Rings (Stargate SG-1 story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Rings
Author(s):	Tallulah Rasa
Date(s):	2007 or earlier
Length:	2700 words
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Stargate SG-1
External Links:	Rings (wayback link)
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Rings is a Stargate SG-1 story by Tallulah Rasa. The full title is Rings, or Six Times SG-1 Talked About Trees.

The author's summary says, I was thinking how, just as you can read a tree's history through its rings, you might be able to "read" a group of people through a series of connected, expanding, concentric events over time.

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As I think I said somewhere way up there, one of the hard things about writing any kind of introduction to SG1 is - well, ten years of canon. It's very complicated. And these characters do change over the years; even I could not possibly confuse season 10 Daniel with season 1 Daniel (I mean in a characterization sense, although in fact I couldn't confuse them in a physical sense, either - it's much easier to confuse season 10 Daniel with Cameron than with his own earlier self). So, it's like I'm trying to show you the elephant just by letting you pat its trunk.

This story is my attempt to remedy that: it's snapshots (neatly labeled by season, which helps) of SG1 as they grow, change, and move through and then beyond the canon. The dialog - well, this is how I hear SG1 when they talk in my head (oh, shut up - like characters don't talk to you all the time, and if they don't, I don't want to hear about it). It's perfect. And it gives you what I couldn't, a sense of growth and progression.

Plus, the central metaphor, if I may slip into Pretend English Major Mode for a second, is trees, which is very appropriate. See, one thing you learn from SG1 - from the vids, from the canon, from the screenshots, even - is that the universe looks a lot like British Columbia: full of trees. So I'm finishing on a story that is a lot like the universe, really.

(...Wow. I'm so deep.)