#sam weir you are a WOMAN

[lime1991]

fellas... is it trans to be sisterzoned by your crush?

[why-bull-the-fashion-demon]

movies I watched in 2023

(taking a cue from @stenka-razin)

-January

The Power of the Dog (2021, dir. Jane Campion)

Love, Simon (2018, dir. Greg Berlant)

Gamer (2009, dir. Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine)

Men (2022, dir. Alex Garland)

The Menu (2022, dir. Mark Mylod)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

-February

A Touch of Sin (2013, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020, dir. William Olsson)

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008, dir. Peter Sollett)

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

The Woman King (2022, dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Charlie’s Angels (2000, dir. McG)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Nope (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

-March

Ash is Purest White (2018, dir. Jia Zhangke)

Shoplifters (2018, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

Three (2016, dir. Johnnie To)

Nobody (2021, dir. Ilya Naishuller)

Charlie’s Angels (2019, dir. Elizabeth Banks)

The Wonderland (2019, dir. Keiichi Hara)

-April

Rebels of the Neon God (1992, dir. Tsai Ming-Liang)

Tetris (2023, dir. Jon S. Baird)

There’s Something About Mary (1998, dir. Bobby and Peter Farrely)

The Whale (2022, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg)

Throw Down (2004, dir. Johnnie To)

Tár (2022, dir. Todd Field)

Yi Yi (2000, dir. Edward Yang)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022, dir. Ryan Coogler)

Catch .44 (2011, dir. Aaron Harvey)

-May

Spaceballs (1987, dir. Mel Brooks)

Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania (2023, dir. Peyton Reed)

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley)

-June

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Casino Royale (2006, dir. Martin Campbell)

Quantum of Solace (2008, dir. Marc Forster)

Skyfall (2012, dir. Sam Mendes)

Spectre 2015, dir. Sam Mendes)

No Time To Die (2021, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

Octopussy (1983, dir. John Glen)

GoldenEye (1995, dir. Martin Campbell)

First Reformed (2017, dir. Paul Schrader)

-July

Zoolander (2001, dir. Ben Stiller)

The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (2022, dir. Masato Jinbo)

Mainstream (2020, dir. Gia Coppola)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, dir. Tim Burton)

Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

You Only Live Twice (1967, dir. Lewis Gilbert)

-August

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (2023, dir. James Gunn)

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019, dir. Lee Won-tae)

Leap Year (2010, dir. Anand Tucker)

The Worst Person in the World (2021, dir. Joachim Trier)

Palm Springs (2020, dir. Max Barbakow)

Days (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Kindergarten Cop (1990, dir. Ivan Reitman)

Barbie (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

Babylon (2022, dir. Damien Chazelle)

Shin Godzilla (2016, dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi)

The Flash (2023, dir. Andy Muschietti)

-September

Asteroid City (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023, dir. Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic)

The Little Mermaid (2023, dir. Rob Marshall)

Mulan (2020, dir. Niki Caro)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, dir. Wes Craven)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, dir. Werner Herzog)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022, dir. Halina Reijn)

Frances Ha (2012, dir. Noah Baumbach)

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003, dir. Peter Weir)

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, dir. Jack Sholder)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, dir. Chuck Russell)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988, dir. Renny Harlin)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989, dir. Stephen Hopkins)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991, dir. Rachel Talalay)

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994, dir. Wes Craven)

Renfield (2023, dir. Chris McKay)

Theater Camp (2023, dir. Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

Shiva Baby (2020, dir. Emma Seligman)

-October

Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th - Part III (1982, dir. Steve Miner)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, dir. Joseph Zito)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985, dir. Danny Steinmann)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986, dir. Tom McLoughlin)

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988, dir. John Carl Beuchler)

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989, dir. Rob Hedden)

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993, dir. Adam Marcus)

Jason X (2001, dir. James Isaac)

Freddy vs. Jason (2003, dir. Ronny Yu)

Friday the 13th (2009, dir. Marcus Nispel)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010, dir. Samuel Bayer)

Easy A (2010, dir. Will Gluck)

Saw (2004, dir. James Wan)

Saw II (2005, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw III (2006, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw IV (2007, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw V (2008, dir. David Hackl)

Saw VI (2009, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Saw: The Final Chapter (2010, dir. Kevin Greutert)

A History of Violence (2005, dir. David Cronenberg)

Infinity Pool (2023, dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

Dracula 2000 (2000, dir. Patrick Lussier)

Mean Girls (2004, dir. Mark Waters)

Jennifer’s Body (2009, dir. Karyn Kusama)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, dir. Werner Herzog)

-November

Murder on the Orient Express (2017, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

Death on the Nile (2022, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

A Haunting in Venice (2023, dir. Kenneth Branagh)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023, dir. André Øvredal)

Samurai Reincarnation (1981, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Legally Blonde (2001, dir. Robert Luketic)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019, dir. Katt Shea)

The Last Duel (2021, dir. Ridley Scott)

Paint Your Wagon (1969, dir. Joshua Logan)

Thanksgiving (2023, dir. Eli Roth)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel)

Shogun’s Shadow (1989, dir. Yasuo Furuhata)

The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (2004, dir. Robert Luketic)

The Conjuring 2 (2016, dir. James Wan)

The Nun (2018, dir. Corin Hardy)

Le Samouraï (1967, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

-December

The Nun II (2023, dir. Michael Chaves)

Bottoms (2023, dir. Emma Seligman)

Annabelle (2014, dir. John R. Leonetti)

Gran Turismo (2023, dir. Neill Blomkamp)

Battles Without Honor And Humanity (1973, dir. Kinji Fukasaku)

Jigsaw (2017, dir. The Spierig Brothers)

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman)

Saw X (2023, dir. Kevin Greutert)

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023, dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, et. al.)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023, dir. Jeff Rowe)

Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny (2023, dir. James Mangold)

Air Doll (2009, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

The End of Summer (1961, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)

Air (2023, dir. Ben Affleck)

No Hard Feelings (2023, dir. Gene Stupnitsky)

Oppenheimer (2023, dir. Christopher Nolan)

Yakuza Wolf (1972, dir. Ryuichi Takamori)

Yakuza: Like A Dragon (2007, dir. Takashi Miike)

Spencer (2021, dir. Pablo Larraín)

Moneyball (2011, dir. Bennett Miller)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023, dir. Steve Caple, Jr.)

Knights of the Zodiac (2023, dir. Tomek Baginski)

Dragonball Evolution (2009, dir. James Wong)

[lilacs-in-space]

1. How many works do you have on AO3?:

9

2. What's your total AO3 word count?:

87,894

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I only write for Star Trek these days. I muddle between all of them as I tend to write for small background characters I've developed unhealthy obsessions with.

