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crysothemis; SGA vid; McShep; a thousand squealy hearts
So, here's the thing. All my friends are big ole nerds. The larping, csa-ing, vampire the masquerading, totally memorized every line in LoTR kind. And naturally they are all gaga over SGA. Last week at volleyball, my friend Mert lamented the end of SGA and when I mentioned that I could totally rec her some fanfic if she wanted to keep the torch alive, she said, "I've run across some of that where everybody's doing it with everybody else and it's just so ridiculous." I jumped on my gen bandwagon and promised her that there's more to fandom than just the AWESOMEASS PORN and I think she halfway believed me. But then she threw me for a loop. "It's always John and Rodney and I just don't get that," she says. So I found myself trying to explain the McShep to someone who owns a pair of slash goggles and is currently focusing them on Rodney and Radek but does not get the McShep subtext at all.
I found myself saying things like, "But, but in that episode with the little girl, they're like totally married," or "He calls for John the whole episode," or "Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeammmm!" and that was not working.
Y'all know me. I NOTP. A good writer can make me believe anything and the more novel and interesting the pairing, the happier a Lorraine I be. Bring me your Teyla/Jeannie, your Sheppard/Caldwell, your OMG Dean Winchester/Rodney McKay. *rubs hands together gleefully* I do not require subtext to write a pairing; see my Bates/Kavanagh epic. But sometimes, man, the subtext hits me in the face. I will admit that I didn't see the John/Rodney subtext until around season three and of course now that I've seen it, it's woven its little insidious tendrils into the first two seasons as well.
So here's my question to you guys: If you had to explain in a maximum of ten examples why John and Rodney *could be* [notice the conditional there; not ARE, but COULD BE; I ran out of tinfoil today] doing it behind the scenes, what would you choose? Elucidate the subtext for me in easy to regurgitate bullet points please.
Incidentally, does this happen to you guys a lot? Do you find yourself explaining to your friends why Sam and Dean are totally doing it or Buffy and Faith or Kaylee and Jayne and they're all, WTF? What do you do? Do you meet a lot of resistance? Horror stories? Successes?
crysothemis; SGA vid; McShep; a thousand squealy hearts So, here's the thing. All my friends are big ole nerds. The larping, csa-ing, vampire the masquerading, totally memorized every line in LoTR kind. And naturally they are all gaga over SGA. Last week at volleyball, my friend Mert lamented the end of SGA and when I mentioned that I could totally rec her some fanfic if she wanted to keep the torch alive, she said, "I've run across some of that where everybody's doing it with everybody else and it's just so ridiculous." I jumped on my gen bandwagon and promised her that there's more to fandom than just the AWESOMEASS PORN and I think she halfway believed me. But then she threw me for a loop. "It's always John and Rodney and I just don't get that," she says. So I found myself trying to explain the McShep to someone who owns a pair of slash goggles and is currently focusing them on Rodney and Radek but does not get the McShep subtext at all.
I found myself saying things like, "But, but in that episode with the little girl, they're like totally married," or "He calls for John the whole episode," or "Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeammmm!" and that was not working.
Y'all know me. I NOTP. A good writer can make me believe anything and the more novel and interesting the pairing, the happier a Lorraine I be. Bring me your Teyla/Jeannie, your Sheppard/Caldwell, your OMG Dean Winchester/Rodney McKay. *rubs hands together gleefully* I do not require subtext to write a pairing; see my Bates/Kavanagh epic. But sometimes, man, the subtext hits me in the face. I will admit that I didn't see the John/Rodney subtext until around season three and of course now that I've seen it, it's woven its little insidious tendrils into the first two seasons as well.
So here's my question to you guys: If you had to explain in a maximum of ten examples why John and Rodney *could be* [notice the conditional there; not ARE, but COULD BE; I ran out of tinfoil today] doing it behind the scenes, what would you choose? Elucidate the subtext for me in easy to regurgitate bullet points please.
Incidentally, does this happen to you guys a lot? Do you find yourself explaining to your friends why Sam and Dean are totally doing it or Buffy and Faith or Kaylee and Jayne and they're all, WTF? What do you do? Do you meet a lot of resistance? Horror stories? Successes?
