Rebuilding Babel [1/3], by the_drifter (wordless challenge)

[fiercelydreamed]

Title: Rebuilding Babel
Author: the_drifter (fiercelydreamed)
Summary: He wondered if this was how it felt to go crazy -- you didn't lose your mind, it just stopped synching up with the world around you. The Pegasus galaxy makes Rodney an expert in what he can survive without.
Details: 21,000 words, Sheppard/McKay, adult/explicit. Spoilers through S2.
Notes: Huge

Comments

[zoniduck]

You know, I think this might be shaenie's official public outing as an SGA fic reader. :-)

And with that, I'm off to begin reading this.

[fiercelydreamed]

*shifty look* Uh. I'm denying everything.

[thelastbloom]

OMG, I'm off to part two, but I have to say, this is so, so, so good. I have no real words for this, it's just beautiful. <3

[fiercelydreamed]

Thank you! Mid-fic comments are things of extra joy. :)

[zoniduck]

OH MY GOD THIS IS MADE OF FUCKING AWESOME!!!

Can't talk. Gotta read Part 2.

[fiercelydreamed]

Heh. Something about getting a comment in all-caps makes me want to answer back in all-caps. Not in a snarky way, but in a I WILL SEE YOUR ENTHUSIASM AND RAISE YOU MY OWN!!! kind of way.

[fiercelydreamed]

Btw, someone else said in a comment that they were here by way of you. I just wanted to say thanks for the rec -- I'm pretty new to this fandom, so I'm grateful and gratified that you liked the story enough to pass the word along.

[anatsuno]

I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW HAPPY I AM AT THE PROSPECT OF READING THIS. *runnnnns to start*

[fiercelydreamed]

*g* Hi, Ana.

[anatsuno]

*MAKES NOISES OF GLEE* *clickclickclick onward*

[fiercelydreamed]

You know, I was really hoping you'd like this one. Especially since I cookied you with the other and then promptly buried my head in this.

[anatsuno]

I LOFF.

It makes-- it's. yes.

Also: I really like how you do these stories where you use tropes of transformation, which are classical fanfic things, except you never return them to normal, you make the ADJUST AND MOVE ON.

It's, yeah, it's good. tough, and great, and fascinating.

(though the easy, afraid-of-change part of me often longs for the easy narrative reversal of "and then it was like before, with added love and sex, then end.)

(Also: It's hard not to pine for omg telepathy-enhanced sex, ngggh. but. yes.)

this is/was GRAND. *keeps it for rereads*

[fiercelydreamed]

I started to reply to this comment and then thought, "Ooh, crap, it's on part 1, if I say anything of substance I'll spoil my own story!"

Dash it all! Thwarted.