Sorry For Not Keeping My Babble/rant To The Tags This Time But Honestly, This Makes My Heart Hurt And

Sorry for not keeping my babble/rant to the tags this time but honestly, this makes my heart hurt and my blood boil.

Compare the Jack in Small Victories to the one in Affinity. He’s so much more closed off, careful to keep his face blank. He’s giving absolutely nothing away.

Now compare Sam, who many see as the clueless one in this scenario. No, no. No. She’s hopeless, as in without hope, in the Affinity scene and you can see that so clearly when you compare this Sam with Small Victories Sam.

She’s all but pleading with him to say something, to give her a hint, to let her know there’s still a chance but Jack, oh Jack, he’s trying to be all noble and self-sacrificing and doing what he thinks is (wrongly) best for her at the same time as trying to protect himself from getting hurt - totally not realising that in doing so, he’s hurting her, which is the last thing he’d ever want to do.

Small Victories / Affinity

inspired by @writingherhope’s tags  

“Keep Calm and Let Carter Figure It Out” - a handbook by Jack O'Neill

Day 20 - Favorite quote

(credit to @samcaarter​)

I love the accompanying eye-roll. I can’t imagine how many times she heard a similar phrase from her friends or coworkers. Must have been a running gag at the SGC.

“Hey, Carter, can you fix xyz? It’s not as difficult as blowing up a sun.”

Okay, but have you ever thought about Solitudes happening in a later season? Like in 4, 5, 6, 7 or even 8 if Jack went off-world?

Just think about the shippiness, the angstiness, the amazingness of it all.

Sam being desperate to save him, frustrated and scared that she's going to lose him on this goddamn ice planet without any hope of getting home.

Jack trying to comfort her but sharing that frustration and the fear that he's going to leave her alone.

Imagine them cuddling up together, knowing it's the first and last time. Knowing the someday and the silent promises they've been making each other for years isn't going to happen.

The sidearm comment, way more loaded than it was in S1. (Pun not really intended but hehehehe)

It's Sam's name Jack says, not Sara’s, his voice full of regret and love and everything he hasn't been free to say.

Then Sam's response, anguished and tearful and utterly heart-breaking. "I'm here, Jack." Because she is there, she's at his side and will stay there till her dying breath, because there's nowhere else she can be, no one else she'd rather be with.

And then they're rescued, but the tension is heightened, the knowledge of just how damn close they both actually came to dying lingering in every glance, every touch...