sex positive.
So last night the Bandit and I were repeatedly awakened by mice in the Bandit's closet attempting to CHEW THEIR WAY OUT through the door. Or sharpening their teeth. Or...I don't know, but it took us groggy ages to figure out what the fuck it was, so, consequently, I am fucking exhausted today, and have been forced to put Dream Jeopardy Categories for John Sheppard (tm Douglas Coupland in Microserfs.) as follows:
1. Defying direct orders in order to sacrifice myself for the greater good/suicide missions
2. Guns and explosives
3. Sexy aliens who can kick my ass.
4. Puddlejumpers and anything else that flies, which I can fly, because I am the awesomest pilot of all time.
5. Rodney McKay The pain of being a lone wolf, and the tenuous connections I manage to forge to the other social misfits I spent a lot of time with.
6. My tragic past about which I will maintain a grim silence [aka, I like ferris wheels.]
7. Complete lack of awareness about any ladies who want to nail me.
Then that was so fun, I made one up for Ronon, below:
1. How John Sheppard thinks.
2. Following Orders
3. Having chemistry with everyone on Atlantis
4. The pain of having my entire civilization decimated while simultaneously being personally betrayed by the person I trusted the most.
5. Being able to express sentiments like "Let's brutally kill everyone!" so they sound sort of deep and zen.
6. Food.
7. Freaking out Elizabeth Weir with my raw alien sexuality and deadpan line delivery.
For some reason, I'm starting to really dig Elizabeth. I think this has its genesis in the fact that eleanor_lavish started watching SGA and, after having watched ten episodes, was convinced Elizabeth's name was Stephanie. Or, perhaps not. Also, I'm of the opinion that in high school, Elizabeth did the following extra-curricululars [list compiled with input from eleanor_lavish]
1. Track and field [high jump and 800 and 4x4 relay, let's say, she looks fast.]
2. Model UN
3. Debate
4. Gay-Straight Alliance
5. Amnesty International
6. National Honor Society
7. Recycle Club
8. Student Mediators
She then went to Oberlin, and then moved to Berkeley where she had girlfriends and is a third-wave sex positive feminist, and, on Atlantis, brought feminist porn, and can't get worked up about John having sex with alien women at all, because she's SO SEX POSITIVE.
This brought to you by this theory I have that there would be a thriving sex-for-services/food market on Atlantis, probably mediated by some sort of makeshift Craigslist type thing, wherein you could trade your dessert rations for cuddles or give blowjobs in return for movie rentals, and Rodney would know about it because he had to approve the server space, and once fixed someone's cd player for a candy-bar or something, but mostly ignores it, and especially the sex stuff, since it wouldn't be appropriate. And Elizabeth (who is sex-positive) knows about it and doesn't think it's a problem, and John finds out after a YEAR, and thinks HELL YEAH, it's a problem, and gets worked up about it while Elizabeth says things like "sex positive" and "feminist" and "my girlfriend in Berkeley" and "appropriate means to report and regulate abuses of the system" while mostly John wants to know if Rodney's been getting or giving any blowjobs to ANYONE.
Mostly, I just want Elizabeth to say "sex positive" and offer to lend them her feminist pornogrphay while Rodney and John give each other squirrely, freaked-out looks, as though their kindergarten teacher had started having sex on a table in front of them.
Also, Ronon should start sleeping with Elizabeth, if only because it would BADLY freak John and Rodney out, especially if Ronon kept walking out of her quarters at 7am, right in front of them.
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Oh, right, this was what I meant to talk about in this entry. The thing I enjoy most about the show is the way in which things should be shortcomings kind of make it awesome instead. Like, they steal plots from everywhere! Yet! That makes it highly enjoyable. Or, take, for instance, my flagship example: John Sheppard has absolutely no sexual tension or chemistry with anyone, ever. He doesn't like to be touched. I ASSUME that when they cast the role, he was supposed to have some Mulder-Scully-style Tension with Elizabeth, and some sexy-alien-warrior-princess-Tension with Teyla, and to also fill in around the edges by being a alien babe MAGNET that oozed sexuality and chemistry. So, not even close, right?
Yet! I like it! It works! John Sheppard is this incredibly crazy lone wolf type, and he seems to really like Elizabeth and Teyla as friends and coworkers, but he treats them more like sisters, and I really like that! I mean, they've gone and created a show where men and women work together and it's a NON-ISSUE what gender they are, because no one wants to fuck anyone else. No weird sexy-sexiness, just people trying to do their freakin' jobs and having mutual respect for each other's opinions and stuff. [Except Ronon, who has crazy sexual tension with EVERYONE, but that's okay.]
Even though John's mutual respect for Elizabeth goes like this: "I respect you so much that now I'm going to do the exact opposite of what you've just ordered me to do. But not because I think you suck, or even think you're wrong. I just have to do this." But he doesn't do it because she's a woman! John defies EVERYONE's orders!
and Rodney's goes like this: "Well, you're all WRONG and I'm right, and I don't understand WHY OKAY ELIZABETH I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY, JESUS CHRIST. unless John Sheppard tells me not to! Then I won't!"
