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I found a fanfiction from a past Sparktober that I wrote and just needed a little editing. It's a fluffy kidfic where John tells Elizabeth and his kids a bedtime story.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Stargate Atlantis Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir Characters: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Carson Beckett, Ronon Dex Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Halloween Costumes, Dialogue Heavy Summary:

Elizabeth Weir knew she never should have let John Sheppard pick their costumes for the Halloween party. This story fulfills the Sparktober 2021 Bingo card prompts for “Off-Duty” and “Halloween.”

Wraith Gifts by Bil

What’s In A Name? by Patricia de Lioncourt

Common Ground Episode Tag by OracleDru

Silver by ravenstarwind40

Common Ground Tag by koalathebear

Defining Moment by SGAFan

The Grudge by 001ElvenWarrior

The Dark Corners of the Mind by Lorr

Shades of Grey by Anjirinka

A Second Chance by brains103

Cry by angelqueen04

Aftermath by Vickysg1

Uncrossed Lines by tyger cub

The Burden of Leadership by digitalfletch

Jealousy by Shayz

The Sound of Agony by hanorganaas

Divided We Fall by Kesdax

Love or Duty by hanorganaas 

When We Bleed We Bleed The Same by hanorganaas

Hate by angelqueen04

Not Surprised by angelqueen04

Forgiveness by alianne

The Dark Hours by ugahill

Common Ground Epilogue by YunaDax

On Shaking Ground by wanderingsmith

Burden of Command by krisrussell

But What If? by From The Stars

Stronger by Bil

Sleeping Habits by XakliaAeryn

Heartfelt Confessions by brains103

Forfeit by Sunny

CG Balcony Scene by Lizabeth

Please rec me any Sheppard/Weir fix it fics you know.

Or any and all fics with a friendship between Sam & Elizabeth.

I need these things, and fully intend to write some, but I’m tired and a bit sad tonight so recs of already written fics muchly appreciated.

A closer look at Elizabeth and John in the episode "Echoes"✨

He reacts instantly as soon as she starts to fall. He is so considerate of her. AND! He puts his hand under her head before it touches the ground to prevent her from bumping😯

He carries her in his arms! Who watched, I think, everyone loves this moment. He cares about her. He decided not to call the medical team to take her away. He takes her in his arms and carries her himself! AND DETAIL! She's unconscious. Consequently, she cannot think and move herself. He put her hand on his shoulder. HIMSELF! There is no other way to explain it. How he laid her gently on the bed. So neat. So tender. Until the last he held her in his arms😲

Even when the doctor has already come, he does not leave her. He wants to make sure that everything will be fine with her. Who remembers, Beckett said there was already a fatal case. He said this while Elizabeth was lying unconscious on the bunk. She was in danger. Only after this, John decided to make an attempt to cope with the problem himself. Because he worried about her🥺

“Colonel Sheppard. I’m going to assume that you’re still at the midway station waiting for Doctor McKay to rewrite his macro. I understand what you’re doing, Colonel. Hell, I’ll even call it brave.”

Stargate Atlantis thoughts - The Storm vs. Common Ground

I find it so funny that Kolya thinks Elizabeth will give in after seeing Sheppard fed upon in Common Ground.  Kolya definitely has the whole thing backwards.  John is the one who’d give in.  Note in The Storm he’s ready to give Kolya a ship the minute Elizabeth is threatened.

100: Stargate Atlantis Cast Reunion (Special)

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Stargate Atlantis Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir Characters: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Video & Computer Games, Dialogue Heavy Summary:

Dr. Elizabeth Weir is a secret gamer grrl, and Col. John Sheppard is surprised at her skills!

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Stargate Atlantis Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir, Teyla Emmagan & Elizabeth Weir Characters: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Ronon Dex, Radek Zelenka Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Dialogue Heavy, Romance, Matchmaking, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Happy Ending Summary:

: An AU story, which involves Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Lt. Col. John Sheppard, getting married in the name of alien diplomacy. Later chapters will be rated “M.”

A songfic inspired by "Everything Has Changed" by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran. This story explores both John and Elizabeth's thoughts during the episodes "Rising Parts 1 & 2," "The Storm," and "The Eye." This story was written in celebration of my first Sparktober. Sparky, Sheppard/Weir

Watch "John & Elizabeth - Sparks Fly - SGA" on YouTube

Taylor Swift's song "Sparks Fly," is so fitting for Sparky. :-) This is not my video, btw.

The conversation

Our Romeo and Juliet discover their balcony…

01x01 Rising

Happy Sparktober!

the Married energy is strong out there in the Pegasus Galaxy

like, the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other’s senses of selves. when they are apart, the characters’ actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other. 

which is this deeply Austenian view of ideal romantic relationships as mechanisms by which we come to know ourselves better and become better versions of ourselves. good romance, for me, is always tied in with a sense of self-actualization, and the way in which a beloved partner allows a person to know themselves better.

