Comments | ana_grrl: SGA fic: Failsafe (McKay/Sheppard; PG-13)

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SGA fic: Failsafe (McKay/Sheppard; PG-13)

Oct 04, 2006 12:31

Title: Failsafe
Characters: McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG-13
Words: About 3100
Summary: It starts with a power spike, late at night.
Notes: The idea for this came from a chat with mklutz, who subsequently was awesome and encouraged me to write more. Many, many shiny thanks to lyrstzha for pushing me on the storyline, and for the beta (and the title suggestions)! ( Read more... )

mckay/sheppard, sga fic

Comments 96

liviapenn October 4 2006, 16:47:45 UTC

oh yikes!!!!!!!

That was great-- I totally thought I knew where you were going with it, but no.

Poor Rodney!

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 17:00:35 UTC

:D Thank you so much! I'm glad the end was a bit of a surprise - it was fun (and challenging!) to try and balance the suprise vs. too obscure thing. Thank you - for reading it and for commenting!

ladycat777 October 4 2006, 16:53:17 UTC

*shivers* That was good. Creepy and now I need to go find something happy to read, but god, good.

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 17:02:03 UTC

Yay! I'm so glad it was creepy! Thank you so much for reading it (I'm so shy and nervous about getting into new fandoms - this is my first real attempt at this pairing, too)!

dossier October 4 2006, 18:31:33 UTC

you have an excellent grasp of Rodney for a first whack at SGA, I find him impossible and opaque.

The story is fascinating and the style works, keeps the reader off track. excellent~

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 18:38:50 UTC

Thank you! I've written some Lorne/Parrish and Parrish/everyone fic, but trying out McKay and Sheppard was difficult and odd (especially McKay POV). I'm delighted you enjoyed the story and the style! Thank you again!

mollya October 4 2006, 16:57:45 UTC

Wow. The surprise at the end was fantastic,.

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 17:03:28 UTC

I'm really thrilled the surprise ending works. I wasn't really sure if it gave a good impact, or if it kind of fizzled a little - thank you so much for letting me know you enjoyed it :)

yin_again October 4 2006, 16:58:59 UTC

This was great - I loved the time dissonance. Nice work.

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 17:05:37 UTC

I loved the time dissonance

*relief* Thank you! I love writing that kind of back and forth, but I'm never sure if it gels, or if it's just jarring! So, yay - thank you for letting me know it worked!

randominity October 4 2006, 17:13:08 UTC

Oh, this was so good, so very good and painful. Also - hey, John's kind of like a Cylon now! Hahaha :). Normally I don't like the back-and-forth-in-time stories because I don't have a mind for mystery, so I never put together clues or try to figure things out along the way (which is half the fun when reading stories with that format), but this really did work, so don't fret about that. Good work! And thank you for crossing over to the dark side writing my favorite pairing! :D

ana_grrl October 4 2006, 17:36:34 UTC

hey, John's kind of like a Cylon now!

EEK! Hopefully without the 'Kill all of humanity' drive, lol!

Normally I don't like the back-and-forth-in-time stories because I don't have a mind for mystery

I really struggle with this format, because I want to have something unfold, but at the same time, I don't want to be insanely obscure! So anyway, I'm really glad that it did work - I won't fret anymore!

And thank you for crossing over to the dark side writing my favorite pairing!

*g* I really do like Lorne a lot, but this idea I think could only work with a McKay/Sheppard pairing. I can't see it working with McKay/Lorne, somehow.

Thank you for reading it!