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Found a lost ficlet that I'd never posted anywhere but the SGA Santa community:

Written for lavvyan in appreciation for her jumping in to pinch-hit.

Title: Blood Bonded
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: Gen, Ronon/Lorne
Rated: PG-13
Summary: Lorne pounded the first thing within reach -- which turned out to be Ronon's stomach. "Gimme your pulse pistol." The team blinked in surprise when Ronon simply handed it over.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44463808

Welcome! sga_secretsanta has revealed the author names.

Fic: Veni, Vidi, Vici (or Rodney's High School Reunion)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: John/Rodney
Summary: Mathematically, Rodney had solved the age-old problem that was the high school reunion.

For respoftw, who requested BAMF!Rodney.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43840062

It's good to be back.

Is anyone interested in betaing an SGA Santa fic? Rodney-centric (request is BAMF Rodney) -- I KNOW, I somehow always wrote John POV.

Siennavie kindly reopened signups for a Round Two.

We've already added a dozen more authors--and there's still time!



SGA Santa continues for its eleventh straight year.

I've been far out of fandom for some time. Many reasons for it, but right now I'm in grad school, working, and deep into many, many projects. All of which take Time.

Yet I never miss the SGA Santa. Not if I can help it.

Having just found out about the new Secret Santa challenge, I spoke with the mod (pleaded, begged...).

There was another person who'd missed the deadline. So siennavie took pity on us and opened up a "round two" for the sign-ups.

http://sga-secretsanta.livejournal.com/482.html

YES! My sign-up's already in! Spread the word!

I missed the SGA Santa signups.

At first I thought I'd need to jump in on pinch-hits (and those go in seconds). I'm so rarely on LJ that I never saw all the usual notifications that sga_santa was in full swing.

But alyse switched things around so I could participate. Thank you! (I suspect she gave me the story prompt she was going to do or some other excessively generous act.)

This year I'm only doing two grad classes and working two days a week, so I have time to write. (Also, Thanksgiving in Michigan's been canceled--there's a story behind that.) And I've been missing writing.

I'd burned out after Out Of Bounds and Dragonlord -- especially Dragonlord, which was written for a Big Bang. I've found I don't do well with Big Bangs. I can do them. But I implode under the pressure of that tight a deadline. (Granted, I was supposed to start in April and didn't start writing until July. I'd turned a six-month deadline into three months.)

I've kept up with SGA Santa though, writing for it almost every year.

It seems everyone's moved to Tumblr from LJ.

Stories are now posted on AO3 instead of private websites and journals. The importance of the individual author has faded now that people don't follow personal journals to find the good fic.

The old fandoms like Harry Potter and Stargate Atlantis are still alive and continue in a desultory way. But most of my old friends have drifted. I hear distant mentions of the Marvel comics universe, Sherlock Holmes, manga and anime I've never seen.

Tried Yuletide. Assigned a great prompt. But being out of fandom, out of the habit of writing, isn't the time to attempt a random obscure fandom. I've an outline of that story and two scenes, but no more.

In the meantime, I've channeled all my creative yen into crafting. The OAR (Overly Ambitious Rug) is complete and plush. The cats sit on it proudly. I have several hand-knit sweaters, most of which are fit for wearing, some of which don't look homemade, and none of which have come out exactly as planned. I have hats that have come out perfectly, and socks that are comfy and wonderful-wish-I-could-knit-them-faster.

Didn't realize yarn was addictive. I've reached the yarn-stash point of "Oh, I forgot I bought that" and "Gee, what was I planning to make with this yarn again?" and "That's it, no more yarn until I finish more projects!"

Yet I get a fandom email every day... kudos on this story ... a review on that ... to remind me how much I miss writing.

SGA Santa, 2014. I'll see you there.

Ooooh, I was late for SGA Santa this year. But I'm done, I'm done, *sings* I'mdoneI'mdoneI'mdone!

My beta really liked it.

I started my reading for grad school early. I've a Young Adult book club for one of my classes, and who could resist?

So far, while I'm enjoying it, I'm not impressed with Divergent. Like the world-building and I'm okay with the occasional plot hole, but this author lost track of the facts of her story. The heroine guesses crucial information early on, and then ... is surprised when she learns that same crucial information? The Hunger Games was much better.

Still, Divergent encourages me to write. If a story with such major flaws could be popular, hey....

Signed up for SGA Santa after all. Plenty of good writers and old friends this year, including...

gaffsie
wickedwords
busaikko
tarlanx
taste_is_sweet
omg_wtf_yeah
rabidfan
goddess47
shetiger
sam_gamgee
mific
ladysorka

Good turn-out, this should be fun! *rubs hands together*

Having the worst time with my SGA Santa fic. Have no motivation at all. Outlined the story with Sarka in chat, but didn't like it.

Running short on time.

I may have to swap story ideas for something muuuuuch shorter.