Spinning on that dizzy edge

Title: Never Go to Work
Fandom/Characters: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Music: "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)", by They Might Be Giants
Spoilers: Through season 5
Vid Download Links: 45 MB, WMV format - updated 4/22/2017

With a job like theirs, who can blame the SGA crew for playing hooky?

Notes: I love this team so hard, and I miss them so much, especially when they were allowed to be complete and utter GOOFBALLS. This time around I included lots and lots of Teyla, to make up for my grievous lack in the last vid. This came together in little over a week, like some kind of fever dream. It was a great test of my new laptop.

I could make a career out of vidding to They Might Be Giants. Their songs are short, sweet, and fun, with a great beat and usually not a plot in sight.

Many thanks again to sabaceanbabe for her wonderful feedback and squee (it's always nice for someone else to see the joy you try to put into your work), and to the family at home for tolerating me being in vid headspace for the duration of the creation. I hope you like it!

To preview it, use the password "7days" below.
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Crossposted to: http://grammarwoman.livejournal.com/133720.html

ThinkGeek sent me an email detailing their latest release of T-shirts. I want almost all of them. Silly money.

They also linked to this post of yesteryear about T-shirtism, or what happens when someone comes up with a good design and people start to riff on it. I especially liked the "Steven&Elyse&Alex&Mallory&Jennifer" (I was a HYOOGE Michael J. Fox fangirl back in the day), "Luke&Leia&Han&Chewy", and "Simon&John&Nick&Andy&Roger". If I were to do one, I would probably make a "John&Aeryn&D'Argo&Zhaan&Rygel&Chiana" or a "Cameron&Sam&Daniel&Vala&Teal'c" or a "John&Rodney&Teyla&Ronon". Maybe a "Leroy&Tony&Tim&Ziva&Ducky&Abby&Jimmy". See? So easy to noodle around with that theme.

elderwitty has done some stellar work and compiled a list in two parts (so far) of McKay/Sheppard AUs. I mean, I knew they were totally a little black dress of fiction, but DAMN, guys, you get around!

The Emperor has been leveling up in AWESOME recently. He's getting dressed by himself more often than not, he's slowly but surely getting into the swing of chores (mainly table setting and clearing) by dint of weekly Lego bribes (a little easier for his brain to grasp than money), and astounding us daily with the schemes he comes up with. For instance, last week he evidently got a garbled version of the Noah's Ark story from a friend, so he came up with an elaborate scheme to make a picture of the Earth and paste it on Mars and vice versa, so God would destroy Mars and not Earth.

I love my little goober man.

I've been gobbling up the back entries of this delightful LJer sheafrotherdon to catch all of her stories about the McKay/Sheppard characters from "Stargate: Atlantis" (but set in an AU), and I came across this post about Women in Academia, which made me think of my favorite academic.

(To everyone else who likes fanfic? Go give her Farm in Iowa series a try, even if you're not familiar with SG:A. So beautiful.)