New SGA story: Girlfriend

[resonant]

I've posted a new SGA story to my website.

Girlfriend
McKay/Sheppard -- NC-17 -- 6,900 words
"Rodney, you are the strangest man I've ever met. And ... almost the strangest woman."

Beta thanks to cesperanza and terrio.

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I cannot tell you how much I adored this. The way Rodney didn't freak out, the way John went gentlemanly and sweet and scared out of his mind when Rodney was a girl, and then just putty when he was a guy, and the way Rodney knew exactly what he wanted and -- oh, love.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think it would be a different matter if Rodney didn't get a choice, but as long as he knows he can go back when he's done, hell yes he's going to try it!

[celli]

Ha. SUPER AWESOME.

Rodney being bossy + John being turned on + random Pegasus weirdness = the bestest.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I don't know why I write so much bossy Rodney. My inner John makes me.

[lilysaid.livejournal.com]

what a great treat to find just before bedtime, yay! I love how you write the guys--you can't help but be happy for Rodney with his shiny new breasts--and I'm not usually a big fan of genderswitching stories, but this was smoking hot like whoa.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Genderswitching is one of those things that are totally implausible but other than that fine!

[grammarwoman]

I LOVED this. Rodney was fabulous with his frank appreciation of his female form (devirginizing himself with a variety of objects - hah!), and John trying to be all smooth and then just losing it (dirty talking John - *whew*), and then more hot guy sex.

Definitely going in the memories.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! Probably the only woman who's ever really enjoyed Rodney's brand of appreciation is Rodney himself.

[byandby.livejournal.com]

I loved this! Rodney's POV was hysterical and awesome.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

He's so delightful as long as we don't have to deal with him in real life, isn't he? Glad you liked it.

[goss.livejournal.com]

HEE! Hot and funny and perfect! :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it!

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Marvelous! I loved seeing Rodney so confident in his female body, he was so very Rodney. And god, the sex scenes were...nrghtghl. I'm glad Rodney figured out what John was doing with the "good boyfriend" act, and yeah, that would get pretty damn annoying. How John just melted once Rodney was male again? HOT.

He wasn't as thin as Carter was. If he'd been born female, he'd probably have to care. Hee hee.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! John's path to happiness is clear: Just have something totally impossible happen, and after that everything will be fine.

I actually think that this Rodney has too much self-esteem to successfully pass as a woman. If he were going to stay that way, he'd have to learn to fake a certain amount of irrational shame.

[aurora]

This was really cool and I love your Rodney voice a lot. (Also, it was v.v. hot!!)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! I had a lot of fun with it. I kind of wish I'd had the opportunity to take Rodney back to Atlantis and see what he'd do when people started treating him like a woman. Can you imagine some random strange man saying to Rodney, "Smile, honey!"

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

God, I love how Rodney was just wandering about going, "Hey, would ya lookit these!" and John was totally having PTSD moments of every bit of manners he ever ever learned. Possibly from his grandmother and his grandfather and father and everyone told him to be nice to girls, John, they don't like to play rough.

This would be why Nancy seems still so frustrated with him.

And I knew he was even more doomed when he started thinking about what sex with Rodney might be like as a guy. Oh boys.

Heeee.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

John is perfectly comfortable with women as long as nobody expects him to relate to them on any emotional level. Which is why I feel sorry for Teyla, who periodically has to hug him for medical reasons.

glad you liked it!

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

I especially loved it when Sheppard melted into Rodney when Rodney pushed him against the wall! I love genderswap with a twist -- in this case John being worse at sex with girl!Rodney than regular Rodney. Great story!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the whole reason I wrote the story. For a long time I was just happy going around imagining in my own head what Rodney would be like as a woman, but when it occurred to me that John would sleep with female Rodney while fantasizing about a male one -- well, them's writin' words.

[retrofit88.livejournal.com]

...Rodney squinted at him; how weird must it be to have a whole fifty percent of the human race that you couldn't be attracted to?

Hah! Really enjoyed the whole story, thanks, but this perfect line is my fave.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm putting my own thoughts in Rodney's mouth there. Glad you liked it!

[jssangel.livejournal.com]

rrooarrr! This was awesome and hot! You do such a great job of capturing who they are. I loved that Rodney didn't freak out at all over turning into a girl for a bit - that he treated it as a new point of view for information gathering.

I also loved the idea of Sheppard being so careful and perfect in bed with a girl, and just falling apart with a man.

Hooray! Thank you for sharing this!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I think if Rodney were permanently, involuntarily turned into a woman, we'd see some explosions (and eventually a matriarchy and a worldwide tradition of free premenstrual massages and truffles), but as long as he gets the choice, he's going to have some breasts of his own to play with.

[toomuchplor.livejournal.com]

*fans self*

Dear lord, that was scorching hot. I loved how blase McKay was about the whole thing, and it was refreshing (and still weirdly attractive) to have John kind of suck in bed (at first).

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it!

