened eventually between the two… but… Did it last ? Were they happy ? I was under the impression we would have gotten a « got together and separated off (ugh) screen » scenario (with a *will they/won’t they hook back up* tension on top maybe… or maybe not… I’m just theorizing based on whether or not they still care to dangle carrots in front of shippers’ faces… but it’s a known tactic to keep shippers watching in general, so… maybe yeah) if a new show had been made.

Because we STILL « can’t piss off the antis » (who’ll get pissed anyway if they have to watch them interact on screen), apparently. Yippee for sabotaging the writing before it even starts.

I really think the rules were a convenient excuse, not just for Sam but for the writers THEMSELVES because it obviously wasn’t the only reason they never made them properly canon. The SJ ship just wasn’t loved enough and disliked too much to receive good proper treatment… and it doesn’t help romance wasn’t the show’s forte either. It was mostly above all about the male characters vibing/bonding/snarking during whacky military space adventures in the end. Rest’s optional. Atlantis was even more obvious at this. Had a much bigger ensemble cast, slightly more women and diversity, but it was still mostly about Sheppard and McKay’s shenanigans in the end.

I don’t even believe it will ever happen tbh… the new show with Wright and co on board, I mean (with MGM putting more light on the old movie than the shows these days). Which is almost a blessing. Maybe it’s better not to potentially ruin things (further). But at this point, they either do it now or never because the SG1/Atlantis/SGU cast will continue to age and die as years go by… which leaves you with a reboot as the only distant possibility for this « universe » to come back. And whether they reboot the shows or the movie’s universes, it will never be the same as you remembered (we all want reboots/remakes until we don’t want them anymore and we get homesick for the familiar old).

Fanfics are good anyways.

It's been interesting getting back into both Sam/Jack and MSR at the same time, I get to compare and contrast really similar themes (secret duty, dangerous truths, aliens, government oversight, honor, loss of family, pining, devotion etc) from really different framing. The X files is a much darker show overall and Chris Carter's misogyny problem and hand of fate baby arcs are frustrating and painful, and yet the MSR fic has so much more room to be much sweeter and more openly domestic and a lot of times the stakes are lower because as much as it affects their own lives, the Syndicate and the threat of Colonization is much bigger than what they personally alone can bring about or prevent. They have guilt and repression and fear of losing each other or the work to contend with, but we're also shown that as long as they have each other they're generally okay even without the work -- I mean aimlessness and depression (and out of character writing choices) yes, but the Syndicate operations aren't that closely affected by if Mulder and Scully are in the basement office or not, so you can conjure up a wide variety of believable paths for them to be together with or without 'the files.'

Meanwhile Sam and Jack could literally be prosecuted for disobeying orders/getting involved within the same chain of command, they could get their team or the whole program taken apart thanks to that excuse in the hands of Simmons or similar, they're directly on the front lines for 8 years and they're repeatedly shown via the quantum mirror that Sam and Jack both being active members of SG1 is the only reason Earth wasn't decimated in a hostile Goa'uld invasion so they can't just resign and be together. For a second you think there's a window but then there's a new war and they make Jack everyone's boss and send Sam to a different galaxy and then put her up on a ship, and you go; Oh. So that's an endless set of circumstances, then. There's so much 'be miserably, honorably apart, serving and pining forever or the destruction of Earth will directly be your fault' baggage baked into Sam and Jack's narrative setup that you're boxed into either character-bending wish fulfillment (which is satisfying to read but hard to commit to writing ime) or the soul excoriating 'hanging on waiting for what can never be' flavor of overly believable quiet tragedy.

I'm finding I'm spending more time with the show where the skinny grey aliens with big eyes are a lot more evil and the themes are more bleak but the characters are less entirely trapped by their own best intentions 💀😭😭

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People being like « I want this » in the comments…

Are you nuts !!??

It made me resent whole shows because of these tactics (yes, SG1 is the main one for me).

Signed : an awkward straight girl with social anxiety and depression (undiagnosed ADHD too I guess) who once thought and hoped that media could deliver where real life continually screwed her over (at this point, I resigned myself to suffer my whole life from not getting any love and companionship… except from pets maybe… and fanfics when it comes to fiction).

For real, you do not want to get love baited (straight or queer) by media. What you want are compelling romantic relationships with good writing. No baiting. Just honestly good writing. Straight and gay. And you do also want well written friendships between men and women (and between women).

Most of the time, it’s the male friendship with gay bait that gets the better writing. It’s also the dominant popular romantic ships in the majority of fandoms. Because MEN (I heard the reasoning… and it says something about how society failed women… for clarification, I’m specifically referring to women who say they feel uncomfortable when there’s a female character involved… because it makes them think about real life sucking for them girls so they’d rather read love stories between men instead), it seems.

