Couldn't find a spark for the Indian Summer cover

[prixmium]

I started to try to make another fic cover. Got discouraged because SG-1 has virtually nothing to choose from in terms of image resources that aren't chucked into the photobucket or like 26 pixels wide. I feel like it might even be easier to find resources for fandoms that started pre-1990 because revival and restoration efforts have been made, whereas those from like 1990-2010 are so difficult because they existed in the time when internet fandom was taking shape but the resources weren't updated to modern standards as they went. At least not usually.

I haven't figured out some generic imagery I can use yet, either, so I gave up for the moment.

Nevertheless, I'm pretty impressed that by the time I was 18 or so my writing had started to resemble something that wasn't particularly embarrassing. The fic I was working with (I'm basically just going in reverse chronological order) was one about Daniel Jackson and Sam Carter having mostly skimmed over or fade-to-black comfort sex as a result of all their feelings everywhere about other people and finding immediate solace in each other or something? And it's named after a Katy Perry song. Pretty... complex for one of the first fics I've got archived on AO3 (I don't remember if it was an import from FF.net but I think it was).

I don't know why I have always been taken with the trope of people "cheating" on their emotions only to find MORE emotions. I don't support actual infidelity except in cases of like people breaking out of abusive or genuinely loveless relationships, but infidelity is another one of those hot-buttons for some people where they won't read anything even REMOTELY related to it. Me? I am all about loyalty in real life and in fiction, but that means that in fiction I am interested in explorations of what that means (or doesn't).

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[oldtoadwoman]

I have been following along with theemdash who is doing a Stargate rewatch (an episode every few days, it isn't a specific schedule). theemdash has been trying to recommend episode-based fic and encountering that same problem where so much fic from this era of fandom has been lost. Fic-rec lists are full of broken links etc.

Are you looking for an image from a specific episode or just more good Sam and Faniel pics to choose from?

[prixmium]

Yeah! It definitely is an issue. I think I remember that person from being on LJ years back? But yeah I had a resurgence of affection for it last year sometime. (I rarely get out of fandoms. I just sort of cycle them with new stuff.) And what you're describing is definitely a problem. Centralization of fandom can be frustrating because it makes things really hard to cipher through, but tagging has been one of the major helps with that. So many small websites from that era just went away.

The episode that this episode is most linked to is Solitudes I believe from S1?

[oldtoadwoman]

I don't recognize the title, but it looks like it's coming up in the re-watch soon. (The last one I re-watched as 01.15 Singularity.)