pictures and things: 'Traders,' noir!John, watch aesc pretend to be productive

[aesc]

The past two days have been characterized by very great exhaustion. While it's a change from feeling like my sinuses are trying to invade my eye sockets, I'm not terribly crazy about it. My brain laughs at the thought of managing plot (I can hear it cackling) or anything much more complicated than playing with Traders screencaps of unbearable quality yet unbelievable adorableness.

There is no sad Grant here, just him being goofy and weird and with the hands. (*flail* I can't help it, I love him and may possibly be addicted.) And there's also some noir!John, who is having his backstory turned over between decongestants.








Cone of silence!




He is such a dork, and I love him SO MUCH.

And hey, some icons! These will go up for real with the slowly-assembling collection in a couple weeks, I hope. But, in the meantime, feel free to take.




I've been doodling away at the noir stuff between other things and sinus infections. In the spirit of The Long Goodbye, John Sheppard is a disgraced Air Force veteran, pulled alive from the wreck of his P-51 Mustang in the North Sea. No one knows how he survived, but a few people have guessed....





Seen around: you comment with the start of a sentence, I reply with the rest of it. These can be fannish (e.g. John Sheppard and Dean Winchester like to) or personal (e.g. If I could smite one person in the world, it would be), or whatever, really.

Comments

[mardia.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing Teyla doesn't understand about Rodney...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

... it's his determination, which she should understand and does in a way (Athosians are intimately acquainted with necessity), but in unexpected and much-needed moments it burns in him more brightly than she can ever remember seeing, and she's surprised all over again.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

"You are unbelievable!" said Rodney, waving a pair of boxer shorts around. "If I had had the FIRST IDEA that you would . . .

[aesc.livejournal.com]

"... ask me to move in with you, then I would have said you were dangerously insane and should be restrained for my safety and the safety of the expedition, but you... but you did, and I didn't expect it, I still don't, and now my stuff is all over the place and did you even think this through or did you think I found an Ancient device that compresses the total amount of space occupied by four years of crap into two drawers and a corner of the closet, but I guess that's thinking it through in your version of reality and now I have nowhere else to put my boxers and... oh my God, we're living together."

"Breathe, Rodney."

"Breathing."

[ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com]

The note left on John's desk is small enough -

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I know you did it, I KNOW you stole the rest of my mini Snickers bars, and if they aren't back by the time I'm off-shift YOU WILL PAY SHEPPARD. Got that? YOU WILL PAY.

Sincerely,

M.R. McKay
Ph.D, Ph.D

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

When Rodney is pretty sure John isn't looking, he...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

pounces, which is always a dangerous proposition because John has Stealth Ninja Ops training and has eyes in the back of his head, fuck fuck like now, but while John has skills Rodney has desperation, they are the last of the mini Snickers bars on the entire base and Rodney is suffering from a nougat deficiency, and they make it to John's secret stash in a tangle of limbs and laughing curses and pushes and shoves that turn to John's mouth on Rodney's, and Rodney crushing a mini Snickers in his hand.

[dogeared.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmpf JOE.

John should have known what would happen when he opened the door and saw . . .

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Rodney sitting up in a tangle of curses and rumpled bedsheets, flushed and sweating and oh God, he'd been jerking off, which only reminds him of what he'd done three times in the locker room after practice this week, and the denial he's used to paint over coming with Rodney's face hovering in front of closed eyes, and how even the barest glimpse of Rodney's body--the pink-washed stretch of his neck, the slow broadening of his shoulders, his eyes--washes denial away and leaves want behind, so powerful he can't mutter an apology before he runs.

[stillwaters11.livejournal.com]

Those are great caps. I do miss Grant.

On Monday, Grant brings Ann ...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, Grant. *hugs him up*

On Monday, Grant brings Ann ...

a flower from his favorite corner of the park, the corner where there's a bench that's nice for sitting on during the summer because of the shade from the oak and the squirrels run around for acorns and it's close to the, the lady who sells birdseed from her cart? and he tells Ann this as he presses bright yellow petals into her hand with clumsy fingers, it's, it's for you, and she smiles.

[pollitt.livejournal.com]

Grant! *holds close*

And noir!John *drools*


An' sentence...

John wondered aloud how this would've been different had...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

he not been demoted or if Rodney hadn't been sent to Siberia, and Rodney looks at him and says, "You know, there are realities where those things didn't happen," and John stretches, tries to imagine the impassable gulf between seconds, between choices, and can't, and folds back into himself, into Rodney lying still and warm next to him.

[flyakate]

The noir!John(s) are lovely upon lovely. Mmmmm.


