Directional Theory by rageprufrock (E)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Slash
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: John/Rodney, Rodney/OC, John/Ronon
Categories: Slash
Warnings: Infidelity
Author’s Website:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
rageprufrock
Link: Directional Theory
Why This Must Be Read: Does anyone else have that one fic that you’d be hard pressed to say you enjoy, but which you're obsessed with? Because this is that fic for me. I think about it all the time. Rodney makes a mistake and then keeps on making it even though he knows it’s completely illogical. This is a gut punch of a fic, without a happy ending, but if you’re in the mood for that, it’s absolutely stellar.
According to directional theory, voter behavior, if plotted on a Cartesian plane, will behave in a way similar but completely unrelated to any math Rodney has learned. A voter, x, plotted at -1 as an expression of aggregate ideological beliefs, will be far more likely to vote for a candidate Z, located as point -8 on the ideological spectrum than candidate Y, located at point 1.
"But when you take into account the absolute values--!" Rodney had argued.
Rec Category: Slash
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: John/Rodney, Rodney/OC, John/Ronon
Categories: Slash
Warnings: Infidelity
Author’s Website:
Link: Directional Theory
Why This Must Be Read: Does anyone else have that one fic that you’d be hard pressed to say you enjoy, but which you're obsessed with? Because this is that fic for me. I think about it all the time. Rodney makes a mistake and then keeps on making it even though he knows it’s completely illogical. This is a gut punch of a fic, without a happy ending, but if you’re in the mood for that, it’s absolutely stellar.
According to directional theory, voter behavior, if plotted on a Cartesian plane, will behave in a way similar but completely unrelated to any math Rodney has learned. A voter, x, plotted at -1 as an expression of aggregate ideological beliefs, will be far more likely to vote for a candidate Z, located as point -8 on the ideological spectrum than candidate Y, located at point 1.
"But when you take into account the absolute values--!" Rodney had argued.
