A sad McShep post
Dec. 27th, 2019 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
popkin16MermaidMayonnaise posted this last night and it makes me so very sad. Our little fandom really has grown quiet. That makes sense, what with canon being closed and all new Stargate content about new characters. Maybe I should read the comics and post about those? They're supposed to be a continuation...
Anyway, in the link I provided, I mentioned how fun it'd be if we suggested changes to episodes and discussed what would happen. Maybe we could give that a try? It's okay if nobody's interested, but I miss connected with my McShep friends and feeling the excitement and love. It's lonely out here.
So: what do YOU think would have happened if John's mother had been alive when he went to his father's funeral?
A lot of fics have John's mother's death a point of contention between John and his father. It's possible to say that John had a falling out with his father over being gay, and/or joining the military. But we could always twist things further. John's mother lives. She forces her husband and her son to find common ground. John keeps in sporadic contact. He decides to go on the Atlantis mission because he's always been a geek at heart, daydreaming about living in Star Trek. And spacehips exist! Aliens are a thing!
Maybe he flips a coin on whether to tell his family that this particular mission is a bit more dangerous than his usual.
Maybe he doesn't send a video home in Letters From Pegasus because he's worried about how his family will react. Because saying goodbye is even more difficult when you care.
It's even more fun to think about John returning for his father's funeral with Rodney in tow. What would Mama Sheppard make of Rodney McKay? Rodney doesn't make a good first impression. It could go terrible. Or she could see right through Rodney's prickly exterior to the soft center. Maybe she's like John and finds him funny. Oh my gosh, imagine the boys on vacation and they have to split their time between Jeannie's house and John's childhood home. Rodney gleefully going through photo albums, bright eyed at the thought of embarrassing childhood stories.
Maybe when things go wrong and John desperately needs a break, he has someplace earthside to go. With John gone the whole team goes on standdown, and maybe they go with.
Maybe John gets to keep his family, all of it.
Anyway, in the link I provided, I mentioned how fun it'd be if we suggested changes to episodes and discussed what would happen. Maybe we could give that a try? It's okay if nobody's interested, but I miss connected with my McShep friends and feeling the excitement and love. It's lonely out here.
So: what do YOU think would have happened if John's mother had been alive when he went to his father's funeral?
A lot of fics have John's mother's death a point of contention between John and his father. It's possible to say that John had a falling out with his father over being gay, and/or joining the military. But we could always twist things further. John's mother lives. She forces her husband and her son to find common ground. John keeps in sporadic contact. He decides to go on the Atlantis mission because he's always been a geek at heart, daydreaming about living in Star Trek. And spacehips exist! Aliens are a thing!
Maybe he flips a coin on whether to tell his family that this particular mission is a bit more dangerous than his usual.
Maybe he doesn't send a video home in Letters From Pegasus because he's worried about how his family will react. Because saying goodbye is even more difficult when you care.
It's even more fun to think about John returning for his father's funeral with Rodney in tow. What would Mama Sheppard make of Rodney McKay? Rodney doesn't make a good first impression. It could go terrible. Or she could see right through Rodney's prickly exterior to the soft center. Maybe she's like John and finds him funny. Oh my gosh, imagine the boys on vacation and they have to split their time between Jeannie's house and John's childhood home. Rodney gleefully going through photo albums, bright eyed at the thought of embarrassing childhood stories.
Maybe when things go wrong and John desperately needs a break, he has someplace earthside to go. With John gone the whole team goes on standdown, and maybe they go with.
Maybe John gets to keep his family, all of it.
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Date: 2019-12-28 11:43 am (UTC)The dS fandom is pretty kickin' when you consider the show recently turned 25 (the pilot aired April 1994). It's very slow--there's gifsets and occasional meta still going around tumblr, depending on who you follow, and there's still the big bang and the dSSS every year, so there's still a good deal of things going on, just...really slowly. :) People still write fic and meta, there have been a couple of newer fans who have taken up vidding, etc. On DW the action is a lot slower to see, but the ds_noticeboard and the ds_virtualbar are both good places to get community information. I've started a comm for digging up old dS fic that's not on AO3 (though it is not a recs community) called ds_ficminers, and I'd like to start a comm for non-F/K recs. (I love them, but there's a lot of fic out there that isn't F/K and I want to read the good stuff.)
So there's still things going on. I've kept an eye on the AO3 feeds and we still get a trickle of people posting new fic outside of the BB and the dSSS. It's not full-on, a hundred fics a day kind of posting, but it's a lot steadier than one would expect. And it's not all F/K, either--there's lots of Fraser/Vecchio and Fraser/Thatcher mixed up in there.
*cough* TL;DR--It's slow but still around! Including me, if I can ever finish a fic. *sigh*