It's Official: The Drama Queen and the Geek are Engaged.

I proposed to pandoras_evil_t today.

She said, "Yes."

No surprise there, really. Afterall, it was only eleven--twelve? years in the making. Shit, I hope she doesn't expect me to remember anniversaries. Birthdays I can do. Sometimes. Anniversaries...not so much.

I accept that she currently resides and shares domestic duties and pleasures with the_chief_80, for the time being. After all, I have no intentions of any official hand-fasting ceremony until I am financially capable of supporting pandoras_evil_t and her aspirations as a writer. At least, I'll still get to wear black to the wedding.

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*lips twitch*






*breaks off laughing*






*regains breath* Seriously, though. After all the jokes that I'm the "Other Woman" in her and Damo's relationship... plus the fact she makes constant references about it to her coworkers and even joked she'll show up one day with an engagement ring on her hand from me... well. It was the perfect set of rings. (Actually, now that I think about it, there were three rings although Ange has decided to wear only two, perhaps, since they're too small for my fingers, I could put the third on a chain to wear around my neck. It's me or Damo, and at least being a girly ring it might make sense for me to be wearing it. *snerk*)

Speaking of engagements, and/or weddings... reading fanfics, having gone hunting through the recs at stargateficrec, I discovered a cute AU Austen-style Stargate fic, "A Maneuvering Business" (Sam/Jack, Cam/Vala, Teal'c/Janet) in seven parts, the first of which can be found here. The other fic was Stargate Atlantis, McShep by pairing, Once Upon a Furry Octopus and quite adorable.

One of my favourite snippets of "A Maneuvering Business" was this:

Now recognizing the entire ruse for what it was, instead of being angry, she was strangely…intrigued. One step at a time, she sidled towards him again, the beginnings of a smile on her face. “You plotted for me?”

He leaned down and nuzzled his nose against her ear, a hot breath washing down her neck. “Vala, my dear, I didn’t merely plot. I schemed.”

Closing her eyes and leaning towards him, she smiled. “I think that is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard of.”

I've just discovered she wrote a further fic set in Austen-verse, Visitors and Fish with some new familiar faces that didn't make it into the first fic.

Oh, and one of the cool parts of "Once Upon a Furry Octopus" was...

Rodney scowled off into the middle distance. “When you said you explained everything to Elizabeth, did you, by any chance, tell her I broke your heart?”

John choked and there was a loud thunk, and then he panted, “What?”

“Everyone hates me!” Rodney yelled, then glared at a pair of grunts who were openly goggling at him before ducking into an empty corridor.

Chuckling, John said, “I don’t think that’s new.”

*is amused* Hee.

Fin.