new fic: Satisfaction (SGA, Rodney/Ronon)

[hth]

Satisfaction
by Hth and linabean
Rodney/Ronon

Summary:
THE BEST DAMN 18,000 WORD NC-17 ROMANTIC COMEDY ABOUT IMPOTENCE YOU WILL READ ALL YEAR! (And by "best," we mean "only.")

From the Credit Where Credit is Due Department:
So basically, it works like this. The plot and all the really funny lines came from Caroline. Most of the sex and the talking about their feelings came from me. Rodney, Ronon, Sheppard, and everyone else in the story came from, I don't know, Cooper and Wright and some committee at Paramount. I don't even wanna know where Flesh Gordon 2: Flesh Gordon and the Cosmic Cheerleaders came from. liviapenn came from heaven above and delivered an excellent beta.

WARNINGS:
Mild s3 spoilers, including the usual for "Sunday." Swearing. Sex. Alcohol. Talking about feelings. Talking about Rodney's weight. Many, many italics. Sheppard using the word "penis" a lot. Manly tears -- no, just kidding about that one! There's no crying this time.

Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Omigod, I love this like WOW! I love pretty much everything about it -- the incredible sweetness, Sheppard's stunningly awkward yet endearing attempts at being a supportive friend and the way he misses hanging out with Rodney now that Rodney's got a boyfriend, the Earth-Sateda cultural differences, Ronon's shy-yet-straightforward approach to life, the believable explanation for his impotence that both made perfect sense, and just hurt ... and I loved beyond BELIEF that you didn't whip out the magical healing cock at the end and make seven years of trauma go away with good lovin'. You would not believe how I've been craving slash where both partners don't jump immediately into mutually satisfying, mind-blowing sex, slash in which sex and even love are not a cure-all for everything that ails a person. Plus, there's something just unspeakably hot to me about a relationship in which the sexual issues are not easily curable, if at all, and yet the relationship is strong enough to endure. Um, have I mentioned how awesome this story is? *g*

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! You pretty much hit on all the parts of the story I cared about most, too, so I feel like I've definitely succeeded in putting across what I wanted to. I think the wealth of wonderful smut that fandom produces should have, as one of its side effects, the power to kind of free us up to write slash without sex or that uses sex in not-for-the-readers-sexy-gratification ways -- remember when people used to sit around and wonder, if there was no sex, was it really slash? Thankfully, I haven't heard anyone bring that up for a long time. Now that fandom will truly never run out of hot, sexy pr0n, I feel like there's room to tell stories about other parts of relationships, too -- and I'm very glad there's an audience for those stories, like you!