LINKDING

<blockquote>"Any plans for shore leave?" Rodney asks, and this time Sheppard doesn't even look at him.</blockquote> ➤ an old classic; I don't love it but it's good

<blockquote>Teyla had heard an Atlantian aphorism that seemed to express it: "I wouldn't throw him out of bed."</blockquote> ➤ apparently I never bookmarked this one? okay. ➤ endgame ship is teyla/ronon and rodney/john but still lovely teamfeels all the way

➤ Seriously, seriously, HOW BAD WAS I at bookmarking back in my SGA days??? ➤ Anyways, this is the one where John is Rodney's mathematician.

<blockquote>"Okay, whoops," John said, just after Rodney turned into a dolphin. At least, he was pretty sure that the dolphin was Rodney: it was better than thinking that Rodney and the dolphin had unexpectedly switched places, and Rodney had been transported to the middle of the ocean somewhere.</blockquote> ➤ That's weird that I never bookmarked this before; I've totally read it!

<blockquote>On Xia they kiss on the mouth. They do it for every possible occasion: to greet, to part, to seal an agreement. They do it at dinners, where normal cultures would have toasts. They do it spontaneously, like a pat on the shoulder, like shaking hands. John doesn't even shake hands if he can avoid it. In the private depths of his heart, he thinks it's rude: in that way, saluting's always been convenient. On Xia, John keeps his distance: makes the trade, waves, and gets the hell out of Dodge. But Rodney stays to learn about their extraordinary power systems and to teach them everything else, and when he comes back to Atlantis a couple of weeks later, he's picked up the habit.</blockquote>

➤ DVD commentary of Speranza's fic, with AWESOME meta.

➤ the one where Rodney’s using a time machine thing to constantly interfere with John’s life to keep him from dying

<blockquote>"Just, since Antarctica, I can surf dreams."</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Do you remember the Total Perspective Vortex?" and John had to think: it was part of the plot that happened to Zaphod, wasn't it? McKay apparently didn't trust his memory, because he said, with faint impatience, "It was a machine, a torture device, that showed you the whole vastness of space-time, with a sign pointing to a miniscule dot on a dot that said—" "You are here," John said, abruptly remembering. "Right. And then your brain explodes," and John frowned at McKay, who stared back at him, pale and completely serious. "It wasn't like that, the temple. Not—exactly. But that's the only way I can think of to describe...." His voice was suddenly thick with emotion: "You see, it wasn't false advertising: it was true, it was real, everything they said. Ultimate knowledge of the universe, and it was, because you realize that—you realize—"</blockquote> ➤ and then Rodney tries to ascend and John doesn't take that well

<blockquote>He has a highly regressive personality and may be impulsive, engaging in acts of compulsive and pleasurable wish-fulfillment. He is secretly a moralist, though he will act to save others even as he judges them. However, his is a personality always on the verge of disintegration: he does not have a strongly drawn line between "self" and "other" and is likely to engage in acts of reckless self-disregard. Very probably homosexual.</blockquote>

<blockquote>By the eighth time John Sheppard married Rodney McKay, they were old pros at the wedding thing, having weathered not only an Ouishan blood wedding, but also a twelve-hour Avalonian handfasting, a Malanese necklace exchange, and a Thurtu joining ceremony that invoked a fire god and featured seven kinds of cake.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Caroll, Franklin R. Atlantis Revisited. New York and London, Routledge, 2011. Chapman, Denise. Several Kinds of Genius: The Life of Rodney McKay. NY: Harper Perennial, 2015. Croft, Rosalind. City of Spires: A Memoir. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 2009. Dugan, Paul. A Political History of Atlantis. Oxford: OUP, 2012. </blockquote> ➤ the one, the only, the legendary.