SGA fic/vid recs - main list, Part II

Eh, my main SGA recs post was getting too long for LJ, so I had to split it. The new additions are going to go in this post.

For the most part Rodney-centric. Recs (both posts combined) are primarily gen, McShep, teamfic... also a handful of Sam/Rodney, Rodney/Teyla, McKeller, Rodney/Todd. Sorted by story length. [Last updated February 14, 2009]
( Part II, under the cut )

(older recs in Part I)

linkage: meta, and a vid rec

An anthropological introduction to YouTube, presented by Professor Michael Wesch at the Library of Congress.
I thought I'd put this video on as background entertainment while sketching, and it totally failed on that front as I watched the thing from start to finish. I'm not really involved in the whole YouTube culture, but I found this pretty fascinating.

Maybe of particular interest is the part at 43:37: Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture. He quotes from Lim's vid Us... which is still the most poetic and moving statement on... I guess they call it remix culture now, that I've seen. (I've watched 'Us' what must've been a hundred times by now, and I'm still getting goosebumps seeing that one Batman clip, every time. That vid visualizes my thoughts and feelings so perfectly, it's crazy. )

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Audio interview with Rebecca Tushnet on fanfic, copyright, and fair use, with mentions of the Organization of Transformative Works. (ca 9 min)
This was posted before I went on vacation... I'm really behind on posting, but I figure maybe not everyone has seen the link (in spite of the inevitable bruhaha that sets in whenever OTW gets some press).

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Remixing Television - Francesca Coppa on the vidding underground
Excellent interview, wherein Coppa talks about the customary marginalization of women's contribution to art, all the while providing a good crash-course in vidding history. snippet:

I started doing this work because I knew enough to try to present the vidding community fairly. If you’re going to start documenting subcultures that have been doing interesting things in the world of film and video, vidders deserve a place at the table. The stereotypically female desire to keep our heads down should not keep us out of the history books.

That’s what happened with the novel. There were women who wrote novels in the 18th century, and then the novel “went professional” and the men came. Now people will tell you that the first novel was by Henry Fielding or Samuel Richardson. This whole women’s culture that came before that got written out and later had to be recuperated by feminists. And I feel that I would rather not die out and have to be recuperated by feminists. Maybe some of us could actually articulate ourselves right now and never be lost in the first place.

And, it's through this interview that I discovered this vid: (hey, is that a good segue or what? ;o)
Too Good To Be True by blithesea
Rodney/Ronon pining
very funny vid, the editing is brilliant. Some of the edits I only realized on second viewing (during the first viewing my brain was scratching its metaphorical head, going waitaminute...). Watch it, you'll see what I mean.

fic recs [SGA] (and a few belated travel pics)

fic recs:
Games of Chance by xparrot
PG-13; Characters: Rodney, Sheppard, Team, etc.; Season 4 cast/spoilers; ~12,000 words
Summary: Sheppard's got one chance, and Rodney is going to find it, no matter what.

For the 'Second Verse' challenge at flashfic: John gets taken by the Wraith, and Rodney hooks himself up to a modified Ancient device so he can go through every impossible rescue scenario in order to find the possible one. I love premise and execution both.

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A Rational Universe by xparrot
McKay/Sheppard; PG-13; 6943 words
Summary: "You're a lot more encouraging than my last friendly hallucination," Rodney says.

Fascinating story, really gripping. John and the other Lanteans need his command codes, but Rodney knows he can't trust anyone, least of all himself.

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Brother to the Executioner by xparrot
Sheppard POV; Miller's Crossing tag, therefore huge spoilers for that episode; 1,010 words

The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics postulates an infinity of universes, an ever-growing tree of possibilities, wherein somewhere, every choice is made; every potential outcome of any decision is realized, every possible option taken, somewhere.

Nowhere in that infinity is the universe where John Sheppard willingly steps back and allows Rodney McKay to walk into the Wraith's embrace.

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Thieves In Atlantis by tipper_green
gen; Ensemble, with emphasis on Beckett, McKay and Sheppard; Season 2; 58,857 words
Summary:Four refugees from a culled world bring some unexpected trouble to Atlantis, and no one avoids the fallout.

A tense mystery fic with well-conceived, three-dimensional bad guys.

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Switching topics & going back in time to last week: pics of sea-plane landing in Seattle. (That was only last week... that's crazy, man! Feels like ages ago already.) ( Hey, I took these and they're not blurry. That's reason enough to click, no? )