daredevil muffin-y genius ([info]monanotlisa) wrote,
@ 2007-05-30 23:39:00
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Meme: Personal SGA Fanon
Because [info]panisdead asked, and who could deny her anything? (Ten more later.)




1. At age five, Rodney painstakingly searched the telephone book, proceeded to call an adoption agency, and tried to sign up Jeannie.

His parents never even noticed.



2. By the time she was ten, Teyla had beaten up 62.3% of the children in her age bracket. (And if you think "fair and noble sparring," think again.)

Sometimes, these days, she thinks Atlantis isn't so different; but of course, she is: in control of her temper, now.



3. Elizabeth got a double major -- Political Science and Peace & Conflict Studies -- at Berkeley and went to grad school at Columbia. At first, she'd considered law as to be best-armed in the international arena, but that long hot summer after finishing college, an old school friend already studying law was quietly hushed into a really very nice private clinic, her uncle, an attorney in Boston, was found dead over a case file, his pride-and-joy 1879 hunting rifle still by his temple, and that most inspiring NGO lawyer she'd originally met during an anti-landmine convention in San Francisco was jailed for embezzlement.

After that, she rather went for a doctorate focusing on diplomatic relations and negotiation.



4. Sometimes, Ronon misses his home -- all it was, everything it was -- more than he misses Melena (although he'd been living with her for a while when he joined Kell and his men). Sometimes, he feels guilty about that. Sometimes, he thinks of telling somebody. Maybe Teyla, because she would understand the loss, the bitter-sweetness of looking back. Or John, because John deserves to hear more, has been fighting so hard himself to start talking. Or Rodney -- not because he'd actually understand but because for once, for Ronon, he'd want to.



5. The nightmares stopped only after those last words Colonel Everett had said to John really sunk in.



6. Despite a Kinsey rating between 2 and 3, John hasn't had any sex with guys, but he would have if he hadn't chosen the military early on. And if he were more interested in sex. And if he weren't so good at disregarding what he doesn't want to take into regard...oh, okay, so maybe he wouldn't have.

But now. There's Rodney.



7. Rodney actually skews straighter than John. He is, however, pretty sexually accepting of a) v. smart people, b) v. pretty people, and c) v. cool people. (You can see where this is going, or might be going once Rodney realises his that he could easily subtract the "man" part of his mancrush on John.)



8. [Not really a corollary to 7; more of a Blowjobs Are Blowjobs, and Can We Please Focus On What's Essential To Get Me To Sweden Sometime Soon?]: At 04:41am in Laboratory 3.04, Rodney got a blowjob from Frank Hathaway, his lab partner...but since at 4:51am, the supercomputer they were besieging was finished with his calculations, Rodney's memories of that one and only time have always been vastly overshadowed by the utter and complete triumph of finishing with dazzling success his wave-particle duality project.



9. There's one gate puzzle that Rodney has never solved. It's no comfort to him that the combined efforts of a legion of computer scientists, neurologists, and linguists haven't figured the automatic language translator in the stargates out, either. It is, however, low on his priority list, as it's pretty much the one system where "failure" doesn't spell "automatic catastrophe with lethal outcome" but merely "very undignified pointing and pantomiming with chuckling natives."



10. Until they were driven chose to locate to the mainland, the Athosians spent a significant portion of their time with the Earthers being either amused or vaguely disturbed; despite what the expedition members thought, "amazed" only entered the equation when particularly wonderful works of the Ancients were discovered. Their own cities and war machinery had been crushed to dust by the Wraith centuries ago, true, but everyday Ancient feats of technology have been well-known to the Athosians for thousands and thousands of years.



MC!SHIPPER! BONUS: Know when you find stories that suit your John and Rodney well? These are just recent examples off the top of my head; if you're interested in more, I can keep them coming:

ad 6 (John) Input by [info]resonant8 & A Brief Layover by [info]cottontail

ad 7. (Rodney) Invite First by [info]scribblinlenore

NOTE: These are not necessarily John and Rodney as I write them (but you know that *g*).



I am foregoing my nightly exercises for this, y'all. Plz send the good drugs.

ETA: And because it's time for sharing the idea y'all are not COMPLETELY incompetent -- well, not always -- I could not resist the The Rodney McKay Backhanded Compliments Meme.

ETA too: Join? I already did because it gives me warm and fuzzy feelings: [info]fandom_counts. (Snagged from [info]stultiloquentia, seen everywhere.)



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[info]melagan
2007-05-31 12:38 am UTC (link)
No. 9!!!!!!! Thank you!

Well it's not like canon is going to touch it with a 10ft pole *g*

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-05-31 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Hee. Thank you!

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[info]panisdead
2007-05-31 02:46 am UTC (link)
I totally love these, although number 3 makes me a little...concerned about you.

Number 4 gets me right in the gut. Oh, Ronon. Oh, TEAM.

Man, "A Brief Layover." I love that story with the kind of unholy passion that is more adequately conveyed in blood than in print.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-05-31 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Ahem, yes, I see what you mean.

AND THANKS! I loved #4 so; it makes me want to WRITE RONON.

ABL is really, mind-numbingly good and TRUE to the characters.

...my, I'm having a capslock day. It's been one of those.