Back in my fanfiction.net days I predominantly wrote Star Trek Enterprise and Stargate Atlantis but I took a 20 year hiatus (more or less) in writing fanfic. I only really started writing again about 6 months ago because Star Trek Picard made me simultaneously so happy and so angry that my creativity just exploded back to life.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Not Your Typical Disaster Scenario (Discworld - Terry Pratchett) 

Eight Down. Yellow Bird Who Goes 'Quack!' (Discworld) 

A Way With Wordes (Discworld) 

Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring. (Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek) 

Where the falling angel meets the rising ape (12 Monkeys (TV))

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Absolutely! Nothing makes my day like receiving a comment on a fic. I always make sure to leave them on fic I enjoy too.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I think my fav kinds of endings are bittersweet rather than angsty. A lot of the time they end with lovers parting, willingly or not. Love me a 'doomed by the narrative' type.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

A Way With Wordes - it ends with a wedding announcement!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

No, which given that I've written for an insanely unpopular ship once or twice, is actually a little surprising.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

My good man/woman/rogue, I only write smut these days. I used to live for fluffy friendship fics, and I like to think I still inject a lot of tenderness into my work, but I am more motivated by the idea of becoming a good erotica writer than anything else these days.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I don't. I thought about writing a 12 Monkeys/Picard crossover but never went through with it.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yes. I had a bunch of Spock/McCoy poems I wrote back in 2002 reappear over a decade later on AO3 under someone else's name. Not an archive, just some guy pretending he wrote them. I honestly didn't care. They were exactly the kind of mawkish tripe you'd expect a 12 year old to write.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Back in my day, sonny, we wrote fics round robin style through hotmail.com or on the yahoo message boards. (So yes, but we're talking like 20 years ago. I don't do it anymore because I'm in too weird of a niche these days!)

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Nebula class. Looks like a frog. I have a Nebula model on my desk that I replaced the decal of to make it the T'Kumbra!

OH, you mean like...OTP? Uh... I don't think I have one anymore? Back in the day I used to read a tremendous amount of McKay/Weir(SGA), Archer/T'Pol (Ent), and Jack/Sam (SG1) but these days I really enjoy reading about niche characters and ocs. Some of the best fics I've read this year have been oc/oc fics or obscure character(OC) and original character(oc) fics.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

You got me in between the devil and the deep blue sea - I was so taken with this idea when I started, then I got super sick and now whenever I think of working on it, I just feel tired again and don't. We'll see if I return to it.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I feel like I'm really good at setting a mood and drawing a person in with all their senses. I get a lot of comments about that.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't use one word where many will do. My chapters are way. too. freakin'. long.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I do this a lot, but I always put in the translations. If it's a sentence, I will place the translation after the sentence. If it's just a word, I'll put in a glossary.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Ever? Star Trek TOS and it was a Spones fic. On AO3? Discworld and it was Vimes & Vetinari.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I am obsessed with A Perfect Match. I love delving into Romulan and Vulcan culture and exposing the similarities and dichotomies of two arrogant characters like Letant and Solok.

However, I am also very proud of Not Your Typical Disaster Scenario which I wrote based on a piece of art I found super inspiring.

If you’re reading this and want to play, I hereby tag you with no pressure. 🥳

[logiyande]

{ ayo edebiri, 21, cis woman, she/her } Is that LOGAN IYANDE? A SOPHOMORE originally from SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, they decided to come to Ogden College to study GRAPHIC DESIGN  on a ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP. They’re THE WALLFLOWER  on campus, but even they could get blamed for Greer’s disappearance.

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yearning, dreaming, resting her head against the car door and closing her eyes, imagining a world where she is a different person, where people look up when she enters a room and stop talking when she starts to speak. suburbs, doldrums, everything that will happen to her has already happened before. the glow of a computer screen in the middle of the night, an aching familiarity with the four walls of her bedroom. the urge to think that no one understands her when fearing maybe there isn’t that much to understand. speaking a language that is so entrenched in decades of internet debris that she doesn’t know if people know how to translate. wondering if she is more interesting behind a keyboard than she is in person. sketchbooks filled with art no one would ask to see. wasting her youth, wasting her breath, wasting her time. 

BASICS:

full name: logan iyande

age: 21

date of birth: march 18

zodiac sign: pisces sun, cancer moon, virgo rising

hometown: sacramento, CA

gender: cis female

sexuality: lesbian

ethnicity: african american

languages spoken: english

PERSONALITY:

positive qualities: kind, curious, intelligent

negative qualities: geeky, introverted, naive

skills: encyclopedic knowledge on niche topics, quick reflexes, and deviantart fame for drawing niche cartoon characters in 2011

character parallels: Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place), Sam Weir (Freaks and Geeks), Willow Rosenberg (BTVS), Will Byers (Stranger Things), Lexi Howard (Euphoria), Haruhi Fujioka (OHSHC)

relationship to greer: if you looked on logan’s instagram history, you would almost always see @greer in her recently viewed. it’s not that she was obsessed with greer- she hardly knew her, had shared a class with her freshman year, and that was all. but greer represented everything she wasn’t, and she watched her with a keen eye more suited to an anthropologist studying another culture than a classmate watching another. 

school activities: running team, school paper

style: grandpacore- big thrifted sweaters, baggy jeans, trousers, loafers

the wallflower: people did not notice logan at a party, and that’s just fine with her. frankly, she didn’t want to be at the party anyways, would rather be in her dorm room curled up with a weighty book or tending to her farm in stardew valley. she felt stupid and exposed on the nights she dragged herself to a party she’d only been invited to as an afterthought, so she only did it rarely, when the little voice inside her head told her she was wasting her twenties under the covers. she made a fool of herself anyways- she didn’t get the sarcasm, wasn’t interested in the drugs, didn’t know the music that was being played or the tv shows that were being discussed. no, she was sure everyone laughed about her when she left. the more cutting truth, that no one was talking about her at all, would actually be a comfort. 

wanted connections (under construction)

woman for her to have a heartbreaking unrequited crush on (maybe she's straight in a Wish You Were Gay (by claud not billie eilish) type way? or maybe they'll just never see logan that way a la Christine by lucy dacus)

outgoing friend for her to follow around like a puppy

friends to lovers yearning kind of thing (she IS a yearner in all ways and forms)

toxic ex/situationship that she’s still a little in love with (ok i kind of have this one in my head i think she felt like they were embarrassed by her or talked down to her regardless of whether or not that was the truth)

go with me here some kind of cinderella story friendship?? like they’re friends through the internet but don’t know who the other person is irl

other headcanons

was a big tumblr artist a few years back for mid-2000s cartoons (like u know the vibe. avatar, teen titans, ect)- made the jump to twitter and still has a largeish following but not nearly as big as the early 2010s

maybe a little too into lord of the rings

had a big anime phase in middle school but has (mostly) grown out of it

listens to a lot of indie sad girl music (lizzy mcalpine, lucy dacus, ect) but has a soft spot for old school country

has a very large vinyl collection

i don't feel like writing out her family stuff but she actually has a really great relationship with her parents especially her mother

has been in dozens of car accidents but only by hitting parked cars when trying to park

will read literally anything- she's gone through the entire ice planet barbarians series in the last month

really loves horror movies but hates jumpscares so she looks them up on imdb before

[badstargateimagines]

Songs I Would Show to Stargate Characters to Rock Their Shit

Jack: Crank it Up - Joey Valance and Brae. Specifically for the lyrics “I always wipe twice for good measure/One for business and one for pleasure” I think he would absolutely hate this song and it would piss him off that I like it so much.

Daniel: Jiggle Jiggle - Louis Theroux, Duke & Jones because I just think he’d really hate it but he would have it stuck in his head for weeks and it would make him extremely mad.

Sam: Oops - Young Gravy. It’s so fucking sexist I think Sam would actually combust. 

