The Te of John, by Speranza

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Title: The Te of John (43k)
Author: Speranza
Pairing: McShep
Words: ~ 7000
Author's Note: Should be grading, so finishing old flashfics instead. For the Wordless challenge.
Excerpt: "Do you remember the Total Perspective Vortex?"

Comments

[summertea.livejournal.com]

ajglkhglkja;laj;lakjalsdkfh;lkaja

*incoherent noises*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you! (See, you did the wordless thing better than I did; I'm wordy by orientation *g*)

[taiteilija.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is -- oh ♥

I didn't really have time to read this, but I clicked the link anyway and lost myself in the story, and boy it was worth it.

Wonderful. Just -- wonderful. Thank you.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I am proud to be not only avoiding my own work, but being the cause of work-avoidance in others! \o/

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

Yay for amnesty! This is *fabulous*!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Yay for amnesty is RIGHT; man, I love amnesty! W00T. (And thank you!)

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Oh love. I love how furious John is, how he doesn't even realize the depths of his own rage and fear. And Rodney will totally see that last line as the 'i love you' it totally is :D

Fabulous!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

It's totally "I love you!" I'm loving how everybody really GOT the whole subtext of their dysfunctional personalities. I love these guys SO MUCH!!

Thank you!

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Oh! If I had tried to come up with a situation in which Rodney would want to ascend, I would have failed totally, but this works. The Total Perspective Vortex would truly screw him up, even more than it would for the rest of us (with smaller egos and lesser understandings of physics and energy).

And John! Saving Rodney's life by being as irritating as possible. This might just be the mission John was born for. :o) I love the emotion roiling in him, kept tight under wraps until the end, when it exploded all over the room in glorious, needy sex.

And this: "You crazy bastard: I'm not gay," except it was the most spectacularly mixed message ever, because McKay was dragging him down for the hottest, dirtiest kiss he'd ever gotten: all wet mouth and tongue and intent to fuck. broke my brain.

Thank you for blowing off grading to finish this. So worth it!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

The Total Perspective Vortex would truly screw him up,

Right, yes--at least I hoped that would fly! It seems to me that if anybody would be interested in ascension as a matter to energy transaction, it would be our agnostic McKay. So I--I mean, if I have to give my own opinion of this story, I'd say that the downside of it is you can TOTALLY see what I'm interested in: that second half where we replay Tao of Rodney except Rodney wants to go this time, and--yes!--John being irritating, you've nailed it. (I actually joked that it was a story about John saving Rodney by being as annoying as possible, so I'm so totally tickled that it's there on the page. \o/ Thank you!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kiden/]

This is amazing. I practically have no words for how much I loved it, so those will have to do.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

These are fine words! (And it's a wordless challenge after all!) Thank you!

[heartsansraison.livejournal.com]

Hah!

How can I resist any of your SGA fics that refer to Douglas Adams!

And this is so them, so marvelous.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

It's funny, because normally I'm against this sort of citation as a distracting fan shout-out, just--I believe with all my heart that John and Rodney are geeks and have read Hitchhikers, and know all of Trek backwards and forwards, and and and. They really ARE the geeks we are, and they're almost exactly my age, so I feel comfortable playing like this.

Thank you!

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

*shimmies happily*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

*loves to watch your hips*

[freetodream5.livejournal.com]

this fic

made of absolute WIN

and so completely AWESOME

and total words fail me right now

but DAMN *saves to mems*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Wow, you wrote me a prose poem of happy feedback. Thank you!! It's like being fed back by ee cummings.

[shalom]

Marvelous job. Their interaction is so solid throughout.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was trying to show that--well, that they're best friends, and that they're both really annoying. *g* Cause I think they really, really are!

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

There is something both hilarious and endearing in the image of John poking his nose in Rodney's flab and calling him an egotistical bastard. Most enjoyable. :)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Yay! They're just such Frick and Frack. I love them SO MUCH.

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. I loved it. I can't even begrudge it.

I especially love the dialogue. You have a really sharp ear for it, and so many of John's lines are perfect in this. I can hear him saying them as I read.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Thank you, especially about the dialogue. And--BRITISH MUSEUM. I PROMISE YOU.

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

OH MY HEART. And oh John Sheppard and his own percentage of crazy—so desperate and so annoying and so right about Rodney, who is, of course, SO PERFECT for him.

I don't want to go put edits into Quark—I just want to bask in this all afternoon.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS! IN A TOTALLY ANNOYING WAY! {squeezes them!!}}

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

How much do I love that the first word we hear Rodney say is "John"?

And -- oh --

"Go on, say it," McKay said, and poked his head. "Say you love me, and I won't ascend."

"Bite me, McKay," John muttered. "Go suck a lemon," but he slid his arm around McKay's too-soft, too-pale body, and held on tight.

asdfhsdhsdhdsfh

OMG I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

Ahem. This is awesome, is what I meant to say.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

*cries* I know, I know, I love them too! Frick and Frack--so best friends, so annoying, so "please lock them in a room together forever!"

