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G-Plot: Gawain and the Green Knight

Sep 07, 2007 07:41

Title: True Men Can But Try
Author: Brat Farrar
Approx Word Count: 200
Genre: Fairytale/Myth
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Summary: When he was young, it had seemed so very simple.

( He said, “Why should I tarry?”
And smiled with tranquil eye;
“In destinies sad or merry,
True men can but try.” )

fandom: sga, theme: fairytales, plot: g, fic: complete

Comments 18

apple_pi September 7 2007, 11:49:30 UTC

Mmm, gorgeous - perfect drawing of lines and corollaries between the two stories. And oh boy, does John ever get to be a knight, finally.

bratfarrar September 7 2007, 12:23:25 UTC

I wrote this sort of last minute, having realized that there was no way I would get the actual story done. So I'm glad it works!

And oh boy, does John ever get to be a knight, finally.

Yup. ^_^

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bratfarrar September 7 2007, 23:50:12 UTC

Glad you like it!

padawan_aneiki September 8 2007, 01:12:04 UTC

Oh cool, I like the analogy greatly. :) Too short, tho'. ;)

bratfarrar September 8 2007, 01:42:46 UTC

Better than it being too long. ^_-

But yeah, it's not really a story - just another fragment of backstory. There is a much longer fic in the works, sort of along the same lines, which will (hopefully) be done in the next week or so.

And that, for sake of that segge, in swete to were kyriacarlisle September 8 2007, 01:31:25 UTC

Oh, now this - medievalist geek that I am - this I like a lot: for its telling of both stories; and the vivid picture it gives me, in so few words, of a small John curled up and listening to his mother. And, in the last sentence, John swept up amidst all the not-quite-pristine heroes of the Atlantis expedition, in that wonderful echo of the last lines of the poem. Mmm. Lovely.

Re: And that, for sake of that segge, in swete to were bratfarrar September 8 2007, 01:56:04 UTC

I have a much-thumbed copy of Sir Gawain that I brought to college with me, just so I'd have it on hand to refer to. It's definitely my favorite medieval work - I couldn't resist the challenge of combining it with SGA.

I'm very glad to hear you liked this - my main concern with these sorts of things is always to do justice to both sources.

kriadydragon September 8 2007, 02:20:52 UTC

Awesome. I love how smoothly the analogy melds.

bratfarrar September 8 2007, 02:31:33 UTC

I wish I could claim much careful work, but it pretty much just wrote itself. One of those things that's a gift, given whole and complete and needing very little refinement.