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[bluflamingo]

I need some stargate women icons - as pretty as Sara Sidle is, she's the wrong fandom :(

So, story #1 for 14valentines, which is actually the story for day 4 is done, and features Rodney McKay explaining just how unpleasant he can make Cam's life if he hurts John. 1 down, 13 to go - eek!

Story #2, of Sora on Atlantis after Teyla finds her and brings her in, is currently at 571 words and has no actual plot, or prospective ending. Hopefully, one will come to me.

It's actually a little unnerving looking at my list of fics I'm going to write for this, since they say things like 'Ford and Stackhouse post-apocalypse' (as part of the Wild Dark Times verse) and 'Jayne and Zoe on a job together' and 'something about the women of season 4' (which, if anyone has any suggestions/prompts/general thoughts, I'd love to hear them, because I really don't want to end up writing about Katie's relatiosnhip with Rodney and how she prefers her partners to let her be in charge in bed and he's not very good at oral sex). At least some of the others have actual plots, even if it is only in my head (unsurprisingly, most of these are the ones with Sheppard/Mitchell as the main pairing).

In addition to trying to work out a plot for my Sora story, I'm also not-working on my essay (that's what weekends are for, right?) and banging my head against the metaphorical wall because I woke up this morning with a snippet of a Sheppard/Mitchell story in my head and went to have a shower instead of writing it down and now have no earthly clue what it was. Seriously, none whatsoever, and it's incredibly frustrating, not least since past experience would seem to suggest that the chances of me remembering in the future are incredibly remote.

So, I've never done this before, and I have no idea if anyone will say anything, but if you could command me to write one thing (sequel, prequel, pairing, situation, vague idea...) for 14 valentines, what would it be? Which is not to say I'll actually write any of them, but I figure I'm going to need some substitute ideas for when the ones with no actual plot fail to turn into actual stories!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

how unpleasant he can make Cam's life if he hurts John.

Given that it's 14 Valentines and not, say, 14 Ways To Inflict Angst On Your Characters, I'd be curious to know what Sam thinks of John/Cam, especially if you postulate Jack/Daniel in the background...

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

It was supposed to be a happy, cheerful, mildly amusing story! It's not my fault it didn't turn out like that! Honest!

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

I am so taking your prompt asking literally and I'm going to shower you with random story prompts.

Greek myths. See if you can do a John/Cam story with that as a prompt and you know at least have both of them alive at the end! Not all greek myths end in tragedy! Just most, but not all!

"Oops. I broke the world."

http://dracotelitha.deviantart.com/art/Flower-37328834 kind of lame visual prompt and also self promotion. However if my art is pleasing to your eye mayhaps I can be talked into doing some art for you. (in other words tell me if you're interested and what you want.)

Egregious - 1. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
2. Archaic. distinguished or eminent.

"Save The Last Dance For Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaelbuble/savethelastdanceforme.html

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ygJeffvsWqY&mode=related&search= Technically I call this one a song prompt but the video is SGA.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8WGaVu9wWzs also a song prompt. It'd be interesting to see Cam visiting the Pegasus Galaxy for like "leadership ideas exchange"

Pants and Paper airplanes - Oh come on you know this one speaks to you.

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-07-25 John reminds me of this cat.

It was at this point while still collecting things for you that might be prompt worthy that I thought "You know I wonder if Cam is a superman fan or a Batman fan? Because you know John seems like he's a Superman fan but he's actually most like Batman."

"I create myself." I'm not going to try giving ideas for that one. It makes my head hurt.

The next bunch will mostly be pictures and icons that might inspire you into a story...or just make you squee with glee. I'm okay with both.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/Nosex.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/johnwing.jpg If you don't know who the artist who did this is I can point you in the right direction, but I'm pretty sure you know already.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/johncorsetbypentapus.jpg John in a corset! You know you want to try!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/washingsexbyjackshoegazer.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/mulancomb_edited-2-1byprincofwhales.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/YoungWizardsAv_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/1134682byitokonoarts.png It could be a neat crossover right here.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/YWQuoteAv_13.gif I'm slightly surprised this hasn't happened in Stargate yet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/YWQuoteAv_3.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/audiobook-3.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/dw16.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/dw4.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/finderskeepers.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/7478433bywursticons.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/8159991bynatas_amsg.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/kitkatbybuckaww.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/snquote-016bytinamishi.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/random-text1byanna_liisaslyth.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/DracoTelitha/Promptstuff/snquote-023bytinamishi.png

For the record, most if not all of the above icons have the names of the journals who made them in their file name. Well I've give you a lot. I really really hope something sticks.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Thank you, those are great! I'm not sure Cam and John have a leadership ideas exchange sounds very wise - they're both fairly prone to throwing themselves into potential disaster as it is, I'm not sure they need to be encouraged.

However if my art is pleasing to your eye mayhaps I can be talked into doing some art for you. (in other words tell me if you're interested and what you want.)

I would love for you to do some are for me :) Anything you fancied doing would be very gratefully received, probably with a fair amount of semi-coherent babbling of glee!

