(It saddens me that my only SGA icon is this little typing Rodney doodle. I should fix this.)
This is in fact the BEST META. And I kind of want to spam it everywhere because WE NEED MORE GOOD ACE CHARACTERS. I am really, really done with our only options being aloof alien geniuses or comic relief. Sheppard is such a breath of fresh air. Yes, he's an emotionally constipated dork with stupid hair and a dubious moral compass, but dude, he's human. And the POV character. And this is so, so important.
As is the Team thing. I talked about that a little on Tumblr, but you know how crazy I am about the idea of friends as family. Stargate genuinely shaped my ideas about important relationships, and gave me hope that hey, maybe I wasn't cut out for romance, but perhaps there were other options? Maybe my life wouldn't be a hopeless void where everybody split off into discrete couples and left me Forever Alone(tm)? And maybe I could have a Team of my own. So I went out and did my best to make it happen. And it's worked out pretty well so far, actually. But watching Sheppard with his team gave me a lot of hope in ways I couldn't begin to articulate back when I first started watching, and now I know why it meant so much to me all along.
Anyway. FEELINGS. (Something Sheppard might have a hard time coping with, but I am not like him in every way, haha.) You did good with this one.
(Also can I link to this on my LJ? I've got a couple of ace buddies who might be intrigued.)
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This is in fact the BEST META. And I kind of want to spam it everywhere because WE NEED MORE GOOD ACE CHARACTERS. I am really, really done with our only options being aloof alien geniuses or comic relief. Sheppard is such a breath of fresh air. Yes, he's an emotionally constipated dork with stupid hair and a dubious moral compass, but dude, he's human. And the POV character. And this is so, so important.
As is the Team thing. I talked about that a little on Tumblr, but you know how crazy I am about the idea of friends as family. Stargate genuinely shaped my ideas about important relationships, and gave me hope that hey, maybe I wasn't cut out for romance, but perhaps there were other options? Maybe my life wouldn't be a hopeless void where everybody split off into discrete couples and left me Forever Alone(tm)? And maybe I could have a Team of my own. So I went out and did my best to make it happen. And it's worked out pretty well so far, actually. But watching Sheppard with his team gave me a lot of hope in ways I couldn't begin to articulate back when I first started watching, and now I know why it meant so much to me all along.
Anyway. FEELINGS. (Something Sheppard might have a hard time coping with, but I am not like him in every way, haha.) You did good with this one.
(Also can I link to this on my LJ? I've got a couple of ace buddies who might be intrigued.)