Rodney hadn't been thinking too clearly at the time, but still he knew...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

that kissing John Sheppard was the best, best, best idea of all possible best ideas, and he had been pretty out of it but not enough to miss the fact that John kissed him back.

[tex.livejournal.com]

Precious Grant! Oh, if ever there were a guy in need of a fierce hug. *sigh*

But damn, those two pics of Joe are so gorgeous. Caps from that movie just cry out for B&W don't they? You did a great job on all of them.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, if ever there were a guy in need of a fierce hug.

Ohhhh yis! I finished the series yesterday and I really wanted to track Hewlett down and give him the hug that Grant really, really needs. Oh, Grant :"> :">

Caps from that movie just cry out for B&W don't they?

They do. They also cry out for me to do illicit, dirty things.

[kimberweeme.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh! I must have a Grant icon! I must, I must! Because I just found that show and started watching it (last week) and was trying to explain to my friend about how much I love Grant and she didn't get it and now! Now there is a Grant icon, hurrah!

Oy, Joe is so very pretty! In that first picture, I swear he looks like he's waiting for someone to come and drag him out of his funk. (Can it be me?) Also, his hair in that first picture is amazing.

If it makes you feel any better, I accidentally fell asleep at 7 o'clock last night and didn't wake up until 7 o'clock this morning. And then I had to go to work. Sigh.

A sentence starter:

Rodney nearly always flies into a mad tizzy when John...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

and was trying to explain to my friend about how much I love Grant and she didn't get it

What's not to get?! HE IS SO LOVELY AND MESSED UP and he can come live with me and pet my dog and soup up my computer.


Rodney nearly always flies into a mad tizzy when John...

leaves the cap off the toothpaste, because if you can't control your toothpaste you can't control your life, and given the barely-controlled chaos of their existence, Rodney should not be surprised.

[ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com]

In honour of kimberweeme sentence starter which made me smile...

John's never heard Rodney use the word "tizzy" before and it makes him -

[aesc.livejournal.com]

laugh really, really hard and really, really loud, the kind that makes Rodney's face an uncomfortable hybrid of horrified and annoyed, and he can't decide what to say first, so he tries to say all three at once (Oh my God, Sheppard, please stop laughing, What are you -- what -- Sheppard!, it's toothpaste, it's sacred, and STOP LAUGHING), and John shakes his head, and snorts inelegantly.

[ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com]

Since I'm obviously not sleeping tonight, one more?

It's not until John finally gets off shift at 5am, and is dragging his feet in the direction of his quarters that he realises -

[aesc.livejournal.com]

for the first time ever, Rodney's there, in his bed, asleep.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Ahem.

A) Noir!John pretty. Yum.

and B) The sentence starter o' doom:

It was a dark and stormy night, and Rodney...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

There should totally be a fandom Bulwer-Lytton commentfest.

Hm. *considers this*

It was a dark and stormy night, and Rodney...

McKay crept upstairs in search of sustenance (for he had his laboratory in the basement, and such was his concentration that the grey evening had darkened into blackest night, and only lightning had startled him from his ruminations), moving cautiously lest he trip over the cat, whose grey and striped coat blended in with the tossing shadows of arthritic tree branches and the splattering of rain on the great windowpanes that looked out over the desolate moors where, barely visible, a lone figure toiled up the twisting mountain track.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_divya_/]

Oh, snippets of awesome. My favorite is the moving in together one. ::glee:: Ahem. Let's see if I can't work up a fragment.

Rodney's in his quarters, almost asleep at his laptop when he hears the door open and John says, "Hey, I've been looking all over for you. Look what I found." Rodney turns to look and...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

suddenly there's no time exhaustion and three days of world-ending insanity; he'd completely forgotten today's Supply Run day, not as big a deal now that they have the gate, but still, you never know when they're going to be cut off and he's out of his seat like the past three days haven't happened, gesturing frantically to a laughing John, who holds the Death-To-All-Diabetics-sized bag of mini Snickers just out of reach.

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

Oh my, noir!Sheppard is gorgeous. He really was unbearably attractive in that movie.

When John Sheppard met Grant...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I had to think about this for a while :D

When John Sheppard met Grant...

Jansky, he called Grant "Rodney," which sounds nothing like "Grant" and he'd followed Grant all the way back to his room, which was weird but Jack said it was okay but with one of his looks that means a lot of things Jack doesn't say, and he knew about chaotic forecast models but kept getting Grant's name wrong and Grant was pretty sure he'd remember if he had another name because he remembers everything, but he doesn't know what forgetting feels like.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

dklajfdklsjföadsf THE LAST PICTURE!11111 AND THE ONE BEFORE!!!!

