SGA fic: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés (+ challenge)

[xparrot]

Firstly - McShep HappyFic Challenge! I've been waiting for something like this to pop up, since we all need it now. Since I not-so-secretly love unmitigated and absurdly happy endings even more than I love angst, I am all over this one (...whether or not I'll be able to write something for it is another matter, but we'll see...) It's very open-ended, so go! Sign up! Be happy!


Then, changing gears so fast that I apologize for the whiplash, a new fic:

This is...okay, I don't like the McKay/Keller pairing. My reasons range from my fairly levelheaded disinterest in seeing any romance in the show, to the increasingly emotional and irrational. But I don't want to take out that dislike on Keller, not when we have so little show left to enjoy; I don't especially like the char as she's been written anyway, but I'm trying. So really, this is less an actual fic and more me working to come to terms with the pairing, such as it is. Such as I see it, so I can move on and see Jennifer in her own right. Any McKeller OTPers will probably want to give this one a pass, for your own good.

(And next I will return you to your regularly scheduled Rodney/TEAM/McShep squee, before gnine has my head for straying!)

SGA: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés {~3,300 words}
PG, McKay/Keller, spoilers for "The Last Man" and "The Shrine"

Read it on AO3

Comments

[runpunkrun]

This is just the sort of fic I needed to read. My crazy irrational side has been drowning out the side that's trying to be sane about this whole McKay/Keller thing. (I'm not a fan of it, obviously.)

I liked seeing Rodney through Keller's eyes, watching her note the differences in Rodney's behavior, realizing all the things about him that she's missed since they started dating, like his smile.

And if this ain't the truth: He's awfully cute when he's vulnerable. That, at least, is too fundamentally true for her to feel guilty about it.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm glad to know I'm not alone! Yes, I've been trying to be cool about it myself, but...it's hard! I'm a compulsive OTPer and I can't turn it off as much as I'd like to; and then, I just don't think they're very good for each other...

But at the same time, I can't really blame Keller for falling for him, I mean, it is Rodney, after all...!