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[bluflamingo]

I haven't been much for reading John/Rodney in quite a few years now, unless it sounds really my kind of thing, or is written by someone I trust not to hit any of my hot-button argh! issues. Particularly when people write post-season 5, I hate the way most of them deal with Keller.

I don't think it really hit me until today though how much I'm out of that pairing now. I'm reading recs for mcshep match, and a lot of them sound great - except that the pairing is John/Rodney and apparently that's enough to make me not want to read. Or it mentions a Rodney-fanon thing that I used to be able to gloss over and now can't.

Not that I was ever a huge shipper of them, and I haven't written the pairing in years, but it feels weird to think there's nothing in that challenge that I want to even give a try to this year. Not because the stories are no good, but because of me.

Though I would read the hell out of a story where Rodney and Jennifer break up and Rodney comes to John as his second choice and doesn't get to have John. Not even if he apologises, not even if John likes him that way, not for any reason, and especially not if Rodney always knew John liked him and just wanted to be normal or whatever. Which I am so totally not writing, because I'm halfway through a Hawaii Five-0 fic that also doesn't have a happy ending, and really one at a time ought to be my limit.

Especially since I signed up for cotton candy bingo and decided I want all of my fics to be post-apocalypse fluff - thanks, colls, for posting about both challenges in the same post!

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[colls]

That Rodney/John fic I might actually read, but it does sound angst-ridden and rather sad. I have many opinions on Rodney and his 'fanon', too. Things like the fact that I used to like the character -- decides to stop there and be nice

LOL --- post-apocalypse fluff -- FTW!!!
I dare you to do something in the bingo card with a world ending fic <3333

[bluflamingo]

I think maybe sadder for Rodney than John - because John would have someone and be okay, but Rodney would realise that he can't have John, and actually he doesn't know John as well as he though.

LOL --- post-apocalypse fluff -- FTW!!!

Some of them make sense, like knitting. Some are just... well, one of my squares is unicorns.

[skieswideopen]

I only very briefly dipped my toe into John/Rodney before being turned off by certain aspects of the fandom. But yeah, I'm seeing all these new stories scroll by each day and it's a little sad that I've no desire to read any of them. (And okay, I'm also a little annoyed they post them ALL to the announcement board because I'm kind of feeling like anyone who really cares about McShep or McShep Match has probably already subscribed to that community.)

I would totally read the story you're describing.

BTW, you could totally double-count an apocalypse_kree story for cotton candy bingo. If you wanted. At least from my end. I don't know what the bingo mods would think. :D

[bluflamingo]

I'm also a little annoyed they post them ALL to the announcement board

Yeah, what's that all about? It's not like stargate is such a huge sprawling fandom someone could conceivably have not noticed the challenge is on.

I shall swing by apocalypse kree and look for prompts...

[scrollgirl]

Wow, I would totally read the hell out of that story! But don't try to write it if you're not feeling the mojo--it sounds like you've already got lots on your plate.

I stopped reading John/Rodney a long, long time ago, even before I started shipping John with other people. It's funny, though, because I'm now in Avengers movie fandom and I can't deny certain "socially awkward genius" similarities between Rodney and Tony, who is my favourite, and the military/scientist pairing similarity between John/Rodney and Steve/Tony.

OTOH, Tony is IMHO a little more aware of the fact that he *does* miss social cues, even if he doesn't realise he's done so until after, and he's obviously transformed himself quite a lot post-Afghanistan. Also, there's enough fanfic that I can avoid the ones riddled with woobie!Tony fanon if I want to.

Especially since I signed up for cotton candy bingo and decided I want all of my fics to be post-apocalypse fluff

I... I'm not sure how that would even work, but I have faith in you!