TEAM COOL: thick and thin, "Comfort Zone"

[fluffyllama]

Title: Comfort Zone
Author: sgamadison
Team: Cool
Prompt: thick and thin
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, Ronon/OFC, Teyla/Kaanan
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Future fic
Word count: 15,982
Summary: Finally, Rodney knew what he had to do.

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Comments

[altyronsmaker]

Loved this one, too! John's silvery patched beard is just...hot on too many levels to count (as is the idea of him with silver chest hair. OMG. I know I'm getting old now.) Rodney freaking out by proxy about JOhn's 'bald spot' was too funny. Rodney skinny? Avoiding wheat? *gasp* and John, eve just mildly, afraid of him being sick. Oy. too many good moments to pick out!!!!

Well done, author, well done. :)

[sgamadison]

Aw, thank you! When I saw the prompt 'thick or thin', the story sprang into my mind and I had to write it! I'm not normally big on future fic--I like to think of the boys preserved in amber for me to play with at will--but this story just begged to be written!

[tavabean]

Aww, I very much enjoyed this one! Loved the established relationship and the worries that middle age brings, even to our heroes!

[sgamadison]

Thank you! I surprised myself with the direction it took but that's always been the fun of McShep for me. :-)

[therentgirls]

I love the misunderstandings and the anxiety in this take on their established relationship. A great take on their Romance a few years down the road.

[sgamadison]

Thank you! Most future fics seem to take place 20 or so years down the road, so I was surprised at how loudly this story demanded to be told. :-) I'm so pleased you enjoyed it!

[fanficfan123]

Very enjoyable take on the prompt, making it be literal as well as figurative in its description of John and Rodney's relationship. Having Rodney be the one to obsess about appearance is in keeping with canon (and much fanon). The moldy reappearance of that dress suit, from its on-screen appearance at a significant point in the Rodney/Jennifer relationship, pinpoints how much Rodney needs to understand that his and John's relationship is long past that point--and in a different, more durable category. The ending's equation of "thick and thin" with the words of a traditional wedding vow does just that. Before that neat ending, the description of changes in Rodney and John's sex life was a perceptive look at how sex cycles over time in long-term relationships . . . even though Rodney mistakenly worries about that, too, for quite a while.

[sgamadison]

Thank you! It's always so much fun reading your assessments because they look at the story as a whole, including structure as well as the story itself. I find them edifying because I'm not usually consciously aware of the the elements I include or why--and you make it seem like I know what I'm doing. :-)

[fanficfan123]

You're very welcome. I appreciate your creativity, and all the streams of thought--fully conscious to less--feeding into it. Writing, where sound matters as well as sense, and choices become apparent as part of the process itself, takes hold of us as much as we take it on, I think. That describes my own writing experience, at least, and how I puzzle out my own take on matters.

[sgamadison]

I was telling someone the other day that I don't consciously put things in my stories, but since I re-read them obsessively when writing them, I sometimes spot a theme that I want to expand upon and interweave throughout the story. But most of the time, someone else points it out to me and I'm all 'um, yeah, I meant to do that.' :-)

[aqualegia]

I enjoyed this story very much.; and especially the way you used the prompt... Very clever.

[sgamadison]

Thank you! The prompt really grabbed me when I saw it on the sign-up list--I was so pleased I got it! I'm glad you liked it too. :-)