LINKDING

<blockquote>After John's ignominious departure from the Air Force he rents a beach cottage in Oregon, a quiet place to work on his PTSD and figure out what's next in his life. But after he finds a journal left by the previous occupant, John develops an irrational connection to Rodney McKay. When Rodney shows up on his doorstep after having been missing for two years and dealing with his own trauma, can they co-exist at the cottage?</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Wait," John said, because this had to be a joke, didn't it? "You know Ronon, but you don't know me? What the hell did that thing do to you?"</blockquote> ➤ In which an ancient device removes all of Rodney's memories of things that were making him unhappy

➤ in which John is a single father, and meets Rodney at the science centre. ➤ series consists of: On Life and Living Nine Days Off

➤ In which the original John is dead, there are clones of John, and there is total angst.

<blockquote>Harlequin AU (no Stargate). Kaleb's long gone, Jeannie's got a career, Madison has problems, Rodney's got Inner Power!, and Sheppard. . . is pretty much the same.</blockquote> ➤ (In which Sheppard is trans)

<blockquote>Seriously, Rodney would make the perfect girlfriend</blockquote> ➤ I appreciate that this is a genderfuckery fic that really addresses the experience of body dysphoria for someone stuck in a body that doesn't match their gender identity

<blockquote>His existence, as he remembered it, began eleven days ago. He knew the word day was what to call the cycle between a single span of sunlight and darkness, but he could not remember what groupings of days were called. He didn’t think it mattered much. </blockquote>

<blockquote>“See, it’s like this,” Rodney smiled out at the reflection of the moon on the ocean, small waves sending the moonbeam rippling towards them on a ribbon of gleaming water. “I’m in love with Keller.” A band of steel constricted in John’s chest at the words and a little voice within him sighed and said ‘here we go again’. He took another swallow of beer, admiring the steadiness of his voice when he spoke at last. “Don’t you mean ‘Jennifer’?” Rodney looked at him sharply, startled. “What? Oh. Right. Whatever. Don’t start with me, Colonel Linguistics. Didn’t you hear what I just said?”</blockquote> ➤ The one where Rodney asks John for lessons in how to be cool so he can win Jennifer's affections

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

<blockquote>Atlantis, Lantea, eight years after the war ends</blockquote> ➤ the one where John's disappeared and then there's like a hundred kids born of his genetics because they want to make sure there's folks in Atlantis with ATA. ➤ Two parts, Panthalass and Pangenesis. ➤ Charin is Cadman's daughter, with the ATA gene, though she has her when she and Rodney are dating. Cadman dies and Rodney raises Charin. And then John is found. Panthalassa: https://sapote3.livejournal.com/15033.html?style=mine Pangenesis: https://sapote3.livejournal.com/152039.html?style=mine

➤ The one where John's a northern pilot, and Rodney's a Jesuit priest who gets exiled to Alaska

➤ In which it's the Depression, Rodney is an inventor hunted by the Nazis and a de-frosted Wraith found in Antarctica, and John is his pilot.

➤ The amnesiafic to pwn all amnesiafics. dvd commentary at https://web.archive.org/web/20160415050416/fiercelydreamed.talkoncorners.net/main/archives/stargate-atlantis/unidentified-dvd-commentary/

<blockquote>No wonder Sheppard missed McKay. He was an impossible act to follow.</blockquote> ➤ John ends up accidentally in a universe where Rodney has a dead end academic job, and needs Rodney's help figuring out how to get home

<blockquote> Sheppard falls afoul of an Ancient device, and McKay has to save him. Twice.</blockquote> ➤ Ancient device makes John switch places with a John from another universe. Follows both Johns.

➤ In which, after the end of the world, Rodney has issues and John has issues but together they are functional

<blockquote>Rodney's Antarctica is a lot like Siberia in that it's full of scientists who work 16-hour days and bathe once a week (twice when they're feeling social), and who would slit your throat for a fresh banana. Also, you can't go for a walk without a survival kit, but that's fine - Rodney's never really been an outdoorsy person. John's Antarctica is miles and miles of emptiness flitting beneath him and no one sitting beside him. It's nothing like Afghanistan at all.</blockquote> ➤ the Antarctica fic that contains item after item after item of things/events/details that have really stuck with me over the years since reading this fic last time. ➤ (it's the one where they hike to Observation Hill in Antarctica, frexample)

<blockquote> Rodney, heart pounding as he reloaded, ventured a quick, nervous look up over his unmade bed and saw that the alien was wearing his face. Oh my God, a shapeshifter—! he thought hysterically, raising his gun, just as the alien yelled, "I'm not a shapeshifter!" and oh my God, oh my God, a mind-reading shapeshifter! "—or a mind-reading—oh, for God's sake," the soul-sucking alien said, now sounding distinctly irritated. "I'm you, all right? Just quit firing! Look, I know about the lesbians." Rodney froze in his crouch, thinking frantically; that couldn't possibly mean— </blockquote>