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Well, it had to happen sometime . . . Lothi gave me a plot bunny last night. (Awwww. That's what friends are for!!) A niiice plot bunny.
I expect I'll get this posted to The Pit in the next few days, but you folken get to read it here first.
“I don’t care what he did, who he’s related to, or just how incredible the results were. I want that civilian off my base now. Five minutes ago!”
“But sir – ”
“Do I need to make myself any clearer, Major?”
“No, sir.”
“Jack, was he always this much of a walking nuisance when you were growing up?”
“Um, no, sir – ”
“Somehow, I find that hard to believe!”
“ – well, I was about to say, sir, no, sir, he was usually even more trouble. This was mild. Real mild.”
“General Hammond. I would entreat you to calm yourself. The situation is under control for the moment, and precipitate action will not change anything.”
“Teal’c, you’re not trying to excuse him, are you?”
“Indeed not. But – we were victorious.”
“Teal’c does have a point, General. The Goa’uld attack failed. The Ancient device that Anubis was trying to use is – if you’ll excuse the expression – toast – and – ”
“Son, if you’re trying to calm me down, it’s not gonna help to mention any more kitchen appliances right at the moment.”
“Sir, please. I’m sure we can get the Stargate working again. I admit it wasn’t designed to emit that kind of radiation, certainly not at that frequency or intensity, but we’ve had serious problems with it before and we’ve always managed. And sir, I could use his help.”
“As in, he fried it, he fixes it?”
“Jack, what did I just say about kitchen appliances?”
“And an ordinary microwave transmitter wouldn’t have been anywhere near powerful enough – ”
“Major Carter, I believe your point has been made.”
“People, I can’t believe you’re making excuses for this man. How am I supposed to tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff that we’re going to need a new Stargate because this MacGyver fellow made a toaster out of the old one?”
'Beth
March 2010
I expect I'll get this posted to The Pit in the next few days, but you folken get to read it here first.
Misappliance
“I don’t care what he did, who he’s related to, or just how incredible the results were. I want that civilian off my base now. Five minutes ago!”
“But sir – ”
“Do I need to make myself any clearer, Major?”
“No, sir.”
“Jack, was he always this much of a walking nuisance when you were growing up?”
“Um, no, sir – ”
“Somehow, I find that hard to believe!”
“ – well, I was about to say, sir, no, sir, he was usually even more trouble. This was mild. Real mild.”
“General Hammond. I would entreat you to calm yourself. The situation is under control for the moment, and precipitate action will not change anything.”
“Teal’c, you’re not trying to excuse him, are you?”
“Indeed not. But – we were victorious.”
“Teal’c does have a point, General. The Goa’uld attack failed. The Ancient device that Anubis was trying to use is – if you’ll excuse the expression – toast – and – ”
“Son, if you’re trying to calm me down, it’s not gonna help to mention any more kitchen appliances right at the moment.”
“Sir, please. I’m sure we can get the Stargate working again. I admit it wasn’t designed to emit that kind of radiation, certainly not at that frequency or intensity, but we’ve had serious problems with it before and we’ve always managed. And sir, I could use his help.”
“As in, he fried it, he fixes it?”
“Jack, what did I just say about kitchen appliances?”
“And an ordinary microwave transmitter wouldn’t have been anywhere near powerful enough – ”
“Major Carter, I believe your point has been made.”
“People, I can’t believe you’re making excuses for this man. How am I supposed to tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff that we’re going to need a new Stargate because this MacGyver fellow made a toaster out of the old one?”
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'Beth
March 2010
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Well done, my friend! Well done!
(Does that mean the toast is burnt?)
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Oh, and if it's the other kind of bacon, I'll take some of that, too! I don't mind!
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Melissa M.
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An ALL-DIALOGUE story? SWEET! You know that's my drug of choice. Of course, it's not an even multiple of one hundred words, but...I'll forgive that. *grin*
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My bad.
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I finally found out, BTW, why online word counters lie! They're counting the HTML tags as well. Each bit of formatting adds two nonexistent words to the total. And since I use plenty of formatting, especially in dialogue . . .
Which give me the entirely useless datum that, since my ff.net words counts are usually inflated by about 10%, I apparently use formatting in about 5% of my writing.
ETA! Ooo! I just ran a test on ff.net -- which, of course, inflates worse than anything else that I've ever seen.
Guess what? Their word counters even count paragraph tags -- which is a mega whammy for dialogue pieces! This piece totals 371 words on the ff.net counter!!
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And yes, me too on the counting. But not this time...and it bit me in the ass. Ah, well. Such things happen.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXlHGm-4J4
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I will proudly wear the blame...
*poses, turning this way and that* Looks good on me!:D
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I've often thought about Orlin's "oh, and you're going to need a new toaster" line in regards to plot bunnies... sigh... so many bunnies, so little time! Glad to see someone else created a bunny and got it made - well done!
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BTW, I trust you got all the info you needed in your post the other day on Mac's dietary habits.
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I actually read this last night, and it's been making me giggle ever since... *happy*
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As for seconds -- hard to say; I figure I've got another 15k words at least to go on Reverb, and that gets first priority. Except when interrupted by plot bunnies for short humourous one-offs. The plot bunny for this one more or less threatened to take my arm off at the shoulder, so we'll have to see if he's got any brothers . . .
And speaking of brothers, I was deliberately ambiguous with that in this piece, since there was no need to be specific. And in a way, I think it's funnier and plays better with the casual ambiguity.
For myself, I just can't see them as brothers -- it's too much of a violation of Mac canon. Jack could acquire a retroactive brother, even a twin, without it changing his personality; but Mac's backstory hinges on the impact of his being an only child. Take that away, and he becomes a different person in several key areas. At least for me.
What I can very easily see is them being cousins, and I do, in fact, have a couple of stray notions of possible crossovers that use that idea!
Wandering back to that whole notion of what a story might need: I don't think they need to be brothers for there to be some really intriguing story potential; so I feel no need to break with Mac's canonical past. I can see plenty of room to build without breaking, as it were.
I do hope I don't sound like a pretentious idiot with all that . . . definitely high time I was in bed! Far more important is that I'm really glad you liked it!
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And I truly did enjoy the casual ambiguity of the funny bit. I agree on your comments on the importance of Mac being an only child as an essential part of his character and personal development. I too like the MacGyver canon as is; the idea of brotherness that I like to play with doesn't have Jack discovering he has a twin brother until well into the 6th or 7th season of SG1, so well after the MacGyver canon officially ends. And no, you don't sound like a pretentious idiot anymore than I do a babbling flibbitigibbit! (no comment..)
Anyhoo! I want you to get back to Reverb, so I will quit chattering at you and shoo you off to get back to work making more story for me to read!! (Oh, I s'pose you can sleep a little too....)
Thanks for the fun!
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I usually get the non-LOLMac postings banished to the archive right after the weekend, but I've been so rushed I haven't had the chance to do that with this one yet. I'm glad you liked it!
The dialogue-only was a very interesting challenge, especially since this is also the first SG-1 team fic I've ever written. Most of my writing is regular narrative prose.