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

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I read the print-out in bed last night. I just wallowed! It was like diving into sweet fresh water. I loved reading this so much! It is a wonderful spin on aliens-made-me-do-it because Rodney wanted to do it. I loved Rodney having experimented loads already before John even got to him, and Rodney being unashamed. I loved Rodney's breasts!!! The descriptions of Rodney's body are all fantastic: the big nipples, the big breasts, the soft belly, the waist. And ah, the hotness of John at the end...

What I love here is how the characterisation works through the sex, and how the sex is an expression of character. There is a seamlessness between character and sex; I just love that. And the way John has his hands up on the wall at the end, when Rodney is a man... *wipes brow*

I loved also the way the story takes apart gender stereotypes, the way Rodney gets annoyed with John's limitations, the 'careful' lady-sex of John, all that that says about John and about Rodney and about men in general and about us.

I loved how we got bad-sex-John, and then finally, the pay-off of John losing it (anticipated so nicely in Rodney's earlier wishing that John would lose it a bit more). I love it how John is the fucked up one, and Rodney not. I love the zest of the prose, and the pacing that skips from delicious bit to delicious bit and glides effortlessly over the stitching-together bits.

Thank you!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! It was fun to have a female body to play with for a change, though as I've said to some other commenters, I've never written het this explicit before and I found it trickier than I expected; the words we have for girlparts all carry so much baggage.

Sometimes I think sex is the only way to get at John in any profound way. Not always -- I have occasionally written a version of John who's not too screwed up to function in a relationship -- but at least this John is one who'd better change in bed, because he's got effective guards against every other kind of change.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I love what you write about John. *loves it some more*

I first wrote girlsex when I did an f/f in lotrips and it was very interesting to write. The words are very different, it's true! Now that you say it, I'm thinking the whole ballpark of associations is different so that it's not even comparable. Substituting cunt for pussy for vagina is not the same as the whole cock / dick / penis continuum. But what I found intriguing was that with the women I'm in the body, and at the same time have a more distant view of the body. I think because I know the anatomy from inside out so well, I can then take back a step and be a bit blase or ironic. And also one can rely on the readers supplying all that knowledge themselves because they're all women, too.

The additional cross-over thing adds just that extra bit of delicious mustard. Yum yum.

I'm thinking about the baggage you mention re the girlparts again, and how one might use that baggage in one's favour...?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

But what I found intriguing was that with the women I'm in the body, and at the same time have a more distant view of the body. I think because I know the anatomy from inside out so well, I can then take back a step and be a bit blase or ironic. And also one can rely on the readers supplying all that knowledge themselves because they're all women, too.

That's true -- though I know women's experience varies, and I worried a bit that what I wrote would contradict someone else's experience, which is not something I worry about when I'm in a male POV.

I'm thinking about the baggage you mention re the girlparts again, and how one might use that baggage in one's favour...?

Oh, how interesting!

I suppose if you wrote it a lot -- if the whole community wrote it a lot -- some of those words would just get reclaimed. Before I was involved in slash, 'fuck' as a verb sounded aggressive and even violent to me, and now I just take it as a simple descriptive.

But to actually use the punch-in-the-gut impact that a word like 'cunt' has in English ... hm. But how? Did you have thoughts?