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

They're only great if something comes from them!*totally trying to encourage the writing of the stories* Well you know maybe Cam is learning to fly the jumpers? Maybe they plan on using them against the Ori or something.

Well give me some ideas, specifically of what you'd like to see! I can draw John (I know because I've already done some Carson/John fanart) and I could probably do Cam I'd just have to go find some Ben Browder pictures....and you know stop drooling long enough to draw. I might try drawing Lorne because I just found out how short he actually is and I find that terribly hilarious. Really just give me some ideas.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

They're only great if something comes from them!*totally trying to encourage the writing of the stories*

No pressure then :)

Well you know maybe Cam is learning to fly the jumpers?

Last time I wrote that, they ended up stranded in the middle of nowhere!

Well give me some ideas

I'm not an ideas person - hence the petitioning for fic ideas here :) Um... since we're on jumpers, how about a flying lesson for Cam or Lorne?

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

You know for some bizarre I thought I had imagined that fic. You should write a sequel to it! It would be kind of funny if they got kidnapped while they were stranded and ended up getting home faster because of it. The two deserve some bizarre good luck.

But now suddenly I'm having of Lorne learning to fly a jumper and just being plain bad at it. Like 16 year learning to drive on the highway bad.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

And now I'm having visions of Laryn (Larrin? the woman from the Travellers, however we're spelling her name) picking them up and looking Cam up and down before wondering why she's never seen *him* before.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Now see that would be dangerous. All that pretty in one place? Plus it would be interesting to see Cam dealing with John Sheppard and basically the female John Sheppard. Then the look on his face when he realized it. All kinds of awesome could follow this.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Then the look on his face when he realized it.

Oh God, yes! Sort of 'thanks for rescuing us, but actually maybe we'll just go back to drifting in space'. And I bet she'd manage to do it when he wasn't wearing pants as well, just to make things worse.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Oh it's true, but what color underwear would he have...or actually he be wearing any at all. Dang Ben Browder answering the question of boxers or briefs with commando. Plus it'd be hilarious if she assumed they were dating or something. So much funny.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

You do realise that at this rate, I'll hardly need to actually write the story, just expand on these comments a bit :)

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Well they do practically write themselves. I'd be totally okay with expansion on comments too. Think of the work that you saved! Because honestly if I could write worth a damn I would never leave my computer.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's going on the 14 valentines list - writing itself sounds good :)

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

\o/ GOAL!!!

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

:p

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

I joke, I was just having fun talking to you. It's just a bonus if somebody benefits from it.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

That's okay - I was having fun batting it back and forth with you too :) Watch me start sending beta it for me puppy dog eyes your way tho!

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Well if it's for the puppy eyes....

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Yay! Also, it's nice to know they work online, even if they don't work offline :)

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

But...puppy eyes should work on anything and everything! Clearly whoever you're using them on are blind.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I know. It's a sad situation :(

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Oh! I had a brilliant idea for you in the middle of the night! (it's when I have my best ideas actually and bonus I remembered it)I have searched the internet over and I don't think I've ever seen an AU Cam/John story. Now I know half their appeal is that they're both pilots, but I can find McShep AUs anywhere! (in fact AU McShep is the only mcshep I read. Tell no one!) But I haven't seen an AU Cam/John, of course I've seen stories that might mention them in passing or where I guess they were at one point but no longer are. And while your John on SG1 actually is an AU it's not like completely different direction AU. Like if they were doctors, or FBI, or pirates ("wtf renee, pirates?" "Shut up I'm creating!")or hell they could be viper pilots on Galactica ( "That's an even worse idea then the pirates!" "Yes so I embrace it!")! But I just thought it might be an interesting prompt for you.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

You mean, like the au where Cam quits the Air Force instead of joining SG1 and John isn't allowed back to Atlantis so Cam entices him away to run a flying school with him? Or, no, I guess you don't actually, you mean *really* au, but I've had that one in my head for months now and wish I had the time to write it. At least partically because it has a bit where they're making out in a patch of sunlight in there room, and the mental image makes me happy.

Hmm, you know, I have that space pirates au verse that I keep writing bits for, now you mention it... :)

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

no wait! What is this flying school au of which you speak? Does is really exist? Did I some how bypass it in my searches? Are you teasing me? Because that's not very nice if you are, but if you aren't link me then yes?

At least partically because it has a bit where they're making out in a patch of sunlight in there room, and the mental image makes me happy.
I kind of wanna draw that now.

So this space pirate au verse thing, can I see it? Cause you know you should really share space pirates.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the flying school exists only in my head, but it will become reality this year, I swear. So I'm sort of teasing, but only sort of :)

I kind of wanna draw that now.
Yes, please! *Breaks out puppy eyes again*

The space pirates, on the other hand, really do exist here (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/616211.html) and here (http://bluflamingo.livejournal.com/16305.html), though as yet not with Cameron in there; I think he's turning up in the bit of it that I'm going to write for 14v.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

So you are a tease! Oooo! Space pirates though! I have to ask did you come up with this universe on your own or was it inspiration from something else? I don't actually recognize anything and the whole "captain trapped on the ship" is kinda weird. Although I'm not actually sure I want to read a McShep. I really am iffy about them, because it's practically canon on the show and really it's hard to find somebody who writes them right.

