huh. squee range.

[seperis]

Okay, so finally I sat down to sort through my bookmarks to read discussion on cesperanza's new fic--because I have done my homework. (Really. I mean, not all! But you know, some random amount.) So I deserve a reward. And chocolate milk.

Except--um. Is anyone discussing it *not* a member of academia or just really conversant with the themes of that? This is odd--but this is the first time in fandom I've felt my sheer lack of a degree in anything this strongly, because I am seriously *not able to follow* or really get into any discussion I've seen so far. But mostly, I just don't get what's being discussed. Okay, it's more the 'why' of what is being talked about. But it's also the feeling that I'm reading something in German but in this case, even throwing it through the translators isn't helping, as I have no translators and seriously. What are you people talking about?

It's very--I don't know. I wish for squee, but no place is squeeing on a level of "oh my god this is so awesome remember the part with the chair room" but mostly on the "did you notice the dissertation and footnotes of the x, y, z, it reminds me of that time back when I was teaching Very Horrifically Difficult Literature..." I am on a different squee range.

Er. That's kind of an exaggeration, but mostly not, because I'm serious, ,I am seeing in otherwise accessible ljs this entire--I don't know. It's like I'm missing some huge chunk of context. I keep having to fight down the urge to ask "WHY ARE WE DISCUSSING FOOTNOTE FORMAT" or something, because oh my God.

If I ask for an explanation of the squee range, is that going to show just dreadfully my terribly non-high-literature-inclinations so much that all will lose respect for me or something? I'm seriously kind of dazed by how inaccessible I'm finding a lot of these conversations.

Help? I'm kind of moving from dazed to the 'frustrated and annoyed' place and that can only end in staring resentfully at my laptop and eating way too much haagen-daz.

ETA: I now have people doing threads of squee and non-academic meta discussion. I have found nirvana. Yay!

Comments

[aurora]

And the dogtags; I originally thought they were talking about Rodney wearing John's, except the timeline was wrong for that, too, but argh. I am so overthinking.
Yes! I thought that when that scientist (Bender) mentioned Rodney wearing dogtags, they were John's (which would also explain Rodney blushing), but John only gave them to him before the wedding, which is after the first wave of people left. At first I thought that maybe Bender was one of the six diplomats from operation Snow White, but he wasn't and yes, confused.

(hope you don't mind me butting in)

[seperis.livejournal.com]

No no feel free! I was trying to decide if maybe the team had them already, you know? I'm kind of sitting in that place.

(there is no butting in during discussion! There is only discussion!)

(And still squeeing on the chair sex and politics and etc.)

[aurora]

I was trying to decide if maybe the team had them already, you know? I'm kind of sitting in that place.
Maybe? But what about flushed!Rodney? :D At first I thought that maybe he associated the tags with the dirty, dirty things John did to him when he gave Rodney a pair of his own tags, but that also doesn't make sense, because I got the impression that Rodney kissed him for the first time after Elizabeth's announcement. ??

(God, the multiple orgasm chair scene. I was making tiny whimpering noises, because Ces was feeding my John/Atlantis kink LIKE WHOA with that part).

And I'm having a great time reading the 'John/Teyla Sex: yea or nay?' discussion, because that part bothered me as well, but I can't put my finger on why exactly.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

*nod* I am enjoying it too, especially how it relates to the later scenes. did you see the anonymous above? I hadn't thought of that.

[aurora]

did you see the anonymous above? I hadn't thought of that.
I did, and yeah, me neither. But it kinda makes sense?

It's weird: this story is 55,000 words long and yet I feel it should have been much, much longer, because I'm stuck with tons of 'yeah, but what about this or that?' questions.

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

That confused me too. My current interpretation is that the dogtags mentioned in the beginning are Rodney's own, and that he's blushing because they suggests that he's abandoning the scientists in favour of the military contingent. I'm not saying that that's what they really mean, just that Rodney knows that that's what his colleges will think. In a way it is true too, because he doesn't belong with the other labrats anymore, he's team.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

That is kind of where I'm at, too.

[aurora]

Mmm, yes, I could settle for that interpretation. *g*