couple fics, couple recs

[tielan]

Recs first:

The Same Voice by purple_cube: John/Teyla - doppelgänger!Sheppard and a living!Sumner in Atlantis! What's not to love?

A Preference For Temperate Weather by pentapus: John/Teyla - John and Teyla on Earth (with possible John/Teyla/Rodney threesome angles)!

Pox by iheartkeys: It's labelled John/Teyla, but it's really John&Teyla and John&team and is adorable for the image of John running around looking after his sick team-mates.

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And a couple of fics:

Take - John/Teyla, Conversion-fic,

All Or Nothing - Ronon/Elizabeth, Earth-fic.

I was thinking about writing a Rodney/Ronon kiss for that challenge, but ran out of time.

Oh, and the Porn Battle is coming up, so getcha smut ideas up and lined!

Comments

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

I struggle to imagine John and Rodney in that kind of relationship, however, since I do enjoy slash and finding regular doses of other pairing involving John is almost impossible, I often end up reading McShep just out of frustration at having nothing else to read. If there were a plentiful supply of John with Ronon, or Evan, or Carson, or Radek, I probably wouldn't go near McShep.

I'm loathe to say I don't really see it, because it infers that appropriation mentality of fandom and I don't watch shows like that. I keep my watching of the show and my fic-reading separate, and I hate the appropration of characters that involves that 'OMG MOMENT IN CANON' crap you see all too often in this fandom and is especially prevalent in certain ships. Shows are what I see and is 'canon' - fic is really anything I want to imagine. it's possibility in canon is of little consequence or importance to me. Except when I read gen, of course. ;o)

[therisingmoon.livejournal.com]

the thing about john/rodney (i refuse to use the damn portmanteau) for me is that, while i can see and understand where the subtext would lie in the show, it just doesn't convey into fic that i want to read.

but the stories featuring john and ronon work better for me because their interaction seems to convey much more easily for me. there have been stories recced all over the place and i don't read them simply because john/rodney is simply not a pairing that works for me.

heh, in my current fandom, anything could be considered canon and sometimes you wonder if the canon reads our fic.

[beanie-j.livejournal.com]

I can't really put down why McShep (lazy!) doesn't particularly work as a pairing for me. I don't know if I can say I don't see where other people's subtext comes from...more that it's not something that interests me in the canon watching of a show. I think skewed perceptions of others have left me avoiding looking for subtext, which might explain my love of pairings where there isn't that much available due to distinct lack of interaction between those characters.

Ultimately, I think the most off-putting aspect of the pairing is their canon behaviour towards each other. I can't make that behaviour translate into more than possible casual sex - certainly not an established relationship - which probably accounts for McShep being nothing more than my gay p*rn fix. I could probably include my distinct lack of interest in Rodney as a character too. Pretty much the entire fandom is alight with how 'brilliant' he is - I just find him distinctly annoying.

Honestly, there are very few things in SGA fandom writing that I'd like to see as canon. There is the odd story delving into the past that I could see being backstory and people comment of areas that need developing that I might agree with, but on the whole, no.