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

Poor, poor John. He has the emotional maturity of my 9 year old. My favorite part was when he was throwing things at near-ascension McKay.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

He DOES. 9 is about RIGHT. Thankfully, Rodney's MAYBE EIGHT.

[sihayab.livejournal.com]

Guys!

Guys with dicks!

Guys with dicks who can't even THINK about emotions without getting all twitchy and angry and. . . guy-like.

Yeah.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Ahaha--I know, I know, I'm such a sucker for it. I want to see them ride their bikes together! Go to the mall. Eat popcorn. Jerk each other off during bad informercials on those collections of songs from the 70s.

[rustler.livejournal.com]

Go suck a lemon! \0/

John's kind of petulant anger here felt right on to me, as did Rodney's fatalistic decision to try to ascend...and then of course his particular brand of self-absorbed obliviousness towards John's reaction. Beautifully conveyed.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

John is totally DEFINED by petulant anger! Also-I love the phrase "self-absorbed obliviousness"--because yes and yes and yes. This is my "annoying best friends" story, ha ha. I'm so delighted everybody's "right there" with it!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

*flails*

This was *exactly* the story I needed to read at exactly the perfect moment in time for me to read it. THANK YOU.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Madame Sisabet, I LIVE TO SERVE YOU, OMG. *hugs you tight*

[kitestringer.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaawww, *JOHN*. He acted exactly the way I would, I think, *G*

*loves them both and you for writing this* :-D

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

You mean, like a fourteen year old boy? *g* Because YES. And I love them SO MUCH, seriously. And you,too!

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

*sighs* Oh John and his crazy, annoying, five year old-ness.

So much ♥ for this.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Hee--I said fourteen, someone above said nine, now you say five. What's John's emotional age?? I'll need to do a poll!!

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Happy sighs! You always give such great, great John, he'd almost become my favorite! If Rodney wasn't around, say, after he ascended or something.

That was downright awesome. Thank you.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

I love John with a stupid, unhealthy, pointless love. It's just SAD.

Also-YOUR ICON!! WOOT.

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

I adore the way John's anger started out as tightly contained and then just exploded in one ginormous tantrum at the end. The ways he tried to keep Rodney from ascending was such John things to do; throwing spitballs, kicking and just generally being a dick.

And then, finally, Rodney gets it, and that moment was glorious. :)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

such John things to do; throwing spitballs, kicking and just generally being a dick. And then, finally, Rodney gets it

Thank you, I am so happy. Yay. That's just what I wanted people to get. I am a human grin!! This is what John's love looks like.

[merelyn.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee. Oh man, I'm so glad I sneakily read this at work. Because I can see this so, so well. A John who has Feelings and a John who is an Incredible Asshole kind of go hand in hand, don't they? Loved it.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

A John who has Feelings and a John who is an Incredible Asshole kind of go hand in hand, don't they?

YES. This is what John's love LOOKS LIKE!!! \o/

Thank you, thank you!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, the two of them. John's anger, and Rodney's quiet, quiet withdrawal, the slipping away until John can catch him.

It's this that makes me seriously question what the hell I'm doing here, but you know, yay for the avoidance of grading!

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Here on earth? *G* Here in fandom??

I love these guys so much, seriously, and their wonderfully dickish ways. Their love looks like a poke to the head. Their love sucks like a lemon. Their love is a kick in the nuts. *squeezes them*

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

So, so amazing. You know, the really great thing is not that John is trying passive-aggressively to sabotage Rodney's ascension while pretending he doesn't care about sabotaging Rodney's ascension -- I mean, that's just a gimme, OF COURSE John would do that! The *really* great thing is that Rodney can't tell he's doing that -- that Rodney just thinks John is being sort of spontaneously and unmotivatedly dickish (you know, like he *is* being a lot of the time!) Oh, dear Rodney! Not the king of subtext, you know? Although I think my favorite part was Rodney's reaction to John's weird attempt to open up and have an interior life at the very end -- like, seriously? Because that is both strange and hilarious and touching and still kind of dull at the same time, and who really wants to hear about John talk about his conflicted feelings about math class right now? But it's still endearing as hell, and all of that comes through so perfectly in Rodney's responses. Anyway, yeah, favorite part. Congratulations on a successful dodge from getting work done *g*

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

The *really* great thing is that Rodney can't tell he's doing that -- that Rodney just thinks John is being sort of spontaneously and unmotivatedly dickish

RIGHT. Because he hasn't learned that THIS IS WHAT JOHN'S LOVE LOOKS LIKE--like being a dick! I wanted John--I kept calling this John "The angriest John in the world," like that David Lynch cartoon, you know the one I mean? I really have to do that--

http://www.lynchnet.com/angrydog/dog.jpg

http://www.davidlynch.de/angry.html

The angriest John in the world--in that fucking leather collar! HE CAN'T EVEN MOVE.