Fic: In the Hands of Yes

[hth]

In the Hands of Yes
by Hth

32,834 words of Aliens Made Them Get Married, and don't say I never gave you anything!

"There’s a ritual, Colonel! Do you know what *kind* of ritual? You have no idea! There could be – it could be dangerous, or, or – perverse!"

Comments

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

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.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

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.