My very favorite story about John's mom is elementalv's Aphorism. I love the idea of John's mom being just as powerful as Patrick and still in touch with John (though John could do without her brand of crazy).
I also have a notion of her as leaving when John was very young, when she was very young herself, to get away from Patrick. It's a tragic idea, having to leave her child behind, but without Patrick's money, and with no skills, she couldn't support herself let alone John. So she goes off to college, gets her degrees in math!!! and ends up teaching a budding young Canadian genius at Northwestern. Rodney figures it out years later ("I knew you looked familiar!"), reunites John and his mom, some angst, but happy endings. (Pods, I need to write this story!)
I read the Tumblr post and I'm terribly sorry you all weren't here for the Fandom That Ate Fandom. I got into SGA in '06, I think, just as it peaked. Tons of new stories everyday, so many you just couldn't keep up, new art, new meta, picspam, the works. It was wonderfully exciting to come home every day and find fantastic new stories to read. I'm still finding them, all these years later, the ones I missed the first time around. I guess it's why I'm something of an archivist; I want to save it all to read as I have time.
If there's one moment I wish you all could have experienced, it was the day "Written by the Victors" by Spenanza was posted. It was, frankly, the watershed moment of SGA. If you go to her DW or LJ and read the comments, maybe you can capture a little of the excitement and amazement that work engendered.
I too wish it was still as big as it used to be, but I'm enjoying all the new faces of fandom as the years go by. I'm glad you're all here, keeping the fun going.
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I also have a notion of her as leaving when John was very young, when she was very young herself, to get away from Patrick. It's a tragic idea, having to leave her child behind, but without Patrick's money, and with no skills, she couldn't support herself let alone John. So she goes off to college, gets her degrees in math!!! and ends up teaching a budding young Canadian genius at Northwestern. Rodney figures it out years later ("I knew you looked familiar!"), reunites John and his mom, some angst, but happy endings. (Pods, I need to write this story!)
I read the Tumblr post and I'm terribly sorry you all weren't here for the Fandom That Ate Fandom. I got into SGA in '06, I think, just as it peaked. Tons of new stories everyday, so many you just couldn't keep up, new art, new meta, picspam, the works. It was wonderfully exciting to come home every day and find fantastic new stories to read. I'm still finding them, all these years later, the ones I missed the first time around. I guess it's why I'm something of an archivist; I want to save it all to read as I have time.
If there's one moment I wish you all could have experienced, it was the day "Written by the Victors" by Spenanza was posted. It was, frankly, the watershed moment of SGA. If you go to her DW or LJ and read the comments, maybe you can capture a little of the excitement and amazement that work engendered.
I too wish it was still as big as it used to be, but I'm enjoying all the new faces of fandom as the years go by. I'm glad you're all here, keeping the fun going.