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eliade

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Feb 24, 2006 18:10

Ennui.

I would like to go to the gym tonight, I planned to, but I don't know that I'm going to. I'm in a blank and restless mood. I'd like to write, but don't know that I'll do that either. I see a vague shape in my future, large and green--it is becoming more clear now--it is...my couch.

So it's time to meme. Comment with the title of a story ( Read more... )

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logovo February 25 2006, 02:16:43 UTC

Ummm, The Year of Magical Thinking...

logovo February 25 2006, 02:18:25 UTC

Or The Singularity Is Near . . .

eliade February 27 2006, 20:28:59 UTC

"The Year of Magical Thinking" is the gen backstory novella I wrote about Rodney's adolescence, where he experiences severe trauma and runs away from home, taking to the mean streets of Toronto. During this lost year, he is full of self-doubt and hatred, and rebels against his past, completely abandoning his usual brand of logic and inverting his thought processes.

He becomes superstitious, trying out a variety of spiritual and religious ways of thinking, and adopting many obsessive-compulsive rituals to protect himself from harm. He falls in love with a hustler, Josh, and there are many scenes of them huddling from the cold together in alleys, sharing cartons of take-out and blankets.

Of course, he must eventually return to his right path, return home, and go back to school to become the great scientist and leader (*cough*) he is today.

logovo1 February 27 2006, 20:34:38 UTC

Yay!

taking to the mean streets of Toronto.

Since I have no idea if Toronto has mean streets, and having only known of it through tv shows (wasn't Forever Knight set therer?) this made me giggle.

During this lost year, he is full of self-doubt and hatred

I just imagined all that anergy really out of control like that. It is actually a bit disturbing.

Thanks!

lillian78 February 25 2006, 02:17:58 UTC

"Rodney McKay's Big Day."

eliade February 27 2006, 20:33:01 UTC

"Rodney McKay's Big Day" is the story where I try my hand at age regression and turn Rodney into a cranky six-year-old. He is a ridiculously precocious little brat and runs away to hide from the Atlantis personnel, starts messing around the city's database, and does awful things to its systems, environmental controls, and door locks. Then he heads out to explore with a back-pack of food stolen from the kitchens, discovers a whole new hidden wing of the city filled with sleeping robots, meets some sentient dolphins, and falls asleep on a balcony, where John finally finds him and scoops him up and brings him home.

lillian78 February 27 2006, 23:01:35 UTC

I love that idea! ~__^ Rodney as a six year old. *wibble* And what is it with LJ comments? They still take forever to show up.

Ummm... jackycomelately February 25 2006, 02:21:11 UTC

16 Reasons to hate McKay...and why I don't.

By John Sheppard

Re: Ummm... eliade February 27 2006, 20:35:30 UTC

16 Reasons to hate McKay...and why I don't.

A first-person John POV story, where each listed reason is its own chapter (anywhere from a sentence or two in length, to several pages), that eventually ends in happy face smushing and kissing and nibbling. A short quote:

Reason #7

He steals my pudding.

Re: Ummm... jackycomelately March 3 2006, 18:38:39 UTC

Happy face smushing! Pudding! A chapter for each reason! Who could ask for anything better? Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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eliade February 25 2006, 03:53:27 UTC

Evil!

eliade February 27 2006, 20:42:36 UTC

"Xanadu" was written while I was sick with a cold and high on cough medicine, and I've blocked the writing process from my memory, but the result was a 10,000 word AU where Atlantis is actually a magical kingdom, and Rodney its prince.

John is also a prince, of a neighboring kingdom (neighboring in relative terms, of course, to the galaxy), who is to enter into an alliance by marriage to Rodney in order to establish--along with another member state, Sateda--the beginnings of a conferdation against the Wraith.

John isn't entirely happy about leaving his home and moving to Atlantis, because he will miss his aeroplanes, but Rodney will build him new ones.

(And wow, I just realized I totally stole the idea for this story from an existing AU. Oh well! *g*)

thepouncer February 25 2006, 02:22:33 UTC

Curling Adventures of the Terminally Sports Inept

eliade February 27 2006, 20:45:12 UTC

Oh dear...

"Curling Adventures of the Terminally Sports Inept" -- This was a WIP that I eventually abandoned because I was thwarted in my attempt to research and understand curling.

However, in the part that I did write, there was hot post-curling locker room sex between John and Rodney, with pants unzipped and messy frottage.

*runs away*