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.]