SGA Stories

[sally_maria]

In honour of rhymer23's new story - On The Wings Of An Eagle I realised that I hadn't linked to a couple of her hilarious short pieces.

Typo fic - for everyone who finds themselves amused by malapropisms and typos in fanfic. I'm particularly taken with the rouge Genii.

The Games People Play - for anyone who's witnessed how computer games turn the mildest soul into ruthless killers. ;-)

And I linked to her See John Run a couple of years ago, but overlooked the sequel Hello, Rodney!. Both are quite wonderful descriptions of the state that story telling has descended to in our schools - with extension activities, and for Hello, Rodney, an optional slash ending. :-)

Comments

[pionie]

Ooh thanks for the rec - I've just spent a happy hour reading the funny ones, and am saving the new one for this evening :)

[sally_maria]

I'm glad you enjoyed them. :-)

I must admit she's a friend of mine, but rhymer23 is one of those gen writers whose writing I really enjoy, even though I'm a convinced slasher. Her John and Rodney may not be sleeping together, but they still have the bantery closeness that they have in the show, and that's the wonderful thing about their relationship for me.

[pionie]

Yes I love that about John and Rodney :)

I decided ages ago that I was only going to read slash, in self-preservation! There is just so much amazing fic out there, I had to make a limit somehow. But I will always read a good, meaty gen fic too. Like A Taste of Apples - I'm so glad I wasn't put off by the gen tag on that one.

[sally_maria]

I know what you mean, there are so many wonderful McShep stories out there it's hard enough to keep up with them - there are plenty of times I would have been completely lost without delicious to keep track of things until I had time to read them.

Gen I tend to only read from recs, but as you say, there are some stories it would have been a shame to miss.

[rhymer23.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's a nice trip down memory lane for me, too, since The Games People Play was one of my first ever SGA fics, nearly two years ago. I have plans for more typo fics, too; I caught one just today in a final edit of Wings of an Eagle ("currant" for "current", which produces lovely images of people swept away by a fierce, strong currant.)

[sally_maria]

lovely images of people swept away by a fierce, strong currant.

I shall look forward to it. :-)

I was looking back over my delicious bookmarks and found several stories that I intended to rec, and then never got round to for some reason. So I thought this was a good reason to dig them out.

[garamondbophin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links. I thought I'd comment here, rather than directly on "The Games People Play", as that seems rather an old thread, but I felt I had to point out that I DID once trade with goblins (or rather orcs) and quite successfully too (though not for soft linen, root vegetables or even lemon cake). Still, my character earned far more experience points custom-making leather fetishwear than he ever did doing nasty, dangerous things like fighting. In fact, I think that - after he settled down near Tharbad and published his mail-order catalogue - he was making more money from bondage gear than the drug smugglers of Rhudaur from (whatever cocaine is called in Middle-earth)...

Oh, and I haven't checked recently, but I'm pretty sure that it is still true that "You cannot eat dead Elrond"!

[sally_maria]

:-D

Actually, considering some of Teyla's costume choices maybe setting up as a leather salesperson wouldn't be that much of a stretch. ;-)

I don't know if you'd remember rhymer23/ladyofastolat from sigisgrim's GamesMoot last year - she was there with her husband.