A Bird in the Hand Gets Tangled in the Sheets
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | A Bird in the Hand Gets Tangled in the Sheets |
| Author(s): | The Grrrl |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Stargate: SG-1 |
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A Bird in the Hand Gets Tangled in the Sheets is a Jack/Daniel story by The Grrrl.
Reactions and Reviews
Best FF That Reminds Us That No Matter How Strange and Illogical Our Own Culture's Marital Customs Are, It Could Always Be Worse. For Example, It Could Involve Parakeets. A Bird in the Hand Gets Tangled in the Sheets, by The Grrrl, aka thegrrrl2002. Stargate: SG-1, Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson.
You know, for someone whose whole life has been about communication, Daniel's private language is remarkably singular; no one speaks fluent Daniel Jackson. I love this story in part because it proves that that doesn't matter. Jack speaks enough and is patient enough, and the rest of it...works out. (For Daniel and Jack. Probably not so much for the men who had to do whatever-it-was involving birds after they married, which in my opinion goes a long way toward explaining why that particular culture died out. Marriage and birds are not an OTP.) The other reason I love this FF may say more about me than it does about the story, but who am I to shy away from writing down potentially revealing personal information and posting it in a searchable, public medium? I mean, I'm on Livejournal, here; oversharing is the name of the game. So I will not hesitate (except, you know, for all the preliminary verbiage, which is more of an art than an avoidance thing, really) to tell you that this story contains the sweetest and best declaration of love of all time. Really. Actually, it contains two of them, because the response is just as good and sweet and true. This is one of those short pieces I read whenever I'm feeling especially out of touch with the world; it reminds me that it doesn't matter if the world gets me. It only matters if one person cares enough to try. And, lord, the treacle is practically coming out of my ears, now, so we'd best move on to the Batworld, where things just don't get that sweet.[1]
Um. No. Daniel is confused by a translation that appears to read, "When a man takes a wife, he must provide for her, keep her fat and happy and live inside a bird." Then Jack wakes up and they can have sex, so that's that. Huh?[2]
References
- ^ rec by thefourthvine at Slashy Nominations 116: Speaking in Tongues, May 4, 2005
- ^ "June 22, 2005 Livejournal". Archived from the original on 2023-02-20.