hth | Fic: In the Hands of Yes

I loved Rodney and Ronon, but I also loved everyone else -- the few bits of Elizabeth, Teyla, Cadman, Carson, and especially John. *hugs John*

Thank you! I have my favorite characters like any other fan (I know, I hide it SO WELL, right? *g*), but I think when push comes to shove, I just really love *Atlantis,* as this collection of oddballs and obsessives who are irrevocably in love with their floating island in the middle of a man-eating galaxy. And all the characters help create that little world for me, so I do try to keep them all in there, and it's always nice to hear that people appreciate that element along with whatever the pairing proper might be. I'm glad you liked the story!

Oh! Yay! This was sweet and warm and just...YAY! I love your Ronon! (and that sex scene in the temple? OMG. Scorching!)

Thank you! I normally hate writing sex scenes -- I find it really hard to do -- but, well, less hard to do when they involve Ronon, somehow. Then it's kind of fun! *g* I'm glad you liked the story, thank you.

This story made me so very, very happy. Long Rodney/Ronon, with the angst--because John would totally be jealous, not wanting things to change--and the sweetness between R&R, which just left me feeling all warm and happy.

Just, lovely story.

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, and that the character choices rang true for you.

Aww. That was sweet! I was a little jealous of them for getting to have such a cool wedding ceremony. I loved the Man Planet with its gravy and its beer. And this --

you fascinate me, all those odd layers, your wit and your anger and your passion under all that steadiness and silence, I can’t puzzle through you, which of course makes me desperate to keep trying – it’s irrational how safe I feel with you, because I know you can’t always protect me, I know you haven’t always been able to protect me, but something about you makes me think constantly about my future and never about my possible lack thereof – everything about you succeeds where everything else I’ve ever tried has always failed, you’re the perfect cure, you touch me and I don’t feel weak or vulnerable or allergic or frightened or alone, I feel as strong as I did on the enzyme and ten times happier

is a beautiful love song.

And then when Ronon said, "If you were mine ..." And when Rodney asks Teyla to sign the license as a witness ... and poor John, worried that all the guys are going to get married and the band will have to split up ... [melts]

poor John, worried that all the guys are going to get married and the band will have to split up

Hee! But I'm not traumatized from my last fandom or anything. *g*

Thank you for the feedback! You picked out several things that were among my personal favorite moments, too, so that makes me feel especially smug, of course. *g*

That was great. I loved how you mixed the serious with the funny. It made me laugh out loud several times.

Thank you! I'm a graduate of the Watching Joss Whedon Obsessively School of Storytelling, so that tone-splicing is sort of drilled into me *g* I'm glad you liked the story.

Oh my god, I love this story so much. You are so good at characters' speech patterns and rhythms, and your dry wit is perfect. What a pleasure. Thanks for this.

Thank you! I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it.

Damn, this is perfect. I love your Rodney, I love your Ronon and I love them together. I especially liked Ronon's sense of humor, Rodney bitching and their banter. *g*

Thank you! Part of the reason I like this pairing is that I think Ronon gives off the air of putting up with Rodney, and I always like moving their relationship to a place where Ronon's comfortable dropping that and engaging with him instead of ignoring him. Because I do think Ronon has a great sense of humor, and I think if he *did* choose to let himself be Rodney's sparring partner, he'd be awesome at it. I'm glad you liked the story.

For me the story is quite sad, because I see John, looking like a poor child staring into the window of the candy store. It seemed to me that you left clues that John envies Ronon & Rodney, not just because they each have someone but because they could come out so easily, and here he is, the Good Guy, trying to do the right thing, and he doesn't get to have what he wants, what he needs.

I have to set aside some time to re-read carefully (oh, the pain!) to see if the story tells me why Ronon is with Rodney. You do a wonderful job of showing why Rodney would be with Ronon.

This is an interesting comment, because both these things occured to me as well while reading. There was definitely the element of envy in John's view, of not being able to do what they can, of feeling left out of their relationship also.

And I also wondered why Ronon chooses Rodney, but in bits it came to me, I think, that he likes being responsible for someone, that he likes taking care of someone. This comes from the various conversations about Rodney telling Ronon that he doesn't have to be responsible for him, and Ronon basically ignoring him and taking care of him anyway.

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I just ... I just ...

I don't get Rodney/Ronon, not until you write it, and then it all makes perfect sense.

This was a lovely wonderful touching story that almost made me cry (when they were listening to the recording of Rodney's mom) and I'm so very very glad I read it.

::flail::

Thank you! They make perfect sense in my head, and I'm always delighted to help share the madness.

This was fabulous. I think your choice of POVs was very clever, and the whole progression of their relationship as seen in the two ways, through Rodney's eyes (and by proxy as Ronon sees it) and through John's eyes (and by proxy as the others in Atlantis see it), was just wonderful.

And hee, it's actually quite reasonable to get married for a bunch of secret data - no worse than for health insurance, anyway.

Well, that was one of my real interests writing this story -- why *do* people get married? The whole changing social and emotional functions of marriage genuinely fascinate me, particularly for queer couples, particularly cross-culturally, particularly in a science fiction context, all that kind of stuff. I'm glad you liked it!

Okay... I hope I've already told you that I love your take on McKay/Ronon relationship... but if not, I'm saying it now that I do! I so do!

Yay! I hope you write more McKay/Ronon because the world needs more of these two, yes. *nods*

Thank you! And I actually think it's pretty likely that I will write more -- it's nice to know that I'm not just doing it for my own pleasure *g*

And fuck, you've made me cry again.
Why can't you write Ronon on the show? I know I've asked you this before, but hell, Martin Gero and CO need to get of their asses and goddamn hire you!
This was amazing, because you basically wrote a dramatic romance novel (and about marriage at that) and I'd have to put this "genre" in the 'to-be-read-over-my-dead-body' column, if asked. So reading it and loving it, being touched by it and maybe understanding, discovering new reasons and meaning hidden behind the usual ceremony, being able to see through love's eyes what it's really all about? that's just priceless. I honestly cannot thank you enough.
(and not only because you wrote the best, hottest pairing EVER with a side of jealous!John XP)
Loved it.

