Martha! Martha! Martha!

[maharetr]

Sorry, couldn't resist. I really couldn't. A couple of days ago someone rec'ed 'Lovely' by Martha on the Alpha Gate. It's a Sentinel Stargate SG-1 crossover novel and it's fucking...oh god.

It's 11.30 now. Mum and dad are in bed close by. Have you ever actually tried to silence your squees? There has been much wriggling in my chair, biting my lips, covering my mouth with both hands and flapping my hands from the wrist, for some reason. I've had to do this several times in the last ten minutes, and now my wrists ache. Please don't ask me to replicate this in real life. You can have a go yourself:

"You appeared out of thin air this morning," Jim said calmly. "I wouldn't call that a 'sleep disorder.'"

Because I came there by direct link, I have no idea about ratings etc. I don't even know if this is proper slash, and I don't care. The only way I've been able to ration the fic (and get any sleep) these past few nights is to charge the laptop battery while I study and read until the battery flattens. Speaking of which, I have 25 minutes left.

ETA: I think I could come to love fandom Sentinel, oh so deeply. Said right after she's given back all cricketk's VHS. Actually, this is probably a good thing: exams don't seem all that important atm! A thousand thanks to zebra363 for the quick primer.

Comments

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Sentinel ship_manifesto essay?

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ship_manifesto/11736.html

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

And yes, I've had to silence my squee when I've illicitly read short stories posted to LJ at my contract accounting job. It's hard to manage my facial expressions sometimes.

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

There's also a Blair Sandburg/Daniel Jackson essay:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ship_manifesto/21680.html

::moving into Sentinel mode::

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

These are fantastic, thanks for the heads up!

I found my way to Martha's homepage, and I've found that 'Lovely' was actually gen (the sequel 'Tatters', is slash tho). And 'Lovely' still read totally slashy, at least from the Jim/Blair side of things. Blair cooks a huge Christmas meal for both of them, for example. And the first thing Blair thinks when he's zatted for the first time isn't: "OW! hurts!" it's "Oh, dear god, don't let them do this to Jim!"

::goes on a Sentinel hunt:: :D

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Watch out. Sentinel consumed a huge amount of last winter for me! I failed to get all sorts of things done...

Some of the fiction is really top quality. You'll love it!