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Very short.

Very tired.

Lego and Dungeons & Dragons are collaborating and I’m very excited even though I play Pathfinder and not D&D.

The sets will be amazing!

Night y’all!

I’m back!

Short again, but at least Atlantis!!

Or is it?!

So, the Genii. They’ve wanted to be the dominate human force in the galaxy since pretty much the first episode we saw them in.

Problem was that they didn’t have space travel other than the Stargate’s so they were limited.

When that changed, and Sheppard gave them the Alteran ship, they still weren’t the dominate force because they only had the one ship and they also had to contend with both Atlantis and the Travelers.

What do they do? They lie. Nothing we didn’t already know about them. The worse thing about it would be that people wouldn’t know otherwise since most civilizations aren’t advanced enough yet to have wide spread communication.

You’d think all would be lost and people would flock to be under the Genii’s protection, but thankfully that isn’t true.

One of the reasons is that the Genii are flipping egotistical like you wouldn’t believe. They think they’re better than everyone else and that everyone else should bow down.

Since the Pegasus galaxy has been dealing with the Wraith forever, you can imagine how much they don’t want to be in that position again.

It’s really gratifying to hear people talk about the Genii’s supposed ‘victory’ over Queen Death with a healthy dose of skepticism. Especially since Atlantis has been doing all the heavy work since they’re arrival and have only asked for food and safe places if needed.

The Genii want a monopoly on every planet. They can’t get it on Wraith held planets or places like Sateda and Athos. Places where people know what hides behind the Genii mask.

They’ll keep lying left and right so long as it benefits them, and then a little after just to be sure.

Sadly, we must continue dealing with them.

*le sigh*

Until next time!!

I have been sick the last week and currently have a massive headache. I’ll do a post next week.

Sorry y’all.

It is 1:30 in the morning and I am wide awake due to insomnia.

But I have an early morning so really need to try to sleep. We shall see how that goes.

Obviously no Atlantis post this week, but I did want to let people know that apparently there is a peep who has submitted a Lego Idea and it’s being voted on.

If you aren’t aware, Lego let’s regular people submit ideas to them for special Lego sets and quite a few have already been produced.

I’m not saying it’s easy and I have no idea how the process actually works let alone if the person gets paid for their idea, but there are 2 Stargate Lego ideas currently being voted on.

If you go to the Lego ideas website and type in Stargate, it will bring up all of the ideas you can vote on to see if enough interest can make one (or all!) of them real sets!

You’ll need an account though…😑 I’m sure it’s free, but I only just today found out about this so…

Y’all do what you will with this info!

See ya next week!!

In deference to what happened September 11, 2001, there will be no posts this week.

If you remember that day, you are not alone.

If you don’t remember that day, please checkout a book at the library or ask a bookseller for a recommendation at your bookstore.

Never Forget.

Very short this week, but here we go!

Getting a look at the backstories of favorite characters is always a fun time for me. Not being a fan of Weir does take a little joy out of it because I just don’t like her.

Having said that-

With Weir back in corporeal form she’s getting flashes of her life back on Earth (because there’s always that one ascended being that breaks the rules).

Scenes from when she was in school to starting her work as a negotiator. It is interesting if only because things mentioned are my actual history.

And, okay, it’s also a little interesting to see how she became who she is in the series.

But not too interesting… honestly I’m just waiting for the good part with a certain person I know is going to show up sooner or later in this book!

…told y’all it was short.

We’re back!

Short, but sweet is what this will be, but I said I’d do an Atlantis post and an Atlantis post you shall have today!

Rodney and Daniel are investigating a suspected Alteran outpost with the team and things are going surprisingly well.

Not counting the evil ostriches trying to kill them.

Or the massive wild fire that almost roasted them.

Or the penguins that tried to eat them…

Other than those pesky details!

The two of them are being downright cordial to each other.

Thing is, we don’t really know why Rodney dislikes Danial so much. It does feel like a Rodney thing though. Like there’s something Daniel did to make him unlikeable.

During their investigation of the site (after the aforementioned setbacks) they discover it’s actually an Asgard site and not Alteran. It also looks like the machines control the weather on the planet.

The two snipe back and forth during the whole thing when Daniel finally just asks why Rodney doesn’t like him.

Apparently, while Rodney was at the SGC he got sent to Siberia after saying or doing something to make Sam mad and Daniel asks if that’s why and assures Rodney he had nothing to do with that.

Rodney doesn’t say it, because he has trouble actually talking about those kinds of things (and after just being dumped by his girlfriend I’m guessing he’s not too willing to open up to someone at the moment) he does, thankfully for us, think about the reason.

