Only Vaguely Similar by melonbutterfly
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: AU/Sentinel Fusions
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, OCs
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Asexual Pairing
Warnings: None
Author's Website:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
melonbutterfly
Link: Only Vaguely Similar
Why This Must Be Read: In this Sentinel fusion, the concept of asexuality is treated much like LGBT issues. The characters are queer and afraid of coming out to the Sentinel/Guide community. The author really explores how John and Rodney buck the system, showing how sex isn't necessary to achieve a strong, stable, loving bond. Set pre-Atlantis, this series gives a look inside a different kind of relationship and the struggle to be seen just as you are. Well worth the read for how loving and kind they are to each other in the midst of a society that treats them poorly.
Rodney nods and brings their foreheads together to calm both of them down. Just remembering it still makes anger boil up inside him – anger and fear. Fear that maybe they are right, that maybe he isn't supporting John as properly as he should, that maybe the fact that they don't have sex endangers their bond. It's that fear in Rodney that made John the most furious, he knows. Of the two of them, John is the one who is most at peace with what they are; he doesn't give a damn of what others think. As John put it, they are as they are, and it's working for them, and that's all that matters.
What John deals a lot less well with than Rodney is others poking their noses into John and Rodney's business. Not that Rodney particularly likes that either, but he doesn't feel as territorial as John does by nature. Which is why he will let John make this decision. "I'll understand if you don't want to, and we won't if you don't, and I won't be angry or disappointed, but I do, I really, really want us to register."
John nods once and presses his lips to Rodney's – and that's still new, they haven't done this often yet. Rodney is sorry about that; he likes John's lips, likes his kisses, but he knows he has to have patience, because John is the one who is more averse to touch, especially touch that is commonly associated with sex or sexuality.
"I'll think about it," John promises.
Rec Category: AU/Sentinel Fusions
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, OCs
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Asexual Pairing
Warnings: None
Author's Website:
Link: Only Vaguely Similar
Why This Must Be Read: In this Sentinel fusion, the concept of asexuality is treated much like LGBT issues. The characters are queer and afraid of coming out to the Sentinel/Guide community. The author really explores how John and Rodney buck the system, showing how sex isn't necessary to achieve a strong, stable, loving bond. Set pre-Atlantis, this series gives a look inside a different kind of relationship and the struggle to be seen just as you are. Well worth the read for how loving and kind they are to each other in the midst of a society that treats them poorly.
Rodney nods and brings their foreheads together to calm both of them down. Just remembering it still makes anger boil up inside him – anger and fear. Fear that maybe they are right, that maybe he isn't supporting John as properly as he should, that maybe the fact that they don't have sex endangers their bond. It's that fear in Rodney that made John the most furious, he knows. Of the two of them, John is the one who is most at peace with what they are; he doesn't give a damn of what others think. As John put it, they are as they are, and it's working for them, and that's all that matters.
What John deals a lot less well with than Rodney is others poking their noses into John and Rodney's business. Not that Rodney particularly likes that either, but he doesn't feel as territorial as John does by nature. Which is why he will let John make this decision. "I'll understand if you don't want to, and we won't if you don't, and I won't be angry or disappointed, but I do, I really, really want us to register."
John nods once and presses his lips to Rodney's – and that's still new, they haven't done this often yet. Rodney is sorry about that; he likes John's lips, likes his kisses, but he knows he has to have patience, because John is the one who is more averse to touch, especially touch that is commonly associated with sex or sexuality.
"I'll think about it," John promises.
