I wrapped all the presents! Fear me!

[wordplay]

The last time I went to the store I accidentally bought soda with caffeine and now every night I am WIDE AWAKE OH HI!!! at the time when I am usually trying to fall asleep. And so, a poll about a very important question, brought on by the frantic whirring in my head. OH HI!!!

[Poll #1320159]

ETA: You people and your hedging! These three are HARD, though, so I respect your pain and indecision. Pansies.

So, yeah. I may never settle down enough to sleep again. How is this level of caffeination legal?! People let their kids have this stuff! 0.0

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While we're talking about SGA, then: I really loved this SGA santa fic - it's a lovely piece of teamfic and was the perfect thing to read while I'm finishing up the show.

Comments

[longtimegone]

OH GOD I HATE YOU SO MUCH. I WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN.

[longtimegone]

Also, I've now answered. And I hate myself because I don't KNOW IF THAT IS THE RIGHT ANSWER OH GOD OH GOD

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

... And I am over here going, "Hmm, I have no idea who these people are..." Well I recognize the names at least. But not enough to decide between, uh, matrimony, homicide and fornication.

I wish you well in getting the caffeine out of your system! If it got you through all the presents, then that's good at least!

[misscake]

Presents wrapped! YAY! I just ran downstairs to wrap two small ones - I think I'm done now unless I decide one of the "Santa" presents will be from us (I never wrap the presents from Santa - please god let him believe another for I hate wrapping!)

Um. I wish I had time for SGA - it all sounds so appealing!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are MEAN. *glares*

But Ronon's the only one who has a prayer of being any good at marriage, as far as I can see. So that's a given. The other two were an extraordinarily painful coin flip. Damn you.

[florahart]

My sleep issues are their own thing, irrespective of the caffeine, but it always makes me go o.O when people report caffeine actually, like, keeps them awake. Me, it just keeps functional. I am a true and unlikely-to-change junkie. That is to say, if I have none, aside from the headache that sets in within a very few hours--no, seriously, single-digit hours--I pretty much slow to nonfunction. If I did as folks all say and actually didn't drink caffeine after noon? I'd have a caffeine-deficit headache by bedtime much less by the next morning.

And I have been known to drink a quad latte at 7:30 am, go to the gym, do an hour of spin class, shower, come home around 10, and fall immediately asleep for a two-hour nap.

Heh.

[athenienne.livejournal.com]

What does it say about me that I had no difficulty with that question at all? Nothing good, I'm sure.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Neither did I-- one the few utter no-brainers I've had with this game, actually.

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

My understanding of Marry Shag Cliff (what I have always called it) is that the difference between Marry and Shag is longterm -- the person you marry, you get to have sex with, but you ALSO want to have some kind of other relationship with, while the person you pick for Shag, you really have nothing going BUT the sex.

[mad_maudlin]

My reasoning, basically:

*We know Rodney and Sheppard are appallingly bad at relationships. So Ronon is the only one I feel safe marrying. (Plus, I am still quietly shipping Ronon/Keller--off in a corner, by myself, if necessary.)

*Thus, I either have to kill John or Rodney.

*If I kill John, then I might have to listen to Rodney talk, which is entertaining in fanfic but I am well aware would IRL drive me to homocide eventually, and the name of the game is not KMK.

*So I'll preemptively kill Rodney (though the game does not specify that it can't be a snuff killing) and maybe John and I can just go for coffee.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

This is Kristen's reasoning as well, (although I'm pretty damn sure she and Sheppard wouldn't be wasting time with coffee) and it's sound logic, but I keep running into how exceedingly screwed Atlantis would be without Rodney and then there is trouble. Because of the gene, too, I suspect that kind of logic leads to a dead Dex. Which is just horrible, though, because Ronon! He deserves to be happy!

[longtimegone]

You're damn right I wouldn't be wasting time with coffee. it would be ALL FUCKING ALL THE TIME. :))

And you just HAD to bring up the gene thing, didn't you? GOD.

[mad_maudlin]

Ronon does deserve happiness! And puppies and kittens! And Jennifer to do his stitches up properly for the rest of his life! But I can at least wield a mean box of Band-Aids, within the context of the game. ;-)

[ceilidh]

Oh no, you are not alone in shipping Ronon/Keller!

[mad_maudlin]

I was terrified from the beginning that Keller would be irrationally shipped with Rodney just because he's Rodney and she's blonde. And while it hasn't been quite that bad, it's still WTF inducing for me. Her and Ronon, all the way. ::sigh::

[longtimegone]

As Carrie noted, this is totally my reasoning as well. I mean it's HARD. And I love Rodney, in theory, but like you, what would that level of neurosis be like in real life? :))

Mainly, I'm kind of the one climbing the walls, so I need a partner that can pull me down. Ergo, Ronon. And he gets bonus points for being able to throw me around like a ragdoll. :D (and Ronon/Keller FTW)

But also, re: John, there would be no time for coffee drinking. Just lots and lots of fucking. :))

[mad_maudlin]

See, objectively I actually am more attracted to Rodney than to John...but I have to kill one of them. Perhaps if "fuck" were specifically designated as "one-night-stand and I never have to see him again," I'd kill John and fuck Rodney, but it's so open-ended and Rodney is so insane I have to take precautions. Maybe I can rent my chance with John out to someone else?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

It's a good debate. By repute both versions were (and possibly still are) played among the Oxford drinking types, with people frequently coming up with triplets two-thirds of whose order varies upon the chastity or otherwise of the marriage.

Hooray for playing both ways!

[ceilidh]

Since Ronon obviously belongs to Keller, I can't marry him, but I'd really like to do him. Sheppard's bad at the marriage thing, but I can't kill him, because as much as I adore Rodney he'd drive me nuts with his ego, so, he's got to go. (plus, with him out of the picture it gets rid of Rodney/Jennifer, and she can go off with Ronon where she ought to be). :P