That's, um, yeah. Hot. And lovely. And strangely insulated, quiet, for all that John has a stream-of-consciousness jukebox in his head. (Perhaps because I don't know many of the song references. ;-) And, as rinsbane commented, pleasingly mathematical. Wonderful details like In his mind's eye John can see Rodney looking down at him with the appreciative, inquisitive look with which Rodney epitomizes science, not just in the modern sense, but all the way back to the Latinate scientia, knowledge. And, as facetofcathy already noted: Rodney using the stroller to get to the car, the Britney Spears line, the PP demonstration, the colours John sees during the massage, Rodney complimenting himself on his whipping—also Rodney's "I'm in a trans-fat refined flour coma from the bologna sandwich." *snicker*
And—one of my kinks—I can sooo easily imagine Rodney being effin' brilliant with words. I can see John responding to "Stand down, Colonel," or Rodney moaning pornographically into John's ear about all the things that he, Rodney, wants to do to him, John, and how there's absolutely nothing that will stop him from doing them—while John's helplessly, ecstatically, restrained. *EG* (Tho' my evil proofreader persona points out that the final him in that sentence refers to John, not Rodney. It jarred me, with the pronoun-subject play right before.)
You wrote: The "Good good," Rodney says, cheerfully. "All right, I'm going to take a shower, and when I'm done I'm going to beat you to within an inch of your life." is just so Rodney, because he's just outlining his plan, you know, "then I'll redistribute the phase capacitors and align the output coils, and then there will be a thermonuclear detonation", and also because that he damned well knows that if he says it, John will be literally vibrating in anticipation until he's done in the shower. Yes. That. What you said. Rodney would say. Because of that. :: swallow :: Yeah.
I have to admit being confused by the intro scene, however. First John says, "Rodney, I am going to shoot somebody in a minute." Rodney blows him off in a rush of Chinese-food-gasm. John says, quietly, "Rodney, I--" and then Rodney clicks in to John's distress, putting the food up and apologizing, "I'm so sorry, you know how bad I am at non-verbal cues, oh, damn it." Umm??? It seems that Rodney ignores John's verbal more-than-cue, yet quickly responds to some unseen non-verbal signal. Or am I just misinterpreting something? It keeps puzzling me even after re-reading & cogitated on it....
Thanks so much for posting this on the McKay_Sheppard comm, & for writing SGA fic! I hope I'll see many more from you.
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That's, um, yeah. Hot. And lovely. And strangely insulated, quiet, for all that John has a stream-of-consciousness jukebox in his head. (Perhaps because I don't know many of the song references. ;-) And, as
And—one of my kinks—I can sooo easily imagine Rodney being effin' brilliant with words. I can see John responding to "Stand down, Colonel," or Rodney moaning pornographically into John's ear about all the things that he, Rodney, wants to do to him, John, and how there's absolutely nothing that will stop him from doing them—while John's helplessly, ecstatically, restrained. *EG*
(Tho' my evil proofreader persona points out that the final him in that sentence refers to John, not Rodney. It jarred me, with the pronoun-subject play right before.)
You wrote: The "Good good," Rodney says, cheerfully. "All right, I'm going to take a shower, and when I'm done I'm going to beat you to within an inch of your life." is just so Rodney, because he's just outlining his plan, you know, "then I'll redistribute the phase capacitors and align the output coils, and then there will be a thermonuclear detonation", and also because that he damned well knows that if he says it, John will be literally vibrating in anticipation until he's done in the shower. Yes. That. What you said. Rodney would say. Because of that. :: swallow :: Yeah.
I have to admit being confused by the intro scene, however. First John says, "Rodney, I am going to shoot somebody in a minute." Rodney blows him off in a rush of Chinese-food-gasm. John says, quietly, "Rodney, I--" and then Rodney clicks in to John's distress, putting the food up and apologizing, "I'm so sorry, you know how bad I am at non-verbal cues, oh, damn it." Umm??? It seems that Rodney ignores John's verbal more-than-cue, yet quickly responds to some unseen non-verbal signal. Or am I just misinterpreting something? It keeps puzzling me even after re-reading & cogitated on it....
Thanks so much for posting this on the McKay_Sheppard comm, & for writing SGA fic! I hope I'll see many more from you.