#Atlantis rising

[watch-joey-collect]

[katiep18]

Our ancestors never died but rather were reborn, generation after generation, always keeping their secrets with them until now; they are us.

[da-owo]

i had to draw more XD i also kidas form when she is one with the crystal was screaming nightlight at me

[augustotterrr]

Today I want to show you guys who at different periods of my life were idols of my heart

oh no! i forgot about the boys from homestuck, i like a lot of them, but the department has to highlight john.

[acrowbyanyothername]

When Rodney’s ranting but mentally you’re with the pigeons.

[kyrogue-fr]

Atlantis art as an example piece for my Scrimblo art orders on FR

Art shop banner

Ok bye

[dr-futbol-blog]

Our hero, Major John Sheppard is stationed at McMurdo base in Antarctica at the start of the series. We learn that he likes it there. Sheppard himself tells Teyla in Sateda (S03E04): "Well, that [having no social skills] is why I enjoyed flying choppers in the most remote part of my world before all this craziness."

This is what John Sheppard tells us but we learn that what he tells us is not always the truth and certainly not the whole truth.

The alien AI that created a hallucination from Sheppard's own subconscious in Remnants (S05E15) poses him the question: "You're either someone with a death wish or someone running away from something. So tell me: what are you running away from?" Running away to the most remote part of his world, running away to another galaxy.

In fact, he has both been banished to and self-isolated in the most remote part of his world ("You torture yourself every day, John.") due to his "black mark" acquired in Afghanistan. We are never explicitly told what this black mark was, only that it bothered Gen. O'Neill and was something that Dr. Weir could live with. We are left wondering.

While we are shown something of what happened in Afghanistan during the episode Phantoms (S03E09), through the hallucinations from Sheppard's past of him failing to save Capt. Charlie Holland, it isn't until toward the end of the series that we find out what happened through the mirror of a parallel reality in Vegas (S05E19), where alt!Rodney tells us "You were a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan but were dishonourably discharged for disobeying orders and trying to rescue a field medic trapped behind enemy lines. You were shot down – obviously survived, but unfortunately the crash killed four American soldiers along with eight civilians. You avoided jail time; the record was sealed for various political reasons."

The field medic in the Vegas-verse, one where "infinite variations of our own known reality where alternate versions of you and I play out events", is female; this revealed in a mumbled 'ur' (I didn't even catch it on first viewing even though I knew about the gender swap in advance; it might just as well have been "knew 'em") in alt!Rodney's line: "That field medic – the one you defied orders to go back and try and rescue. You knew her personally. You were... involved."

This was one of the differences between the two realities, perhaps even the most defining one of them, the point of divergence.

Vegas Sheppard dies to the tune of Johnny Cash's Solitary Man because that's what he was, a recluse (and note that the importance of Johnny Cash was underlined in the episode by Sheppard taking nothing but his poster, the same Johnny Cash poster that our Sheppard had in his quarters for all of the five years, with him once he walked away from his job; it carries weight):

I know it's been done havin' one girl who loved me Right or wrong, weak or strong Don't know that I will, but until I can find me The girl who'll stay and won't play games behind me I'll be what I am

But our Sheppard is not a Solitary Man (he has self-confessedly found something of a family in Pegasus). He's the Man in Black (in fact, he is dressed in black throughout the series even in situations where other fatigues would have made more sense; it is only in the very last episode that we see him in lighter colours):

I'd love to wear a rainbow every day And tell the world that everything's okay But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back 'Til things are brighter, I'm the man in black

We know the background. When the series begun, DADT was still in full effect, the franchise had a long-standing co-operation with the USAF, Prop 8 was still several years into the future. The non-normative sexual orientation of an All-American Action Hero was never going to be main-text. Even heterosexual romance between characters was mostly eschewed by the franchise. But damn if the subtext doesn't lay it out thick for us.

There are so many obvious parallels and comparisons in the show that I need to write them down somewhere, and while this is a day late and a dollar short, this fandom could do with some meta. So this marks the beginning of my journey through Stargate Atlantis with an eye on its bisexual protagonist.

[sassycordy]

[dedkake]

Ferris wheels and college football, anything that goes more than 200 miles per hour.

[sheppardsmckay]

Rachel’s Giffing Celebration

Day 5: Parallels

[spockvarietyhour]

Atlantis in the final shot of the series premiere "Rising" and the first shot after the music in the fifth season premiere"Search and Rescue"

[autistic-danieljackson]

Wanting to win the lottery not for selfish reasons but to fund a good Stargate video game

[emuanon34]

What’s worse, loving something that flops and then gets forgotten or loving something that gets popular and then gets constantly milked?

[balu8]

Alan Davis

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

SGA + Terry Pratchett

It was just waiting for some idiot to do the wrong thing, and Nature is bountiful where idiots are concerned.

― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

Thanks to @colonelshepparrrrd who helped me choose the caps for this one 💜

[ormymarius]

can’t believe people still call Orm a dictator or a tyrant when he was king of Atlantis. in the comics, he cared about his people more than himself. he retaliated against what he thought was an attack from the surface because he cared so much and saw his people die. in the movies, Karshon and the rest of the high council gave him the power to become Ocean Master to wipe out the surface because of their pollution, and a majority of Atlanteans wanted Orm to do so.

sure, Orm ruled with a sort of iron fist. but he was not a tyrant/dictator if most of his people loved him as king and felt safe in Atlantis.