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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: AU (Mensaverse, in this case)
Characters: Mensa!John/Mensa!Rodney, Aiden Ford, Radek Zelenka, and others.
Categories: M/M
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply.
Author on DW:valderys
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: The Fascist Mensaverse series on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a fascinating dystopian AU which imagines a fascist Earth existing behind the Rod from the episode "McKay and Mrs Miller". It's from Dr. John Sheppard's POV - a far more paranoid and careful John than in canon. It's not cheerful, but there is a hopeful ending, and it's really well written, with great worldbuilding. There are two sequels that eventually take us up to the events of "McKay and Mrs Miller" from the Mensaverse's perspective. One interesting aspect of the series is that the Wraith aren't the worst enemy - they definitely have second billing. The ending of the final story is left open and at first seems a bit bleak, but if, like me, you believe Rod got back to the Mensaverse okay, then we can be sure he and John will find a way through together, with some help from their friends.
Here's the first part to get you started.
It's not that he wants exile. He doesn't. But when John Sheppard, PhD, PhD, part-time member of the Air National Guard, is offered a posting to Antarctica, it takes no time at all for him to say yes. And at least he's given the choice. It's a testament to his caution, to his attention to detail, and he knows it. If they knew the real John Sheppard – the misfit, the loner with the unsavoury habits, and the aberrant behaviour – if they even suspected that John Sheppard existed, he'd have been in re-education so fast his feet wouldn't have touched the ground. Or worse.
But instead John smiles, tightly, carefully, and takes the slaps on the back, and commiserating looks, as only his due. He's got a plum job, as head of the Mathematical Sciences Division, and he wouldn't have got that in the SGC Stateside for years, even with their staff attrition rates.
It's why everyone assumes he's taken the job. But even as colleagues make jokes about the undesirables that he'll have to put up with, and the frostbite, John knows that it's not even partially true. He'd take the post even if all he's put in charge of is a bunch of penguins. He's always been alone – always had to be careful. He's always been in exile. Antarctica just makes it more concrete.
And at least in Antarctica, they have helicopters.
Rec Category: AU (Mensaverse, in this case)
Characters: Mensa!John/Mensa!Rodney, Aiden Ford, Radek Zelenka, and others.
Categories: M/M
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply.
Author on DW:
valderys Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: The Fascist Mensaverse series on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a fascinating dystopian AU which imagines a fascist Earth existing behind the Rod from the episode "McKay and Mrs Miller". It's from Dr. John Sheppard's POV - a far more paranoid and careful John than in canon. It's not cheerful, but there is a hopeful ending, and it's really well written, with great worldbuilding. There are two sequels that eventually take us up to the events of "McKay and Mrs Miller" from the Mensaverse's perspective. One interesting aspect of the series is that the Wraith aren't the worst enemy - they definitely have second billing. The ending of the final story is left open and at first seems a bit bleak, but if, like me, you believe Rod got back to the Mensaverse okay, then we can be sure he and John will find a way through together, with some help from their friends.
Here's the first part to get you started.
It's not that he wants exile. He doesn't. But when John Sheppard, PhD, PhD, part-time member of the Air National Guard, is offered a posting to Antarctica, it takes no time at all for him to say yes. And at least he's given the choice. It's a testament to his caution, to his attention to detail, and he knows it. If they knew the real John Sheppard – the misfit, the loner with the unsavoury habits, and the aberrant behaviour – if they even suspected that John Sheppard existed, he'd have been in re-education so fast his feet wouldn't have touched the ground. Or worse.
But instead John smiles, tightly, carefully, and takes the slaps on the back, and commiserating looks, as only his due. He's got a plum job, as head of the Mathematical Sciences Division, and he wouldn't have got that in the SGC Stateside for years, even with their staff attrition rates.
It's why everyone assumes he's taken the job. But even as colleagues make jokes about the undesirables that he'll have to put up with, and the frostbite, John knows that it's not even partially true. He'd take the post even if all he's put in charge of is a bunch of penguins. He's always been alone – always had to be careful. He's always been in exile. Antarctica just makes it more concrete.
And at least in Antarctica, they have helicopters.
