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I’m coming down with a cold and it’s knocked me down for a bit.

Thus, I give you pics of my Christmas (that we just had)!

My brother always, without fail for several years now, gets me up to date on My Little Pony books!

I love these so much because they’re flipping hilarious and so far (even though the tv series has ended) they’ve continued in the same fun vein.

Way back in November/December-ish, my mama and I were out running errands and stopped at CVS. They had several mini kits with different candies to build a house.

I waited until we actually celebrated Christmas to make it and it was definitely fun! If I think of it this year I’ll be looking out for a different candy version to have fun with!

That’s gonna be all this week, cause I’m about to fall asleep, so until next time try to stay positive!

Not Wraith this week, but don’t be sad!

Ronon is almost as fun to analyze as our lovely Wraith.

Thus!

Back to Ronon having Hyperion’s weapon.

It wasn’t Sheppard that told him about it, it was Teyla. I guess Sheppard didn’t want him to have to deal with the fact that such a weapon couldn’t be used without killing their friends and family too.

We’ve already talked about how Ronon felt about that for a few hours/days. (if you haven’t had a chance to read that post then I’ll tell you he was actually gonna do it)

What’s interesting is that when Teyla told him about it, she also told him the history of the Wraith.

That they used to be humans and it was the Alterans that turned them into Wraith to begin with. That after they had escaped, they had made lives for themselves and had children and all that.

Ronon had a very brief moment where he remembered hoping whoever had been imprisoned on the island had escaped, but it was quickly overshadowed by his hatred of the Wraith.

As if they deserved to be prisoners because of what they were. Even knowing they had no choice in the matter.

This particular encounter between the two ended with Teyla asking Ronon if she had made a mistake in telling him the truth.

Ronon in turn asked her ‘don’t you trust me?’

She does, which is why she told him.

It’s interesting when you consider how she would have felt if she found out he’d had his finger on the trigger of Hyperion’s weapon and a gun trained at Sheppard to stop him from taking it and destroying it.

If I remember correctly, she may find out later on, but I know not in this book. If I remember I’ll mention it.

It’s also interesting that Teyla never considered Ronon may have the weapon when they discover it’s missing from where Rodney put it.

Of everyone, Teyla and Ronon were the worst affected by the Wrath in their lives, which makes it strange that Teyla wouldn’t think of Ronon for this.

Obviously, he wasn’t supposed to be searching in that area, but this is Ronon we’re talking about. He thinks a little different because of his background.

I just find it really interesting that no one apparently thinks Ronon had anything to do with it.

I guess I’m not the only one who thought he was moving on from his past.

Except for the fact that Sheppard knew somehow?

Which I would really like to know what tipped him off by the way.

Did Radek find a recording or did he just piece it together after thinking about everything?

Sheppard isn’t stupid. Reckless, definitely, but not stupid.

I just really want to know what it was…

Well, that’s all for now!

Only other news to tell is that my vacation has been approved for my full time job and I just have to decide how I want my part time job to go during the two and a half weeks I’ve asked off.

Definitely have plans to finish my current work (by current I mean the story I was really excited about before I got a second job to pay off bills faster a year ago) and I’ve already started going over what I have so I’m refreshed and ready to go!

With that, I bid you adieu!

We are back!

Okay, so it was mentioned (via an Ember thought) that the Wraith have always kind of nudged different groups of humans into doing things for them throughout the years.

Which would make sense.

Why spend all of your energy and supplies keeping civilizations from developing too far when you could just pit them against each other instead?

The Wraith worshippers are a distinctive group in the series and so it’s interesting that the Wraith have pitted them against one another.

I wonder if it was more along the lines of pitting one worshipper group against another Hive’s group ya know?

Causing a little mayhem for enemy Wraith?

I’m guessing such worshippers on supply planets like Tenassa (not sure if that’s the right planet but I’d have to go back and skim a few books to get the right one so we’ll go with Tenassa for now) would be left alone considering it was a neutral planet for all Wraith to use, but otherwise intrigue and sabotage via worshipper is certainly one way to go.

Outside of the worshippers though it’s an interesting thing to consider.

We know the Wraith have made deals with human worlds before for one reason or another, but to subtly change the course of their worlds is an entirely different thing.

Is it something that several Wraith got together and agreed a certain planet was getting too far ahead technologically and so they considered what human worlds could be used to start a war?

Or was it just one Queen and Hive that saw a planet they called theirs getting too far ahead and so started nudging another to cause problems?

It’s a fascinating view into the Wraith culture and as such a small throw away thought too.

I love these books!

