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Muuuuuch beta credit to sprocket and elementals_ao3 and seekingferret, because they are awesome and wonderful and these fics would not be nearly so good if not for them. (And special awesomeness credit to sprocket, who probably wrote at least the number of words I did in her betas, and was very gracious when I said things like, “So I need this done tonight, is that okay?”)

My assignment was Norse Myth, Who Gathers All Things Mortal (1504 words), which drove me completely bonkers to write — despite it being the shortest of the three, I spent way, way more time in canon review and in writing/edit than probably both of the others combined -- but which I think turned out well, mostly because my betas showed me how to beat it into shape when I was despairing of how to fix it properly. The prompt was Hel and Angrboda. I really liked the prompt; I don’t think there’s enough on mothers and daughters in media in general.

My pinch hit was SGU - Camile Wray, Enhancing Organizational Productivity (2245 words). The thing about Camile is that, with the exception of maybe one or two episodes, she gets completely wasted on SGU. As sprocket kept reminding me, she has this HR background which ought to be really really useful on the Destiny for all kinds of things, but it never actually is. Probably partially as a result of this, I haven’t ever read any SGU fic where she gets a chance to win. And she’s awesome! So, yeah. Camile gets to use her skills to win, yay! (But not win everything, because this is SGU.)

And then there was The Family Business, the 5100-word near-future SF-VR-corporate Greek Myth AU that I gifted to ollipop, who asked for 1000-5000, mentioned catholic tastes in her letter, and also mentioned not liking dubious SF tropes in another venue. (Uh, I still want to have that conversation!) I allllllmost didn’t post it, but I sneakily asked her about AU’s, and she said it was okay for general things like myth, and then the big theme turned out to be Families and How They Mess with Your Mind, which coincidentally turned out to be the big theme of ollipop’s awesome fic (Lotus Durona! Jackson’s Whole!), so I risked it after all. She seems to have liked it! :)

It did lead to this hilarious beta exchange:

Me: So Beta B told me the theme was X, and it’s really not.
Beta A: Yeah, the theme is obviously Y.
Me: No, the theme is Z!

(All three of us were right, but Beta A was more right.)

Someday I will have recs (besides my awesome Aeneid presents I squee about here; you need not know the Aeneid to read it; all that you need to know about Dido is here and here), when I get around to reading the whole rarewomen archive, but there are lots of goodies in it! Go read!

ETA: links fixed, I think. If not, let me know.

*falls over* Okay, this will be my last SGU for a while. The last longer-ish one, anyway. I think. Darn stupid canon keeps throwing out all these frustratingly tantalizing little hooks at me.

Title: Laws of Motion
Fandom: Stargate: Universe
Rating: PG
Characters: Tamara Johansen, Nicholas Rush, Everett Young, ensemble
Relationship: Tamara Johansen/Nicholas Rush
Summary: In which TJ and Rush become unlikely allies, Destiny may or may not be trying to play matchmaker, engineering turns out to have its moments, Young frets, and everyone more-or-less obeys Newton's Three Laws.
Notes: Written for sgu_challenge's challenges: #084 Amnesty and #028 Dynamic(s).

Many many thanks to CleanWhiteRoom for totally selling me on this ship and for a helpful discussion of TJ, Rush, and Young. Also, um. This developed as a slight AU, where Rush revealed his control of the ship in a more timely fashion than in "The Greater Good"; that episode obviously never happened in the world of this fic.

AO3 link here.

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