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Fictober 2022 - Day 1
Prompt #1: “I chose you”
Fanfiction - Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Rating: G
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Sha’re
Warnings: none
Word Count: 607
English—that was her husband’s word for the Tau’ri language—was entirely different from the type of writing her father taught her in secret when she was a little girl. Where Abydonian was all symbols and concepts, the English glyphs corresponded to sounds that were built into words. Which meant that, in order to translate them, you had to already know what the word sounded like in English.
In Sha’re’s opinion, her people’s solution was much more sensible.
She carefully turned the pages of one of Daniel’s books, pausing at one two-page spread that held a detailed reproduction of one section of the tunnel walls, with a hastily scrawled English translation—one she and her husband had worked on together—on the opposite page. She covered the Abydonian words with her hand, and glared at the English side, sounding out each word aloud.
“Two of the beliefs of our people are lies. One: Ra is a god. Two: we have always been slaves.The truth is: our fathers triumphed over the false god Ra. They drove him away and buried his gate.”
She checked her work against the Abydonian on the first page, and grinned when she found she understood nearly all of it.
“Your own personal Rosetta Stone.” Daniel’s voice startled her, and she looked up to find him staring at him, something wonderfully soft in his eyes. The sort of softness that would cause her cousins and the other boys to mock him mercilessly, but that she entirely adored.
She did not, however, expect him to be so easily distracted from his work. But as long as he did not mind, there was information she could learn, and she never backed down from that sort of opportunity. “What is ‘Rosetta’?
“Right, sorry.” A small smile curled at the corner of his lips, the same way it always did when he was shy or embarrassed. “Rosetta’s a city on my world—not that far from where your ancestors lived, actually. Thousands of years ago, they erected a stone to proclaim the coronation of a new pharoah, and because many different people lived in that city, they wrote the proclamation in three languages. Later, after two of the languages were lost—”
“—you could still translate them, because of the third.”
Daniel nodded, and Sha’re considered this. “Maybe,” she said finally, “after our people learn to write, we can create a stone of our own: the old language, your English, and a third language we will create for ourselves.” She ran her fingers across the page, tracing letters that she first saw etched in the dust by her father. After making her repeat their meaning, he had immediately wiped them away with his hand, warning her never to let the Horus guards see. “I do not want us to forget a second time.”
“An Abydos stone.” He paused a moment, then shook his head, his curled lips shifting to a full smile. “You know you deserve way better than me, right?”
She rolled her eyes. “I chose you, my Daniel, even after I knew you were not a messenger from Ra. You are my husband, and I love you.” Sha’re entwined their fingers together in a gesture that used to be foreign to her.
Daniel leaned forward to kiss her forehead, a gesture she knew used to be foreign to him. “I love you, too, my Sha’re.”
Their lips met after that: a language that, after only a few months of practice, they could both speak fluently, without the need of aid or translation.
Communication was never easy, but the people of Abydos would learn and they would endure. She would make sure of that.
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Teal'c and Daniel are so important actually. Teal'c was directly responsible for the loss of Daniel's wife in pretty much both ways. And Daniel said he wanted to hate him. But he didn't. He saw right through it. He found a best friend, a confidant, someone he put his life on the line to save multiple times, knowing Teal'c would do the same. Someone he felt completely safe with. Someone he was able to forgive for literally killing his wife. And you just know Teal'c feels the same way. They're just really the epitome of the found family in that show. Everyone bonded but they had the most reason for animosity but you'd never know it, not once.
#stargate sg1#sg1#teal'c#daniel jackson#i have a lot of feelings#we get the glimpse of how you could expect daniel to feel in forever in a day#but that's not daniel. he's not that person. he recognizes that's not what teal'c is either and he cares#then t being the first person he finds after remembering sha're#and teal'c's speech in meridian. overshadowed by Sam's yes but its still so important#and avatar! theres so many little moments. thor's hammer#thor's hammer!!!
