About Hoodat Whatzit

Well, what's there to tell other than the fact that I'm another scifi fan with apparently too much time on her hands? I've always been a fan of science fiction. I usually give every new scifi show at least a chance and Stargate was no exception. I was lucky enough to catch the first episode during a free weekend of Showtime and it was enough to thoroughly set the hook in me.

So I've been a fan of SG1 since the start but it took five years for me to "join" in the online fandom fun. I wrote a few fics and got a very nice invite to check out the Yahoo group Jackfic. It was all downhill from there (I mean that in a nice way, Jackfic'ers).

The Story of the Name

Where did the pen name originate? Aside from simply being a really cool pun and alias there really is a link to the Stargate Universe with the name Hoodat Whatzit! You may already be familiar with the Bill McCay Stargate novels: Rebellion, Retaliation, Retribution, Reconnaissance, and Resistance. If you have read them, then you know where I got the Hoodat Whatzit from- I stole (uh... make that borrowed) it from the fourth book!

Hoodat is the name given to an unseen enemy by Marine's assisting the displaced Abydonians in the colonization of their new planet. Whatzit is the name given to another pesky critter that causes problems for the colonists. I read this and didn't think anything of it- until about three-o-clock that morning when I woke up with the idea to make it a screen name. To be honest- I was surprised it wasn't already taken!

If you haven't read the McCay novels, I recommend them because they are great fun. I consider them to be officially published alternate universe stories. A world where Hathor is Ra's successor, neither Sha'uri, Daniel's ex-wife (Yes, that's what I said... Guess that happily ever after thing's not working out for them, huh?) nor Skaara have become hosts, and the people of Abydos are forced to flee to Earth. The downside? No Teal'c, no Captain Carter (Sorry shippers!), no Sg-1!

Why Do I Do This?

Good question? Is boredom an excuse? I loved the Stargate movie. I know with some Sg-1 fans that is blasphemy but I can't help myself. After a free weekend of Showtime, I was hooked (Yes, I paid for Showtime just so I could watch Stargate!) and that's when it began I suppose. It's great stuff! No pesky Prime Directives for our intrepid gang of Gaters!

And what a gimmick! Even when I saw the movie it just screamed "Sequel coming soon!" An infinite number of possible worlds to visit that can be reached almost instantaneously? Did anyone really think Abydos was the only place connected to Earth by the Stargate? And once Sg-1 came along we got a group of ready-made heroes to boot! A scruffy, angst-ridden, wise-cracking Colonel. A wide-eyed, sometimes-bumbling but always-well meaning, ideological archeologist. A brilliant, beautiful (at least Jack thinks so), able to kick-butt as well as any man, astrophysicist, Doctor/Captain. And, of course, an enigmatic, wise, often-misunderstood and taken for granted, alien ally to help in the fight against anyone or anything in the universe who wants to push us homo-sapiens around.

Once a week wasn't enough time spent with these people, so I started reading fan fiction. For the past few years that's what I've been doing- reading the stuff. I never even considered writing any myself until just recently. After seeing Tangent for about the third or fourth time and getting angry every time it ended too soon I wrote my first story, "You Should've Brought Aspirin." The responses I got from readers only served to set the hook deeper. It's addictive. Of course, several stories later, here I am putting up a web site. Now I get to spend almost as much time formatting stories and finding graphics to go along with them as I do writing them in the first place!

So here it is! I hope you enjoy the site. If you have even half the fun browsing my site as I've had creating it then I won't be disappointed.

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