That’s all for this week and I’ll see ya’ll next Monday!

I am back and ready to talk Atlantis!

Let’s talk Wraith again cause I love ‘em so.

Early in the book we have Ember working on the retrovirus. (I like that Guide decided to take another route on it because the humans might be overlooking something ya know?)

He’s called to meet with Bonewhite and the other masters’ of the Hive. Essentially the meeting is to let them all know what Guide has decided to do in regards to the Lanteans, his daughter, and such.

You’d think it would be a simple and short meeting.

It was short, but not so simple and things are brought up that are fun to know!

Ember is new to the Hive, but in true Guide fashion he let Ember make a place for himself through his own skill (I wonder if that part of Guide is due to Snow and how she saw things?) and so Ember is particularly loyal to Guide.

Bonewhite starts by letting them know that Alabaster is in fact alive and that she has a son.

Everyone assembled is relieved at that fact because it’s already stressful having Steelflower (their true Queen) and Death demanding Guide’s loyalty. Adding Alabaster to the mix would have been worse, but somehow her having a son makes things different?

I’m not sure how but the way it’s phrased makes it seem that since she had a son she won’t be as inclined to try and take the Hive from Steelflower? Or maybe it’s because she’s still so young and untried (it’s mentioned later on) that it’s a relief to find out she’s only had one child and not a daughter she’d be inclined to fight for a Hive for?

If that makes sense…

Anyways.

The idea is tossed out there that Guide may be planning on putting Alabaster as their new Queen and denouncing Steelflower. Something that’s apparently been done before.

This is not what they’d like happen, but considering how Guide is when it comes to his daughter…

Ember, not having been born of the Hive, doesn’t know that story and so asks.

Bonewhite (being the closest thing Guide has to a friend and was there for pretty much all of it) tells him about how after the battle that killed Snow, Alabaster went missing. An enemy Commander said the ship was destroyed, but Guide didn’t believe it. Later, a worshipper claimed that a young Queen was dead on a human world.

That’s when Guide was taken captive by the Genii.

The implications and suggestion here, though very carefully said of course, is that Guide is not rational when it comes to his daughter.

This is true.

But you can’t blame him.

Poor dude lost the love of his life (be honest here, that’s exactly what Snow was to him otherwise a Queen like Death would have been more of an enticement to him) and his daughter at the same time.

Even the hint or suspicion that she could still be alive had him racing to find the truth.

Ember, understanding all of the undertones and inuendoes and such going on here, challenges Bonewhite (very lightly but still challenges) when it seems the others are planning something they may all regret.

The challenge is simply that he asks Bonewhite what their next move is.

Bonewhite (and I love him for this and all the years he’s stood by Guide and his crazy schemes) says that they will be doing as commanded and joining Guide in orbit around Atlantis.

Why are all my Wraith posts longer than planned?

Next week will be more Wraith because there was another part during this meeting that I wanted to look at, but alas, time has run out.

Till then!

Kind of but kind of not my fault?

I intended to upload a new Atlantis post for today but my laptop took over 30min to boot up.

However, I need sleep since I work the next 3 days in a row both places and I work 8 days in a row between the two. Which means I can’t wait for my laptop to load anything else.

I might see about posting it tomorrow instead or maybe just plan a big ‘I’m sorry for all the missed posts’ post.

In other news! I’ve asked for a little over two weeks off at the end of May and as soon as it’s approved I’ll see about my part time job. Presumably I’ll have vacation time by then so hopefully I can ask off both places.

Only thing left to do after that is get everything set up so all I have to do is write!

Exciting!! (Especially since I haven’t written in over a year and by May it’ll be a year and a half).

That’s all for this Monday. I’ll see everyone next week with a certain post I won’t mention since it seems like it never happens when I do.

There was an ice storm that caused a power outage and we only just got power back yesterday afternoon.

We were out of power for four days with freezing and below freezing temps outside. At one point it hit 43 degrees inside.

Thankfully we have a gas fireplace but we really couldn’t leave the living room if we wanted to be even remotely warm.

This isn’t even bringing up the whole work thing either cause that was slightly stressful.

Anyways, I’ll get an Atlantis post done for next week and hopefully nothing happens to stop me this time.

Sorry y’all. It’s been a long last week and I work every day this week at one place or the other or both.

I have some written up, but I was too tired to get on my laptop. I’ll try and do better for next week.

Till then, try to stay positive, cause you’ve got this!

It came!!

(You’ll have to tilt your head for the pic)

Isn’t it awesome!! The rest of my stuff from the Kickstarter finally arrived!

