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Rec Category: BDSM
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, AU-John Sheppard/AU-Rodney Sheppard
Category: Angst, romance, major UST, hurt/comfort, BDSM
Warning: Slash, BDSM lifestyle, BDSM sex, Consensual spanking
Author on LJ:
xanthestories
Author's Website: http://www.xanthe.org/
Link: http://xanthestories.livejournal.com/5789.html#cutid1/
Why This Must Be Read:
This story is an engrossing and sexy voyage of discovery for both readers and characters when two people from an Alternate Atlantis, John Sheppard and his husband/sub, Rodney, are accidentally brought into our universe. Xanthe's writing is lush and emotionally gripping, drawing the reader into the emotions of all the characters. Her postulated Alternate Universe, as seen by the interactions between the AU characters, is intriguing in itself and has its own internal logic that, while different from the Atlantis universe, hangs together. And the way she uses the arrival of these visitors as a catalyst for change is very well plotted out, affecting each character they touch in different ways. It isn't all smooth sailing, and the ups and downs keeping you focused on all the plot turns until it comes to a very satisfying conclusion.
New John grinned. "Perhaps we should introduce ourselves. I'm General John Sheppard…"
"General?" John frowned. "Damn." He wasn't sure why that annoyed him, but somehow it did. You can't possibly be competitive with *yourself* he told himself, but the idea that this John outranked him niggled at him.
"Hah – so it seems that the John in their universe has progressed a little further up the career ladder than you, Lieutenant-Colonel," Rodney said, stressing John's title pointedly, in a tone of malicious glee, holding his hands behind his back and rocking back and forth on his heels a little in enjoyment of John's discomfort.
"And this is my husband, Dr Rodney Sheppard," new John added, gesturing towards his Rodney. The look on Atlantis's Rodney's face was so comical that John almost fell about laughing there and then.
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, AU-John Sheppard/AU-Rodney Sheppard
Category: Angst, romance, major UST, hurt/comfort, BDSM
Warning: Slash, BDSM lifestyle, BDSM sex, Consensual spanking
Author on LJ:
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Author's Website: http://www.xanthe.org/
Link: http://xanthestories.livejournal.com/5789.html#cutid1/
Why This Must Be Read:
This story is an engrossing and sexy voyage of discovery for both readers and characters when two people from an Alternate Atlantis, John Sheppard and his husband/sub, Rodney, are accidentally brought into our universe. Xanthe's writing is lush and emotionally gripping, drawing the reader into the emotions of all the characters. Her postulated Alternate Universe, as seen by the interactions between the AU characters, is intriguing in itself and has its own internal logic that, while different from the Atlantis universe, hangs together. And the way she uses the arrival of these visitors as a catalyst for change is very well plotted out, affecting each character they touch in different ways. It isn't all smooth sailing, and the ups and downs keeping you focused on all the plot turns until it comes to a very satisfying conclusion.
New John grinned. "Perhaps we should introduce ourselves. I'm General John Sheppard…"
"General?" John frowned. "Damn." He wasn't sure why that annoyed him, but somehow it did. You can't possibly be competitive with *yourself* he told himself, but the idea that this John outranked him niggled at him.
"Hah – so it seems that the John in their universe has progressed a little further up the career ladder than you, Lieutenant-Colonel," Rodney said, stressing John's title pointedly, in a tone of malicious glee, holding his hands behind his back and rocking back and forth on his heels a little in enjoyment of John's discomfort.
"And this is my husband, Dr Rodney Sheppard," new John added, gesturing towards his Rodney. The look on Atlantis's Rodney's face was so comical that John almost fell about laughing there and then.