Elizabeth Weir/John Sheppard Appreciation/Ship/Discussion Thread

[drewandian]

Woohoo! Congrats!



Ooo, vid recs!
Broken Road
What Hurts the Most



*squeak* Oh! That second paragraph nearly made me cry! Lovely. *sniffs*



Squee! Love it. Left a comment. (lantis_kate is me)

Thanks! I got your comment...I was wondering who that was! I'm glad you liked it!

[Pocus]

I see your all talking about country, don´t forget Alison Krauss I think she is wonderful and has one of the best vocices I have ever heard I love listening to her even though most of the songs that she sings are about heartbreak, lost love and all that. I own all her CD´s, I´m a big fan of her and I would love to go to a concert with her and her band Union Station.

Don't talk about Led Zep without me. I'm little excited when I talk about them so sorry if I will make stranges noises.lol
My brother was surprised when I said that I'm a biiiig fan of Led Zep. He was like "You are young but you listen old songs". I needed to correct him "I listen GOOD (little word for describe them I know) music and Led Zep are my heroes." Robert Plant has a fantastic voice and his screams are...wow.
Jimmy Page is...youhou. Yes I made strange noises. I can talk about them during hours.
Kashmir
I can't quit you baby
Babe I'm gonna leave you
They are my favorite...Ok I can't choose. I like all of them.

And Also love Rolling Stones (Paint it black), Styx (Renegade), Jimmy Hendrix, Queen....Yesterday It was Smashing Pumpkins (bullet with butterfly wings)

And I have a soft side. I can listen Al Green, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye....

I read these two posts and remembered an interesting combo of singers. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant have worked together.

Stick With Me Baby

Your Long Journey

Quite a change for Robert Plant I believe.

[Southern Red]

*sneaks in*

Hey guys, I'm here to drop off not so well written fic. (I had a good idea, but then my muse decided to play ADD on me).

Brilliant disguise - it's post TLG; rated mild R for sexual references. Not smut (meaning Eri can read it too)

Loved it. Commented on LJ.

hihihihihihi
E VIVA ESPANA!!!!
We win!!! 3.0 thanks to mister Christiano Ronaldo. I love Real Madrid!!!
"Asi, Asi gana el Real"
hihihihihihi
I'm a little excited. Sorry lol

Congrats. Viva Espana indeed!

[pkprd869]

Oh boy, I hate afternoon shifts, I miss so much fun. Alrighty, I'll try and check out the vids and fics that y'all posted. Like y'all I listen to what I like. Hence the eclectic tastes. It's like people ask me "Why is a guy in his twenties favorite musician Buddy Holly?" And... Journey rocks! I always liked them, and when the White Sox used "Don't Stop Believing" in 2005 they rocked more. Whenever I drive by that dump on the north side (Wrigley Field) I play that song loud as possible. It's a blast all the dirty looks I get

Drew I can only play the B flat soprano and B flat bass clarinet. I used to be able to play the piano, but that was when I was 11. I can play some scales on the tenor and barry sax if that counts.

I still want to learn the guitar. I don't know if I would be a rhythm or lead guy. Maybe do what James Young and Tommy Shaw do and alternate for the specific song. As far as my favorite guitarists based on what I like to hear, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Angus Young, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. And as far as singing... I sound like 1% Buddy Holly and 99% drowning cat

[emerald_day]

I read these two posts and remembered an interesting combo of singers. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant have worked together.

Stick With Me Baby

Your Long Journey

Quite a change for Robert Plant I believe.

Yeah, I think it´s quite a change for Robert too but not to mention Alison too. They even won 5 Grammy´s for their album Raising Sand including the best album of the year. I own that album too it´s right next to all my Alison Krauss CD´s .

Here is one of my sparky videos that I made a while back and I used the song with Alison and Robert: Stick with me baby hope you´ll enjoy. The video is not one of my best (stupid imovie) anyway hope you´ll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbu8M2eKwQ

Hey guys and I just wanted to wish you all good morning at least for me its morning it´s 9:21 am here and I´m in school lol not in class though.

[Probie]

Woohoo! Congrats!
Ooo, vid recs!
Broken Road
What Hurts the Most

Oh yes New vids! Even if I don't have the time to watch them now...

I read these two posts and remembered an interesting combo of singers. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant have worked together.

Stick With Me Baby

Your Long Journey

Quite a change for Robert Plant I believe.

