Eliyes

Title: Smart, Tart, and Lush
AU: Mary 'verse
Warning: Sap, exposition, expository sap.
Summary: Teyla is curious about her friend Sam's wife.
Alternate summary: In which Sam rhapsodizes about Mary McKay for several paragraphs because let's face it, I love McKay. I REGRET NOTHING~


( In addition to the metal tags, there was a ring of plain gold hanging from the chain. )

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Comfort Food (SG-1, Teal'c being awesome and cooking)

Inundation (SGA, team + Zelenka & others stranded)

Voyage par Mer (This is big and plotty and revolves around the idea that Rodney McKay and Grant Jansky are cousins. Grant is another character David Hewlett played, in the Canadian series Traders. He's brilliant and sweet and broken. You can see some of his first appearence on youtube. Not seen in that: Grant's hugginess. This fic also has John and Carson. There's some Special Ops John happening, very ruthlessly violent, but man I do not blame him. There's also sequelae but they're not as strong, I feel... probably because they're a WIP for one big sequel.)

Next rec: I, Rodney. As you can probably guess from the title, Rodney is a robot in this one. It works really well, starting with the beginning of the SGA series (John and Rodney get off on the wrong foot), leap frogs regularly between "present" and "Rodney's past" but with multiple povs. We get a lot of interesting stuff with Rodney & Jeannie, as well. It was posted in five parts, and they all link at the bottom to the next, but here: One Two Three Four Five

Some fluffy fics from kisahawklin:
Blanket Fort
Musical Chairs (I like this one especially for John's incredulousness over people thinking he and Rodney are/should be a couple. I've been in that friendship.)
Sprawl (Team + Woolsey n'aww)

A Not So Small Life (Brief character study of John.)

Some moments from John & Rodney's friendship in Like Butch and Sundance, Only Without the Bolivian Army part 1 part 2

With that, I think I've reached the stuff I've already rec'd you, so I shall pause.

Last night wasn't much good for sleeping, so the dreams I had included things from my actual environment, for example: at one point a character in the dream needed to find soem place to sack out with a computer, which turned into me rolling over and flipping my pillow to try to get more comfortable, which then became the character/me setting her laptop on one end of a couch and flopping down on her belly -- but before she could press play, the couch became a bus, and she had to move to let people sit, because the whole reason she needed to lay down with her computer (which wasn't always a laptop) was because she was doing a full virtual immersion, which I guess the bus was part of?

She was surprised to find herself on one of the main streets downtown in my city (except with more brick and shadows and not enough people or detail, but that's what you get when your virtual image of Earth is being produced by aliens who only know it from telepathic contact with humans).

The aliens were a mix from all over. I know I saw a Ferengi an a few other Trek species -- I think I at least heard the word "Talaxian", but things were mostly a mix of Farscape and Stargate. I had the impression throughout that the humans I was watching were from SGU -- but I've never watched it. Do they have any technically proficient, rash, xenophile blonde women on that show?

The most interesting bits were the ones with McKay and Sheppard. (I remember thinking something like 'Oh, that's why it looks familiar, they must have filmed these scenes here. Damn, Flanigan and Hewlett in an episode of SGU, filmed right here, and I missed it!' XD) They were from a different reality than the ones we're used to, which had soemthing to do with how the alien/Ancient tech that was allowing the blonde chick to enter this virtual reality worked.

John with cyberpunk black-frame glasses that had extra bits down his cheeks was... not a bad look for him, actually. McKay was terrified of something, trying to warn her, and Sheppard was armed to the teeth and had that tense look that equals fear with him, so I'm kind of glad that I half-woke again and had the whole thing go off in a different direction when I sunk back to sleep, because I don't actually like being scared.

Five People (or Beings) Who Inhabit the SGC by holdouttrout
"Summary: I got to thinking about how lucky SG-1 was that they never had anything that transformed them permanently, and how there must be a few SGC personnel who weren't so lucky. Thus this was born."

X3

Uh. Technically this is from the same AU as Sunny Day In Metropolis.... (Damn it, I knew I shouldn't have done that meme until the year was over.) Jack and Daniel banter about Dr. Mary McKay. ^^;

( Why Mary Is Not Allowed To Talk To Goa'uld )

You know how I write stories where McKay is Dr. Meredith Rhonda McKay, and goes by Ronnie?