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how have I never noticed......I just now realized that vala is a mirror of sha're...as a recovered goa'uld host, and a love interest to daniel, she's living the future that sha're never got. even adria is a reflection of what kind of threat shifu could have been if things had gone differently...
#i know this is so obvious but don't bully me i never did well with literary analysis!!!#sg1#daniel jackson#vala mal doran#stargate#sha're
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Stargate Rewatch: 1x01 Children of the Gods
After rewatching the original film I'm kicking off with the show's pilot - I actually watched both the original version and the "final cut" because there are aspects I enjoy of both. The final cut removes a few problematic elements and adds in some new material, but also cuts a few lines I really enjoy and the original version is really where my nostalgia lies, so... as always, my feelings, they are mixed.
Cold open with some redshirts - four men and one woman, sadly representative of the gender ratio the show will have going forward.
The unlucky Smurfette is Sgt Carol Weterings, not that I think she's ever mentioned by name in the episode.
"Probably the only thing it ever did was cost money." Heh.
I will say that Teal'c turning against Apophis at the end of the episode is nicely built - starting here where he examines the gun and identifies it as technology far advanced beyond the humans they’re used to dealing with.
When your name is above the title, you get introduced with an extreme close up.
The differences between the film and the show don't really bother me - I view the show as taking place in a very similar but alternate universe to the film rather than trying to squeeze them together - so O'Neil becomes O'Neill, Sha'uri becomes Sha're, Tyler becomes Charlie, Abydos is the closest planet to Earth, not the other side of the known universe, etc etc. But I consider the events of the film to be canon to the show universe unless directly contradicted.
But otherwise the pilot tries very hard to stick as close as possible to the film, to the point that Major Samuels states that General Hammond replaced General West.
Hammond says it’s been “over a year” since the events of the film, unclear exactly how much over.
The final cut has a longer version of the dead Jaffa, revealing one of them was a woman, and with all the changes to eliminate plot holes I don't know why Brad Wright put one back in. While we do see Jaffa women in the series, Goa'uld and Jaffa society is depicted as highly patriarchal and female Jaffa soliders are rare - we never see them in Apophis's ranks. It's an odd inclusion.
"What if the aliens get it?" "Well, they could be blowing their noses right now." hee!
"THANKS SEND MORE" Remember when Daniel had allergies? Give it a few episodes and the show sure won’t!
Amanda Tapping, doing her absolute best with some terrible dialogue. Brad Wright blames the "reproductive organs" speech on Jonathan Glassner, and it is terrible and thankfully removed from the final cut version, along with some other 90's era sexism from the bros. However there is one great moment, where Kawalsky asks "Have you ever pulled out of a simulated bombing run in an F16 at eight plus Gs?" and without missing a beat, Sam deadpans: "Yes." I love Sam.
"I'll give you exactly 24 hours to either return or send a message through - no Kleenex boxes, please." Hee, Hammond isn't quite the cuddly commander we know and love yet, but he has his moments.
It's very cute that Sam has a very similar reaction to the one Daniel had in the film just before going through the gate, although his was based in the wonder of something incredible and unknown, and hers is based in the physical manifestation of knowledge - says a lot about each of them and their similarities yet different perspectives - the marrying of these two points of view is what makes them such a good duo.
Michael Shanks, doing the James Spader impression that won him the role. He was only 26!
And of course Alexis Cruz, the only holdover from the movie (other than Erick Avari, who won't appear until season 2).
The original team sure did leave a bunch of weapons with the Abydonians, didn't they? I presume they taught them how to fire the guns because there's no way Daniel could/would have. He did however teach them very good English.
"Greetings from Earth, Doctor Jackson" - very cute, it's sad that Ferretti disappears into the ether by season 2.
Not the face of a woman who is shy, but a woman who knows how to make An Entrance. She even smirks a little as she walks over.
There is however a weird little moment where Sha're is reluctant to shake Jack's hand - maybe she wasn't impressed about his little joke brushing by Daniel? Both of these beats are removed from the final cut version which is probably for the best.
