sga addicted, moi?

[lobelia321]

Okay, it is official: sheldrake is evil.

She may look all sugar and spice and as if ice cream wouldn't melt in her mouth, but she is evil temptation personified. Primarily personified in the form of evil temptress Stargate Atlantis DVD-packs of entire series one. Which I find myself compelled to watch at all times, even during bright daylight.

This is when I'm not watching isiscolo's episodes of series two, that is.

I am getting better at identifying which episodes I'm really going to like. I read the summaries on Gateworld (not caring one whit about spoilers) and try to connect what I read to the fics that I remember, and which episodes seem to have inspired most fics. And yes, my fellow slash writers with their unerring sense of the slashy and the wondy, never lead me astray (unlike the cuckoo who 'rates' the episodes on Gateworld, according to action or quality or whoknowswhat). My rating radar is solely according to how angsted or cute McKay is going to be in any given episodes, how often McKay is going to be kissing somebody or talking about kissing somebody, how often we are going to hear Zelenka speak Czech, and how much screentime we are going to get with Dr Carson Beckett rolling his r's and saying 'Rrrodney' (I keep thinking how he's a wizard, omg!!, he so is.)

Also, it's quite good if the action quotient is low. Because I am not an action monger.

I have even grown to like the women, Teyla and Elizabeth Weir and Miko with the enormous glasses. Except not that horrible German one with the pinched face. Too close to home.

Zelenka looks like a very good Canadian friend of ours. Sheppard looks like Harrison Ford.

I am totally mary-sueing McKay. Conversely, I am also desiring McKay. I find I can do both. Now, there is no term in fandom for the 'you' part of a duo (or is there? Heh, cathexys probably knows one). Because in my mind, when writing, there is the person I am, my cathected site, the mary-sue (not capitalised here so as not to confuse it with the Mary Sue wot is an entity hated by fandom large and small -- your honour, she was innocent!) -- and then there is the person whom the mary-sue wants. The mary-sue character is the 'I', and the one who is desired by the mary-sue, the 'other' (to borrow a bit of post-modern kit), is the 'you'. Although in practice in most fics, both of these tend to be a 'he' and a 'he'.

Also, I am back with my original OTP for this fandom. McKay! Zelenka! julad!

And you know what, I am getting excited about het. Because McKay is such a deliciously het kinda guy. April Bingham! Omg, I want to read or write April Bingham! Are there any fics about April Bingham? The blonde girl whom McKay kissed when still at school? With the blonde short hair? And why does nobody ever explain why McKay ever switched his lust from short and blonde to sticky-uppy and brown in all those countless McKay/Sheppard scenarios???

I bet April Bingham looks just like Dominic Monaghan.

I am getting way sucked into this (sutured, even, to be even more po-mo, whee, go me). Because McKay is just too sexy. I can now totally see why four fifths of the fandom goes apeshit over this man. And I cannot understand the strangely prevailing notion that somehow McKay is 'terrible with women'. McKay is brilliant with women! He's got me wrapped round his little pinkie! And round his dick as well, speaking of pink. Except when I'm him and looking out through his big round eyes at the world.

On second thoughts, I lust for him too much. He's not really my mary-sue, I keep seeing him rather than seeing via him. I wonder who is my mary-sue in SGA, then. Hm.

Must keep watching. To find out. Oh, only 29 episodes or so to go. Hah. A cinch.

ETA: Zelenka. I bet my mary-sue is Zelenka. I learned Czech for a year at uni, after all. Although I strain in vain to understand what he babbles on about, I get the odd prefix. Is this translated anywhere??

ETA2: Actually, I keep pulling my mouth into McKay distortions and muttering 'goodgood' under my breath. Possibly I am McKay after all??? Ack.

Comments

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

i propose that there is no term for 'you sue' because we fangirlish types are actually in love or lust with the characters themselves. and thus there is no need for a sue.

omg. if you were zelenka, i'd be begging you to take off your glasses for me, baby.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

There may not be a need for a Sue but there is a need for some sort of term. The lustee!! The , the, something!!

*slides off glasses, blows hair out of forehead, bares teeth, 'prosim??'*

Hm, I need a Zelenka icon.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

IF you turn into McKay, I'm coming over right now to molest you. McKay is DAMN sexy and knows it, just like he knows he's the smartest person in the world. He makes me go weak in the knees.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

He does? How come you keep so mum about this fact and go on forever about some sci-fi show that I can never remember with people called Kaytee in it???

*flaunts muscular nipples at you*

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

At this point, I don't watch SGA anymore, so all the McKay I get is from fanfic. He turned into the only reason I still watched the show for a while, and also then, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA came along and consumed my brain. As a show, it's far, far superior to SGA, but with fewer slash opportunities. Some of the het is pretty damn good, though.

*ogles nipples*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have become quite enamored of the combination canon plus fanon that SGA affords. There is something missing in pure canon. Possibly it is the brain-addling factor.

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

The brain-addling factor is very important. BTW, does this layout work better for you? 'Cause it gives me a headache!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I will check when I'm doing this via email which I'm not at the moment so I am just in my own view right now. Thank you for changing it, though, that is so kind!

