#and you don't necessarily have to watch sg:1

[kitkatt0430]

hey, i've been reading your Cisco-related Flash fics, and what struck to me as impressive is how you implement the mentions of tech so well. i've run into trouble into writing scenes, where Cisco might have to tinker. 🤧🤧🤧 i know this is by a long-shot, however, do you have any writing advice on how to add tech as part of a scene??? or like wording on how tinkering works?? idk just basic tech stuff i guess. thank you and sending good ~~vibes~~ your way!

Cisco tinkering is definitely fun to write, but I'm not exactly sure how to describe my process for writing those scenes. But I'll give it a shot anyway.

So Cisco's tinkering with tech in fics usually fits one of two scenarios when I'm writing. Either it's to give him something to do in the scene since Cisco's definitely someone who likes to keep his hands busy. Or it's a specific tech I plan to use for plot reasons, so it gets threaded throughout the fic. That way Cisco's brilliant ideas to save the day don't come out of nowhere.

If its the former, then I'll usually just pick something we know he's worked on in the show. The quickly forgotten Boot Tech (how useful it would have been if perfected instead of forgotten after the S2 finale), updates on the suppressant tech (the cuffs, Caitlin's snowflake necklace), the weather wand... I don't really have to go too much into detail on it, but it can be fun to poke at canon a bit for all the things Cisco develops that never show up again once their original use in the plot is over. Sometimes I just have him working towards perfecting something that didn't work as expected. Other times I have ideas for alternative uses for the tech that can be fun to mention.

I've also been a Star Trek and Stargate fan for a long, long time. So I've learned technobabble from the two scifi series that did it best. ^_^

Though, really, watching Sam Carter (SG-1) and Rodney McKay (Stargate: Atlantis) spout technobabble is a great way to learn how to make made up science blend with real science to sound relatively believable. Stargate (SG-1 particularly) was pretty good about grounding their made up science in real world concepts. Definitely having obsessively watched those two shows has helped shape how I write Cisco now that I'm in the Arrow verse fandom.

When I have Cisco's tech being used in a specific way for plot reasons, however, I definitely have to know ahead of time what the tech is for. If I'm going to make, say, the Rainbow Raider the villain of a story and have him experimenting with new applications of his powers - messing with emotions other than anger - then I'd have Cisco pull out the device they originally used to combat Rainbow Raider's powers to work on upgrading for the new scenario. That way it still works when they need it. Then I can throw in things like, maybe it gets pulled out of mothballs and immediately tried on one of RR's victims but it doesn't work. Cue drama. :D

I think some of the development process I put in there comes from what I know about tech development from a software side of things. Since I'm a software engineer, I know how different types of design and development models work. Waterfall vs agile vs... anyway, I won't necessarily ever name the dev model being used, but it'll influence how I write Cisco's development process and it'll differ based on when he's working with a team, vs one other person, vs on his own.

Having Cisco collaborate is especially fun to do. Cisco starts off as a particularly brilliant mechanical engineer and by the time he leaves the show he's become very much a multi-discipline scientist. He does so because he learns so much from the people he collaborates with - or competes with, as the case may be. Cisco's knowledge of sonic technology and acoustical engineering improves due to his exposure to Hartley's Pied Piper gear. He learns bio engineering from his many collaborations with Caitlin. Harry being rather multi-disciplined himself, often pushes Cisco to have more confidence in himself and reach beyond his comfort zone.

So I'll pick who he's collaborating on based both on when I want a story to be set, how AU I want it to be (Hartley joins Team Flash? Harry doesn't leave post S2?), and what kind of tech is being developed for the plot (improving the amnesia inducer they used on Barry? that calls for Caitlin).

A story that I've been wanting to write is Cisco mentoring Chester while Chester creates tech that - predictably, I admit - saves Barry out on the field at the end. We never really got the mentor/mentee relationship between them expanded on the way I'd been hoping for when it became clear Chester was a permanent addition to the cast. The story hasn't happened yet because I haven't really fleshed out what the technology they're working on will be. I'm probably overthinking it a bit at this point, but I want it to reflect where Chester's at mentally during the story - his struggles with self doubt and learning to be more assertive, generally showing why Cisco felt so comfortable leaving Team Flash in Chester's hands when he eventually leaves. (So it's intended to be canon compliant and set before Cisco and Kamilla leave for Star City.)

I don't know how useful my rambles have been, but I hope this helps.

