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And in the meantime, many have recommended getting a VPN, too. (Not to sign the Petition as I think people are getting confused. UK folk use a VPN just in general.)

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"Hi, I'm calling to tell you that the reports you received of sexually abusive content on Steam and itch.io are fraudulent and were made by religious extremist groups.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

Oh _lovely_. Everyone go turn this off:

Me: “or, just hear me out…

A woman whose professional life has been fulfilling, but whose personal life has been full of loss and disappointment

Has finally found a reason to smile, and it doesn’t look like she’s faking it anymore.

And the great part is, he gets it. He understands loss and he understands disappointment. And he knows she understands it too.

Meanwhile Sam and Jack could literally be prosecuted for disobeying orders/getting involved within the same chain of command, they could get their team or the whole program taken apart thanks to that excuse in the hands of Simmons or similar, they're directly on the front lines for 8 years and they're repeatedly shown via the quantum mirror that Sam and Jack both being active members of SG1 is the only reason Earth wasn't decimated in a hostile Goa'uld invasion so they can't just resign and be together. For a second you think there's a window but then there's a new war and they make Jack everyone's boss and send Sam to a different galaxy and then put her up on a ship, and you go; Oh. So that's an endless set of circumstances, then. There's so much 'be miserably, honorably apart, serving and pining forever or the destruction of Earth will directly be your fault' baggage baked into Sam and Jack's narrative setup that you're boxed into either character-bending wish fulfillment (which is satisfying to read but hard to commit to writing ime) or the soul excoriating 'hanging on waiting for what can never be' flavor of overly believable quiet tragedy.

I absolutely agree that as Mulder and Scully would never have been able to prevent the conspiracy/ invasion, the stakes are much lower for them and the impact on their relationship. The worst that could have happened is the the FBI would have split them up and they couldn’t work on the X-Files together - but ultimately would this have made a difference to the fate of the world?

In contrast, although Jack and Sam have much more support to ‘save the world’ (the rest of the SGC, the US Government, eventual support from some other countries, a fleet of spaceships), it’s made clear (the other realities via the quantum mirror) that neither of them can leave SG1 without risking the fate of the earth, and the regulations prohibit them being in a relationship while Jack is Sam’s CO.

My impression based on just the 'text' as it were has been that they'd built up to the ship in s1 thru 8 and then pretended they hadn't in s9 and beyond. I suppose I was also biased against giving the writers' the benefit of the doubt re: sam/jack because of the things i later heard about re: torri higgonson's treatment and amanda tapping being held to doing Atlantis despite wanting to move on to her own show, plus the thing I saw recently about one writer saying they'd wanted to put a kiss in Beneath The Surface to essentially prove they didn't have chemistry/feelings that way, despite how that's directly in contradiction to the framing and tone of the episode as aired. Plus the way the way the network/producers talked about 'female fans' during the SG:A & SG:U runs. I guess I just ended up assuming that the shippy hints from S9/S10 and SG:A were wishful thinking and that I was naive to trust their intent.

https://josephmallozzi.com/2008/12/08/december-8-2008-ships-and-what-ifs/

He also said that if the third Stargate film had gone ahead, it would have included a scene making it clear that Sam and Jack were in a relationship, but I don’t have a link to hand for that quote. Wish we could have seen it!

So for me, the combination of those comments and all the moments post season 8 (including seeing that Sam has a photo of Jack when she’s unpacking in her quarters in Atlantis) means that they did get together after Threads ❤️

There were, disappointingly, quite a few anti/non shippers in the writer room. And turns out the Beneath the Surface writer was one of them, much to my utter surprise and disappointment (I mean… Beneath the Surface ? The episode with « feeling feelings » and all ? How ? Whyyyyyy 😫 ?) when the interview popped up.

The Thera/Jonah situation really didn’t scream or fit a « whoops, we’re actually just bros, my bad » scenario. Everyone (well, almost eh) always assumed they found each other again (and gravitated towards each other first) because SJ’s love was one of the rare things that endured memory loss… which will always come across as extremely romance coded (plus, I’m sorry but these characters were engaged/married twice before in AUs… implying they mistook the nature of their affection later on would have felt like a weird retcon if it had made it on screen). And any « this feels like we shouldn’t be doing this » vibes (which was definitely there during the cuddling scene) were about their « not allowed to be together » dilemma/personal tragedy back at home.

But, yeah, while one of the writers (Malozzi) was friendly to the ship, others were not.

Cooper, who did s9/10, didn’t seem to care one bit about them… and then there’s plain stated recent examples like that BtS writer we talked about… who seems to think it’s misogynistic for a main male and female character to hook up and be happy. Overdone ? maybe. But done really well ? rarely… but that’s why we need BETTER attempts , not LESS.

Brad Wright, who is probably the biggest writer of the show (I mean, if we have to pick a head chief among TPTB, I guess he was) is, I guess, what I would describe as ambivalent. He seems to agree something happened eventually between the two… but… Did it last ? Were they happy ? I was under the impression we would have gotten a « got together and separated off (ugh) screen » scenario (with a *will they/won’t they hook back up* tension on top maybe… or maybe not… I’m just theorizing based on whether or not they still care to dangle carrots in front of shippers’ faces… but it’s a known tactic to keep shippers watching in general, so… maybe yeah) if a new show had been made.

Because we STILL « can’t piss off the antis » (who’ll get pissed anyway if they have to watch them interact on screen), apparently. Yippee for sabotaging the writing before it even starts.

I really think the rules were a convenient excuse, not just for Sam but for the writers THEMSELVES because it obviously wasn’t the only reason they never made them properly canon. The SJ ship just wasn’t loved enough and disliked too much to receive good proper treatment… and it doesn’t help romance wasn’t the show’s forte either. It was mostly above all about the male characters vibing/bonding/snarking during whacky military space adventures in the end. Rest’s optional. Atlantis was even more obvious at this. Had a much bigger ensemble cast, slightly more women and diversity, but it was still mostly about Sheppard and McKay’s shenanigans in the end.

I don’t even believe it will ever happen tbh… the new show with Wright and co on board, I mean (with MGM putting more light on the old movie than the shows these days). Which is almost a blessing. Maybe it’s better not to potentially ruin things (further). But at this point, they either do it now or never because the SG1/Atlantis/SGU cast will continue to age and die as years go by… which leaves you with a reboot as the only distant possibility for this « universe » to come back. And whether they reboot the shows or the movie’s universes, it will never be the same as you remembered (we all want reboots/remakes until we don’t want them anymore and we get homesick for the familiar old).

Are you nuts !!??

It made me resent whole shows because of these tactics (yes, SG1 is the main one for me).

Signed : an awkward straight girl with social anxiety and depression (undiagnosed ADHD too I guess) who once thought and hoped that media could deliver where real life continually screwed her over (at this point, I resigned myself to suffer my whole life from not getting any love and companionship… except from pets maybe… and fanfics when it comes to fiction).

For real, you do not want to get love baited (straight or queer) by media. What you want are compelling romantic relationships with good writing. No baiting. Just honestly good writing. Straight and gay. And you do also want well written friendships between men and women (and between women).

Most of the time, it’s the male friendship with gay bait that gets the better writing. It’s also the dominant popular romantic ships in the majority of fandoms. Because MEN (I heard the reasoning… and it says something about how society failed women… for clarification, I’m specifically referring to women who say they feel uncomfortable when there’s a female character involved… because it makes them think about real life sucking for them girls so they’d rather read love stories between men instead), it seems.

Straight and gay relationships actually deserve much better than shallow writing and/or baiting. Because in the end, it’s just more salt on some of the audience’s emotional + societal wounds. I WANNA get into a meaty straight ship with slow burn that actually GET SOMEWHERE ! Not a bait ship, not a shallow ship. I want something good that will not make me feel furious/unsatisfied/cheated by the end.

Basically, I want respect and good writing. Period.

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