SGA Fic Rec: Indelible by Shaenie
Indelible by shaenie : read at the AO3 here or her LJ here
Stargate: Atlantis, R (heavy, just to be safe), spanking themes
I've just gotten done reading Indelible for the second time and felt that it definitely needed to be recced. Even if you don't read SGA fic I'd still recommend it, it's just that good.
In it John is forced to accept punishment for something Rodney did while off-world. That punishment is spanking and Rodney if forced to watch. The memory and their feelings haunt them, but they must deal with them while simultaneously making major discoveries of new Atlantis tech.
I love this fic for John's wonderful internal monologue and his thoughts about Rodney. Shaenie pegged them both so, so well and gave John wonderful emotional depths while still keeping him very true to character. There is friendship and laughter, irritation and anger and great McKay rants, danger and love and fear all wrapped up together. This fic is long with several different major events but it really doesn't drag at all. It really seems to take John that long and that many encounters to let himself feel for Rodney. The plot is detailed and moves quickly, weaving together the plot, science and the emotional moments really well. The various plot points further John's emotional journey, not distract from it. Plus Shaenie has a way of describing the scenes that give just enough information to make them really detailed while still allowing my mental image of them to fly. Her writing is wonderful for the unusual words she uses, the detailed character descriptions and excellent dialog. Even Rodney, who's dialog I assume is difficult to write because he must be intelligent, scathing and witty all at once.
The new discoveries and the science are beautiful and serve to bring John and Rodney together very intimately. I love the science it this, how Rodney is driven to his science as his refuge and how it brings them together. The cathedra are seriously brilliant. I haven't seen enough Atlantis to know if they are cannon or not. If not, Shaenie pushed all my science loving buttons with them, and gave John and Rodney a way to feel each other's emotions and souls to boot, so she rocks so much for that! Even if they are cannon her descriptions are still brilliantly effective at bringing them together. And John with the math! God I loved that too.
The tea and the flashbacks are brilliant too, such a unique way to reexamine the issue without it becoming dull.
The first time I read this I was a tiny bit upset that at the end that neither John or Rodney gets spanked in an erotic sense, but after reading again I don't feel that's actually a loss. The story is about how they come together, how John allows himself to get over his fears and really feel for Rodney. It's John's steps to Rodney and as such is just a beginning; the future of their relationship is left open for anything to happen, including spanking, and that has a certain appeal.
I hope you enjoy!
P
Stargate: Atlantis, R (heavy, just to be safe), spanking themes
I've just gotten done reading Indelible for the second time and felt that it definitely needed to be recced. Even if you don't read SGA fic I'd still recommend it, it's just that good.
In it John is forced to accept punishment for something Rodney did while off-world. That punishment is spanking and Rodney if forced to watch. The memory and their feelings haunt them, but they must deal with them while simultaneously making major discoveries of new Atlantis tech.
I love this fic for John's wonderful internal monologue and his thoughts about Rodney. Shaenie pegged them both so, so well and gave John wonderful emotional depths while still keeping him very true to character. There is friendship and laughter, irritation and anger and great McKay rants, danger and love and fear all wrapped up together. This fic is long with several different major events but it really doesn't drag at all. It really seems to take John that long and that many encounters to let himself feel for Rodney. The plot is detailed and moves quickly, weaving together the plot, science and the emotional moments really well. The various plot points further John's emotional journey, not distract from it. Plus Shaenie has a way of describing the scenes that give just enough information to make them really detailed while still allowing my mental image of them to fly. Her writing is wonderful for the unusual words she uses, the detailed character descriptions and excellent dialog. Even Rodney, who's dialog I assume is difficult to write because he must be intelligent, scathing and witty all at once.
The new discoveries and the science are beautiful and serve to bring John and Rodney together very intimately. I love the science it this, how Rodney is driven to his science as his refuge and how it brings them together. The cathedra are seriously brilliant. I haven't seen enough Atlantis to know if they are cannon or not. If not, Shaenie pushed all my science loving buttons with them, and gave John and Rodney a way to feel each other's emotions and souls to boot, so she rocks so much for that! Even if they are cannon her descriptions are still brilliantly effective at bringing them together. And John with the math! God I loved that too.
The tea and the flashbacks are brilliant too, such a unique way to reexamine the issue without it becoming dull.
The first time I read this I was a tiny bit upset that at the end that neither John or Rodney gets spanked in an erotic sense, but after reading again I don't feel that's actually a loss. The story is about how they come together, how John allows himself to get over his fears and really feel for Rodney. It's John's steps to Rodney and as such is just a beginning; the future of their relationship is left open for anything to happen, including spanking, and that has a certain appeal.
I hope you enjoy!
P