Through the Gate

Proud mom post ahead...

2020-02-13T14:43:44Z

Hi hi hi!

I know I've been very quiet last year (and this year so far) and have neglected my DW (and my LJ). I've been playing on Instagram and twitter, but that's about it. Fandom wise I've done a little writing in 2019, but since most of those who follow me here are into kidfic I didn't announce it here (that's not meant as a whining, just a simply fact and it's totally okay and it's all good).

Life's been hectic and roller coaster-ing around here with aging parents and parents in law needing a lot of help and assistance now between hospital stays - which is fine, it just keeps me stuck in rl a lot more than it used to in previous years. At the beginning of this year my friend had to put her beloved horse down and it's been a sad sad journey for the both of us since I was with her all the way and my heart broke a little along with hers as I loved her baby too.

But that's the circle of life and things as sad and exhausting things have been on the one side, the more bright and rewarding is the other side of my life's balance.

My daughter Sarah has finished her job-in-trainee with excellent grades in January and is now a full paid employee which enables her to rent her own apartment together with her long time bf who is just now finishing his bachelor as well. So, my baby is going to leave the nest soon - a mixed blessing for us as parents for sure. We are super happy for her and at the same time this new stage of life will be strange and needs getting used to on our part.

In other (good) news my kid has been singing in a band for five years now and after years of hard work and many many on stage performances that were a steep learning curve plus coaching and practicing several times a week they have finally released her first EP (Extended play) last Friday. There was a release party, a concert, in a small club here in town and it was received quite nicely. This project has been in the work for several months with weeks of studio work and I am so proud I could burst with pride because those kids have worked so hard to reach this goal and now it's finally here.

I am trying my best to share what they have done online even though my reach via social media is not large since I don't have big accounts anywhere, but I'm trying as best as I could.

So here is my daughter's band Mountain Bricks! You can find them on FB here. I don't know if there is an translate option from German to English there since I'm not on FB.

de-de.facebook.com/mountain.bricks/

But mainly I would love you to go and listen to their EP which you can do on Spotify here:

spotify:artist:4INNt0whuhRXms47euauwD

And you can get a download on Amazon .... Okay the amazon link won't work, but if you go to your Amazon and search for Mountain Bricks you'll be led to the album "Compass" and can listen to it and/or download it from there for a small amount of money.

It's called Compass and contains six songs, all composed by the band itself. The beautiful artwork for the cover was created by Franzi, a friend and co-worker of Sarah's. If you'd like to support the Mountain Bricks, please share the links far and wide and give those kids some loving by leaving feedback. If anyone would love to have a real CD I can provied you - it will cost 8 Euro plus shipping and support a young ambitious band to continue on their journey of creativity and music.

This would be all. Thank you for reading. I hope you're all well and I will try to stop by here to post more often in the future.

Hugs and Love,
Anne

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year all in one roll

2017-12-31T14:25:51Z

'Waves around at everyone'

I haven't been around much this month, but I didn't want to let the old year go without stopping by and wishing everyone a happy new year. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas or what other holiday you celebrated this month. I had a nice one with family on Christmas Eve and the next day we hightailed it out of here and went on vacation to Sweden/Göteborg. Even though I wanted snow and got rain (lots lots lots of rain) and came home sick with a flu bug (sinuses, sore throat, cough, the whole woohoo) we had a great time and did a lot of sightseeing.

I'm going out today to a nice little party with a couple of close friends, nothing fancy, just nice and a bit festive. I suspect I'll be in bed shortly after the ball drops, but we'll see.

I wish all of you a happy, healthy, wealthy (hehe), joyful and peaceful 2018. I'm grateful for this little corner of fandom where Jack and Daniel are still loved and cherished and I hope it will stay that way for a very long time.

I'm sharing a bit of my doll-christmas scene from this year. My patchwork family enjoyed thier Christmas to the max :D

Hugs to all,
Anne

RDA Artwork - Ocean Warrior

2017-07-23T15:21:50Z

I am testing my new photo hosting website :)

If anyone is interested, this is it:

postimages.org/

So, it's fairly easy as far as I get it

I created this artwork for LFCC so that da man has something nice to sign. It's a crossover between Sea Shepherd and Stargate. Please credit to annejack if you want to share/repost it anywhere, thank youuu.

Round up: Saving Hope, my website, writing, stuff

2017-03-08T10:59:03Z

Hi Everyone!

I'm ticking off stuff on my 'to-do-list' and this is my first deed today :)

I know I've been quiet and not posting much around here or in general. Real life is busy (not in a bad way atm, thank god, just busy) and happy fandom life these day means to hole up with my laptop and write without being distracted by weird fans posting weird stuff on twitter or fans bullying each other or fans whining about this and that on twitter also :p

Here are a couple of things I want to write about today:

- First and foremost I want to let you all know that I will try to get my hands on Saving Hope episodes as they come. I hpoe that my own source will be able to provide us and 'pirate the hell out of it' - if she can, so can I! I will let you know how that goes next week!

- For those of you who have been reading stories or watching vids on my website at Anne's Happy Place and were wondering why it's been down for a whle now:

I really had no idea it was down until a friend e-mailed me to let me know it was down and to ask when will it be up again. Shame on me for not checking on my own website in such a long time that I did not even realize it was down. After talking to my hubby I found out that our net provider has been sold to another net provider and apparently they have purged all free websites running under the old provider. I don't know if we even got notice - I can't remember getting anything from them. But it's gone and won't be back :(

I do have the offline version of the site and all my stuff backed up of course, but I need time to figure out where and how to built me a new 'home' for my stuff. All my stories are up at AO3 and will remain there of course so reading is not a problem. But videos and the whole Little Danny Headquarter section of my website including parties and all the little gems the LD group has created through the years will need a new home. Since I had no traffic counter on my website I have no idea if ppl even still went there to read/watch etc so I am not sure if there are peeps out there who simply thought I left or stopped participating in fandom because it's been a while since I last posted a story too... but I'm still around, I'm still here. I still love my Jack and Daniel and my LD. And I will try to get a new website up sooner or later and will let you know when it's up - but it may take a long while until it's finished.

