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[bluflamingo]

OK, bootleg the kettle.

I swear, this is what the computer screens at work say when they're being rebooted. Only for a second, but they say it.

My superviser doesn't believe me.

Also, my university just moved one of my compulsory classes from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning... because it's not like any of us could have jobs where we can't just move our shifts at a week's notice or anything! This better not result in me getting a threatening letter for missing one session of the class (I already moved that shift once, and my superviser is nice, but he's not that nice). If I sound overly bitter about this, it's because my department, while lovely in many ways, is always doing stuff like this - I think they forget that not all of us are funded PhD students, some of us are poor masters students and thus have jobs.

14valentines fic #3 (Sheppard/Mitchell/Lorne) is at 1542 words. Apparently, Lorne talks a lot in his own head when he's unhappy and/or nervous.

Either that or I'm accidentally channelling someone else while I supposedly write him.

#4 = Jennifer Keller backstory
#5 = Sheppard/Mitchell John in SG1 AU (is it still a one night stand if you can't stop thinking about him?)

After that... don't know. Too many choices, can't pick.

Comments

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for writing! Now I must make serious comment that if I don't do now I will forget and not do it again at a more appropriate opportunity.

Okay when you write Cam/Sheppard I am reminded of this CSI fic I read once. I don't know if it's how you write, your sidle icon, or because I'm half crazy. I really do not know. But it's just this one fic and it just seems very Cam/John to me. It's actually a Nick Stokes/Sara Sidle fic too. Single chapter and if I ever find it again I'll share. The story starts out with Sara and Nick as sex buddies and just shows how their relationship develops from Sara POV. It's terribly amusing because Nick is just very slowly sneaking into her life and Sara doesn't even actually realize it. It starts out with toothbrush and clothes actually no it starts with him coming back from a trip and they don't have sex just sleep cause he's tired. Um spoiler for this next part. At the end she wakes up in the middle of the night freaking out and Nick wakes up too asking what's wrong and she's like "Oh my god we're living together!" Nick sort of gives her this "oh she finally figured it out" look and tells her he loves her. She kicks him out. I think that's what really made that story for me, was her reaction. Turns out the rest of the office knew and are sort of like "Girl what exactly is your problem?" at least Brown knows. After a couple of days though she realizes she misses him and apologizes. I think that's when the story ended. But your Cam/John fics just remind me of that story. Like they're slowly slipping into each others lives and just don't realize it until just BAM! They turn around and it's like they've been there forever. Really I had to mention it, I don't know why.

Also can I gank your Lover in the Doorway icon? I don't actually have a Mitchell/Sheppard icon and I'm rather fond of that one.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a really lovely story actually - if you ever find the link again, I'd love to read it :) And yeah, a lot like my version of Cam and John as well - in my head, they've ben in and out of each other's lives for years before the stargate program, and so it's kind of inevitable that they end up together when they're in the same place (sort of) for a long period of time; except I'm not sure they'd have the realisation, really. I think other people do, but the two of them never actually do because...well, actually, I don't know why, but in my head, it never happens.

Except for in that one story I've half-written in my head, which has a similar moment (it's my favorite part of the story, and I haven't even written the thing yet!)

Also can I gank your Lover in the Doorway icon?

As far as I'm aware, it's shareable (I didn't make it), so gank away :)

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Hey if i ever figure out how to find the story again without dying I will. I know it's on fanfiction.net somewhere. So wait they've known each other back and forth in your head for how long and we've never gotten to see it? Now that would be neat to see. But everybody else knowing their in love but not them? I can see that in a very lolcat way.

Everybody: Yep they're totally ass over elbows.
Cam and John: Whut?
Everybody: It's okay. *patpat*

And clearly I don't do lolcat very well.

Maybe you should get that half done before it escapes you! I've had that happen to me. "Oh I'll just put this off for another hour. *an hour later* What was I gonna do again?" Seriously seriously annoying.

