Fic: Letters from Milky Way (Stargate Atlantis)

[fydyan]

Title: Letters from Milky Way
Author: fydyan
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Spoilers: The Return part 1 (and McKay & Mrs. Miller)
Pairings: McKay/Dex
Summary: Rodney writes. Rodney tries to write.

Comments

[liviapenn]

Ouch, oh, ouch.

This sounds so much like Rodney. *hearts*

[fydyan]

It was ouch to write, too. I have this mental picture of Rodney as someone who got left behind a lot, and this came out of me trying to imagine how he'd cope with being the one doing the leaving.

[fydyan]

Re-watching the episode - or at least the last 15 minutes of it. What a great idea. That's gotta help.

[ladyeclectic79]

Aww, good fic! Capture's Rodney's personality so very well, from his indecisiveness to his rambly bits to is insecurity regarding friends to his precious little heart of gold. :) And signing it Meredith, looks like he learned to accept something about himself just by attempting to write the letter. :)

Good stuff.

[fydyan]

I kind of have this idea in my head that the people who've loved Rodney most in his life called him Meredith, so the final signature was somewhere between declaration and invitation. I'm glad you found his personality on target. Thanks for letting me know you enjoy enjoyed it.

[teaphile]

This is great. The structure is very interesting and gets the point across easily, but this:

They say we're safe. They say "secure base". In soft voices, from a distance. Idiots. And they don't believe. There hasn't been a war. The whole concept of. The whole reality of. A siege is fantasy. They haven't found all my knives yet.

broke my heart.

[fydyan]

broke my heart

Yes, I know - but at the same time, didn't you just want to strip Rodney down and search him for knives? Okay, maybe it was just me.

It does seem to me that the SGC of canon did nothing to acknowledge the fact that they were dealing with folks who'd been at war for the last two years, but of course they'd all still be in battle mode. I can see Rodney leaving the house with a weapon but no wallet.

[ravensilverwing]

*snorts, laughs out loud* oh god that's so Rodney, weapon, no wallet.

The fic was brilliant too btw I just had to comment to that one thing cause it made me laugh.

I think everyone else has pretty much said what I'm thinking.
ie brilliant, on character, amusing, hurt, ouch ouch fucking owwie.

I just want to squish him. oh and Kate doing phone sessions dear god how do I love that cause I can just see that. Rodney rambling, disjointed over the phone to her. Her being calm and just...herself.

LOVE IT!

[fydyan]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[hth_the_first]

HOLY SHIT, this is brilliant! It took me a second to understand the structure you were using, the juxtaposition between what was actually written and what wasn't quite (I was envisioning him endlessly going back on the keyboard, delete delete delete), but once it fell into place, it was just perfect -- so Rodney, who *knows* how awkward he is with this kind of thing, and would take the job so seriously, hammering over it to make sure he didn't say too much or not enough and fuck it up and ow, my heart. And you gave us enough to know what had happened between them, and just little enough to draw us in and force us to imagine it, which somehow makes it feel *more* real. Oddly.

You rock like things that rock mightily.

[fydyan]

Thank you! This means so much coming from you, whom I think of as the crowned monarch of Ronon/Rodney fic.

But seriously, I am so glad for your detailed review, because it let me know that all of the little things I was afraid wouldn't work for people who live outside my head actually *did* work. And your image of Rodney at the keyboard hitting delete - yes. I hadn't thought of it that way, but yes, yes, yes.