New Fic: Missed the Saturday Dance

[zoetrope]

This project has been a year in the making, and includes video, audio and stories. I have a passion for history, 2am_optimism has a passion for planes, and this is what happened when the two worlds collided.

ETA 2 - This project is now kindly hosted by the Organisation for Transformative Works.

Huge thank yous to my betas, 2am_optimism, iseult_variante, rossywar, cincodemaygirl, serialkarma.

I hope you enjoy!

You can download a hi-res version of this trailer here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EPHNFSGT
You can download a text file of the full story here: http://www.notapainter.co.uk/mtsd/missedthesaturdaydance.wps
or in plain text here: http://www.notapainter.co.uk/mtsd/missedthesaturdaydance.txt

ETA - I get a lot of queries about the song in the trailer. It's "Everything Depends on You" by the Delta Rhythm Boys.

Comments

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

eeeee, I am so excited to read this. SK was telling me about it the other night. WHOOPEE!

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay, thanks! I really really hope you like it! :D

[2am-optimism.livejournal.com]

POSTED!!!

Well done - it's just GORGEOUS. Love it to bits of course. You totally ROCK! :D

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks for everything :) *hugs*

[zeplum.livejournal.com]

This looks like the most perfect thing for me ever. History! Planes! McKay/Sheppard! Awesome. I can't wait to delve into it all.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I hope you enjoyed it :)

[gurrier.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I'm really looking forward to this evening, when I'll have time to explore! Just spotted a little glitch though - both links on the wireless page lead to the same piece, trailer1.mp3.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. *hugs*

[shusu.livejournal.com]

That was stunning. The video and audio set it up perfectly, and oh all the little details! Heartbreaking and heartmaking, all in one. Gorgeous work, thank you so much for sharing.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm really pleased you enjoyed it.

[charlidos.livejournal.com]

This is so damn brilliant, I'm completely in awe. I love it so much! The trailer and the audio are fantastic and the only thing wrong with them, is that I wish there was an actual movie to watch. Because, from reading, watching and listening to all this, it seems there is! Not to say this isn't more than enough, it is, just that you conjure up this whole intriguing universe that I want to see more of.

You are fabulously amazing. :D

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

*I* wish there was a movie to watch as well! Thanks for the comment :)

[sweetvalleyslut.livejournal.com]

Gosh! That was so cool. The whole thing was just beautifully put together, and the story itself was so sweet. Amazing.

[krysalys.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, icon love!
*glomps Joel*
I really need to make more I-Man icons with him in them!
-----}-@

[tipsywitch.livejournal.com]

Absolutely amazing!!!!!!

It's wonderful!

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[paperbinned.livejournal.com]

That was fantastic, I feel warm all over now. Really, it's insane how flawless the trailer and audio trailers are, you did an amazing job. I can't get over it. I spent 10 minutes trying to articulate to my friend how stunning the whole site was and I just ended up sending her the whole thing.

She loved the trailers, and she doesn't even watch SGA.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm really glad you and your friend both enjoyed it.

[spike21.livejournal.com]

That is really very impressive!! Nice slow subtle build and I'm so glad they ended up happily together forever *snif*. The only thing is, I couldn't read one item: the telegram. Any chance of a transcript of that piece?

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, and I'm sorry you couldn't read the telegram. It says:

"John knew that there were an unlimited number of mistakes in the world. That no matter how educated, experienced, or careful, people always found a way to make a new kind of mistake. He also knew that his problem was that he kept making the same mistake over and over again."

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

The amount of awesome you are made of to have done something like this, it just, it boggles the mind. I will totally be pimping this. Oh, hell to the yes. *claps like derranged seal*

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks honey, and thanks for the lovely rec. *hugs you*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

OMG! Honey that is just *AWESOME*
totally worships you for your creative talent

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[slashfictionfan.livejournal.com]

Well, the bar has been raised so high it's stratospheric. I think we're totally spoiled for any other AU ever.
The sounds, the colours are all perfect and evocative, just like the drab browns so familiar to those of the time.
I think I want to live in your 'verse for ever... I am so grateful you have both the talent and patience to take on such a huge project. You should be very proud of your work.
(sorry for gushing...but it is your fault giving us such a treat *g*)

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Oh, how lovely. Thank you, and I'm really pleased you enjoyed it.

[me-moose.livejournal.com]

This is really, really wonderful, and so complete. The trailer especially has that Glenn-Miller-wartime feel to it, and the whole design brings so much to the story. Wonderful.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[ladyeclectic79.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

I love you. ♥

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Yay!

*does a little dance*

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all your help *hugs*

[honkytonkgirl.livejournal.com]

I am totally blow away! Haven't even read the actual story yet, but I just had to say how perfectly done the trailer is.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[yokiem.livejournal.com]

The trailer is really beautiful, I love the song, the clips and the words. The site is amazing and so creative, am clicking on links now!

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I really hope you enjoyed the rest.

[someinstant.livejournal.com]

God, that was lovely. I'm on Fall Break at the moment, and I have a pile of books to read and papers to grade, but instead I spent a good hour and a half curled up with a blanket and this story, and I'm not sure which one warmed me more.

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

Staggeringly brilliant. I could not possibly adore this more -- bravo for all the work you obviously put into this, and what a fantastic result! My AU- & McShep-loving heart thanks you!! :)

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! *hugs*

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

This is so impressive!

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[eliabrith]

That is just wonderful, absolutely amazing :)

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[valderys.livejournal.com]

OMG - this is just glorious. The story is lovely but the rest of it - I am in total awe. The best bits? The gorgeous manip of Rodney and John smoking in the plane, and when I listened to the wireless, particularly the second trailer. I had a lump in my throat listening to that, it was so spookily real, and unbelievably moving...

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)

[an-kayoh.livejournal.com]

Dude. All hail you.

This is the most awesome thing ever. I have never been more stunned by the amount of work someone has put into fandom. This takes the cake.

(though I should tell you: the trailers were awesome, but there was something strangely creepy about how it all fit)

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and, er, sorry I creeped you out :)

[spinozauk.livejournal.com]

This was just wonderful - congratulations on a superb project, beautifully carried out - basically, what everyone already said!
Just a few very small suggestions, not to nitpick but with the intention of making a fine achievement even better. In UK English it would be -
aeroplanes (not airplanes)
the address below (not the below address)
Dr McKay (not Dr. McKay - similarly, Mr, Mrs)
southern England, or the South of England (not South England)

[zoetrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)