sholio: sun on winter trees (SGA-Game-John-look)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2007-12-31 12:32 am
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I have a present for penguin!fic fans

(All, um, none? of you on my friend list? But seriously, this is cute.)

Okay ... somehow, I have actually managed to make it through two years in this fandom without reading penguin!fic. Until tonight. Because one such story was rec'd on [livejournal.com profile] sgastoryfinders, and it was by an author I like, and I was all, "Oh hell," and clicked on it, and it was so freakin' cute, and there goes my penguin-free streak in fandom. So, if you're a John/Rodney pairing person, and you haven't read [livejournal.com profile] lavvyan's Antarctic Drift, go forth and read. SO. DAMN. CUTE.

And this got me to scan in a photo from a recent issue of National Geographic. I swear to God I have not tampered with this photo in any way. This is EXACTLY how it ran in the August 2007 issue of National Geographic.




Yes, you read that right. Rodney the emperor penguin.

And I can actually SEE the scene, with Rodney!penguin all tranquilized and limp, and the hapless biologist trying to radio-collar him while furious John!penguin attacks his ankles with his useless penguin beak. And of course, Rodney thinks the radio collar is really cool, and tries to figure out how it works, and John's all bristling and glowering at human photographers taking pictures of them from the other side of the ice floe ....
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2007-12-31 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
...

Penguin!fic!?

This fandom...this...there are no words.

(The fic was too cute, though, and the National Geo scan is hysterical, as is your imagined scenario XD)
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[personal profile] sholio 2007-12-31 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
It's an actual GENRE in this fandom! Apparently, the story is that one of the very first influential slash stories in the fandom was one in which John and Rodney got turned into penguins and had lots of sex as penguins, and it kind of ... caught on. But, seriously, this is THE most crack-happy fandom I have EVER been in. I primarily read [livejournal.com profile] sgastoryfinders just for the requests, such as "The one in which John and Rodney get turned into walls" (an actual story ... and actually pretty cute, I must say).

I think SGA fandom has totally recalibrated my crack threshhold. I remember that one of the very first SGA stories that I read was a gen one in which John accidentally got turned into a dog by an Ancient device, and it completely weirded me out. Now? I don't think I'd give it a second glance. *g*
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2007-12-31 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I guessed from the way you said it that p!fic was a genre. (but penguins...birds...they don't even have...the sex would be...um?) Umm. Yes. CRACK.

I think I love it!

--walls, though?!
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[personal profile] sholio 2007-12-31 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
--walls, though?!

That was an actual request in storyfinders. I think it was the oddest one I'd seen up to that point. I am waiting to see what they come up with now.

There is also a greenhouse AU in which they are all flowers, by [livejournal.com profile] lavvyan, above. (And there's h/c when they start running out of water!) I'm sure I've got a link to it somewhere ...
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2008-01-01 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
The greenhouse one I saw. The walls one, now I want to find...(and of course there's the unicorn!Rodney/rainbow!John fic, which is far more beautiful than it has any right to be. Man, I really am giddily amused to be in this fandom!)
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[personal profile] sholio 2008-01-01 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
I remember hearing about the unicorn/rainbow one, but I couldn't quite bring myself to read it -- too cracky even for me! (Give me another year in this fandom, though...)

I really can't help you with the walls one, except that it was rec'd at [livejournal.com profile] sgastoryfinders sometime last year ... but I can't remember when, or where it was.

(Anonymous) 2008-01-01 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
That is a real story about walls and I read it, but it was so long ago I can't think of where (probably through some early rec on storyfinders). I don't even remember the plot (if there was one), just that they were walls... I get sad in other fandoms where they don't have all the wacky stories. I think people are just willing to write more if they can put any crazy idea out there and it'll be accepted and even cherished. I love the good cannon stories best (such as your wonderful writing), but sometimes I just want to read a few pages of complete randomness that I enjoy mostly because they attach certain names to whatever they are writing about. Though it seems like people in this fandom usually do a good job of capturing some of the character traits even if they make the people animals or chairs or whatever else. And all the AUs are great, too. Ahh, fanfic, if only I hadn't given you up for my master's thesis...

(Anonymous) 2008-01-01 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
But wait! Have you read lavvyan's story where there are peas and a complementary condiment I'll leave you to discover? It is incredibly in-character (and there is a hint of slash too! Kind of... Sorta... )

Here: http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=10530

One of my very favorites!

:)
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