I'm not here; you can't see me.

[minxy]

I'm sort of doing a two week intensive course in finishing one's dissertation down here in Houston, and as a result haven't got a whole lot of leeway to be mucking around LJ and goofing off as I really do want to get some stuffs done.

But this shouldn't wait, because it's a plea. A PLEA, my flisters! There are few Teal'c disciples the way there are, say, Daniel disciples and even fewer people who take the chance and write the man. He is underloved, but it's crazy because even though the man is softspoken and stoic, he's also a father separated from his son, a widower who feels like a cuckold, a lover who has never made the same commitment he was able to make with his wife, a hero without a home, a student become teacher in the wrong classroom, a student of human behavior and possibly the perfect observer as well as being a most capable, controlled and powerful force.

Now, why isn't their more fiction written about Teal'c? Write him as a periphery character, as the subject, as one who has two lifetimes of backstory untouched by canon... or go over to tealc_ficathon and sign up for a prompt and give some ideas for another to use and start there; because, let's face it, the guy is a little intimidating, with his perfect grammar and his lack of slang, and you gotta start somewhere.

There are few of us who are vocal about Teal'c, at least on my flist; this brand spankin' new ficathon could really use some participation beyond the core group of people we can reasonably rely on to represent. So consider going over there if you're a writer but haven't really been T focused, or if you're a fan but don't know where to start with writing, or if you've ever ever thought Teal'c ought to have a little more fanfic love. Go. People the ficathon. Take a chaaaaaaance!

You needn't write from Teal'c's POV, and so far the requests (there aren't many yet) are pretty open-ended, with mostly people just asking you to please, for the love of God avoid the mpreg stories. You can do that, right?

It won't hurt. Please think about it? Go look and laugh at my requests? Sign-ups open 'til the ides of March.

(Et tu, Brute?)

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I am no expert in the ways of ficathons, but there have already been two requests for Teal'c/Cam, plus one request for "Cameron Mitchell" as the desired ingredient in the story.

IMHO it'd only be mean to the organizer if it made it impossibly difficult to match you up with anyone's requests, and that's obviously not the case here. So not awful at all - go sign up! *g*

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

So far this ficathon has been really really open to anything, both in terms of requests and in what people are willing to write. Almost to a fault, actually, as I'm thinking some of the prompts are so vague there may not be a lot inspiration there. But there have been slash requests, slash writers volunteering, people saying they'll write any rating...

I second RW, here, go for it, and absolutely say you'll write Cam/Teal'c, and request Cam/Teal'c if you want to; I don't think it'll be a problem for Moonshayde to match you up at all.

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

Cool. I think I'm gonna do that. As I just told RW, I'm trying to get back into a Stargate frame of mind, and I think this might do me some good. Besides, I've been thinking pretty strongly about those two. They're the only pairing I want to write in the Season 9 crew, and I'd love to see a little hero worship on Cam's part, and possibly a little Dom/sub action...that would be fun. Sigh. I don't think I'll get that specific in my sign up, I can always save that for a later fic. But it might be fun, ya know? *g*

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice. I think I will. I've been getting too wrapped up in other fandoms, and I have lots of Stargate I need to write (I still have a number of the smut_69 fics to work through with Jack and Daniel. And a WIP to finish up.) So I think I need to get back into a Stargate state of mind. Maybe this will help.

Hmm...looks like I need a Teal'c/Cam icon, don't I? *g*