#sg1: the sentinel

[scifidancer]

Christina Cox also is in CSI Miami, in the same episode "Stalkerazzi" as Colin Cunningham

[ekaterin1701]

Saw this on Twitter and was quite baffled by the idea of sorting by kudos in the first place. I’ve always just gone to the SG1 tag or the Sam/ Jack tag on AO3, which is automatically sorted by most recent, and didn’t even realise you could sort by kudos!

One thing that struck me was that multi-chapter fics probably get more kudos than one-shots simply because they’d be at the top of the ‘most recent’ list more often as they are updated, meaning more readers have a chance to see them. A one-shot doesn’t get that boost.

So, I’ve just sorted the S/J tag by kudos and the top ten fics are:

Crossover fic (SG1/ SGA, Teen Wolf, The Sentinel) - multi-chapter, 2,915 kudos, 63k hits

Crossover fic (NCIS, SG1/ SGA, The Sentinel) - multi-chapter, 1,844 kudos, 65k hits

SGA Rodney/ John fic - under 2k words and a fairly low-key relationship fic (from Sam’s POV), but it’s got 1,778 kudos and 17k hits.

SG1 Jack/ Sam fic (The Love That Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger by NiceHatGeorgia) - multi-chapter, 1,490 kudos , 37k hits

SGA/ SG1 invasion of earth-type fic - multi-chapter, 1,366 kudos, 42k hits

Crossover fic (SG1, Teen Wolf - same author as no. 1) - multi-chapter, 1,308 kudos, 8k hits

SG1 Jack/ Sam fic (Compulsion by Sharim28) - multi-chapter, 1,374 kudos, 33k hits

Crossover fic (The Sentinel, SGA, SG1, John Wick, Teen Wolf) - multi-chapter, 1,265 kudos, 49k hits, first WIP in the list

SG1 Jack/ Sam fic (Retrospective by Salr323) - one shot (of 18k words!), 1,219 kudos, 16k hit

SG1 Jack/ Sam fic (Full Disclosure by Salr323) - one shot (of 11k words!), 1.114 kudos, 14k hits

The next ten includes another Teen Wolf crossover (same author again), two sequel stories to no 5, a SGA/ Avengers crossover, four Sam/ Jack fics (three complete and one WIP), a SGA one-shot, and a SG1 one-shot (a quantum mirror/ OT4 story which is 66k words!).

I really was not expecting the top story to be a Teen Wolf crossover 😧 It was published in 2017, and I’d love to know why that particular story is such a big hit. Big Name Fan as author? A logical connection between Teen Wolf and SG1 that I’m not aware of? The writing (the crossovers and the author’s other SG1 fics) is good, and the author quite prolific, but it is still a surprising result.

I also looked at sorting by bookmarks, which similar to sorting by kudos (only one per story), and unsurprisingly the top twenty fics when sorted by comments are all multi-chapter.

I agree with the point that good fic in the early eras of a fandom might not be classed as good in the later years. I’ve found this in my trawl through the Gateworld S/J recs where stories that are recommended as being really great are not that well-written or in character to my eyes. I think some of that might be the change in tone - there are some early SG1 fics (dated during the show’s run) that seem to have a more light-hearted/ almost comedy tone, and I’m trying to think whether the early seasons do seem less serious than the later seasons as the stakes get higher/ the war with the Goa’uld seems less likely to be won. I’ve mused on this before and haven’t come up with an answer!

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: The X-Files

Sample Size: 1,320 crossover stories

Source: AO3

[cobalt-knave]

I just want a fic that is an academic conference, and all my beloved social scientist characters to be there (Daniel Jackson, Blair Sandburg, Ohio James, Rupert Giles)

[saffronhouse]

SEF is podficcing my Lovecraftian Sentinel/Stargate SG-1 story Lovely,  and the first hour is up now! Perfect for your Halloween barreling right on into Christmas listening pleasure, complete with this fantastic cover art. I couldn't be more thrilled!

Daniel Jackson goes looking for some peace and quiet in Cascade Washington, the most dangerous city in America. Now with the Mitch Miller Gang's Christmas sing-along and Jim Ellison's exasperated sighs!!

