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crack_van2010-04-07 10:42 pm
mf_luder_xf) wrote in crack_van2010-04-07 10:42 pm
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A Slightly Different Quality of Light by Pru (R)
Fandom: STARGATE: ATLANTIS
Pairing: pre-slash McKay/Sheppard
Length: 5,444 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rageprufrock
Author Website: glitterati
Why this must be read:
This fic is just lovely. The prose is poetic and paints such beautiful images so that you can see the memories as clear as Rodney must be able to, playing out on the Ancient screens. Rodney's devotion to John shines as brilliantly as the scientist does in John's memories. Sweet with a happy ending.
It's a slow process, but at least Rodney is comfortable with the experimental design.
When boiled down to its most essential, it's very simple: Rodney downloaded the contents of the sphere, which has perfect recall but no delineation between one upload and the next. This means that all of John is mixed in with all of Atlantis, which has been swirling in this orb for God knows how long, waiting and treacherous, and that now the two are mingled like yearning souls--as if Atlantis feels one of its own even in molecular desire, the weak and strong forces between electrons.
The six terminals where Atlantis and John are stored are run on several different power sources, and in a move which was controversial but ultimately approved by Elizabeth, Rodney had hooked them up to the ZPM because they can lose the naquadah generators, they can lose backups, they can lose almost anything but they cannot lose John.
A Slightly Different Quality of Light
Pairing: pre-slash McKay/Sheppard
Length: 5,444 words
Author on LJ:
rageprufrockAuthor Website: glitterati
Why this must be read:
This fic is just lovely. The prose is poetic and paints such beautiful images so that you can see the memories as clear as Rodney must be able to, playing out on the Ancient screens. Rodney's devotion to John shines as brilliantly as the scientist does in John's memories. Sweet with a happy ending.
It's a slow process, but at least Rodney is comfortable with the experimental design.
When boiled down to its most essential, it's very simple: Rodney downloaded the contents of the sphere, which has perfect recall but no delineation between one upload and the next. This means that all of John is mixed in with all of Atlantis, which has been swirling in this orb for God knows how long, waiting and treacherous, and that now the two are mingled like yearning souls--as if Atlantis feels one of its own even in molecular desire, the weak and strong forces between electrons.
The six terminals where Atlantis and John are stored are run on several different power sources, and in a move which was controversial but ultimately approved by Elizabeth, Rodney had hooked them up to the ZPM because they can lose the naquadah generators, they can lose backups, they can lose almost anything but they cannot lose John.
A Slightly Different Quality of Light