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stargateficrecRec Category: Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: none
Category: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, team
Warning: permanent character disability
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perspi
Author's Website: n/a
Link: A World Called Catastrophe
Why This Must Be Read: This story makes me go "Oh, John! Oh, Team!" a lot. And want to hug them all. A lot.
On a disastrous offworld mission, John is severely injured, and loses the use of his legs. That's the beginning. The story itself is the long, long road back, and the struggle to recapture what they had before, what John had before. What makes this story work for me so well, I think, is that it's so spare -- not chapter after chapter of our characters wallowing in misery, but rather, a series of vignettes that allow the reader to experience despair and desolation, recovery and hope, along with the characters. As someone who started out able-bodied and then suffered a permanent physical disability myself in childhood, I think thatperspi does a marvelous job of capturing the feeling that goes along with something like that -- the sense that the world has ended, followed by the discovery of a whole new world. For someone like John -- an intensely physical person, whose existence on Atlantis depends upon the abilities that he has lost -- the situation carries a special poignancy, and it is handled very well; this story never feels as if it is sensationalizing John's disability or playing it for pity. You sympathize with John (and his team) while also sharing in their triumphs. The gorgeous writing is an extra-special bonus.
When the world ends in a flash of orange and yellow, the last thing John feels is the sensation of flying.
Pairing: none
Category: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, team
Warning: permanent character disability
Author on LJ:
perspiAuthor's Website: n/a
Link: A World Called Catastrophe
Why This Must Be Read: This story makes me go "Oh, John! Oh, Team!" a lot. And want to hug them all. A lot.
On a disastrous offworld mission, John is severely injured, and loses the use of his legs. That's the beginning. The story itself is the long, long road back, and the struggle to recapture what they had before, what John had before. What makes this story work for me so well, I think, is that it's so spare -- not chapter after chapter of our characters wallowing in misery, but rather, a series of vignettes that allow the reader to experience despair and desolation, recovery and hope, along with the characters. As someone who started out able-bodied and then suffered a permanent physical disability myself in childhood, I think that
perspi does a marvelous job of capturing the feeling that goes along with something like that -- the sense that the world has ended, followed by the discovery of a whole new world. For someone like John -- an intensely physical person, whose existence on Atlantis depends upon the abilities that he has lost -- the situation carries a special poignancy, and it is handled very well; this story never feels as if it is sensationalizing John's disability or playing it for pity. You sympathize with John (and his team) while also sharing in their triumphs. The gorgeous writing is an extra-special bonus.When the world ends in a flash of orange and yellow, the last thing John feels is the sensation of flying.