It's criminal Sha're doesn't actually get to speak in this scene, and in fact how few lines she has in the episode altogether.
It's disappointing, because Sha'uri was such an integral part of the film, and yet the show tries to get rid of her as quickly as possible to get Daniel on SG-1 and give him a core drive for the next three seasons. Her abduction is the precipitating event of Daniel's ten-year character arc and defining moment of transition from film!Daniel to show!Daniel, and yet she doesn't get a character arc of her own.
However I do think Shanks and Vaitiare Hirshon sell the relationship in the few scenes they have - they're very physically connected/protective of one another, perhaps concerned that Jack's there to take Daniel back with him (which is in fact the case). And of course Sha're, annoyed at being left behind while Daniel shows the others his discovery, gives him a very proprietary kiss.
I think show!Sha're gets a bad rap, she's spunky and I love her. I just wish there was more of her.
Sam and Daniel insta-bonding - Daniel making an intuitive leap to solve the puzzle and Sam filling in the gaps with science to make it work, they really are kindred spirits.
The issue with the cartouche though is that the symbols look like hierogyphs, not star constellations/Stargate glyphs.
Back in the pyramid, there's a scene sorely missing here - imagine if rather than ogling Sha're, Ferretti had a conversation with her, giving us more of a chance to know Sha're on her own terms rather than just Daniel's wife and the object of others desire. Especially when Ferretti was on the original mission so knows she's more than a "beautiful woman" - it would also give additional weight to him remembering the gate address where she's taken later on.
Teal'c clocks Skaara's gun as the same tech he saw on Earth in breadcrumb no. 2.
"Nothing good can ever come through this gate!" "You came through it , Daniel" I mean...I realise there are a lot of problematic white savior-y aspects to the show, but idk, this scene and the Abydonians all petting Daniel to say goodbye gets me. Sean Amsing as Tobay also returns in Full Circle which is a nice callback to this scene.
The final cut removes a reaction shot from Jack which I have mixed feelings about - I get that the focus probably needs to be on Daniel at that moment, but I do think it's important for Jack to appreciate how Daniel really found a home with the Abydonians and was appreciated and loved by them, and it's nicely played by RDA.
LOL, watch out for how many times Jack pats Daniel on the shoulder. Apparently that annoyed Shanks so RDA kept doing it, but it's also a nice little setup of their relationship going forward.
There's a second shoulder pat in the hallway.
Just two dudes, drinking beer, (not) talking about their feelings.
“She was the complete opposite of everyone else, she practically fell on the floor laughing every time I tried to do some kind of chore they all took for granted.” Underrated line, because it gives important context to Daniel and Sha’re’s relationship, and perhaps more importantly, how Daniel characterises her - she is the one who keeps him grounded, who teases him, there is balance to their relationship. There’s potentially an interesting parallel there to Vala in the later seasons, although it manifests in a very different way.
“I think she forgave me for what happened to our kid, she just couldn’t forget…I’m the opposite, I can never forgive myself, but sometimes I can forget.” This is a great scene.
The Final Cut removes all the “harem scenes” and while I can see why, we do lose a bit of context to Teal'c's involvement in the process as he is the one who chooses the women from the holding cell to go into the harem, and then from the harem to be presented to Apophis.
There was a missed opportunity to actually see Sha're interact with the other prisoners - she could have had a conversation with Weterings at least, find out she was from Earth, perhaps assure her that the others would be coming to rescue them.
To the surprise of no one I’m sure, this episode does not pass the Bechdel test.
But there is a hint of solidarity among the prisoners - first in the holding cell where the others hold Skaara back, and here in the harem Sha're squeezes the hand of another woman.
Weterings is killed by the hand device which keeps the electrical current aesthetic from the movie the show will later abandon - as Teal'c looks perturbed.
Daniel back on Earth immediately getting stuck into the coffee even though no one else is drinking, lol.
