sg_five_things | Prompt 13.03

Five magazines Teal'c subscribes to.

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Date: 2007-02-21 09:41 pm (UTC)

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Five magazines Teal'c subscribes to.

Five magazines Teal'c subscribes to.

1) He had heard from many reliable sources that Playboy had excellent articles.

2) After the fishing trip with O’Neill, American Angler began to show up in his room. It was only right to repay such a gift with one of equal value. After a consultation with Daniel Jackson and Major Carter, he gladly filled out the card granting O’Neill a two year subscription to Oprah’s magazine.

3) The use of slightly more formal language in The Economist appealed to him but it also helped piece together the various pieces of the grand puzzle of Tau'ri politics. The very idea that so many political, economic, and violent battles were fought over oil was laughable considering he knew there were other, better, energy sources out there. When he mentioned this to Major Carter, a pained look crossed her face and he never mentioned it again.

4) Janet, then Cassie, provided his subscription to People. Teal’c had stumbled across the magazine while recovering from a particularly nasty staff blast that his symbiote was slow to heal. A nurse handed him a stack of what she referred to as “brain candy”. He quirked an eyebrow at the unusual turn of phrase but quickly devoured the entire stack. The idea that a planet could have so many magazines dedicated solely to the lives of people who seemed to have no other function than to be written about in those magazines was a foreign concept to him. Teal’c loved it.

5) Budget Travel was his secret. General Hammond had first supplied him with the subscription and now Walter slipped a copy under his door when it arrived. It was meditation to slowly flip through the pages and see pictures of a world ignorant to the threats from outside its solar system. The world he eagerly wanted to share with Rya’c and Bra’tac.

Teal’c would plot out where he would take them, first maybe London or Paris, then a train ride to Saint Petersburg. Or maybe to see the Great Wall of China, he had seen it from above the planet enough times. He wanted to witness the Alps in person and the wide-open spaces of the Sahara. He wanted to see where Lord of the Rings had been filmed and to dip his toes into the Dead Sea. He wanted to stand in the spot where Martin Luther King had given his Dream speech for it moved him in so many ways. He wanted to simply stand in front of the great Pyramids and know their reality was masked. He would envision the look on Rya’c’s face as he stared at a cathedral for the first time. Teal’c spent hours mapping out these trips, cataloging the best B&Bs and tips on how to really enjoy a spot as a local. Then he would slip the magazine in with the others and wait.

Date: 2007-03-05 11:21 pm (UTC)

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