In which wrongness abounds...

[przed]

Okay, first of all, I'm not going fannish about SGA. Really. I've got no time to keep up with the fandoms I'm active in. I don't need to add a new fandom to the mix. Let alone an uberfandom. So me and the sweetie have been watching and loving first season on Space, but that's all.

But...

I've been thinking about SGA slash pairings.

Mostly because I'm just not seeing the McShep. I know, that's what a lot of you are into, but apart from a few brief flashes, it's just not there in the show for me. And I need it in the show before I'll even touch it. As it were.

Now, McKay/Zelenka? I can totally see in the show. (And thanks to sithdragn for the lovely icon so I could even think of making this post.) I can't resist a geek, let alone an astrophysics geek. Put two of them together and I am in lurv. Plus, they're just so cute together. So, I'd totally read McKay/Zelenka. If I was getting fannish about the show. Which I'm not.

My sweetie, he's turned into a total Sheppard/Ford kinda guy. (Shhh. He doesn't know that bad things happen to Ford and I'm not about to tell 'im.) He's taken to cheering when Rainbow Sun Francks shows up in the credits and he's rewound an episode at least once to make me watch Sheppard and Ford doing cute things in the background. (I wasn't paying attention to them; I was watching McKay.) I might read the occasional Sheppard/Ford story out of loyalty to the sweetie. If I were getting fannish about the show. Which I'm not.

But (oh no, another but) the sweetie just came up with a completely crack-addled pairing that is intriguing. And messed up. See, I was explaining the genre of partner rape stories and the fact that I'd just run into one that was kinda hot. (Kitty Fisher's Pros story, The Chameleon's Dish, if you're interested.) His initial reaction was shock and dismay.

Sweetie: Why would you read that? That's sick! That's wrong! That's like slashing ::he flails around trying to think of a suitably messed up pairing::... Sheppard and Steve!

We both stop and look at each other. I clutch my head.

Me: That is so very, very wrong.
Sweetie: But it could work.
Me: It could totally work.

Yes, I would read Sheppard slashed with a Wraith.

Just please don't tell me someone's written it.

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Hee!
I think I've remained interested in, but not overly fannish for SGA primarily because it's so overwhelmingly Sheppard/McKay -- and the only pair I see, too, is Zelenka/McKay...well, I see see Zelenka/Weir, too, but I digress.

[green-key.livejournal.com]

Mostly because I'm just not seeing the McShep.

Amen, sister, amen. My theory is that the pairing came to be when everyone fell for Rodney, and then chose the show's Cute Guy to pair him with. When fans talk about Sheppard, it's almost always about his looks. IMO, Rodney doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd fall for someone who isn't very similar to himself. He likes when people agree with him, see things on his level, and have things and opinions in common with him. Period. Which isn't to say a relationship with someone who is more against his type couldn't happen, but I can't fathom that it would last long.

For the record, David Nykl (Radek) did an interview where he said Zelenka would be the best marriage for Rodney on the show (I so love David Nykl), but that Rodney loves his work far too much to have a serious relationship with anyone at this point.

So, I'd totally read McKay/Zelenka. If I was getting fannish about the show. Which I'm not.

I can rec a few stories if you're interested. In a completely non-fannish kind of way, of course.

My sweetie, he's turned into a total Sheppard/Ford kinda guy.

Awww. They were my first pairing in the fandom. :)

Just please don't tell me someone's written it.

I could say it hasn't been written, or that there isn't a community dedicated to the pairing, but that would be lying. *g*

[hermine.livejournal.com]

*ggg* Sheppard and Steve? That was most certainly written considering the main story archive is named wraithbait.com... but I´m not going to look it up. Nope.
Unsurprisingly I´m a very convinced McKay/Sheppard fan, though both my best rl friends can´t see it. shampoo_leska is into Beckett/McKay or Beckett/Sheppard and shirasade ships (that was really a surprise considering she´s such a slasher) Ronon/Teyla and Elisabeth/Sheppard.
Anyway, if you continue your not reading SGA McShep ways, check out seperis´s stories. I haven´t got a lot of free time, but her stories I do read!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Two words for ya: Sheppard/Beckett.

I'll point you to johncarsonlist - a searchable database of all the John/Carson fics.

I can also get behind Radek/Rodney. They really are cute together. Someone needs to put McKay in place. :)

And Sheppard/Steve... sigh. Yeah, it happens. *shivers*

[tovalentin.livejournal.com]

Great McKay and Zelenka story by Jane St. Clair. It's gen. (Don't be alarmed. Yes, I do read SGA gen.) You can't read it until you've watched all three parts of Siege, though (don't forget you have the first two or three eps of S2 on that DVD. LMK if you want the rest).

Detox: http://3jane.livejournal.com/493876.html

And I won't vouch for general quality, but here's an archive divided by pairings, then by genre: http://sga.fictionresource.com/fic_index.php

Not that I'm trying to make you fannish about the show. Which you're not...