Quercus

Fan
Name:	quercus
Alias(es):	Lemon Drop, Mira, Mirabile, Mirabile-Dictu
Type:	fanwriter
Fandoms:	The Sentinel, X-Files, SG-1
Communities:
Other:	Lemon Drop's Fanfic http://slashcity.org/quercus/
URL:	quercus at AO3 mira at AO3 Lemon Drop at AO3
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quercus is a X-Files and SG-1 fanwriter, and as Lemon Drop she wrote Sentinel fics.

Regarding their name: "I used to be quercus, then I was Lemon Drop, and now I'm quercus again. Then I became Mira..."

Fandoms

• The X-Files (as quercus)
• The Sentinel (as Lemon Drop)
• Stargate SG-1 (as quercus)
• Stargate Atlantis (as Mira and Mirabile-Dictu)
• Lotrips (as Mirabile-Dictu)

Sample Works

Sentinel

• Cloud Mountain
• Desirous of Everything
• Distant Journey, Unknown Lands
• In Good Company
• Mexico
• My Mother's House
• Ocean, Moon

Stargate SG-1

• Unsatisfied Desires

quercus's Thoughts on "Meridian"

From February 2002:

On Monday, February 4, 2002, I finally saw via squinty vision the SG-1 episode Meridian, Daniel Jackson's final episode on Stargate SG-1. That episode. The one in which he dies/ascends/whatever the hell happened.

Okay, I cried a bit. I've carried the sadness around with me for several days now. I'm a bit puzzled by why such a wonderful character would be so misused by the writers and producers of SG, but hey -- I have no inside information, I'm the wrong demographic, I have no power. I'm just another middle-aged woman who gets off writing and reading about Jack and Daniel exploring their complex relationship.

The only power I have is as a writer of fanfiction, a much-despised genre. Only my husband and three close friends know how I spend my free time, and one of those friends I met because I write. So how much power is that?

Well, it's just enough power that I can keep Daniel alive/unascended/whatever the hell happened. I can do that. And so I have.

In my world, Meridian never happened, and SG-1 remains intact. If I ever do write a post-Meridian story, I will label it clearly (and as you can tell from my index of stories page, I'm not big on labeling).

Just wanted y'all to know.

Fan Comments

I'm rushed, here, so this won't be as good a post as I want it to be, but I want to answer it before it gets buried in the deluge of mail. <G> Note to folk also that SPOILERS are included, and also that this post might not make any sense to anyone who hasn't read Lemon Drop's stories.

Basically, what I wanted to say was:

a) Yes, praise can raise expectations that no story can fulful. Granted. I'm sorry if that's what happened to you and if I was responsible. This being said--

b) I defend my praise of Lemon Drop's work. I enjoyed the *hell* out of those stories. Why? *Subtlety.* I mean--talk about an underrepresented virtue in slash (and I'm including my own work here--I ain't near as subtle as I would like.)

Take Mexico. There's a scene where young Blair goes into a museum and runs into an American man who (we know from photos) has two teenaged sons. A lesser writer would have made that William Ellison. A lesser writer would have made that definite, and shown that the two sons were Jim and Stephen. A lesser writer would have had Jim and Stephen in Mexico at the same time that Blair was, and furthermore, would have had teenaged nascent-protector Jim *on the scene* during the conflict that Blair experiences there. Or the story would have been about how Blair fell down the well in his backyard and how the teenaged Blessed Protector (who *was* that masked man? god, I don't know, I repressed it) rescued him. Lemon Drop didnt do ANY of that--she evoked something, and let...it...go...! and goddamm, that impressed me. Still does. I mean, she faced some serious ass melodramatic temptation and lifted her head high and walked right the fuck past it.

I bow to that sort of thing, I really do. Read the stories if you haven't, and you'll seen what I mean. Think about what a lesser writer would do

with those same elements