SGA Big Bang

It is possible that at some point today there will be a coherent post. This isn't it.

SGA Big Bang is live!

My story:

Title: Resonance
[NB there are some coding issues at the moment, since the Mod got things going from VVC - there's a post here on the best way to view it, and I'll be able to post it right here on 25th August]
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen
Warnings/Spoilers: None/Up to and including 'Lifeline'

Summary: As everyone tries to put Atlantis back together again, John has an accident that gives him more of an insight into the city and the Ancients than he ever could have wanted. Unfortunately, this also gives the city and the Ancients an insight into him.

Art: By Genie
I admit to squeaking aloud when in_the_bottle chose my story to work on (the summaries were anonymous, so I just got lucky!) and squeaking even louder when I saw the art. It's caught the mood of the story so perfectly, and the cover is just...*loses the ability to speak* It makes me want to print out the story, just so I can put the cover on it.

IMPORTANT: Feed the author! Feed the artist! There is a comm set up for feedback - sgabigbangfb - and Genie and I both have posts there. My story's one of the shortest in the fest (I love that 45,916 is *short* by these standards!) so come on, give it a go.
My feedback post: here
Genie's feedback posts: here, and here

If you feel like writing a review of this story for the promo month of September (details here), please do so! I'd love to hear what people think!

( Author Notes (or: Acceptance Speech-style Thanks) )

This is going to be an ETA kind of day

My brain is a total mess at the moment, so I'm list-writing like crazy. I don't think this post is going to be the exception. More will no doubt end up going on here as I think of it, but for now, it's just my "Really need to do this stuff" list and a question.

Question first:

Why is there no SGA AU where they're gymnasts? I'm watching the Olympics at the moment, and seriously, some of these guys are flying. Why don't we have an AU where John's a gymnast and Rodney's the coach? We have sock AUs, penguin AUs and cookie AUs. We have them as vampires, musicians, shop owners, ice-skaters, marine biologists...and yet no gymnasts? Come on, fandom, you're letting me down here! I do have a couple of hundred words from an old X-men fic that I think is a pretty good gymnastics description. Maybe I'll have to dig them out and write it myself...

Ooh, and another question that I've just thought of. I've more or less given up on picking fic off the Doctor Who and Torchwood newsletters, but I feel the need to get back into reading. Does anyone have any author recs that I could follow - not just single fics, but whole bodies of work that I can get stuck into? I've got a couple of SGA things on the go, but I want to get back to Torchwood soon, and I need some inspiration. Anyone who's maybe only just got into the fandom, or you've only just discovered or you think I might not know for some reason? Anyone?

( Today's list of doooom )

That's a long list, but a lot of it is achieveable sitting right here, so that's what I'm going to do! I'm adding the sgabigbang stories that I want to read to my del.icio.us account (I use this name) and do go read them, guys. These stories took people weeks to work on (well, other people. I wrote mine in 6 days, but that's because I'm an idiot) and were real labours of love. I hope to get through them and the tardis_bigbang ones over the next couple of weeks, and will return with recs! But I'd love to hear other people's picks as well.

How is everybody? Going to have a nice weekend? I'm here at work all day tomorrow, and it's deadly quiet at the moment, so spammage ahoy...

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ETA (see, I told you):
( And the 'baffling the librarian' award goes to... )