Turns out, Rodney doesn’t like who he was back then. He likes who he’s become. He likes his team and his family and his friends because they’re part of why he is who he is now.

Daniel doesn’t just remind him of a time when he was a complete jerk, he talks about it because that’s the person he knew. Daniel doesn’t know Rodney anymore so he talks as if Rodney hasn’t changed.

Daniel isn’t doing it on purpose. He doesn’t even know he’s doing it, but that’s part of the problem because he treats Rodney like he always did and that’s why Rodney doesn’t like him.

If Daniel knew he’d stop, we know this already because that’s the kind of person he is.

Unfortunately, I can’t remember if that actually happens in this book…

Guess we’ll find out!

Bye for now, but look for the start of my Bible study posts going live either this week or next on Thursday’s!

I am so excited to share the finished product with everyone!!

Look!!

I hand drew the book on front but used stencils for the letters and heart-with-leaves part. I didn’t actually have any letter stencils so I printed off the words and cut them out…

Didn’t look so good because the paint made the paper wet and stick to the wood. So whereas I didn’t technically hand write the letters, I did do quite a bit of cleanup on them.

The spine! This was the test for the paper stencil and where I found out it was a problem. It turned out pretty good though!

You would have noticed the gap in the last pic and you’ll see why here. I used pieces of fabric to secure the lid/cover to the main body of the book. I couldn’t find any small hinges made in the U.S. so tried this in lieu.

There are small magnets on the edges of the lid and the book ‘pages’ to keep the lid closed, but they aren’t too strong so I still have to be careful!

I’m hoping to find small hinges eventually and I’ll change it over soon as I do, because even though I used superglue on the fabric, it’s very fragile.

What my tiny books look like in their book bookshelf! Still room to grow and with Christmas coming I doubt it’ll take long.

For anyone wondering, yes, the stars do in fact glow in the dark. I tried getting a pic, but my camera isn’t quite good enough for that.

Trust me when I say it’s epic!!!

My book bookshelf next to a regular hardback for comparison. It is, of course, a little bigger, but I don’t mind.

Honestly, if I made it a tiny bit shorter it would be the same size as a fatter hardcover. One of those small tome sizes ya know?

It’s a little crooked, a little not perfect, and I absolutely love it!!

I learned a TON while making this and plan to make more wood projects in the future. Including a volume 2!

For now I shall let you go and see you next week!!

…or will I?

Just got back (it’s 12:30am as I type this up) from a book convention that we drove to cause it was cheaper than flying.

Have an appointment at 8am to get Le Squee his annual checkup.

I’m going to sleep now and I pray everyone stays safe this week!

See ya next time!!

Woot! I am back with Atlantis this week!

I was actually going to talk about a Lego set I bought, but my brother bought it off me for a Christmas present so I don’t get to tell y’all about it for several months now.

However, my loss (and when you hear about it you’ll understand!!) is y’all’s gain!

Let’s talk about ascension shall we?

Daniel Jackson has had a TON of experience with the entire process. Not that he’s necessarily been a willing participant or anything, but the experience is there.

This makes him the expert on the entire process and, not surprisingly, the go-to peep. Which means he’s really the only one McKay can talk to about the possibility of Weir having ascended.

Well…

Actually it’s not so much the ascending part as the descending part. Or the unascending part as it were.

When someone unascends they end up butt naked in a random place generally far from home.

However!

As Daniel can attest, if you have a good peep helping you, they’ll put you somewhere you’ll be found by your people sooner or later.

This does happen to Weir, but the person who finds her is NOT who you expect!

But that’s for another post.

This post we’ll talk about the whole butt naked thing.

Why?

Because it’s actually fascinating.

Think about it (outside of the Alterans being drama fanatics) if someone got access to all this knowledge ascension brings, they can’t very well bring it back to their people. It could cause a heck ton of chaos in various ways.

(This actually happened with Anubis, but that’s an SG-1 post)

Suffice it to say that being naked, though incredibly awkward, works out well. You have no idea who you are and without a stitch on, you (and everyone else) don’t have many clues.

If I’m remembering correctly some things get “fixed” when you come back? I want to say Daniel had better eyesight and didn’t need his glasses after coming back but I could be misremembering.

Anyways, it would make sense because scars or tattoos would be identifiable and thus a no go.

So you end up naked and without memories.

Except when you have help. In those cases (see exhibit A: Daniel Jackson and exhibit B: Elizabeth Weir) you can access your memories very randomly and really only enough to help give you clues so you can find your people again.

It’s a sneaky loophole to the rules.

Since it works for our favorite peeps we shall allow it!

There’s more to it than that of course, but we’ll talk about it some more later.

See ya!