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

sheldrake IS evol!! She's the one who got me started in all this madness (LJ and slash)! Her very words were, "Come play LJ." And she needed to say no more!!

:D

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Who, me?

*looks innocent*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg, it is true then! She is the Evol Incarnation!!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I haven't even finished reading this post yet, but must pause to:

a) laugh myself to death (then resurrect myself in order to read rest of post)

and b) note excitedly that in the last episode I saw Beckett called some Pegasus blokey 'big man'. (!) You know, in that Scottish sort of way. It gave me a slight thrill.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

in the last episode
What last episode? Whatwhat? Am I missing something here?

You know, today I actually pondered buying the DVDs myself because quite possibly I cannot cope with having to return them? I blame you. Totally. The evil carnation!! And that is why you can laugh yourself to death and resurrect. That is Evol Zombie Wraith Ability!!!!!

Tonight, I a) cried during SGA and b) got shit scared. This is becoming Out Of Hand.

You know, Sam whatsername, the one Rodney lusts after? i lust after her, too, now. We are both Rodney! Aaaaagh.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

No, I just meant the last ep I saw. Which, er, can't remember what it's called but it's got a volcano in it. I've caught up with the ones currently being shown on Sky One, but I keep missing them.

You know, Sam whatsername, the one Rodney lusts after? i lust after her, too, now. We are both Rodney! Aaaaagh.

Haha, then I know which one you've been watching! heeee... *laughs like an evol life-sucking wraith*

Oh god I must go to bed or tomorrow I will make more people cry, possibly including myself.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The one with Sam in it wasn't one of yours, it was 'Grace under Pressure' from Season Two, and I had crap quality because I had to watch it on t'laptop. But god, did I lust. Confinement!episode!! I love it! I also liked that one '38 minutes', that was also confinement. Nice and elegant and oh so angsty.

Volcano? I haven't got to a volcano yet. Is it a crater? I've seen that in the credit sequence.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know - that's the one I meant. I've got most of Season Two downloaded onto the trusty laptop, and I know you've been doing the same thing, heh.

The volcano one comes a few episodes after that one, you probably haven't reached it yet.

I'm having to use my default icon - I'm getting frightened by the sheer number of Rodneys and Zelenkas I'm scattering over your journal.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I bet April Bingham looks just like Dominic Monaghan.

omg! You say I am evil??!

Actually, I think I am turning into McKay when I'm at work. Let us examine the evidence:

1. I drink a lot of coffee. A LOT of coffee. If you prick me whilst at work, I will bleed caffeine.

2. I believe that everyone in my immediate vicinity is an idiot.

3. I have started to snap at people sarcastically.

4. Sometimes I have to go into another room before I explode (it's only a matter of time before I skip the whole 'going into another room' thing.

5. This is the clincher: yesterday I made someone cry.

I ask you - does this sound like me? No. It does not. I rest my case. I am channelling Rodney McKay.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg. You are Rodney.

*quietly faints*

This is way beyond 'channelling'!!!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I am ... perhaps a little worried.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*does double take*

You made someone cry???!!!

11111

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

In my defence, she is very over-sensitive. Very. And, um, I didn't mean to make her cry, which Rodney probably would have done. And I apologised, which Rodney definitely wouldn't have done. And I assured her that my comment wasn't really aimed at her at all, which, ok, wasn't entirely true. And she was fine after half an hour in the toilets. Honestly. *nods*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Shel!!! Are you sure you are not perhaps also possessed by a Wraith gene??

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

*laughs hysterically*

I am hoping you're writing McKay/Zelenka, because there needs to be more of it.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You! You are also partially responsible for my quick descent into madness!

No, I am not writing McKay/Zelenka. Yet! I had more of a different bunny. Well, you will see. When, um, I get a moment to finish the stupid thing. What with having to finish my Introduction and having to watch another 15 and a half SGA episodes I find myself somewhat strapped for time.

Also, I keep having to watch SGA during the day when nobody is home which is decadent because nobody else in t'family seems to appreciate the Amazing Wonder that is SGA. They scoff and ask me to change to 'The Apprentice'. I live with philistines!! I bet they're all Wraith-possessed.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Actually, I forget that due to Your Very Own Generosity i have also, actually, been sitting by myself in the living room with my laptop while t'family stares at some mindless thing in the television room. hah!!!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh what the heck, yet another P.S. Because the words 'McKay/Zelenka' in a comment will do that to me. I did yesterday have an M/Z bunny as well. It was because somebody pulled Rodney up, no, it wasn't, that was today when Miller pulled him up in The Siege. *has swoon moment* But there was a moment in some episode where Rodney holds onto somebody's hand and I thought, what if he's dangling from a cliff edge and he has to hold onto a man's hand to stay alive, but that man is trapped, that man's other arm is mangled and he can't move to get help and can only just lie there and hang onto Rodney. And that man could be Zelenka or could be Sheppard. But if it's Zelenka, his glasses would be slipping off his face and into the abyss, and maybe McKay would catch them with his free hand, and I haven't thought of the rest yet.

There would be a lot of description of how the hand felt.