#kitkatt0430 answers #kitkatt0430 rambles #the flash meta #fandom meta

[stargatelov3r]

Welcome, welcome one and all, to our rareship carnival.

I am watching and I can't believe it's happening! I may be giddy and grinning like mad, but there's no actual evidence of that.

Hello sweet Anon 😚 thank you! I am so glad that we planted this seed in your mind. 🧡

And dang it! I thought I was satisfied, full in fact, and then you dropped those delicious Chuck/ Radek headcanons down and I became ravenous. *writes furiously*

Keller/ Cadman

Hmm, I see what you mean… It wouldn't be a messy breakup either. Just a mutual fizzling out.

I agree, Cadman is 100% that person. With her boyfriends as well, (I headcanon her Bi, I like to think that Cadman keeps her options open. 🤣) Love a tiny marine standing up for her partners 🧡 

I enjoy McKay/ Cadman (despite a couple reservations) specifically because of how they challenge each other. (Eventually I'll get to this pairing on my list but I must go in order because… Compulsions 🤣)

This actually reminds me of how I think Keller/ McKay would go, McKay would get bored of Keller and she would get tired of his abrasive nature. McKay needs a good kick in the butt sometimes, probably one of the reasons so many people mcshepship, and I don't think Keller is up for the task.

Just no fire. No energy. No nothing (will anyone even get this reference?)

Hmm… I'll have to mull over those two some more. It's honestly hard to ship Keller with anyone, maybe hmm… Oh! I need to update the list.

Here's the next one: Elizabeth/ Sam

o.0

Elizabeth/Sam... *breathes deeply*

i... i might have been waiting for someone to ask me about them and I was both scared and excited to answer this one.

let's dive a bit into my past, shall we? and by that i mean 2016/17

I was doing a lot of RPGs with a friend, mostly SG-1, later SG-1/SGA, SG-1/Sanctuary and even SGA/Sanctuary i think. We were basically writing these huuuuuge fics together over what was sometimes weeks! I think that was the first time I came across Sam/Elizabeth. It's funny because it was wayyy before I realized that gay ships where actually an option to actually ship instead of just going "huh okay" and moving on. (don't ask me why it took so long) but uhhhh it also didn't stop me from writing them so uhhh...

fast forward a two or three years. Someone told me that Torri and Amanda didn't get along personally (which, as a hardcore fan of both of them made me incredibly sad) and it kinda put a hold on my thoughts about them as a ship. I know you shouldn't necessarily let what actors do when they are not on screen influence their work performance (unless they are harming anyone) but in this case it did for a while.

But now, slowly and steady I'm managing to leave that behind me and just concentrate on these two wonderful characters, disregarding what might or might not be their actor's relation.

So let's get to the actual question (under the cut)

Yes. I see it. I ship it. I love it.

I might be a tiny bit biased because i just love both these characters so much and I haven't given them a suuuuper lot of thought but just... these two? together? knowing them both so well? knowing what both of them have been through? what shit they experienced working in a men dominated world? and together they can just go "fuck all that" and have a good time and drink wine and feel safe? gimme all of it

*gasp*

i was about to start writing about them being co-leaders of atlantis and then i remembered that i'm basically headcanoning Teyla and Elizabeth co-managing Atlantis after season 3 at the latest and then I was like WHY NOT ALL THREE???? what a power trio they would be!!! all of them together running shit??? hooooly crap.

but uh,,, back to Sam/Elizabeth

I think there would also be conflict involved between them, mostly because Elizabeth is civilian and Sam is military, and both are very firm in their beliefs and in their position. Not they are not flexible, but I think they have different mindsets and different points of view on a lot of things.

But don't forget, they are both adults, and they'd both know the value of the other, they'd know what they have in each other and even if it's not easy sometimes they would want to fight for it (i mean literally, i think they would argue) but they would always try and find a solution.

woah. i think that's all i've got for now and it made me kinda choke up. this is somehow a bittersweet ship for me...

and about all other things you said, I pretty much agree <3

I can't wait what other Radek/Chuck headcanons (or fics? :)) ) you'll come up with!

#ship anon #answered #samantha carter x elizabeth weir #samantha carter #elizabeth weir #headcanons #sga #sg1

[asinglemagpie]

Sunshine, starlight, precious <3

♡ cute ask game ♡

Sunshine; Do you prefer for things to be practical or aesthetically pleasing? I don't think that they're necessarily mutually exclusive - in some cases you may have to reduce one or the other but they don't have to be absent. I suppose for me the fact that I like straight lines, perfect spheres, symmetry, and simple combinations like black-and-white… it makes that easier on me than most people. I'm also not against the simple "pine" wood colour/effect so again… I mean a lot of things bother me a lot less than other people lol.

