strina: rodney mckay caption "i get knocked down but i get up again you're never gonna keep me down" (rodney - get up)
strina ([personal profile] strina) wrote2009-08-16 08:28 pm

Stargate Renaissance?

...Kind of. I have a bunch of tabs open, but it's like two new stories/30 old ones.

Leah's penguin-fic totes superior to K.McFad's, IMO.

I need more secession fic. And more fic where they treat Atlantis as a colony from the START. SECRETLY THEY SENT INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MANUFACTURE BASIC MEDICINES (ANTIBIOTICS BUT ALSO ATROPINE, EPINEPHRINE). VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS. PLOOOOUGHS. SEED GRAIN AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR HYDROPONICS FACILITY. MEDICAL HAS AN OB-GYN WITH MIDWIFE EXPERIENCE. LARGE QUANTITIES OF THE SGC'S MOST HISTORICALLY SUCCESSFUL TRADE GOODS. MILITARY SURVIVAL GUIDES, THE SGC VERSIONS, WHERE THEY TALK ABOUT THE MOST COMMON THREATENING GESTURES ACROSS THE 89732248 KNOWN WORLDS AND "WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE ENCOUNTER (TAKE A PICTURE FOR THE WALL OF WEIRD AND RUN, THEY ARE *NEVER* AS CUDDLY AS YOU THINK, NO, EVEN THE HYDRA WAS WORSE THAN EXPECTED AND THAT TOOK SOME DOING)".

Basically, I want an Atlantis-y "Seal Team 13"-thing*, an epic story with LOGISTICS and ELITE SQUADS OF SPECIALISTS and BONDING THROUGH HARDSHIP and my favorite (in this case, Rodney) is in charge but he doesn't think he can do it, but he will, because he will not ALLOW himself to fail and prove Them right. God, can you imagine how different the show would be if Elizabeth had a team and went through the 'gate every other week to find allies, while our team had a week in-city, during which Rodney was in charge? I would read the shit out of that, y'all.

I want more allergic reactions from people-other-than-Rodney! Alien food/bugs/plants = somebody gets screwed!

The General and Dr. Sheppard 'verse gets me all conflicted. On the one hand, I mostly love it; kink + interesting worldbuilding + characters I love, yay! On the other hand, it occasionally hits my squick in that way that only things that push your buttons can, where it's so much worse because you were enjoying and wham! suprise NO. Also, I like every fic in that 'verse, including the ones by other authors, more than the actual TG&DS, because something about the clash of dynamic/non-dynamic universes really bothers me and I can't articulate why, which means it bothers me and drives me crazy.

*The Tenhawk renaissance, on the other hand, is DEFINITE. You guys, he is for me what JoBros fandom seems to be for many of you: 38% shame, 62% PURE GLEE. ST13 has Xander incorporating his supernatural consulting service so as to protect the identites of the consultants from the government. The series is basically TRAINING-LOGISTICS-BUILD STUFF-KICK ASS-WACKY CROSSOVERS-TEAMBONDING-MILITARY TRAINING-LOGISTICS-KICK ASS, I love it.