The dice have some serious weight to them and came in individual bags within a bigger bag. I appreciate that because I don’t want them getting scratched up.

I have every intention of using them and they might get scratched that way, but until then I’m not taking chances.

I plan to either make a storage box for them or buy one. There are plenty of such stores in the area for me. Thankfully!

I love my dice!

I love my Phoenix site patch!

I love my Determination Point chips!

I love my Item Cards!

I love all of it!!!

They did a fantastically great job with this and I can’t wait to start playing!

(Which unfortunately won’t happen until I’m back to just one job, but hopefully that won’t be too long now!)

THIS IS SO COOL!!!

And right after my birthday too! How cool of a present is this!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rodney stole Hyperion’s weapon.

Apparently, Sheppard was thinking about where he’d hidden it so loudly that Rodney heard and decided that it wasn’t safe anymore. He stole it and hid it somewhere else in Atlantis.

Which is actually not a bad idea considering that Wraith can somewhat hear human thoughts I think, depending on the lineage and circumstance, so he wasn’t wrong to move it.

The problem comes from when Sheppard has to retrieve it so it can be destroyed to get Guide to join them in fighting Death. Since it isn’t there Guide refuses.

When Radek and Sheppard realize that the only person capable of messing with the security measures is Rodney, they put him in a cell.

Kind of understandable, but also heartbreaking because Sheppard doesn’t want but he also can’t not ya know?

Worse, is that Rodney can’t even disagree with the decision and say that he isn’t under Death’s influence subconsciously.

Now, Teyla does check him and verifies that he’s telling the truth about the weapon. He honestly doesn’t know where it is anymore and can’t help with that, but they still need help getting Atlantis ready to fly and without Rodney, it ain’t happening.

O’Neill suggests that Ronon keep an eye on Rodney and stun him if he starts acting out of character.

Here’s the problem.

Ronon has Hyperion’s weapon.

He figured out during the search that Rodney would have hidden it in one of his bolt-holes that everyone on Atlantis has (places that hold supplies in case something happens and they need to hide) and he took it. He’s been carrying it around ever since deciding whether to use it or not.

The entire time Rodney is professing his innocence, Ronon is silent and letting everyone think Rodney is still compromised.

He let’s Rodney think he’s still compromised.

Ronon is the one who was fed on and turned against his friends and his friends understood that it wasn’t really him. The fact that he is letting Rodney suffer for something that he went through himself is not a good indication of his character.

It’s great character development though because he was coming along so well and now suddenly he’s contemplating using a weapon that will kill Teyla, Rodney, Torren and thousands of other humans with Wraith DNA who most likely don’t even know it.

He’s actually okay with it on one hand because he thinks he’ll just kill himself after the fact since Sheppard won’t be able to even look at him if he goes through with it and the best part is that all the Wraith will be dead.

Isn’t it worth a few human lives to end the Wraith once and for all?

His entire mindset in this book and the last is really scary because of how much he loves his new family. That he hates the Wraith so much that he would even consider his family’s lives worth ending is a terrible thing.

That he would actively let a friend suffer like he did when he was addicted to the enzyme is concerning too.

It’s great character development for both Ronon and Rodney, but I think mostly Ronon in this case because he has to live with the knowledge that he was willing to kill innocent people when there were other options.

Maybe not options he supports, but options that others in the galaxy might be happy or just okay with.

That’s all for this week!

I’ll be real with y’all.

I honestly meant to get the next Atlantis book re-read and some posts ready since I had Christmas Day off (from both jobs) and the day after off too.

Unfortunately, my Christmas Day was not a good one.

Early in the afternoon one of my dogs threw up twice and the second time it looked like blood was in it. My mama took him to an emergency vet clinic and they waited for 7 hrs.

Part of the time was the wait time in general because they were busy, but the rest of the time they had my poor puppy and just wouldn’t tell us anything.

So at 8pm my mama finally gets home with said puppy dog having been told he just has an upset stomach.

I’m deliriously happy that’s all it was (though we plan to take him to our vet and get him looked at again) but I don’t handle such personal emergencies well.

Reading wasn’t going to help so I instead spent the day cleaning the kitchen. We have company coming next week and the whole house needs a going over.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad but I forgot what day it was and instead of reading I finished the big cleaning parts still needing to be done around the house.

At which point it was late.

And not enough time to read the whole book. Which I want to do.

Thus, I will either have the post up later today or just scheduled for next week… probably scheduled for next week. I have a three day both job thing happening so…

Stay safe peeps and I hope your Christmas was a good one no matter how you celebrated (or didn’t!).