Teal’c: Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney because I think it would really irritate him. Everything about Cocaine!McCartney is awful and confusing and I would love to see an alien’s reaction to it.

Janet: Why Does It Hurt When I Pee - Frank Zappa. I feel like she might have objections to the fact that he says he got it from the toilet seat. I feel like it probably wasn’t to toilet seat. She would probably want him to see a doctor but she’d be angry about it.

General Hammond: 100% I would get him to listen to Lift Yourself by Kanye West just so I could see his face at the “poop-diddy whoop scoop, poop, poop” part.

Jonas: I would make him listen to Martha by Tom Waits because I think it would fill him with so much despair. This dude could do with a little bit of depression.

Vala: Four Wheel Drive - Bachman-Turner Overdrive. She would hate it and it goes on too long but I would make her listen to the whole thing, literally gun to her head. I would then tell her Randy Bachman trivia because I know way too much about that man.

Cam: I would show him the entire B-side of Heroes by David Bowie in a dark room with a bunch of cardboard cutouts of clowns and Robert Pattinson. I think that would be an extremely haunting and disorienting experience for him.

Stinky Pete: I would take Pete on a drive on my favourite dirt road and whip around it at mach speed. I would play the entirety of Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart at the highest volume that my stereo can go. He may not survive.

Meybourne: I would gain access to his Spotify and play We’ll Meet Again by Vera Lynn sporadically throughout the day until he eventually got freaked out. I would then make a playlist on his account that was just called Harry Meybourne Death Sequence or something and it would have song titles that spell out an elaborate prediction for an untimely death.

Apophis: I would find a way to make Penis Music play over all his dramatic monologues. Literally just on repeat until he stopped talking.

Sha’re: I would play her You Are A Pirate but the Alestorm version. I don’t think it would annoy her but I think it would be a jarring experience for her. She would also not know what a pirate is and I when I explained piracy to her she would lose her mind.

Ba’al: I would play him Bubble Pop Electric by Gwen Stefani to annoy him but it would backfire. I think he’d end up a Gwen Stefani stan and play it while committing intergalactic war crimes.

Rodney McKay: I feel like he would really hate Party Rock Anthem. No real thought behind this, just vibes. Alternatively I would play the Big Bang Theory them song every time he started talking but like restart it every time he’d pause and start again.

John Sheppard: Electric Water by Big Debbie because I think he would think it sounds like bank hold music and would get flashbacks to the time he tried to up his transaction limit and was on hold for 5 hours.

Elizabeth Weir: I would force her to listen to Shannon by Henry Gross because look man that song sounds sad but I really wanna see the look of devastation in her eyes when she realizes the song is not about a human woman dying but instead it’s about the family dog dying. She wouldn’t be the same for weeks.

Woolsey: I would play Woolsey Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way by Waylon Jennings not because I think it would irritate him but because I think it would rock his shit so hard he would enter his Cowboy era. I would know I was successful when I saw Cowboy!Woolsey at the next meeting.

Ronon Dex: I would absolutely put Ronon on some Stan Rogers with Northwest Passage. Again I don’t think this would rock his shit as much as put him in his Salty Dog era. I want to see Ronon as a gruff lighthouse keeper who’s seen Sea Ghosts.

Teyla: Hands down Levels by Avicii. That song is fucking transcendent and I think it would send her into another fucking dimension. Low key Tayla seems like she’d fuck w EDM but it may also begin her villain arc.

Zelenka: I would play him Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy!!!!!! He would hate it so much and it would piss him off that I know every single word. After that song I would play him Chatahoochie because Atlantis needs Rodeo Playlist Treatment.

[regalpotato]

I'm curious, what are your reasons for shipping Pikeuna. I ship them too I'm just curious as how you got into it :)

Oh I have so many reasons, Anon. And I'm not even gonna 'read more' this because I want people to see the gifs I put effort into making.

Firstly, I watched The Cage pilot when I was a teenager, and fell absolutely hopelessly in love with Number One.

She was the First Officer of the Enterprise (back in an era where women were meant to be quiet and look pretty - evidenced by the fact that the network told Roddenberry he could keep the woman or the alien), she was cold and calculating and good at her job. But wore nail varnish, and obviously had emotions she kept under wraps. I was smitten.

Secondly:

I'm a sucker for the Talosians calling her out over her CANONICAL feelings about Pike. (Always love when a ship has basis in canon)

And I mean, they just look like a good power couple okay? And I always love a good power couple.

So I liked the idea of them from the get go, since I was a teenager.

Then Star Trek Discovery happened. And I found out Number One was in Season 2 (played by the original Mystique no less) and I was hooked again.

Here they are making eyes at each other and flirting over Number One's spicy food choices.

I thought, 'they're not going to keep Number One's crush on Pike are they?' I mean they've changed Pike from being a misogynist (thank god), so would they keep that?

But Number One knows him far too well (she told the Enterprise's engineer that Pike would think the holograms were too much like ghosts). So much so that Spock even calls her out on it:

Spock: You have made a most careful study of the captain.

Number One:

She freaks out and then slams her hand against the communication panel to contact the engineer and change the subject. GIRL STILL HAS IT BAD GUYS.

I love unrequited love (as long as it's secretly or eventually requited...)

And they just look GOOD together (Anson and Rebecca have such good chemistry)

And finally, I always ship the 'mum and dad' pairings. Roslin/Adama (BSG), Sam/Jack (SG1), Sheppard/Weir (SGA), Picard/Crusher (TNG), Janeway/Chakotay (Voyager), DeWitt/Dominic (Dollhouse) - and I'm sure I'm missing some. I just like the power couple who are also kind of the parents of the group. It's just my otp vibe.

Plus Una is my fave character, and I always enjoy shows more when I get to ship my fave with someone. And let's be honest GIRL BOSS/MALE WIFE is the best otp type to have.

[starrybouquet]

So obviously I love Sam and Daniel and Teal'c a LOT. like a lot a lot. Maybe not quite as much as Jack but a lot more than a lot of other characters. And everyone tells me that seasons 9 and 10 are worth a watch? But sorry all I see is Sam getting objectified and made fun of for being a geek and Daniel turning into Indiana Jones and I am so not here for either of those things?

But that's not what it's like! you say. Okay, so sure, Sam gets to be snarky. But only because it feels like she's no longer respected for her scientific knowledge. She's snarky because it's the only underhanded way she has to win the arguments, and nobody's defending her, they're all arguing with her. It's not a discussion, it's a "haha that's a funny idea miss scientist but we all know better" vs "I know my stuff!" argument. And I'm sorry, but was that *ever* the case with Jack and Hammond? No. Jack sometimes didn't get things. Sometimes Hammond would say "I'm sorry, Congress won't pay for that" or they would ask her to explain it again. But despite all his grumblings, Jack respected Sam's science. Hammond did too.

It's not that I think Cam and Landry are bad people. They just aren't really people I feel like I can admire.

And Atlantis! Atlantis! It's true - I'm bitter about what happened to Elizabeth, so I'm predisposed to dislike post-Weir Atlantis the same way I'm predisposed to dislike post-Jack SG1. And yes, it's great that we see another woman in charge, and it's Sam who is of course a strong character to start with. That's wonderful.

I also hate it.

Yup, I said it. Sam in Atlantis makes me sad because it is completely at odds with the character I'd like her to be.

