New SGA story: Abstain

[resonant]

Abstain
McKay/Sheppard -- NC-17 -- 64K
Aliens force John and Rodney not to have sex.

Beta thanks to astolat (whose advice much improved the return-to-Atlantis section of the story), kaneko, merryish, and terrio.

Comments

[misspamela.livejournal.com]

Oh my fucking GOD, that was hot. So, so, wonderfully melty and HOT. I feel like I'm describing a grilled cheese sandwich or something, here.

Your story? Even BETTER than a grilled cheese sandwich.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I like grilled cheese.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Gosh! John and Rodney should not have sex more often!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

And at greater length, too. (There is in my head a whirling mass of fantasy, which is so schmoopy that it could never be a real story, in which they celebrate a public union the way the Maksi do.)

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I haven't even read it yet, but I could just weep for joy. My god, is this the right fandom in the right moment in time.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Man, this is one of my favorite cliches too, and I love this twist on it. And the talking, which never seems too talky, but it just right and so, so very hot.

[reginagiraffe]

Wow, that was the sexiest not-having-sex story I've ever read!

What's next? A aliens-make-them-not-have-a-kid fic?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Eep. I hope not. I think this fandom already has <a href='http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/stargate/lifetime_event.html">the only kidfic it needs.</a> Maybe aliens need to force them not to videotape themselves and distribute the video on the internet.

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

So funny, and so hot, and -- oh yeah -- BRILLIANT!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you liked it.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

This is brilliantly hot and funny.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[lovessong.livejournal.com]

Genius. Absolutely genius.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks!

[shetiger.livejournal.com]

*whimpers*

*dies*

*whimpers and dies*

So very, very hot. God, I love 'aliens make them do it' stories this much, and this was a terrific twist on that.

With that kind of a tradition, I'm surprised you didn't just spontaneously develop the internet,

Hee!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[copracat]

Ain't nothing like a shake up of a beloved old cliche. That was ace!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thanks.

[ex-danvers514.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this a lot. Cool spin on the cliche :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[zoerayne]

Oh. My. God. Best use of fanfic cliche ever.

The lack of sex. And the dialogue. And then the sex. And the dialogue during the sex. I am completely and totally in awe.

You need minions. Can I be a minion? I'm good with the grape-peeling thing.... *g*

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. I suppose it was inevitable, but this is the first time I can recall in all my time in fandom that I've read a story that hits me square in the kink. Wow.

Wow.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent. I don't know if I ever scored a kink bullseye with anyone before; I certainly can't do it for myself, though the talking-about-sex thing is certainly in the ballpark.

Anyhow, glad you liked it.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely! Both hot and fun, just the way I like them. Thanks.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

Ha! There! See? *spits and sputters* I TOLD Anna! *points with stabby finger of righteousness* I said, write one where the aliens keep them from having sex! It'll be great! And did she? Noooooooooooooooooooo. But you did, and I love it. The flight-attendant priestesses, ha, and the lack of garlic--now we know why they don't serve their guests garlic, heh. But what I loved most was the anticipation, reading along and thinking, "They're going to fail, they're going to crash and burn, and it's going to be hilarious (and hot), because this is a Slash Story, and, look, now they're getting chummier, and now they're touching, and, ohmigosh, they're not going to bring home the ZPMs and everyone's going to KNOW why, after all the "Ha ha, how easy is this going to be, tee-hee" stuff, and Here It COMES, ohmigosh, and...it's breakfast. *blinks* They, huh. *reads* Oooooooh, they're home, they're on their way down the hall, now, they're touching in the hallway, they've bloomed so bad they can hardly walk--ah! Yes! Score! Heeeee.

Yeah, I kinda enjoyed it. *g*

Obscene fruit. *snort*

[zoerayne]

they've bloomed so bad they can hardly walk

*dies laughing*

OMG, there need to be "blooming" and "fruition" icons. There really do. *wanders away to find appropriate pictures*

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

This story is just too much fun. Yay. And also hot, and hilarious. I am fascinated by the priestesses and their headdresses and the one who "must be unacquainted with the reference." I'm trying to figure out how she must have interpreted "slippery slope." Or was it, "yadda yadda"? And the fruit, I know everyone says the fruit, but the noisy fruit is wonderfully amusing.

And then the *smelling* across the table, and that's just very hot.

So, yes: hilarious and sexy and yay.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Glad you liked it.

I think she heard "slippery" and her mind went where mine goes.

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

Good GLORY this is excellent. The sex talk is so freakin' hot, the not-having-sex part is hot, it's all just hot! Thank you!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm so glad!

[eliade.livejournal.com]

I love you. I haven't read it yet, but I love you.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

There! See? You see? *huffs*

[destina.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, I just read a Sheppard/McKay sex scene without bleeding from the eyeballs. Someone call a doctor! I've become immune! Of course, it might be because your story was incredibly good, and not due to any internal chemical processes at work. *g*

*pops some champagne!*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm very happy not to have induced eyeball-bleeding.

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

Oh! Hot and sexy and sweet and all around yummy :) I haven't been keeping up on the SGA fic of late cuz of time shortage, but your story summary sucked me in and I'm sooo glad it did.

This in particular--

John licked his lips. "Dunno. I've never really had any sex I thought was bad."

McKay gave him a skeptical look. "I don't know whether that means you're some sort of sex god or just that you have really low standards."

--made me do the big, embaressing pig-snort laugh. Also loved all the little details, like the decor of the room and the progression of the visiting attendants. Just all around beautiful work :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks! I'm so glad you liked it.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious and hot. You rock.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. Thanks!

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

McKay took a pancake absently. "For someone who's been kept up all night and plied with alien drugs and X-rated fruit," he added with his mouth full.

Love, love, love. Thank you. *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! One of my favorite lines. Your fine, discerning taste is obvious.

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

I just want to roll around in this story for a while. What an excellent usurpation of a well-worn cliché—and they're both so snarky and affectionate and normal about it ("Why not both?" Rodney gave him a grin with teeth. "Unless you're not up to not having sex twice in one night."), right through the inevitable revelation and euphoria and beyond. I'm still laughing at the last line.

You also win for best formatting of a fanfic page. I save stories to my hard drive to read later (or keep forever), and it's such a welcome change that you include not only the title and author of the story, but its full url so I can find the page again if I need to. Thank you. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm so glad you liked it.

And thanks for the praise on the page formatting, too. It drives me nuts to hit a page where the title and author name are in a graphic, or only in the header, or entirely absent because the entire site design depends on frames. Grrrr. (And don't even get me started on people who publish entire stories in white type on a black background.)

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

that was lovely..there's nothing better to me than a cliche twist, and this is the best cliche of them all :-)

loved the games they played and the x-rated fruits!

thank you!!!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! I'm owning my cliches these days.

[fenris_wolf0]

You had me laughing from beginning to end... This was a very, very enjoyable take of the cliche -which never gets old, I have to admit- and the constant interruptions and reminders of what they were not supposed to do were priceless! :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Glad you liked it. (The constant interruptions were astolat's suggestion.)

[spikedluv]

Loved! I adore aliens-made-them-do-it fic (I mean, who wouldn't *g*), and this spin on it was so much fun to read. I loved how the boys were all confident and smirky and by the end of their stay were singing an entirely different tune! I enjoyed John's thoughts about Rodney's hands and eyes, and Rodney admitting that he hadn't never thought about it. And the urgency at the end was hot and delicious. Loved John imagining taking Rodney under the table...or on it, lol!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I love aliens stories, too, but for some reason I'd never written one before. Glad you liked it!