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100 Days of Writing, DAY 100!!/WIP Wednesday

I DID IT BINCHES!!! 100 DAYS OF WRITING! @the-wip-project

Did I skip a day or two because Life Happened and we’re still living in an endless Dumpster Fire? Sure, but for the majority I was creating and that is what I’m proud of. I managed to write a hella lot of my last Vega/Ryder fic, outline and start my SGA rewrite, as well as a few one-shots. Was it hard at times? yes, but I got through it.

And honestly? That’s the thing I’m most proud of, I got through it.

Here’s the most recent bit of my SGA story.

also tagged by @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold for WIP Wednesday! <3

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“‘Scuse my language, and sorry if this is blunt, but what the fuck are you doing here instead of a Michlen stared restaurant?” 

Kerry let out a laugh as did the others before they answered, “I could ask you the same thing. How did you get the job?”

“She knows Doctor Jackson.” Crystal supplied as she snagged another lemon cookie and found a spot on her plate where it wasn’t going to fall. As they moved back towards the table she continued, “At least that’s what the scuttlebutt is.”

“I mean, that part isn’t wrong.” Max shrugged and gingerly put her plate on the green felt. “I grew up in Chicago but we moved to Colorado Springs for my mom’s job when I was in high school. I ended up getting a scholarship to the University of Illinois and moved back to the city for college. That’s where I met Dan-err...Doctor Jackson. We actually took a lot of the same classes but didn’t become friends until our sophomore year.”

“So that’s the resume highlights, what about family?” Kerry asked as Katie Brown shuffled the cards and passed the desk over to Charlotte who started to deal the new hand.

“I have a younger brother, he’s in the Army. Then it’s just my parents who still live in Colorado Springs.”

“And they were okay with you leaving for ‘Antarctica’?” Melinda asked, her South African accent taking a bit for Max to parse. “I almost had to give my PhD dissertation again to get them on board.”

Max shrugged while organizing her card and discarding the lowest one, “They weren’t thrilled but when I told them Doctor Jackson nominated me and that I wanted to try something new they came around to the idea. Eventually.”

“So Max,” Kate Heightmeyer asked after a beat of silence where everyone focused on either their cards or the snacks. “You’ve been here almost a month, what’s one thing you miss about Earth?”

“Just one?” Max cracked while drawing a card and hoping the smile from the joke hid the one from getting a card she needed. “I’d have to say Big Belly Burger. No offense Kerry.”

“None taken.” Kerry playfully tossed her cards down. “I’m out. I miss Starbucks, or rather any coffee that’s not black and has been sitting around for hours.”

“Video games.” Lydia said, pushing her glasses back up.

“TV shows. I lived for The Bachelor when it was on.”

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100 Days of Writing Day 16/WIP Wednesday/WIP Game

Tagged by @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold for WIP Wednesday and @missmeggo929 for the WIP Game, also counting this as my daily 100 Days of Writing entry, lol. @the-wip-project

Finished (for the most part) the first chapter of my SGA rewrite today and that made me feel really satisfied.

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Watching the organized chaos as Air Force personnel moved around the warehouse, finishing loading supplies onto the Daedalus, Max felt her stomach squeeze with a mixture of excitement and uncertainty. But she was more excited than anything, ready to start a new and different chapter of her life with this assignment.

“Everyone thinks I quit my job to go teach in Antarctica. If they only knew.” she thought as a forklift trundled by carrying crates that had the words ‘McMurdo Air Base’ stamped on it. Max knew from her last briefing that the base in Antarctica was used as cover for everyone in the Atlantis Expedition and that’s where any mail she’d be sent would be in care of.

“Max!”

The shout pulled her back into the present and she turned to see Daniel weaving his way through the chaos towards her. Smiling, she stood as he got closer, relieved that he’d made it. He’d made a vague promise to try and see her before the Daedalus lifted off, barring a last minute crisis at the SGC. 

“Sorry I’m late, traffic around Peterson was a nightmare.” Daniel said once he was closer. 

“I understand that, the last time we met James’s transport here traffic was so backed up we almost missed it.”

Daniel stuck his hands in his jacket pockets while turning to face the Daedalus, noticing how Max kept glancing at it. “Pretty cool isn’t it? Still catches me from time to time and I’m an old hat at this.”

“It’s amazing.” Max let an excited laugh out as the roof of the warehouse started to open and the shouts around them increased. Everyone else around them started to stand and pack up their things, which told Max that boarding would start soon. But she didn’t want to join them just yet. “I don’t know if I can read science fiction anymore, now that I know the truth.”

Daniel let a quick smile appear, “Same with me and books about Egyptian mythology. Keep in contact okay? I want to know what’s happening over there.”

