I have read a some fics where John is mean to Rodney, especially of the Post Trinity variety, but then again, I like fics, that many consider bad!fic, because sometimes I'm just in the mood for something that is overly dramatic and can make me cry.
I binged on woobie!Rodney post-Trinity fics awhile back and found the wildly OOC melodrama that was featured in that genre to be surprisingly satisfying. I'm actually in that bad!fic kind of zone right now Harry Potter-wise. I reread this epic, super melodramatic Harry/Draco fic the other day that reads like a B rated version of some of the best stuff HP fandom has to offer. The problem really is that the author isn't subtle at all. She tells instead of shows over and over again, brutally (and unashamedly) hitting the reader over the head with whatever truth she wishes to impart. Still, her stuff is v.v. engrossing and warranted a second read through on my part whereas a lot of high quality fic lands in the other pile of stuff I wouldn't want to return to because it's just too real, if you know what I mean.
To this day, I haven't read the SGA classic Freedom Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose because no matter how good it is, it's still death!fic (and not even the kind of death!fic where one or both of my OTP are ascended and therefore have a chance for a reunion in the foreseeable future) and I draw the line at that level of angst thankyouverymuch. ;)
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I binged on woobie!Rodney post-Trinity fics awhile back and found the wildly OOC melodrama that was featured in that genre to be surprisingly satisfying. I'm actually in that bad!fic kind of zone right now Harry Potter-wise. I reread this epic, super melodramatic Harry/Draco fic the other day that reads like a B rated version of some of the best stuff HP fandom has to offer. The problem really is that the author isn't subtle at all. She tells instead of shows over and over again, brutally (and unashamedly) hitting the reader over the head with whatever truth she wishes to impart. Still, her stuff is v.v. engrossing and warranted a second read through on my part whereas a lot of high quality fic lands in the other pile of stuff I wouldn't want to return to because it's just too real, if you know what I mean.
To this day, I haven't read the SGA classic Freedom Is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose because no matter how good it is, it's still death!fic (and not even the kind of death!fic where one or both of my OTP are ascended and therefore have a chance for a reunion in the foreseeable future) and I draw the line at that level of angst thankyouverymuch. ;)