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lyssie ([personal profile] lyssie) wrote2005-04-13 03:03 pm

AHEM. Fic Challenge.

Presenting:
The Intergalactic Space Hussies Need Fic, Too Challenge

Do you like Sam Carter? Are you frequently disturbed to hear people describe her as "too perfect", "Mary Sue", "boring", "badly-written", "one-dimensional", etc? Do you find yourself going out of your way to avoid fic that says, "I really think this is how they should have dealt with Sam's stupidity in X"? Or, conversely, mocking the hell out of it?

Do you find generalizations irritating?

Ok. Maybe not that last bit.

Well, if you're anything like me, you appreciate that Sam is a human being, that she isn't perfect, that she makes mistakes. And you still love her as a character and crave fic about her that ISN'T all about who she's fucking/dating/getting married to/is married to.

Not that that isn't one aspect of her character, but it's not the only defining one.

C'mon, this is a woman who's been tortured, who's had a tok'ra symbiote, who's blown up a sun (with help), who is currently in charge of the premiere SG team, and solved theoretical equations that no one will ever see because they're classified.

She's cool, she's fab, she's multi-dimensional!

So. This is what I want from you, dear writers. I want Sam Carter fic. You can write about any era. Captain, Major, Colonel, General. It can be AU, it can be so out there that it doesn't resemble canon (though near-canon is preferred). It can be long, short, multi-chaptered, anything.

Plus, well, I just want to piss off the anti-Sam contingent with lots of Sam.

Please help?

ETA: Also, if you like Sam, there IS a list devoted to her: http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/carterfic please join, and post to it!

[identity profile] paigedayspring.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know if I have the time to write but I want to read it all!! I agree that especially in fanfic, too often authors just get too caught up in making the characters' life too...lifelike.

If I do write something, I pretty much promise it'll be an AU 'cause I'm so behind on my SG1 its' pathetic.

[identity profile] jacksrubberduck.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That's one of my icons!

::is still shocked that people use them::

[identity profile] paigedayspring.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I should have known it was yours!! All the SG 1 icons I have are made by you, I think. :D

[identity profile] jacksrubberduck.livejournal.com 2005-04-13 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
:D Cool!

May I ask where you found my icons?
Cos I'm being nosy and curious cos I often wonder how many are found in various places I post.
ext_18106: (Sam - I make this look good)

[identity profile] lyssie.livejournal.com 2005-04-14 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
I don't mind getting personal/life-like touches. But I'm tired of reading fic where she's second-string, or only there so she can have sex with Jack (yes, I am a hypocrite).

Although, actually, one day, I will write the Sam going Christmas shopping with Jack fic, which will scare him, as she treats it like an op and is all organized and crap...

Er.

Anyway! I am contemplating starting a website (oh, holy crap, I don't need more websites...)