fic recs / SGA 5x01

fic recs:
This Is the Song that Goes Like This by argosy
Rodney/Teyla; PG; 3,200 words
For sticksandsnark, prompt: culture shock
Summary: And that was how Rodney got sucked against his will into the Day of Renewal celebration, or--as Rodney liked to think of it--Teyla's Athosian Extravaganza.

Adorable, funny... perfect ending.

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Ashna and Eshon by sheafrotherdon
Rodney/Teyla; PG; ~2100 words
For sticksandsnark, prompt: Teyla. Queen.
Summary: He realized, waking up one morning to blink at the stack of books by his bed, that he'd never said hello to Teyla in her own language, never sung a made-up song to Kagaan with words the boy would one day claim as his own.

Rodney learns Athosian for Teyla. Beautiful story, and an intriguing look at the linguistics of the gate'verse.

Textual translation software was standard on every Lantean machine, and he fed words from his book into the laptop, sent them through a set of algorithms he'd tweaked once or twice, waited for the English meanings to pop up on his screen. Ashna, Devaat, Mehnit, Eshon, Emar, G'tare, Tasaan, Ushf'd – the words sprang up in Athosian and English; queen, queen, queen, queen, queen, queen, queen, queen. Rodney frowned and ran the command again – queen, queen; the result was the same.

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The last of the large double-spread pages is slain. >_< I love illustration, but that amount of overtime pretty much sucked. I can haz my life back now, plz?

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Oh, I watched that SGA episode that doesn't exist yet. ( Spoilers for 5x01 Search And Rescue )