I'm trying to put it into words, but it's just making me cry instead, so I'm gonna be entirely incoherent. Basically, it has something to do with how she seems to do a 180 from science over the "classic" military path (she has a PhD!) to trying to rise through the ranks as fast as possible.

I'd like to think that one of Sam's favorite parts of SG1 is how she can do both the military and the science. I think it's a disservice to her to make her character a one dimensional Colonel instead of the wonderful scientist Captain/Major/Lt Col Doctor we got to know over the years.

I'm not explaining well enough, and now I'm crying so I won't be getting into my poor baby Daniel. I know, I know, it's just a TV show and I can headcanon whatever I like, dammit. Sorry. It's been a long week.

(if you'd like to reblog or reply, feel free, but please try to be somewhat civil, because as you can see I am not in a great state of mind and this is undoubtedly not very well argued)

[sparrowsarus]

002. Elizabeth Weir

002 | Give me a character & I will tell you

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: She deserved to live, actually! And keep being leader! Maybe coleader with Woosley, because balancing the IOA tension with the needs of Pegasus would have been excellent TV.

my OTP:

Teylabeth. I am captain here.

my cross over ship:

Listen. Elizabeth/Sophie from Leverage. Imagine the chaos.

a headcanon fact:

She loves trash food. Absolute goblin of a woman. Will eat 3 day old pizza she forgot on the counter.

Her and Rodney knew each other in their clubbing days, and fought about the moral implications of Anarchism and it’s place in a modern nation state.

She has a tattoo.

How I feel about this character:

I love her with my whole entire heart actually.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Teyla, Caldwell, sometimes Ronon, and sometimes Sumner.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Her and Rodney are bros, actually, and you will take that from my cold dead hands.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I don’t know if I really have one? She was a better expedition leader than Sam, maybe. But I’m not sure if that’s unpopular.

[mercurygray]

So, I Hear You Liked: 1917

More World War One Films

I was very excited about 1917 when it first came out because it almost perfectly coincided with the 100th anniversary of the First World War, a conflict that I love to read about, write about, and watch movies about. This period is my JAM, and there's such a lot of good content for when you're done with Sam Mendes's film.

Obviously there are a lot of movies and TV shows out there - this is just a selection that I enjoyed, and wish more people knew about.

Note: Everyone enjoys a show or movie for different reasons. These shows are on this list because of the time period they depict, not because of the quality of their writing, the accuracy of their history or the political nature of their content. Where I’m able to, I’ve mentioned if a book is available if you’d like to read more.

I'd like to start the list with a movie that isn't a fiction piece at all - Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old (2019) is a beautifully produced film that allows the soldiers and archival images themselves, lovingly retimed and tinted into living color, to tell their own story. It is a must watch for anyone interested in the period.

Wings (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), A Farewell to Arms (1932, 1957), The Dawn Patrol (1938), Sergeant York (1941), and Paths of Glory (1957) are all classics with a couple of Oscars between them, and it's sort of fun to watch how the war gets changed and interpreted as the years pass. (The Dawn Patrol, for instance, might as just as easily be about the RAF in World War 2.)

All Quiet is based on a famous memoir, and A Farewell to Arms on a Hemingway novel; both have several adaptations and they're all a little different. Speaking of iconic novels, Doctor Zhivago (1965) based on the Pasternak novel of the same title, examines life of its protagonist between 1905 and the start of the second World War.

I think one thing historians agree on is that the start of World War One is worth discussing - and that there's a lot of backstory. Fall of Eagles (1974), a 13 part BBC miniseries, details the relationships between the great houses of Europe, starting in the 1860s; it's long but good, and I think might be on YouTube. The Last Czars (2019) takes a dramatized look at the Romanovs and how their reactions to the war lead to their eventual demise.

As far as the war itself, Sarajevo (2014) and 37 Days (2014) both discuss the outbreak of hostilities and the slow roll into actual battle.

The Passing Bells (2014) follows the whole war through the eyes of two soldiers, one German and one British, beginning in peacetime.

Joyeux Noel ( 2005) is a cute story - it takes place early in the war during the Christmas Peace and approaches the event from a multinational perspective.

War Horse (2011) is, of course, a name you'll recognize. Based on the breakout West End play, which is itself based on a YA novel by Michael Morpurgo, the story follows a horse who's requisitioned for cavalry service and the young man who owns him. Private Peaceful (2012) is also based on a Morpurgo novel, but I didn't think it was quite as good as War Horse.

The Wipers Times (2013) is one of my all-time favorites; it's about a short lived trench paper written and produced by soldiers near Ypres, often called Wipers by the average foot soldier. The miniseries, like the paper, is laugh out loud funny in a dark humor way.

My Boy Jack (2007) is another miniseries based on a play, this one about Rudyard Kipling and his son, Jack, who served in the Irish Guards and died at Loos. Kipling later wrote a poem about the death of his son, and helped select the phrase that appears on all commonwealth gravestones of the First World War.

Gallipoli (1981) is stunning in a way only a Peter Weir movie can be; this is a classic and a must-see.

Gallipoli is a big story that's been told and retold a lot. I still haven't seen Deadline Gallipoli (2015) an Australian miniseries about the men who wrote about the battle for the folks back home and were subject to censorship about how bad things really were. For a slightly different perspective, the Turkish director Yesim Sezgin made Çanakkale 1915 in 2012, detailing the Turkish side of the battle. Although most of The Water Diviner (2014) takes place after the war is over, it also covers parts of Gallipoli and while it didn't get great reviews, I enjoy it enough to own it on DVD.

I don't know why all of my favorite WWI films tend to be Australian; Beneath Hill 60 (2010) is another one of my favorites, talking about the 1st Australian Tunneling Company at the Ypres Salient. The War Below (2021) promises to tell a similar story about the Pioneer companies at Messines, responsible for building the huge network of mines there.

Passchendaele (2008) is a Canadian production about the battle of the same name. I'd forgotten I've seen this film, which might not say very much for the story.

Journey's End (2017) is an adaptation of an RC Sheriff play that takes place towards the end of the war in a dugout amongst British officers.

No look at the Great War is complete without a nod to developing military technologies, and this is the war that pioneers the aviation battle for us. I really wish Flyboys (2006) was better than it is, but The Red Baron (2008) makes up for it from the German perspective.

One of the reasons I like reading about the First World War is that everyone is having a revolution. Technology is growing by leaps and bounds, women are fighting for the right to vote, and a lot of colonial possessions are coming into their own, including (but not limited to) Ireland. Rebellion (2016) was a multi-season miniseries that went into the Easter Rising, as well as the role the war played there. Michael Collins (1996) spends more time with the Anglo-Irish war in the 1920s but is still worth watching (or wincing through Julia Roberts' bad accent, you decide.) The Wind that Shakes the Barley covers the same conflict and is excellent.

The centennial of the war meant that in addition to talking about the war, people were also interested in talking about the Armenian Genocide. The Promise (2016) and The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) came out around the same time and two different looks at the situation in Armenia.

This is a war of poets and writers, of whom we have already mentioned a few. Hedd Wynn ( 1992) which is almost entirely in Welsh, and tells the story of Ellis Evans, a Welsh language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. I think Ioan Gruffudd has read some of his poetry online somewhere, it's very pretty. A Bear Named Winnie (2004) follows the life of the bear who'd become the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Tolkien (2019) expands a little on the author's early life and his service during the war. Benediction (2021) will tell the story of Siegfried Sassoon and his time at Craiglockhart Hospital. Craiglockhart is also represented in Regeneration (1997) based on a novel by Pat Barker.