Hanleia + Your Ships that Were Probably Inspired by Them  » Sparky [Stargate Atlantis]

reasons to not quit writing:

your writing is a skill, not an inborn talent (unless, yeah, maybe it is). not everyone can do what you do and love

everyone says they want to write a book. everyone has what it takes to write a book. not everyone does it anyway. you be the small percentage of success you read about

your writing will always seem brickshit horrible because you wrote and read it a million times

you love this writing thingy. quitting it will be like cutting off your fingers one by one.

someone out there will want to read what you wrote.

someone out there wants to know what is on your mind. 

someone out there appreciates your art. they will share it with their friends. they will share it with their loved ones. they will share it with their future self because maybe what you wrote saved them.

if you give up now, you know you will just come back to it again, whether it’s years from now, months, or next week. you love writing, that’s why you planted the seed of thought that you are going to write this book, and whether you come back to it or not, your unwritten stories will come back to you.

When you are writing a story and refer to a character by a physical trait, occupation, age, or any other attribute, rather than that character’s name, you are bringing the reader’s attention to that particular attribute. That can be used quite effectively to help your reader to focus on key details with just a few words. However, if the fact that the character is “the blond,” “the magician,” “the older woman,” etc. is not relevant to that moment in the story, this will only distract the reader from the purpose of the scene. 

If your only reason for referring to a character this way is to avoid using his or her name or a pronoun too much, don’t do it. You’re fixing a problem that actually isn’t one. Just go ahead and use the name or pronoun again. It’ll be good.

“Getting” yourself to write

Yesterday, I was trawling iTunes for a decent podcast about writing. After a while, I gave up, because 90% of them talked incessantly about “self-discipline,” “making writing a habit,” “getting your butt in the chair,” “getting yourself to write.” To me, that’s six flavors of fucked up.

Okay, yes—I see why we might want to “make writing a habit.” If we want to finish anything, we’ll have to write at least semi-regularly. In practical terms, I get it.

But maybe before we force our butts into chairs, we should ask why it’s so hard to “get” ourselves to write. We aren’t deranged; our brains say “I don’t want to do this” for a reason. We should take that reason seriously.

Most of us resist writing because it hurts and it’s hard. Well, you say, writing isn’t supposed to be easy—but there’s hard, and then there’s hard. For many of us, sitting down to write feels like being asked to solve a problem that is both urgent and unsolvable—“I have to, but it’s impossible, but I have to, but it’s impossible.” It feels fucking awful, so naturally we avoid it.

We can’t “make writing a habit,” then, until we make it less painful. Something we don’t just “get” ourselves to do.

The “make writing a habit” people are trying to do that, in their way. If you do something regularly, the theory goes, you stop dreading it with such special intensity because it just becomes a thing you do. But my god, if you’re still in that “dreading it” phase and someone tells you to “make writing a habit,” that sounds horrible.

So many of us already dismiss our own pain constantly. If we turn writing into another occasion for mute suffering, for numb and joyless endurance, we 1) will not write more, and 2) should not write more, because we should not intentionally hurt ourselves.

Seriously. If you want to write more, don’t ask, “how can I make myself write?” Ask, “why is writing so painful for me and how can I ease that pain?” Show some compassion for yourself. Forgive yourself for not being the person you wish you were and treat the person you are with some basic decency. Give yourself a fucking break for avoiding a thing that makes you feel awful.

Daniel José Older, in my favorite article on writing ever, has this to say to the people who admonish writers to write every day:

Here’s what stops more people from writing than anything else: shame. That creeping, nagging sense of ‘should be,’ ‘should have been,’ and ‘if only I had…’ Shame lives in the body, it clenches our muscles when we sit at the keyboard, takes up valuable mental space with useless, repetitive conversations. Shame, and the resulting paralysis, are what happen when the whole world drills into you that you should be writing every day and you’re not.

The antidote, he says, is to treat yourself kindly:

For me, writing always begins with self-forgiveness. I don’t sit down and rush headlong into the blank page. I make coffee. I put on a song I like. I drink the coffee, listen to the song. I don’t write. Beginning with forgiveness revolutionizes the writing process, returns its being to a journey of creativity rather than an exercise in self-flagellation. I forgive myself for not sitting down to write sooner, for taking yesterday off, for living my life. That shame? I release it. My body unclenches; a new lightness takes over once that burden has floated off. There is room, now, for story, idea, life.

Writing has the potential to bring us so much joy. Why else would we want to do it? But first we’ve got to unlearn the pain and dread and anxiety and shame attached to writing—not just so we can write more, but for our own sakes! Forget “making writing a habit”—how about “being less miserable”? That’s a worthy goal too!

Luckily, there are ways to do this. But before I get into them, please absorb this lesson: if you want to write, start by valuing your own well-being. Start by forgiving yourself. And listen to yourself when something hurts.

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The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. 

Mulan (1997), dir. Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook.