#books-space-things

'should have been' is probably a little too strong, since it's mostly because i love him and i want him in my house, but other reasons include:

i want to keep the expedition under civilian command. this is vital to me.

it would be nice to soften Daniel back because the last couple of seasons in SG-1 made him sooo jaded and military-like that i want to remove him from that environment to see what happens

i want a bit of reversal, in that it's now Daniel stepping into a place that used to be Elizabeth's and he's now the interloper who has big shoes to fill (Elizabeth is not there to see it but the audience - i.e. Me - can draw comparisons as a result)

the expedition needs a Daniel, in that he's a good way to expand SGA lore and the Alterans and also as someone who will Not Go Quietly Into The Night in terms of war crimes and harebrained Sheppard-concocted schemes

First Contact and The Lost Tribe have proven that Daniel and Rodney are hilariously brilliant together

i want Daniel's presence to push Teyla's character development by LIGHT-YEARS (like the opposite of dead wife manpain. he is alive and in her space and she wants to cause him pain because he is wrongwrongwrong)

things that are likely going to happen with Daniel in charge:

restructuring of the science department (to Rodney's immense displeasure and secret relief)

the great Daniel and Sheppard enemieship

maybe the resolution of the Michael plot line would've been better idk

we can imagine a great SG1 Team Leader to SGC base commander journey for Sam, as was her right

we may finally get the Sheppard Military Mutiny that I always wanted with Elizabeth (less nuanced because he and Daniel aren't friends, but still determinative)

i just want Daniel to say to Sheppard's face that disobeying orders is not anti-establishment praxis when he's still, you know, wearing a uniform

we would likely get to explore the city more because Daniel's at the helm and he has Priorities

Ronon is the only AR-1 member who (openly) likes him. this is PAIN for Sheppard and plain alien to Rodney (Daniel and Ronon bond over memorializing Sateda)

1. the character everyone gets wrong - aziraphale obviously but let's talk about nina. she is not like. crowley's therapist. she doesn't care to meddle with him, maggie had to push her into it. she's weirded out by him! she's really shaken by the bookshop siege and finding out demons and angels are real! she got dumped by her abusive partner and then had a hell of a night on top of it and then almost died like twice. let her rest and handle her own life!!!

13. worst blorbofication - lol. lmao. crowley

Sam Carter/Jennifer Keller

oooh interesting but i don't think it works for me

mostly because Sam and Jennifer are in suuuuch different parts of their lives when they meet you know? obviously Sam is a bit older and that's not entirely the issue but she has been in her field of experience for what... 15 years or more? she spent five years at the pentagon before she joined the sgc for 10 years so she has at least 15 more years of experience in the working field while Jennifer is just starting out.

I do not mean to say to downplay Jennifer, everyone has to start somewhere at some point but i think that would stand in the way of a relationship. Jennifer feels very much like someone who is still figuring out herself and where she belongs and where she wants to go and I think Sam has most of that settled and is looking for some security in a relationship that I don't think Jennifer could give her.

I could see Sam and Jennifer in a sort of mentor/mentee relationship, since Sam had to fight a lot to be where she is, she knows about the pressure and everything but that's as far as i can see this go :)

thank you so much for this tho!

you're an icon for this tysm!!

What made you ship it?

initially it was literally just the sweater thing like. ok you’re telling me this guy forgot to bring a sweater to a ski trip?? in calgary?? a trip that may have just been the two of them bc wesley just says “josh and i went to calgary last month”?? and then he kept wesley’s sweater for a month afterward despite living on the same campus as him??? like yes from a writing perspective it’s literally just to show that they were close it’s an easy excuse to have josh’s dad talk to wesley but it is also. kinda gay.

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

I think it lends itself really well to an exploration of wesley’s character and his issues with identity and self determination. I don’t necessarily see it as being knowingly reciprocated in canon during the time josh is alive, but wesley is a really repressed person, so it’s really easy to take the approach of “he did potentially have some feelings for josh and just wasn’t sure how to really deal with them.” and then we get into the idea of wanting that I’ve talked about before with josh being kind of his first real friend that’s actually his peer and who likes him as a person and that’s already important, and then if you get into the idea of wanting a romantic relationship, that’s an independent desire that’s not passed down from anyone else or an attempt to be like his parents, so beginning to know what that’s like and then losing it ends up having this really significant effect on his character.

also like josh was difficult to nail down at first because we know like…3 things about him from the episode, which is not enough to be a fleshed out character but also meant I could not just totally make up a guy from scratch, but once I figured out a character that worked I started to really enjoy writing him. every fic I’ve written about them post theory of stellar evolution only exists because I got stupid attached to him. I think he’s neat.

also they have the worst ship name of all time because i thought it was funny.

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

unpopular opinion is that i care about it uhhh

this much? not counting the published fics or any fun little side adventures? also I do think I tend to write josh kind of differently than the couple other fics in the tag but that’s not really an unpopular opinion so much as it’s just a thing that’s vaguely interesting to me