John and the Marines

[csad21.livejournal.com]

Hello :)

I've been curious about something for a while, and since I just posted a search for an SGA story over at sgastoryfinders for a story that's been bugging me, I thought, while I'm at it, I should get this one out of the way too, this being a perfect opportunity and all.

After all, you guys are always awesome at finding stories of a theme :)

Anyone who has read at least one of Keira Marcos' stories will have noticed the way John handles his marines. It's what endeared her stories forever to me. There's this one scene, for example that I find especially hilarious:

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Does anyone know any other stories with this sort of awesome interaction? It'd be even enough when the gist of this interaction here was laid out throughout the story. Know what I mean?

I think the Geeks and Goons series has similar scenes throughout, but other than that, none come to my mind. I'd really appreciate any and all help here. Preferably McKay/Sheppard, of course, but I really couldn't care less about pairings in this instance--gen, het, slash, anything will do.

(Our fandom being what it is, I find it hard to believe that there isn't a slew of such stories.)


Thank you very much in advance :)

Half AU McShep where Rodney is not physicist request

[anonymoouse.livejournal.com]

Given that the Giant AU list (all hail elderwitty) was started for fics where NEITHER John or Rodney were (currently)pilot or (currently)physicist respectively, I thought it time to beg your indulgence in starting to collect half AUs. (I will of course trawl through the AU list for sneaky ones.)
I thought there might be less where Rodney is not a physicist. (prove me wrong!)
I will take any where he used to be one but he isn't anymore, like Si Muovo http://www.trickster.org/kass/SiMuovo.html.
So John = pilot, Rodney = anything or ex-physicist.