Thanks Pocus. I didn't know them. Yes it's a change for Robert Plant but it's still great. Love their voices together.

Oh boy, I hate afternoon shifts, I miss so much fun. Alrighty, I'll try and check out the vids and fics that y'all posted. Like y'all I listen to what I like. Hence the eclectic tastes. It's like people ask me "Why is a guy in his twenties favorite musician Buddy Holly?" And... Journey rocks! I always liked them, and when the White Sox used "Don't Stop Believing" in 2005 they rocked more. Whenever I drive by that dump on the north side (Wrigley Field) I play that song loud as possible. It's a blast all the dirty looks I get

Drew I can only play the B flat soprano and B flat bass clarinet. I used to be able to play the piano, but that was when I was 11. I can play some scales on the tenor and barry sax if that counts.

I still want to learn the guitar. I don't know if I would be a rhythm or lead guy. Maybe do what James Young and Tommy Shaw do and alternate for the specific song. As far as my favorite guitarists based on what I like to hear, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Angus Young, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. And as far as singing... I sound like 1% Buddy Holly and 99% drowning cat

Everything that I like
And for your voice. At least you have 1 of Buddy Holly.lol

Anuna:I'm not going to be original. Amazing fic! I love how you write.

[Southern Red]

Yeah, I think it´s quite a change for Robert too but not to mention Alison too. They even won 5 Grammy´s for their album Raising Sand including the best album of the year. I own that album too it´s right next to all my Alison Krauss CD´s .

Here is one of my sparky videos that I made a while back and I used the song with Alison and Robert: Stick with me baby hope you´ll enjoy. The video is not one of my best (stupid imovie) anyway hope you´ll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbu8M2eKwQ

Hey guys and I just wanted to wish you all good morning at least for me its morning it´s 9:21 am here and I´m in school lol not in class though.

That vid was fabulous. I can't believe you did that with iMovie. I'll have to take another look at that.

[Probie]

Yeah, I think it´s quite a change for Robert too but not to mention Alison too. They even won 5 Grammy´s for their album Raising Sand including the best album of the year. I own that album too it´s right next to all my Alison Krauss CD´s .

Here is one of my sparky videos that I made a while back and I used the song with Alison and Robert: Stick with me baby hope you´ll enjoy. The video is not one of my best (stupid imovie) anyway hope you´ll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbu8M2eKwQ

Hey guys and I just wanted to wish you all good morning at least for me its morning it´s 9:21 am here and I´m in school lol not in class though.

You used two things that I love: Sparky and Robert Plant. Your video is original and I reall like it.

Now I leave (maybe) this thread for today. It's the birthday of my nephew (1 year old) and my niece (5 years old). I have to do the babysitter for the party of my niece. A lot of kids....a headache at the end of the day.lol
Bye

[Eri13]

That vid was fabulous. I can't believe you did that with iMovie. I'll have to take another look at that.

iMovie has some really fun stuff attached to it. It's the first one I used to edit anything, and now that I've worked with Premiere Pro and AVID, I still think iMovie rocks. Of course, I've never gotten my hands on what's considered the 'mecca' in my industry of Vid Editing software, Final Cut Pro...

Hrm. I started work on my song fic last night and John just wouldn't speak to me. I was getting frustrated with him. But, I think I've got it figured out. Poor thing, it wasn't John's responsibility to talk in this one.

I love being a writer if only because you can say weird stuff like that and other writers understand...

[drewandian]

Yeah, I think it´s quite a change for Robert too but not to mention Alison too. They even won 5 Grammy´s for their album Raising Sand including the best album of the year. I own that album too it´s right next to all my Alison Krauss CD´s .

Here is one of my sparky videos that I made a while back and I used the song with Alison and Robert: Stick with me baby hope you´ll enjoy. The video is not one of my best (stupid imovie) anyway hope you´ll like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrbu8M2eKwQ

Hey guys and I just wanted to wish you all good morning at least for me its morning it´s 9:21 am here and I´m in school lol not in class though.

Wow! That was fantastic! (I really like that song, I'd never heard it before)

[emerald_day]

Wow! That was fantastic! (I really like that song, I'd never heard it before)

Aww, thank you I´m glad you like my video and the song . The song is one of my favorite from the Alison Krauss and Robert Plant album (Raising Sand)

[Southern Red]

iMovie has some really fun stuff attached to it. It's the first one I used to edit anything, and now that I've worked with Premiere Pro and AVID, I still think iMovie rocks. Of course, I've never gotten my hands on what's considered the 'mecca' in my industry of Vid Editing software, Final Cut Pro...