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Starlight; What was your favourite show as a child? It's easier to tell you what I didn't like!

I grew up on a lot of sci-fi - Star Trek: TNG/DS9/Voyager, Stargate SG-1, Farscape, Space 1999, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, ReBoot. Like most kids around my age Digimon, Pokemon, and Sabrina The Teenage Witch ruled the TV. Over summer holidays I would watch as much of The Adventures of Tintin as I possibly could lol.

I loved Ghostwriter, but it was only on TV during the day as part of the BBC2 learning zone, so I didn't get to see the end of most of the storylines until a few years ago when I found it on YouTube XDD Same with the Look and Read stories! They'd start them in school and never finish them - so those finally got their conclusions some 25 years later thanks to YouTube again.

Things I loved but didn't get to see a lot of: Care Bears and Jem and the Holograms - my grandparents had cable but we didn't, so we got to see things here and there when we were over there.

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Precious; What is something valuable that you learned in your life? A lot of the time life doesn't work out how you expect it to, but that doesn't mean that there isn't anything valuable in or about the life you're living.

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Thank you for asking 💝

#Dancing with the Pied Piper

[rpmemes-galore]

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#also just putting this out there but if you haven't watched stargate atlantis #i fully recommend it. its on hulu #and you don't necessarily have to watch sg:1 #i mean it'll give you more context but i watched atlantis first #( also sg:1's just a damn good show on its own so if u want i also recommend it ) #and i caught on so its not impossible?? #its amazing? the characters are all so good and the story is engaging #and there's only 5 short-ish seasons so it's definitely binge-able #tl;dr : im doing an sga rewatch and im having emotions and you should all join me #not a meme #........................ just beware season 3 #everyone who's seen it knows the episode i'm talking about #and we don't speak of it

[autisticandroids]

anyway this is kind of a sweeping generalization which i don't know if i'm comfortable making because i have watched a lot of crap scifi in my time, but not enough to make huge sweeping generalizations about the genre, however, i am going to do that anyway. ok like i've been thinking about like. Meta Episodes. as a genre.

the non-spn ones i'm thinking of are, to be clear, voyager "worst case scenario" and "muse," xfiles "hollywood ad," sg-1 "wormhole x-treme" and "200," and lucifer "¡diablo!" (although i'm not sure it's necessarily appropriate to include lucifer because lucifer is so dependent on spn for its, well. everything). i'm also tempted to include legends of tomorrow, but i don't think they really have meta episodes so much as a general background radiation of meta jokes spread across many episodes. also i'm not sure if legends has quite the same kind of specific "our lives specifically have been turned into a story" type stuff that i'm looking for. and also i have the same reservations about legends as i do about lucifer.

anyway, i would classify the spn meta episodes as "hollywood babylon," "ghostfacers," "the french mistake," and "fan fiction." and i would classify the spn meta storylines as the s4-5 chuck stuff (this includes later references to the books such as "season seven, time for a wedding!" and "clip show"), the metatron stuff, the s11 chuck stuff, and the s14-15 chuck stuff.

(i think you could make an argument that "clip show" can stand on its own as a meta episode, that "fan fiction" should be folded into the s4-5 chuck stuff, and that the s11 chuck stuff shouldn't be considered meta except for "don't call me shurley," making "don't call me shurley" a standalone meta episode, (and "don't call me shurley" isn't even that meta except in the context of s5 and s15, you could discount s11 entirely if you so chose), but these are judgement calls. i don't think my argument falls apart if they're classified differently, it's just helpful to have distinctions so i don't have to list every goddamn episode in s15 that mentions meta topics as a meta episode. also i think you could call "changing channels" a meta episode, because it's About TV and About Them Being In A TV Show, but it doesn't really fit the specific thread i'm pulling on, which is our main characters' lives which they are already living being turned into a story external to them, so i'm not including it. ditto with "monster movie" and probably some others. maybe even "it's a terrible life." these episodes would fall into the same category as btvs "once more with feeling" or futurama "reincarnation" as episodes which lean on the fourth wall and get meta about the medium and storytelling but aren't explicitly about stories about the main characters. casting the net even wider, you could even call "tall tales" meta, in the same way as xfiles "bad blood" (which it is based on) or fringe "brown betty," since it's about narratives told by the characters and adapted into a story. but again not what i'm looking for.)