Straight and gay relationships actually deserve much better than shallow writing and/or baiting. Because in the end, it’s just more salt on some of the audience’s emotional + societal wounds. I WANNA get into a meaty straight ship with slow burn that actually GET SOMEWHERE ! Not a bait ship, not a shallow ship. I want something good that will not make me feel furious/unsatisfied/cheated by the end.

Basically, I want respect and good writing. Period.

In the meantime, fanfics is what we have to fix it all and feel good.

I think we should write more straight relationships with 2010s TV queerbait tactics. Let that man and that woman's lives be horribly intertwined, let them take bullets for the other, let them be each other's meaning but NO KISSING. They are holding each other platonically. You're crazy for reading anything romantic into it at all tbh

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the lgbt community is very, very afraid of discussions about misogyny, which i think is partially due to r/dical feminism and the fear of coming across as “terfy”. the thing is, if we can’t have productive discussions about misogyny, we can’t effectively talk about things like transmisogyny (the intersection between transphobia and misogyny) and lesbiphobia (the intersection between homophobia and misogyny). if you don’t have a proper understanding of misogyny and how it manifests within the community as well as outside of it, you will never understand either of those topics, and you will never be a good ally to either group.

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Plushie thief!!

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Well, i’m done with the bird.

But i’m running into the problem that… I get an error message when trying to deactivate. Am I the only one or… ?

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can’t believe i cried at a concert in an app game

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Amanda Tapping and Richard Dean Anderson, Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show 2022

Source

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RDA: Would you do another Stargate series? Short series.

Amanda: Yes. Would you?

RDA: Only if you were by my side.

I love these two so much 🥰

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Q: If your characters were stuck together for a month on another planet (like the episode with Maybourne) what would they feel?

Amanda: I’d feel his sidearm.

RDA: Quoi?

Then they were asked which planet they’d like to get stuck on. Amanda described Argos and added, “But I’d get rid of that other woman.”

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Q: Would you change anything that happened to Jack?

RDA: I wouldn’t have wanted to become a General. General is all paperwork and sitting around in an office…General Hammond did a good job of that, but I don’t think O’Neill was made for that job.

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It’s hard not to notice lol.

But i wonder if someone ever tried to explain to her why most fans don’t like him. I always got the feeling she thought we mainly just hated him because he was « no Jack ». While it’s true the resentment towards a « love rival » character always tend to have elements of « eww, random surprise main romance derailment… go away other dude/girl »… the distaste for the character and his relationship with Sam goes way beyond that. Heck, it’s not just S/J shippers who have « opinions » about Pete.

No, the problem is that he came across as a Nice Guy and a stalker. Someone who would try to turn Sam into the wife ideal he was after. He didn’t even CONSULT her when he bought « their » future house. It’s gonna make a LOT of female fans (especially if they experienced similar things irl) very uncomfortable. Heck, i bet it might have been triggering for a few.

Really, the distaste for Pete and the Sam/Pete period went beyond just shippers feeling unhappy about Sam dating someone who wasn’t her long term love interest. The rare people who cheered and « supported » that relationship in fandom often didn’t care for Sam in fact (i’m sure the writers could have replaced Pete with known abuser Jonas Hansen, her ex fiancé and the same people in fandom would have cheered all the same… as long as it drove Sam away from Jack, nothing else mattered).

Q: Would you change anything that happened to Sam?

A: Everything that happened to Sam informed who she became, even Pete…Would I change anything? Yeah, I would have made sure Janet Fraiser wasn’t in line with that shot and she wouldn’t have died.

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Sick of how the internet talks about "stimming" as though it's this 100% lovely and enjoyable activity. I stim when I'm very happy, sure, but my stimming caused by anxiety isn't worth it. I have raw patches inside my cheeks, and I strike myself in the head repeatedly when I start to panic. I'm sick of people equating stimming to "stimmy time!" like we're a bunch of fucking pre-schoolers. I'm sick of people equating stimming to dancing to music on tiktok. It's obnoxious. Have some respect, and stop infantilizing it.

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Amanda: Every kid needs a dog, so how many dogs would we have at the cabin? Ergo, you’re asking how many children.

RDA: You sneaky little thing.

(pause)

Twelve.

Amanda: Adopted!

And in case you’re wondering which types of dogs…

RDA: I think Australian Shepherds and -

Amanda: Bouviers -

RDA: A couple of Bouviers and, um, every mutt ever created.

Amanda: Yep.

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No song nor poetry can convey tragedy like a cat who wants through a door