"Ra played a god, the sun god, he borrowed the religion and culture of the ancient Egyptians he brought through the gate and used it to enslave them." A bit of a change from the movie here, where it was the other way around - slightly less problematic!
Everyone is in dress blues except Kawalsky who is in camo, and Daniel, who is wearing Jack's clothes.
"Colonel I'd like to remind you that rescuing Dr Jackson's wife is a secondary objective." This line was removed in the final cut and I don't know why? It adds to Samuel's bastardry.
Has everyone forgotten about Weterings?
Shoulder pat no. 3!
In the second harem scene Sha're is now sitting isolated from the other women - did she argue with them? Just trying not to be noticed? What happened offscreen?
Also what's going on in the top left corner - it looks like the healing device! Maybe Sha're did throw down with one of the others and that's why she's on her own. I have to read into things, because the show gives us so very little of Sha're and it's a real shame.
She does get a good moment fighting against the guards though - earlier she was defiant and told them she wasn't afraid of them, here she bites one of them on the arm.
I understand from a narrative perspective why Sha're is the one who gets taken over, but it really is Schrodinger’s fridging - until she’s found Sha’re is both alive and dead for the purpose of the narrative, both Daniel’s primary drive and source of inner conflict.
Christopher Judge does so much with so little. Master of the cheek twitch!
Oof, the nudity. In isolation from everything else, it doesn’t bother me - it’s intended to be horrifying, not titillating, and is effective in conveying objectification and dehumanisation by the Goa'uld.
However, it was a studio request, Wright/Glassner regretted doing it, it doesn’t fit the tone of the show going forward, but most importantly Hirshon was pressured into the full frontal when she only agreed to topless, and for that alone it should be excised.
The puppet symbiotes are so much more effective than the cgi they use later. I don’t think there’s another scene in the show that really captures the menace of the Goa’uld like this one - the symbiote (who we'll later learn is Amaunet) slithering around on Sha're's body is just so visceral and horrifying. The glowing eyes before implantation is an effective touch.
Jack sticking Daniel in it with Sam by saying Sha're was a gift could be amusing, except the conversation gets cut off before Daniel can explain. It annoys me, because Daniel not "accepting" Sha're was actually the point? It's kind of important! I assume he does tell Sam the whole story later.
"Unless we want to get ourselves a really bad reputation, I just think we should avoid shooting the first people we meet on a new planet" is a nice follow up to Daniel's sarcastic "well that would have been an excellent reason to shoot everyone" from the film. At this point, Daniel doesn't appear to be carrying a weapon other than a knife. Oh, how that will change!
The Chulak priests speak "a derivation of Arabic" and something else - the Goa'uld language is meant to be similar to Abydonian, which is based on Ancient Egyptian. Of course modern Egyptian is an Arabic dialect that came much later, but perhaps we are to assume Goa'uld - or at least the Chulak vernacular - evolved along similar lines.
Jack unable to shoot Sha're when she stands in front of Apophis is a nice movie callback.
The final cut has a good extra scene between Sam and Daniel where he is quite delusional thinking Sha're might just be drugged, and Sam tries to talk sense into him. Daniel's blind optimism against Sam's pragmatic realism will be an important aspect of their relationshio going forward.
Shoulder pat no. 4!
Teal'c P.I. sees Skaara talking to Jack and starts putting pieces together - the weapons from the opening scene, the weapons on Abydos + Jack's watch, and Daniel helpfully supplying the Earth glyph.
Alexis Cruz is committed to the film pronunciation of Sha’uri, bless him.
“But you are a great warrior, we defeated Ra together!” Skaara’s faith in Jack is so pure.
Skaara gets a shoulder pat too.
"Another fine day on planet Kawalsky" - This line was removed from the final cut! What a tragedy. I get the sense Brad Wright feels a bit cringe about the campier aspects of the show, but it's part of the charm! To be fair Ferretti was more of the wisecracker in the movie rather than Kawalsky, but I love that show Kawalsky is a little goofy.
