#mostly random

two long fic + two short fic | a sga birthday bash reclist

two long fic

Aegis by Leah and springwoof | 90k, e, mcshep The Ancients' genes didn't just confer the power to activate their technology. For ten percent of Earth's population, like John Sheppard, the ATA gene also gave them Gifts: special abilities that made them admired, envied, and feared. Sheppard was a Charmer, one of the feared ones, whose particular Gift let him create faith whenever he needed to be trusted or believed. But Sheppard didn't trust himself not to destroy what he loved most. And somewhere along the line, amid the terror and chaos of the Expedition's first year in the Pegasus Galaxy, what Sheppard loved most had become Rodney McKay. McKay didn't trust anyone. As soon as you started trusting people, you started counting on them, depending on them, and that was when you became vulnerable. And vulnerable things didn't survive. So just when, exactly, had he started trusting Sheppard? And what was going to happen, now that he did? Out of Nowhere by DraconisWing24441 | 74k, m, mcshep Rodney is en route to a scientific conference where he’s supposed to present his new groundbreaking research when, to his horror, he winds up stuck in a small town in the middle of Wyoming after a snow storm sends his rental car into a tree. John winds up playing host to the prickly scientist while his car is getting fixed and finds himself drawn to Rodney despite himself. Of course, the course of true love never did run smooth and once they succumb to their mutual attractions, a rift occurs that may separate them forever . . . unless they’re willing to put aside their fears and risk their hearts.

two short fic

it’s not even a complete list and likely never will be. we have to guess at numbers for some groups and if we have neither name nor moniker for someone they tend not to be one it, since it usually means they don’t even want US to know who they are.

we’re also starting to really understand that while the lands themselves don’t move, just bc someone lives there doesn’t mean they originated there. it’s... yeah complicated. sometimes we wonder why we spend so much time trying to explain it.

we have always seemed to have a compulsive need to over explain a thing. *sighs*

it is entirely possible none of this would even have ended up being reconsidered if the mass exodus of Shadowlanders hadn’t happened. They physically relocated to the Crystal Horizons but... they are still very much Shadowlands which... one would think would be an obvious thought... and yet.