Which brings me to the next subject - writing.

I had a long long dry spell writing wise. I did not write a single word in 2016 until December came around and the muse woke up from its beauty sleep. So I am still writing and working on two stories, both set in the SJD verse. One is finished, the other one will hopefully be finished in a couple of weeks/months (one never knows how much the muse loves to play and how rl will behave). Since the second story is set before the first one I won't start -posting until they are both finished and dusted over, but this is just to let you know I'm still working on fiction and having a ball with it. It jut takes longer than it used to these days.

To that end - thank you to my readers for your patience and for sticking with me.

- I created a new community over here which is called rdadaily and was supposed to be crossposting with the LJ community rda_daily. I did that mostly because of LJ's connection to Russia and wanted to move the community over here and keep crossposting to LJ so that LJ users can still see the pics. Now it seems that LJ has disabled DW from crossposting and I either have to post to both communities separately or just stay at LJ since most ppl who still watch that community seem to be LJ user. Am still trying to decide what to do. I don't think Russia has any interest in RDA pictures and won't start tracking what's going on there :p But it still feels a bit unsettling, all of it.
EDIT::: And then again, crossposting actually still seems to work or is working again! Okay, so now I'm confused! But this means I can start posting pics and cross post... 'throws up hands' Oh well, lol

</div></div>

Okay, that's it. I hope you all have a nice spring and a lovely week.
Big Hugs,
Anne

More Joy Day musings

2017-01-20T16:19:43Z

Hi!

'waves at all my peeps on my flist'

First off I have to say I didn't 'do' anything for More Joy Day - I didn't manip, vid or finish the fic I'm working on.

BUT I got a lot of joy today and in these first weeks of 2017 already. There's also already worries and angst, but I won't go into that today so let's go for the JOY!

What makes me HAPPY about today is:

-it's my kid's birthday (she's turning 19 today and omg omg time FLIES)

-it's DeForest Kelley's birthday which I am still quietly celebrating each year with a lit candle and some special thoughts of my very first actor crush/love/worship. He's the one real McCoy, no one can ever replace him or even try to fill his shoes in the ST universe for me.

-I got mail that the Quantum Mechanix 'Bones' McCoy figure I ordered will be out in Febuary! And this is the very first one and only action figure that ever did him justice because just like the Kirk and Spock from that series he is sculpted and painted wonderfully and all kinds of awesome. You can see pics of him here

All of this makes me happy, but the most important, the most wonderful, the most awesome reason for me to be happy is - I AM WRITING. This hasn't happened in 2016, not a word, not a thing, the muse took a hike and by December I was sure it had left me for good or at least for a much longer time than I thought.

I love to write. I MISS writing terribly when I can't. But usually whenever I don't write I at least manip. However, that didn't happen either. But then - out of the blue - it was back. And the words, they are flowing out of my mind, through my fingertips, into the keyboard, onto my screen and I'll be forever grateful for that little miracle.

I love my fandom, I love Jack/Daniel - this has never changed and hopefully will never change. They are my go-to place, my happy sanctuary. I want to say thank you to each of you who has continued writing, manipping, posting here and elsewhere to keep the fandom alive and to keep us entertained with da boyz. I love other shows, other fandoms, other pairings... but SG-1 will always be my home turf.

And whatever will happen after today and in the future, I will try as hard as I can to keep my happy place, well, happy.

Hugs and Love,
Anne

Jack / Daniel Christmas Dollies

2016-12-24T12:40:07Z

Hi, it's meeee,

I know I haven't posted anything in a long time, but real life has been demanding and hectic and the muse has been absent for so long, I was scared I might have lost it forever. I haven't written a word this year until now... The muse is back, I am writing again and I can't even put into words how grateful I am! It's one of the most wonderful gifts this season has brought to me!

Also while my camera is not working properly, I borrowed one from the hubby to take these pics of the fantastic little tree complete with decorations, lights and prezzies my wonderful friend tanis sent me. Also the string of xmas cards Jack and Daniel are holding in the firstt picture - so very darling! And the blue glittery advent wreath you can see on the mantle piece of the fire place also came from her!

The blanket over the couch with the Egyptian symbols is another prezzie I got, from ernutet

I hope you all have wonderful holidays! Stay safe and warm and joyful!

Hugs and Love,
Anne

Pic-Fic II: The Piano Lesson - Jack/Daniel - dolls

2016-08-26T15:02:56Z

I had FUUUUNNNN today and I got a new piece of furniture for Daniel...

So here goes...

Title: The Piano Lesson

Artists: At the Piano - Doctor D. Jackson, photography by Anne, distracting the piano player - General Jack O'Neill

Pairing: Jack/Daniel 12inch

Rating: Again, PG ... but going on adult... depends on how open minded you are...

Warnings: None. Well, maybe... naked dolls are not as pretty as their real versions are

There is no text on these because, well, there is no text needed. But omg omg the piano ... it is the most wonderful thing. I got from Etsy and it comes from Belgium and is hand crafted (and yes, it was expensive, and no I'm not gonna tell how much... :P ) My excuse is... I have none. But I once did a manip with Daniel and Jack and a piano long ago and it always was a special one for me and when I saw the piano, I just HAD to...

Sadly some of these are not as crisp as they should have been. I don't have a camera atm and had to take my phone and sometimes it's not very good for taking dollie pics :(

Have fun! I did!

