Ficlet - "Always Ready" by maxinemayer - SGA 4x15 "Outcast"

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Ficlet

Title: Always Ready
Author: maxinemayer
Episode and type: missing scene for Season 4 Episode 15
Outcast
Rating: PG
Categories: Gen
Pairings/Characters: Ronon, Rodney
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 113



_"Always Ready" - inside SGA 4:15 "Outcast"_


Ronon walked directly to Rodney's room. "You goin' with him?" he asked
bluntly.

"With him? Who? Where?"

"Sheppard. His father died. Heart attack. He's gonna go back to earth
for the ceremony, right? You goin' with him, or should I?"

"Oh my God, his father died? I - I'll go. I'll talk to Carter. Oh my
God. I can't. The kids planet, the kids - I'll talk to Carter."

"You can't go, let me know, I'll go."

"Yes, yes," Rodney said, distracted. "Of course, John, John. He, he'll
need someone there, with him. I'll talk to Carter right now, but -" He
looked up at Ronon. " - be ready."

"I'm always ready."

Rodney smiled. "Yeah, you so are."

fin

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Comments

Frustrated!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Does this look right? Am I nuts or does this look absurd! Please help!
Love, max

Re: Frustrated!

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Hey, sweets!

I just took a look at your coding (any user can look at that with the 'edit entries' feature, but they can't actually make any changes if they're not the person who posted) and you have a *lot* of hard coding going on that's messing with the way your entry looks. I think that's where your frustration comes from, yes?

I would go into 'edit entry' and take out everything before Ficlet for a start - that should help. LJ will recognize the hard returns at the end of sentences, so you don't necessarily need to code in breaks. Are you doing the hard coding yourself, or writing in a program that's doing that for you?

We'll figure it out ♥

[sunnyd-lite.livejournal.com]

Coding issues or not, you've got Ronon's voice down pat!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm practically in tears, this is so frustrating! But I'm very happy for your comment!

How can one person be so very stoopid on some things, and so very clever on others?????!!!!!

Gargh!
Love, max
P.S. Thanks again for the very encouraging comment!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Everything *before* FICLET, or after???

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Shea, deltacephei gave me a format to use - and I even managed to find out the answer to my question of *where* to post the damn thing to, but coding (forever, it seems) eludes me! HELP!
Love and thanks, max

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

email me, sweets - cate dot writes at gmail dot com - and copy into the email exactly what you posted here. I'll send it back to you with the coding edited xx

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I'll do that asap, shea! What do you think of tacituk's idea about rich text versus html???
Love, max

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

I think she's right on the money - and most of all, you're not dumb, duck! That's not part of what's going on here.

What program are you writing your story in? I think that may have something to do with it.

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I originally wrote the story directly into my Spoiler post (yesterday) for the episode. Then I cut and pasted it into the format deltacephei sent me, which I'd transferred from her email to Word. Then I cut and pasted *that* with all the topside info into the post to sgaepisodefic community. So - what program am I writing in? God alone knows!

Shakes her head. Thank you!
Love, max

[unadrift.livejournal.com]

That was a mistake on my part. I skipped one step in my instructions. I sent you an email to fix it. I'm really very sorry!

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

It looks to me as if you need to copy and paste the whole thing into the HTML tab rather than the rich text.

Does that work?

::hugs::

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I just don't see why I need the coding at all???!!!

I mean, if I write a post and put some of it under the LJcut, I don't code the stuff on top (before the LJcut), I just type it in. So why can't I just type in the information about the title, author, episode and type, category, rating, pairing, warning, word count, etc., before the cut, and then put the actual fiction inside the cut! Then that part would show up on the "linked" page. Or I could put the entire Title, author, episode and type, category, etc., stuff, *within* the LJcut, and just put an introductory sentence before the cut....

Why is this so complicated??? Why am I so dumb!??

Thanks again, love, max

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

No, you're not dumb, you've got that analysis perfectly right.

It's the two different ways of posting: HTML, where you need to do all the coding; or rich text, where it does it for you. It looks to me that you're using rich text. So, you can take out the HTML and use the rich text editor (which is a lot like the editors on word processors like MSword) to do things like bold and italics.

Any help?

[tacittype.livejournal.com]

ps... is there something godlike and glowing at Rodney's crotch? It that an ethereal blowjob I see in your icon? I like!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Where? Where? Where? Blowjob???? Where???

I don't even know what icon I'm using, at this point! Grins!

Okay, you did it, you made me laugh! I know I shouldn't take myself so seriously but *seriously* - seven years no fic from max mayer! Now, suddenly, ficlet muse gives! Want to do my best to be showing gratitude and alerting the world that miracles can happen!

Love you, max

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure yet! I'll try everything! I'm glad you think my analysis is right - if all else fails (I mean shea and deltacephei's help) I'll just try to post this like a regular "spoiler" post!

Thanks again for your support!
Love, max

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

figured it out, duck, and emailed you back xxx

[zahz87.livejournal.com]

I like drabbles and i think it takes a lot of talent to really get down to the point and in such a small amount of words.

But you did a fantastic job.

Nicely done!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much for your very kind words! I'm happy you thought I'd got what I was aiming for! I've never written anything so terribly short but I must say "Outcast" just mused me right up, after so many years without writing! It was a win win win episode in my book!

Again, thanks for taking the time to comment! I truly appreciate it!
Love, max

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you posted this here!

but did you edit it? It seems a little different from what I read in your journal.

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

No, it's the same - I cut and pasted the ficlet from my LJpost. It was an ordeal to figure out (with many folks help) exactly *how* to post it to sgaepisodefic community, but I really am glad I did it. Thank you for your support!
Love, max

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

Nice episode tag!

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, thrace-adams! I'm glad you took the time to comment! I can't say how much I appreciate it!
Love, max

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Does this look right?

Looks fine to me now, Max. (Hey, it only took me two weeks to figure out formatting and after six months I'm still googling HTML codes). *laughs*

Loved the ficlet. When I was watching it never occurred to me that Rodney asked Ronon to go with Sheppard, but it makes perfect sense.

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

OMG, the angst of *posting* the thing to an LJ community! Unbelievable! And I'm preserving the wonderful support I got from people in that insanity! It's part of what I experienced: writing again, then trying to post the ficlet, then the difficulties and the wonderful help from all over the world! An incredible experience! I'm so grateful for the help!

I'm so glad you loved the ficlet! The miracle of writing again after so many years - I'm still stunned! But it was *so* clear to me that Carter was written in the ep as telling John this traumatic news *in public* so that Ronon could pass the info along to team - starting with Rodney, of course! Glad you see the logic of my ficlet!

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It means so much to me!
Love, max

[theeverdream.livejournal.com]

Just what I needed after rewatching the ep.