Atlantis and cultural imperialism

There's a really interesting discussion on Atlantis and the way they relate to the inhabitants of the Pegasus galaxy going on over here (with a spin-off post here -- not many comments on that one, though). I don't think about this stuff all that much while watching the show (on purpose, more or less) but it's interesting to sometimes let myself go and get all political about it.

Atlantis and cultural imperialism

There's a really interesting discussion on Atlantis and the way they relate to the inhabitants of the Pegasus galaxy going on over here (with a spin-off post here -- not many comments on that one, though). I don't think about this stuff all that much while watching the show (on purpose, more or less) but it's interesting to sometimes let myself go and get all political about it.

Fic rec

I just read this today (after having had it on my to-read list for months) and I loved it completely.

The Complexity of Daily Life by teaphile - (NC-17, OT4, about 35K words)
Despite the rating and pairing, this is much more plot-focused than romance-focused, and the sex scenes are very oblique. It's a gorgeous, sweet, occasionally painful "lost Atlantis" story, with the surviving expedition members having to settle into the Pegasus galaxy permanently after Atlantis and Earth are lost to them. The everyday details of this adjustment process are developed wonderfully, on both the Atlantean and Pegasus-native end of things, along with the character dynamics between the main team as they deal with the fact that Earth rules no longer apply to their changing relationships with each other. I can't textually express how much I loved the depiction of John's sexuality here, and I wish there were more stories out there like it.

... also, in the process of copying fic to my laptop to take with me on vacation (yeah, I'm not exactly roughing it), I discovered that my saved SGA fics folder is 46 Mb. That's 46 Mb of plain text, because my usual thing for saving a story is to copy-paste it into a plain text window. That's a lot of fic.

Fic rec

I just read this today (after having had it on my to-read list for months) and I loved it completely.

The Complexity of Daily Life by teaphile - (NC-17, OT4, about 35K words)
Despite the rating and pairing, this is much more plot-focused than romance-focused, and the sex scenes are very oblique. It's a gorgeous, sweet, occasionally painful "lost Atlantis" story, with the surviving expedition members having to settle into the Pegasus galaxy permanently after Atlantis and Earth are lost to them. The everyday details of this adjustment process are developed wonderfully, on both the Atlantean and Pegasus-native end of things, along with the character dynamics between the main team as they deal with the fact that Earth rules no longer apply to their changing relationships with each other. I can't textually express how much I loved the depiction of John's sexuality here, and I wish there were more stories out there like it.

... also, in the process of copying fic to my laptop to take with me on vacation (yeah, I'm not exactly roughing it), I discovered that my saved SGA fics folder is 46 Mb. That's 46 Mb of plain text, because my usual thing for saving a story is to copy-paste it into a plain text window. That's a lot of fic.