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Because I just can't help myself
Going along doing edits to our Big Bang story, every once in a while I come across a scene that makes me giggle helplessly, in a "what were we on when we wrote this story?!" kind of way. Like this:
"So..." Rodney was caught between righteous indignation at having his privacy invaded, and respect, because he'd had a lifetime to learn his way around the Atlantis mainframe and still Zelenka had found him out. "Did you, uh. Read them?"
"I tried." Zelenka pushed up his glasses, and smiled ruefully. "I cannot understand half of the math."
"It's whale math," Rodney said loftily. "Of course you can't."
Zelenka stared at him for a moment. "You know, in the labs, Rodney, you are widely considered brilliant, but quite mad."
"All the greatest mathematicians and scientific theoreticians were considered mad in their time. Nostradamus, Newton, Rasputin, Tesla ..."
"Rodney, most of them were mad."
"Which does not in any way disprove my point," Rodney snapped.
It makes more sense in context. I think.
"So..." Rodney was caught between righteous indignation at having his privacy invaded, and respect, because he'd had a lifetime to learn his way around the Atlantis mainframe and still Zelenka had found him out. "Did you, uh. Read them?"
"I tried." Zelenka pushed up his glasses, and smiled ruefully. "I cannot understand half of the math."
"It's whale math," Rodney said loftily. "Of course you can't."
Zelenka stared at him for a moment. "You know, in the labs, Rodney, you are widely considered brilliant, but quite mad."
"All the greatest mathematicians and scientific theoreticians were considered mad in their time. Nostradamus, Newton, Rasputin, Tesla ..."
"Rodney, most of them were mad."
"Which does not in any way disprove my point," Rodney snapped.
It makes more sense in context. I think.
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it really is 60,000 words of crack isn't it :-P
made me chuckle.
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This is the slightly slash story or unintentional pre-slash one? I'm trying to guess the slash pairing.
(comment edited due to numerous grammatical errors!)
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Do you want to know the pairing? Or be surprised? Trust me, it's not much of a surprise...
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I'll wait patiently :)
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I love that bit. Although, yes, it's the kind of loving I do while giggling helplessly.
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LOL! Oh Radek. ::hugs him::
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I rather like the idea that Rodney's lab staff think of him as brilliant but mad...
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Yeah, what were you guys on??? Seriously.
And generally gen reader or no, I don't think there's a chance in hell that I won't read this.
Have you got a title for it yet?
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It's primarily gen. Which, I realize, is exactly what we complain about when other people say that about THEIR slash. Hey, I never claimed to be consistent! :D But we conceived it as team gen, so despite a slash subplot, the story is heavily focused on the team (with large roles for Ronon, Teyla and several of the supporting cast), and if you can deal with a bit of boykissing, I don't think it'll be too weird.
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LOL! I think what tends to annoy me about those fics is that the slash seems to be gratuitously "tacked on" (as one person once admitted to doing just to get more readers).
If, in the case of this story, the slash really did "write itself in", well then it would probably flow as a natural part of the story and wouldn't jar when I read it.
I don't object to slash. It just seems that 99% of the time slashfics seemed to aimed at "fulfilling needs" that I just don't have. So to me, reading it is, at best, pointless or, at worst, annoying.
It makes more sense when you realize that the whole thing is basically a big fairy tale.
O-kay. Given the authors involved (and their strange obsession with whales) theis sounds more and more interesting...
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