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That was a lot of fun! Exactly what I hoped for in a continuation. ( Notes with spoilers )

I also convinced DD to check out some of the original Leverage episodes. One of the things she loved most about the new episodes was the found family and team feelings, which develop slowly. It's been a while since I watched the early episodes, so I'd appreciate suggestions which episodes to show her.
Quote DD: "I also generally don't like heist movies, but when it's wrapped in a package of sticking it to the man - eat the rich - I can get behind it."

I want to make a rec post/primer for Skyjacks, but that takes longer than I thought, so for now, notes for episode #64.

( #64: angels and promises )


I've also been thinking about Skyjacks fusions, which is a nice way to boil down what the really important elements of a canon are for me. In this case, sky ships (obviously), and a group of people trying to hide the fact that the captain is a zombie they control.

I think it would work especially well for Leverage: Nate is clearly the zombie captain, and Hardison the necromancer. Sophie is doing most of the work to convince people nothing is wrong with Nate. Parker and Eliot are new on the ship and got involved in the conspiracy entirely by accident – and either they, or Eliot and Sophie, possibly know each other from way back…

For SGA, the zombie captain is Colonel Sumner and Elizabeth does most of the work to convince people everything's fine, but she knows they can't keep it up forever so she organizes something so she can assume leadership – and then she dies, and John and Rodney, as well as new crew members Ronon and Teyla, decide to try the same thing again, except this time it's obviously much harder.

For TMA – well, the choice of zombie captain is obvious, but nobody is sure if he's really dead or not… All of the assistants start out not knowing about the conspiracy. Jon finds out first.

To distract myself and cheer myself up ($%#§& cramps) here's a fannish tropes meme I saw in several places:

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College

Pick one, give me a fandom that you know I know and a character(s)/pairing, and I'll tell you which story I would write for it!

Just looking at the list already gave me some ideas, and because it's unlikely someone will ask for those specifically have some snippets:

( SGA, Ronon, telepathy )

( SGA, Ronon and Teyla, High School/College )

( Leverage, Sophie and Nate, Truth or Dare )

( A:tla/Legend of Korra, Toph and Lin, accidental baby acquisition )

( Sarah Jane Adventures, Clyde, Rani, and Luke, drunk!fic )

I feel tired even though I did very little the past few days. Or possibly "because of". Or possibly because the first point on my to-do list is "clean up my room and organize last semester's university stuff" and I don't want to do that...
I did watch some TV, but that doesn't really count as "getting stuff done."

( DW 5x2 The Beast Below )

( Victory of the Daleks )

( The Time of Angels )

( Flesh and Stone )

( The Vampires of Venice )

( Leverage 4x1 The (Very) Big Bird Job )

Argh, internet problems. I do need to get out more, go to a few museums and parks while I'm still here, but I wanted to watch the rest of Leverage season 4 first, is that so much to ask? Hmph.

Instead I thought of several ways the Leverage crew and Stargate characters could meet:

1) The one where Parker and Vala steal spaceships. holdouttrout already had this idea and wrote Fine Artists, but there can be so much more than that. How did they end up working together, and what do their lives look like? Hardison is a hacker and their friend, Eliot is an ex-soldier for whatever evil government this universe has (Goa'uld or not?) and he knows Parker because she stole something for him that enabled him to quit, in return he protected her on dangerous jobs once or twice. Sam Carter is a mechanic and rebel sympathizer, but does not work with stolen goods, so they need a go-between (Daniel?). Jack and Nate know each other, but don't work together because Jack is a rebel, while Nate refuses to join the rebel alliance (Kinsey screwed him over and he has bad memories) and instead opens up his own spy network/covert operations, using his contacts to get things done. Vala worked for him several times. Teal'c is also a rebel, an ex-comrade of Eliot, but he quit long before Eliot and disapproves of what Eliot did. Daniel is a historian and a rebel who knows Vala, but refuses to say how. Sophie is a spy, thief, and smuggler, a rival of Vala, and occasionally works for both Nate and Jack. Insert plot here!

2) The one where the latest corrupt businessman Nate's team takes on is one of Ba'al's clones. It goes badly, but not before they steal some alien tech, and now Ba'al and the SGC are after them.

3) The one where the Earth blows up, but Sophie stole an ID card/chip/whatever from an important IOA woman and ends up evacuated on the Daedalus on the way to Atlantis. She is discovered, but allowed to stay. On Atlantis, she meets Elizabeth and Teyla, and has to build a new life.

4) The one where Parker doesn't believe Hardison and Eliot that Area 52 is real, or is just curious, and in an ill-advised move Hardison picks out several top-secret installations on a map to prove it. The next weekend Parker sneaks on the Prometheus, and the others have to get her back.

5) The one where Parker is an alien SG-1 met and took with them when her planet exploded. Nobody suspects anything (Hardison does, but nobody believes him), and Parker and Sam regularly meet for coffee. (And Parker slowly figures out that the team is family and Sam is a friend, awww.)

6) The one where they all simultaneously find out that they all know about the Stargate program, but each of them thought they were the only ones. (Hardison: see Wargames Didn't Play Out Like This, or he found secret government files somewhere, Eliot: ran across some aliens running loose on Earth, Parker: broke into a secret research facility, Sophie: ran a con on an IOA member (Woolsey?), Nate: he just knows things.) They find out when they stumble upon a piece of alien tech and nobody is surprised.

7) The one where the Goa'uld take over Earth and they fight back. After a few successful missions they meet what's left of the SGC. Sophie imitating a Goa'uld, Parker sneaking through a ha'tak, Hardison making Independence Day jokes...

I already wrote some of #3, but it's very hard to write from the POV of someone who just lost everyone they cared for, lost their entire planet, and now has to get used to life on a spaceship/space station. I don't think I can do that very well. Maybe I'll just skip most of it and write a few scenes with Sophie and Elizabeth.

Now I'm thinking about #1 – I could just not write a plot and instead a series of snippets, introducing the universe. That could be fun. Also perfect for other crossovers from everywhere else. Firefly, of course - Inara is an old acquaintance of Sophie's, Jayne and Eliot know each other, so do Mal and Nate, Wash only trusts Sam's repairs, Zoe and Teal'c met in a bar; Neal Caffrey is a conman, so is Mozzie, and both of them know Vala and Nate; it would probably be too crazy to have the Claymores as agents of the Evil Empire. (Teresa is Vala's personal nemesis.) Jack Sparrow is a space pirate, and the Emperor is Palpatine. And so on and so on – my brain is crazy.

All bunnies are free for taking, btw.