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sga_saturdayHey, it had to be done.
This one could initially be interpreted by some as just a queer-coded challenge - and they are partially right. As a member of the queer community myself (and one who likes to make boys kiss in my fics) I used to feel like an outside, which is honestly what I think the people who traveled to Atlantis felt like. Outsiders. Those who didn't quite find a place on Earth and found their stride in Pegasus with everyone else. So yes, this challenge could totally be something pride flag related like Markham and Stackhouse coming back from San Francisco pride with new pride flag tattoos (jots notes own in my ideas folder). But it also could be the pride that Rodney sees in his niece when she decides to go into the sciences instead of English like her dad. Or the pride in celebrating people who live in Pegasus. Or, since week 445 encompasses the 4th of July here in the United States (well, everywhere else, too - but July 4th is a specific US holiday), it could be John raising the American flag outside his little home on an Iowa farm (jots down another note) or maybe a celebration where everyone on Atlantis rips off their Earth country's flags from their uniforms and each one dons a new Atlantis in Pegaus specific flag.
See where the imagination can take you?
So over the next five weeks, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write something with either "pride" and/or "flag" in it. And, to all my fellow queer community and allies folks, happy pride.
This one could initially be interpreted by some as just a queer-coded challenge - and they are partially right. As a member of the queer community myself (and one who likes to make boys kiss in my fics) I used to feel like an outside, which is honestly what I think the people who traveled to Atlantis felt like. Outsiders. Those who didn't quite find a place on Earth and found their stride in Pegasus with everyone else. So yes, this challenge could totally be something pride flag related like Markham and Stackhouse coming back from San Francisco pride with new pride flag tattoos (jots notes own in my ideas folder). But it also could be the pride that Rodney sees in his niece when she decides to go into the sciences instead of English like her dad. Or the pride in celebrating people who live in Pegasus. Or, since week 445 encompasses the 4th of July here in the United States (well, everywhere else, too - but July 4th is a specific US holiday), it could be John raising the American flag outside his little home on an Iowa farm (jots down another note) or maybe a celebration where everyone on Atlantis rips off their Earth country's flags from their uniforms and each one dons a new Atlantis in Pegaus specific flag.
See where the imagination can take you?
So over the next five weeks, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write something with either "pride" and/or "flag" in it. And, to all my fellow queer community and allies folks, happy pride.