Pic-Fic: Deflagging - Thread AU - Jack/Daniel PG - Doll action

2016-08-26T14:43:50Z

Once upon a time there was a plot bunny, born by a dear dear friend, which we named 'Deflagging'. I have finally given that bunny a home... I will not take responsibility for anything... don't eat and drink while viewing the pictures. Do not open at work. Or if you must, make sure you are alone.

This is... proudly presented by Jack and Daniel Doll...

Title: Deflagging
Pairing: Jack/Daniel 12inch

Artist: Anne - based on an idea from long ago by Renenet

Rating: I'd say PG... there are no ... bits... but sort of nakedness

Warnings: None... oh, wait, if you believe the US flag should never be used in deflagging scenes or striptease, then please do not open pictures.

Archived: At my DW

Artist Notes: Thank you to [Unknown LJ tag] who sent me the flag, to [Unknown LJ tag] for the idea, to Jack and Daniel for being them and to RDA and MS for making the flag-scene in Threads so utterly UST. Sadly I did not have a flag pole for Jack to hold onto in this little play, but he get something BETTER to hold onto :)

You should be able to click on them to make them big-ger!

I'm still here and finally have something to post - Action Figure Jack in Dress Blues (and SGA Danie

2016-08-03T08:14:06Z

Hellooo... 'waves'

I know I've been absent from my DW a long time (at least from my own, I did comment here and there tho). Real life has been demanding in several ways (good and not so good) - but you all know what that's like, I guess, and can relate.

Anyway...

A couple of weeks ago the wonderfully talented dieastra has created a Jack O'Neill dress blues figure for me and it turned out beautifully. You have to look at the details on his uniform, they are amazing and the whole figure turned out GREAT. Thank you, thank you, for taking the time and creating him for me.

Here are a couple of piccies. I went and bought a new Daniel doll as well because no Jack of mine can be without a matching Daniel. It's not all that easy these days to find figures for a reasonable price and I had to order him in the USA and have him shipped to a dear friend who then sent him off to me. I wanted one in a suit, but there wasn't a suit-Daniel so I settled for a Daniel in blue BDU even though it's an SGA Daniel. But he came with an ZPM :)

So here are pics... one is PG (kissing men!)... the others are G-rated :)

This last one was taken in their shelf cube where they usually are. I took the others in the living room because of better light. Funny thing: Daniel is actually taller than Jack so I had to put him on two miniature books (one for each foot) to make him taller, lololol.

Hey, Astra, I sent these to you in an e-mail too - but I guess it has gotten lost again. I really wonder what's up with that.

Hugs to all and I'm looking forward to reading all the posted ficathon stories soon!

Anne :)

</user>

Come, join the Jack/Daniel Fiacathon 2016!

2016-05-26T06:09:07Z

The wonderful princessofgeeks is hosting this years Jack/Daniel Ficathon! While I have no time (and apparently no muse :( ) to commit to anything I'm delighted we do have another J/D ficathon! It gives me the warm feeling of hope that our fandom is still alive! Thank you everyone who is participating and offering their stories and artwork! I'll be reading for sure!

This year's Jack/Daniel Ficathon is open for prompts through midnight USA Central Time on May 31.

sallymn created the lovely banner! The link is in there, when you click it, it will lead you to the J/D Ficathon community - have fun!

Legend Wallpapers and link

2016-04-19T11:49:54Z

It's been a while since I posted anything at all. Today I capped an episode of Legend and thought I'd share some of the Legend wallpapers I did this year.

If anyone is interested - there are screencaps up for 9 episodes of Legend so far at nicodemus_noted
The caps are free to download. If the links have expired, please contact me and I'll give you new ones. Just take the time and credit us if you share these anywhere, thank you.

New Community: Nicodemus noted - All Legend!

2016-02-10T07:32:15Z

With the recent release of legend on DVD, magnavox_23 and I (though she did all the work!) have created a comm for anything and everything Legend. nicodemus_noted is on Dreamwidth as well as Livejournal. Feel free to join in, first time viewer or seasoned fan, all are welcome. <3

There are already screencaps for the pilot "Birth of a Legend" and they are awesome!

Come, wander in, take a look around, say hi... have some tea (Legend style or real tea)! And if you happen to know other Legend or RDA fans who might be interested, please spread the word.

:) Anne

NEW FIC: Like Father Like Son - Saving Hope Ficlet (I think)

2016-02-02T13:01:37Z

I just found this when cleaning up my e-mails... and thought I'd post it here. It was a Halloween challange to write a spookey drabble - I didn't really master the 'drabble' part, but it's kinda spookey. It's set in future time and Luke is probably around three years or something like that.

Like Father Like Son

by Annejackdanny
Saving Hope Ficlet (was supposed to be a drabble, but I can't do 'shorter' than this).
Rated G

Happy endings were Charlie’s favorite.

The girl in the shiny prom dress gazed at him in wonder. “You found me?”

Charlie put his phone away and smiled. “Yep. Your body is at the hospital. You’re still unconscious, but no longer critical. Go, find your body, so you can wake up.”

Charlie had spotted her wandering the playground when he and Luke arrived there. The prom dress had seemed a bit odd, but it was Halloween morning, so he hadn’t paid much attention. Until she’d said that she’d ‘lost’ her body somehow and needed help.

She had insisted she wasn’t dead, just ‘lost’. Couldn’t remember a thing, aside from being drunk and running away from a party.

Charlie had helped; it’s what he did. He couldn’t fight this ‘gift’ so he’d learned to live with it. And she was a young girl with a striking resemblance to Disney’s Cinderella. How did you say ‘no’ to that?

He’d got lucky with his first call. Hope Zion had her. Zach confirmed a Jane Doe had been brought in this morning, unconscious. Probably knockout drugs in her drinks.