Anzac Girls (2014) is probably my favorite mini-series in the history of EVER; it follows the lives of a group of Australian and New Zealand nurses from hospital duty in Egypt to the lines of the Western Front. I love this series not only because it portrays women (ALWAYS a plus) but gives a sense of the scope of the many theatres of the war that most movies don't. It's based on a book by Peter Rees, which is similarly excellent.

On a similar note, The Crimson Field (2014) explores the lives of members of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, or VADs, lady volunteers without formal nursing training who were sent to help with menial work in hospitals. It only ran for a season but had a lot of potential. Testament of Youth (2014) is based on the celebrated memoirs of Vera Brittain, who served as a VAD for part of the war and lead her to become a dedicated pacifist.

Also, while we're on the subject of women, though these aren't war movies specifically, I feel like the additional color to the early 20th century female experience offered by Suffragette (2015) and Iron-Jawed Angels (2004) is worth the time.

As a general rule, Americans don't talk about World War One, and we sure don't make movies about it, either. The Lost Battalion (2001) tells the story of Major Charles Whittlesey and the 9 companies of the 77th Infantry division who were trapped behind enemy lines during the battle of the Meuse Argonne.

I should add that this list is curtailed a little bit by what's available for broadcast or stream on American television, so it's missing a lot of dramas in other languages. The Road to Calvary (2017) was a Russian drama based on the novels of Alexei Tolstoy. Kurt Seyit ve Şura (2014) is based on a novel and follows a love story between a Crimean officer (a Muslim) and the Russian woman he loves. The show is primarily in Turkish, and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, who plays the lead, is *very* attractive.

Finally, although it might seem silly to mention them, Upstairs Downstairs (1971-1975 ) Downton Abbey (2010-2015) and Peaky Blinders (2013-present) are worth a mention and a watch. All of them are large ensemble TV shows that take place over a much longer period than just the Great War, but the characters in each are shaped tremendously by the war.

[atlantis-scribe]

What are your most deeply held SGA opinions? Can be popular or not.

John Sheppard is in love with Rodney McKay :)

what Jeannie & Rodney's team did in The Shrine was selfish. I understand why they did it, man do I understand, but Jennifer being against their decision is such a juvenile reason to hate her character. if anything, her stand in that particular issue is a point in favor of McKeller (one of very few lol). one of my favorite Shrine episode tags is But If You Try Sometimes (you just might find) by sardonicsmiley because of this particular section:

After their arguments over what should have been done with Rodney, Ronon won't even look [Jennifer] in the eye. She doesn't know how to make the man understand that she could have never let Rodney just go, not while there was still a chance she could do something. A quick death is still a death. It's still unacceptable.

Atlantis is a civilian outpost. it should never have had a military leader (I love Sam, but having her take Elizabeth's place, however briefly, was such a cop out).

in line with that, it doesn't make sense for Sheppard to be immediately in charge when the leader is gone, either. I know it's a terrifying thought, Rodney being in charge, but he's the next ranking civilian. that's actually logical. (besides, Sheppard is many things, but a leader in charge of everyone's welfare — not just his immediate circle / family — is not one of them. we have proof of that in canon.) I'd really love to sit down one day and map out an expedition charter that is actually coherent lol.

Rodney is just as smart as he says he is (even more than he really thinks he is). intelligence is a nebulous concept, and true intelligence, at least the holistic kind, is more than just one's capacity for critical thinking and pattern recognition, but I'd like to believe that in terms of brain power and sheer ingenuity? Rodney is the best in (at least) two galaxies. (yes, even more than Radek. even more than Sam. plus, they're both better than McKay in social / emotional aspects by leaps and bounds, anyway, so they're better off in the end). personally, this helps me rationalize his personality and character in general. it certainly doesn't excuse the bad attitude, but if I look at it as Rodney just being unparalleled in raw mental prowess? so many things about him would make a whole lot more sense. [Jeannie is on the same level, but the key deviations are her being 1) the younger sibling, and 2) a woman, two factors which guaranteed Jeannie a very different path]. the fic Sublime by Lemonbella cemented this headcanon for me, actually:

It was obvious, watching it in process like this, that McKay just had it. He had everything they ever needed right there at his fingertips, to be used at his discretion, and in his own time. Radek suddenly knew why Dr Weir had chosen him for the expedition, why everyone let all the arrogance and bluster and incessant chatter pass them by, and why Rodney was allowed three times his ration of coffee a day. Because you only had to see this in action once to understand that a body needed help to keep up with a mind like this.

Michael, Kolya, & Todd deserved better endings.

everyone needed to apologize to Kavanagh for what went down in Critical Mass. he's a dick, but there's only a handful of differences between him and our Rodney.

Teyla & Kate Heightmeyer were lovers.

Atlantis is not alive, but it is sentient in a way that is beyond human perception (and it is not a big fan of John Sheppard).

send me fandom-related asks (x)

[ghostlyfanparadise]

“It’s getting late” he says and he started walking me to my courters but there’s something about him I don’t want him to go when we get there I sigh hoping he’ll understand ‘stay’ but he doesn’t and he says and sighs to me “good night” so I guess I’m gona half to learn a whole new way of sighing but at least he’s trying I walk in and I see a small thing they call a tablet remembering how Lorne taught me how to use it earlier I type in English sign language and start to study it I must have fallen to sleep at some point because when I open my eyes my tablet is in the floor and I feel sleepy still I get up and put on some clothes on of the Gardes dropped off I put on a green t shirt and some jeans I go to the bathroom and put my hair up like the woman on the bass has there’s I don’t put my head band on because i don’t seee the point they all accept me and they all know and if someone attacks me I can defend my self i repesishen my googles and I open my door I see to guards standing there and I sign to them even though I know they won’t understand ‘good morning’ they both look at me and I smile a little “come on becket wanted to check on you when you wake up” I nod my head and start walking towards the infermry “morning” the doc says and I sign it back to him and he nods his head the points to the bed when I set down he turns the lights down and I take my googles off “well everything looks good” he says and I nod my head I put my googles back on and I sign to the gards ‘is it ok if I go to the cafeteria’ even though the still don’t know what I’m saying they nod and I start walking when we get there they grave a plate of food I do the same then I go and sit down with even and his team “good morning” he says the he says “miles Julie George and sam this is sabbina this is miles Julie George and sam” pointing to each one as he says there name ‘nice to met you’ I sign and then he translates it to his team “you to” I hear the one he call miles “oh come on you wish” Julie says and I giggle a little and ask him ‘are they always like this’ the he signs back and says ‘I’m afraid so’ and I start to eat when I finish i get up and put my tray up still feeling Lorne’s eyes looking at me the to guards stand up and I sign ‘is it ok if I go back to my counters’ they nod there heads but they have no idea what I’m saying so I begin to walk when we get there I lay down when I hear a ding at the door I get up and I see both weir and Lorne standing there “Sabrina the two gauds are no longer falling you around and if you want to leave you can” when I hear her say those words I look at Lorne and see hurt in his eyes ‘can I stay’ I sign and he brightens up a little and translates to weir and she says “yes if that’s what you want” and I nod my head yes she leaves but Lorne hassitates I look at him and I decide to kiss him at first he’s unsure then he kiss back I pull away and then sign to him ‘do you want to go out’ and he says “yes” he pulls me in and kisses me then he leaves I stand there for a few minutes the I walk out the door and head to one of the training rooms when i get there I see a small woman training by herself I nock on the door to get her attention and she asks me “do you want to train” I nod my head yes and she tosses me a rod and we begin she strucks at my head and I dodge the I don’t know everything went black when I could see again she was on the ground bleeding and her blood was on my rod I pick her up and carry her to the infermry when I get there I put her down on the bed becket asks me what happened I go to sign but he stops me and gives me a tablet and I write on it I was sparring with her then everything went black when I could see again she was bleeding on the ground and my rod had blood on it I hand to him and he looks at it panicked “shepherd weir this is becket you need to come down to the infermry now” he says to his radio I put the tablet down and say In the chair next to teyla and sign ‘I’m sorry this is all my fault’ when weir shepherd Ford and Rodney “what is she signing” shepherd asks “I think she thinks it’s her

