Document Challenge: Ever After by Brighid

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Challenge: Document Challenge
Title: Ever After
Spoilers: None
Rating: G but not gen. *g*
Author: Brighid
Summary: Uh. Nope.



Ever After

"I really, really hate you," John hissed at Rodney, not for the first time and certainly not for the last time. "I would have thought that by now we'd be finished with the crazy, alien bonding rituals."

Rodney turned his head only a fraction. "Shut up and smile at the marriage commissioner, John."

John smiled tightly at the little white-haired lady in the blue robe standing just a few feet across their backyard under a little white awning that Rodney's nieces had spent the morning festooning with far too many streamers. And then he felt Rodney's fingertips, cool and steady, reach out and caress his palm.

"I don't really hate you," John said finally. "I just dislike you a lot."

"The feeling's mutual. Shall we?" Rodney said.

"Yeah," John sighed. "Why the hell not?"

*0*




*0*

And they lived ... well, like most people do, but with more aliens and a much shorter refractory period for men their age.

And they loved each other a whole lot.

*0*

Brighid 2006

Comments

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

*sappy sigh* Very sweet. *g*

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

B, I love you something wicked. This was beautiful :)


The end was perfect *g*

[girlinthetrilby.livejournal.com]

Awwww!

*floves*

[fatuorum.livejournal.com]

This is so sweet! I can't stop staring at the form *g*

[twisted-vergule.livejournal.com]

Oh! I was just waiting for a marriage one.
And this is delightful, sweet without being too sappy. :)

[mercuriosity.livejournal.com]

with more aliens and a much shorter refractory period for men their age.

BWAHAHAHA. And also, Eeeeee. *g*

[rokeon.livejournal.com]

I read 'nieces,' got confused, and then took an embarrassingly long time to figure out the crazy aliens' home planet.

Canadians made them do it!!!

Neat.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Wait... do you have Rodney born in Kitchener? Woo-hoo!

Damn those alien Canadians!

ever after

[laceymcbain.livejournal.com]

Happily ever after in Canada. *sigh* I like that you called marriage an alien bonding ritual - it really really is.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

Alien bonding rituals. Heeee. I am so amused by the word play.

Also, my inner font whore adores Rodney's handwriting.

[spike21.livejournal.com]

yeah! *g*

[adannu.livejournal.com]

HEE. *reads form again* Hee!

[jcase.livejournal.com]

Oh yay! A treat before bed!

[dizzycadence.livejournal.com]

Bickering right through their wedding day. XD ♥ So much love.

[chocmarsh.livejournal.com]

Aww... This is very sweet.

[jeddy83.livejournal.com]

Hee, cute.

[larauwen.livejournal.com]

and a much shorter refractory period for men their age.

Hee

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

Awwww.....

[sffan.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Very sweet.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Awww, yay!

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Refractory period. Heh.

:)

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Awww! Also, heeee.

[lovessong.livejournal.com]

Very cute!

I'm curious, why Kitchener for Rodney's birthplace? (I have people in Kitchener, so I feel a connection to it.)

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

and a much shorter refractory period for men their age LOL

very, very nice :-) thank you!!!

[ceitie.livejournal.com]

Awesome, as always. :)

[troyswann.livejournal.com]

And they lived ... well, like most people do, but with more aliens and a much shorter refractory period for men their age.

Marry me.

C'moooooon. It's legal in this province! (for now)

:)

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Dude.

I'm so there.

Wait.

Shoot.

Bigamy is still illegal, damn it.

I think you should get one of each, don't you?

B

[teand.livejournal.com]

And they loved each other a whole lot.

Awwwwww.

Reminds of my wedding day..

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Perfect! Loved: "I don't really hate you," John said finally. "I just dislike you a lot." ::grins::

wags, springwoof

[paranoidangel]

That's funny. Although proves I should really read description cos I had no idea what was going on until I read the comments.

[haphazardmethod.livejournal.com]

"I would have thought that by now we'd be finished with the crazy, alien bonding rituals."

So cute. *g*

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

hee! ""Shut up and smile at the marriage commissioner, John."

wonderful and delightful. :)

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Yes. This is totally true.

Except: Rodney's middle name is "Ingram", we read it off the framed documents on his bedroom wall.

[sgatlantislight.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I was waiting for someone to point that out, 'cause I was like, "Wait! That's not his middle name!" Then I slapped myself and said, "Not everyone squints at the tiny screencaps."

Still... *Goes on campaign to assure that people all know that Rodney's middle name is Ingram, that Lorne is Sheppard's XO (Executive Officer) and not his 2IC (2nd in Command), and that Radek's home country is now the Czech Republic not Czechoslovakia.*

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

You're right about me not squinting. I have astigmatism, and even with glasses that's hard on the television or computer.

As for canon?

I guess my take is yes and no.

Until someone says it out loud, it's not canon for me, because I've seen characters in shows given names on props (name tags and desk plates) as in-jokes, but later it's been contradicted in dialogue. So, when someone *says* it, then it's canon, that tends to be my approach.

Other people are welcome to theirs, though.

B

[sgatlantislight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I sort of have 4 levels of canonicity:

1) Canon-- it's been in the dialogue of the show (Dr. Zelenka's first name is Radek, Canadian gateroom tech has the rank of Sergeant (or last name of Sargent)).

2) Almost definitely canon, but you need to squint or make deductions-- it's been in the background somewhere on the show or is a logical deduction from the dialogue that isn't stated outright (Rodney's middle name is Ingram based on a diploma and an award on his wall in Duet, Rodney only has one known living sibling based on him only speaking of/to his sister when faced with almost certain death, Radek has no children based on his discussing children in relation to his nephew and not his own children in Critical Mass).

3) Apocrypha-- it's been stated in commentaries, behind the scenes shows, interviews with or in other communiques from actors or crew, or appears on the IMDB, scifi.com or other official site (the anthropologist from Suspicion is named Dr. Corrigan according to the cast listing on the IMDB, John's father was military from his bio on... I think it was scifi.com, Radek's personal item was a still as stated by David Nykl at a convention (note there are levels of apocrypha-- Corrigan's name and John's father being military are more likely canon than Radek's personal item being a still)). Also included in this would be logical conclusions you could draw about the characters based on nothing but real world history and their own canon background (Rodney probably speaks at least some French since Canadian schoolchildren are usually taught it, Radek probably served in the Czechoslovakian military since service was compulsory when he was of age).

Fanon-- all that other stuff that tends to aggregate around characters but isn't based on anything but popularity of the idea (Major Lorne's first name is Marcus or Nick, the Dr. Kusanagi referenced in a couple of episodes is the same person as Miko who sent a message home in Letters from Pegasus).

The only ones I get particularly squicky about enough to point out are errors in true canon, though I think it's cool when I run across authors who incorporate canon-if-you-squint and apocrypha. I just found it funny that some of the canon-if-you-squint stuff has lodged in my brain sufficiently to cause cognitive dissonance when I read something different.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

except when it isn't.

I never take documents into account, not since Walter had three names. *g*

B

[kajikia.livejournal.com]

Tiny and sweet and perfect. I liked the detail of Sheppard being born in Germany--a whole lot of backstory in those two words.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

Awww!

"And they lived ... well, like most people do, but with more aliens and a much shorter refractory period for men their age."
heheh.

*contemplates all the intriguing little details, like Sheppard being born in Germany*

[sgatlantislight.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was cool. I loved John's take on marriage being an alien bonding ritual. Too funny.