“Bye, Charlie.” She blew air kisses his way and - was gone.

Charlie grinned. “Someone is really happy.” It were moments like this when he was at peace with his ‘gift’.

Luke blew air kisses, too, then waved and said, “Bye, happy lady, byeeee!”

The grin died on Charlie’s face and he turned Luke around to look at him. “Buddy? Who was that you said goodbye to?”

“The happy lady. You found her bag, dada.”

“Ye-ah. Good for her, huh?” Charlie took Luke’s hand.

He couldn’t deal with this now, couldn’t even truly comprehend what it would be like for his baby boy having to grow up with the burden of this ‘gift’.

But at least there was no doubt left about who this little boy’s father was.

That was something.

NEW FIC: Resurrectioin - Santa Clause is coming to Town (J/D, LD, AU, Christmas)

2016-01-06T16:59:46Z

For those of you who read my kidfic stuffs... I was bitten by a cheery Christmas plot bunny the week before Christmas and actually managed to find the time to write - something I haven't done much this year. So, YAY!

It's Christmas fluff, Santa Jack, cookies, tinsel, Jack and Daniel coziness, cute kids, a tree and lots of general holiday love.

Title: Resurrection - Santa Clause is coming to Town
Author: Annejackdanny
Rated G
Category: LD (partially aware), Jack/Daniel (very milld), the tiniest hint (blink and you miss it) at Sam/Janet, AU, Christmas, fluff, kidfic

archiveofourown.org/works/5654563/chapters/13023940

Fandom Meme and Happy New Year

2016-01-02T12:59:48Z

I snatched this fandom meme from princessofgeeks ...

And a Happy lovely wonderful 2016 to one and all!

1. Your main fandom of the year?

Always and forever (at least from today's POV) SG-1. It's the fandom I write in, the fandom I read in, the fandom I do art for etc. It's my comfort zone and my sanctuary still even though I'm not nearly as active as I used to be. However, I have a strong love for Saving Hope and the BBC Musketeers - both are shows I adore.

2. Your favourite film watched this year?

Not watched anything THIS year yet. But in 2015 we watched a Matt Damon movie at the theater "The Martian" and have to say it was awesome.

3. Your favourite book read this year?

In 2015 I read The Black Hawk by Joanna Bourne. Though... I'm not sure now if that wasn't actually 2014 when I read it for the first time, but I re-read it in 2015 and I love love love that book. I also read Stephen Kings "Mr Mercedes" which was also GREAT. I love King - he's one of the few authors I collect books from.

4. Your favourite TV show of the year?

The BBC Musketeer and Saving Hope

5. Your favourite online fandom community of the year?

jd_ficathon, and my peeps on DW. But also the LD List which is the only Yahoo group I'm still posting too and I'm hanging on to it because it was my first net-family and is my home for so many years now. It's quiet, but it's still active and there is still chatter and we still have times of stories being posted and I'm proud of that.

6. Your best new fandom discovery of the year?

The BBC Musketeer

7. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?

I don't really have a fandom disappointment of the year. I'm sad that they won't do more seasons of TM, but at least we'll get a third season this year before it'll be over.

8. Your TV boyfriend of the year?

Jack and Daniel
Athos

9. Your TV girlfriend of the year?

I have to admit, my main focus always lies with the guys and rarely with the girls in any fandom. But I love Carter and I love Constance and Queen Anne (TM). And Maggie (SH)

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year?

I got lovely lovely SG-1 related things for Christmas / my b-day this year. And I got to see RDA this year (and was hugged too) And I was gifted with both TM seasons on DVD this year too!

11. The most missed of your old fandoms?

I miss the big activity in SG-1 (J/D and LD wise), the presence of Stargate in general. Even at conventions you can see how the merchandise for SG-1 gets less and less. I miss some of my LD buddies who have left without a trace and some who were/are also my personal friends, but don't seem to really care anymore and the connection gets lost there. Which makes me feel even more grateful for those few friends who keep sticking around.

12. The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to?

No clue. I usually can't handle more than one or two (three at the most) fandoms at once. There are shows I love and watch, but have no energy/time/intention to read or write in or even check online stuff.

13. Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?

So far there is none. I would have loved to go to Vancouver, but that's not gonna happen. I hope to read more and write more this year than I did last year, that's about it :)
</user>

Merry Christmas!

2015-12-23T15:04:04Z

This artwork isn't new... But I wanted to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I hope you are all warm, safe and cozy and at peace. And that you'll be with people you cherish and love over the holidays.

Big Hugs to all my fandom peeps!

Anne

Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26T15:09:49Z

... to all those who celebrate and to eveyone who just likes to say thanks for something!

And to those who are in a dark or sad place right now and need some cheering up.

Hugs to you all.

Anne :)

www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp

Get Well Cards for RDA...

2015-11-24T07:01:15Z

Originally posted by annejack at Get Well Cards for RDA...

Hi Everyone,

Many of you might have heard of this already, but RDA had to cancel a con recently because of his severe back pain and he also lost his beloved dog Daisy a couple of week ago, so he's in physical and emotional pain. The RDA forum run by Kate Ritter has started a 'Get Well' project and is collectin get well cards which will be send out to RDA by Kate.

Here is the officla note on the website:

Richard is still dealing with back pain and the loss of his dog Daisy. Today he shared two pictures of Andy as they continue to find comfort in each other. The link to the latest "Note From Rick" is on the Updates page at rdanderson.com.

Also on the Updates page is the link to his message from last Friday expressing his deep regret that he would not be able to attend the Super Megafest convention later this month.

Since then, messages of love and support have been pouring in to the Fan Mail page and on numerous other online message boards. RDA will surely appreciate the encouraging messages from his many fans, but due to the pain he has been dealing with, it may take a while before he is able to spend any extensive time on the computer.