[o-neillwith2ls]

Give me that!

Prompt number: 27

Fandom: SGA (SG-1 heavily featured)

Rating: G

Warning: None

Set after Stargate Atlantis Season 4 ep 16 TrioDr Keller walked into the infirmary knowing her designation was Sam’s bedside. As she arrived, she smiled at the older woman.  She really did like her. She knew that Sam seemed a little private but was a kind, caring, and brave woman all at the same.

“How are you doing?” She asked Sam as she reviewed her chart.

“Better. Now that I’m not being thrown around with a broken leg.” She smiled.

Jennifer put the chart down. “Well, the balm in the cast heals it up to 50% faster than normal. It’s amazing really… a broken bone six weeks back on earth, but here it’s only three!” 

“Well, the Ancients really knew their stuff.” Sam remarked. “The technology we’ve acquired is equally advanced.”

“I know. It’ll be amazing when some of this stuff can go public. It’ll change a lot of things back home.”

Sam’s eyebrows raised. “If it ever goes public.” 

“Yeah, we all know how the military love their secrets.”.

“Yeah.” Sam chuckled.

Jennifer paused for a minute, unsure of how to the Colonel would react. “I have a question about something on your medical record?” 

“Oh?” Sam asked, warily. ‘Not the damn protein marker again,’ she thought to herself.

“Nothing medical. Just your next of kin.” Jennifer asked. “You have no immediate family?”

“Oh.” Sam sighed, slightly relieved. “I have a brother but we have a complicated history, but my next of kin would let my brother know anything which he needed to.”

“Your next of kin being General O’Neill?” Jennifer asked her.

“That’s right,” She nodded. She smiled wistfully for a moment and then chuckled. “He’s been listed as my next of kin for a long time. There was my dad, but he died a couple of years back.”

Jennifer looked confused again. “So, the next closest person was your former CO?” Sam could hear the question in Keller’s voice. Why would her former CO still be her next of kin? 

“And Daniel.” She said, pointing out his name as her second next of kin. Jennifer still looked confused. “Jennifer, the original SG-1 -- we’re all really close. Daniel is like a brother to me. Being out here, you must have picked up on it. We were together for seven full years before Ja— Colonel O’Neill was promoted to General and then for a whole other year where he was in command at the SGC.”

Jennifer finally nodded. “That is a long time,” She acknowledged. “Well, Colonel Sheppard has authorized the gate to be opened to send him a message,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. “I suppose there are some benefits of having your next of kin as the Head of Homeworld Security.” Jennifer smiled. “He’ll get to know right away, no delay and no classified mumbo.” 

“Yeah.” Sam smiled. “The gate really doesn’t need to be opened right away, just send it in our weekly report.”

“Oh, John was quite insistent. Something about the General ‘kicking his ass’ if he didn’t.” Jennifer remarked which made Sam chuckle.

“That sounds like him.” Sam admitted. 

“Shepperd to Keller. We’re about to dial up.” He informed her.

Jennifer touched her headset, hitting the button to answer. “I’ll be right there.” She said. Jennifer turned to Sam. “Try to relax.” She told Sam. As she turned to leave, Keller saw Sam pull a computer towards her. Jennifer looked at Sam and took it from her.

“Give me that!” Sam protested.

“I said relax!” Jennifer answered as she saw Sam crossing her arms in a huff as she left the room.

“This is O’Neill.” 

Keller stood in front of the monitor. She had of course heard of General O’Neill. Who hadn’t? He hadn’t personally recruited her, but he’d allowed Dr Weir to do so. At the time, her position was as an assisting doctor, so the General had no need to meet her personally. She suddenly was really nervous of the General. Not being military, she’d never spoken to anyone higher up than Sam.

“Sir. Yes sir.” She said her mouth was going dry. “This is Keller, Doctor Jennifer Keller, sir.”

“What can I do for you, Doctor?” he said in a stern but not unkind tone.

“Um, you’re listed as Colonel Carter’s next of kin, sir?” She tried to say it as a statement, but it came out as a question.

“Is she alright?” the General quickly asked, concern flashing across his handsome face.

“She’s fine—” Jennifer started, “well, no, not fine--,” she continued in a rush. “She’s not dead or anything but...”

“Doc!” he snapped, a hand coming up waving at her. Jennifer snapped out of her muddled state of mind. A little taken aback, to Jen he now seemed a grouch. ‘How did this man worm his way onto Sam’s next of kin?’ she wondered.

“Sorry sir, she has a broken leg sir, a few bumps and bruises—” she started to explain before the General cut across her.

“Sheppard!” He snapped.

John appeared beside her, “Yes sir.”

“I thought I told you...” he trailed, staring down John. “How the hell did it happen?”

“She was on a diplomatic mission, sir.” John explained. “She was perfectly safe. She was with the doc and Rodney.”

“Oh, that makes me feel better.” The General snapped again. “How the hell did she end up with a broken leg if she was ‘safe’?

“Sir—” John started.

“Stop scaring my team, Sir.” They suddenly heard as a second face appeared on the screen.

“Carter?” The General replied, obviously relieved to see her.

“Sam!” Keller reprimanded her patient. “I told you to rest.”

“I’m doing this from a tablet. I’m still in bed.” Sam defended herself.

Before the doctor could object, Jack cut across. “You okay, Carter?” he asked her softly. “How bad is it?”

Sam smiled. “Better than the Ori blast worse than Antarctica.” She shrugged. 

There was silence for a brief moment while the General interpreted the cryptic remark and then he slowly nodded his head. “Only warmer?” He asked, a slight smile playing at his lips.

Sam laughed softly although to everyone else, the joke was a little weak. “Much warmer.” She confirmed with a smile. "Not as bad the super soilder--" she admitted knowing he was trying a gauge her discomfort. "It's only a broken leg." she assured him.

“Okay, Good.” He finally said, after a long and pregnant look between them. Jennifer supposed he was inspecting her somehow, after eight years together he would be able to tell a truth from a lie, maybe he was looking for signs of deceit from her. 

“Thank you for keeping me informed, Doc.” He said kindly towards Jennifer.

