new fic: Radio Nowhere

[hth]

So...I started last week with First Thaw (SPOILERS for "Quarantine" thataway), and now I have this, and I sort of feel like it's a series now, in that it seems to be going somewhere. I DO NOT KNOW, at this point, where exactly that might be. I honestly don't. This will either be a fascinating exercise in writing adaptively and creatively to the contours of seasons 4 and 5 as they come up -- or it'll be a complete fucking disaster and I'll never write without an outline again until the day I die. We'll see!

Radio Nowhere
post-ep, 4.15 "Outcast"
oh -- and also, spoilers for Cloverfield. Random but true.

Comments

[margec01.livejournal.com]

These are great, and I'd love to see the series continue. I prefer to read about a long, slow buildup to....whomever. (g) And to see Sheppard so painfully trying to make contact with both Rodney and Ronon. It's so hard for him to SAY anything. In real life, I'd probably be impatient and just walk away, but in fiction--it's wonderful!

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think that's one of the things that fiction is really good for -- it lets you get close to difficult people in a safe way, if that makes any sense. In real life, it can be really awful and messy and painful to be intimate enough with people like John, so it's sort of understandable that we don't usually do it. But in a story, it's easier to discover empathy for people, without getting sucked in by their problems. Fiction =/= real life, in sometimes wonderful ways! *g*

[margec01.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent point. In fiction, the author can show us what the character is really trying to say. In your stories, we see what John's thinking, and feel empathy when the words just don't come out. In real life, you have to really love someone, or be really "in tune" with them to try to "translate" the awkward words.

I think that's also why I love a lot of SGA fanfic--we see John and Rodney, or John and Ronon, managing to communicate without words a lot of the time--the words that come so hard for all of them. It gives a sense of intimacy that usually can't be shown or experienced in real life.