Frivolous post # 19
Apr. 24th, 2008 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minxyIf anyone wanted a prompt (besides Teal'c in a Cathedral, I mean; that prompt is always, always available for commentficcing. I believe we have stories with Cameron, Daniel, Sam and Jack (they are, respectively, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
synecdochic's Five Things Cam and Teal'c do Together on Earth, janedavitt's Stained Glass, surrealphantast's Godless and troyswann's comment fic.) Do I wait for one more or do I contact the authors about compiling a Five Things?) ETA: pepper_field once wrote a funny one between Jack and Teal'c, too.
Anyway, if anyone wanted a prompt, they might consider the notion of museums. And I don't mean museums as a font of information for Daniel so much as I mean museums as memorials to the Lost: lost natural history, lost knowledge, lost people, lost lives. Variations on lost involve accidental, inevitable, knowingly or against the will of those bereft. Self-inflicted or externally forced, a monument of shame or declaration of dignity.
Museums are not always loss, of course. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in D.C. is a tribute to spirit and ingenuity and some of the most wonderful things current Western culture is built upon, but someday there will be a museum memorializing whales and eagles and sea otters and cheetah alongside dinosaurs and dodos.
I am sure this phenomenon of loss is pervasive; prompt is extended to any fandom, any character, any world, any time.
[side note: I am not falling apart nearly as much as this train of thought would seem to suggest. Nor am I wallowing, in fact, I have fed myself properly today and have hopes that this will mark the end of the junk food binge phase.]
[also, I think I'm stuck at work all day when I've been allowing myself half-days off whenever the experiments allow. Today a meeting means I have to stay until late afternoon, but I may allow myself to compile a recs list while I'm sitting here or something.]
synecdochic's Five Things Cam and Teal'c do Together on Earth, janedavitt's Stained Glass, surrealphantast's Godless and troyswann's comment fic.) Do I wait for one more or do I contact the authors about compiling a Five Things?) ETA: pepper_field once wrote a funny one between Jack and Teal'c, too. Anyway, if anyone wanted a prompt, they might consider the notion of museums. And I don't mean museums as a font of information for Daniel so much as I mean museums as memorials to the Lost: lost natural history, lost knowledge, lost people, lost lives. Variations on lost involve accidental, inevitable, knowingly or against the will of those bereft. Self-inflicted or externally forced, a monument of shame or declaration of dignity.
Museums are not always loss, of course. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in D.C. is a tribute to spirit and ingenuity and some of the most wonderful things current Western culture is built upon, but someday there will be a museum memorializing whales and eagles and sea otters and cheetah alongside dinosaurs and dodos.
I am sure this phenomenon of loss is pervasive; prompt is extended to any fandom, any character, any world, any time.
[side note: I am not falling apart nearly as much as this train of thought would seem to suggest. Nor am I wallowing, in fact, I have fed myself properly today and have hopes that this will mark the end of the junk food binge phase.]
[also, I think I'm stuck at work all day when I've been allowing myself half-days off whenever the experiments allow. Today a meeting means I have to stay until late afternoon, but I may allow myself to compile a recs list while I'm sitting here or something.]
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Date: 2008-04-24 08:12 pm (UTC)A month or so ago
(there is something about Daniel and museums and about how he lost his parents in a museum and about how his work is so tied to museums and how he married a girl from a people/culture you only find in museums and then in "2010" you see his stargate life turned into a museum and in "Moebius" he goes back to the Ancient Egypt of museums and probably lives out his life there and...yes.)
*hugs you some more*
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Date: 2008-04-24 08:56 pm (UTC)*hugs you back*
And that's an awesome rec, thank you. I'll go check it out.
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Date: 2008-04-24 09:09 pm (UTC)*more hugs cause*
Hope you find fic you enjoy if you manage to get over there.
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Date: 2008-04-26 04:01 am (UTC)*isn't asking for any particular reason, oh no. And not for a recs list either, nope.*
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Date: 2008-04-25 03:26 am (UTC)href=http://aurora-novarum.livejournal.com/36788.html?thread=366516#t366516
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Date: 2008-04-25 03:56 am (UTC)(Oh, also, Absolute Power, a season five episode, yes?)
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Date: 2008-04-25 03:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-25 04:01 am (UTC)What are you doing in my head?
Date: 2008-04-26 11:15 pm (UTC)It's about...Teal'c and Jack going to the Air & Space Museum. For the past few days, I'd even been using the maps on that same site you just listed to refresh my memory of what was there. ETA: So, not so much about the loss aspect, but still!
I just posted it now because it was a surprise for
So when you posted this...I started to feel a twilight zone coincidence. And don't you have more interesting places to be than my brain? Hee hee hee.
(Legacy was in Season Three btw)