Nervously, she stumbled, she’d seen impatience, gruffness, caring concern and now a warmth from this man, all in a few minutes, she wondered if his personality was always so Jackal and Hyde! How could Sam put up with it? “Oh-erm-um, yes sir.”

“I have a meeting with the senators.” He seemed only to be focused on Sam. “Do I need to--” he started to ask.

Sam chuckled, shaking her head. “Sorry sir, I’m no excuse this time.”

He looked a little huffed before he slipped. “What’s the point in having a w-Carter when you can’t use her as an excuse.”

Sam only laughed again. 

“Fine. Keep me informed.” He said then with another pause and a last lingering look at Sam, he ended the transmission. “O’Neill out.” 

The picture went down then the wormhole flickered out. Jennifer looked completely baffled at the screen. “That was the oddest conversation ever.” 

“Well,” John said, with a knowing smile that no one else got it. “The General is a unique man.”

“Yeah, and Sam’s been putting up with the goofball for years!” McKay quipped from behind them.

“Rodney!” John snapped just because he could.

“What?” Rodney answered. “It’s true. How the man even got to General I’ll never know. I thought the brass were meant to be clever folk.” Before anyone else could say a word, Rodney asked, “Is anyone else hungry? What’s for lunch?” 

“Orange Chicken.” John gruffed.

“What?” Rodney asked, worried.

“Chilli lime salad.” John continued as they walked down the corridor.

“Are you serious?” Rodney asked.

“With Lemon meringue pie.” John finished with a smirk on his face.

“Oh, haha, yes, very funny. You’re not being serious, are you?” A look passed between Jennifer and John before he asked again. “Are you?”

[takaraphoenix]

*frowns*

I think I lost about 25% of my enthusiasm for Stargate with season 8 of SG-1 and the first season of Atlantis.

I mean, first of all SG-1...

Killed off Janet toward the end of last season. Now there is no Janet anymore. I am not okay with that.

Decided to write Hammond off toward the end of last season. Now there is no Hammond anymore. I am not okay with that.

Seriously, 1.) and 2.) makes two out of the six major characters of this show and just why would you do that to me, personally.

Someone decided that Jack should be in charge? Why? Look, I get rank-wise and experience-wise it makes sense, but... Jack is a hands-on man, him behind the desk doesn’t make him happy? And his diplomatic skills are legit shit. That he’s not single-handedly causing a war between the US and Russian is a miracle considering how disrespectful he continuously is toward the Russians...

The shift in narrative due to 2.) and 4.) bothers me too, because it’s no longer the team going on missions, the dynamics change due to Jack’s lack of presence in the field, there is also a lot more bureaucracy now on Jack’s front.

THEY WENT FUCKING FULL DUMBASS STRAIGHT ROM-COM AND HONESTLY FUCK YOU. “The Man and The Woman for dumbass reasons refuse to get together so The Woman gets together with a Genuinely Nice Guy who really adores her and makes her happy but shortly before the wedding she realizes that she still loves The Man” and oh just fuck you. And somehow, the lack of Jack and Sam actually getting together makes this bullshit straight trope ONE THOUSAND PERCENT WORSE. At least shitty rom-com movies from the 90s had the pay-off that The Man and The Woman got together in the end, but this...? What the fuck? Not only does she not get The Man, no, she also lost the Genuinely Nice Guy so... she can now... I dunno, be Forever Alone I guess?? Seriously. If they would either make Jack/Sam actual endgame and had let them get together, okay. Or, if you don’t plan on pulling through with it, at least let them move on from their feelings and find happiness somewhere else? What the fuck kind of twisted mind wants their main characters to spend all their lives pining...?

They now also killed off Jacob. Now there is no Jacob anymore. I am slowly growing weary as to how many characters are actually going to remain until season 9...

So, you could say I have a few issues with season 8. Taking three out of the ten major reoccuring/main characters (Jack, Sam, Teal’c, Daniel, Hammond, Janet, Jacob, Brya’c, Rya’c, Thor) is a third. You removed a third of the characters I have grown fond of. That’s not okay. I am not okay with that.

And granted, I think the reason it bothers me more than it might have is that it takes me twice as long to watch this season as it did with previous seasons due to Stargate: Atlantis being every second episode I watch... and I am yet to find anything appealing about that.

First of all, Elizabeth Weir. I don’t like the new actress. I liked the actress who played her when she was first introduced. And then, snap, recast. And by someone who looks nothing like her. I don’t get those decisions. Like, when I recast A Blonde, how about at the very baseline I am getting a blonde actress...? Not to mention, somehow she just... she rubs me the wrong way, I guess? I can’t explain it, but while I instantly liked Elizabeth 1.0, I instantly disliked Elizabeth 2.0...

McKay is an obnoxious asshat. Sheppard feels like he’s supposed to be that super charming leader, but is 100% trying too hard. Carson... I am still undecided on. Teyla is, I honestly don’t know, meant to be charmingly innocent/naive in demeanor while being a badass but somehow it’s not really working so far. I genuinely like Ford so far.

I think a part of the problem for me is that it’s too many characters at once. With SG-1, you met four characters and got to know them. Six main characters from the get-go is a lot and unlike SG-1 that did put focused episodes into its first season to establish its main characters, Atlantis just continues being team-up episodes instead of focusing more on the individuals.

Still, having two characters not being very lovable, two characters feeling off to me, one somehow so far slipping through so much that I genuinely can’t even faintly grasp him and... only one character I actively like... that’s not a good ratio, especially considering it’s a spin-off of a show where I love everyone and can’t even actively pick one single favorite character?

Perhaps a part of it is that it’s the spin-off of an amazing show. Somehow, that seems to be a set-up for failure because brilliant shows leave you with high expectations for its spin-off, but in the end... different writers, different people in charge, different characters.

What certainly is a part of it is the clash. Bouncing back between SG-1 and “Oh my, the worst threat are the goa’uld!” over to Atlantis and “Look at them wraith being the biggest threat ever!” is giving me active backlash at this point. It kind of just... takes away from the gravitas of both threats, for me.

Though, granted, bonus points for putting them into a literal different galaxy, cut off from Earth, because it removes the usual “Why is there not more crossovering happening?” that spin-off shows bring with them.

And I mean, I’m not giving up yet. It’s only been 18 episodes, maybe it’ll pick up next season and sell me more on the characters. And I am optimistic that season 9 will come around too because they have to realize that this position isn’t Jack’s and that he belongs back with the team, at the very least even if you’re not bringing back my precious characters.

But that first season, especially coupled with season 8 of SG-1 that has a big drop in quality, it overall brings down the enjoyment level...

[typingtess]

KWIKN:  NCIS: LOS ANGELES -  “The Monster”

KWIKN:  Knowing What I Know Now

Poor Commander Weir.  Car broke down and got chopped to bits for his trouble.

Callen seems to be enjoying the fight until he realizes he’s the source of Hetty’s and Mosley’s disagreement.

I know this episode was co-written by Adam George Key and Frank Military but there is a ton of foreshadowing/set-up for Military’s “Line in the Sand” in this episode.  Deeks was always getting fired by Mosley.

What doesn’t seem foreshadowed was Nell’s fears about being replaced by Harley.  The two were on really good terms from the annual holiday episode on and weren’t tripping over each other in briefings like they were in the first couple of episodes in the season.  Suddenly Nell, who they’ve spent almost eight seasons telling us was the smartest person at NCIS and an heir-apparent for Hetty is about to get canned.  Feh.

