SGA Fic: Terraced Dynamics (Sheppard/McKay)

[pogrebin]

Another installment in pogrebin's procrastination marathon, brought to you courtesy of her current obsession with Stargate: Atlantis and her inability to stop writing fandom cliches. This one represents a moderate improvement on the last SGA fic, but is equally ridiculous

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[alibi_factory]

If the show was like this I would actually watch the show. Damn, girl.

[pogrebin]

Haha, I try to tell myself it's so bad it's good. My approach is to read about the episodes and watch the ones that sound awesome. Like: The Tao of Rodney, McKay & Mrs Miller, Miller's Crossing, Conversion, The Game, Doppelganger and OMG OMG the most recent episode The Shrine. It is so so shameful that every single one of those episodes is Rodney (coughcoughRodney&John) centric.

How are youuu? I feel like such a fandom-whore, but I don't know if I have it in me to write any more HP. Or even read it. Instead I'm all about cheesy scifi. I can't believe I'm getting less cool with age, man.

[alibi_factory]

I'd probably watch it if I had cable, yeah. I have a thing for socially-awkward geniuses and I like the basic concept, but nothing ever really sticks with me. I saw the one where Rodney got super-smart and almost died, that was a good one.

I AM PRETTY GREAT, THANKS FOR ASKING. And don't worry, my two main fandom squeezes are a sitcom and a police procedural. Law & Order is basically the pinnacle of uncool. SGA, all the hip kids are involved.

In re: HP, I like the movies but the books, eh. Mostly I miss being able to just make shit up. 30 Rock has a ~flexible~ universe, but Criminal Intent is all...hyperrealism and intricacies and absurdly good character continuity, I can't figure out how to get at it, man.

[bradsundheim]

I like the show and I would be pissed off if Fox pulls the plug on this one. MattFan member since: Jun aww Fox hates this show and I have no idea why.

[zauberer_sirin]

oh god, this is so good it hurts. the first paragraph is a total jewel. I want to take it and elope with it

[pogrebin]

Hee! Sorry for the late reply to this, man, and thank you for such a lovely comment. You have my blessing to elope with any paragraphs of mine that strike your fancy. :D

(Also, I think you just made my brain explode with glee with the comparison to Beckett.)

Your last sentence? SO much word. Yes, yes, yes, that's such a great way to put it. Rodney has to be unworking the intricacies of the universe with his hands, through notes or ancient devices. His tools are different, but his drive is the same. :))

[emeraldsword]

ooh, I like this, I think it worked well. I love Rodney's music.

[pogrebin]

Thank you for reading! I'm glad you liked it. :)

[xparrot]

Waaah, I love musical Rodney so, doing what he loves and brilliantly; but my heart aches for the Atlantis that lost his genius, and for John, because as difficult a time as they had with him it's even harder without him.

[pogrebin]

Eeee! God, I know. Rodney is happier. Or at least, more well-adjusted? But the universe without Rodney and John together saving it is one that is wrong, wrong, wrong. :D

So sorry for the late reply to this, but I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[anonymous]

McKay gives the Stargate, the gate room, everything, one last ever so slightly wistful look and squares his shoulders. “When I'm done, I'll send it to you, Colonel,” he says, easily. “I'd really like to get this place right.”
...
Sheppard steps forward and turns, looking at all the places McKay just looked and trying to see them with new eyes, but he's so very tired. “Yeah,” he says, to himself, to no one in particular. “I'd like to do that too.”

i like it. i like the way it implies things; never explicit descriptions, never a definite list of the dead, but between the lines, it's heartbreaking. this atlantis has had a much rougher ride than ours and her people r subtly changed by that.

[e313]

i'd forgotten2log in for the above. sorry.