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The Emergency! Fandom Intro Meme

Rules: Not much to say here! Copy-paste this into a new post (and feel free to link back to this one if you’d like) and answer the questions as you see fit if you’d like to tell the rest of the fandom a bit more about yourself. This meme is generally tag-free and open to everyone who wants to do it (but feel free to informally tag people you’d like to know more about). You can tag your reply as “#E! intro meme” if you’d like.

How’d you find this show and the fandom? How long have you been here?  I watched it when I was a little kid, and it was my very favorite then. (I’m a year younger than the show.) About 5 years ago, I figured out it was on Netflix (boo that it’s gone now!) and realized I still absolutely loved the show. I poked my head into fandom, saw a few people, was too shy to interact much, and drifted away again. But then I noticed a few people writing my pairing, so, I’m back.

What made you stick around? I just love Johnny and Roy so much, and everyone I’ve met in fandom has been lovely!

Who’s your favorite character? Roy DeSoto. :D Don’t worry, I love Johnny to the ends of the earth, but Roy is my guy.

Are you a shipping kind of person? If yes, what are your favorite ships? Absolutely! I’m happy to read and write gen stories, but shipping is where my heart is. Johnny/Roy (and also Johnny/Roy/Joanne) is my ship, though I certainly have considered others. Different combos of Dixie, Kel, and Joe have a lot of material to work with.

Favorite moment/scene/quote? Yes, you can pick more than one. Aaaah! I could be here all day. There’s a tiny moment in Camera Bug that I’ve mentioned before, when Johnny accidentally smacks Roy with his camera, then immediately reaches out and touches Roy’s head in apology. I think it’s actually a blooper that stayed in, which makes it even sweeter to me, because it shows off Randy and Kevin’s wonderful friendship.

Do you have a favorite episode? Feel free to pick one per season if you can’t decide. Uh. There are a lot of them, but I’ll stick to The Promotion for right now. I just absolutely love the way Roy is torn between doing what he thinks is right for his family, and what he truly wants to do for himself. And on the other side of things, Johnny is trying so hard to do what he thinks is best for Roy, which is encouraging him to go for it, even though the idea of Roy leaving is completely gutting him. And then, Roy choosing to stay for Johnny (and himself) is just...ugh. Beautiful.

Most underrated character, either among the fandom or one the writers never utilized to their full potential? I do think he’s gaining traction in the fandom, but definitely Morton. As I rewatch the show I like him more and more all the time. They did a lot of really good things with him, but also some not so good things, and yes, it would have been nice if he’d had more good storylines.  And then also for myself, I hadn’t realized how much I love Captain Stanley. In a cast full of great voices, his is my very favorite. And mmm, the man is sexy when he’s in command of a scene!

One thing you’d have liked to see more (or less) of in the show? I would have liked if they’d spent more time showing us Roy and Johnny treating each other when they got hurt. They always tend to cut away to the hospital when it’s serious. Now, Roy hovering in the treatment room in Nuisance was lovely, but that was the exception, not the rule. From all of the ‘Johnny whump’ fic I’ve seen posted, I’d guess the fandom would have also liked more time spent on those moments. As far as less - less sirens. Oh, boy. Way less time spent on traveling to the scene with those sirens.

Do you have a fanwork recommendation for us? Fic, art, video, whatever? Everything by guardy and hitchcock_winter. If you're up for some gen angst, I adore Requiem by dee_ayy on AO3.

Any fanworks you’d like to see? I'd like to see the ones I've started finished. :D. Just, more Johnny/Roy in general. And some more Roy whump. Because Johnny can't have it all, can he?

Any favorite headcanons you’d like to tell us about? Johnny bought that damn house because he wanted Roy to have it. He just, you know, got caught up in things and went about it a little screwy.

Free space! Anything else you’d like to mention? I haven't tried to interact with any fandom in a really long time. Not in ten years, probably. And never on Tumblr. So I'm kind of fumbling my way through this and being super awkward. Please feel free to say hi/request fic/whatever!

Thanks @johnnys-green-pen for doing this!

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How about 1 and 12 to start with? 😃

Oh heck yeah!

1. Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

So my tried and true formula when it comes to original stuff is “take two characters who are mutually pining for each other, get them stuck somewhere inaccessible all alone, have one of them be just injured enough to wear them down, and see what happens. Oh, and also it’s probably just cold enough to give them an excuse to huddle together for warmth.”

Haven’t tried it out with E! yet (...yet), mostly because my stories usually have magic or sufficiently advanced technology, so I usually have a much broader area of not-too-dangerous-injuries to work with. Humans are fragile lil’ shits if you actually have to more or less stick to medical facts, and I usually like to keep things relatively light-hearted. It’s a delicate balance.

12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

Not quite yet, I think - the possibilities seem utterly endless right now, and the more episodes I look at really closely, the more amazing fic opportunities I find. 

