Shades of Greyias

The time has finally come. And I know what you're thinking, because I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not--

--oh wait. /Aragorn impression

My and jadesfire2808's epic masterpiece is finally complete and ready for the world to see. You will laugh, you will cry, you might possibly take my tablet and image software away from me to keep me from ever using the term "Photoshoppery" ever again. But either way, you will experience--

Title: Board Wars
Authors: greyias and jadesfire2808
Characters: Team Dork Sheppard.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Crackiness, image heavy

Notes: This was very much a joint effort. jadesfire2808 brought the plot and structure, greyias brought the snark, along with awesome graphics skills. We both wrote the words, with help from our betas donutsweeper, wildcat88 and mad_jaks. Remaining mistakes are all our own work. Also, a special thanks to friendshipper and mumumugen for the Photoshopping advice. We should also thank cesperanza for giving us an extension on the deadline! This fic was work.

Spoilers: S3 "The Game" through to S4 "Lifeline"

Summary: "Earth seems to have a lot of games." "We get bored easily."

Some more notes: We really didn't set out to do a multimedia fic from the start, it just sort of... happened at some point. This is the first time I've collaborated with another author start to finish on a project, and we were probably having way, way more fun than is legal in most counties and parishes. And this is very much a team project, from the theme and tone of the story, to the collaboration we did through chat/Google Docs/e-mail/smoke signals. Hopefully the end result is just as fun for everyone to read as it was for us to make.

Ah, April has been such a great month due to the backbreaking efforts of friendshipper, whose hard work has brought us all of the wonderful stories for the first, maybe (hope hope hope) annual sga_genficathon. Not only did she run the comm, post the stories, and ride herd on the authors, but she wound up writing four very awesome stories, one of which has me itching to write a western AU.

(I'm talking about The Great Pegasus Train Robbery, by the by. Go, read, enjoy.)

I wound up writing two myself, both in the humor genre. You're all shocked, I know.

Into the Woods - Which really should be titled "The Ransom of Rodney McKay". I did not intentionally base it on the O. Henry story, "The Ransom of Red Chief", but the idea behind the story cracked me up too much to not try. Zorin, the kidnapper named after a James Bond villain, actually came away from the experience far more whole than I was originally intending to: I really wanted to work in swinging crushing logs, collapsing rope bridges, and Indiana Jones sized boulders in, but alas those seemed too far fetched. Another time, dear Zorin, another time.

The Physicist Bride - A pinch hit for the "self-sacrifice" prompt. Combination of one of my original ideas for the above prompt, and shamelessly inspired by Don Juan McKay and Other Universal Improbabilities by liketheriverrun (I KNEW IT SOTER! DO YOU HEAR ME?) Rodney and his numerous footnotes took over before I could have him and the rest of the team run rampant over the streets of not!Agrabah and make gratuitous Disney references, but I did manage to work in that chandelier swinging action I've been wanting to do for over a year now. Ah, good times.

Aaaaand now... I ought to pick up Big Bang again, but part of me wants to see if I can't finish my first two ficathon attempts that just kept insisting on jumping genres and see if I can't get them posted before April's up.

Title: Don't Shoot the Messenger
Rating: G
Genre: Gen
Words: 687
Summary: Ronon never bothered with the finer points of Earth's colloquialisms.
A/N: General season four spoilers. Written for Word #49 on 15_minute_fic

Okay, the last one, I swear. Despite the fact that I've now named the universe (thanks to dossier's term of "lightswitch duty"), and that I'm finding it terribly amusing that the Genii wouldn't have been able to effectively raid Atlantis during "The Storm" because they couldn't open any of the doors... no, no! Out of my head!

I really wish I could blame this one on someone else... but apparently my own comments are doing it now. Beware of a semi-spoiler, expanding on a character we learn of during S4's "Missing". His personality is probably radically different from portrayed, but we're not given a lot to go on with the dialogue, so I'm winging it.





Is it sad that these are getting progressively longer? (Or the fact that there's now three?)

I want to say, that this really is Sholio's fault, as a discussion on her journal somehow generated the question:

Although I think it's pretty evident that even people without the gene can get in and out of their quarters. It would certainly suck if the handful of people with the gene had to go around opening doors and turning on the lights every morning! Although that's a hilarious thought for an AU ... what if NOTHING in Atlantis worked without the gene?