Big Bang!!!

[bluflamingo]

Despite predictions of doom and gloom - the sga big bang site is live!

I've got 15 of the 39 fics tagged to read (well, of the 38 - I don't need to read my own), which ought to keep me busy this weekend :)

Title: Never As Bad As Anticipated (Until It Is)
Author: blufamingo
Word count: 72,953
Pairing: John/Cam (with some Teyla/Kanaan, and a couple of other very minor canon pairings)
Rating: R
Summary: Atlantis wasn't Cam's first choice for reassignment; he probably wasn't Atlantis' first choice for the new expedition leader either. Sometimes you work with what you've got anyway, even if what you've got includes seers, ill-advised rescue missions, replicators, wraith in the city and John Sheppard.

Beta'd by dossier, domtheknight, chase_acow and mf_luder_xf, without whom it would have been significantly more bitty than it is in reality, and with a plot that made a lot less sense.

Art by: sian1359, cala_jane and clayeer. The first two are covers for the story, and they're both absolutely gorgeous. The third is an illustration that goes with the epilogue and is the most adorable piece of Cam/John art ever. It's seriously so so sweet.

Feedback post for the fic.

Comments

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I've been looking forward to this one a lot, because while there's a lot of good-looking stories this year there's only so much McShep you can read at once - and, of course, because Cam is awesome and so are you. I'll leave some proper feedback once I, you know, actually read the story.

[ninja007.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm still reading this, so I'll save my 'WOO-HOO's' for later. So far, it's incredible!

I just wanted to say thank you for all the John/Cam fics that you have written by presenting a gift of a PWP fic. It's posted at my journal. It's a gift for you and another named Frellnik. I hope you like it and I didn't infringe on anyone's fic. It's called, "Interlude".

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, cool, thank you! I enjoyed it *very* much :)

[synecdochic]

I've been working my way through this slowly (despite not having any clue what happened on Atlantis in S4) because, well, you know me and Cam, and I've finally finished it, and I love it! The slow development of the relationship and all the human interaction bits made such a great backdrop to the ongoing mortal peril, and the way you treated every single character with such dignity and with so many wonderful bonds with each other just made me happy. (Lorne! Cadman! Teyla and the Athosians! Ronon! Zelenka!)

This is one of those rare stories that actually feel like there's this complex seething universe of people interacting with each other underneath what we see on the screen; it's so rare for me to actually feel like I could turn the corner in the story and find six people carrying on their lives underneath the main plot. Wonderfully done.

(Also, the sex was really fucking hot.)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You don't know how happy you made me by commenting on the feel that there's stuff going on while the plot's happening - my favourite thing about Atlantis is that there's all these other people as well as the main four or five, and I love writing their lives.