Fans on the RDA Forum suggested the idea of sending actual greeting cards (Get Well Soon, Thinking of You, etc.) that could be forwarded to him by mail and enjoyed offline, and several volunteers offered to help collect the cards from fans.

If you would like to send a greeting card to RDA to show your encouragement and support, buy/make a suitable card, write your message and sign your name AND the country where you live (so that he can see how far his fans extend), and mail it to one of the volunteers.

In order to avoid posting people's home addresses on a public forum, choose one of the people below (perhaps someone you know or someone who lives near your country to make postage easier), and contact them by email. Put "Cards for RDA" in the subject line so they will be looking for you.

They will give you their address to mail your card. The volunteers will gather the cards they receive and mail them so that they can be forwarded to RDA.

These people have offered to collect cards:

bftlovesRDA (United States): mdbft@bellsouth.net

Frenchwriter (France): ecriturama@yahoo.fr

JackGywer (Germany): jannick0104@yahoo.de

Kate (United States): mail@rdanderson.com

If you have any questions, you can reach me through the RDAnderson website.

Please feel free to forward this information to other forums, message boards, Facebook, Twitter, or similar groups where RDA fans might gather.

Thanks!

Kate
Richard Dean Anderson Website
http://rdanderson.com
mail@rdanderson.com

Or go here http://www.rdanderson.com/
to read all the details via the update 'Get Well RDA'

LEGEND released on DVD - January 5th 2016!

2015-10-27T07:01:55Z

I just got up this morning and found an e-mail in my inbox from tvshowsondvd with the wonderful news....

www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Legend-The-Complete-Series/21672

I have no idea how much - if any - part our little marathon to motivate ppl to vote had in this because we would have needed a lot more votes to make it happen simply based on the voting imho. I guess it has been 'cooking' for some time, but it sure didn't hurt to do a little PR for the show and try to get ppl to vote again. :) :) :)

I'm DELIGHTED because it's finally happening after twenty years! 'throws confetti and dances all over the place'

I'm going to celebrate with my morning coffee now!

Please share this anywhere you like because I think that only those who voted at the online petition will get the e-mail with the announcement. All the 500 + peeps who signed the petition at the cons might not receive word from tvshowsondvd.

There's also a pic of the cover already.. It looks NICE!

Lucy, I'm home (for a bit)

2015-08-13T15:47:32Z

'waves madly at everyone'

I got home from my Sweden vacation today and omg it feels wonderful to be home again even though it's blazingly hot in my part of Germany and I'm already knee-deep in laundry and other chores. And the next trip is alreay lurking at the horizon as I'll be going to the Baltic Sea from Monday to Thursday (which is ironical since I just came from there today because the fairy we crossed over with from Sweden dropped us off at the exact place we'll be going next week, lolol.

Anyway...

I just wanted to say that life is a bit crazy here atm and while I think I managed to read and feedback most of the ficathon stories I think there are still some I haven't read yet, but I will eventualy! Also, I really want to contribute something for the afterparty, but at this point I don't know when. It might be September until I can actually sit down and do art. There's lots going on on my Sea Shepherd forum as well and I missed so much while I was gone - I was barely able to keep up with the many tweets about the Faroe islands (arrrgh) and there's a lot more in that regard I need and want to catch up on and do more translation stuff as well. Same goes for my English CPE - I need to start studying in ernest if I want to keep up and finish that this year... Soooo... lots to do and if I'm not all that active over here it has nothing to do with you lovely people or my Jack/Daniel love... things are just a bit hectic and I've been away (and will be away) a lot this summer. Oy. LOL.

However, I did plot out most of my next Rainbow Series Story while I was away and I hope the muse will be patient and stay with me until I have time to get back to writing, too! I also want to do more scrapbooking this fall. I have three projects floating around in my head I want to do!

Did I say I have lots to do? I do feel energized and I would love to do everything at once but my day needs so many more hours!

Hugs to eveyone who wants 'em!

:) Anne

Richard Dean Anderson: London Film and Comic Con 2015

2015-07-21T12:37:01Z

Took a couple of caps from my footage....

LFCC 2015 RDA Talk Transcript

2015-07-21T07:14:18Z

I have a lot of footage from the talk on Saturday, however, not all of it. Some of the things he said I have to pull from memory and little bits were hard to understand so I tried filling in some blanks. He was great – and funny. :) And he looked VERY good. Not too tired, not nearly as exhausted as he seemed to be at FedCon. He was really all there.

When he came on stage, after the applause etc, the Mod opened the talk by telling us that we just missed a sight because Rick had changed his shirt backstage...

Mod (M): Well, Ladies – and some of the gentlemen – you just missed a sight with Richard changing his shirt backstage

Audience (A): Wooohoooo!

RDA: Did you guys just do ‘woo-hoo’? (there’s more woohoo) Ye-ah, you haven’t seen me naked, that’s why (he pulls out his phone and starts filming the audience and there’s a lot of cheers and applause etc) We’re rolling! (walks from one end of the stage to the other, filming) This is for my daughter (he turns the phone around, filming himself) These are allll my friends! (turns back to the audience after turning off his phone) Thank you!

M: There you got it now, you’ve all been directed by Richard, that’s so nice.

RDA: Ya’ll have to sign a release for it. For my daughter’s movies... but enough fartin’ around, let’s get to work!

M: We’ll gonna come to questions, but I asked backstage if there’s anything you wanna talk about. You just mentioned your daughter’s movies...

RDA: Yeah, all in good time...

M: Is there nothing you’re up to you wanna talk about?

