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

[gillianinoz.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Perfect Rodney & Ronon and you really made them work together. I love the depth you gave Ronon, and the weight of his backstory. The kind of... innocence he has, if that's the right word. And I adore Rodney's arrogant uncertainty, it was just right.

Lovely, sweet, romatic story, sad and uplifting and just plain joyous at times. I would love more, while at the same time you ended it in just the right place. Hopeful and happy.

Thanks for sharing, and please pass my compliments on to your co-writer!

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the story, and in particular the mood changes in it. That was one of the little challenges of the story -- how much of the humor of our original brainstorming sessions we could keep in (seriously, linabean is frigging *hilarious* -- if you've never read her episode reviews, you just don't know comedy!) and still get a believable, non-jarring transition into the harsher stuff about Ronon's issues at the end. Very nice to know that you appreciated both sides of the coin, and how they went together.