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

[whetherwoman.livejournal.com]

So I was kinda turned off by the summary, because, you know, embarrassment squick... but I thought to myself, "I'll just read the first paragraph or something and see if I like it." And I am so glad I did because I totally got drawn in and it is awesome! It's not a "HA HA PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS ARE FUNNY" story, it is exactly the opposite! It's a story about multi-dimensional people relating to each other. I love how you handled impotence as something that exists, doesn't control the sexual or romantic aspects of the relationship, but is just part of it like any other aspect of a person.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

You don't know how much I appreciate this comment. One of my grievances with SGA is that it keeps going back to that really dumb, juvenile type of humor that exists to point and laugh at people when they're legitimately not at their best -- so in a way, if it had been the kind of story you feared it was, it probably would have been more canonical. *g* But, you know, I think it only takes a slight adjustment to save that formula, because people's problems *are* funny -- I mean, life is funny, and God knows that's what's saved me many times when things are going dreadfully wrong: you have to sit back for a minute and laugh. My mother's used to say "you might as well laugh as cry" when things started going pear-shaped, and that's advice that's held up awfully well over the years. *g* It's very human, I think, and I find stories that can find the humor amidst the chaos more humanizing and believable than sturm-und-drang OTT angst. Anyway, I'm glad this hit a mix of humor and seriousness that balanced well for you in that way -- and I'm really glad and impressed that you took a chance on a story you weren't sure about! I think fandom would be a more interesting place if people challeged themselves a little more like that. Thank you.