dira: My home is not a place ... it is people. (Home is not a place)Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote,
@ 2011-04-15 05:20 pm UTC
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Entry tags:bujold, doctor who, memery, sg-1
Crossposts:http://dsudis.livejournal.com/588752.html
From [personal profile] philomytha, "Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!"



The Tau'ri simply assumed everyone could read.

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"SG-1," Jack answered, because that was the only answer that had ever made any sense.

***

One of the most delightful things about traveling not to a parallel universe but to one which intersected at right angles with his own reality was that there tended to be so many books around that he hadn't read.

***

And perhaps this meant Cordelia really wouldn't be offended if he wrote to her about what he'd been thinking; he'd written those sorts of love letters a few times, although he'd been younger and drunker and cribbed half his material directly from the letters Ges wrote to him first.

***

Cordelia stepped into Second Rec thinking to find it empty, but the receiving room was occupied by one uniformed lieutenant, standing very straight with his forehead against the wall and his hands clasped at the small of his back.


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philomytha: girl in woods with a shaft of sunlight falling on her (beam me up)


[personal profile] philomytha
2011-04-16 06:58 am UTC (link)
Aral's love letters! That sentence is practically a complete story in its own right. And that never occurred to me about alternate universes - loads and loads of new books to read!

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dira: Amy Pond in the TARDIS, delighted. (Amy - TARDIS)


[personal profile] dira
2011-04-17 03:08 pm UTC (link)
*grins*

Aral's love letters play a tragically almost nonexistent role in that story, but, yes! And the alternate universes story is the one I am working on next!

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everbright: Eclipse of Saturn (Eclipse of Saturn)


[personal profile] everbright
2011-04-16 11:00 pm UTC (link)
I've already had Moments of Existential Angst over the fact that I could never read all the books in my little local library (read:visit all those fascinating worlds in the pages) let alone all the books in the world. If I was confronted with a whole different world of books (on a bad day) I think my head would implode.

The first one is intriguing. The intersection of reading/non reading cultures isn't something you think about every day, yeah?

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dira: Nate Fick, keeping his chin up (Nate - Chin Up)


[personal profile] dira
2011-04-17 03:11 pm UTC (link)
The first time I went to a big SF convention, there was someone handing out ribbons that said FOMS, for Fear of Missing Something--it was logistically impossible to do even a tenth of everything that was going on at the con, and some people just got kind of paralyzed by that. I have since realized that I have FOMS all the time, even in real life. But the idea of all the books I'm not reading in other universes is like all the ones I'm not reading because they haven't been written yet, or only exist in languages I can't read--beyond my power, so I don't worry too much about them. And if I had a TARDIS and a nearly-unlimited life span then ... I'd have more time to read, so it wouldn't be a problem! :)

And, yeah, there are a bunch of culture-shock-y things going on in SG-1 that are never fully addressed. But that's what fanfic is for! \o/

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