I'm sorry, what is this silver monstrosity? I guess a sliver of credit that after the nudity not going for a sexy alien outfit, but this is a hate crime. I also have a very high tolerance, and even affection for, silly Stargate headgear, but there's camp and then there's ugly.
Peter Williams as Apophis though: 10/01, no notes.
"They're going to choose...who will be the children of the gods." I do love it when they say the title of the thing in the thing.
The subtle moment where Teal'c motions that Jack should kneel is a nice setup - Skaara being very reluctant and angry about kneeling, and being the last to do so, is nice movie continuity. Skaara really gets shortchanged by the show after this episode.
"How much would I remember if you chose me?" I wonder if Daniel ever thinks that maybe him drawing the attention of the Goa'uld contributed to Skaara getting chosen. You know, just to really lay on the angst and guilt.
So the premise is that these Apophis underlings are choosing hosts for their children who are symbiotes ready for implantation, which doesn't really fit with what we learn about Goa'uld queens/reproduction later. We also learn later that Skaara is taken as a host for Apophis's son Klorel which doesn't sqaure with these two choosing him.
Headcanon time! This is actually Zipacna who we meet later arguing for Klorel at Triad - different actor, of course, but he wears a similarly silly hat. So Amaunet now has access to all of Sha're's memories of Skaara and she and Apophis decide that he will make a good host - maybe she also likes the idea of a family resemblance between herself and Klorel (I think we can assume he is also Amaunet's son?). But Apophis doesn't want anyone to know he's choosing a host for his offspring, so sends Zipacna out to do it for him.
This makes sense of Klorel later claiming that Apophis chose his host, and also gives backstory to Zipacna showing up in Pretense. And in the scene, the Goa'uld make a very quick decision to take Skaara, while the rest get very grossly examined people before choosing.
Shoulder pat no. 5!
"I have nowhere to go." Teal'c turning on his brother Jaffa to save a roomful of people, not expecting to survive himself, really hits.
"For this, you can stay at my place." hee!
Jack not wanting to hear it when Teal'c tells him Skaara is no longer himself is a turnabout of the earlier scene with Daniel. Not so flip now it's your Emotional Support Abydonian, are you Jack?
Kawalsky getting Goa'ulded doesn't seem to hurt as much as Sha're's - because the symbiote isn't mature, or because Amaunet is particularly sadistic?
Soon to be SG-1 posing for their album cover.
It was the late 90's when tvs were tiny, so everyone had to stand uncomfortably close.
And we end with shoulder pat no. 6!
#stargate rewatch#stargate sg1#stargate 1x01#children of the gods#jack o'neill#daniel jackson#sam carter#teal'c#sha're#daniel x sha're#jlf posts
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One thing I find rather frustrating about Stargate is how quickly after Sha're's death she just seems to be forgotten. Like the very next episode has Daniel having a romance with I forget her name, the amnesic destroyer of worlds.
And like I don’t have a problem with Daniel moving on, I love him and Vala, but the fact that they don't really bring her up anymore afterwards annoys me. The only times I can really remember her being mentioned after her death are after Daniel descends and sees her picture and when he tells Vala about her.
She was such an important part of his life and he spent years trying to find and save her, I really feel like his grief and his memory of her should have been delved into more.
Like even with the events of Forever in a Day and how he got a chance to accept things before they happened, it still doesn't make sense to me for her hardly ever to be mentioned.
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I'm just gonna say it, the Stargate writers were absolute cowards for not putting Sha're on one of the alternate SG-1s in Ripple Effect 😤
#just imagine the emotional toll ot would take on Daniel#after so many years seeing her again would tear open so many old wounds#he's become so cold since he lost her#i think it would give him the chance to really heal from losing her#Daniel Jackson#sha're#stargate SG-1#stargate#prisma rambles
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Flufftober day seventen!
Prompt: Encouraging S.O. to achieve a goal.