(Fun fact: I went back and re-watched Mascot a few days ago, and it finally fully sank in that Johnny subjected himself to an at least 96-hour-shift (24 hours originally, plus 48 while he was trading shifts to avoid taking the dog home, plus 24 when Roy shows up again to his next regular shift), and now I kinda wanna do something with that because I do enjoy writing sleep-deprived Johnny, and I love it when characters are being self-destructive dumbasses)

So, yeah - I’m slowly collecting favorite tropes and situations, but I don’t have a favorite episode for inspiration yet, there’s just too much amazing material in this show. 

(In case anybody wants to send in more questions or reblog the thing: this was for the 40 Questions Meme For Fic Writers; reblogged HERE)

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shetiger answered your question:I finally sent the story I started writing for...

I kind of like Philophobia. And yeah, I totally suck at titles & summaries. I go with lyrics for titles a lot - but then I get the song stuck in my head for the next two weeks. :/

Which isn’t too bad as long as it’s a song you like :D

I might see if there’s a ‘fear of intimacy’ instead, as that’s probably closer to the theme of the fic. Or ‘fear of losing someone’.

Titles. Ugh! :D

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♔:Finding the other wearing their clothes (Always my favorite. *g*)

Any pairing preferences?

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shetiger answered your question “So my belated fandom_stocking fic for hiddencait is currently sitting...”

I feel like this is an aging fic writer's disease. I can't write short anymore, either. *cheers you on*

See, I would totally buy that as an answer, except I’ve always been a little too fond of the words :D The very first fanfic I ever wrote (with @terimaru) was this sprawling Space: Above and Beyond epic that ended up with four stories, totalling something like 250,000 words? Something like that, anyway :D

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I'm interested in all of them, but how about 1 and 12?

1. of the fic you’ve written, which are you most proud of?

I think it’s probably still The Lies You Live (Blade: Trinity). It’s my longest story, and most complicated plot wise, and I’m still fairly happy with how it came together. I worked really hard on it, and it still holds up when I re-read it (and yes, I re-read my own fic :D That’s the outcome, I suppose, of writing in small fandoms - you write the fic you want to read because no one else is, and as a result when you want to read the fic... there’s yours). I tend to write long fics anyway, but nothing as complicated as this or that turned out to be anywhere near as long.

However, I still have a soft spot for Heat Haze (Jurassic Park III). It’s the first fic I wrote where I really just went all out for porn, and even though I think characterisation is important, even in this fic, it was a lot hotter and heavier than my usual fare at the time, and I’m quite proud of unleashing my inner id.

And I think a couple of my Primeval fics hold up, and I’m still quite proud of them - Mirror’d, which can still give me shivers (and I was terrified writing it, like really freaking myself out creepy terrified) and Prelude in C Minor, where I really wanted to write a struggling with depression fic that rang true. I’ve only had a couple of periods of minor depression myself (hormone related - gotta love the pill), but I’ve had some lovely feedback that suggests that it does work on that level. Plus, I got to play with sparse prose when normally I tend to the purple, and still got to play with stringing words together in a way that could read lyrically, and also playing with metaphors - the landscape and the nature of the journey reflecting Connor’s state of mind.

Generally, the things I’m most proud of are when I step outside of my comfort zone and try something new, something scary - and then it works. Even if it doesn’t work completely - and things often don’t - I can still look at them later and think, you know? I gave that my absolute best shot, and I’m glad I did.

12 what’s your favorite place for writing resources?

Google. Seriously - I’m not actually that organised. I have bookmarked useful pages in the past - especially things like weapons guides, as being from the UK we’re nowhere as used to guns as they may be elsewhere, so I do need to look things up - but generally even once I’ve bookmarked something, I seldom remember to go back.

I do like Bartleby.com when I’m looking for a title, though, because I suck at titles. Like seriously, seriously suck. And that at least might give me something I can use or something I can riff off to search elsewhere.

[cerulean-scarab]

Podfic: Accidentally In Love (Stargate Atlantis)

Title: Accidentally In Love by Shetiger

Read by cerulean-scarab

Summary:  John still doesn't quite understand how one crazy assumption completely turned his life upside down. But that's okay. He's pretty happy, all the same. A John/Rodney falling-in-love story.

Fandom:  Stargate Atlantis Rating:  M Characters/Pairings:  McKay/Sheppard Format:  MP3 Length:  1 hour 26 minutes 57 seconds Download MP3 here.

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B,L. :)

— shetiger

I've answered B here, but:

L:  Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?

At the moment? Definitely Abby/King. I tend to the monofannish, so I tend to ship one thing for a long time - like 5 years long. In terms of content? Probably something about the way they feel about each other, whether you view them romantically or not. Their bound - friendship or love. Found families. Abby's reticence and King's lack of appreciation of boundaries - or rather, his way of pushing against them without crossing the line. Coping with the aftermath. Raising Zoe and raising hell. That kind of thing :)