SGA het?

[ratcreature]

I've been looking for John/Teyla fic, either shippy/UST or just friendship, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of it. Which surprised me. SGA is such a large fandom and it's not like John/Teyla is a wacky "way out there" pairing or something with minor characters, so I expected there to be a ton of ship fic available. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. I looked at the John/Teyla category in the memories of the sga_newsletter, checked the entries of the John/Teyla category tag in stargateficrec and even browsed Wraithbait, but there wasn't a lot. Of course I found some that I liked, for example I enjoyed most of tielan's John/Teyla fic, but compared to the gazillion Sheppard/McKay stories out there it seems seriously underrepresented. And it's not just that the slash side is more popular in general (with Sheppard/McKay being more popular than any number of other pairings combined in this fandom), for example it seems there's more John/Elizabeth too (a pairing which doesn't interest me as much).

Anyway, if someone had recs for good (or at least decent) John/Teyla or could point me to the archive places I've missed, I'd love to be pointed in the right direction.

Also, why isn't there more Cameron Mitchell fic of any type for SG-1?

Comments

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

And sometimes John doesn't even seem to *like* Rodney, but that has not deterred people. The fandom default is that a fair amount of screen time together = a fair amount of porn.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I enjoy reading John/Rodney, but Teyla and John getting together still doesn't seem far fetched to me. And looking at the memories in he newsletter even McKay/Beckett is more popular, which seriously kind of baffles me. But then while I don't *dislike* Rodney, the extent of the McKay love in general in SGA is something I don't quite get.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

*nods* Canonical physical attraction of one partner to the other is more than *most* big pairings ever get to work off of, really. So I don't think the answer lies in farfetchedness in itself. I mean, I love John/Teyla in part because it's not yet realized on the show; its subtextual nature makes it all the more pleasing to me. But they just don't have that far to go.

[ratcreature]

Sometimes when romance becomes explicit on screen it becomes also unfortunately cringe-worthy, and I definitely see the appeal of the pairing options remaining open. Though in general I'm not much of an unconventional pairing shipper. I mean, my favorite het pairing is Farscape's John/Aeryn and I didn't mind at all that they got together on the show. OTOH I would have been much happier if the X-Files had stuck with UST between Mulder and Scully, and not because I liked some other pairing in particular. I guess for me it depends a lot on how the romance is realized and whether what I like about their characters and dynamic gets twisted and diminished by the romance.