But thanks for the icon. I figure since they were made for you if you say it's okay to get it then it's okay to get it.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

So wait they've known each other back and forth in your head for how long and we've never gotten to see it? Now that would be neat to see.

Yeah, but I don't think I know enough about how the American military works to actually write it.

But everybody else knowing their in love but not them?

Well, you know, John's not the most in-touch-with-his-feelings guy in the world, anyway, but I think they know there's a pretty deep lovel of caring, just neither of them ever really think about it much.

"Oh I'll just put this off for another hour. *an hour later* What was I gonna do again?" Seriously seriously annoying.

Tell me about it - I had an idea for a scene in the story I was writing, and forgot it before I'd even finished the sentence I was on. Clearly my brain is turning to mush!

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't think I know enough about how the American military works to actually write it.
I might be able to help you there. I live in a military town (basically there was a town then there was a military base and then it kind of exploded from there) and my dad is former military. I like to randomly ask him questions in regard to the military whenever I need to.

Well, you know, John's not the most in-touch-with-his-feelings guy in the world, anyway, but I think they know there's a pretty deep level of caring, just neither of them ever really think about it much.
I-well-okay yeah it's kind of cute. Although with Cam I've kind of got synecdochic's version pretty stuck in my head, so as far as I'm concerned Cam always knows he just doesn't always act on it. Oh and he knits. I get kicks out of the knitting thing. So sometimes it fun to think of that Cam in the context of your stories and trying to figure out what motivates him exactly.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

The knitting thing is kind of bizarrely fitting. It's the sort of thing that sounds stupid when you say it but totally works when she writes it.

as far as I'm concerned Cam always knows he just doesn't always act on it.

Yeah, I gues that's what I'm trying to say, in a way. He's known that he cares for John for so long that it's not something that needs thinking about any more, it just is. I don't know - Sheppard is a lot clearer in my head than Mitchell.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

hey! I knit...just not very well.

But okay yeah I can see what you mean. He knows he just never really realized it and by then it was just sorta there and didn't need thinking about?

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

hey! I knit...just not very well.

And there's nothing wrong with knitting, or people who knit. It's just that the idea of *Cameron Mitchell* knitting is, at first glance, a little odd.

He knows he just never really realized it and by then it was just sorta there and didn't need thinking about?

Yeah, something like that, I think.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

And there's nothing wrong with knitting, or people who knit. It's just that the idea of *Cameron Mitchell* knitting is, at first glance, a little odd.

I guess yeah that would be a little weird, but couldn't you see him giving socks, scarves and sweaters as christmas gifts around the SGC? Or baking? I'm pretty sure Cam's the only one on SG-1 with any cooking skills at all.

Question. Who's actually taller: Mitchell or Sheppard?

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can totally see Cam giving gifts to everyone - he made Sam macaroons after she was injured by the prior, after all :)

Who's actually taller: Mitchell or Sheppard?

Mitchell. I'm not sure if this is based on actual evidence, or just in my head, but I always think of him as taller.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

I had to Google macaroons, I didn't know what they were.

Mitchell. I'm not sure if this is based on actual evidence, or just in my head, but I always think of him as taller.

Oh good I'm not the only one. I keep thinking of Mitchell as taller but I actually think Sheppard might be. I haven't been able to find a screen cap where they're actually next to each other at an even angle. Like with Lorne. I never knew he was that short until the Replicator episode and I couldn't get over it. So I've decided that Lorne can never stand next to Sheppard again or I'll have to mock him. Mercilessly.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I always think of Sheppard as being, not short, but not very tall either, until, as you say, you see someone like Lorne standing next to im and realise that, even if Lorne is quite small, Sheppard can't be as small as I always think of him.

[dracotelitha.livejournal.com]

I don't actually think height until I actually think of them as next to someone. Like Rodney, in my head he has a potbelly but I know he doesn't. Now though I'm kind of rooting for other SG-1 members to make appearances on Atlantis so I can compare heights more. I'm sure they will I just haven't any idea how.