new fic: Radio Nowhere

[hth_the_first]

So...I started last week with First Thaw (SPOILERS for "Quarantine" thataway), and now I have this, and I sort of feel like it's a series now, in that it seems to be going somewhere. I DO NOT KNOW, at this point, where exactly that might be. I honestly don't. This will either be a fascinating exercise in writing adaptively and creatively to the

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[copracat]

I knew. I knew you would do it right.

*hops on for the journey*

[hth_the_first]

Aw, thanks for the vote of confidence! *hug*

[grey853]

I really like this. It's true to the characters and it does something that the show didn't do, show us a little bit about what might have happened between John and his brother as well as how John felt about his father.

[hth_the_first]

Thank you! I was unbelievably frustrated by Outcast for setting up so much rich, well-acted tension between the two brothers, and then...not doing anything with it. A little FOLLOW-THROUGH, people, jeez! But on the other hand, it gives us all something to write about, doesn't it? *g*

Glad you liked this story.

[hth_the_first]

Oh, God, she SO IS! I was thinking when I saw the ep of Katha Pollitt's new book of personal essays about the breakup of her partnership and how strong, feminist women get fucked up by bad relationships with the wrong man and try to cope with it. Particularly, I was thinking about her chapter about Google-stalking her ex, trying to figure out this person who turned out to be not at all the person she thought she knew -- and I just thought, yeah, that's exactly what Nancy's doing. She's *Google-stalking* her ex, only with Homeland Security clearance. It still drives her nuts that she doesn't know who he is, that he isn't who she thought, that she can't put the pieces together and she can't let go. Even though she has a new man now, there's just part of her that's not *done* yet with her relationship with John, that just can't walk away.

Sometimes I fear this is the INEVITABLE FATE of all the many good people who fall for Sheppard. Sigh.

[hth_the_first]

Thank you! I know there is a real need and desire in fandom for that kind of comfort-food writing -- stories you've seen before and know full well you'll see again -- and intellectually I don't see anything wrong with it. But I'm kind of like you, my tastes run more toward the "holy shit, I never would have thought of that!" type of experience as a reader. *g* So I'm extra glad that I can sometimes provide that little jolt of something new and different for other readers.

[fivedeadweasels]

Wow, I really like these. Keep it up!

[hth_the_first]

Thanks! I'm hoping the show will give me something that pushes me in one direction or another, in terms of what to do next. *g*