How Not to Make a Light Bulb
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | How Not to Make a Light Bulb |
| Author(s): | leah k |
| Date(s): | July 2005 |
| Length: | 6,932 words |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Stargate Atlantis |
| External Links: | online here and on AO3 |
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How Not to Make a Light Bulb is a Stargate Atlantis McShep story by leah k.
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Aliens make them have sex in this story, but that's just a bonus (and incredibly common in this fandom—more on that later). This is about a pre-emptive break-up, the kind of break-up that says things are going so well, it must be time to end it all and I love you too much to be with you—it's self-destructive, it's self-denying, and it's apparently the story of John's life. Luckily, aliens are there to make them have sex; and Rodney is there to not let him get away with it anymore.
- "None of the women John had ever dated returned his phone-calls. Partially, it was because John tended to live in such inaccessible locations as Antarctica and the Pegasus Galaxy, but for the most part it was because John was actually a complete asshole. While things were going well, he was a perfect gentleman: charming, sweet, funny; but as soon as things went south, he forgot to pull his punches. It was never enough just to end a relationship, he always had to smash it into fragments so small you couldn't tell what they'd been in the first place. If the girl wasn't sobbing hysterically at the end, John felt like he hadn't done it right." [1]