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[info]jonesiexxx
2007-05-31 05:36 pm UTC (link)
I'm partial to 8. I wish more men could put blowjobs in perspective.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-05-31 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Indeed. *g*

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[info]ratcreature
2007-05-31 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Heh, these are very cool. I especially like 8 and 10.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-05-31 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]minnow1212
2007-06-01 02:11 am UTC (link)
Oh, 4. All of these were fun, but four.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-01 02:27 pm UTC (link)
It's just -- I started thinking, "Okay, one for Ronon, which might prove to be h...ey, WAIT A MINUTE, BUT OF COURSE!"

& ;-)

Thank you. Feedback from you especially makes my heart go pitter-patter.

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[info]feanna
2007-06-01 09:09 pm UTC (link)
Hey,
just pointing out that the Kinsey scale is actually about sexual experiences not about orientation. A very gay person can still rate six if they nver acted on it. Kinsey's surveys were all about things that Americans had actually done, not about how they felt.

That said, I(and I suspect everybody else) do understand what you're saying about John,so no harm done.

I went ow about Rodney's parents because trying to get rid of his sister is such a sibling thing to do (just like playing peacefully an hour later) and Rodney being Rodney would go big and think of an interesting way to do it. And then the understated sledgehammer about the parents not noticing.

Teyla - the first thought IS some kind of trainig related talent, but I like the idea of little Teyla the devil (maybe a little too much as I never liked kids who hit when I was that age myself)

Number 5, I think there's a whole new hell behind what Everett told John.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-01 09:22 pm UTC (link)
just pointing out that the Kinsey scale is actually about sexual experiences not about orientation.

Ah-hah!

Nobody knows that, btw. Not all the gay people I know, either -- and I know a lot. *g*

Number 5, I think there's a whole new hell behind what Everett told John.

Good -- and interesting! -- point; I just extrapolated from canon which had us see John's face upon mention of Sumner, and never again after Col. Everett.

And thank you! In-depth commentary I love best.

I like the idea of little Teyla the devil (maybe a little too much as I never liked kids who hit when I was that age myself)

Oh, I once got in a fistfight with the evil little boy in my class. Got him against the fence, but the teachers came. Boo.

That said, I don't think Teyla was the devil -- she just really had no patience and a rather, hmm, passionate disposition.

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[info]feanna
2007-06-02 01:36 am UTC (link)
Hey,
I actually found out about the Kinsey thing in fanon. Somebody pointed it out in a thread about rating Harry Potter charactrs (there too it was about what you perceived them as not as what they'd actually done in canon ot fanon).

I thought about the nightmare thing. I'm not sure where I stand on this. On one side I would think that John knows that he did the right if very hard thing (and for the right reasons too), so the fact whether or not he has nightmares should not be affected by anything Col. Everetttells him. On the other hand Everett is in a unique position to "approve" of John's actions as both a wraith victim and his superior officer. So I agree that on the whole this might have made it easier for John. I just find the whole situation incredibly tragic. Objectively death should be worse and that the victim itself says it isn't points to a story with no happy ending. So the whole situation makes me uncomfortable and more so than Col. Sumner dying. However on John this situation should be easier.
And kudos to you on picking up the things on the show that support this.

I meant the devil in a very lovable way.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-02 10:19 am UTC (link)
I meant the devil in a very lovable way.

Ah, I see. Is this an idiomatic misunderstanding of mine? *g*

John knows that he did the right if very hard thing

I believe that doing the right thing does not prevent you from nightmares at all -- the scope and horror of what you have done stands independently of its moral and ethical classification, I think.

On the other hand Everett is in a unique position to "approve" of John's actions as both a wraith victim and his superior officer.

Yes, exactly.

So I agree that on the whole this might have made it easier for John. I just find the whole situation incredibly tragic. Objectively death should be worse and that the victim itself says it isn't points to a story with no happy ending. So the whole situation makes me uncomfortable and more so than Col. Sumner dying. However on John this situation should be easier.

It should, yes, but really -- re-watch the events after he shoots Sumner in Rising, and you see it on his face: John is not at all, not even a little bit easy-going about this. Yes, he's a soldier, yes, he is the one who actually saves Sumner from worse...but he's also a human being, a guy lost in another galaxy full of monsters, suddenly in charge through the very act that left his superior officer dead.

Of course, lots of other interpretations possible. The "John Sheppard is a sociophath" faction had a lot of followers, after all (though I know this is not what you're saying at all, don't worry).

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[info]feanna
2007-06-02 10:38 am UTC (link)
I believe that doing the right thing does not prevent you from nightmares at all -- the scope and horror of what you have done stands independently of its moral and ethical classification, I think.

I agree with you on that. I just meant to express that intellectually he knows what is what and that the nicgtmares not being influenced by this intellectual understanding might not be influenced by outside approval. This means that he will still have nightmares about Sumner even after what Col. Everett said. But then I considered that the situation could very well influence John on that deep down emotional level, because Col. Everett saying something like that is different than for example Elizabeth saying it.

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-02 10:39 am UTC (link)
That's exactly what I meant -- the difference between the intellectual understanding and the emotional coping mechanisms. Yup.

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[info]springwoof
2007-06-03 12:10 am UTC (link)
Number 8! OMG, YES!! so, so Rodney.... (and also, no.1, but we knew that...)
And no.2 and 4 are great insights into Teyla & Ronon....

very cool!

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-03 12:12 am UTC (link)
Thank you so much!

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[info]mcalex22
2007-06-03 06:12 am UTC (link)
They all rock - but I love No1 and No10. Coz seriously, the Athosians must get a big crackle out of living with these guys :D

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[info]monanotlisa
2007-06-03 06:34 pm UTC (link)
Seriously!

And cheers. & :-)

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