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Title: Foreign Concepts
Author: x_erikah_x
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence and torture
Word Count: ~26,000 and 11 chapters
Genre: Gen, H/C, Action, team friendship
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex and other cameos
Spoilers: Set at the end of season five, but no specific spoilers
Disclaimer: Stargate and its characters belong to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. No infringements of rights is intented.
Beta: Many thanks to wildcat88. All remaining mistakes are mine.
Author’s Note: At last, posting time! This is the most elaborated fic I have written and the one that took most for me to write. It’s a team-fic with plenty of whump for all, but heavily concentrated on a certain Lt. Col. Nothing new there, right? The full fic has 11 chapters, all finished and edited. I’ll post daily until it’s finished and I’m also working on a fic cover which will probably be ready on Sunday.

Summary: When the team first arrives on Milania, they are impressed with their level of accomplishment. The feeling soon fades when they discover how deep their xenophobia goes.

( Chapter 1 )

Hah! *says it in Doctorly fashion*

I don't usually post recs here, or at all, really, but this is absolutely brilliant!

It's short and it's not SGA. *gasps* It's a NuTrek and Who crossover.

The Encounter: The crew of the Enterprise are taken aback by the arrival of a blue box and a rather over-excited man on the bridge.

I saw Torchwood days 4 and 5 last night. Let's just say that I'm glad for not knowing how deep the fandom explosion was before I watched it.

( SPOILERS )

This is just the suckiest weather. This is one of the most rainy winters I have seen. It's raining every single week. It rained all day yesterday and it's raining more today, looking like it'll go on and on and on forever and ever. Where are those dry winters that have everyone complaining about pollution and respiratory problems? And it's not even that cold. Fall was colder than this! Where is this world going?

Yesterday was a holiday. I spent the day watching NCIS. I rented season three, discs one and two and I'm going to rent the rest to watch over the weekend. I don't think I've seen all of seasons one and two, but I think I have seen most. I really like this show.

I also watched Torchwood Children of Earth, days one and two, and I'm going to watch day three tonight. OMG! I LOVE TORCHWOOD!

I have spent my boring rainy Friday at work (which, of course no one came, except two people) re-editing my SGA prison fic which still needs a title. I have added more scenes and it's now past the 26,000 word count. I'm happy with the way it's turning out. Hopefully, I'll be done by the end of next week.

I can't wait to go home and watch COE and eating something. Damn, I only ate breakfast then a chocolate bar later and it's already 8PM. I need a hot dog!

Today I read two posts talking about triggers of strong emotional response while reading fanfic. It's something I had never considered before and I recomend the writers in my f-list to read it as well.

It talks about the importance of warnings to people that had traumatic experiences in the past and that need to know if the story has any triggers that will result in strong emotional response, or even strong flashbacks and the likes. Some time ago someone posted a link to a post made by a person that suffered PTSD and how it feels like. I unfortunally misplaced the link. I thought I had added that to my memories, but I guess I didn't.

These two posts are similar to that one but focus on the triggers that lead to reliving the experience. The triggers can sometimes be as simple as the character having a certain name (which makes it all difficult because there are no warnings for that) or scenes that are explicit in a way that will take them back to their own personal experience.

Sometimes even reading the warnings can be a trigger in itself, which can be tricky. Also, too many warnings can spoil the fic, so I have seen the examples linked in the comments of the post that uses the 'highlight to see' effect with a spoiler warning next to it. We have all crossed fics without propper warnings and that have explicit sexual content, sometimes even non-con or dub-con, violence and torture of an especific kind that totally ruins our fun in reading fic.

We all know warnings in fics are important, but we usually consider only them being about personal dislikes rather than causing a person to have a panic attack because of something we wrote. The posts can also help characterizations in fanfic, if one of your characters happen to go through PTSD themselves.

Warning: Very explicit discussion of sexual assault and the nature, anatomy, cause & effect of triggers. Is itself triggery.

Triggers: What they feel like for me

Guess what? No one came today. You know, Friday, July, vacations, cold and rainy... who would want to come to school just for a pitiful doubt duty? This means I had time to finish my fic! Woooooo!!! I told you that was the last chapter!!! I solved all the problems I was having by shifting POVs completely from what I had planned initially. I just have to read through then wait for beta. *punches the air*

Over with 25.790. I need to make the word count bar again, but it's time to go home already.

Woooooo!!!

I need to make the banners for sga_lfws round 6 because alyburns needed to use a skip, but I'm having problems finding the crossover shows' caps.

I managed to make something for wildcat88, but for writerjc I can't find anything because of my lack of deep X-Files knowledge. I want to do something related to my reason of choosing that fic as Mod's Choice, which is the choice of doing Mulder's POV instead of using a SGA character.

For that I'll need some specific Mulder caps and I don't know where to look because I don't know which episodes to research for. I know there are a lot of Mulder whumpers in my f-list, so if you have any whumpy pics of Mulder to help me, I would forever be grateful.


SPOILER FOR FIC:

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In the fic, he's found by our team in the desert around Area 51 with an Ancient object in his hand, barely conscious and next thing he knows he's waking up in a hospital in San Francisco.

Any caps related to those situations would be awesome. It doesn't need to be desert, it can be snow or forest or anything, I can manip all the elements together without problems. I would like to have some options and if I have no other choice, something with Mulder in a hospital bed (preferably with Scully beside him) will do.

Wooooooooo!!! My team won the Brazil Cup!!! Wooooooooooooooo!!!

*runs around shouting TRICAMPEÃO!*

*clears throat*

Ahem, on the writing front... well it's been hard finding time. When I have a little time I don't have the inspiration. Why, oh, why do I find finishing fics so hard? This is likely the last chapter and it's just NOT happening! I also sense a demand for lots of comfort, but I hate writing the comfort part. *cries* I don't wanna leave the team all banged up, but thinking about good doses of final comfort is almost impossible for me. Then feeling that I hadn't spread the whump love enough (I may have concentrated on a certain Lt Colonel, ahem), I added an extra scene to whump another favorite whumpee (a certain astrophysicist) and now I don't know what to do with the aftermatch of that. After all, he's not the only one affected by that scene. I have to think of the consequences to all the team. Maybe I should just erase some parts and tone it down a bit. Would that be just cheating? I'm near the point of not caring if it is or if changing that scene will ruin the ending. I just want to finish this damn fic already so I can move on to other projects. *kicks fic*



Okay, let's concentrate on the good things:

TRICAMPEÃO!!!