Damn I am glad I found this story. Very unique and interesting take on Ancients.

...I can never see the word "ghoti" without thinking of "fish". .;

I loved it. You blend of SG lore and ATLA was magnificent to read about. I read your last author note saying that, at the end of the day you were an action author, but frankly I skimmed the action scene way more than I did your dialogues. I really liked how you managed to capture every character's voice, and their understanding of various physical, verbal, etc. cues. Well done.

I had a hard time getting through this chapter. When the viewpoint switched to the Goa'uld there were too many new names that I could neither put any faces to nor distinguish from each other or even just separate the Goa'uld from the Jaffar lieutenants. And I'm not sure, but were the Goa'uld parasites and their hosts treated as different characters with different dialogue lines and names? And on top of all of it one of them (I don't know who) even had a nickname that was introduced alongside all those other names. Nubiti, Djehuty, Urdu, Ur, Ur-Djehuty, Nekht...

Every single character has the exact same *snarky* TV teenager personality, whether a magic kung fu kid or a slave soldier of alien overlords; you could randomize the names on every line of dialogue and literally nothing would change, author.

I think this story has the most adolescent writing I have ever read in my life (that isn't a shitty wankfest for thinly veiled self-inserts). That you managed to make it readable despite that flaw is impressive. I'm giving you a 6/10 for it.

i keep coming back to this story ever so often. and each time I fall in love with it anew. You are such an awesome writer.

to clarify while I don't exactly like the language-gate-thing I really like showing the language barrier and them trying to work around it

I think the story is really good but there are things regarding the stargate part of the story that bother me that come from the author not hahaving seen it. the biggest thing is just the language-gate-thing which just feels unnecessary because it's sci-fi, practically any sci-fi with alien worlds just discovered has this problem, because it's just not practical in a story sense to have a language barrier all the time. it takes a long time to get past a language barrier fully normally, and the only reason it goes faster sometimes in stargate is the basis that the languages they encounter developed from earth languages. my problem that caused me to go "...what" and comment this (as normally I just ignore things but today im tired) is that: sam is not short. she doesn't appear tall in the show however this is completely due to the fact that her fellow cast members are also tall. amanda tapping who plays her is 5'9". that's not short. anyway, sorry I just was annoyed by the details on an already short fuse day, the story itself is great though

HOLY...CRAP. I...LOVE...THIS...FIC. I have a passion for Anthropology, history, cultures, and this fic is full of that, and what's more, I love it when authors fully think through the implications of various fictional thins and really delve into that, and this fic has such things in spades. Stuff like the language barrier, the ability to really go through what would ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE in given situations when you think it all the way through. It just full of all sorts of things I can't even believe are there. This story is a gem, and I eagerly await more from this universe. Confession time: I read this story having not seen SG-1, so I'm gonna fix that soon! Also, just a personal idea/request/"pretty-please", I actually love to see the reactions and storytelling of two universes first meeting and just...reacting to the information, I love to see their horizons expanding in real time , so id love in whatever sequel you write, that you don't shy away from essentially exposition dumps and their ensuing dialogues and reactions, I personally love that stuff. To be honest you've already really captured that here in some areas, just saying don't think that people find that boring...because I sure don't!

Hey read this now for the fourth time. So very good!

Flying mutant ninja were-lemurs - I laughed so hard I fell over. I love this story!

I love this story so much. I've read it now doe the fourth time , I believe. thank you for writing this, and please keep writing.

PLEASE tell me that we will see Indiana Jones-esque shenanigans in a sequel? :)

good Story:)

OMG, I remember that “physics of hell” joke. I like how firmly you set this in the late 90’s; the tech, the culture, and all.