.fic link: Mail Call (John/Rodney)

[aesc]

First class from Nantucket:
If you loved Postcard, then you will love dogeared's beautiful Mail Call, in which John gets his postcard, things don't get said, but both of them get it anyway.

Also, it must be said I am very resentful of fic ideas that 1) come out of nowhere, 2) torment me while I'm trying to work, and 3) when I finally make time to pay attention to them, refuse to cooperate.

Really, it's just cruel.

On the other hand... Rodney as a mnemonist, like S.V. Shereshevskii or Funes the Memorious. Please tell me this hasn't been done.

In other news: Neighborhood association had a bunch of open houses today, and I observed two terribly cute guys going around one house.

Guy #1: Maybe we could paint over the moldings?
Guy #2: No way in hell!

I live in a neighborhood where people are either a.) married, or b.) way too slashable. Dammit.

.eta: completely useless, self-referential link fixed!

Comments

[tty63.livejournal.com]

I hope your fic ideas start cooperating. Rodney as a mnemonist would be very cool, but hopefully without him ending up in an asylum like S.V. Shereshevskii.

One of my last grocery shopping trips was made much better by 2 cute guys together buying groceries. They were also way too slashable.

[(Anonymous)]

FYI, your link is borked :)

http://dogeared.livejournal.com/119680.html

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It always helps to know these things :D

Thank you, unknown person!

[aesc.livejournal.com]

but hopefully without him ending up in an asylum like S.V. Shereshevskii.

Hopefully, yes. We'll see if anything remotely resembling, you know, a plausible plot, develops first. That, and working out the difference between mnemonic technique/trained memory and Shereshevskii's natural memory, which on its own was kind of amazing. (And Luria's psychological biography of him still makes me goggle idiotically. I mean, wow.)

[flyakate]

I live in a neighborhood where people are either a.) married, or b.) way too slashable.

Man, I wish I lived in your neighborhood, that sounds like too much fun!

Also, your fic idea sounds complexly cool; good luck with it!

[summertea.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough, I was reading about Matteo Ricci and his mnemonic technique in trying to convert the Chinese to Christianity in the 16th century. :D Didn't understand a single bit of how it worked, as mnemonic memory is so beyond me. ¦D

[morebliss.livejournal.com]

Guy #1: Maybe we could paint over the moldings?
Guy #2: No way in hell!

And now I'm picturing John and Rodney in fixer-upper mode. With plastering and painting and John wanting sparkly curtains and Rodney not believing how gay John can be....

[xenachan.livejournal.com]

I checked the date and the Nantucket AU seems to begin some months ago...
Anyone could explain me the main plot please ?
Thanks for keeping us posted ! :)

I live in a neighborhood where people are either a.) married, or b.) way too slashable. Dammit.
That's so unfair !!! >_<

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Anyone could explain me the main plot please ?

I guess if there were a main plot, it'd be something like "John is discharged from the Air Force and moves to Nantucket Island (off the coast of Massachusetts in the US) to live. One day he's throwing a frisbee to his dog, who almost knocks over this guy walking down the beach, a guy who's very tired and awkward and strung-out. John learns that his name is Rodney McKay, invites Rodney back to his place for a drink, and Rodney... never really ends up leaving." :)

The index places the stories in their main sequence, but a lot of them have flashbacks to previous events that haven't been fully told, so bits and pieces of the story come out at odd moments.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

With plastering and painting and John wanting sparkly curtains and Rodney not believing how gay John can be....

*cackles* I told dogeared that I briefly imagined them as neighbors on "Trading Spaces," when they each have to redecorate a room in the other's house :D

Rodney's study, of course, would end up with sparkly curtains.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I lived in your neighborhood, that sounds like too much fun!

Unfortunately, one of the slashy grad students down the street moved, and the one remaining has a new roommate. I feel like someone whose OTP just got screwed around with by the writers *siiiigh*

And I haven't met the new roommate yet, but I don't like him already ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Didn't understand a single bit of how it worked,

Most mnemonic devices try to place knowledge in some kind of ordered way, so they tend to be set up structurally, or else (like with Shereshevskii) in some kind of relationship that makes it easier to recall things. Medieval mnemonic devices tend to be buildings, or else, like, imagining an angel, and on each feather of the angel's wing is a verse from a psalm (or whatever it is you need to know). When he was trying to remember things, Shereshevskii would imagine a street, with objects representing the things he needed to recall lining it, and as he "walked" down the street he would remember.

(It's a lot more complicated than that because Shereshevskii's memory was pretty extraordinary--and idiosyncratic--but that's basically the idea :D)

[sleepwalkerfish.livejournal.com]

Those neighbours could give you even more ideas about fics that should be written. :-) Either the married or the slashable ones.
And I'll never stop loving this verse. ♥

[xenachan.livejournal.com]

Ooooh !
Thank you very much aesc ! ^^

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. The cute graduate students down the street have already inspired the "Roommates" AU (though, alas, one of them moved out!!! My neighborhood OTP is ruined!!!!)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome! It's kind of written in an odd manner, because we skip around, but if you follow the index, you'll (hopefully!) get the story in the proper order :D

[flyakate]

Oh noes, your OTP got Jossed! That sucks! Now it can be fodder for an AU? *snicker* Or it will be like most fandoms, with wars about the latecomer to the pairing vs. the original.

I remember reading a lot about Memory Houses in literary theory class in college; I always thought that kind of stuff was so cool.