Why can't you write Ronon on the show?

Believe me, I'm totally available! I dunno, I'm not sure -- do they hire girls over in Stargateland?

I'm really, really glad to hear that you found the story engaging on more levels than you expected. In spite of my bad reputation for kicking the shit out of my characters, I swear, I really am a romantic. My father's a minister and my mother used to help plan weddings at our church, so I grew up going to a lot of them, and I just really developed an early fascination with the whole process, the combination of things that go into it, the sincerity and the artifice, the expectations people bring to marriage and how those expectations play into what they want from a wedding. The whole process is just so fraught with mixed emotions, but I think what keeps me enjoying it so much is that it really is such a declaration of hope; it works or it doesn't and we all know that, but getting married is this way of saying that at least at one point in our lives, we're willing to put something on the line in this gamble that for us, it will. There's something incredibly human about that, in the good way. *g* Anyway, it's great that you loved it, and that you loved it both for the sake of these particular characters and for thematic reasons. Those are the best stories, I think.

I really enjoyed this story. Rodney/Ronon is one of my favorite pairings and it's rarely written, so to come across such a great story is just wonderful.

I particularly liked Ronon's need to take care of Rodney and Rodney's fear of getting used to, and ultimately losing, that care. It just felt very true to the characters.

Thank you! I do my best to keep them coming, but you're right -- there should always be more! Keep lobbying your congresspeople! *g*

I really enjoyed your insights into bad marriages as well as marriage generally and also John's reactions. They were complex and I thought the argument scene was very realistic for the issues it raised about decisions.
Thank you. This was very well written and much enjoyed.

Thank you! We're at such an interesting place in the way our society views marriage -- it's still so embedded into us culturally as the definition of a Happy Ending, and at the same time, most of us carry an enormous amount of cynicism about it. I think there's great potential to be explored, both between people and internally within a character; this was just one shot at it. Glad you enjoyed reading it!

dammit, you made me cry!

I don't think that it matters if there were already X number of AMTGM stories, there's always a place for one as well done as this. It's fresh and simple, but also deeply rich and complex, emotional and hilarious. I alternately howled with laughter and cried, because Rodney got a happy ending. I'm all about the McShep, but you've completely sold me that Rodney and Ronon would honestly work. Thank you, it's a beautiful story.

All right, I finally got around to finishing reading this ~~story~~ masterpiece that lightened up my day!

I'm going to spazztically gush now, okay?

The body paint! The lemon cake! Ronon! Ronon's background! John's awkward feelings! The scene before the wedding and you made it, nyanyanyanyaynaaaanya, NOT McShep - YES! The bedframe! Rodney's being smitten with Ronon's mischievous smirk! The gay marriage planet! Hung over Halling! *g* The sexin'! Rodney! Elizabeth's party! Six months - three! Aaaaah, everything! The length of the story! You!

*in love* *switches on printer*

That was perfectly brilliant. Thank you!

This is a great story, one that really moved me, especially when Ronon talked about why he didn't want to wait to marry Rodney. It was all very real and sweet and hot at the same time. Loved it.

While I liked the connection Ronon and Rodney had and their journey, what really hit me was John and how he reacted to their marriage. It was sad to see him feeling left out/behind but trying to keep things running smoothly.

John took it upon himself to say, out loud and in his firmest decision-making voice, "Atlantis," and immediately the crowd took it up as their toast, glasses clinking and voice after voice, soft and reverent or loud and triumphant, saying Atlantis, Atlantis.

Yay! I felt like John reached something of a resolution both professionally and personally here. *hugs John*

And the lemon cake was a hoot. :)

I've just finished it; and yes, I commented first, and stand by what I said. Sometimes you write stories that are like wishes granted, and I saw that this was one of them right away.

But now I can actually comment with some meaningful words, I'm stuck in the same place I was last time. This really moved me, and so it's incredibly hard to say anything about it at all.

I loved all our main folks in this, and they seemed real to me. Your language was beautiful, but you painted beautiful people with it which I like better. The fragility of their lives seemed real and meaningful, and it boggles me but I was actually moved by the alien wedding ceremony.

You cracked me up several times, and it was sexy at times, and I got all choked up when Ronon talked about his first, and I really wish you didn't have to do anything to earn a living, but could just write all the time.

Just so you know.

This is exactly the best sort of fanfic. It expands the characters in interesting ways, frankly ways which the show is never going to get around to looking at. It's brilliant. Thanks.

This was really great, I love the relationshop between Ronon and Rodney. I enjoyed this a lot.

Oh wow! I love how you write them so much. This story hit so many of my kinks - especially the Satedan did me in, that just so hot and private and yes, perhaps the best thing in the entire story - and it just left me with a really warm feeling in my stomach and a big smile in my face.

I didn't think I'd love this pairing as much as I do. Thank you so much for writing this!

I'm all teary eyed from the happy; I do love reading stories that leave me teary eyed from the happy.

For me your John is a wonderfully complex and frustrating man: you just know there's a morass of *something* underneath all the calm, but since he's not going to discuss it - you just have to put up with it, because he won't give you anything to actually fight against. It's utterly maddening.

There's so much that's good about this, so many levels on which I enjoyed the ideas in it, and also, as always, your superb storytelling - thank you.

This was entirely adorable, and I am s happy it;s set in this storyverse.

You are nm Ronon/Rodney story-writing goddess!

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