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[general_jinjur]

i guess i'm just in a reccing sort of mood?

linabean has written a poem.

okay, backing up a little.

if you aren't familiar with it already, the thing you need to know is that there is this community - sgastoryfinders. which is, well, exactly what it says on the tin. people post looking for a story they once read and can't locate again. i know, sounds boring, right

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[trialia]

I'd like it if it weren't so heavily skewed to McShep!

[liviapenn]

I think that's actually one of the points that you notice when you read as many requests as she did; how many people just mention "oh, and maybe ronon was there" or "teyla was there too." Sad, but funny. ^_^

[nwhepcat]

Oh, that's delicious. And the William Carlos Williams parody in comments is also quite wonderful.

[general_jinjur]

isn't it? i love the poems both philosophically and as works. my love is multilayered!

and i agree with your comment that a *lot* of work and considerable genius went into making found lines into a readable, funny, well-paced poem.

[anatsuno]

Two years? Girl, you gotta pop that effing question! (I am madly curious now). *scampers to read the poem*

[general_jinjur]

dude, okay, it's the one where carson is recalled for some reason to the sgc at the beginning of season 2 (but post-intruder, i think?) and they bring more systems online in the city while he's gone, since they have full zpm power (possibly they found a second zpm?) and the city's internal defenses read the artificial gene carriers as interlopers and kills them all and imprisons the non-gene carriers and won't let them out as it reads them as an invasion force. natural gene carriers may also be trapped due to defense protocols? it might be part of a five times... story. mckay dies.

and i'm not really going to ask for it because i (a) think that was really all there was to it and (b) am even less fond of carson now than i was when i initially read it.

[anatsuno]

whoa. I have never read that. So I take it Carson was the prodigal hero returning after all that had happened and liberating the others? Or was it all grim and death and woe? (Rodney dying, NO.)

[general_jinjur]

oh, come on - have you met me?

um. yeah. it was all grim and death and woe. actually, i think that part (if it was a five times...) ended with the realization that so many people had died and it was ALL CARSON'S FAULT OMG IF ONLY HE HAD ETHICS. i think it came out around the same time as a bunch of fairly grim five times... stories, including the one where the go'auld invade pre-expedition ship-out and sheppard winds up as a host and slits everyone's throats in the snow in antarctica. which i am pretty sure i have bookmarked someplace.

i mean, i like fluffy bunnies just fine, and i am not a huge fan of angst (and/or schmangst) but i do have a fondness for the grim.

[malnpudl]

I cannot thank you enough for that link. I'm still giggling.

[general_jinjur]

:D you're welcome!

i am consumed with horror at the alternate timeline in which linabean never posted that poem, and the world was a sadder place AND NO ONE KNEW WHY.

[malnpudl]

That would have been TRAGIC. *appalled at the very thought*

Also: I just sat for the loooooongest time watching your icon. Brilliant.

[lian_li]

wow, that fills me with deep *glee*. Thanks for pointing me towards it!