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icarusI don't usually go for Mensa AUs or Het.
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mad_maudlin's Heteronormativity, Gender Construction and Nonverbal Signaling in Intercultural Communication: A Comedy.
Twice.
I think I'm in love with this neurotic, understandably screwed up Sheppard who never developed our John's veneer of cool (or learned to hide the fact he's an uber geek). He's fully aware that he's different and screwed up, and openly admits, "I don't do people. I do math." I think she had me with:
John offered her his hand. "Hi. Dr. John Sheppard. I like football, Ferris wheels and anything with an explosive yield over two hundred kilotons."
Yet underneath his neurosis, Dr. John Sheppard is somehow sweeter than ours, maybe because he never learned to kill. And I believe why Teyla in the Mensa universe is uncommunicative: she was a runner, not Ronon.
With such a meaty core, you'd never think this would be mad fun. But this ismad_maudlin, so it has spit-take lines like, "For your information, Colonel," he declared, "I am getting a little bit tired of being called a lady by somebody who is currently knitting a cowl-neck poncho out of hot pink Fun Fur!" -- and -- "Well, it might help to start by explaining what the squirrels that power your brain were doing during the whole adventure."
Run, don't walk, to Heteronormativity, Gender Construction and Nonverbal Signaling in Intercultural Communication: A Comedy bymad_maudlin, John/Teyla (yes, you read that right, and this is exactly the second time I've ever recc'd het), PG-13.
I've now read
mad_maudlin's Heteronormativity, Gender Construction and Nonverbal Signaling in Intercultural Communication: A Comedy. Twice.
I think I'm in love with this neurotic, understandably screwed up Sheppard who never developed our John's veneer of cool (or learned to hide the fact he's an uber geek). He's fully aware that he's different and screwed up, and openly admits, "I don't do people. I do math." I think she had me with:
John offered her his hand. "Hi. Dr. John Sheppard. I like football, Ferris wheels and anything with an explosive yield over two hundred kilotons."
Yet underneath his neurosis, Dr. John Sheppard is somehow sweeter than ours, maybe because he never learned to kill. And I believe why Teyla in the Mensa universe is uncommunicative: she was a runner, not Ronon.
With such a meaty core, you'd never think this would be mad fun. But this is
mad_maudlin, so it has spit-take lines like, "For your information, Colonel," he declared, "I am getting a little bit tired of being called a lady by somebody who is currently knitting a cowl-neck poncho out of hot pink Fun Fur!" -- and -- "Well, it might help to start by explaining what the squirrels that power your brain were doing during the whole adventure." Run, don't walk, to Heteronormativity, Gender Construction and Nonverbal Signaling in Intercultural Communication: A Comedy by
mad_maudlin, John/Teyla (yes, you read that right, and this is exactly the second time I've ever recc'd het), PG-13.
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Date: 2009-01-12 07:13 am (UTC)Current fave line: ""For over a month now," Rodney confessed into his arms." Squee!
*wriggles blissfully back into fic*
*ok, I must admit, I am being somewhat seduced by NCIS. Icarus! The writing in that fandom is nearly all TERRIBLE! (so, so bad. ans on ff.net) And yet the raw material is so promising. Why?! Thank the heavens for OOB. *runs back to fic*
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Date: 2009-01-12 11:22 am (UTC)Angie, who really should've been writing all this time [laugh/flail]
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