SGA Fic Rec

[threnodyjones]

Today's theme: Recs for one line alone.

I'm still reading it, but Speranza wrote an SGA story, Last Will and Testament, and for this one line alone I recommend it:

Rodney turned around in his seat, showed John Sheppard his teeth, and said, "Well. Welcome to the goddamned family."

Man, haven't I felt that sentiment before!

Also, in Veritas by

Comments

[enchanteresse]

Oooh... that was good. You should always rec stories like these. *smirks*

[clairshadows]

I like your recs, but I'm here from another page mainly for your icon. I recognised it from the Hyde park war memorial down in Sydney and just wanted to ask. Did you make it yourself and are you from Australia?

[threnodyjones]

!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I cannot thank you enough for this information.

I did make the icon myself from a picture I downloaded in 1996. I found it on a page that had no other information about it than "sacrifice.jpg", and it looked so perfectly the personification of the Spartan saying "With your shield or on it" that I had to save it.

I had no idea where the sculpture was from, or what the actual reference was until now. I'm not Australian (I'm from the States) and haven't had a chance to visit there yet, though I have a cousin who is a naturalized Australian citizen, and the irony that I would have found the sculpture had I just visited her once in all these years astounds me.

So again, I would like to thank you so much for your comment for you have just solved a very long-standing mystery for me. Thank you!

[clairshadows]

The war memorial doesn't look all that daunting from the outside, but once you enter. . . I can only describe it as humbling. You enter on a balcony that looks down on the figure in your icon and you look up and see a dome ceiling filled with gold stars, crammed so there's barely a gap anywhere and if you look closer you see from what would normally be the corners statues of nurses and soldiers. I have family in sydney and I notice something new every time I visit.

[threnodyjones]

I sounds absolutely amazing, definitely something I would visit.