Comments | sabinelagrande: Genderswap = very yes

sabinelagrande

Genderswap = very yes

Jul 14, 2009 19:57

Title: Get Down and Crawl
Summary: John is dealing with it.
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Word Count: 1068
Rating/Warnings: R, possessive behavior, (canon) violence, episode tag for The Storm/The Eye
Pairing: John Sheppard/Meredith McKay
A/N: Sequel to Fever High. This is only sort of half of the second bit, but posting them both at once would have ( Read more... )

sga, fic, het, slash, the_goddamned_genderswap

Comments 14

mashimero July 15 2009, 07:08:00 UTC

his Meredith

I love possessive John and oh oh oh I love this fic!

seekergeek July 15 2009, 10:20:15 UTC

Yep, this punched my possessive kink button! *thumbs up*

sg_dingo July 15 2009, 11:48:51 UTC

This was awesome! I heart the Storm/Eye so much and this was a loverly diff (yay possessive!indenial!John) take on it. *hugs fic* thanks!

lallybroch July 15 2009, 21:44:16 UTC

Love love love!!! I love possessive John SO MUCH. Um, I hope you keep writing this forever and forever?

mecurtin July 16 2009, 01:38:15 UTC

This series is extremely hot so far. What I see you starting to allude to here is something I was thinking about WRT Mer-stories in general:

In McShep where Rodney was always female, is John violating gender norms? I keep being dragged back and forth between real-real and TeeVeeLand-real on this issue.

You see, no-one imagines an always-female M.R. McKay who is, well, fuckable by TeeVeeLand standards. She's not cute or thin or nice or thin, she doesn't wear makeup or care how she dresses, she's not *appropriately* feminine along any axis. "Ugly Betty" may be "ugly" *eyeroll*, but she at least *wants* to be pretty -- M.R.McKay is having none of that. I've tried, but I cannot imagine the John Sheppard we see onscreen, the guy in TeeVeeLand, being interested in her -- the hero *never* is.

Both you and ladycatt777 in her Married!verse are basically waving your hands and saying, "John falls for her, poof!" I'm either suggesting or wondering about whether John falling for Meredith is a way he (consciously or otherwise) violates gender norms, ( ... )

almostnever July 20 2009, 09:40:44 UTC

Couldn't help noticing your comment. I thought the first story in the series kind of covered this, since it was all about how John couldn't imagine himself being interested in someone like Meredith, but felt incredible attraction toward her regardless. Maybe you're characterizing that as handwaving, but to me it's realistic. Attraction is complicated. As another McShep story put it, guys who are into blonds marry brunettes every day. *shrugs*