[riverageleis]

That relatable feel when you have 30+ tabs open and over half are ao3 story\series links and 1 is to your stats, 2 are to your het OTP in one fandom and the rest are multiple slash pairs in another fandom. All they have in common is the theme of loneliness, angst, and hurt\comfort. 🫠 Most of these are also AU. Im glad i can appreciate AU these days. Thanks MCU fandom. I will NEVER show these tabs to my therapist.

[villainous-queen]

Oh my God. I'm watching an @strange-aeons video and I'm spiritually aligned with this convention poster from 2002.

The obligatory Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill, the inexplicable Mulder and Kryeck, the often forgotton Jim and Blair, the baffling Darien and Hobbs. I just can't. Like I'm sure if I wasn't a six year old living millions of miles away, this convention would have been SO ME; like FUCK YEAH.

[ladylilithprime]

20 Fanfic Questions

I was tagged by @jazzforthecaptain for this right when I'm supposed to be going to bed. -_-U

How many works do you have on AO3?

172 currently posted, more to be imported and uploaded shortly....

What’s your total AO3 words count?

716,745 as of right now....

What fandoms do you write for?

Whew..... uh, lessee, Supernatural, Marvel Comics/MCU, Harry Potter, Animorphs, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Little Mermaid, Gundam Wing, Smallville/DC Comics, Highlander, Star Trek, The Sentinel, Stargate SG1, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sailor Moon, Tomorrow People (New/90s Series), Fullmetal Alchemist, Gravitation, Yami no Matsuei, Weiss Kreuz, Ranma ½, Pirates of the Caribbean, Good Omens, Firefly, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings et al, Daria, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Phineas and Ferb, Danny Phantom, ElfQuest, Rise of the Guardians, How To Train Your Dragon, El Goonish Shive (don't tell Dan!), Transformers, YURI!!! On Ice, Speed Racer..... uh, yeah, I think I'm forgetting some... or not mentioning them for Reasons.......

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

More Worthy Than Believed (MCU, Gen, Tony-centric, vague IronHawk)

Only Different In The Details (MCU, IronHawk plus Avengers ensemble)

Hel Hath Nick Fury (MCU, Nick Fury/Hela aka Darcy Lewis)

The Shadow You Cast Over Me (MCU, Gen, Tony-centric, unrequited Steve/Tony)

Broken Hallelujah (Supernatural, Sastiel)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Short answer is that I try to? I want to respond to comments, but sometimes I'm out of spoons and it takes me a while to work up the spoons to answer, and sometimes the comment is a demand for an update on a fic I just posted a new chapter for and I lose the motivation to write anything at all for a couple days because gods, I'm thrilled y'all enjoy my stuff but damned if I've usually got the time and energy to write fanfic around Real Life!

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably a toss up between The Shadow You Cast Over Me and A Wish Your Heart Makes. (If you didn't guess one of those, uh, well... ~offers tissues~)

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oh, hell, good luck trying to pin that one down! Seriously, I can't pick, go look for yourself.

Do you get hate on fics?

Not...exactly? I mean, I once got some dumbass complaining in the comments of my clearly tagged WinterIron soulmate AU that he wanted to read WinterWindow and "not this gay shit", which, dude, we're on AO3, not FanFiction.Net, the fic was very clearly tagged and you still clicked on it, so you reading "that gay shit" is all on you, buddy. Also, same fic, someone decided that because I talk about Natasha and Yasha being familiar with borscht that I was a Russian Imperialist? I dunno, people are weird.

Do you write smut. If so what kind?

.....Yes, hello, any kind of smut I write that's actually explicit rather than kept vague or Fade To Black has a separate psued. Click at your own risk, not that I have much posted there yet.

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Hmmmm.... Do I have to stick with fics that I've posted and can provide links to? I've got a LOT of crossovers that either aren't posted yet or haven't been moved over to AO3 and tracking down the links on the wider web and defunct archives is difficult.... so, I'll just cop to Lethally Blonde, the MCU/stealth-Tropic Thunder crossover, for right now.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Sort of? Someone stole a segment of "More Worthy Than Believed" wholesale and tried to pass it off as theirs a few years back, but it got discovered pretty quickly by folks who'd read the original.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don't know? I think someone offered to translate one of my older fics once, but I don't know if anything came of it.

Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

I'm listed as a collaborator for The Cadbury'verse, but aside from Bang collabs and the vague plans @rodiniaorzetalthepenquin and I have plotted about at three AM that result in one or the other of us writing fics in the same narrative universe, I don't have any posted cowritten fics.

What’s your all-time favourite ship?

~thousand-yard-stare at the above list of fandoms~ .....could you be more specific?

What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Dude, I just updated Only Different In The Details with a new chapter and the last update previously was in 2013! If the fic isn't marked as complete, it'll get finished eventually. (Or I'll die, but it's more likely the fic gets finished before then.)

What are your writing strengths?

World-building. I seriously LOVE world-building, and I really enjoy writing full AUs that really let me flex that!

What are your writing weaknesses?

.....forward planning. I can't seem to do it with any kind of reliability or regularity, and trying to write an outline is a scholastic exercise in futility, not to mention all the times I've gone looking for notes or scene snippets I could have sworn I wrote down or typed into chat somewhere and apparently sharing the vivid fever dream images in my head was yet another dream. On the other hand, I remember three different versions of those scenes in vivid technicolor, so I just have to pick one instead of starting three new WIPs.....

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

This is honestly why I'm slowly teaching myself seven different languages, and you can bet I prefer having a beta for those segments who is a native speaker. (Harder for Latin, Quenya, Vulcan, and Enochian, admittedly....)

First fandom you wrote for?

Trick question. The first fandom I ever wrote for and posted online was Animorphs, but I was writing fanfic as far back as second grade for Disney movies and the Sweet Valley Universe nominally by Francis Pascal. (Yes, I still have those notebooks. No, they will not be transcribed and archived online.)

Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Always the fic I haven't written yet. Always. What I think is my favorite now will not likely still be my favorite next year, maybe not even next month! Hell, I can't even pick a favorite out of the ones I have posted to AO3 right this second! But then, isn't that part of the fun part of writing?

Tagging.... @rodiniaorzetalthepenquin , @karategirl80 , @slytherkins , @youarentreadingthis , @sageclover61 , @hyrulehearts1123 , and @mrswhozeewhatsis . Have fun!

[elenath9]

Lightened the pic up a bit so I could see it better.

paused on a Daniel Blep

[faradheia]

fic stats game

Rules: Give us the links to your fics with the most hits, second most kudos, third most bookmarks, fourth most comments, fifth most words, and your fic with the least amount of words.

Thanks to @emungere for the idea!

most hits: Comfort in Darkness MDZS After a night hunt alpha Lan Sizhui comforts his friend, omega Jin Ling.

second most kudos: Partnership: Finding the Right Scent 911 AU Guide Evan Buckley and Sentinel Eddie Diaz navigate through their life as firefighters and a mostly bonded pair. If only Buck could solve his Sentinel's last sense issue there might be the sweet smell of success…

third most bookmarks: Tied! The Out Of Towners Blair's friend Daniel Jackson comes for a visit after many years apart. Crossover with Stargate: SG1 and Sentinel

When The Rain Provides DMBJ The tomb, a monster, a storm and a secluded cabin refuge. Wu Xie just wanted to take Liu Sang for a nice visit to simple a tomb. This was little more than he'd bargained for.

fourth most comments: Not Your Usual Detective Agency Blood Ties TV The girls wind down after their strangest case yet. I've got like 4 or 5 at the same level so I just picked one.

fifth most words: Breakthroughs part 2 of the Break series Jim, Blair and Simon deal with the aftermath of Jim's sensory episode. The Sentinel

fewest words: It's Good to be King DMBJ A day in the life of a king shibie…..

inviting: @kimannebb , @lasenbyphoenix, @foxofninetales, @gingersnapwolves and anyone else who wants to participate :)

[shadowsandsunset]

You ever realize something about yourself and go "oh no, oh no, that makes sense"...

So I was rereading some McShep from way back in the day and realized that almost all of my m/m ships since like fucking Kirk/Spock can be broken down into basically nerd/jock.

