Fic: Liminal (McKay/Sheppard, NC-17)

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Title: Liminal
Author: viva_gloria
Recipient: cathalin
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Rating: NC17
Word Count: ~56,500 words
Summary: AU. England, 1946: the war is over, and John Sheppard has nowhere to go. The new Atlantis community, founded by Mrs Elizabeth Weir out on the bleak east coast, is as good a place as any ...

LiminalPlease note, due the length of this story,

Comments

[yasaman]

I really don't know how to put what I loved about this story into words but--I absolutely loved it. The pacing, the atmosphere, and omg the ending...I definitely foresee this as being a comfort read in the future.

[viva_gloria]

I'm so glad I took the time to write this fic at this length: it was really good to be able to develop themes slowly and work up the sense of place. And happyhappyending is so what they all deserve!

[temaris]

Wow. This is amazing. The bleakness of the time and place, balanced against their plans and hopes -- and the silver city, just out of reach. The atmosphere is amazing, and the story too, the way they all change and shift (in so many ways!). Engrossing and memorable.

[viva_gloria]

The atmosphere is firmly based on the real location (which doesn't, as far as I know, have a silver city lurking just around the corner of reality: but it could). One of my favourite places and very atmospheric ... I think I put a lot of myself, and quite a bit of family memory, into this. Thank you ever so much for reading, enjoying, commenting!

[viva_gloria]

NB illustrated version now available via my website http://www.freaky.nu/glorious/010109b.htm

[threnodyjones]

This was a long, beautiful, wonderful journey. I loved the delicacy and the way you had with words, turns of phrase, the essential characters of the people in the story. Lovely, lovely writing. Thank you so much for taking the time to write it!

[viva_gloria]

Thank you for taking the time to comment! I wrote this as my Nanowrimo this year: I wanted to explore the fic at length and build up atmosphere, character etc.

[dossier]

oh. my. Wow.

I love the detail of the world around Atlantis, the rhythms of the seasons, and the stragglers all looking for something more, better, peace wash up on their battered shore (to borrow an Americanism) and find it. The slow mystery of the ghosts, and the city, and the beacon that it becomes for them wanting it, searching for it. Ronon, the city kid, Teyla as the stand in for Anastasia, displaced Royalty, stand out especially in a glittering array of fascinating characters. John and Rodney's relationship, they way that John is so desperate for him is just breathtaking. and yet, as lovely as it is, there's the feel that, even as they're prospering, there's a feeling of marking time, too.

And the siren call of the city, open and welcoming, calling to John, to all of them, the epitome not of escape, but moving forward. utterly fantastic.

[viva_gloria]

Mmmm, you give good comment! From what you say, I achieved pretty much what I set out to write -- they're on the edge, not running away but running towards. Thank you!

[mairi_]

oh my. I'm just breathless incredible, detailed, engrossing and that ending... incredible is the only word I can find that even comes close.

[viva_gloria]

thank you ever so much! I really, really wanted to write a happy ending -- a happy beginning? -- for these versions.