Miss Cellaneous

i updated my sga genderswitch post -- if you see me missing a favourite of yours, feel free to drop me a line, always.

a propos, you can imagine the point where i squeed when watching ugly betty: "canonical genderswitch! awesome!" of course, a second later, i went, "...or is it?" awesome, yes. but genderswitch (from the show writers)? i wondered about the classification issue while updating above entry, too; it's not always so clear-cut, or at the very least the "genderswitch" label just has different definitions to different people.

( musings )

eta: forgot to mention that "has always been [gender x x/y]" stories, alternate universes, are also a different animal, and yet again, i included jenn's story (of a girl) -- same issues, different level; it's all in the meta: like modern art, such fanfiction relies on the perception of the reader, i.e. her or his background of both canon and fanon. the power and impact comes from that contrast/comparison rather than internal story developments.

I loved seperis's latest fic. I really, really loved it.

Title: Story of a Girl
Author: jenn
Codes: Sheppard/McKay, AU, genderswitch
Spoilers: Rising, The Storm, The Eye, Siege II, Conversion, Common Ground, McKay and Mrs. Miller (and general for seasons one, two, three)
Rating: R/NC-17

This is where I'd usually put my little excerpt, for a first taste, but really, with this story, I cannot decide. If you read German, go look at frogspace's flail-y recommendation post. Bear in mind that this is not a genderswitch kink story (not that I don't love those, I do!); it's an Alternate Universe paralleling canon exactly, the sole premise being that Sheppard is and has always been female.

( My FEEDBACK for this story )

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And to round 'em all up -- hel-lo to the non-SGAers who roll their eyes and currently consider putting me on filters (if they haven't already):

gaiaanarchy has also written a great (if much too short) Sheppard-As-A-Woman story, but that one's definitely more of an AU, complete with trips to different dimensions and different life choices:

Title: Half the Perfect World
Author: Gaia (gaiaanarchy)
Characters/Pairing: girl!John/Rodney, McShep preslash
Rating: R (for language and violence)
Category: genderfuck, Mirror Universe, sprogs
Disclaimer: Don’t own SGA and don’t make money.
Spoilers: Trinity
Word Count: ~10,900
Summary: John asks an ancient device to go home and ends up over the rainbow instead (assuming 'over the rainbow' resembles suburbia, of course). Girl!John/Rodney.

Saturday, oh, how I love thee.

shadowserenity has an SGA poll very dear to my heart in her LJ. & ;-)

Oh, God, I'm dead.

::points to new chapter of Ard::

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In other genderswitch news, I made some rather questionable manips of Girl!Sam.

I've updated my list of SGA genderswitch stories.

A propos: The next chapter of Ard is with the betas.

I got through the first chapter of my intro course book. Yay(ish) me.

Speaking of...really bad segues: Chapter Eight & Chapter Nine of Ard are up.

Chapter Seven of Ard is posted -- Eight and Nine will follow as soon as they come back from the last beta.

Also, fa_crylic has given us girl!John with a gun & a thigh holster, plus icons. Go marvel and praise her here.

Okay, this is Mona's-Femslash-Filter* exclusive, for now, so don't share this yet --

it'll be part of the extras to Auburn's and my DVD commentary on Ardhanarishvara.

* If you want off it, just say the word! No hard feelings, seriously.

Mona: You know, I just wanted to transcribe the background exchange we talked about, but now it seems I'm writing Cadman/Girl!John smut...
Auburn: Do I have to hose you down?

The answer is Yes, Probably. Although it's also dar_jeeling's fault; she created this Girl!John icon.

On to the fanfic:

( Not Ockham's, Exactly )

Constructive criticism more than welcome; thanks to z_rayne for the beta!

Chapter Six of Ardhanarishvara

Not that the ones who care for that sort of stuff haven't seen them already...but in the department of Art Also Inspired by Ardhanarishvara, we have Ronon as a Woman by lierdumoa in addition to pentapus's Girl!John.

Big thanks to the artists. Wish you could see the smile on my face.

More Ardhanarishvara posted:

Chapter Four
Chapter Five


Feedback is loved and cherished and will be stuffed under our pillows before we go to bed.

Title: Ardhanarishvara
Fandom: Stargate:Atlantis
Author(s): Auburn & Mona aka auburnnotlisa
Timeline: Pre-The Long Goodbye 2x16
Rating: a hard R
Characters (in alphabetical order): Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, plus supporting cast
Pairing(s): Something for everyone...no, okay, that's a filthy lie. But something for most of you. At some point. Promise.
Warning: This fic does *not* contain BDSM, incest, bestiality...or wait, the last one needs a caveat. One of them might end up as a penguin, perhaps. The fic's not done yet, after all.

Summary:

"Tell me, Colonel, did you take a look around and think, hey, it's the Planet of Sex Changes?"



Ardhanarishvara, Part One

Part Two

Part Three




Gratitude heaped upon: panisdead, z_rayne, and trinityofone

Let's hope the answer to Can you overdose on ginger? is *no*; I'm on my second pot of vanilla-Assam with freshly grated ginger.

Now, for something more interesting to me and, like, three other people, anyway. Mostly for reference quite a few among you; have I recently mentioned how much I love SGA fandom?

( Genderswitch Story Collection - SGA - plus short musings )