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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2008-01-29 11:45 pm

fic cliches...

Man. You know the worst thing about reading unfinished SG-1 fic?

I fell hard into the trapcliche of Sam and Daniel being 'siblings'. It's in a ton of them. Possibly, this is why I stopped writing so much Sam/Jack?

Also, man. Marya ficlet bit for amusement, because. I have no idea where this was going, but it amuses me (and the Marya/Mal fic is 18,000 words long. I should probably finish that, huh)

It was one of the most uncomfortable things I'd ever laid in. I think it even beat the bed of nails I bunked in one summer in a small monastary in the mountains of Peru.

Not that it was MY fault I was laying in the midst of a vast treasure trove of jewels. Diamonds, pearls, sapphires--rubies of all colours, shapes and sizes... It was a jeweler's wet dream. And it was damned painful.

"Can I get off now? I've got a diamond digging into my back and you don't wanna know where that ruby just went--"

"Madame, please!"

"Look, dude," I struggled into a sitting position, hissing as something that was probably a star-cut purple sapphire scraped an arm. "This is all well and good--treasure is useful, I'll admit. But I'm not a pirate on the high seas. Hell, it wasn't that great a life even back in the day. Nowadays, it's much simpler to just make money honestly."

"Madame..."

"Okay, so being a politician isn't exactly honest..."

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
Sam and Daniel as siblings? Wha-?

And...Marya/Mal? (I feel I should know, but...

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't you know? "PhD" is their mutual surname!

(Which means they're also related to McKay, Elizabeth, and about half the staff of the SGC and Atlantis. OMG, the SGC is the Mafia.)

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Things like this make me feel so amazingly sheltered. Perhaps my innocence is why lyssie has told me that she will send me to good fic once I finish the series so I won't have to brave the world of fanfic alone...

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Your innocence of badfic is a thing to be treasured and preserved. *nods sagely*

You try to do it on your own because you think you're a big girl now and can totally take on the world, and pretty soon, you're reading the batshit insane things where Daniel and Sam are siblings and Teal'c only shows up to throw in a random "Indeed". And then you start wondering when it all went so horribly wrong while you've found yourself in detox.

Remember kids: Friends don't let friends read badfic.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
You forget...I have braved the world of the anime/manga fandom for years with no guidance.

Every once in a while, I think nothing can scar me more than I already have been scarred...and then I'm proved wrong.

[identity profile] ultranos-fic.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I did the same thing too. "Look what happened."

Although, whenever someone brings up the "Sam and Daniel are like siblings! They can't have sex!", I have to laugh and laugh and laugh. Because I was around for the ship wars in Evangelion. Sam and Daniel have nothing on Shinji and Rei.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
HAH! You know...from the 6 seasons I've seen, I'd say Sam and Daniel are like siblings...but they AREN'T siblings, and therefore, could have sex.

Anime/Manga loves to pair up siblings in fic/shipping almost as much as it does 2 het guys...even moreso if it's 2 male siblings...
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a common staple in Sam/Jack fic (possibly less so in Daniel/Jack? I don't know). I think a part of it is unconsciously trying to keep it from being possible for Sam and Daniel to have sex.

Marya was a Mary Sue I created ages ago (at the cackly urgings of people who are no longer active, sadly) for the X-Men universe. She has since wandered a few other places and wrecked havoc on canon. I started what I thought would be a short "let's flirt with Mal from Firefly" fic. It apparently is not short.

[identity profile] thatpalebluedot.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
MARYA!

Oh, nostalgia. She was fun. :)
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She is, occasionally, the most beautiful example of my crossover abilities ever. Obviously, I should finish the Firefly one despite its utter badness at times.

[identity profile] annerbhp.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
We should have an airing of dirty laundry day where we post our worst kept SJ fragments in the name of ficamnesty. And then laugh our asses off.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
I love your icon. That is all.

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Though it does make me curious about the first 41 valid excuses...
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[personal profile] havocthecat 2008-01-30 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
1. sex pollen
2. aphrodisiacs
3. had to pretend they were married
4. got drunk!
5. almost died
6. thought he/she was dead

Oh, how I love badfic cliches for sex!

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Only "sex pollen" is half as good as "aliens made them do it."

I wonder if they ever get possessed by Goauld in those fics...
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[personal profile] havocthecat 2008-01-30 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I prefer sex pollen myself. :)

As to the Goa'uld, I don't know, but I remember once I read a fic where Hathor and Ba'al drugged Sam and Daniel up on aphrodisiacs, made them do it, and watched. It was just this horribly wrong-yet-hot trifect of kink.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The sad thing is, I've finished and posted some of mine, probably.
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[personal profile] havocthecat 2008-01-30 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I got of the Sam and Daniel as siblings trap long enough to write them making out with each other to piss off Jack. I wish I'd finished that story.
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[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2008-01-30 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Do so! ;)