When the City Wakes (by esteefee) (M)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: AUs - with lots of worldbuilding.
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne/Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Elizabeth Weir, and most of the usual SGA suspects.
Categories: slash
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:esteefee
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: When the City Wakes on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: One of my recs last month got me thinking about extensive worldbuilding, which I really like, so I decided to rec fics featuring that, this month. This story by esteefee is packed with amazing detail about a very strange post-apocalyptic Earth after a quantum bomb seriously warps reality. It's a great story, as Rodney finds Atlantis and earns his place there, gradually discovering John's story, as John's forced to face up to who he is and to defend the city and his friends. I've described this story elsewhere as solarpunk, and it's on that interesting edge where sci-fi tips into fantasy. The worldbuilding details vary from scary to hilarious, and they're all really clever and imaginative. A gripping and fascinating read.
No sign of whales today, though, just some lazy harbor seals resting on the pier. One of them politely asked John for some fish as he skated by. "Sorry," John said. "Maybe on the way back."
"Be careful," the seal said. "Gill-snakes lurkin'."
"Yeah, thanks," John said. He wondered what the gill-snakes were doing out of their southern burrows this early in the season. Something must have spooked them.
He found his pile soon enough, marked with the Jolly Roger T-shirt he'd found at a semi-intact tourist shop. He'd wrapped the shirt around a stick and made a flag of it to warn off any other scavengers in the neighborhood, not that he'd seen anyone this far north the last year or so. Not since the Vague Plague had scared most folks out of Frisk except for the staunch few. John had been through his bout of the Vagues and was immune now, but he still worried about Teyla's crew and kept trying to convince her and Halling to bring them all onto the City. They were having none of it and said they preferred the mainland's magic to the City's. But Teyla's crew kept south of Lombard out of respect for Elizabeth and her open-door policy on orphans.
Speaking of which, here was a perfectly decent stroller just hanging out in the pile. A little dirty and sun-damaged, but in good enough shape to satisfy Carson. And it would double as a basket for more of John's scavenging. John also dug up some opalescent glass for one of Chuck's mosaic projects, and a real find—some matching hubcaps for a 1993 Honda Civic Coupe for Aiden, although why the guy would want to restore a cheesy car like that, John would never get.
He threw his skateboard in the stroller and walked uphill. There was a hardware store around here he hadn’t picked completely clean, and it might very well have green paint. Sure enough, John lucked out in the basement where it was cool and dark; plenty of the paint was still moving in the cans, although he carried up some thinner, too, just in case. He also put in polymer sheets for Simpson, three boxes of washers and grommets for Miko's robot project, some plastic kids games, and a putty knife for himself. He ended up having to put the paint in a shopping cart and then he had to push both the cart and the baby stroller at the same time; he was really glad no one was watching. No garden shears, though. Carson would be disappointed.
"How do you do? I want to do, too!"
John groaned. A sneetch had found him. They were all over the place in the Marina. Some kid must have passed through an imagine cloud and accidentally made a bunch of them.
"I'm doing a little scavenging," John said. "I'll be leaving soon."
"But where did you get such marvelous things?" the sneetch said. "Shiny, they are, so shiny they sing!"
Rec Category: AUs - with lots of worldbuilding.
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Evan Lorne/Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Elizabeth Weir, and most of the usual SGA suspects.
Categories: slash
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:
esteefee Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: When the City Wakes on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: One of my recs last month got me thinking about extensive worldbuilding, which I really like, so I decided to rec fics featuring that, this month. This story by esteefee is packed with amazing detail about a very strange post-apocalyptic Earth after a quantum bomb seriously warps reality. It's a great story, as Rodney finds Atlantis and earns his place there, gradually discovering John's story, as John's forced to face up to who he is and to defend the city and his friends. I've described this story elsewhere as solarpunk, and it's on that interesting edge where sci-fi tips into fantasy. The worldbuilding details vary from scary to hilarious, and they're all really clever and imaginative. A gripping and fascinating read.
No sign of whales today, though, just some lazy harbor seals resting on the pier. One of them politely asked John for some fish as he skated by. "Sorry," John said. "Maybe on the way back."
"Be careful," the seal said. "Gill-snakes lurkin'."
"Yeah, thanks," John said. He wondered what the gill-snakes were doing out of their southern burrows this early in the season. Something must have spooked them.
He found his pile soon enough, marked with the Jolly Roger T-shirt he'd found at a semi-intact tourist shop. He'd wrapped the shirt around a stick and made a flag of it to warn off any other scavengers in the neighborhood, not that he'd seen anyone this far north the last year or so. Not since the Vague Plague had scared most folks out of Frisk except for the staunch few. John had been through his bout of the Vagues and was immune now, but he still worried about Teyla's crew and kept trying to convince her and Halling to bring them all onto the City. They were having none of it and said they preferred the mainland's magic to the City's. But Teyla's crew kept south of Lombard out of respect for Elizabeth and her open-door policy on orphans.
Speaking of which, here was a perfectly decent stroller just hanging out in the pile. A little dirty and sun-damaged, but in good enough shape to satisfy Carson. And it would double as a basket for more of John's scavenging. John also dug up some opalescent glass for one of Chuck's mosaic projects, and a real find—some matching hubcaps for a 1993 Honda Civic Coupe for Aiden, although why the guy would want to restore a cheesy car like that, John would never get.
He threw his skateboard in the stroller and walked uphill. There was a hardware store around here he hadn’t picked completely clean, and it might very well have green paint. Sure enough, John lucked out in the basement where it was cool and dark; plenty of the paint was still moving in the cans, although he carried up some thinner, too, just in case. He also put in polymer sheets for Simpson, three boxes of washers and grommets for Miko's robot project, some plastic kids games, and a putty knife for himself. He ended up having to put the paint in a shopping cart and then he had to push both the cart and the baby stroller at the same time; he was really glad no one was watching. No garden shears, though. Carson would be disappointed.
"How do you do? I want to do, too!"
John groaned. A sneetch had found him. They were all over the place in the Marina. Some kid must have passed through an imagine cloud and accidentally made a bunch of them.
"I'm doing a little scavenging," John said. "I'll be leaving soon."
"But where did you get such marvelous things?" the sneetch said. "Shiny, they are, so shiny they sing!"
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