This is not one of those.

This is the 'verse with Dr. Meredith Ingrid McKay, who goes by Mary and works at the SGC. I first thought up a story that takes place a lot later on and primarily features that 'verse's O'Neill, but I finished this bit of backstory first.

Title: Sunny Day In Metropolis...
Summary: McKay has some news for her sister.

( When were you going to tell me?! )

Con-crit invited!

I am taken (ha!) with that alternate reality, and at work I wrote two ficlets about that universe's Sam and Rodney before they got divorced.

And then I got home and found a 4 part epic set in that universe on my f-list.


ARRRRRRRGH!

Kindly stay the hell out of my dreams, sir, and take the Master with you! I don't care if he/it looks like Ba'al (from Stargate) or Amanda (from Highlander), they truly aren't welcome. And take your sea mammals, as well. The SGA kids can stay, as long as Torri promises to get off the cocaine and stop splitting the planet open to dance through the heart of the world.

Most seriously and sincerely,

Eliyes

I have just finished watching the first two episodes of Stargate (SG-1) and the first of Farscape.

:D

Stargate things: While Shanks is clearly playing closer to the movie version of Daniel Jackson here than he is in, say, 8th season, RDK has his Jack O'Neill established almost immediately. This makes me very happy, considering how much I disliked the movie version, and how the TV version is made of win and awesome. The guy who played Kawalsky was awesome, and I also kinda liked the USAF Sergeant who Apophis abducted (whose name we never knew ;_;) and Skaara (sp?) of the awesome hair. I noticed Christopher Judge didn't start using his deep Teal'c voice until the second episode, which was kinda jarring at first. X3 And the Goa'uld are gross, man! Yuck! I had no idea about the X thing. Also, I could have done without seeing Sha're nude.

Conclusion: Jack O'Neill rocks.

Farscape things: Watching this was like reading the beginning of a really interesting sci-fi novel. Crichten (sp?) is understandably overwhelmed by what he's having to deal with. The viewers are slightly less in the dark by virtue of getting to see the aliens interact with each other when he's not around. The blue chicky is not like I expected, personality-wise. The first ep ends with an interesting situation, where they're all stuck together and nobody has decided yet who to trust (I don't count the Pilot and Moya interacting, since unless I'm much mistaken that's a symbiosis).

Query: How many more times in the series will we be seeing Ben Browder nude? :D?

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The very first appearance of Doctor Rodney McKay. You know I had to see it.

God, he's so young. Young and thin -- the hypoglycemia is completely believable at this point, although obviously he's not as mortally allergic to citrus as he said or he wouldn't be eating the slop that the inexplicably surly and malevolent KP goon made a point of depositing on his plate with the same utensil he'd just used on the lemon chicken. I'm glad Carter looks a little stunned by that. Seriously, what was that guy's problem?

You can also see where this episode sort of laid the groundwork for Rodney's envy of Carter's intuitive work with the 'gate. He's got to be younger than her. His voice is higher. He's probably in his very early twenties -- I'm guessing at least 5 years in the difference, maybe closer to 8.

He talks about Russia like he's been there, or knows someone who has and had a bad experience of it. "This sucks!" He practically runs from the room crying. He's such a kid.

This episode also had lots of "awwww, Jack" moments. Like when he's found with his head in his arms in the officer's mess, looking dejected and asleep. Or his O.O "YOU RAT BASTARD!" and lunging at the NID guy. (and subsequent X-Men joke, seriously Jack, ilu <3) Daniel also rocks hard core as the sensitive dude who punctures the stalemate between America and Russia by appealing to the Russian General's heart. I liked this episode.

I kind of wonder how much time canonically passes over the seasons. I mean, the next time we see (this reality's) Rodney, he says his parents hate him. In McKay and Mrs. Miller and then again in The Tao of Rodney to a lesser extent, he speaks of his father in the past tense. "Dad would have wanted us to work together." In fact, he never once mentions his mother -- it's always his father. He hadn't seen his sister in four years about two and a half to three years after leaving for Atlantis. When did his father pass, and how did things stand between them when he did? Oh, and hypochondria is a learned behaviour both McKay siblings exhibit, Jeanie (or Jeannie -- they seem to use both on the official site) had a very similar reaction to Asgard beaming technology. "Oh, that can't be good for you!"

Hmmm.