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.

[Poll #1090767]

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

....is the egg one for real?

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I believe that's "The Sound of Wind Chimes," and I was SCARRED.

[eruthros]

*g* Dude, this is so nostalgic! In that way where I'm remembering all these hugely traumatic, scarring stories. This practically is that rememberthe90s community.

Quick, somebody ask for "Oklahoma" and we'll call it a day.

(Also, I provide a link to "Sound of Wind Chimes" for everyone's delectation.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I seriously considered dedicating my grad thesis to the authors of "Oklahoma."

[eruthros]

That is so much awesome. So much. I don't even need to know what your grad thesis was on to make it awesome (though it might, I dunno, make it more awesome!)

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Diagnosis of autism in children under three, which I don't remember having much to do with the story? I was mostly going for "almost as painful, but with less vomiting!"

[eruthros]

*g* I'm guessing "shorter" as well.

I cannot believe that I read "Oklahoma" more than once. I must have had nothing but free time.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

What is "Oklahoma?"

I once read a multi-part fic in which Mulder and Krycek were dragonriders on Pern. I think one of them was recovering from sexual abuse.

I now realize that this was not actually all that cracked-out, in the grand scheme of things. I mean, they could have been tulips. On dragonback.

[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]

PS: I am now pondering tulips on dragonback. Would they fall off? Do they hold on with roots? What kind of Tulip would Krycek be? It is a quandary.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

You know, at this point all I can really tell you is that it was set pre-X-Files, Mulder was tracking a serial killer in Oklahoma, it was unbelievably long, and people threw up a lot. Reading it was sort of a rite of passage in the fandom, or at it seemed so to me at the time. I believe I once sent one of the authors feedback on a different story and received a fifteen page treatise on why shipping Mulder and Scully was Wrong. (I mean, it was a friendly treatise, but fifteen. Pages).

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

See my comment above. I may have not finished due to vomiting; I'm funny that way. (Characters vomiting, not me. I miss the good old days, which may or may not ever have existed, when fic writers pretended that characters never used the bathroom for any purpose but sexy showers.)

[graycastle.livejournal.com]

...remembering old XF fic that I read when I was fourteen is a bit like TRIPPING OUT. I don't want the bizarre things in my brain to be real! There was the one where M&S go through a portal to an alternate universe that's all sword and sorcery, and Scully becomes a WARRIOR/HEALER, a previously unknown combination, and Mulder becomes a, whatever, GUY WHO DROPS HIS GUN, I forget, but someone reads their auras and tells them what they ARE. And then mostly I remember Scully fighting on horseback with her hair all grown out. OH ADOLESCENT FANTASY.

and the thing is, there are like a million XF and Buffy fics like these in my brain, just waiting for the right memory trigger to jump out at me! I am in grave danger.

[eruthros]

I was going to be all "oh my god! graycastle's having flashbacks!" and, you know, try to be a concerned friend. Grave danger! Drama! Woe! A small chance of freezing while teaching to flash back to that AU where they were bunnies! Etc.

But then your swords-and-sorcery AU gave me a flashback to this picture and now I hate you forever instead.

[graycastle.livejournal.com]

The mist rising from the lake partially obscured the rider as he urged his stallion on. The dry, autumnal leaves crunched under the animal's hooves, and a light dew of perspiration bathed both horse and rider as they galloped. The horse was a bay stallion, his muscles rippling beneath a shining coat as his long, sturdy legs ate up the ground, his powerful flanks heaving with the exertion. The rider resembled his horse - long legs, taut muscles under tanned flesh, a wide brow and dark, intense eyes. There was a fusion of flesh, animal and human, as the rider and horse became one, moving with perfect synchronized precision across the valley floor, unaware that they were being watched.

WHY GOD WHY

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I READ THE WHOLE THING OF OKLAHOMA. Even with all the vomiting. And the blackouts and shivering in corners and not eating and taking drugs and all that. I kept thinking there would be less drugs and vomiting, but no. But I KEPT READING ANYWAY in incredulous fascination.

The non-vomiting parts were well-written, I recall. Great realistic cop-sounding cruel banter and gritty crime scenes. BUT THEN THE VOMITING.

[eruthros]

Well, I think it kinda suffered from being one of those hurt/hurt stories! Nothing good would ever happen to Mulder and his whole life had been fucked up! He couldn't even enjoy ice cream (because of the vomiting) or baseball (because of the, I don't know, psychotic flashbacks) or porn (because it was all a pretense to cover up his fucked-upness). Which, over 1000K? Kinda trumps the gritty banter and crime scenes, at least for me! Even without the vomiting.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, Man! I was working for a huge State Institute of Higher Ed at the time and couldn't take the time to read it online but somehow managed to justify PRINTING it all out (on their dime, of course). I found the 4" binder with the whole thing about two years ago and chucked it out. I Should have saved it as an artifact!

[graycastle.livejournal.com]

ha! you beat me to it. man, I honest to god think that The Sound of Wind Chimes was the first (or one of the first) pieces of fanfiction I ever read in XF fandom. I was scarred also!

the best part was when the aliens sent them back to earth, and Scully had signs of having given birth (even though she hadn't been pregnant when she went missing, like, four hours before) and the FBI couldn't figure out what that meant, so just randomly charged Mulder with sexual assault. "Uh . . . she delivered a placenta with your DNA in it. You're a rapist? I think?" AWESOME.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

I didn't remember that part! I actually don't remember it in ALL that much detail. Is this the same one where while they're captured aliens test their tolerances? Scully goes first and gets pain, so Mulder is all prepped for that but then they test pleasure? Then possibly he comes back and has sex with Scully, I don't know.

[graycastle.livejournal.com]

uh, maybe? I remember Mulder coming back into the egg-room with, like, the Giant Raging Hardon to end all the Giant Raging Hardons of fandom. And he had been put into a fuck-or-die mindset, or something, and so he rapes Scully, which gets her pregnant, which is the point (at the end, the aliens steal her baby OMG). I don't remember the pain-tolerance thing, but it may be because that Giant Raging Hardon is taking up too many bytes of memory.

[eruthros]

Well, I linked to it above. You could go, you know, refresh your memory. *earnest nod*

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

That's totally it. I was thinking tolerance-testing and then alien sex pollen to precipitate the sex, but you're right, it was raging alien hard-ons.

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Eeek! I had repressed that memory!