Anyhow, I love it. I realize it's not on purpose, and they keep TRYING to sex it up, sometimes successfully (Ronon Dex, good lord) and sometimes...less successfully (Alien girl takes off her clothes, John looks moderately interested) but I like it just the way it is.
1. Defying direct orders in order to sacrifice myself for the greater good/suicide missions
2. Guns and explosives
3. Sexy aliens who can kick my ass.
4. Puddlejumpers and anything else that flies, which I can fly, because I am the awesomest pilot of all time.
5. Rodney McKay The pain of being a lone wolf, and the tenuous connections I manage to forge to the other social misfits I spent a lot of time with.
6. My tragic past about which I will maintain a grim silence [aka, I like ferris wheels.]
7. Complete lack of awareness about any ladies who want to nail me.
Then that was so fun, I made one up for Ronon, below:
1. How John Sheppard thinks.
2. Following Orders
3. Having chemistry with everyone on Atlantis
4. The pain of having my entire civilization decimated while simultaneously being personally betrayed by the person I trusted the most.
5. Being able to express sentiments like "Let's brutally kill everyone!" so they sound sort of deep and zen.
6. Food.
7. Freaking out Elizabeth Weir with my raw alien sexuality and deadpan line delivery.
For some reason, I'm starting to really dig Elizabeth. I think this has its genesis in the fact that eleanor_lavish started watching SGA and, after having watched ten episodes, was convinced Elizabeth's name was Stephanie. Or, perhaps not. Also, I'm of the opinion that in high school, Elizabeth did the following extra-curricululars [list compiled with input from eleanor_lavish]
1. Track and field [high jump and 800 and 4x4 relay, let's say, she looks fast.]
2. Model UN
3. Debate
4. Gay-Straight Alliance
5. Amnesty International
6. National Honor Society
7. Recycle Club
8. Student Mediators
She then went to Oberlin, and then moved to Berkeley where she had girlfriends and is a third-wave sex positive feminist, and, on Atlantis, brought feminist porn, and can't get worked up about John having sex with alien women at all, because she's SO SEX POSITIVE.
This brought to you by this theory I have that there would be a thriving sex-for-services/food market on Atlantis, probably mediated by some sort of makeshift Craigslist type thing, wherein you could trade your dessert rations for cuddles or give blowjobs in return for movie rentals, and Rodney would know about it because he had to approve the server space, and once fixed someone's cd player for a candy-bar or something, but mostly ignores it, and especially the sex stuff, since it wouldn't be appropriate. And Elizabeth (who is sex-positive) knows about it and doesn't think it's a problem, and John finds out after a YEAR, and thinks HELL YEAH, it's a problem, and gets worked up about it while Elizabeth says things like "sex positive" and "feminist" and "my girlfriend in Berkeley" and "appropriate means to report and regulate abuses of the system" while mostly John wants to know if Rodney's been getting or giving any blowjobs to ANYONE.
Mostly, I just want Elizabeth to say "sex positive" and offer to lend them her feminist pornogrphay while Rodney and John give each other squirrely, freaked-out looks, as though their kindergarten teacher had started having sex on a table in front of them.
Also, Ronon should start sleeping with Elizabeth, if only because it would BADLY freak John and Rodney out, especially if Ronon kept walking out of her quarters at 7am, right in front of them.
*
Oh, right, this was what I meant to talk about in this entry. The thing I enjoy most about the show is the way in which things should be shortcomings kind of make it awesome instead. Like, they steal plots from everywhere! Yet! That makes it highly enjoyable. Or, take, for instance, my flagship example: John Sheppard has absolutely no sexual tension or chemistry with anyone, ever. He doesn't like to be touched. I ASSUME that when they cast the role, he was supposed to have some Mulder-Scully-style Tension with Elizabeth, and some sexy-alien-warrior-princess-Tension with Teyla, and to also fill in around the edges by being a alien babe MAGNET that oozed sexuality and chemistry. So, not even close, right?
Yet! I like it! It works! John Sheppard is this incredibly crazy lone wolf type, and he seems to really like Elizabeth and Teyla as friends and coworkers, but he treats them more like sisters, and I really like that! I mean, they've gone and created a show where men and women work together and it's a NON-ISSUE what gender they are, because no one wants to fuck anyone else. No weird sexy-sexiness, just people trying to do their freakin' jobs and having mutual respect for each other's opinions and stuff. [Except Ronon, who has crazy sexual tension with EVERYONE, but that's okay.]
Even though John's mutual respect for Elizabeth goes like this: "I respect you so much that now I'm going to do the exact opposite of what you've just ordered me to do. But not because I think you suck, or even think you're wrong. I just have to do this." But he doesn't do it because she's a woman! John defies EVERYONE's orders!
and Rodney's goes like this: "Well, you're all WRONG and I'm right, and I don't understand WHY OKAY ELIZABETH I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY, JESUS CHRIST. unless John Sheppard tells me not to! Then I won't!"
Anyhow, I love it. I realize it's not on purpose, and they keep TRYING to sex it up, sometimes successfully (Ronon Dex, good lord) and sometimes...less successfully (Alien girl takes off her clothes, John looks moderately interested) but I like it just the way it is.