RDA: I’m up to raising my daughter, ‘s what I’m doing. So she can make movies and you know... keep me when I’m old and gray... oh, I’m gray and old right now, but... (grins and then sobers a little bit) no, my daughter Wylie is pursuing a career... she’s taking a running start at the theater part. She wants to go to Emmerson college, if anyone of you are familiar with it, It’s an excellent theater school in Boston and we’re fighting to get her in there next year. She’s graduating this next year from High School in California, that’s where we live. But enough about that – any questions?

Fan asks about how much of the O’Neill humor in SG-1 was scripted and how much of it wasn’t.

RDA: Wellll, as the story goes, early on I was... it was great having a job that I just kind of fell into so I took some kind of advantage of it and I was full of glee and improvisation and impulse, so when we first started the show I was at it in every weeks table read (I’m not sure he really said ‘every weeks’ or something else, if someone remembers, let me know) and I just ad libbed the whole thing and got laughs which is...tends to mark a disaster for me because, you know, feed me a laugh and I’ll keep going. (Eveyone laughs and Rick grins and says thank you) But as it turned out it was being … I was unaware of this and it changed the course of my behavior... it was just disrespectful of the actors... or the writers. Screw the actors (laughs and says something I didn’t get) … to the writers who had toiled to put together scripts that made sense and were exciting and all that and I was making... basically I was kind of making, uh, fun of... whatever the situation was and it was a very selfish endeavor. I realized that in a very direct conversation with Brad Wright and from that point on I said: You’re right, I got baaad... really baaad... So what I had to do was to calm down my impulses and to make sure that I was being true to the script and yet still brought some levity to the set and to the script itself and we found a happy balance. The more time went by of course the more I forgot what I promised, sooo... but any of the stuff that didn’t make sense was alll me.

The next part is missing, but there was talk about how much he liked working with AT and MS and it was kind of funny how he tested the waters by saying how much he loves them and the audience went kind of wild and he asked something along the lines of ‘You’re cheering for Michael Shanks there, right?’ and there must have been a lot of J/S shippers in the crowd because the reply to that was kind of negative and so he went on with “I love both of them. Of course I love Amanda more.” which caused a crazy moment of craziness and made me roll my eyes, but also think how clever he is because he knows how to play the crowd and what they want to hear. That went on for a bit and he then went into how he was glad they gave all the techno babble to AT and all the other babbles to MS and how he would listen to them and in the end just had to go; “What?” - and it brought him a lot of laughs etc and at the end of that section someone in the audience yelled “Magnets” (in relation to, I think, Rite of Passage and Jack letting it slip that he’s smarter than Carter thinks and they were talking about magnets – but I don’t really get that together now) Anyway, RDA didn’t understand she yelled ‘magnets’ (and to be honest if I hadn’t known what she was talking about, I would have gotten it wrong, too)

So the gal yelled, “Magnets.”

And he went, “My tits? Is that what you just said? They’ll give you a microphone so you can say THAT out loud again.”

Fan: What was your favorite SG episode

RDA nearly spits out his water and pulls a face

M: Ah, that old chestnut. Thank you for delivering that question, it’s never been asked before.

RDA: That old chestnut! (then turning to the fan and looking kind of desperate) Do you know me at all? I mean, you’ve got any sense of what an idiot I am? And I have so little ability to retain things like that, like what kind of joy I was having at a (certain/particular?) point in an eight year stint of doing a hundred and some other thousands of... (pauses and pretends to think) My favorite was the first one! (makes funny faces and then attempts to get serious again) You’re talking about Stargate? Yeah, my pat answer is that I always had a lot of fun doing... I have it at the tip of my tongue..

Fan: Brief Candle!

RDA: Thank you! There’s my conscience sitting right there. Brief Candle, where I got to spend four hours in a make up chair, getting this old man make up put on and got to behave like a 100 year old guy which allows you to pinch all the girls butts all the time and get away with it... sort of... I only got arrested twice... No, it was just the fact that as an actor it was fun to have an excellent professional make up job done and they were working with some technical discoveries that would put the make up right to your skin and it would not tear apart when they were taking it off (I think that’s what he said but basically it was about the make up not falling off or tearing apart when you move or laugh etc and that it would still be in one piece when taken off the skin). So it was like anything you were doing was happening just as if you had real old wrinkling skin... which I’m starting to experiencing right now... for real... (pulls at his face/cheeks) hence the you should see me naked some time... layering wrinkly (again am not positive that’s exactly what he said) Nobody wants to hear that, do they?

Fan: I would!

RDA: You would? Thank you.

Fan: I love that t-shirt (some creature / zombie / demon stick figure and underneath the words Grrrrr and Arrrrgh) Have you ever thought about being in Buffy and if you had, what part would you have liked to play?

RDA: What?

Fan: You’ve got that t-shirt from Buffy

RDA (looks down at himself) This is Buffy? Grrrrr, arrrgh... Who’s the guy that’s...

Fan: Joss Whedon.

RDA: Joss! Yeah... I didn’t know this is from Buffy. Seriously. This is how much of a sci-fi fan I am. No, I am... not really. What part would I play? Buffy of course. It gets paid the most. It’s all about the money, right? (laughs) No, I’m not too familiar with the show to know, but, you know, the best part. Whatever that was. (thinks for a moment) Wasn’t that the show where … did they all turn into different things or was that a different show? Didn’t they just crystalize into things or was that all about wolves and...

Fan: None of the above

RDA: None of the above? (sighs) I’m prepared...

M: It was usually either vampires or lesbians

RDA: My two favorite people!

M: What were your favorite shows growing up?

RDA: Well, a local television in Minneapolis was ‘Excellent as (I don’t have a clue and I tried to google, but I could not find it, but it sounded like ‘Excellent as dogs or dog’) - if anyone knows, tell me). If there is one person out here that knows ‘Excellent at (whatever)’ I’ll marry you.

