fic writing

[volari]

Once again avoiding homework...

I'm signed up for undermistletoe and have several ideas but am feeling dissatisfied with all of them. That, and I'm feeling out of practice with fic and with writing in general. Granted, most of that is probably due to the fact that the semester is wrapping up here so there are all those final major papers and tests that are

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[panisdead]

The transporters. Or the tower spires. Or the inside, windowless corridors.

[volari]

Sheppard leads him to one of the transporters, tapping the screen without hesitation. Jack can't see which spot Sheppard chose, not that he would have much luck translating the two-dimensional image into the startling three-dimensional space that is Atlantis. Not that it matters, since the transporters are immediate and smoother than even the Asgard beams

[panisdead]

Oh, cool. I like this very much. I don't have a particularly strong sense of how the Jack-John relationship operates on the show, but I enjoyed this version of it--it's neat to see John placed more overtly into the military chain of command, particularly in this context, where he's blatantly fucked up and knows he's at the mercy of his superior. This little snippet feels very grounded in both canon and how I assume a reality-based version of canon would operate, what with the little notes about Landry and the necessary responses to Atlantis' continuing existence. Jack's realization at the end seems both logical and organic.

Plus, translating the two-dimensional image into the startling three-dimensional space that is Atlantis is just a really neat phrase. Very nice!

[volari]

Thank you! And thanks for the prompt!

I love every bit of Jack and John. I can't slash them together, but I think their dynamic is so fascinating. Because the stargate has done the same thing to both their lives--given them a purpose and a family--but how they approach things and their experiences are so different. John's the eternal optimist while Jack's the eternal pessimist.

Sadly, the show has really only given us together in Rising. Even in the Return pt 2, it's minimal and they're more "hi, let's not die" than "let's sit and have a manly and uncommunicative heart to heart."