Finished Rewatching SG-1 S1

So I finished rewatching Season 1 of Stargate SG-1. Started yesterday evening and have been up all damn night again.

( talk of medication )

But anyway, yeah I finished SG-1's first season, and I am filled with Jack/Daniel feelings.

I really want to write a fic or two for them, but for some reason I have been hung up on the fact that I cannot figure out exactly when or where I'd set it. Of course, anything I wrote would by its very nature be a canon-divergent AU, so why should it matter?

But I have been getting very stuck on needing the context and justification of everything to be perfect.

Fandom-trauma is a thing I guess.

I just really want to write a short but believable shippy story for them that doesn't treat it like it's just... easy.

Thinking about doing it for this challenge among other things, but I would need a stable sort of concept first that would be the appropriate size.

I really want to stop giving myself novel-length premises just because I feel the need to defend my story like a lawyer in court.