A guy raises his hand

M: Someone claims to know

RDA: Sorry, sir. … (goes back to the question)... I didn’t watch a lot of television as a kid. Saturday morning cartoons and such. But I was always outside, doing something.

M: You were quite active at sports and everything...

RDA: Yeah, I heard about that!

M: Yeah, I have Wikipedia here! Tell us about that enormous bike ride you did because I can’t quite imagine that.

RDA: You guys know all about that, right? Okay... When I was a 17 year old juvenile delinquent I was looking for something to do over the summer and a couple of my buddies were taking a repeat trip up to Canada on ten speed bikes and they asked me... no, I asked them... no, I told them I was gonna go with them and we spent the three months in the summer just cycling around southern Canada and northern and western and all the way up to Alaska and back down around, about a 5600 miles bike trip that seriously altered the course of my life because I really was kind of looking for something to destroy, probably myself, at 17. I just didn’t know what I was gonna do because I wasn’t good enough to play professional hockey all my life and you can’t make a lot of money skiing and those were the two things I could do quite well and didn’t matter. So I went on that bike trip and it kind of pacified me and it kind of gave me some... three months of being virtually alone... probably two of those months being cycling alone specifically... can do things to you head and your heart and all of which were altered by that trip. I created a dialogue with farm animals I’d see along the way. They were slow to respond so I was throwing punchlines back over my shoulder... (shakes his head) never mind. But I made it and I came back and I was better for the experience.

And as a special treat we have ten speed bikes for all of you tonight – if you promise to do an 5000 mile bike trip.

M: Let’s talk about MacGyver. How long did you have to be in make up to get the mullet into shape?

RDA: No time at all. (to audience) Hair! Let’s talk about hair! I still have some … or it... most of it, but it was kind of an inadvertent thing; I kind of slipped into it. I obviously don’t pay much attention to my hair and it just kept growing and growing and the hair guy one day started clipping and trimming and putting it behind my … (brushes hair behind his ear and then slaps hands over his face and moans) I can’t believe I’m talking like this! About my mullet! It was a mullet, c’mooon. Rod Stewart … who we don’t like anymore, by the way, because he had a seal skin jacket made for himself quite publicly...

Fan: A coat!

RDA: A coat, right. it’sssss... anyway, don’t let me get political. I knooow, he’s British... wait, no, he’s not...

M: Yeah, he is, he claims to be Scottish, but he’s (mumble mumble, sorry)... which is London.

RDA: Okay, anyway, that’s political stuff and I’m gonna stay out of that. But, ah, what was it... ahhh, mullets!

M: But let’s talk about MacGyver. Do you remember shooting here in Britain (he said some more stuff which I don’t have, but this was the question basically)

RDA: After the series I had what it’s called a development deal with Paramount and part of that included my producing of...

(a small child starts crying)

RDA (in a very soft voice) Awww, I’m sorry, it wasn’t that bad of an experience... (then cont. in his normal voice:) So we hired a writer and all got into one room and we wrote two scripts that we did back to back here in London. Here’s something that you should be proud of... I know there are a lot of French ppl in the audience (there are cheers). We went to France first and Paramount France tried to overcharge for some things...

M: It was the head dressing budget, wasn’t it?

RDA (to M) Yeah, they didn’t know how to cut a mullet (to audience) If you ever get to see those episodes, you’ll understand, cause that’s one mullet gone crazy, totally out of control. Anyway... so we just decided to come to London instead and we were better for the experience. That was actually when I fell in love with your country, especially its lovely country side which... (cringes) I’ve never been to actually, buuut...

M: You should take a bike ride from Land’s End to (no idea what he said).

RDA: I think your roads are a little skinny for that.

There is more here about shooting locations but I don’t have that, so sorry. But he ended that section with saying how much he loves Great Britain and that he loves France too. There was also a question about Sea Shepherd which he talked about quite a bit and how he met Paul Watson, but that’s not on my footage either :( I had to be a bit careful because filming wasn’t really allowed, ehm. But they weren’t as strict about it as they were at FedCon. I got warned once, at a later point, but thankfully they didn’t throw me out.

Fan: If you wouldn’t have become an actor what would you have liked to become?

RDA: Well, luckily I have the perspective of an 65 old looking back, so I can easily say: now I’m glad I wasn’t a professional hockey player or anything like that. I probably would have done something in forestry to be honest. And I think – again in retrospect – I would have liked to become some kind of an architect. But knowing what I know about what it takes to become and architect or any kind of engineer... I don’t have the braincells for it. You gotta be smart to be able to do that with all the mathematics and physics and all that stuff involved. So I lucked out, to be honest with you, I can do a lot of things but none of which would sustain a life. Especially mine at the time. So, I honestly don’t know. (frowns) That’s … sad, isn’t it?

M: Being involved in two big hit shows there must be a lot of experience there. What was your worst experience?

RDA: Potentially the worst one was, I think it was... Stargate... I think we were shooting kind of into the evening or night and everyone was getting tired and we used a low angle camera and the camera assistant suddenly started convulsing and then just went stiff and stopped breathing. There were a lot of ppl around on the set, but the paramedics weren’t around to take charge. So I was at the feet of this camera man … I was at his feet because he was shaking and we calmed him down somewhat, but he was unconscious and I just looked around and said... because I was at his feet … I said; Somebody better do something up there. (There is more I didn’t get, but I think he said he was holding his feet to keep him steady so he couldn’t let go to help in more ways and then he went on:) I was kind of glad I wasn’t in the position to have to do what I could have done, but didn’t. I said somebody better do something up there on the other end of him or we’re in trouble. They started doing CPR on him and saved his life and then the paramedics showed up.

M: You started out on General Hospital. What’s it like to work on a soap – on an American soap?

