Days of the Dead: The Third Day (Mineralium), by Sophonisba [amnesty 2008|comfort challenge]

[saphanibaal]

-title- Days of the Dead: The Third Day (Mineralium)
-author- Sophonisba (saphanibaal)
-ratings/warnings- Reference to canon pairings, including (or perhaps especially) Ronon/Melena. Implications, both of possible eventual pairings and of in-story speculation. Some crude physical humor. Spelling/orthographic variations denoting mishearings or

Comments

[mrshamill]

These were beautifully done. I'm particularly envious of your ability to reference us pitiful earthers as actual aliens to Ronon and Teyla, and to do it so well. The food fight in this installment was a particularly good addition. I adore Ronon and you captured him just perfectly, his voice came across clear as crystal. Thank you for this, a lovely Christmas present!

[saphanibaal]

Thank you so much for all of your kind compliments!

I think describing one's own culture from an outside point of view tends to be a little easier if you've studied other cultures in enough detail to be able to put your head in that mindset for at least three seconds together. (And, of course, from Ronon's point of view Teyla, Miko, and Elizabeth are all equally alien, and sometimes it's a little hard to keep who has what minefield straight.)

The food fight was directly inspired by the one in They Were Eleven (which, if you haven't seen, you really, really should). ^_^

And I'm glad my Ronon-voice is good, because I think he's the major character I have the least handle on.

You're very welcome!

[lillian13]

Ah, I take any of your AU fics as the excellent gifts that they are, and this one was very appropriate, at the ending of the year.

The McKay Sausage Incident was laugh-out-loud funny. :-)

(One teeny edit: "forcing himself to meet the mismatched gaxe", s/b "gaze")

[saphanibaal]

Thank you so much for your compliments (and for catching the typo)!

I'm glad the Sausage Incident was as funny as it seemed in my head (it sort of arrived at the last minute, as I was trying to wrap things up without taking a detour into Ronon in Anthro and Linguistics). ^_^

[jackalyn]

Very good. But I'm wondering where was the first time that Ronon saw Teyla in a dream? Because he mentioned the necklaces, and I can't seem to find that scene.

[saphanibaal]

I seem to recall that Teyla has worn necklaces before, in addition to the one that caused all the problems back in first year.

(If not... this is an AU, so now and then in the city, she has worn necklaces. *hastily slaps on spackle*)

Thank you for commenting!

[rebeccasmask]

The courting couple- Meg and Calvin? From A Wrinkle in Time?

the courting couple...

[saphanibaal]

Pretty much, yes... the one problem with limited point of view is that I can't actually say that Ronon's having an unusually lucid dream because he's drifted into a thought out near the edge of the Pegasus Galaxy that quite a number of people have been maintaining: in addition to its creators, various children and heroes from various times/places/dimensions visit regularly in their dreams in order to relax and be children (maybe they want to regress for a break, maybe their own childhoods stink, maybe they found their way in early by natural talent and will come back when their subconscious is feeling nostalgic); Meg and Calvin drifted into it by accident when they fell asleep kything once, sometime after A Wind in the Door, and came over from their world often enough before they were married that the landscape now has an idea of Meg-and-Calvin written onto that particular hill; and it's also why Riku and Sora are practicing on down the beach. ^_

[adannu]

As ever, I always love reading your stories and how we Earthers present to Ronon as aliens -- and this one is no exception. (Although I must admit that I giggled like a five year old when the team found out just where Satedan men wore their wedding tackle.)

The day of the dead ritual was lovely to read as well -- very quiet and reflective, and it blends well with the leavening of humor, IMO.

[saphanibaal]

Thank you for your kind comments! I enjoy working out different cultures, and I'm glad that my ritual felt natural (so often alien rituals in fic seem to be entirely plot-driven, and it's not as if there's anything WRONG with that per se, but anthropology in fic croons to me).

The wedding-tackle-on-the-wedding-tackle was partly a result of me wanting him to still have whatever token he had of his marriage to Melena, but then vague notions met up with the deeply sexist setup I'd brainstormed for my!Sateda and demanded that I had to do this, it would work.

(I'm pretty sure that the next day, Rodney put this and the previous day together and wondered whether that was why Satedan women thought that men who had several wives already were the ultimate in hotness; Ronon would have rolled his eyes and said that certainly it had been widely believed -- by twelve-year-old boys.) ^_^

Once again, thank you!