Interventions

[eruthros]

So I was having one of those conversations you have with fannish friends. You know. thingswithwings was telling me a story idea, and she said, god, what am I even doing, somebody's gonna stage an intervention any day now. And I, of course, pointed out that this was Stargate: Atlantis, and that you probably couldn't get an intervention for anything less than "the story in which Rodney and John sit in the office all day without talking to each other and just do paperwork," and perhaps not even then.

So, guys, what does it take to get an intervention in SGA? How far do you have to go?

Like, imagine your fannish friend who's been with you for the last three fandoms. You even bailed out of the X-Files at the same time! It has been so wonderful and lovely. But now she's gone a little bit off the rails in this wild and crazy SGA fandom.

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Comments

[eruthros]

Ha! Yes. A lot of things I thought were cracked-out when I was new in fandom turn out to be standards!

"Oklahoma" is a massive pre-series X-Files story. It's about, oh, 1000K. Mulder is investigating a serial killer (who kills children and quotes TS Elliot!) while slowly going completely bonkers. Suffice it to say that the old Mulder Torture Anonymous group? Gave it a 10/10 rating.

You might actually find it interesting, if you've got, like, twenty hours to spare. It's very 1996-fandom, but pretty well done (as I recall -- I was, in terms of fannish-age, SIX or something at the time, so I may be rose-colored-glassesing here). Also, it may fit into the whole buddy-cop thing you mentioned below -- it is a bit like that, with amnesia and going crazy and being kidnapped and so on. It was, for many years, my go-to story for comparisons -- "yeah, it was unpleasant, yeah, there were serial killers, but it wasn't OKLAHOMA, so."

It's available here, on quick google, and possibly also other places in better formatting.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! I had forgotten the title, but it turns out I actually read some of this! Like, at least one chapter! Way back a billion years ago, before I had ever heard the term "hurt/comfort.'

[eruthros]

HA. Well, it's more ... hurt/hurt, as I recall. With a lot of vomiting, Mulder being unable to eat, Mulder being drugged, Mulder being drugged by his friends, Mulder going crazy, Mulder reciting TS Elliot, and on and on.

It really was, as panisdead says, a rite of passage in fandom. (Proving, I suppose, that we are all crazy people.)

[cofax7]

Oh, Oklahoma.

Which led to the priceless summary of Iolokus, most of which I fail to remember, other than "and 90% less vomiting". Heh.

[eruthros]

That is AWESOME.

I think I will use it all the time, now. "SGA fandom: it's got 90% less vomiting!" (Actually, that is SG1 versus Farscape. "We're like Farscape, with many of the same actors, and with leather pants, but with 90% less vomiting!" Also, 90% less writing. But I doubt they'd mention that.)