(I accidentally typed 'Satan' up there at first, which tells you the kind of day that it's been.)

As some of you may have already realised, the community was suspended last night due to some kind of fubar at LiveJournal's end. We weren't the only community hit - they also hit mmom, which moonlettuce runs and on which I'm a maintainer, and I've heard of other comms and individuals affected. The community is now (obviously) unsuspended with the explanation that we'd been caught in LiveJournal's latest anti-spam measures (how that works when comms can't make comments or entries, don't ask me). However, I've just realised that the sgasesa_admin account is still suspended, and I've had to submit yet another support request for that.

Which brings me on to the point of my post (the point besides DON'T PANIC!).

Claire and I have been talking idly for a while about backing up the comm on Dreamwidth so we don't lose all of the entries if somehow LJ goes belly up or on another strikethrough rampage (like, oh, today apparently). After this morning's fubar, and the fact that it took several hours to be resolved, I was doing that more than idly, but thought that at least we had a backup of all stories on the sgasesa_admin account, right? Hahahahaha. My laugh is a bitter laugh.

When I went to check I could import to Dreamwidth and realised that the Admin account was gone, I bit the bullet and it's now done.

I realise that this isn't ideal. Ideally we'd have had a chance to warn you that it was coming, maybe even offer an opt-out, but I didn't want to risk the comm disappearing again and being unable to retrieve anything I don't have saved to my hard drive or to my e-mail account. And even saved to my hard drive and e-mail account, the idea of recoding and reposting almost 1,000 stories from the last 8 years made me weep.

I know some people just don't want their stuff on Dreamwidth for whatever reason and I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's views on that by any means. However, I am asking that you view this in the light of three things:

• the dreamwidth comm is a backup of the LJ one and at the moment, it's just going to stay a backup (we may try to cross post in future as the fest goes live if people are interested, but at the moment it's more an 'omg!' thing);


• it was an emergency; and


• this isn't a normal 'you post links to your fic' comm - every story on this community was written and posted for someone else, and your recipient risked losing access to the stories written for them.

That being said, please let me know if you would like anything deleted from the backup site. At the moment, the options to import are basically 'everything' or 'nothing', so your request posts as well as your stories are also mirrored, but I certainly don't have any objection to deleting old requests. I may do that anyway to tidy up the backup, but I haven't decided yet (and it depends on how much work that would be as well). However, I would ask that you think twice before requesting that we delete stories, though, for the reasons I've already mentioned.

Your comments are also mirrored, so that authors won't lose any of their lovely feedback, but again I can delete those if you would like (and again, I would ask that you think twice before requesting deletion, since they were nice comments left for someone else).

Alternatively, you can sign into Dreamwidth using your LJ account as an open-ID and delete comments and signup posts yourself :) They will have imported as linked to your LJ account, so you will have the ability to delete them once you've signed in with your LJ account (just make sure you sign in using the openID option using your LJ credentials, not sign into your own Dreamwidth account or try to sign into a Dreamwidth account with your LJ credentials).

(ETA: The import has now successfully completed, but it seems that some of the comments (but not all of them and not entries as far as I can see) are mapping to your Dreamwidth account if you're already over there. But not for everyone - mine are mapping to my LJ account despite me having a dreamwidth account, but some other comments on the same post that were originally made by the LJ account are showing as having been made by a dreamwidth account. I don't know why, but whatever the reason you should be able to delete using either open ID for the ones that are showing as made by your LJ account or your dreamwidth account if it's mapped to there.

ETA2: Apparently you can opt on Dreamwidth to have your LJ links automatically link to your Dreamwidth account on any imported material instead. Here's the DW FAQ for it. Thanks to trobadora for the link.)

You won't be able to delete your stories yourself as they were posted under the Admin account and not by you, but that's no different from the way that it works on this community.

I think that's everything, but given that today also involved a migraine and having to sleep it off, I can't guarantee I haven't missed anything important.

As always, you can ask anything in the comments, or PM us or send us an e-mail to sgasanta @ gmail.com if you'd rather comment privately. However, please note that any hate mail will be deleted and not replied to.

ETA3: New comm on Dreamwidth is at sga_santa

I realise that this is a bit late, my lovelies, but this is the first day that we've been able to get onto LJ thanks to LJ's blocking of several major UK ISPs (a balls up they finally admitted on facebook of all places ::facepalm::)

Still, better late than never :D

Thanks as always to everyone who took part, especially our pinch hitters: reddwarfer, moose_happy, whizzy, taste_is_sweet, gaffsie, clwilson2006 and kisahawklin. All entries have been edited with the author names, so you can all go and reply to feedback unanonymously now :D


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I've undoubtedly messed up somewhere after editing around 70 posts, so please let me know where in the comments ♥

See you in September for next year's SGA Santa sign-ups!

If anyone is still working on Santa Madness, they need to be with us by tomorrow if you want them posting anonymously as part of the fest.

However if you're still working on something and aren't going to get it finished in time, you're more than welcome to post them to the main comm yourself (rather than have us post anonymously) even if it's after 1 January :)

And while I'm on the subject of reminders, can I ask that everyone please remember to leave feedback for your authors. Someone tried very hard to write you something that they thought you'd enjoy, so please take a moment to say thank you for their gift to you. I know sometimes it's a little embarrasing to acknowledge getting a story if you had to default, and I know that a lot of people are very busy at this time of year and are afk, but please don't let that stop you coming back later and saying something. I know your author would appreciate that, and Claire and I would, too :)

Thank you!

