A Complexity of Forms by stop (G) / (Ship Made of Paper Remix) by inlovewithnight (G)
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Category: Angst, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort
Warning: None
Authors on LJ: stop, inlovewithnight
Author's Website: http://www.inlovewithnight.com/blankverse.html
Links:
A Complexity of Forms
A Complexity of Forms (Ship Made of Paper Remix)
Why This Must Be Read:
Lovely, soothing language tells the stories of two people who create origami figures for both the same and different reasons. The original is a wonderful Rodney character piece, the remix expands on it with John's POV. A little sad, but filled with heartwarming love, they'll leave you with a smile.
Excerpt:
Your favorite became a frog. A brisk, little hopping frog. You could make penguins and cats and boxes and balloons and kites, tigers and dragons and cubes and flowers, but your favorite was the frog.
Sometimes you made other things. You gave your father a extremely carefully constructed cube within a cube once, for his birthday, and told him that it was a tesseract. He didn't appreciate it, but you weren't expecting to find it wadded up in the trash can. You carefully unfolded it and put it with the hat that was the very first thing you made and the frogs. You only saved the frogs. Everything else seemed not so important.
The folding is the folding is the folding. Sometimes you folded things upside down or inside out and that way you learn. Sometimes you folded frogs out of one entire sheet of paper-minus the edges-and they are huge and they do not hop very well. Sometimes you folded the tiniest frog you can, until a breath accidentally expelled at the wrong moment could make you lose them. You kept those frogs underneath the big frogs, for safe keeping. Mommy and daddy frogs, you called the big ones. Baby frogs, for the little ones that can jump so high.
Now you still fold frogs when you can't get to sleep. You fold them in meetings and on plane flights (not that you do much of that anymore) and on jumper flights (those you do a lot of) and you fold them very tiny, now, so that you can carry your ten or fifteen frogs with you and add them to the collection and so that one sheet of paper can last you through roughly 50 frogs or so. Depending on how shaky your fingers are that day.
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Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Category: Angst, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort
Warning: None
Authors on LJ: stop, inlovewithnight
Author's Website: http://www.inlovewithnight.com/blankverse.html
Links:
A Complexity of Forms
A Complexity of Forms (Ship Made of Paper Remix)
Why This Must Be Read:
Lovely, soothing language tells the stories of two people who create origami figures for both the same and different reasons. The original is a wonderful Rodney character piece, the remix expands on it with John's POV. A little sad, but filled with heartwarming love, they'll leave you with a smile.
Excerpt:
Your favorite became a frog. A brisk, little hopping frog. You could make penguins and cats and boxes and balloons and kites, tigers and dragons and cubes and flowers, but your favorite was the frog.
Sometimes you made other things. You gave your father a extremely carefully constructed cube within a cube once, for his birthday, and told him that it was a tesseract. He didn't appreciate it, but you weren't expecting to find it wadded up in the trash can. You carefully unfolded it and put it with the hat that was the very first thing you made and the frogs. You only saved the frogs. Everything else seemed not so important.
The folding is the folding is the folding. Sometimes you folded things upside down or inside out and that way you learn. Sometimes you folded frogs out of one entire sheet of paper-minus the edges-and they are huge and they do not hop very well. Sometimes you folded the tiniest frog you can, until a breath accidentally expelled at the wrong moment could make you lose them. You kept those frogs underneath the big frogs, for safe keeping. Mommy and daddy frogs, you called the big ones. Baby frogs, for the little ones that can jump so high.
Now you still fold frogs when you can't get to sleep. You fold them in meetings and on plane flights (not that you do much of that anymore) and on jumper flights (those you do a lot of) and you fold them very tiny, now, so that you can carry your ten or fifteen frogs with you and add them to the collection and so that one sheet of paper can last you through roughly 50 frogs or so. Depending on how shaky your fingers are that day.
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