Apres-birthday SGA watching

Thanks to all who wished me a happy birthday- I wasn't online yesterday because I was too busy watching my new Stargate Atlantis boxset *grin* I love it, it's really good. And to that effect, a new icon! Look, it's Rodney! *Amy is an ENORMOUS Rodney fan*

It's all part of my new plan to learn to make pretty icons. Do you like? I'll insert the other three below (the SGA ones are better than the SG1 one.)



Other than my brithday, this week has been 'Amy visits the medical practitioner' week, because I have been to three medical-type appointments this week. (This is only really because I'm trying to get everything done and dusted - don't worry, I'm still alive, so the party goes ahead as planned :D)

I also finally gave in and bought an SG1 novel from the bookshop because even though it looked awful I had hope in my heart. I have hardly got any distance through it and I;m sad to report it is absolutely godawful. The litany of its deficiencies is long. Long and I'm going to write it to vent my anger.

The viewpoint skips around randomly from line to line with no thought as to the comprehension of the reader

The author has only the most minimal grasp of the personalities of the characters and cannot get it right - they seem cardboard and to be based only on their most external attributes

The writing is choppy and has no flow, with sentences thrown in because they fleshed it out

The writer seems desperate to prove her knowledge of the show by constantly referring to previous occurences

There is an English old lady in it who calls everyone 'ducky' and says stuff like 'bloody Nora!' (though, of course, Carter for no discernible reason yells 'Holy Hannah!')

It is the most generic SG novel ever - she has written it as though writing an episode inside her head. It is not quite the same thing.

There are so many good fanfic authors out there who are much better than this person, and yet they chose this godawful writer who cannot write and should be shot rather than published. Whyyyyy?!?!