Fic: but the nights are better (out here) : SGA : complete

[auburnnothenna]

Title: but the nights are better (out here)
Author: Auburn
Fandom: SGA
Disclaimer: Not mine, not profiting.
Rating: PG
Size: ~7200 words
Genre: Slash, future fic.
Betas: ariadne83, seekergeek, urbanoceanix.
A/N: Dedicated to dossier, enname, eretria, mirabile_dictu, murron and springwoof: friends, writers and betas extraordinaire.
Summary: They find safe harbor at the Winterfair on Ljósver.

Comments

[skeddy_kat]

This was just incredibly beautiful. I think you gave us just enough backstory; we understood without knowing it all. I love the world you planted them in. You drew it vividly and with affection. I really loved the whole story.

[auburnnothenna]

I'm more than a little in love with Ljósver and its people. The whole thing almost wrote itself, the way very few stories do any longer. I didn't want to go to much into why they ended up there, but I did want to explain enough that it wouldn't be a mystery. And I wanted to integrate Kanaan and Torren into the team, which I think worked well.

[auburnnothenna]

I've been thinking about that, how people, even the closest couples, must go on learning each other, because they change. You see those break ups where it's 'I don't know you anymore' and you know, they stopped paying attention and took the other for granted and thought they'd be like a figurine on a shelf, instead of vine in the garden.

[sihayab]

This is exquisite! Gorgeous imagery, wonderful interpretation of Nordic culture, lovely, lovely characterization.

Brava!

[auburnnothenna]

Eeeeee! Thank you. I know nothing about Nordic culture really, I just abused an Icelandic translator to get words that sounded right. My theory is that even text has a visual element, that the brain makes the connections, so that even seeing punctuation markes that are mostly seen in Scandinavian words evokes that unconscious idea of all the other things that are Scandinavian. Fonts too, but hard coding annoys some people so much I avoid it. But its all design elements.

In this case I also tossed some Inuit and North American Indian and even current Alaskan elements into the brain salad blender.

Speaking of lovely imagery, you icon: is that aurora borealis over Atlantis?

[sihayab]

Well, your cultural mish-mash certainly worked! Very engaging world-building.

Speaking of lovely imagery, you icon: is that aurora borealis over Atlantis?

Um, yeah, sure, why not? ::g:: I've had this icon for years -- long before I was sucked into SGA -- but I love it. Thank you for giving me a reason to display it when I'm commenting on or posting SGA stories!

[auburnnothenna]

Looking closer at the icon, when I'm not dead tired, I can see it isn't Atlantis, but it's still lovely. Perhaps I can type in properly spelled English today too.

(Eh, probably not. I feel like someone drained my gas tank during the night and stole my battery.)

[ariadne83]

You know how much I love this :-)

[auburnnothenna]

Yeah? Well, I really appreciated the beta. No matter how clean I think a first draft is, there's always things I just can't see or that I see because I meant to write them but didn't.

[lillian13]

What a lovely picture you've painted, full of family and trust. (And cold! I felt cold just reading it.)

Of course Rodney dove in after the nameless dog. It's the same reason he indulges John and Torren. :-)

[auburnnothenna]

Rodney's so much braver than the writers seem to realize. I'm convinced none of them know the show as well as we watchers do, which makes me mad. If I had the chance to write for a TV show, you can bet I'd have watched all the previous eps and remember it all or double check what I didn't.

It reminds me too much of when the Alias writers revealed they didn't have a clue where the story arc was going and didn't care about contradicting themselves. I never felt the same about the show after that, because anything that was good was an accident. Of course, I came into SGA thinking I'd never be bothered by that with the show because I didn't expect better from it, but somehow I do.

And I've gone off on a rant. Sorry.

Kauko Bay is cold but a good place. All of Ljósver is. But it is cold most of the time, up north where the light house is.