LINKDING

<blockquote>She doesn’t want to kill the soldiers on this iteration; she’s never killed anyone before, and doesn’t want to start. But unless she can get poor, weak Sammi out of that prison in the next fifty/infinity minutes, they’ll start in on him with the rubber hoses and he’ll tell them what he’s done. And though she loves her brother with all her heart, it would be a blessing then if the Americans beat him to death.</blockquote>

➤ the famed story

➤ kind of awesome and tragic at the same time. ➤ Answers the problem of Susan with a very original solution.

<blockquote>John glanced around to see if there was anyone within hearing distance, and Carson snapped, “Do you honestly think we’d be having this discussion if it weren’t private?” He muttered, “Sorry. I just — why did you check? You never look for anything but the ATA markers.” “I didn’t check. We put you in the healing pod, and it started spitting out a report of repairs to be done. First on the list was correcting for hormone-induced abnormalities followed by reconstructing your uterus and ovaries.”</blockquote> ➤ the one where John was born with Pseudohermaphroditism

➤ on issues of race in the movies author's note: "This isn't really fic, it's stupid meta speculation disguised as fic"

➤ OH MY GOD. Starts off hilarious and adorable and just sort of invisibly slides into this kind of harrowing and tragic (but still also hilarious and adorable!) depiction of the suckiness of life on Atlantis for everyone involved.

<blockquote>Sometimes, Leonard McCoy wonders what his life would have been like in another life. Sometimes, he's pretty sure he doesn't want to know.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rodney used to believe that death was the worst thing that could happen on a mission. He was wrong.</blockquote>

available on the wayback machine <blockquote>Nell Gabrielli: They tell me I’ve saved nearly two hundred people’s lives already, and helped almost five hundred more. (Pauses.) That’s important. That’s real important. Richard Forrest, Medical Ethicist: Ms. Gabrielli is a prisoner of the medical system, plain and simple. What’s been done to her is a travesty. And the fact that she was convinced to consent to it only makes it worse.</blockquote>