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In which someone who has never written fanfiction before gets hopelessly and embarrassingly hooked on Stargate: Atlantis, of all things, and, abetted by one of her friends, ends up writing some. And then decides that she needs to inflict it on the world.
Uh, I mean… hi?
This is a collection of fics which (a) fit—conceivably—into the show’s canon, and (b) I wanted to write. By “fit into the show’s canon” I don’t exactly mean that I could imagine the show actually, y’know, airing these, even if it hadn’t been cancelled, because I see nothing wrong with two people of the same sex being in a relationship and apparently TV does. There was going to be a semicolon and an “instead,” at that point, except then I realized that this sentence was getting out of control. So, connected to the previous sentence, but separate from it: I mean that there is nothing in canon that outright contradicts any of this stuff. It is very disappointing to find a fic that presents something you’d very much like to believe is the case, but which has to stick its fingers in its ears and go “la la la, I’m not liiiistening” to get there; after the second or third one like that I read, I finally gave in and decided to fill in the gap myself.
This is not to say that there aren’t excellent examples of fitting-into-canon fics out there, incidentally, I just think there ought to be more. Also, writing fanfic is weirdly fun. And kind of addicting. I have so many problems. So.
This is “Backstage: Atlantis”, the series. Or universe. I’m not quite sure what it is. In addition to being an exercise in narrative through transformative fiction, or something similarly pretentious and academic-sounding, it’s totally an excuse for me to indulge some of my favorite pairings in the series, which I would apologize for if this weren’t, you know, fanfic, where writing stuff you like is sort of a given most of the time. Although individual stories will not contain all of these, and indeed many will probably not contain any of these, since last I checked the series was called Stargate: Atlantis and not As the Stargate Turns or Stargates of Our Lives (Days of Our Stargate?) or anything like that, and it would be silly to turn the backstage-fic into a soap opera when the main show isn’t, I maintain that people—especially people in high-stress situations—do occasionally happen to fall in love. Or lust. They have relationships, is what I’m going for here, or at least it’s where I ended up; what I intended to say was “Although individual stories will not contain all of these, if any of the following pairings make you run screaming you might want to tread with extreme caution: anything canon (see earlier re.: fits with what we see), Weir/Zelenka, Cadman/Brown, Lorne/Parrish, Teyla/Ronon, Sheppard/McKay (in a very eventual sense—patience, you must have it), and (I am so very sorry) Simpson/Kavanagh.” As I continue with the ’verse, I might end up with more characters accidentally getting into relationships, in which case I will update this list. (Before you ask: yes, I do have some idea of where I’m going with this. I have a tag for the last episode which is vivid enough I’m a little weirded out, even. But it’s all broad strokes at the moment.)
Stories will mostly contain a high percentage of original characters or minor characters fleshed out enough that they might as well be. See title of blog (“Backstage: Atlantis”) for reason why. Seriously, Atlantis has more than just five or six people on it. Also, the wacky adventures of Our Team have been written over and over and over again, by people a lot better at this fanfiction thing than I am.
I really shouldn’t have to say this, but, just in case it isn’t intuitively obvious: Stargate: Atlantis, its characters, its setting, and basically everything recognizable about it in these fics does NOT belong to me. Believe me, if it did, a lot more of this would have shown up on the TV screens. (Seriously, show. I can sort of understand your “there are no gay people!” thing, in an I-don’t-like-it-but-I-get-it way, but would it have killed you to not fail at writing the male-female relationships? Or, all that aside, to have been a little less “ATLANTIS IS ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THE TITLE CREDITS”?)
Backstage: Atlantis 