It's been along time since I posted anything, but life gets in the way the sometimes; work and graduate school can keep a person pretty busy even when they're not the fun-est bunch of things to fill my time with. This new years I hope to spend more time on my blog that is basically only exsisting to entertain my self with.
I also that other people will find my suggestions helpful and as entertaining as do, but as my counter tells I'm basically writing this blog for myself....c'est la vie!
Advantage - by Resonant, Aliens turn John into Rodney's slave.
Now I usually don't like slave fics along the same lines for why don't like BDSM fics the characters are usually way OOC and I'm also not much for dark fics unless I am absolutely sure that there will be a happy ending. This is not like any slave fic I've gritted my teeth through, it's actually really funny, John gets turned into Rodney's slave, but he is possibly the most cheerful and bossy slave I've read about. Rodney is of course reluctant but hey if your going to have a slave following you around demanding you make him do things why not let him make you, make him right? There is also juggling and very cute scenes of John taking care of Rodney in his sarcastic, shut-up-Rodney kinda way.
A Beautiful Lifetime Event - by Shallot, John and Rodney have a baby thanks to ancient technology, and it of course changes their lives.
Shallot has alot of really great SGA fics but this one is by far my favorite. I'm not sure why I like to read about John and Rodney as dad's but I really really do, fills me with wooby feelings and happy family fantasies. Their relationship builds slowly or as John puts it "I didn't know I was already married" and the sex isn't till the end but it's worth the wait as it is all the more satisfying. I absolutely love their daughter in this fic, but I got to love any girl who wants a power drill set and a hot pink Barbie car.
The Chair- by Xanthe, Rodney is genetically destined for John....this is not as great as it sounds.
This is Xanthe's first ever SGA fic and you can tell as the voices are alittle rough to me but even then the story is still awesome. Rodney discovers that there is another chair and that it can harness energy to use as a powerful weapon. What kind of power does it run one you ask? Well seeing as how this is a slash fic it uses human sexual energy and that's where John and Rodney jump in. John is the only one who can use the chair because of the ATA gene and Rodney is his genetic match. Now I would consider this the definition of the "fuck or die" story.
Inchworm - Cottontail sequel to "Like No Other Child" Oscar becomes a regular in the infirmary and the only thing keeping Rodney rational is the knowledge that his visits aren’t mandatory. Once bandages and salves are applied he can usually go right back home to his own bed. There are no overnight stays, no injections and treatments. He just leaves with another new bruise, scratch or cut and a lollipop.
When I saw there was a sequel to "Like No Other Child" I was really excited. The first was so great that I knew any follow up would be the same. After all the sadness and angst of the first one, a little light heartedness was kind of a relief, but it is never without a tinge of bitter-sweetness. John and Rodney decide to have another child, which if you had read the first, you would know that in the end they allude to having a second, Oscar. Like in the first the story is told back and forth through time, starting with Oscar, who has Rodney's smarts and John's devil-may-care attitude graduating from Caltech - age 19. I like how this focuses on Rodney, he's for lack of a better term - like a mother who lost a child; frightened, hopeful, obsessively concerned with his child's health, worried that the second child will subplant the memory of the first. Which of course would never happen and only crystalizes the memories because that's what it's about building memories.
All of my very favorite men.....how many hours of sleep have I lost reading about them canoodling. I may never know.
Lydia
