100 days of enemy recs: 82. Stargate Atlantis

[melannen]

I put Stargate Atlantis on this list because it really seemed like it should be on this list, and then I spent a lot of time squinting at it and skipping past it, because is it really enemyslash? Like it was a huge part of my fandom experience for awhile, but I read mostly John/Rodney (you kind of had to) and while they were sort of antagonistic for most of season one or so, they pretty much got over it after awhile (actually come to think of it that may explain why I drifted away only a few seasons in.) And I guess in the later seasons there were a fair number of people who shipped John and a Wraith? But I was mostly not super into it by then and anyway, part of the reason I quit is I didn't like what they were doing with the Wraith.

But then I went into my old bookmarks, and, oh right.

So you get a recs set of Rodney/Radek fic.

The capsule summary of the Rodney/Radek dynamic is: Rodney is the smartest man in the world, and he knows that very well, and he is going to make sure you don't forget that. (He might even be the smartest man in the world if they weren't stuck in a tiny outpost on an otherwise empty world! He thinks so anyway.) Radek is the second smartest man in the world. However, he feels no need to compete with Rodney, because he knows two things that Rodney doesn't know: first, that all the smarts in the world don't matter if you can't do people. And second, that nobody ever thought Radek was good at people until they had Rodney standing next to him for him to look good in comparison to.

• Two Weeks Notice (10431 words) by zelempa
  Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka
  Additional Tags: Romantic Comedy
  
  Radek quits. Rodney figures some things out. Eventually.



• - incipit - begin here - (2758 words) by otter
  Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka
  
  Rodney and Radek are both too tired to care anymore.



• Absurdity Theory (10387 words) by julad
  Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka
  Additional Tags: Community: sga_flashfic
  
  Rodney and Radek get cursed to quack like ducks, reinvent magic from base principles.

Comments

[sophia_sol]

ahhhhh, Rodney/Radek truly deserved more attention than it got, I say with the power of hindsight! I still remember Absurdity Theory all these years later with much affection

[melannen]

If I had an SGA OTP (other than John/Atlantis of course), this would be it!

[china_shop]

Absurdity Theory is one of the very few (like, maybe four or five?) SGA fics I've read. Excellent choice! :-)

[melannen]

It's very good! Though it's tragic we never get to see Rodney and Radek really getting the hang of magic and taking their wizardry on the road.

[hannah]

I'm contractually obligated to comment with this icon.

[melannen]

Yes good.

[annathecrow]

It's been a long time since I saw any SGA, but Zelenka is a fave :D Reason is simple:

• the character is Czech, and
• the actor is Czech, so
• there are some really funny lines in the show (ad-libbed when the script said "Zelenka speaks Czech", I assume). My favorite is (translated) "Jesus, I can't work with these actors!" XD Also, nothing like a character on your US show yelling "DOPRDELE!" really loudly.

[melannen]

Zelenka gave great verisimilitude to the premise that it was a truly international expedition! (...not much else did.)

[lannamichaels]

Rodney/Radek ♥ Such chemistry, such potential