McShep Match reveal: Bacchanalian Circuit - John/Rodney (of course) - NC-17

It's mcshep_match reveal day --

Title: Bacchanalian Circuit (Away Team) [NC-17]
Prompt: Run the gauntlet
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Humorous dubcon. Yes, yes, I know.
Summary: "Let me get this straight. I have to run a gauntlet of your kinky sexual fantasies to get out of here?"
Notes: Thank you to Tingler, Dossier, and Celtic Tigress for their gleeful beta support — and to Amothea (again) for cheerleading me through the first draft. I could not have done it without you. As for Rodney's hair-splitting over gantlet and gauntlet, technically he's correct, but both spellings have been in use for the last 300 years. It's an etymological mystery why. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints.

Some McShep Match recs.

Things I learned from the mcshep_match: be careful of your summary.

Now that the voting is over I can feel free to rec whomever I like, regardless of the team. Some of my favorites from the mcshep_match so far:

A Place On The Corner by almostnever
Summary: Some things are worth waiting for.

I passed this over the first time, but then lavvyan recced it, so I backed up and took another look. Sweet, gentle, and Junk Cheap-esque take on John with his perverse rebelliousness and slacker facade. The holidays first seem to be a randomly selected theme but one is a critical pivot point. Have I read anything else by almostnever?

Blink by lavvyan
Summary: I am going to tell you a story. About Dr. McKay and how he bought an eye from me, and how that one small act led to the strangest night in my entire life.

Blink is pure science fiction with an interesting OC point of view. I didn't like this character, but I enjoyed her, if that makes sense. I recommend the author change McKay and Sheppard's names and publish it as pro-fic.

Mission: Improbable by sageness
Summary: "Your mission, should you choose to accept it…"

I love the attention to detail of the military missions. The plot moves and moves, weaving John and Rodney's open secret of a relationship into the background. So rare to find an author who writes great action scenes, too. I could see sageness struggling at times to shoehorn this action/adventure fic into the "Home Team" theme, and I didn't need the last part back home, but this was a satisfying adventure.

With Bones Like That by torakowalski
Summary: “I’m Dr Rodney McKay,” she said slowly. “We were at Berkeley together. You majored in mechanical engineering because you’re an idiot who wanted to go to war rather than use your brain for something worthwhile. I’m Rodney McKay with breasts, okay? It’s not that hard to grasp." AU. Title from The Fratellis’ Chelsea Dagger.

I absolutely loved John in this. He handles the weirdness that is Rodney-with-an-unexplained-sex-change with aplomb, skipping his own reaction to deal with the here and now. And Rodney is just so... defensive, blustering, blunt, insensitive and sweet. So Rodney. Yes, "Rodney" has become an adjective.


Then there's-the-one-I-haven't-read-because-it's-50,000-words-but-it-looks-great-and-Auburn-says-so-too by chandri.

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Oh, son of a bitch! I rewrote one of my Out Of Bounds scenes last night, putting a lot of work into it.

Apparently after a Firefox crash (I am not impressed with the latest version of Firefox) either WG or myself did a shutdown -- without closing Word. The file was recovered... but I thought I had it saved. I shut it.

enname, my changes are all Gone. Gone, gone, gone.

God damn it. I've really struggled with this scene. I can't believe it's gone.

Uninstalling Firefox. If I could put it up against a wall and shoot it, I would.

Okay, the new version of Firefox keeps crashing. It resulted in a lost scene for Out Of Bounds (which doesn't seem to be in my c:/windows/temp folder).

That's unacceptable.

Does anyone know how to uninstall Firefox and put in the older version? The new version crashes daily and six times on Saturday.