Stupid Shipper Tricks: Solace in the Crazy at the S/J List

[lyssie]

So, to recover from the fact that Kara/Anders shippers on Skiffy are Dee-bashing (get the fuck out of my 'ship, you assholes), I wandered over to the Sam/Jack list to see if there was any prime wank... Instead, I found requests for fic where Sam and/or Jack is suicidal, with people telling the requesters they were awesome fics.

'Cause, I know I'm always happy when Sam tries to kill herself over Jack, or Jack kills himself over Sam or--

Yeah.

At least they want equal-opportunity death?

*wibbles* I don't think I can dig further.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

...

Do...do either of them get brain transplants in the last 4 seasons or in Atlantis where such things would be remotely in character?

If so, please warn me now.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Pod people. Has to be pod people. I'm going to stick my fingers in my ears and whistle loudly if anyone says otherwise, because that would totally destroy the budding hope I have in the human race.

Well, at least they don't have Sam killing herself because she doesn't think she'll ever deserve Jack's cock. I...can't believe I just typed that. *scrubs in bleach*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

NO THEY DON'T.

er. sorry.

But the Sam/Jack Yahoo list is full of some of the scariest shippers I have. ever. met. Hands down. Sometimes, I think the McKay/Sheppard, or Kara/Lee shippers are scary? NOT SO.

These are the people who were going to write letters telling the people in charge that if there was no Sam/Jack resolution in season ten, they would stop watching the show/boycott/etc.

They're also the people who generally put me off Sam/Jack. Luckily, there are some awesome, awesome Sam/Jack shippers on my flist who are SANE.

Well. As sane as anyone who friends me is.

(oops. wrong icon)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

FORTY LASHES WITH A WET NOODLE.

Hrm.

I have no hope in the human race, at the moment.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Uhm...yeah...did they miss the part where actual Sam/Jack resolution would be illegal for most of the series?(I understand it changes toward the end)

I shall assume I count as a sane Sam/Jack shipper.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I ran screaming from the Sam/Jack ship. I got scared away by the batshit insane. And not the good batshit insane.

Yeah, I have no idea what I'm thinking. Hope in the human race? I must be delusional.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

...

*cuddles in the corner with the seasons she has because now she knows those people exist*

(wait...why am I being scarred by this by what the anime/manga community does to my ships there...)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I'M NOT LISTENING.

(...oh god, you're right. Anime/manga fandoms nearly make this look sane...)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

NO. There are presidentialpardonsetc etcetc.

Or they do it in secret and. stuff.

Dude, I should hope so. If you start saying things like, "Sam cheated on Jack!" "Jack cheated on Sam!" I might worry.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Dude. Don't make me dig up links to some of the batshit I've posted before (although it would be spoilery, so that wouldn't actually be fair. hrm).

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

There shall be no "so and so cheated on so and so" unless there is canonical dating.

But I reserve the right to object to love interests i deem unworthy.

(presidential pardons? wtf? they don't waste those on things like that...)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I was lucky enough to fall in with the saner crowd, early-on. I think? I don't know. aj was a font of useful recs and then I fled teh list after I finally got fed up and told the mods the behavior of a certain listmember was making us all look like misogynistic assholes (the mod reply: dead silence).

I have hope that Sam Carter and Kara Thrace would look hot when having sex. Does that count?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

After 6~ years of anime/manga and being in the minority of roughly 9999/1 who actually likes things because of canon there, you'd think no fanfom could scar me now...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes, spoiling Megan(beyond general promises of crack) beyond S6 is very Mean and Wrong.

*CURSE YOU WAL-MART!!! PUT MORE SEASONS ON SALE!!!*

(Can't even watch the S1 of Atlantis she has because of spoilers)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Just remember: SG writers are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Possibly not even in the entire hardware store.

Personally, I like to pretend that somewhere around season six, they were just having sex, anyway. 'cause they could. Also. Old married couple interaction.

(I DON'T KNOW... even if I'm guilty of having written it more than once)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Lucky. Yep, I'm vaguely new in fandom, and just go totally turned off. (I consider it a personal problem that I'm still afraid of recs from people I know are sane.)

I'm sorry, what did you ask? I was too busy staring at your icon. Oh man, teh pretty fucking hotness.

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

They don't want much, do they? TWU WUV OR DEATH!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Maybe they had sex inbetween seasons when they were stuck off world for a bit...whenever it was that their ship blew up or something and Carter had long hair when they got back and there was all the "wink wink nudge nudge" for what they'd all been up to while gone.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Oh, ow. You have my sympathies. I always hid on the edges of anime/manga fandom, mostly because it was too freaking scary there. (Um, I'd probably be in your camp with liking the things in canon.)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It's the only way for them to show they love each other. *sad*

Meanwhile, the Sam and Jack in my head are all, "..." "Sex on my desk?" "No. Sex on my desk, this time." "Carter, your office is glass." "It's night-time on Atlantis. Sometimes." "...y'know..." "You didn't marry me for my brains, Jack." "That is so untrue. Mostly." "*snicker*"

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've always kept to the edges and slowly but surely found a few people who also liked, or at least didn't object to, canon. And how sad is it that I have to hunt for those who don't object to canon? And even then, I still have people telling me that canon isn't canon, or that something that isn't could be(for example, I know several people who supposedly support canon who insist that the most hetero male known to manga would try it with a guy...so that they can have their 2 hot guys and still say it doesn't oppose canon.)

It's sad, though, that you have to bend over backwards there to defend yourself...for liking what, theoretically, everyone reads/watches it for in the first place.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

No spoiling, hopefully. (I hate being spoiled, sometimes. It depends. I mean, BSG? Don't care. Torchwood? DIE, DIE IN A FIRE...)

[annerbhp.livejournal.com]

Your WTF moments always make my day. Is it bad that I just love that they can still rile you up? You have to admire their powers, even if they do use it for EVIL. I refuse to let them ruin my squee or my OTP.

-Annerb, hoping she's considered at least a little sane.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm certain there was sex going on. Why else would Teal'c grow the caterpillar? He was bored... ;)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Awww. I could try rustling up lots of gen recs for you? There's some really good authors out there, who get the characters really well (top of my head: splash_the_cat f'r instance).

But there's a ton of fic out there. Wading through it can be hard, at times.

*giggles* They are rather lovely and adorable and hot. *happysigh*