::steals them::

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Also, if I may play:



Rodney had not--well, more precisely, he'd never let himself think about....

[smilla02.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! *waves madly at aesc* I want to play!

Sam says it's not Dean's fault, and he's probably right. Not that he'll ever admit...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

he had been completely hosed by the grinning bald guy back in town, and although they're out here half-naked and freezing and being chased by Cutterville's personal army of zombie guardian cheerleaders, Sam still has some pride.

*smoooooches you!!!*

[le-mot-mo.livejournal.com]

Eeeeep! Lovely lovely Grant. He is such a complete and utter dork. I just love how David portrays him. :o)

As for a sentence:

"Well," John tells Sam, one minute before the bomb is set to destroy Atlantis, "You know what McKay always says: when life gives you lemons--

[aesc.livejournal.com]

"--get in as much bitching as you can before anaphylaxis sets in?" Sam finishes, and John shrugs and says, "the one time he said that, he'd said 'make sure to kiss the one you love,'" which makes Sam snicker and ask him what John's doing here of all places, get through the gate to where you need to be, even as John says he's pretty sure Rodney was drunk.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Wow. I don't know what movies these caps of Joe are from but humina, he is so very beautiful. and your work on them, too.

And and and GRANTNESS. *kidanps him to feed him soup and crackers and chocolate*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I think they are from Farewell to Harry, which I should get just for the screencap potential alone.

And and and GRANTNESS.

How is he so adorable??? I can't quite reconcile myself to it... I find myself cooing ridiculously at the screen, and saying things like "oh Grant" at a pitch that makes my dog look up hopefully.

[grammarwoman]

If I may inquire, where did you get your eps of "Traders"? From what I've seen, Grant is the epitome of deliciousness, and YUM! I must needs acquire them! (Your caps? AWESOME.)

Hm...

Rodney looked up from his desk to see John attempting a casual lean against the doorway -- attempting and failing: "McKay, there's something I've got to tell you..."

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Check out cdntvonthedl :D (Grant is a fairly minor character, but he's so worth it. He first shows up in 1x03, as I discovered *g* Also, the screencaps above are hugely, hugely cleaned up but Grant is still very tasty *g*)

"McKay, there's something I've got to tell you..."

and in the first .05 seconds after John's hesitant words, Rodney's brain offers up a thousand different conclusions to that sentence: I'm straight, I'm morally opposed to Canadians, I'm bi but I have feelings for [insert name here, there are too many to count], I'm using you to get to Sam, I think this is a bad idea, I'm dying, I have an STD, I have an STD that gives you a painful and embarrassing rash, Jeannie's dead/injured/pregnant again/infected by replicators, I'm dead/injured/pregnant again/infected by replicators, did I mention I'm straight and I was experimenting?, they're out of the good jello and chocolate and coffee, and there are so many that they block out most of what John says, except for "... together?" and Rodney, shaken deep deep down, makes himself ask John to repeat the question.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

John knew he was in trouble when Rodney turned to him, all big eyes and fluttering fingertips, and said...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

"If it's not too much trouble, or too, you know completely fucking fucked up, I need your help with the corset because apparently having one's internal organs compressed is part of the ritual and they won't let me put on the sacred leather pants until... well, yes, you're military and good with knots, I'm sure, and I'd do it myself but I can't reach, so if you would be so kind?"


(Oh oh, and I think someone has re-upped all five seasons of Traders to the Canadian TV comm! I am downloading some of the ones I have missing.)

Because I couldn't resist

[everagaby.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the hair that did Rodney in, or the math, or the way that John wore his shirts (so very not regulation, a little too tight, and softsoftsoft), or any of those mundane things that should have. What did Rodney in...

Re: Because I couldn't resist

[aesc.livejournal.com]

was John's laugh--yes, his laugh--and you're damn right Rodney was never, ever in a million years and alternate universes going to admit that to anyone, but it was true, John's horrible hyena bray of a laugh that was so maddeningly imperfect that Rodney, the first time he heard it, fell right then and there.

[hellpenguin.livejournal.com]

John Sheppard's Secret!Kink is:

[aesc.livejournal.com]

talking dirty, which is weird because John doesn't like talking in general, but when Rodney can't talk because his mouth is wrapped around John's cock he pulls words from John's helpless mouth, instructions, pleas, prayers Rodney listens to because he does what John says: obscene slick of his tongue over his cockhead, nose buried in the crease of John's groin and Rodney's shoulders straining as he breathes in, fingers playing the patterns John asks for, pressing in, in, in.

[desolta22.livejournal.com]

The noir!Johns are beautiful.Your talent knows no bounds.Thanks for sharing.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Oh, it knows them very well :) Thank you, though!