Title: Someday
Author: lantean_breeze
Recipient: kisahawklin
Pairing: Emmagan/Weir.
Word Count ~1100
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not making any money here. All work is free. =)
Author's Note: This story is set during the first half of season 3. It's not heavy Teyla/Elizabeth, but I did the best that I could. I just didn't want to see anyone's request left out, so when I read that pinch hitter #6 always requests this pairing but never gets it, I figured it couldn't hurt to give it a go. I hope she likes it. :)
Summary: Teyla reminds Elizabeth of what's truly important after a difficult day. The title and theme come from the song "Someday" by Sugar Ray playing in my head, lol. :D

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Pinch hitter 1: Likes McKay/Sheppard, AUs of all sorts, especially What If AUs. AUs that have them with an age disparity. Rodney as a teen meeting an adult John is a particular weakness. Alternate versions of John and/or Rodney having sex with canon John/Rodney. Main squicks are: noncon, 'gay for you' stuff, sex without affection.

Pinch hitter 2: Mitchell/Sheppard or Carter/Sheppard for preference but also Chuck/Woolsey, McKay/Sheppard, , Beckett/McKay and many other secondary pairings it's okay to include. SG-1 crossovers welcome. Likes ship fic. No femslash pairings as the main pairing, but secondary pairings fine.

Pinch hitter 3 (wrote three pinch hits): McKay/Sheppard, loves team fics and Teyla and Ronon being present and being awesome. Stargate AUs and transformation fics especially welcome.

Pinch hitter 4: Sheppard-centric fic. Sheppard/various pairings (Sheppard/Vala, Sheppard/Dex/Emmagan in particular) or gen. No Beckett, McKay or Weir as main characters.

Pinch hitter 5: Lorne/Parrish or Lorne-centric gen. Loves minor character fic.

Pinch hitter 6: McKay/Sheppard, Keller/McKay/Sheppard, Emmagan/Weir (it seems that this pairing is one of those 'always asks, never gets' ones :D), Lorne/Zelenka, Dex/Zelenka, Cadman/anyone but Sheppard or McKay, Chuck/anyone. Main do not want is McKay or Sheppard paired with anyone else.

Trying to keep them anonymous as far as possible, so I've paraphrased where I can. And our final pinch hitter didn't sign up but is quite happy not to submit prompts, so a round of applause for them instead is in order, I think :D

Okay, now I really can collapse in a heap, or at least take my son out for a walk before he forgets what fresh air tastes like. I'm planning to take tomorrow off from modly duties, so please don't panic if you don't get a reply within 24 hours to any submissions for Madness as we usually do :)

Have a lovely Christmas, everyone, and Happy Holidays!

Okay, last story posted and it's still not Christmas!

Let me know if we've messed up anywhere, or if you've submitted but not received a story, or submitted a story that hasn't been posted. We've posted everything we've got, and I've checked our spam folder so nothing's been caught in that :)

Pinch hitter appreciation post coming when I've had a chance to breathe (since Claire has to work today, boooo!)

Title: Into Thin Air
Author: aqualegia
Recipient: hyperfocused
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard, Lorne/Kemp
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~18,200
Disclaimer: I do not own these people. If I did SGA would still be in production.
Author's Notes: Lieutenant Kemp (played by Niall Matter) appears in two episodes: Be All My Sins Remember'd and Tabula Rasa. He looked cute working with Lorne. With grateful thanks to my friend Dusty, who stepped in at the last minute when my original beta reader, Yvonne, was taken ill.
Summary: Set between Intruder and Runner. Teyla has always been accompanied by Sgt. Bates before; now she has Sheppard and McKay plus two people new to the Pegasus Galaxy.

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Title: Into Thin Air
Author: aqualegia
Recipient: hyperfocused
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard, Lorne/Kemp
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~18,200
Disclaimer: I do not own these people. If I did SGA would still be in production.
Author's Notes: Lieutenant Kemp (played by Niall Matter) appears in two episodes: Be All My Sins Remember'd and Tabula Rasa. He looked cute working with Lorne. With grateful thanks to my friend Dusty, who stepped in at the last minute when my original beta reader, Yvonne, was taken ill.
Summary: Set between Intruder and Runner. Teyla has always been accompanied by Sgt. Bates before; now she has Sheppard and McKay plus two people new to the Pegasus Galaxy.

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We're nearly done with the main group of stories, but we've still got one left to post. It looks like we've received it with some of it cut off, and we've only just noticed. We've contacted the author and are just waiting to hear back from them.

So, nearly done, but not quite yet :D

Still, though, there's Santa Madness to enjoy :D

Title: You Can't Go Home (But You Don't Have to Stay Here)
Author: whizzy
Recipient: mific
Pairing: gen
Rating: pg
Disclaimer: language
Author's Notes: Takes place during season three's The Return. I haven't played with these characters in a while, so jumping back in with them was a lot of fun, and hopefully I hit a few of the points in your request. I may have twisted the canon timeline a tiny bit to suit my purposes. Also, huge thanks go to Busaikko for the last-minute beta and fabulous suggestions. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

Summary: John knew even before leaving Atlantis for the final time that the reprieve he'd been handed in Antarctica was over.

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