#i swear i have non-mcshep fic

[spurious]

what was the moment where you said yes to McShep?

OKAY SO.

Obviously you, audioletter my beloved wife know all this but. I’m not sure I’ve talked about how I got into SGA/mcshep on my tumblr so.

After finishing the x-files in 2022, my wife’s Zaddy Husband Mitch Pileggi beckoned us to watch Stargate Atlantis (because we couldn’t stomach Walker Texas Ranger). We’ve both been in fandom for a Long Time and thus remembered the years that McShep reigned supreme, and starting the show we said to each other “haha wouldn’t it be funny if we became ride-or-die mcshep shippers?”

……..yeah.

From the very start of the show, basically every single time John and Rodney were on screen together we’d go “haha mcshep lol”

So now I’m like. trying to excavate my memories to figure out when it Became Real for me.

I do tend to love buddy slash pairings and ships where one person is shrill while the other is chill so it’s not, like, surprising to me in hindsight that I did end up shipping mcshep? And then the SGA fandom being so friendly and active just…allowed my fixation the space to flourish.

But anyway, let’s see what the first McShep thing I saved to my camera roll was!

*drumroll*

It’s this art by the amazing @luluxa:

So at this point I think I was still at the “no no, I’m saving this fanart to my phone ironically” stage.

Now, this was October 30th. By November 3rd, I have photos of a trip to mandarake where I was really hoping to find SGA doujinshi cause I SWEAR I’d seen it before (I’ve not managed to find it yet. Japanese fans why. You guys love generic white guys mcshep should be massive here)

The first fic I have bookmarked is from November 2nd with the note “oh no I have feelings about McShep now” and it is Counting Down by @alienfuckeronmain, which is a post-trinity fic.

HOWEVER. I also have a Grace Under Pressure coda bookmarked from a day or so later, and this tracks with my impressions: this is the episode that most intensely sticks out in my mind as being emotionally memorable and something I needed to be reading fic about. Soooooo I guess it was Rodney that got me, and the need to process my emotions about episodes by reading other people’s processing, and, uh, now here I am almost two years later!

SO. To get to the actual question, several paragraphs and approximately a day later, I don’t know that there really was a single moment that put me there, as opposed to a series of moments enacted onto an already-primed pump? Because truly I should know by now that the danger of doing something ironically is that you end up doing it ronically, but. I remember devouring the fic I could find that was non-spoilery as we were watching (lots of episode tags) and it definitely shaped my perspective on John and Rodney’s interactions.

But essentially, this is a ship archetype I tend to like, and Rodney McKay is absolutely the type of horrible little gremlin man I tend to like, and the fic was good, and. Here we are lmao

[stargatebarbie]

WIP Title Tag

Tagged by @spurious 💖

rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

all the fic i’ve gotten around to moving to obsidian is sga/mcshep so that’s what I’ve got here. also a lot of these files are just named with the prompt it was based on which i feel is kind of boring for this, sorry 😅

sinkhole fic (we know her, we love her. one day i’ll finish it i swear lol)

atlantis aural services

divorce time bitches

ask radek!

design choice

family

back on earth

bound together

tagging @eddiestattoos @acrowbyanyothername @i-aint-nothin-but-a-nasty-dog @denimshortsdean & anyone else who wants to join in please do!!

[dedkake]

3-2-1 Challenge

tagged by @frankthesnek, @a-storm-of-roses, and @massharp1971​ 💖💖

This is how it works:

The theme for this weekend is Good Vibes! 😎 So we’re going to 3-2-1 style with your WIPs! What does that mean? For the number of WIPs you have, you’re going to start with sharing that number of sentences for the first one, drop by one for the next one, etc.

So FOR EXAMPLE: If I have 5 WIPs, then I’m going to share 5 sentences out of one of them, 4 sentences out of the next, 3 sentences out of the next, etc. GIVE US THOSE GOOD VIBES WITH ALL YOUR WIPs!

Only have 1 WIP? Share that 1 sentence and be proud! Tag all your writing friends to send them lots of Good Vibes!

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6. the wip in which john just wants to sleep in rodney’s bed all the time except it’s still just an outline (you could’ve guessed it--it’s another aroace john mcshep fic!):

“What the hell?”

“Just go back to sleep, Rodney.”

“What are you doing?”

“You’re drunk. It’s fine.”

“You’re drunk.”

5. the only in-progress idea for more of my qpr verse. for the non-sexual intimacy prompts of ‘patching up a wound’ and ‘watching the other cry’:

Rodney stumbles between them, his bad leg giving out completely, and John hauls him back up before he drags Teyla down with him. The string of curses this time is quieter, but somehow more frenzied than before.

Panting, Rodney says, “Just tell me we’re close. Tell me I’m going to bleed out in the jumper and not on the floor of some backwater planet where you two will have to drag my corpse back home.”

“If you die here,” John says, swallowing around the way that makes his chest tight, “what makes you think we’d waste any time with your--corpse?”

4. a fic that’s going nowhere, but works as a place to store my ot4 with aro!john feels:

John turns the tape over in his hand. It’s innocuous, just like any other home video, except for the little words etched in Ford’s handwriting. Dr. McKay.

Ford gave it to him laughing, and John had smiled back, but it had never been that funny.

3. from a sequel to the pizza fic in which we get rodney’s pov and i can’t decide the setting. probably abandoned:

Once in bed, John pushes himself in close as Rodney tucks the blankets back around them. “You smell like a gym bag that someone left out in a petting zoo,” Rodney says into John’s hair. “Showers after workouts--I’m sure that’s a rule.”

2. this missing scene for mckay and mrs miller that’s basically finished and has been basically finished since july 2020 but i’m too much of a coward to post:

“McKay,” John says as the door slides closed, and then he’s everywhere, pushing Rodney’s bag back off his shoulder and swallowing down Rodney’s protests. He’s all lips and tongue and hands, his aftershave sharp in Rodney’s nose, filling up Rodney’s senses all at once.

1. my most treasured wip that i will finish someday. i will. my virgin!john fic:

Sheppard runs a hand through his hair--the hand that’s been very recently wrapped around Rodney’s dick--fuck--and he has the nerve to look hurt.

thanks again! everyone should do this! i’ve seen so many people tagged and i can’t keep up!