Hrm. I started work on my song fic last night and John just wouldn't speak to me. I was getting frustrated with him. But, I think I've got it figured out. Poor thing, it wasn't John's responsibility to talk in this one.

I love being a writer if only because you can say weird stuff like that and other writers understand...

I use Final Cut Express HD and there was a ginormous learning curve. I have a couple of books which help a lot. Pro is a bit too pricey for me. Plus too complicated.

I understand perfectly. In my last little fic John was the only one who did talk. I didn't intend for it to be that way but as I went on I felt it carried more weight for the whole thing to be in his voice and Sharon just served as someone to react to the scenes.

[SMB_BOOKS]

I can play the radio. And I sing like a bird in the shower and when I'm listening to my iPod and nobody is around.

So I hate to break up the mood but I just made myself cry and I hate to do it alone so. I have an angsty song fic. First you have to listen to this song.

Then the fic: I changed a few of the lyrics and I need you to let me know if I was too subtle and if you got the meaning.

Spoiler:

Deep in December

Author's note: This is written with my most humble apologies to Joan Baez for the inexcusable mutilation of her song. “Outside the Nashville City Limits” is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and has long been a favorite of mine. But I saw the Sparky in it and just had to write it.

Outside the Nashville city limits
a friend and I did drive,
on a day in early winter
I was glad to be alive.
We went to see a friend of his
who lived upon a farm
near strange and gentle country folk
who would wish nobody harm.
Fresh-cut sixty acres,
eight cows in the barn.
But the thing that I remember
on that cold day in December
was that my eyes they did brim over
as we talked.

In the slowest drawl I had ever heard
the man said “Come with me
if y'all wanna see the prettiest place
in all of Tennessee.”
He poured us each a glass of wine
and a-walking we did go,
along fallen leaves and crackling ice
where a tiny brook did flow.
He knew every inch of the land
and Lord he loved it so.
But the thing that I remember
on that cold day in December
was that my eyes were brimming over
as we walked.

He set me down upon a stone
beside a running spring.
He talked in a voice so soft and clear
like the waters I heard sing.
He said,”We searched quite a time
for a place to call our own.
There was just me and 'Lizabeth
and we soon knew we were home.”
I looked at the ground and wondered
how many years they each had roamed.
And Lord I do remember
on that day in late December
how my eyes kept brimming over
as we talked.
As we walked.

And standing there with outstretched arms
he said to me “You know,
I can't wait till the heavy storms
cover the ground with snow,
and there on the pond the watercress
is all that won't turn white.
When the sun is high you squint your eyes
and look at the hills so bright.”
And nodding his head my friend said,
“And it seems like overnight
that the leaves come out so tender
at the turning of the winter...”
I thought the skies they would brim over
as we talked.

Doctor Sharon Bennett squinted at the heavy clouds and refocused her attention on the craggy face of the man beside her. She had been driven from the Nashville airport by the Air Force Major who had accompanied her on the trip to meet the man she had never expected to actually speak to in person. Colonel John Sheppard, Ret., legend at Stargate Command and savior of the Earth several times over had made himself available to meet the new commander of the ancient city of Atlantis and she was glad she had chosen to make the trip to Tennessee. Expecting to be briefed on alien races and Pegasus protocol, Dr. Bennett had arrived at the comfortable farmhouse with a briefcase full of notes and lists of questions. Ignoring all that, Sheppard had given her a pair of well worn boots to change into and handed her a quilted barn coat. Major Hernandez hid a smirk, settled himself on the porch with a large black dog, took a sip from the glass of wine that the Colonel had handed him and picked up a discarded newspaper.

As they walked the property and the Colonel pointed out various fields and barns and talked about the land, Sharon had studied him, finding the man beneath the legend. His once black hair was now nearly white but managed to stand up in the same unruly fashion it always had. His back wasn't quite as straight and his steps were a bit more hesitant and less graceful but the essence of the lithe hero was still there. The handsome face was still recognizable even beneath the lines and in spite of the softer jawline. But it was the eyes that made Sharon's throat tighten and tears threaten to spill over. They were sad beyond all imagining, filled with the unimaginable horrors and loss that he had endured all those many years ago. Having read most of the Atlantis mission reports from the time when the Colonel had been military commander, Dr. Bennett knew just what he and his team had endured. Now though she sensed that the sadness was of a different sort.

