Comments | gentle_edgar: like holy palmers

gentle_edgar

like holy palmers

Apr 21, 2011 21:49

{ kissing rodney wasn’t the stupidest thing john had done, but it fell pretty high up on the list}

( five interations of a conversation )

complete, sga

Comments 8

kriadydragon April 22 2011, 06:34:10 UTC

That was excellent. I love the way you handle such subject matter, taking the slash and turning it into gen in a way that totally works, because it is totally Rodney to be confused and dithering forever over that one little incident, so caught up in what he thought it meant that he never really hears John's explanation until way later. And even then...

I think it's also an excellent look out how something that seems so small and unimportant can have the biggest impact.

bratfarrar April 22 2011, 13:17:44 UTC

Thanks so much! Those are exactly the two things I was trying to capture in this, but I've been pecking away at it for so long that I've lost all objective judgment. It's wonderful to have outside confirmation that yes, I did accomplish what I set out to do.

sholio April 22 2011, 19:05:26 UTC

I really enjoyed this. :) I love stories about people negotiating their boundaries - because yes, these are the sorts of things that are going to come up when you have a bunch of people living in each other's pocket like these people do, especially when they're not exactly emotionally open, talking-about-feelings sorts of people.

bratfarrar April 22 2011, 21:22:30 UTC

Thanks!

(An inarticulate response to a very articulate comment; I do appreciate it greatly.)

michelel72 April 23 2011, 18:27:28 UTC

I really like all the different perspectives, and I can see Rodney letting the question gnaw away at him in each of these ways.

bratfarrar April 23 2011, 19:56:40 UTC

Thank you!

Yeah, Rodney (and John as well, to be fair) can be rather relationally inept. Poor guy. :P

teh_bug July 17 2011, 00:01:02 UTC

Oh cool! You de-slashed a common slash trope... uber nifty! :D :D :D

bratfarrar July 18 2011, 11:05:29 UTC

Glad you like it! The main reason I stopped reading SGA stories (outside of a few two trusted gen writers) is that it seemed to all be Sheppard/McKay slash, with the same three plots over and over and OVER until I got sick of it.

So this is my small ... refutal, I suppose. (Which is so a real word, Firefox spellcheck.)

I have another, more involved and self-indulgent story which deals with another slash trope, but who knows if/when it'll ever get done--my WIP list only ever gets longer, not shorter. *sighs*