That said, please don’t be dead Harley.

And we’re get the start of Mosley’s backstory.  This episode really sets up the finale in a way the typical criminal of the week does not.  Wherever he goes after this show, I’ll watch what Frank Military does next.  He’s no Chris Carter.

Look how helpful the garage full of psychos are.  And the uniforms on the men all fit so nice.

Garage Full of Psychos is my new favorite band name.

If Mosley was introduced or acted the way Harley is played with Deeks in this episode - mysterious background but nice and professional with some real humor - the season finale would have had so much punch.  Instead, Harley gets to be interesting (and hopefully not dead) and Mosley is a one note character.

Bobby did a good job of selling himself as the cleaned up addict who did something awful as a young man, served his time and is trying to be better.  What I want to know in the next episode of this saga - did Bobby find the merry band of psychos or did the psychos find him?  How did they find each other?  Who is running the show, Bobby or one of the other nut jobs?

Nice to see Mosley making friends at the ATF.

Mandy is a full-time spy and completely horrified by what she saw in the theater.

The lighting and the camera angles as Deeks enters the theater and finds poor Commander Weir are some of the best in the run of the series.  Kudos to Dennis Smith, who usually directs for mothership (twitter handle NCISDIR) but who has 22-Los Angeles episodes under his belt.

Deeks has no time for faux-Mandy’s delays.

“I fell in love with my partner” - and they’re never not going to an immediate close-up of Deeks and/or Kensi.  Or both.

Nice cameo appearance from Lisa Rand.  The show’s big flaw - no regular recurring characters - can be fixed with scenes just like this.

Linda Hunt is a treasure but Hetty telling Mosley she has to be honest with the team may be the ultimate do as I say not as I do moment.

UConn diploma in Mosley’s office - nice touch of continuity.

Things the show never quite explained about Mosley because they were too busy making her a one-note character:  Was the relationship with Williams the reason Mosley left the Secret Service?  Does NCIS know that Mosley (a) had a relationship with Williams and (b) a child with him?  

If NCIS knows about the relationship/Derek, why would calling the SecNav and complaining that Williams got away when you big-footed your way onto an ATF investigation and didn’t exactly make friends seems a logical move?  Oh yeah, one note character.

Deeks and Harley - while still horrified by that poor dead woman and parts of her family/co-workers - seem just a little less freaked out that Callen, Sam and Kensi.

This was not a fun episode to rewatch.  Still really well done.

[stargate-stargate]

I decided to do a Q&A with my husband to ask him what he thinks about Stargate 😂

SG1: (He didn't see the Stargate movie before he met me, but I fixed that because it’s one of my favourite movies): “RDA much better than Kurt Russell. Now second favourite sci-fi series after the Star Treks”

Jack - “Incredibly sassy and I love him.”

Sam - “Very capable and totally bad ass.”

Daniel - “(Teal'c voice) Daniel Jackson.”

Teal'c - “Completely awesome, especially when he is out in public in civvies trying to dress normally, but failing”

Hammond - “Compassionate commander. The opposite of the "guy in charge trope" In sync and in tune with the people under him.”

Janet - “Did not deserve to die so tragically.”

Walter - “He's the Gunther of the series.”

Jonas - I liked Jonas. A more than adequate Daniel Jackson replacement, but Daniel is better. They handled Jonas a lot better than other TV shows who bring in an actor to replace another actor.

The Asgard story line: I liked that. I think it’s a cool relationship. Though too many times they use the Asgards as a deus ex machina to get out of situations.

Favourite episode so far? The one where they went back in time to 1969. The episode where O’Neill was accused of murdering the guy.

Least favourite? The Gamekeeper one? I don’t know they’re good episodes. The one where the alien guy tried to worm his way into Carter’s life and alien stalked her.

Stargate Atlantis (I’m only about halfway through SGA season 1 so neither of us has seen a huge amount so far): “Hasn't developed it's own identity as a show from SG1, still very similar to SG1. 

The Atlantis pilot was strong! The one with Cheif O’Brien and he tries to take over the city was good too.

Except for Canadian guy, hardly anyone on Atlantis has characterization.  SG1 had stronger characters, even in season 1. Rodney is the only who has a definable personality and unfortunately it’s because he's the asshole which makes him stand out.

Theres: Woman in charge, military captain guy, Woman Teal'c, Rainbow Sun Francks.  Carter had a strong personality, butting heads with O'Neill, even Daniel had strong characterization. Even Teal'c is unintentionally funny, fish out of water alien guy. There's character dynamics in SG1 that are yet to surface in Atlantis. They get into a bad situation, Rodney is an asshole and they get out of the bad situation.

I like the Scottish Doctor. Apart from the fact that I forgot about him until you mentioned him, he’s got some passion about being on Atlantis and other people are just not enthused about being in the city of Atlantis in another galaxy.

Weir is the Carter surrogate of the series, but isn't clearly defined or fleshed out as Carter even as Carter in Season 1

Main guy character, I can't remember his name. (spends 2 minutes trying to come up with his name) Johnson. Wait, it's Kevin, right?  Definitely not as good as O'Neill

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Imagine Requests

Hello! I am developing my own imagines blog and am welcome to requests. I will write for the following fandoms and characters. I look forward to writing for you all! 

HIMYM

Marshall Eriksen

Ted Mosby

Barney Stinson

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

John Winchester

Bobby Singer

Castiel

Crowley

Friends

Ross Geller

Chandler Bing

Joey Tribbiani

Freaks & Geeks

Daniel Desario

Ken Miller

Nick Andopolis

Sam Weir

Supergirl

Kara Danvers

Alex Danvers

Winn Schott

Lena Luthor

Cat Grant

Mon-El

That 70’s Show

Michael Kelso

Fez

Steven Hyde

Eric Foreman

Riverdale

Archie Andrews

Jughead Jones

Veronica Lodge

Betty Cooper

Cheryl Blossom

Avengers

Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow)

Steve Rogers (Captain America)

Tony Stark (Iron Man)

Thor Odinson

Bruce Banner (Hulk)

Loki Laufeyson

Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch)

Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver)

Sam Wilson (Falcon)

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

Jonathan Byers

Jim Hopper

Bob Newby

Justice League

Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)

Bruce Wayne (Batman)

Barry Allen (Flash)

Arthur Curry (Aquaman)

Cyborg (Victor Stone)

Grey's Anatomy

Alex Karev

Owen Hunt

Jackson Avery

Mark Sloan

George O’Malley

Andrew DeLuca

Parks & Rec

Andy Dwyer

Ron Swanson

Tom Haverford

Ben Wyatt

Chris Traeger

Degrassi

Campbell Saunders

Declan Coyne

Drew Torres

Eli Goldsworthy

J.T. Yorker

Jack Martin

Jay Hogart

K.C. Guthrie

Mike Dallas

Miles Hollingsworth

Owen Milligan

Peter Stone

Sean Cameron

Spinner Mason

Zig Novak

The 100

Bellamy Blake

John Murphy

Jasper Jordan

Monty Green

Finn Collins

The Outsiders

Darry Curtis

Dallas Winston

Two-Bit Matthews

Steve Randle

Sodapop Curtis

Johnny Cade

Ponyboy Curtis