new story: Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending

[helenish]

Title: Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending
Author: Helen
Rating: R
Fandom: SGA
Warnings: title very possibly misleading
Summary: It was easy to imagine fucking Rodney, the way he'd groan and clutch at John's arms and be too bossy about the whole thing; it was easy to imagine the problems it could cause.

With tremendous thanks to girlcakes and linabean and crimsonclad and the many

Comments

[sherrold]

Oh god this made me happy. (I'm channeling the nearly-mute guy from My Favorite Year, if it's not obvious from my tone of voice.)

I love the ongoing bleakness of their situation being reflected in their shared pessimism about their relationship; I loved Ronon and Elizabeth (hell, I loved Ronon throughout), and basically it rocked.

Thanks so much for posting!

[helenish]

Your welcome! thank you! Um, so glad you liked it!

[akro_orka]

Your icon is gold. Pure gold.

[deliberatehips]

I have to tell you, this is the first SGA story I've ever read and despite knowing nothing about the show or the characters I loved it. I'd probably love it a lot more if I had a clue, but even alone it stands up as wonderful writing.

[helenish]

well, thanks so much! The show is, um, kind of bad, I'm afraid, but a lot of the stories are awesome, so I recommend you read a few more, sometime!

[kudra2324]

your stories always break me while making me happy at the same time. it's not a normal sequential thing - john and rodney fuck each other up, then they work it out and are happy - it's this simultaneous feeling of breathless highs and lows. i love it.

[kudra2324]

oh and i've recced this over at my journal. hope you don't mind.

[helenish]

not at all!

[helenish]

thanks so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

[notpoetry]

So I can't even begin to say how much I love this story without getting inarticulate and handwavey and chewing at my bottom lip and going, "It's just -- it's just perfect, is all," because, well, it really is, and now I think that if something between them happens any way, it happens like that. And that's just, yes. Perfect.

Your Rodney is phenomenally in-character. He's more Rodney than canon!Rodney. How that's possible, I don't even know.

But, god, yes, I loved this story.

[helenish]

Huh - and here I was worried about the parts where, like,

1. Rodney rips off his shirt and makes a tourniquet while looking hot
or
2. Rodney manfully refrains from beating John for being a stupid bitch, and is generally strong, stalwart, true, and says all the right things.

I stand by the babies-are-magic bits, though.

[panisdead]

*cries with joy*

Coherent feedback tomorrow, hopefully.

I am actually kind of crying. Socks are so romantic. *sniff*

This is my "John is pining" icon

[panisdead]

Things I especially liked:

*How folks are so matter-of-fact about their separation from earth. They seem battle-hardened and pragmatic rather than outright despairing. This is an adaptable bunch, so it rings true.

*John with his stupid white socks and complete inability to express coherent emotion. *cries some more*

*Also, the way John does a lot of blushing. HOT.

*I just love the idea of Ronon and his buttoned-up upbringing.

*The way you don't particularly linger over things like Rodney+baby or Elizabeth with her mutilated hand. I think this lets you get away with elements that are, okay, kind of gimmicky, because they aren't made into focal points.

*I love John so much.

Re: This is my "John is pining" icon

[helenish]

Poor John, and the BLUSHING, which is possibly kind of out of character. I was trying to write the sex scenes as - the minute Rodney McKay touches him, he sort of loses his fucking mind, and ends up sitting there like an insulting LUMP. Um, because it made me laugh

[helenish]

socks! There was actually a callback to the unsexy sock-wearing part in the BIG FIGHT in the SEx Chamber, but I had to take it out because it was too lame and self-pitying, even for this John.