[update] Far and Far From Land

[saphanibaal]

I tweaked one of the stories I wrote earlier -- added a scene from another story that fit there better, altered a few lines to bring it more in line with the ficton as it had developed, etc.

Far and Far From Land
-setting- AU more or less tracking canon from the beginning of first season, ending before "The Return" would have happened. Gen.
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Comments

[feanna]

Now I'm curious, what's the other thing? (Or did I just miss it)

I liked the emotional themes of this a lot.

[saphanibaal]

"The other thing" is, well, another story. ^_^

Thank you for your comments; this is a story I'd wanted to write and hadn't really realized was in me until it was done.

[rishabree]

That was really interesting. I liked the over-arching theme of our stories being linked to our heritage - for the longest time I wasn't sure where you were going with it (though it was fascinating), but it all came together at the end.

And I, too, am curious what the other thing was. :)

[saphanibaal]

Thank you!

I started this story with the last scene, and then kept writing more and more backstory to set up how they were getting there from here. ^_^

As for the other thing -- it's something Rodney's less willing to reveal than everything he's pulled out and offered up to his teammates so far, which by process of elimination should suggest a direction; I do intend to write that story one of these days.

[wordwitch]

Aiigh! I just read this! I loved it! I want the next bit!

Okay. Okay.

Loved the themes - story-telling as structure to inform actual family-history; secrets lying in the blood to spring up and harm/save the unwitting individual; those who love you love you as you are, and will not stop simply because of your ancestral secrets.

But I want Teyla to have Rodney's baby, and then maybe Ronan's and John's. I want them to be a family. I want to know the other thing.

AIIGH!

[saphanibaal]

Thank you so much for all of your kind compliments, and I'm delighted that the themes came through as clearly as they did. (This turned out to be one of those stories where you write it and then you look back and see what it was about; it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that I'd written a story about passing, and therefore Teyla's reasons for being the other narrative voice were not solely rooted in her awesomeness.)

//But I want Teyla to have Rodney's baby, and then maybe Ronan's and John's.//

... I keep meaning to get around to writing the expansion of "Miko and the Bears" (where, among other things, Miko meets some of the family the sensei and his wife had come to Chateau Lake Louise to spend time with), but none of the challenges have inspired me to get more done on it yet. ;_;

//I want to know the other thing.//I want to write that story, too; of course, given that it's thematically similar enough that I felt the need for Rodney to think about it even though I was leaving it as a teaser, I think by this point I'

[saphanibaal]

Thank you very much!

This started when I was vaguely thinking about exactly how creepy the traditional male selkie story is, and then it crossed my mind how disgusted Rodney would be by those abilities, and so...

//Now, what the frilly heck is "the other thing" that Rodney isn't telling them about?//

Well, that's another story -- but it's part of the reason Rodney's family history in re Leesy is on the more ghastly end of the spectrum.

[lilyfarfalla]

Mmm, collective narrative, telling stories truer than we know! So much love for this story around that idea!

Carson's "All sea stories are sad", and Rodney setting up "The Last Unicorn", and Ronan's harts and hinds and everyone just knowing these different tales that they read or heard or were told and sharing them with each other, building a new collective.

I think I'd read part of this before, but I do love it.

Going to find the other ones now!

[saphanibaal]

Thank you so much for all of your kind comments!

I think, in part, this was inspired by the Heptameron, the way that all the stories in the end feed into and around the story Marguerite de Navarre couldn't tell.

And I'm glad you liked Ronon and the harts -- that's one of the Things That Went In Because It Amuses Sophonisba. Greatly. ^_^

Most of my work is listed in my memories, one way or another.