I've been trying for, um, ages now? to come up with something that is not just capslocked flailing, even though that is pretty much how I feel (*CAPSLOCKFLAILS TO GET IT OUT OF HER SYSTEM*) because this is really... it is every reason why I love SGA fanfic so much, everything that shouts this is why my fandom is the most awesome ever, that it can do things like this.
The culture and the world--the language, religion, the relationship between words and days and numbers and music--aren't just Planet of the Week, they're real and thought-about. It's lovely and heartbreaking to watch John and Rodney try to fit into a culture that's so focused around partnerships and families and friends, and try to figure out their own friendship in that context (like when Rodney realizes that he and John make okay housemates, even as he wishes they were more) and have to deal with the very real, and possibly permanent, loss of Teyla and Ronon. Then, when they both figure it out, and learn how to rely on and be with each other... that takes away the sting a bit--they always seem a bit apart from Sami and Janam and the others--but still, when they see Teyla and Ronon in the marketplace, and Rodney's heart just leaps...
(And how Teyla and Ronon were always there, just in Rodney and John knowing they were looking and wouldn't give up, oh my heart.)
It's one of those worlds where I would seriously kill to go to, to read in their library and check out the bathhouses and wander in the market, and learn about people. The way you describe their house, the market, everything... how I want to go there. This is one of those fics that makes me wish for more money, a spaceship, anything, so I can see what you describe. It's just, well... really really incredibly awesome, and I pack as much awesomeness into the word as possible.
And now, a moment of capslock:
"Somebody really ought to write a paper about pidgins and creoles and variants on the English language in Pegasus."
YES. I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY. ALSO, I WANT TO BE THAT PERSON SO SO SO BADLY.
unconscionably late comment *fails*
The culture and the world--the language, religion, the relationship between words and days and numbers and music--aren't just Planet of the Week, they're real and thought-about. It's lovely and heartbreaking to watch John and Rodney try to fit into a culture that's so focused around partnerships and families and friends, and try to figure out their own friendship in that context (like when Rodney realizes that he and John make okay housemates, even as he wishes they were more) and have to deal with the very real, and possibly permanent, loss of Teyla and Ronon. Then, when they both figure it out, and learn how to rely on and be with each other... that takes away the sting a bit--they always seem a bit apart from Sami and Janam and the others--but still, when they see Teyla and Ronon in the marketplace, and Rodney's heart just leaps...
(And how Teyla and Ronon were always there, just in Rodney and John knowing they were looking and wouldn't give up, oh my heart.)
It's one of those worlds where I would seriously kill to go to, to read in their library and check out the bathhouses and wander in the market, and learn about people. The way you describe their house, the market, everything... how I want to go there. This is one of those fics that makes me wish for more money, a spaceship, anything, so I can see what you describe. It's just, well... really really incredibly awesome, and I pack as much awesomeness into the word as possible.
And now, a moment of capslock:
"Somebody really ought to write a paper about pidgins and creoles and variants on the English language in Pegasus."
YES. I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY. ALSO, I WANT TO BE THAT PERSON SO SO SO BADLY.