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[minxy]

Yes, this is a blatant attempt to seek connection today:

Stolen from ivorygates who stole from synecdochic who stole from cofax7 who stole from yahtzee63:

Quote a bit of my writing at me? Find that one story of mine that you really like, and find a sentence or a paragraph that presses your prose-buttons in the right way, and comment here with it? Don't care how long or short.

I will extend this to pimped works and meta: tell me about a recommendation that you loved, the fic or the description thereof, what made you want to read and whether you thought I was accurate. I want to know if you've been thrilled by a particular rec of your own work, or if the description pointed something out that surprised you, etc. Tell me if a Sam meta made your day or what about a Teal'c meta made you try writing his POV?

Recs are under this fanfic recs tag, stories are under this tag and in this post, meta is here.

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*squishes you*

So back, just over a year ago, when I was a wet-behind-the ears newbie poking my nose into SG-1 fandom all curious and looking for connection and falling helplessly in love with this character called Sam, I came across a link. I don't remember anymore who posted the link or how I found that post or any of the steps, but I clicked on it. And I found This Sam Meta (http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/53469.html) you wrote a while ago. And I read it. And I read it again. And I flailed. Because yay other woman fan in science and yay understanding Sam and yay taking what it is to be a woman and be a science-brain and applying it to Sam and making Sam make sense in all those ways she really, really, really does. And I decided you were awesome and but it was also an old post and I was a wet-behind-the-ears newbie and you seemed impressive and I was shy so I absorbed it all in and read the comments and rejoiced.

And now I "know" you and have talked with you and you are awesome and now I can tell you how much that meta meant to me (only, I probably can't because I don't think I have words to tell you how much that meta meant to me for a variety of fannish and non-fannish reasons). And I have quotes. And I resisted quoting the whole thing":

Second is that Sam does not always know what to do with particular kinds of data. She sees someone coming at her hurting, she might look to Daniel first, then maybe Jack next for orders because she herself hasn't got a clue what to do (doesn’t mean she won’t try if no one else steps up, though). This is part of the reason why Teal'c showing up and handing her Janet's eulogy is so amazingly touching.

And

Can Sam handle people lying to her? It's probably really confusing. And without a very, very good (read, orders from someone else to take the blame) reason, if she trusts you, it would probably read as betrayal of the 'wait, what else have you told me that's false? Can I trust you again? Why did you do that?' sort. You gave her the wrong information, man, that's just rude. Could lead to dismissal out of hand unless she really has to continue working with someone like that.

And really

Which came first, the soldier or the scientist? Oh, the scientist. It sets you apart a bit, if your brain works funny like that. I think Sam has always been aware of the opportunities the military offered and so opted to take advantage of their help in becoming a scientist and found she was also good at the rest. I think she's well accustomed to taking orders, likes when someone else handles the stuff that's peripheral to her focus and is fine with the responsibility lying elsewhere. Of course, now she's be put in command she's probably very concerned with being competent and doing the job well and making people proud, but I think she's in it for the discovery and the adventure and the projects, not the power trip or because she like watching stuff blow up. The military were a means to an end and she respects them and is grateful for the opportunities and the education.

(also I still love "Footsoldiers" whole-heartedly)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

You know, I remember starting to write that and thinking it would be a few paragraphs that no on would comment on. Next thing you know, I'm surfacing from a stream-of-consciousness commentary that is longer than some of my stories and really cemented a number of fannish friendships for me. Odd thing, that.

So extraordinary that it was part of your introduction to fandom. Yay! It was cathartic to me too, I'm glad another science chick had it resonate. Yay.

Awesome, thank you for telling me all that.

Also, my, I was quite sure of myself by the time I wrote some of those quotes, wasn't I?