Time flies

[ultranos]

I think today marks exactly one year (maybe off by a day or two) since I first saw "Children of the Gods" for SG-1. (Okay, yes, I'm off by a day, because I first tried to watch it on a plane ride back to Boston.)

So that makes it exactly one year since I fell through the 'gate since I watched the movie years ago and forgot all about Jack, Daniel, Abydos, and Ra. A year ago since I rediscovered it and started internalizing it. Watching and seeing Sam and Daniel stare wide-eyed at the universe, Jack being snarky and grumpy and acting like a kid at the really cool things, Teal'c finding wonder on this planet we call home... I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me. In a way, that fictional ring spinning in the basement of NORAD acted like a compass and helped me screw my head on straight.

It's been a year since I fell into fandom.

I've started to write again, something I hadn't really done for years, and I hadn't realized how much I'd missed it. I finally realized it doesn't matter if its SGverse or XAOSverse, it's mine and I didn't realize how much it meant until it had been gone.

I found amazing people who didn't make me embarrassed to be in a fandom and were interesting and awesome and thinky. (And I'm running out of adjectives.) People who came from all different backgrounds and walks of life and we all see this thing in different ways, and yet, it still links us together. And damn if that isn't cool.

Comments

[shutthef-up.livejournal.com]

We're really pleased to have you aboard, too!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! I keep asking "why didn't I know about all this sooner?"

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, I didn't realize you were even newer to the show than I was!

I'm very definitely glad you poked your head in and said hi and decided to stick around. It's been great having you here and, hey, who else would spend two hours with me figuring out the details of Daniel's radiation poisoning? :)

In a way, that fictional ring spinning in the basement of NORAD acted like a compass and helped me screw my head on straight.

I understand that WAY too well.
(plastic!Sam has been my secret mascot on my grad school visits)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there was a reason I kept referring to myself as "the new kid" until about October. :)

who else would spend two hours with me figuring out the details of Daniel's radiation poisoning?

Is it bad that I kinda want to something like that again? That was a ridiculous amount of fun.

Yay for plastic!Sam mascots. :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Hee :) I only saw Children of the Gods a year ago November, so I've always felt very much on the newbie end of things too.

Not bad at all. I'd be all about it! (though last time we really tangented from our initial question, didn't we?)

plastic!Sam is an awesome mascot.

(when I flew two weeks ago the lady who was scanning bags at security announced excitedly "hey, there's an action figure in there. there's a little man in here!" and she was so excited and I think I made her day and it was kinda cool)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

But it was an awesome tangent! (Who knows where we'd end up this time.)

Oh that's adorable. Yay for making security excited about things in a good way. :)