anyway generally these episodes have something in common: they're about stories intentionally created based on the "real life" of our main characters. "hollywood ad," "wormhole x-treme," "200," and "¡diablo!" are all explicitly about hollywood productions based on the lives of the main characters of the shows. "worst case scenario" is about a holodeck simulation of possible events involving the voyager crew created by a member of the voyager crew, and "muse" is about an alien civilization taking logs recorded by the voyager crew and broadcast into space, and turning them into a set of religious doctrines, as well as greek-style plays. (it's also clearly a love-letter to galaxy quest, since it came out only six months later, and is essentially a version of galaxy quest not played for comedy).

(of all these episodes, "worst case scenario" is imo the most unique, and i would recommend giving it a watch even if you're not a trekkie or a voy fan. it does something very different with the "meta" premise than other meta episodes, which is interesting because it's also the earliest to air of the ones that i've listed. "muse," as i've said, is copying galaxy quest, and all the others are copying "hollywood ad," which is also probably kind of copying galaxy quest, especially since it aired around the same time as "muse." but "worst case scenario" has its own thing going on. it does something really unique with the meta premise, it turns the main characters of the show into a writers' room and debates over who has ownership of a text, as well as the usual debate over the ethics of turning real people into fictional characters. it's also i think the only meta episode from any show that presents a coherent discourse on not just fandom but fanfiction specifically. even the musical from the spn episode literally entitled "fan fiction" is primarily an adaptation, not taking the story in a new direction except in a few throwaway lines, while "worst case scenario" is literally about an imagining of the story of voyager where things went in a different direction.)

and the early meta stuff in spn is also like that. "hollywood babylon," "ghostfacers," and the s4-5 chuck stuff follow that approximate pattern ("hollywood babylon" is even a very explicit copy of "hollywood ad" in terms of plot, setting, etc). the film in "hollywood babylon" isn't based on the winchesters' lives, per se, but it is based on the supernatural world which they inhabit. "ghostfacers" is about them literally being in a reality tv show which is again based on the supernatural world. and the s4-5 chuck stuff could almost be considered a reverse galaxy quest, with religious doctrine being turned into a pop-culture cult phenomenon instead of the other way 'round. like in all of these cases, the winchesters' lives are something that exist independent of a narrative, and then they are observed by an outsider, and then the outsiders turn these observations of real life into a narrative. but it never casts aspersions on the legitimacy and reality of the winchesters' actual lives. (interestingly, "fan fiction" is also very much this trope. it might actually be the closest spn gets to having a "hollywood ad" of its own, since it's an actual adaptation of the winchesters' lives, which we get to see and comment on.)

the first time this pattern is broken is in "swan song," when chuck disappears. which like, hints, very slightly, that he might have been more than a prophet. like he might have had more agency in the story than a passive observer. and obviously this is confirmed retroactively in "don't call me shurley," but at the time it was just a very slight implication. it was a hint. but it wasn't confirmed or anything and you could say based on textual evidence that it wasn't true.

the first time it's really broken is actually in "the french mistake." like "the french mistake" actually has something really unique going on, because the tv show supernatural that they end up in? that's not a tv show that someone made based on sam and dean's lives. it's just a tv show that independently exists, unrelated to their lives, which happens to be about them. in another universe, sam and dean are just fictional characters. which kind of casts aspersions on their reality in the main universe as well. if they can come into existence literally as fictional characters in another world, what are they in this world. like, the characters played by jared padalecki and jensen ackles in the universe of "the french mistake" aren't adaptations of sam and dean winchester: they are literally that universe's equivalent of sam and dean winchester. and that doesn't seem like a big difference. certainly "the french mistake" doesn't acknowledge it as one, the story beats in "the french mistake" follow the general pattern" of a "hollywood ad" clone, and the characters don't really question their own reality. but i think it's huge, actually, and we should pay more attention to it. "the french mistake" is unique.

#spn

[cheryls-blossomed]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I don't think Lois will be treated better than Iris bcs this is clearly the CW's show for the not woke audiences, so they won't feel like they need to treat Lois right. Now I'm not a fan of wokeism, it's why I stopped watching SG, but pushback from audiences mad at sexism and racism in writing is why Iris is as fully realized a character as she is. Without that pushback from audiences/media, I don't think TH will feel pressured to respect Lois as secondary lead

Wokeism? In what way does SG espouse this so-called wokeism that you dislike? I’ll admit that in season 1, I thought the show’s girl power messaging was performative wokeness, because every single woman who was a series regular during season 1 was white, cis, and able-bodied. And then the show also screwed over James and Karolsen and engaged in weird both sides-ism debate. But wokeism is not the issue imo, it’s performative wokeism, including where white writers who have no idea what they’re doing attempt to tackle serious issues, such as Arrow trying to do an episode on gun violence that’s an issue. 

Because Supergirl now is a pretty good show, at least as far as the CW DCTV shows are concerned, and it’s absolutely grown into itself, and the show has diversified and is inclusive of women of different races, gender identities, and sexualities. You definitely don’t have to like SG or watch it, but I dislike putting the show down for perceived wokeness (again, I don’t know what you mean here by wokeism in this context), when the show has made real efforts of actually becoming inclusive of all women. It can always be better, but so can every show in the CW DCTV-verse. 

I know I went on a slight tangent, but I wanted to address this. 

As for Lois, I do agree that Superman and Lois is targeting a specific audience, and I’m sure that audience probably wouldn’t necessarily care about Lois being treated as the titular lead alongside Clark. I agree as well that Iris fans had to fight really hard for her to be respected, amidst writing and a portion of fandom which was racist and sexist and amidst white male showrunners, at that time, who were disrespecting her. I hope there’ll be pushback against how Helbing treats Lois in some form, amongst long-time Lois Lane fans who do decide to watch the show and are critical of Helbing’s sexist treatment of Lois. 

#anonymous #replies

[aeon-wolf]

1) I'm so glad you're writing more again, I've missed your work! 2) Loving the new videos and that new channel art! 3) I'm so glad that even though you don't watch SG anymore, even you can see that the route they're taking with James is just... really bad lol. Love everything about SG lately (BRAINY IS ADORKABLE) except James. I miss S1 James... 4) I need to now go watch Legends cuz I just finally got a chance to sit down and do it. I'll be back to scream about summer camp Avalance soon! BYE ❤

1. Yeah! Writing for me is something that comes and goes, frequently. I will have like 2 days where I update literally everything I’m working on because of a burst of inspiration then have no motivation to write for like 2 weeks. As a writer, that’s frustrating as fuck lmao. 

2. Video editing will always be my true love as far as participating in fandom (besides writing really long-winded posts about my feelings that most people don’t care about). And will always be the fandom creator title I claim. “Fanvideo editor/creator��� over “writer” any day of the week and back. And yeah, I felt like my channel art was in need of updating. 

3. As far as the James thing is concerned, it’s not so much that it’s inherently bad, but that it lacks a lot of the components that would make it good (they may come in later in the season, but right now it’s just annoying). Regardless of the intention, it seems like James is doing this to live the glory days as Guardian, not for the reporting aspect or bridging the divide between the two sides. And to pull Lena into it, when he of all people should know that she just flat out cannot be, even indirectly, involved with it for his own ego, is selfish. And annoying. I don’t dislike Guardiancorp though it wouldn’t be my first choice of a James ship or a Lena ship. Even if we’re going to be realistic about the chances of Supercorp happening. I thought at the beginning of S3 that it would be okay and could even be good, but as S3 and now into S4, it does seem like, while Lena has definitely had her own arc and storyline, a great deal of time is put into Lena being a supporting character to prop James up. It’s one thing to have a give and take relationship, like Avalance for example, but it’s another to have to have one half of the ship, propping up the other. It’s sad and not what either character deserves. I want James to grapple with his desire to be Guardian and to be honest, I think the idea that he integrates with the anti-alien groups to live out that struggle is a good storyline on the face of it. Especially because they’re really shoving Lena in the pro-alien side, despite the fact Lena “I don’t choose a side, sister of Lex Luthor, famed alien hater” Luthor is supposed to be a moderate, and then to have best friend of Superman, James Olsen buy into some of the anti-alien sentiment, even if he doesn’t buy into it fully, but to almost be like Lena in that he is like “well, their message as a whole is shit, but they have some good points.” And to have the two of them be equals in this whole thing, instead of James going off and doing whatever he wants to do and Lena basically being forced to follow him because they’re dating, not necessarily because she wants to of her own volition is just... ugh. Anyways, I have a lot of feelings about this, I’ll stop while I’m behind. 

4. You’re always welcome in my inbox to scream about Legends! See you soon. 

#moribee