Rating: General Audiences
Category: F/M
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Relationship: Daniel Jackson/Sha're (Stargate)
Characters: Daniel Jackson (Stargate), Sha're (Stargate), Skaara (Stargate)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Married Couple, Married Fluff, Pre-Canon, Flufftober 2023
Summary:
Daniel is determined to make Sha're's favorite dish.
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me when I realise I've gone on a tirade about someone coming up with bad faith interpretations about something I may or may not have staked my identity on : you are inventing things to be mad at. I am defending things I project onto bc if you think so negatively about things I like/relate to I internalize it to mean you think negatively about me and therefore this average incorrect opinion feels like a personal attack on me and others like me (that I'm projecting onto). we are not the same.
#specifically people saying deh is 'creepy'#and also people who get mad at michael shanks for 'mispronouncing things even though hes a linguist'#because michael shanks as an actor and daniel jackson as a character both have a speech impediment#if you listen to daniel talk he has a pretty bad stutter especially when hes worked up about something#because his brain is going faster than his mouth is capable#and every single character pronounces goa'uld differently and sha're's name literally changed#its not 'shau'ri' anymore the actual subtitles have changed#mushroom rambles
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First and last time Daniel speaks Abydonian with Sha're
#stargateedit#stargate 1994#Stargate SG-1#3x10#forever in a day#abydonian#Daniel Jackson#Sha're#james spader#michael shanks#mili avital#vaitiare hirshon#Itecontest
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everyone: "Aw they're like siblings! Twinsies! Best friends :) :)"
me: "They should've rawdog fucked on screen"
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finally making my way through stargate sg-1 season 1......and ......uhhhhhh do we ever talk about the fact that hathor r*ped daniel other than jack saying "ew" because. holy shit man
#also like. the way both sha're and daniel are violated by goa'ulds..#stargate sg1#stargate sg-1#daniel jackson#sha're#like holy shit what a great sam episode but. yeah that shot of daniel sitting on the bed.......#i know it was the 90s and people refused to acknowledge that men can be r*ped even now but that was Rough#poor daniel bro. I'm on ep 13 and this fucker has died 3 times already
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almost a touching moment
"Now, at least, I can draw comfort from the fact that she's no longer suffering at the hands of the Goa'uld." - Daniel Jackson, Stargate SG-1 s10e07 Counterstrike
So this was really nice, Daniel talking about Sha're.
Except... Adria is Val's child? And the Harcesis child is a way better analogy? And finding that child, Shifu, is what put Daniel on his path to ascend? And Shifu is ascended, along with potentially many people from Abydos? I don't know, I thought that might come up again as a significant thing.
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Honestly Stargate would've even better is Daniel got laid more, on screen as proof..
Honestly given that every woman who canonically ever shows a passing interest in him is or becomes an absolute maniac, I think it'd might've chilled him out but at what cost to the rest of the universe
#two of them become goa'uld hosts (sha're and sarah)#one is a goa'uld already (hathor)#one used to be a goa'uld host and even though i love her she's bonkers (vala)#one purposefully got him hooked on drugs (shyla)#one is an actual architect of mass murder (linnea)#one created a race of machines hellbent on intergalactic domination (rees)#daniel jackson's dick (or even merely want of it) is an menace of universal proportion
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An idea that I had awhile ago but came back today
Sha're is kidnapped by Apophis and Daniel goes back to Earth to get help rescuing her, but by some handwavey coincidence it so happens that a group of Mandalorian mercenaries manages to be in the right place to rescue her.
How did they come to be there? Idk and idc maybe the Taung were the Furlings and they fucked off to the GFFA when the Alterans fled to Pegasus and the Asgard to Ida and the Nox pretended to have never invented space travel.
But the critical parts here are
1. They do not share a language and since the Mandalorians came by ship they do not benefit from the stargates' handwavey translation power
2. Sha're is pronounced exactly like cyare
Confusion and when SG-1 finds them Daniel gets to be a linguistics nerd
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#daniel jackson#sha're#daniel x sha're#stargateedit#mine#i heard this song and it seemed perfect for them
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