“Promise.” 

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100 Days of Writing, Day 98

Two days left *muffled yelling* Dusted off my SGA rewrite and got a couple of scenes written! @the-wip-project

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By the time she reached Lydia’s apartment, Max could already hear the laughter and hesitated for a millisecond before pressing the door chime. It opened pretty quickly and Max saw Lydia’s face beaming across from hers.

“You made it!” Lydia exclaimed, going in for a hug before stepping back and waving Max in. “I thought you’d try and beg off again.”

“I’ll be honest and say that I was tempted, but then I was reminded how nice it is to have coherent conversations.” Max replied as she followed Lydia into the apartment that was almost identical to her own, minus the big poker table in the middle of the living room.

The table was full of other women Max assumed were from either the same department as Lydia or Crystal. 

“This is Max, the new teacher for the kids.” Lydia said as she plopped back down into her seat.

Max gave a small wave as she sat in the only open chair next to Crystal as Lydia continued with the introductions, going clockwise from Max’s seat, “You already know Crystal, but then there’s Katie Brown, Kate Heightmeyer, Kerry, Melinda, and Charlotte.”

Max waved to everyone and when Lydia was finished, the current hand had been wrapped up. “Seems I arrived at the right time.”

“I’ll say, Kerry got here just before you and we didn't have time to dig into the treats they brought.” Crystal replied as everyone stood and made their way towards the coffee table that was nearly covered with sweets.

“Are those...orange bars?” Max asked at seeing one of her favorite treats and picking up a paper plate.

“They are. And lemon bars, anything citrus really. Keeps Doctor McKay from taking any if he shows up.” Kerry replied while giving Lydia a knowing wink. 

“Rodney has trouble turning ‘work mode’ off. He softened a little when he and Doctor Weir got together, but sometimes he can’t let things go.” Lydia said as she slid a lemon square onto her plate.

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100 Days of Writing Day 12

So for today, lets do some discovery writing. I give you a prompt, and you write at least three paragraphs of a character reacting to it. Let's see who you discover.

The prompt: Unfortunately, things never go according to plan around here.

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Max knew that when she signed up to travel to another galaxy things would happen. She’d gathered that much when Daniel told her about what he’d really been doing for almost two decades with the American military, that almost every week it seemed like there was some problem or emergency that put all other plans on the back burner. But she thought she could handle it.

“I wouldn’t have become a teacher if I couldn’t deal with some chaos.” She thought while counting heads. “Especially with elementary aged kids, things never go according to plan with that age range.”

They’d been cleaning up for the day, getting ready for their parents to show up, when the city-wide alarm had sounded. Not wanting to worry the kids anymore than necessary, Max had followed procedure; lock the door, turn off the lights, and get low. “Just like any drill back on Earth.” she thought with some amusement.

She’d even broken out the tablets to keep the kids quiet, something that took their attention off of the current goings on. Watching them as they concentrated on whatever games they were playing, she wondered how often this kind of thing happened. Surely it couldn’t be that frequent, could it?

“But they are acting like this happens all the time.”

Tapping out a few notes on her own tablet, Max looked up as the ‘all clear’ alarm sounded and her headset crackled to life, saying the same thing. Standing she quickly crossed the room to turn on the lights while asking, “You guys ready for your parents to show up?”

“It’s over?” Jaime asked while glancing up from the tablet she was sharing with Kelly.

“It is.”

“Oh.”

Max raised an eyebrow at the dismissive comment but couldn’t investigate more as her headset clicked to life again, this time it was Colonel Lorne on the other end.

“Miss Wainwright?”

“Yes, Colonel?” Max said, loud enough for him to hear but that the others couldn’t. 

“Just wanted to let you know that everyone’ll be...delayed in getting the kids. The...incident just now needs all hands on deck to clean up and we’re not sure when we’ll be done. Unfortunately, things never go according to plan around here.”

“That’s okay.” Max replied, a hint of laughter in her voice. “I wouldn’t have taken the job if it’d been predictable.”

She heard the huff of laughter and could picture the Colonel trying not to smile in front of either Tom or anyone else he was around. “I think the same goes for everyone around here.”

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I am in the Mood to hear about any of your OC's! I truly adore all of them! Lay the fun facts on me :D

<3 gonna go with some of the one’s I don’t talk about that much.

Jason Shepard

He had horrible acne when he was a teen. It faded as he got older, but every once in a while if he’s too stressed or had to many sweets he’ll breakout. Then it’s like ‘shit how can i cover this up.’

Is oddly proud of his scars. It shows what he’s sacrificed and given of himself for the galaxy.