Sometimes I think John would be very skilled but kind of cold in bed (a little like the first time here), and sometimes I think he'd be lazy and expect the other person to do all the work, and sometimes I think if you could get him sufficiently aroused he'd just break and maybe embarrass you with his ardor. Hard to say with a guy who's wound so tight and obviously repressing something.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Rodney was fun, but I'm still trying to figure out John...was he secretly gay and just repressed, thus never letting himself go and Rodney kind of dragged that out of him or was it Rodney himself who appealed to him in ways that surprised him? I felt the first, esp. the way he suddenly got more passionate with assplay and just melted (and boy was that description hot) when rRodney took charge...

Anyway, lovely, and thank you!!!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In my head, he was gay but seriously did not know it himself. He has no idea why he's so strongly attracted to the female Rodney, and no idea why he almost immediately finds himself fantasizing about the male one. He never sees it coming.

Glad you liked it!

[ekaterinn.livejournal.com]

*grins* I liked the whole story - you give good girl!Rodney and I love how he deals with John's issues by plowing through them, but I wanted to especially thank you for this line:

"Oh." Rodney squinted at him; how weird must it be to have a whole fifty percent of the human race that you couldn't be attracted to?

Because, YES, this is how I feel about being bisexual, like it should be normal, that it should be the default, instead of being something that causes both straight and gay people to peer at you suspiciously for.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it! And, yes, I'm putting my own thoughts in Rodney's head there. Other people just have a fetish.

[viciouscats.livejournal.com]

Yay! I really enjoyed this. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad!

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

HAH!

Things I loved: Rodney not freaking out about his gender-switch at all, the sex as happy experimentation, and John Sheppard being really kind of awful at hetero sex and completely relieved by the awesome dirty mansex. You just made a genderswitch fic that completely overturns all my least favourite genderswitch cliches! YOU WIN EVERYTHING.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I had a lot of fun with it. I kind of wish I'd been able to do Rodney as a woman long-term, because I'd love to hear what he'd say the first time some guy implied that Rodney owed him sex in exchange for dinner and a movie. (Or because Rodney was wearing a short skirt.)

This...

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

...is the hottest thing I've read in I don't know how long. And Rodney's a hoot, cavorting with his new breasts and being all experimental with it and completely unselfconscious and even enthusiastic about his temporary womanhood, and no wonder John's kind of flail-y, because who wouldn't be when faced with that? And then all the sex, and, man, that was, whoo. I need a drink. *fans self*

Re: This...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I had so much fun with Rodney in a woman's body. I'll bet he dreams about those breasts. And poor clueless John never knew what hit him.

I'm not sure why I felt the need to do this...

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

...but I really, really did.

Re: I'm not sure why I felt the need to do this...

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

OMG, brilliant!!

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck that was hot. What an incredible way to start the day.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I like blowing John's mind. It's so easy.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

This is the best news I've heard all week.

::bookmarking story to read later this morning, with great glee::

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Oh, YAY; that was awesome.

This is one of my favorite subcategories of SGA stories, and I love the way you handled it here: Rodney's matter-of-factness, John freaking out and giving Rodney the girlfriend treatment, Rodney's weird sense of displacement first in the female body and then in the male body again, the way things get seriously hot when John does girl!Rodney from behind, the way things get even hotter when Rodney -- himself again -- does the same to John.

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[copracat]

Teyla and Ronon came from Atlantis, just to check in and make sure there was no torture, imprisonment, drugging, or other Pegasus shenanigans happening.

Oh, there were shenanigans all right. Rodney's big, frank brain makes me so happy. What a wonderful story.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! (And what a perfect icon for the purpose!)

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely one of the hottest things I've ever read.

GAH!

I love bossy, experimental!Rodney-as-female...because he'd totally never change, despite his outward appearance.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I'd love to have seen Rodney in a woman's body long-term, because to any suggestion that he ought to be more deferential, more concerned with what other people think, less confident about his appearance, more interested in consensus, etc. -- he would just laugh.

[tevere.livejournal.com]

Talk about phenomenal timing! It's been a feckin' long day, and all I wanted was to come home and fling myself into bed with some comfort reading -- and this, oh man, this was just perfect. I can't tell you how many times I snorfled out loud at Rodney lines, including this one--

it left him turned on and pissed off at the same time, giving masturbation the character of angry fight sex.

Ah, I just love how Rodney's ego is the size of the universe -- but not without some accompanying benefits, like a weird sort of open-mindedness (that sort of: I'm so fantastic that everyone loves me, and why would I be cruel and deny them the opportunity even if they're male/female/alien?).

Are there really guys out there who squeeze women's breasts because it's fun? (For them. Fuckers.) I see it in a lot of stories -- enough that it seems it must happen to some women -- so I guess I'm just lucky enough to have avoided the experience?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it!

I'm so fantastic that everyone loves me, and why would I be cruel and deny them the opportunity even if they're male/female/alien?

That's it exactly. The people who make everyone miserable are people who suspect they might not be superior. As long as they're confident, they're fine.

Are there really guys out there who squeeze women's breasts because it's fun? Oh, it's definitely happened to me, though I don't think it's an issue of "the hell with what she wants; I'm going to do this because it feels good." I gather that men's bodies respond to rough handling a lot better than women's do. They're just trying to do what they'd like.

[special-trille.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I love this SO much. Everything that was said in the comments above, just, yes.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! I had a lot of fun with it.