Comments | scherryzade: Fic: Semper Fi with a Zat

scherryzade

Fic: Semper Fi with a Zat

Jul 16, 2014 21:18

Title: Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis
Rating: G
Character: Ensemble, OCs
Disclaimer: Not mine (except the mistakes, although some of those may have been gleaned from Wiki-P, because I don't know nothing about firearms), no harm meant.
Summary: To mark the 10th anniversary of the declassification ( Read more... )

declassification, sga, ten years later, fic

Comments 4

gelbes_gilatier July 16 2014, 20:50:48 UTC

♥ That is probably the most fitting fic you could post for the 10-year-anniversary (now I'm embarrassed that I don't have anything :( ) and I love it! I love the Generation Kill meets SGA vipes and the SGA Marines especially through the eyes of a journalist (and eeeeeeeh, Teldy as the Expedition's military commander \o/). Thanks for posting :D

scherryzade July 16 2014, 21:02:01 UTC

Thanks!

I'd been reading Generation Kill when I first wrote this, so, yeah, leeeetle bit of that creeped in. Plus I have a journalism-in-fiction kink a mile wide (ask me about Lois Lane when you have three hours to spare).

Don't feel bad about not posting anything! This is 1000-odd words in lieu of a 40,000 word fic I should have finished four years ago, you're really doing better than me :)

gelbes_gilatier July 16 2014, 21:22:16 UTC

Plus I have a journalism-in-fiction kink a mile wide (ask me about Lois Lane when you have three hours to spare).

I've been writing a monster of a Harry Potter fic with a friend for years and we like driving the plot forward with Daily Prophet/Witch Weekly pieces she writes in the voices of two of her OCs. I love journalism in fiction and fictious journalism! There are so many wonderful things you can do with it!

This is 1000-odd words in lieu of a 40,000 word fic I should have finished four years ago, you're really doing better than me :)

Eh, I'm mainly writing stuff I either should have been writing months ago or stuff I shouldn't be writing at all but none of the stuff I should be writing urgently (namely a semi-exciting paper about the Battle at Tannenberg and an a lot more interesting paper about German Armed Forces online PR). In that light, something for the anniversary would have been a piece of cake ;)

scherryzade July 16 2014, 22:00:06 UTC

Yeah, I don't understand the logic - given that writing fic is a non-urgent task, surely that should make it easier? I understand why I put off work, because yay deadline panics!, but why would my brain want to put off the thing that makes me put off work?

I love journalism in fiction and fictious journalism! There are so many wonderful things you can do with it!

When I started this, I briefly toyed with the idea of approaching it as different articles from different sources (and, even more briefly, mocked-up layouts), which quickly went down to just using one source, because I realised I couldn't vary my writing style enough (not without having to read tabloids, which I couldn't face). And then I realised that I needed to write about Eddie in Atlantis as well as writing as Eddie in Atlantis, because he's a somewhat unreliable narrator - which is one of the fun things to do with fictitious journalism :) - but meant I got a little bogged down in what was being written by me and what was being written by him.