Despite earning the nickname ‘butcher of torfan’ is actually kind of soft? He’ll spend his downtime just playing his guitar and sketching kaidan whatever he feels like. Or just sitting around drinking shitty beer.

Once he’s recovered enough from his injuries post-Reaper War, him and Kaidan get married. It’s a small ceremony on the beach, only with what Normandy crew is still on Earth at the time and what’s left of Kaidan’s family in attendance, but it’s still the best day of his life.

Favorite food is greek pasta salad with extra hot peppers.

Talia Cadash

Despite what people think, she didn’t win Wicked Grace because Josephine was dealing. She’s a card sharp and just that good.

Since she was with the Merchant’s Guild, she nearly tackled Varric when she first met him, the only reason she didn’t was because the Anchor decided to flare and Solas was like “oh what is that!?”

She mellowed as she got to know Varric, and even let him use some of her past jobs in his serials. With a names and some details changed of course.

Even after losing most of her left arm, she still takes assassin contracts. Although none from Rivain because she doesn’t want to accidentally murder a noble that’s related to Josie.

Max Wainwright

Met Daniel Jackson at University of Illinois when they were competing for the same grant and had to write a proposal together. They didn’t get it, but they kept hanging out between classes and became really good friends.

At first thought his theory about the pyramids was a little weird, but encouraged him to keep at it. Then when he got laughed at his presentation and the resulting backlash from the rest of the academic world, she kept in contact and supported him (ironically it was that support that eventually led to her involvement in the Stargate Program).

Played soccer in high school and almost got a collage scholarship, but broke her arm two weeks before the scout showed up so she ended up missing out on it. She was going to attend USC for sports medicine, but once it looked like she wasn’t going to get a scholarship she decided to look for more affordable schools and decided to go into teaching instead.

Can drink coffee at night and still be able to fall asleep at her usual time.

Favorite food: Chicago style deep dish pizza with spinach, black olives, and pepperoni.

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100 Days of Writing, Day 32

did some more writing on my SGA fic, finished Chapter Two! @the-wip-project

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Max let out a sigh and could feel the frustration rise up inside of her. Everything in those boxes were essential so if something got lost...then Max would have to do without it for a very long time.

So she went through the whole pile, only finding two that actually belonged to her. The rest were either ‘Lydia Ballard’ or someone else named ‘Crystal Santella.’

Running a hand through her hair, Max was about to figure out how to get her boxes while off loading the ones that weren’t hers when there was a chime. Straightening, she tried to figure out where the sound was coming from but wasn’t able to. After a minute the chime sounded again followed by someone knocking on the door. Startling, Max realized what the chime was and hurried towards the door.

“Sorry. First day here and I didn’t realize there were doorbells.” Max said once the door slid open.

“That’s okay. Figured I’d give you an introduction. Doctor Lydia Ballard.” Lydia said as she stuck out her hand. “And you must be Maxine.”

“Max, it’s nice to meet you.” Max took the hand that was offered and gave it a quick shake. “I was just wondering how to contact you, I somehow got some of your stuff from the Daedalus.” 

“And I got some of yours. Most of it’s still in my room but I brought a box with me. Mind if I come in?”

“Oh! Yeah, sure.” Max took a step back so Lydia could enter. As the other woman walked into the room, Max watched as she chattered on.

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OC in 5 gifs

tagged by @schoute to do this and going with my Stargate Atlantis OC Max Wainwright.

Max loves to read and could spend all day curled up with a good book. She spends a good hour and a half deciding what books to bring with her because of the weight restrictions.

Friends with Daniel Jackson since they were freshman at UIC, she stands by him even when he’s laughed out of academia for his theories.

She’ll crack a joke or two when the time calls for it, but is mostly quiet-more willing to observe her surroundings before acting.

Since she’s quiet, Max didn’t have much self-confidence. It took Daniel Jackson submitting her name for the Pegasus Project for her to really grow and discover her own self-worth.

And despite all the things that she’s gone through, Max has remained a caring, strong person-willing to do anything to protect the ones she cares about.

tagging @rosedawsontyler @discovampireforjesus @missmeggo929 @vorchagirl  @arthurmorganist and whoever else wants to do this!

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Six Sentence Sunday

tagged by @raeofalbion TY so much! <3

here's the most recent bit from my SGA rewrite

Melinda said something underneath her breath in Afrikaans that Max was pretty sure wasn’t appropriate before switching back to English, “See if you can ask Doctor Jackson about the Replicators, his team was the one who first encountered them. Basically they’re nanites that consume every resource they encounter.” “Nanites? Like those tiny things from ‘Star Trek?’” Max was confused, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion. “Sure, lets go with that.” Lydia said before taking another drink of coffee. “Only they’re bigger and scarier."