Referencing Gilbert Ryle (by brighid) (E)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Aiden Ford, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett
Categories: M/M
Warnings: There's some grief and loss, but regarding original characters. No Archive warnings apply.
Author on DW: nope
Author's Website: Brighid on AO3 and lots of smaller fics on sga flashfic here (as mz_bstone)
Link: Referencing Gilbert Ryle on Wayback
Why This Must Be Read: Brighid is a talented writer and this is an early work that's now only available on the Wayback Machine. Because it's from the first part of the fandom, asterisks are used to indicate italics, and Kavanagh's name is spelled differently. This is like a benign version of S2E16, The Long Goodbye, where a device implants two near-Ancient personalities into John and Rodney. But this time they're lovers, not fighters - lovers who haven't been able to touch each other for thousands of years. It's a bit sad as the recreated personalities are temporary, and it affects John and Rodney deeply. A lovely story, very much recommended. (Gilbert Ryle was a philosopher interested in mind/body and consciousness.)
"Hrm. That should do it."
"Do what?" John asked. "And again, I bring up the fact that this could be a booby trap."
Rodney sighed. "Major, I know this technology. I've been working with it and patching through it since we got to Atlantis. It makes no logical sense that this is any form of entrapment. These people, while perhaps not Ancients themselves, seem extremely closely related. I suspect they were a colony that was independent of the main society. The slight language drift and minor variations in technological processes -- the designs and interfaces -- support that. But there's no evidence that they're different enough to be hostile. It's like ... oh, Canada and the US, for lack of a better example."
"Ah. Well. Had to ask. ZPM?" John asked.
"ZPM," Rodney confirmed. "Put your hand there." He took John's wrist and guided it to a slight indentation to the right of the main panel. John watched as Rodney put his hand into a similar indentation on the left side of the main panel.
Everything went sparkly special-effects shot on them on them, all light and commotion. John felt his gut churn and his head spin and then there was a noise like church bells ...
and then there was nothing at all.
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Aiden Ford, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett
Categories: M/M
Warnings: There's some grief and loss, but regarding original characters. No Archive warnings apply.
Author on DW: nope
Author's Website: Brighid on AO3 and lots of smaller fics on sga flashfic here (as mz_bstone)
Link: Referencing Gilbert Ryle on Wayback
Why This Must Be Read: Brighid is a talented writer and this is an early work that's now only available on the Wayback Machine. Because it's from the first part of the fandom, asterisks are used to indicate italics, and Kavanagh's name is spelled differently. This is like a benign version of S2E16, The Long Goodbye, where a device implants two near-Ancient personalities into John and Rodney. But this time they're lovers, not fighters - lovers who haven't been able to touch each other for thousands of years. It's a bit sad as the recreated personalities are temporary, and it affects John and Rodney deeply. A lovely story, very much recommended. (Gilbert Ryle was a philosopher interested in mind/body and consciousness.)
"Hrm. That should do it."
"Do what?" John asked. "And again, I bring up the fact that this could be a booby trap."
Rodney sighed. "Major, I know this technology. I've been working with it and patching through it since we got to Atlantis. It makes no logical sense that this is any form of entrapment. These people, while perhaps not Ancients themselves, seem extremely closely related. I suspect they were a colony that was independent of the main society. The slight language drift and minor variations in technological processes -- the designs and interfaces -- support that. But there's no evidence that they're different enough to be hostile. It's like ... oh, Canada and the US, for lack of a better example."
"Ah. Well. Had to ask. ZPM?" John asked.
"ZPM," Rodney confirmed. "Put your hand there." He took John's wrist and guided it to a slight indentation to the right of the main panel. John watched as Rodney put his hand into a similar indentation on the left side of the main panel.
Everything went sparkly special-effects shot on them on them, all light and commotion. John felt his gut churn and his head spin and then there was a noise like church bells ...
and then there was nothing at all.
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