I think I would be more willing to subscribe to your newsletter if, e.g., any of the other characters (i.e. the 124 other people) had been given agency or action. Like, a whole bunch of brilliant weirdoes were all satisfied to transition to what amounts to a monarchy, without argument? There were never any policy disagreements?

The lesson of Fletcher Christian, to pick one famous mutineer, is the lesson that once you've had one mutiny, it's not too hard to have more. You don't just automatically make a City upon a Hill, not without a lot of caucusing and rancor and hardship in addition to luck.

I think I must be a glass-half-full kind of ficreader, then. I followed a link with no particular expectations (hadn't even registered it was Speranza until I got to the end) and was just delighted with all the historical 'quotations' and citations and bibliography and all that jazz. But I can see the validity of your criticisms.

My only quibble with the story was how did they deal with the Wraith armada after expending so much energy on the SGC ships? Yes, John used the big ass bomb, but that seemed a bit handwavy.

edit: Plus I felt a bit, well, snubbed by the bits at the end in languages I didn't know, as if we weren't worthy to know those parts of the story. I know it was a mechanism to show how Atlantis became truly part of Pegasus and not of Earth, but I wanted to know what it said.

Speranza just posted in her LJ saying that there is no translation of the two bits at the end of the story.

(But by way of disclaimer, the list of stories I find to be improved by being gen is... um... I had one or two written down somewhere in case the question ever came up.)

I will cling to readers like you when my first choc_fic story posts.

Because really, it COULD have been gen, and taking it to slash involved a subplot, but there was a slash in the prompt! And, well, damn it...

I'd missed writing blow jobs

choc_fic? hmm? took me a minute. remembered. yay!

Also:

there was a slash in the prompt!

An obvious case of punctuational determinism! How could you be expected to do otherwise?

yay blow jobs!

[link] Choc_Fic.

AKA, a challenge of AWESOME.

An obvious case of punctuational determinism! How could you be expected to do otherwise?

I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!

I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!

Egg-zackly!

In other news, if I'm even going to try for Days of Awesome, my shows need to be so much more jewy. Tis sad.

I think I would have liked the story better if it had been gen.

Nutty is me in this. I ended up skimming the porn: I've read too much McKay/Sheppard to have any emotional attachment or response to the sex scenes. And like Nutty, I wish the story had been more ambitious, more challenging. Eh. Perhaps I'm just hard to please today. On edit: which is not to say it's not well-done; I just wanted more and different from it. Which is really my issue and not the writer's.

I also feel just a tiny bit snubbed, since the structure of telling the story through a variety of historical lenses, interspersed with straight narrative, is one I used less than two months ago, and got no more than a nod. Okay, yeah, not 55,000 words and I'm not Speranza, but it's not like the form was invented for that story...

Oooh! Linky link, 'Suela?