Also maybe, I've found out that Cameron is actually really hard to draw. At least in my style. I keep wanting to have an art revolution, but sadly it never comes.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

It came from a combination of things - Penguins and Sparrows was written for the stargate space pirates community, and the captain trapped on the ship came from seeing someone running a 'brain in a jar' challenge. The actual universe is kind of loosely based on Firefly, and actually the whole thing, for all that it has three pairings listed, is incredibly gen (because the Lorne in my head doesn't like to know what the people around him do when they're naked together).

I keep wanting to have an art revolution, but sadly it never comes.

These things never come when you expect them?

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

McKay basically molesting the stasis pod was kind twitchy for me, but overall really nice story. I loved Lorne and then Sheppard when he ran around petting the ship.

These things never come when you expect them?

But I want it to happen now! *pout*

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

McKay basically molesting the stasis pod was kind twitchy for me

It's really odd to me to see you say that, because it wasn't meant that way at all, more as him wanting to touch Sheppard because he's worried, and they haven't seen each other for twenty years, and so he's standing there with his hand on the pod because it's the closest he can get. Like all the cheesy movie shots of people touching their hands together through glass when they can't touch in reality for whatever reason.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Okay I see what you mean about that. I wasn't thinking of it that way cause you know. So I apologize. You should maybe have added something like 'Mckay/Sheppard if you squint' Actually I had a random thought the other day. I was thinking of how you said Cam might show up in the Space Pirates story eventually and for some reason I made the connection that somehow Lorne and Cam were going to hook up. I confess I giggled. I've only read one Lorne/Cam story which was by accident cause I didn't know who Lorne was at the time, but it was really good and I ended up saving it. Anyway I mention because like I said it would be kind of amusing.

Something almost totally off the boat. I found a picture the other day and it was in a signature but on it they had a shoulders/headshot of Cam and he was wearing an Atlantis uniform. Now I intend to turn this into an icon anyway but I was wondering if you might know where I can find some more pictures like that even if they're photomaniped or if you know somebody who would do that? Just wondering.

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

and features Rodney McKay explaining just how unpleasant he can make Cam's life if he hurts John

*bounces* Hee! Is it February yet?

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Is it February yet?

I hope not! What made me think I cold write 14 stories in a month and a half again?

[domtheknight.livejournal.com]

I just signed up for 14 valentines myself (I was signing up, noticed you had, and clicked over here and saw this post - hope you don't mind, because I realize that kind of amounts to a tiny bit of internet stalking...)! But I am definitely not crazy enough to try to write 14 things in a month. I'm doing icons.

That said - if you want idea help/beta stuff/cheerleading/whatever, I'm available. Just email me, or something. I can promise 24 hour turn-around on beta stuff right now.

(Also - I've got some stargate women icons and I could point you to their makers if you want, or I could make you some of your own. I should warn you that my icon-making skills are off and on, in terms of fancy things, but I can crop pictures and add text.)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will definitely take you up on the beta offer, thank you! Feel free to do tiny bits of internet stalking if they come with offers of beta reading :)

I would love you forever if you were to make me an icon - I have zero artistic skills, so I can promise lavish praise in return, since I'm always impressed by anyone who can do picture-y things :)

[domtheknight.livejournal.com]

Any preference as to person/people? SG1 vs SGA? Otherwise I can just poke around what I've got in my files and some cap sites...

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Other than not Elizabeth, nope, no preference. Whatever works for you sounds good :)

Women of Season 4?

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

Well, After getting to know Samantha Carter a little better I'm wondering about a short story where Teyla and Keller go to Sam to ask advice about dealing professionally with Rodney McKay...

Re: Women of Season 4?

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

Now that the thought has percolated for a bit... I actually DO have an idea about how the story would plot out... although it would be more of an ANTI-Valentine kind of thing, and just the sort subtle torture that Sam would put Rodney through... Let me know if you really want the idea. I'M not going to write it.

Re: Women of Season 4?

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll keep it in mind - I'm hoping something will come to me that doesn't involve the men at all, but I kind of like this one :)

Re: Women of Season 4?

[army-rat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like it... Actually, using the idea I have in conjunction with a Keller/Teyla pairing would work well too...

I happened to stumble across this post :)

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

I was bored at work, so I cobbled together a few icons. I can make others at another stage, but these are only crop & text right now. (I like making icons)

Use as you feel fit :)





(I usually play with the boys, but its fun to deal with the girls every now and again)

Re: I happened to stumble across this post :)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, these are gorgeous, thank you so much! I always forget how pretty the women on stargate are, but these are such lovely shots of them, thank you thank you!

Re: I happened to stumble across this post :)

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

Glad you like them - I had to distract myself at the office.