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I got tagged by kuwdora! ( Book meme time. )

I do not so much tag justabi, rilestar, phnelt, revbiscuit, and lavilleperdue as I invite them to participate should the spirit move them.

I should probably not share this with internet, in retrospect.

So phnelt recced me this story ("The Roads Never Lead Where They're Supposed to Go" by eleveninches), in which John is a big ole tree-hugging botanist whose black mark was getting arrested at a WTO protest.

And the first thing I thought was, there should be an AU in which the team is an anti-globalization protest affinity group! Teyla's an ecofeminist, Ronon's a deep ecologist, Rodney is... a campus socialist? Something nerdy like that. And John is the guy who wears work gloves to the protest so he can lob the tear gas canisters back over the fence.

And then Rodney tenderly washes the pepper spray from John's eyes and they kiss. Except, they shouldn't really when they've just been exposed to pepper spray. There can be UST! UST and vinegar-soaked bandannas and train-hopping kids in black Carharrts. It would be kind of smelly and awesome. For me. And my personal cultural references.

(If I actually wrote this, and someone wanted to follow up with a neoconservative political AU, I would consider it complete justice. And, dear everyone: if we disagree about politics, I hope we can still be friends, because I disagree about politics with myself most days. But you have to admit, there's a certain cultural moment in time there.)

Why YES I'm still sick and kind of fuzzy and spent the day on the couch staring at my WiP! I was supposed to do homework, and also go do a thing, but 1) I'm sick /end whining and 2) it was a really nice day for staying put and reading.

And if anyone else out there likes AUs, phnelt and lavilleperdue left a massive SGA AU rec list in the comment thread yesterday. Some of them are pretty well-known, and some I hadn't heard of; there was not a single story on there that I didn't massively like.