Hurray, sgabigbang is live here! As I did last year, I contributed both fic and art, the better to plague you with.

Fic

"Bud, you can't stay here all night," the waiter said to the space captain. "You got to go."

"In a minute," the space captain said. "Let me finish, okay?"

The man had been drinking the same cup of coffee for the past hour. Postum got worse the longer it sat; it must have been like drinking wheat-flavored sludge. McKay watched as the man took another sip, hoarding it for a moment before swallowing, and this time the bitterness in McKay's mouth was the unfamiliar taste of a guilty conscience. He waved the waiter over.

"Another?" Brown and bloodshot eyes peered at him incredulously as the waiter wiped his hands on the rag stuffed into his apron. "Yes, another," McKay snapped, "because why else would I summon you over? For a massage?" He set a nickel on the counter and gestured with his chin to the space captain and his cold cup of coffee, and mouthed for him in case the waiter didn't get it.

A Face That Nobody Knows (NC17) John/Rodney, ~44,000+ words | {link

Words aren't enough to describe the debt I owe to my betas, fiercelydreamed, tropes, and miscellanny, who not only helped with the things I knew were wrong, but pointed out things that had entirely escaped me. What is good here is all down to them; what is deficient... well, that's me. But I will say that, despite the difficulties, this was a lot of fun to write, and quite different from what I usually do, and I hope you enjoy it :)

And smooooches and mostly-naked Olympic swimmers to amberlynne, for the bamboozling.

Art
Done for cathalin's unbelievably lovely The Price That Life Exacts. I'm not linking to the art itself because it's vaguely spoilery for the story, so I'll leave the clicking up to you. But here, have a peek:



.eta: Feedback posts! They are here [for story] and here [for art]

*Chaucer seal of approval*

In the past couple of weeks, my terror and ambivalence about sgabigbang has somehow transmuted itself into excitement. There are absolutely wonderful artists and writers in the project, and the little teasers I got when the art assignments started going around made me ache to find out what happens in all of them.


SO GO NAO

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I have some things up, so when you finish with the really good stuff, my stuff's here: (3) art pieces | Qualities of Silk

(I'm listed as HF in the website database, because that's what I've always written under, and aesc in the feedback posts. But we really are the same person.)

I'd also like to thank, once more, flyakate and dancink for their heroic, dealing-with-a-slow-writer last-minute beta'ing (and would also like to exonerate them from any responsibility for the story's residual errors, inconsistencies, and other shortcomings), and to sheafrotherdon and wicked_socks for art betas. You are all lovely.