SGA Rec: Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose - John/Rodney - PG-13

[icarus]

Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose synecdochic, PG-13, John/Rodney but more Gen

I hate sad stories. I don't go for hurt/comfort because the comfort is never enough for me to make up for the hurt. I'm not a fan of angst either.

This story is profound. If you've only caught half an episode of Stargate Atlantis and are not a fan of the show, read this, because it will remind you that fanfiction writers are truly writers. This story makes me think of Bradbury. Not in the prose, but in the fact that the story rings with layers of unspoken truth, and shows us in simple, friendly terms some of the best and worst people are capable of.

I've seen this recommended all over the place, but after heaping on the praise people forget to tell you the story:

Rodney has quit the SGC after a disaster on Atlantis (the nature of this disaster is not what you think) to teach at an insignificant college. There he begins to teach what he slowly realizes is 'Things I Wish Someone Had Bothered To Tell Me Before I Needed To Know.'

Comments

[florahart]

I'll second the rec for not-particular-fans--I've seen some parts of some eps, like, I saw the one with the shuttle in the water and the hallucinating? And, um, some others. Anyway. I know which one Rodney is and almost who the other characters are.

I saw this fic pointed to by someone who didn't like it but had seen it recced all over, but she didn't say what fandom, so I looked purely out of curiosity at first, and then sat there and read it all at once, totally unable to leave it.

It's lovely and brilliant. It doesn't matter that I was marginally familiar with the canon in question. I loved it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Amazing. How could anyone not like this story? Well, she was impressed enough to mention it anyway.

Icarus