Looking for a place to land

Night on Fic Mountain went live on Sunday, and I received not one, but two stories. I went into this exchange knowing my requests were all unmatchable, so I'm delighted two people were kind enough to write for me.

My official story was Oblivion (Intelligence, Gen, 1774 words), which features Gabriel and Riley trying with limited success to get some downtime by hanging out with some of Riley's friends from the Secret Service.

I also received a treat: Alterations (Life, Gen, 657 words), which is a great pre-series look at Charlie and Constance.

There are lots of other stories too, in various rare fandoms, which you should check out if you're into that sort of thing.

I've been thinking about tropes while contemplating tagyourit nominations. So for day seven of the "ten posts in ten days challenge," have a few favourite tropes/scenarios.

( Trope talk )

Five BSG characters have been nominated so far for the blasters_wands exchange. One of them is Jake the dog. I'm kind of curious now what the requests are going to look like. (Fandom & character nominations are currently open if anyone's looking for something to do. All science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandoms are eligible, and it's a multimedia exchange, so you don't have to be a writer to participate.)

I've been marathoning Due South fic lately, and one of the things I've been noticing is just how prevalent certain themes and tropes are. (Particularly in the porn. Biting, for example.) I suspect that's true in every fandom, but I notice here more than in, say, Stargate. Probably because I read a wider array of pairings in Stargate (and possibly in part because I don't read McShep). I expected a certain amount of cross-pollination, but the extent of the influence is kind of interesting. (There are also noticeable patterns in the errors that annoy me. In Stargate, it's mostly things like having officers threatened with dishonourable discharge under DADT; in Due South it's mostly errors related to Canada. Which is natural given the premise and settings of each show.)

Fall television season is nearly upon us, but there isn't really anything I'm especially excited about. I'll probably give Revolution a try since it's our new sci-fi offering, and I may watch Elementary. I'm not exactly in desperate need of more television to watch, but is there anything else people are excited about?

Also, I really need to get on a better sleep schedule.

Stories written: 19

Pairings: 10 John/Cam; 1 Teyla/Vala; 1 John/Kate; 6 gen. Plus my John/Rodney, John/Teyla, John/Elizabeth, John/Cam story.

It looks like I'm pretty much a single pairing girl.
( The rest of my thoughts on my fic. )

I've finished one apocalypse_kree story, and the second is nearly done, with just a bit more polishing to do. (Why yes, I did decide to go ultra-depressing by destroying the world twice this year. For those who are interested, one's a gen story with lots of John/Cam interaction, and the other's a John/Cam story with almost no interaction of any sort. So together they add up to almost one full John/Cam story.)

Having finished those stories, my thoughts have turned to spook_me. I got my prompts yesterday, and now I'm trying to decide whether to make it a John/Cam story or a straight-up SG-1 story. On the one hand, John/Cam is always good; on the other hand, if John's not there then Teal'c will be, and that has the potential for all sorts of awesomeness. Hmm, maybe I can have Teal'c show up halfway through and get the best of both worlds. Or maybe I should cut out the rest of SG-1 and just focus on John/Cam. If everyone is in there, this story is going to run long, and I have to get my sg_rarepairings story done too. (Not to mention the next chapter of my dissertation. Yay, data analysis?) But Sam! And Vala! I mean, Vala on Halloween would be almost as much fun as Teal'c. (Poor Daniel's getting left out no matter what, I think. He's going to be off on a convenient research trip.) Decisions, decisions.