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svmadelyn's badfic challenge
Okay, so first I totally did not realize this was a 48-hour challenge until TOO LATE, and then on top of it the damn thing ran away with me, and, and, okay, it's my fault, I'm sorry! *creeps away*
Forsvmadelyn's badfic-summary challenge, summary from hyperfocused: Rodney MmmKay's mother always told him smart boys never get the hot guys. Can he pretend to be dumb so hunky pilot John Shep Hard will ask him to the Atlantis: Under the Sea prom? W/ my OC Princess Ancienta. Warnings: ANGST M/M plz rd/rvw
Oh yeah. :P
Under The Sea (4500 words)
Rodney/John
Tiaras! Bacon! Rock-throwing!
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Many thanks to MissP for getting me unblocked, to Hth and Terri and Ces and giddy and Julad for looking at this wacky, wacky thing for me. *g*
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svmadelyn's badfic-summary challenge, summary from hyperfocused: Rodney MmmKay's mother always told him smart boys never get the hot guys. Can he pretend to be dumb so hunky pilot John Shep Hard will ask him to the Atlantis: Under the Sea prom? W/ my OC Princess Ancienta. Warnings: ANGST M/M plz rd/rvwOh yeah. :P
Under The Sea (4500 words)
Rodney/John
Tiaras! Bacon! Rock-throwing!
( Read the story )
eta to change to permanent link! :)
Many thanks to MissP for getting me unblocked, to Hth and Terri and Ces and giddy and Julad for looking at this wacky, wacky thing for me. *g*
Nice handling of the prompt, plus, I love this Rodney - young and still figuring himself out, but still clearly himself, flaws and virtues alike.
Poor Morgenstern is going to have to pay for that monitor out of his budget, isn't he.... *g*
Thanks!
Yes, John. Yes, you *are* a pinrcess, and we love you for it.
Additionally: stories like this are the *reason* I keep following links with summaries like, "Rodney takes dance lessons," or "John is actually the last in a line of Ancient princes with magikal powers." The crack in this fandom is just so damn deceptive.
But I can definitely say that after I read your opening sentence, I was hooked on this story and I knew I had to read on...
Betrayed and miserable, Rodney stood outside the locked lab door. He pressed his hands flat against the glass window and leaned in so close his nose was squashed against the pane, staring longingly and in anguish at the beautiful shiny humming supercomputer in the back of the room...
I could see a young Rodney, big blue eyes glazed over, nose pressed against the window, almost crying at his loss!
And that drew me in.
I loved this story... I loved fratboy John and I loved the idea of Rodney coaching the boys! I liked that Ford and Lorne were there and best of all, I love the ending with it romantic overtones... but seriously, he actually sleeps in the lab?
Thanks so much for sharing! Wish I had your talent for writing. :XD
Oh, man... I think college!boys are possibly my favorite AU type. This is just so funny and so so hot, and such a wonderful interpretation of the prompt and THANK GOD you went over the word limit! This was wonderful! *g*
*coughs*
Loved the fic, especially Rodney being 'kinda' accepted into the frat for his uber-smartness. And the idea of Rodney torturing his thesis advisor for the lab keys made my day.
Very much fun. :)
*nods*
LOL!!
"You went to a frat party and tutored them in physics?" Morgenstern pulled out his chair and sat down and rubbed his face. "Of course you did."
Hee!! That was my favorite scene.
Great "badfic"!
Rodney is the best. He's just - wow. yeah. Tutoring the frat boys, and then, before that, his princess atlantia comment - God. He wins so hard at life.
yay!
Oh god, Rodney's loins. Brilliant.
It was a scene out of nightmares and Porky's Revenge.
This is the best sentence ever. The perfect set up. And then the party, oh god the party is incredible and everything just flows beautifully from there. Rodney and his GENIUS, and how he's still Rodney and this is still young AU Rodney, but he's not helpless and humiliated, like he is sometimes in other fics... he's wonderful. And John knows how wonderful he is and he gets it before Rodney does. I love it.
And John's slouching and ambling is great. And then he does this:
"Are you deaf or something? I've been throwing pebbles for ten freaking minutes, I thought I was going to have to break the window," John said.
And wow, it's that great romantic gesture that we all know and love.
Such nice work here, thank you!
Brilliant as always. I had a grin on through the whole story. Sweet and cute. And just wonderful. Yay.
And I'm sorry I haven't said this already, but again, thank you, thank you, thank you for the "Lawrence of Arabia" story. it was so utterly, absolutely wonderful that I don't have words to say how much I love it.
But--I thought it was supposed to be *badfic*.
This
"Uh, okay, right," Rodney said, and shuffled for a little bit, and then he blurted, "So, I'm, I'm not in Physics 101."
"No?" John said.
"No, I'm actually a doctoral student," Rodney said, "and—oh. Wait, was that sarcasm? That was sarcasm, wasn't it."
"Yes, it was," John said patiently.
"Oh," Rodney said. "So, when did you—?"
"It kind of gave it away when that first problem you started us out with was stuff that's not even in the back of the textbook for the class," John said.
"Oh," Rodney said.
"You're a pretty decent tutor aside from all the yelling, though," John said.
was almost my favorite part, but this wins--
They took John's tuxedo off together, hands fumbling over each other as they worked on the studs and the cufflinks, the crisp white shirt spreading open over John's chest, so warm under Rodney's hands.
Let me know if you need any baby-havin' done.
This puts the crack in crackfic. *hearts*
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