RDA: I used General Hospital – again in retrospect … I guess what I was doing was getting my real life education in front of the camera, making all kinds of... you know, back in school I didn’t have anything like that. I was a theater born... (and here I had to stop filming with the camera because my SM card ran out of space. But I think what he said was that he leaned all about making a TV Show at General Hospital because he’d never done that before)

I got out my cellphone after that and while the video quality isn’t good, the audio came out very nice :) But I missed the whole thing about with whom he would prefer to be stuck in an elebator, MacGyver, Jack O’Neill or Nicodemous Legend. To which he said that while Mac would have been the smartest choice and that maybe even Jack would be okay, he’d always prefer Legend to be with him because the Legend character was very true to himself as he used to be when he was young. A bit of a misbehaving, cigar smoking, drinking fool – or something like that. But I’m not putting this together in all detail because there was so much going on that weekend and some things just didn’t stick. But we were happy he was talking about Legend so fondly.

By the time I got out my phone he was talking about being a celebrity. I don’t know the question, probably when did he realize that he’d made it as a celebrity etc. His answer was this:

RDA: It’s never a goal to be a celebrity. No one goes to college to study Celebrity 101. As an actor all I wanted to do was play and have fun and make enough to (I think he wanted to say ‘make enough to party’ or to sustain his wild life :))... back then I used to drink... that’s how far back it goes... So when I first started acting professionally I was in hog heaven. Because it was fun, they were paying me, and I was young and they were paying me... but as far as the knowing that I made it goes... I think I knew on the way when I had my daughter Wylie... when she came along I knew my life was going to change in a huge aggressive way and I talked to my personal manager, I told him that all I wanted to do is put enough money aside to put Wylie through college, wherever she wanted to go for education. And he said; Oh you have that already, don’t worry about it. And I was like: I MADE IT! That’s all it took to make me happy.

Fan asks question about more SG-1 or a 30 year anniversary reunion etc.

RDA: There’s been no talk about that, or at least not with me. I had no dialogue with any of the buddies up in Vancouver about a Stargate reboot or anything. There’s been some talk about bringing MacGyver back in some form. I got asked a couple of times. Whenever a regime at a studio changed some newbee in that group came out to me and ask if I would be MacGyver again. Which is ludicrous to me! At one point I said I would only be MacGyver again if MacGyver could be as old as I am, as fat as I am and as cranky as I am. Which I actually thought were some good points because it would make for a far more interesting character than trying to watch me play a much younger guy as MacGyver. But that never happened.

Fan asks... I don’t know what he or she asked but it had to do with all the things Mac did and were they really working etc. Another old chestnut :)

RDA: (he said something before but I don’t have that on video) Mac had to be in the mountains with lots of bamboo trees. And you know the way of shooting MacGyver was that you would see him doing things, gathering things and see him putting things together. So we did that over a period of time – with commercials – and by the end of it, of course, the character would use some kind of motor engine, bamboo posts, some kind of canvas as wings. And they (not sure who ‘they’ were, I think he was talking about Mythbusters) tried to disprove it – they experimented with all the materials we used and said that the plane would actually do this: (indicates a plane crashing down like a stone with his hand) Boom. It wouldn’t have been able to get off the ground at all, it was way too heavy. So they experimented with stuff, lightened everything and they got their plane to fly almost the same pattern as it did on the show.

That’s all I got because here I was told to stop filming because it wasn’t allowed ‘cough’. I know he ended his talk with telling us how much he appreciated that we came to the con and that he knew it was hot and muggy and crowded and oh-so-pathetic (snort) but that we all came and he loved us for it and he loved being here and thanked us all.

Daniel Jackson Birthday Challenge (LD List): SJD Rainbow Series 1 - Building a Rainbow (Eleven)

2015-07-08T10:28:54Z

Still Jack and Daniel – The Rainbow Series 1/4

Part I: Building a Rainbow (Eleven)

By: Annejackdanny

Rated: I would rate it gen, but it might be more appropriate for teens because of the LGBT subject. So it’s somewhere in the middle of gen and teen

Category: LD, aware, birthday fic, bits of fluff, bits of angst (but not too angsty), LGBT rights issues, Jack/Big Daniel slash

Warnings: I always put a language warning up, just in case :) I am not sure if the LGBT rights theme needs a warning, but just to be on the safe side..: this is about LGBT youth rights and it also deals with dawning puberty and all the little things that happen when hormones start messing with our kids bodies – even though it’s all harmless and just blossoming here.

See more notes etc at AO3...

archiveofourown.org/works/4296375/chapters/9734982

The muse has decided to return to me and play with these guys again, I'm grateful and happy and I'm trying to keep her here with me for a while if I can :)

NEW VIDEO - RDA - Before he was... After he was... (Legend)

2015-06-22T11:23:24Z

I know there is not much interest in the Legend thing on here, but I'm still going to post it because it's out there and maybe at least some of you want to share this or people who are not on my may f-list find it here by chance (or tags) and want to share it... one never knows what's going to happen.

We are still trying to get Legend on DVD no matter how slim the chances ...

We haz a video now and we will be at London Comic Con to hand out stickers and have a real petition. But until then we'd like you to watch and share and go, vote...

www.youtube.com/watch

Thank you :) :) We are now returning you to your usual program...

'waves'

Anne

Words - I haz words!

2015-06-20T17:45:06Z

OMG, I'm writing.

I'm writing SG-1.

I've been swamped with rl stuff so much the last couple of weeks and even before that I have not written a single SG-1 related word in SIX MONTHS. And now I am. I am writing. WRITING! Real words. Good words (I hope). Jack and Daniel words. Little Daniel words, too.

I am over the moon.

That's all.

I LOVE fandom THIS much <3 <3 <3....

Big Hugs to you all!