Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming by Domenika Marzione [f**king freezing challenge]

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming
genfic; 28000 words
summary: The Ice Capades come to Pegasus and John gets a front-row seat.

John really didn't have a lot to do as he waited for the marines to rappel down, clean out the hole, measure the depth and the distance to where they thought the roof was, and set the next charge. He'd come out today only because Rodney was starting to get a complex as this would have been the fifth mission and John hadn't yet visited. Nevermind that there had been and would be dozens of projects Rodney ran off-world that John had never graced with his presence; that he had been there for the conception and had no interest in how it turned out deeply offended Rodney to the point that it was starting to affect their team missions.

("It's a mining facility, McKay, not a baby." "You are totally missing the point." "Apparently.")

With grateful thanks to: siegeofangels, witchofthedogs, and vonknibble. Anything that's wrong is entirely my fault.

Comments

[explodedpen.livejournal.com]

This was many kinds of awesome and shiny and full of yayness :D Your fics are always brilliant it's great!

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. :)

[jujuberry136.livejournal.com]

Great job! I loved the premise of the story, and I think it worked really well to have it set in Season 2. I love your John narration and the characterization was spot on.

Lovely job, as always!

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I had a pretty narrow window for 'Cadman in Atlantis', so I can't really take too much credit for picking the timing.

Glad you liked.

[ratcreature]

I really enjoyed this.

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

This is the part where I squee about the hilarity of every description of Rodney in the first half (marshmallow!), and Teyla's lacework, and the naquadah cannon, which looks utterly adorable in my head.

[bratfarrar]

I love your world-building, and your everyday life but still very interesting story lines, and your John, and how you use Cadman here, and just about everything in the story. It was a marvelous excuse to procrastinate, and once I've got a clean draft of the essay I'm working on I shall reward myself by reading this again.

I know I don't always remember to let you know how much I love your stories, but I really do. Your version of Atlantis feels so real--like it could actually function.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

In the draft that didn't go to beta, the naquadah cannon looked like a Roomba. I changed it because 'round' seemed like a hard shape to make on the fly. The marines thought it was cute, though.

Thank you again.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't give positive reinforcement for procrastination, but... Thank you very much. :)

I like the idea of making Atlantis look like it could function -- for example, I enjoyed "Quarantine" muchly, but only after I just went with the flow and didn't try to figure out why there'd be one doctor and no nurses or orderlies or other patients in an infirmary.

[bratfarrar]

Oh yes, there's a big chunk of my brain I have to deliberately turn off in order to watch SGA. Once I do, it's a lot of fun, but your stories are more fun, because they make sense.

[sgpr-fan.livejournal.com]

this is awesome and I love cadman and rodney in this and the military/ scientist dynamic thst you always have and the fact that despite thedire circumastances nobody died an dthe irony was perfect

[g0ssamer-decay.livejournal.com]

Ive never left feedback before, and I decided to fix that in the new year. I am an avid reader, and fan fiction has always been my between book fix. I find myself looking forward to everything you post, and have actually put down my book in order to read what you have written.

Thank you for posting your stories, since they are filled with awesome.

[adannu.livejournal.com]

Wow. I could just feel my feet freezing as I read, and the urgency of having to dig out without killing themselves came through very clearly. As ever, great work on building such an immersive world in your stories and thank you for sharing -- I always enjoy them so very much.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked. A story without a body count every once in a while isn't a bad thing.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Thank you for breaking your silence, then. :)

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Thank you in return. I worldbuild for the fun of it, so it's nice when the plot justifies the exercise.

[cofax7]

Oh, that was very cool. (Also brisk and chilly!) I liked all the technical stuff and Cadman getting to blow shit up. And liquid naquadah! Awesome! Good stuff.

[sgpr-fan.livejournal.com]

yes no body counts work to but I got to say I miss your weekly drabbles Atlantis just doesn't seem the same without them ;P

[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

Considering it's currently -44C right now and I have to go out in it in about twenty minutes, I really shouldn't have read a story about ice and hypothermia because now I'm shivering just thinking about it... but I can never turn down reading one of your fics.

I especially liked this story because it was Sheppard out of his depth in a situation beyond his own skillset, yet he still acted the good leader by trusting his people (ie: Cadman) to know what they were doing. Not even the show itself ever bothers to do something like that -- realism on SGA? ha! -- which is one more reason why your fics are better than canon.

Also, the little details still make me laugh: near-dear and not-quite-naquadah, indeed! I love your acronyms -- very Jack-ish.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

*bows* Thank you, ma'am.

All that time in Duet when Rodney was working in his lab and running around the Science real estate... Cadman was getting ideas.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I undersold the cold... :)

Part of the problem of SGA-the-show is that to avoid having a cast of thousands, everyone's an expert in everything. And I like undoing that a little.

[infinimato.livejournal.com]

Ahahahah As always I love your insanity. I loved Lorne & Zelenka giving each other that look (the "cripes we're XOs to nutjobs" look, I'm sure). I love how Cadman causes a bit of wishywashyness from the other Marines -- they like her, but the whole girl thing -- and then she's the hero of the day.

Also, yes, Rodney as Daffy Duck -- "It's mine, ya understand? Mine, MINE, all MINE!, get back in there!, down down down!, go go go!, mine mine mine!"

"Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." (Well, Rodney would say, "important.")

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Cadman deserved a fond farewell. I used (use) her precious little and I should remedy that.

Rodney is totally Daffy.

Thanks.

[mary-alice.livejournal.com]

This was another wonderful slice of life on (well, actually, off) Atlantis. I just love the realism and attention to detail in your stories. Your Sheppard and Lorne and Marine contingent read as real military, operating in a real universe, not the cardboard version presented by canon. And I adore your Lorne, silently commiserating with Zelenka over the things their bosses put them thru; and marshmallow-man Rodney and his attempts to recruit Horton... So many lovely details. (Happy sigh.)