“Elizabeth loved it here,” he was saying. “Once we found this place we knew the search was over.”

Sharon turned in the direction John was pointing. “In the Spring this whole hill blooms with daffodils,” he said with a slight chuckle. “She planted every one of them and took it personally every time a squirrel dug one up. I told her to forget the squirrels she couldn't win against them but Elizabeth was never one to give up a fight.”

Pointing out that she had heard the same thing about him, Sharon took a moment to study the Colonel as he replied.

“No, I guess you're right about that. But I think my fighting days are finally over. Unless you've come here to lure me back to the Pegasus Galaxy.”

The teasing look he directed her way made Dr. Bennett grin in spite of herself. Ah, the famous John Sheppard charm. Suddenly she understood why this man had been able to defy the odds and keep two galaxies from collapsing for so long.

The borrowed boots were a little tight in the toes but Sharon was glad for them as they picked their way across an almost frozen brook and came to the top of a small hill. Settling themselves on a couple of large rocks, they gazed across the meadow. A slight hitch in her breathing told Sheppard she had seen the small family of deer standing in the edge of the woods beyond.

“Must be lunchtime,” Sheppard said softly as the mother and her two youngsters turned and disappeared into the trees. “Somehow they survive every winter. I always thought about doing some hunting but well, Elizabeth wouldn't hear of it. And now the idea of venison just doesn't appeal as much.”

Sharon surreptitiously swiped at a tear that was threatening to escape and asked the Colonel about the winters.

“Not too severe usually but actually I kinda like it when the snow covers everything. It makes you think the world is just a little perfect and then when spring comes you realize it was worth the wait.” Sheppard looked a little embarrassed that she had caught him being so poetic and tipped up his glass to finish the last of the wine. “Come on Doc.” He stood and reached out a hand to help her up. “Let's go on back and talk about the stuff you really came here to ask me.”

Sharon took the offered hand and let him be the gentleman even though she felt at times she was the one who should be offering her arm. The cold must be causing him a good deal of discomfort but she sensed that he would never admit it.

“You know,” Sheppard turned and stretched out his arms to take in the landscape before them, “it won't seem long before the leaves all come out again and Spring will be here. Elizabeth loved the Spring. It was always the time when it seemed like anything was possible.” The old man nodded affirmatively and started slowly back down the hill. “Yep, it won't be long until it's warm again and the daffodils bloom.”

With a lingering look up at the threatening clouds, Sharon followed the Colonel as their boots crunched over the ground under which the bulbs waited patiently for the coming thaw.

WAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Sad, but good. Good imagery, felt like I was sitting right next to them, freezing my a@# off.

*sneaks in, drops off fic*
Bless the Broken Road
*sneaks out*

Great fic! I love "John & Elizabeth in a bar" ficlets. Get them in civvies, get a little alcohol in 'em and watch the sparks fly!!!!

*sneaks in*

Hey guys, I'm here to drop off not so well written fic. (I had a good idea, but then my muse decided to play ADD on me).

Brilliant disguise - it's post TLG; rated mild R for sexual references. Not smut (meaning Eri can read it too)

Read this last night on LJ....as always - amazing job!

[Southern Red]

WAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Sad, but good. Good imagery, felt like I was sitting right next to them, freezing my a@# off.



Great fic! I love "John & Elizabeth in a bar" ficlets. Get them in civvies, get a little alcohol in 'em and watch the sparks fly!!!!



Read this last night on LJ....as always - amazing job!

Thanks. Glad you liked it. Next one I'll have to warm things up.

[Scary Kitty]

Good morning, Sparkies! Happy Fluffy Thursday!

Ooooh, lots of videos and fics to look at for later! *saves the links*

Oh boy, I hate afternoon shifts, I miss so much fun. Alrighty, I'll try and check out the vids and fics that y'all posted. Like y'all I listen to what I like. Hence the eclectic tastes. It's like people ask me "Why is a guy in his twenties favorite musician Buddy Holly?" And... Journey rocks! I always liked them, and when the White Sox used "Don't Stop Believing" in 2005 they rocked more. Whenever I drive by that dump on the north side (Wrigley Field) I play that song loud as possible. It's a blast all the dirty looks I get

*cracks up* Oh, that is so mean! LOL!

Ah well, but hey, my Angels are in the playoffs, yay! Except we're playing Boston in the first round, and they're probably gonna cream us like they always do. *pouts*