SGA rec: I don't usually go for Mensa AUs or Het. And yet....

[icarus]

I don't usually go for Mensa AUs or Het.

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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[monkey-junkey.livejournal.com]

You have convinced me! It has joined the queue of the 20-something tabs of fic I'm trying to get through. sga_santa is breaking my browser still!