Great news in this bleak, miserable time (I am talking about the pathetic August weather we're having to cope with in London, grey skies, drizzling rain and a chill in the air you need a coat to keep out, and oh yeah, Stargate has been cancelled), I found out yesterday that Earthgrazer is working in the building next door for two weeks on a consultancy. Yay. Lunch each day will be in order, I think. Today a trip to Panet Organic is very much on the cards. Last time I ate there was with Ali, and she had her drink filmed by the BBC for a segment on healthy drinks. Perhaps today my drink might make it on to national television?

Yesterday EG And I talked about how rubbish we were as friends (well actually about how rubbish I am - I missed Mags birthday this year and still feel awful about that), and we reminisced about the 'old' times, back when GateWorld was this wonderful, carefree place full of fun and laughter. Ooops no, I'm getting confused with all the 'GateWorld used to be this wonderful place and now it's all been ruined by XYZ and mods who stomp etc etc' posts. Actually, there was a time when GateWorld, and the entire fandom it seemed, was quite a horrible place to be. At the time we had a thread on GateWorld called the Daniel Shrine, and heaven forbid we Daniel fans dare mention Daniel outside that thread. We'd get told we had 'our' thread, and we should stay there and not inflict our views on the rest of the fandom because by doing so we were ruining their enjoyment of Stargate etc etc.

Frankly, if I came into the fandom in the last two years, I'd find tales like that hard to believe. Could you really be so marginalised by your devotion to Daniel or to ship, to the point that one side or the other couldn't even bear to see a person from the other side actually posting? Did people really behave that way?!

It would, I know, horrify shippers and Daniel fans on GateWorld now, many of whom are actually the same person. Why on earth would you have to 'hate' Daniel just because you were a shipper? And why would a fan of Daniel, and/or slash, have to hate shippers? In fact you can find as many shippers in the Daniel threads as there are Daniel fans in the shipper threads. All having fun. Yay for us!

Stargate SG1 has been cancelled. It is one of those 'do you remember where you were' moments. The sun was shining, a milky sunshine that is likely to dissolve into rain soon. The office was quiet, hardly anyone else had arrived. I'd switched on my computer, and went to have a look for messages. There, on a private board I belonged to, someone had posted the news.

So that's it then. End of an era. In a strange, bizarre way, I felt relief first. Finally it was all over. When I got first become devoted to Stargate I never dreamed it would be a ten year affair.

Back when they first started saying this is it, this is the final season - season 6, I believe - I had a banner in my sig that shouted Yay for Season 10. I never really thought then that we'd get that many.

As an aside, I'd like to quickly wave to Mental Ted, should he decide to come this way again. He's a lovely chap, if a little nuts as a Teddy Bear.

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