Jim/Blair from The Sentinel?

Daniel/Jack from SG1?

McKay/Sheppard from SGA?

Stiles/Derek from Teen Wolf?

Geralt/Jaskier from The Witcher (TV)?

Steve/Eddie from Stranger Things?

And you can't tell me that Evan Buckley isn't a giant nerd. So Buddie and Tevan? Still nerd/jock.

Kind of a shame the webtoon series Nerd And Jock made the characters straight... 👀 (I don't read the series, just seen a few of the comics).

I also miss my nerd partner and I can't wait for them to tell me about frogs later today. I love them.

Am I a jock? Ehhh...kinda, I do play sports occasionally. I'm both a nerd and jock. Depends on the day and my ADHD rather I am going to go run through the woods, lift weights for fun, read a book or fall down a wiki-hole.

[cobalt-knave]

WIP tag game!!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Tag as many people as you have WIPs!

tagged by @thewrongshop! Thank you!

Lets see here

Don't They Have Baristas on Abydos? - stargate fic

Sentinel fic death loop

The Immortality of Choices

Barista Heroes stargate ep tag fic

showing a friend around - stargate fic

Merle and Nastya Freak Friends mechs taz fic

The New Serpent Guard stargate sg-1 fic

Failed experiments mechs fic

[untitled sentinel fic in my notes app]

A Good Host Stargate fic

These are all Stargate, The Barista Series by dietcokechic, Sentinel, the Mechanisms, the Adventure Zone, and the Magnus Archives. It excludes incomplete chaptered works I don't have open.

I would Love to get asks about my wips!

I shall tag @the-poppy-outie-effect @luckjustkissedyouhello @garecc @specialagentartemis

[ekaterin1701]

I’m not convinced he did…

Stargate SG-1 | 5x20 The Sentinel

[stargate365]

[SG-1] 5.20: The Sentinel

Previously on SG-1, the NID shits caused a lot of trouble and Jack was not happy with them at all.

Jack read that report, Sir, he swears it.

Grogan? One of Jack’s itty-bitty little baby brats?

Man on the camera is hilarious... Pffts.

“The Rat bastard” “I thought he seemed very nice” “The voice behind the camera.”

Daniel’s snark and sarcasm is always well loved, as is Teal’c taking it literally.

This guy is such an asshat. He might be brilliant, but that doesn’t make him a good man.

Paint the canons! Prepare to Fire!! FIRE!!!

I kinda feel bad for the Jaffa on that team.

“I don’t like the idea of going into this unarmed.” “...and I don’t care.”

“I feel better just knowing there’s an archeologist watching our backs.” “Yeah, which end do the bullets go in again?”

The snark. I love it. ;<;

Oh hi Grogan. Hi sweet baby minion. Congratulations on not getting shot so far.

I don’t think this chancellor dude understands what the Goa’uld is like to do.

Lol, Daniel likes touching things he shouldn't.

Daniel is being smart and figuring things out quickly. That little shit, whistling while they’re trying to listen to the harmonics.

Jfc, people need to write important information down.

I don’t think this guy understands that the Sentinel probably kills people... “Sent away” my ass.

With luck? What luck? 

“Do you have any idea how complicated this code is?” “Yes, let me try.”

Im surprised nobody thought of this sooner, linguistics and code go hand in hand more often than not. 

Lol. Idk why people think Daniel is dumb, doesn’t he have like 3 phds, and speak 27 languages and graduate from uni very, very young? Like Im sure he finished HS at like 14?

Idk if this guy is brave or just really fucking stubborn. He’s gone past dumb and suicidal, so it has to be one of the other two.

Yes Kershaw, tell us of this Caretaker.

Congrats Grieves, you done fucked up.

Jack!! Gorgan!! 

Well now, this is interesting... and look, the Jaffa have been ‘sent away’.

“Oh, I think I know what they’d say.”

[spockvarietyhour]

[sentinelmania]

For friends of crossovers with Stargate SG1, a list of stories:

https://magician114.livejournal.com/tag/crossovers%3A%20stargate%20sg1