If you haven't read it by now, what's your excuse?

[out_there]

I finally read Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose which is beautiful and amazing and should be read by everyone, because I doubt you need anything more than the most basic of basics to understand this story.

(I mean, um. Yeah. Atlantis was an alien city in another galaxy. The SGC is the military branch that was in charge. John was a hot pilot with an ability for maths. Rodney's an astrophysicist/electrical engineer, Zelenka was his 2IC in the labs, and Elizabeth was the diplomat in charge of the expedition. Honestly, the rest you can figure out from context within the story.)

Everyone reccing it to me seemed to focus on the "will tear your heart out" idea, which didn't happen for me. Instead, I found it... well, it's easier to quote the feedback I just left:

It's a story that is uplifting and amazing, that makes you thankful for the grace and beauty of life. It leaves you proud of being a human being, of being capable of feeling so deeply, trying so hard, living so fully.

I wish I could explain how marvellous this is. How it enthralled and ensourcelled me from the first paragraph, how even when things hurt Rodney there was always a warm, shining sunbeam of hope. How this said something so deeply true and honest about people, about what a person is capable of, about how we can adapt and live and be *grateful* for our successes and acknowledge what we learnt from our failures.

That was a fantastic read.

Comments

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Silly, I don't need an excuse.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*pokes you* Try it, though. I seriously doubt you need to be part of te fandom to enjoy that story (which I don't say... ever). It's, oh. It's lovely.

[soullux.livejournal.com]

I just want to hold it up as a perfect example of how to engage emotions without piling on the metaphors or wallowing in the angst. It could have been maudlin in the wrong hands, but it was, as you say, uplifting.

I actually stopped reading it for a while, about two thirds of the way through, because I just couldn't bear to get to the end and have no more of it to read!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

I actually stopped reading it for a while, about two thirds of the way through, because I just couldn't bear to get to the end and have no more of it to read!

*laughs* Yeah, I know that feeling. It's so good you want it to last as long as possible.

I just want to hold it up as a perfect example of how to engage emotions without piling on the metaphors or wallowing in the angst.

*nodnodnod* You're right. It's utterly touching, but it doesn't drift into meldrama (and the emotional resonance is stronger for it). Part of me wants to read it again and again, and then try to copy it because it's just that cool.

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to read it again and again, and then try to copy it because it's just that cool.

I want to write like that too. And part of me is determined to try, and another part doesn't want to ever post an SGA story ever again, because everything I try just seems so worthless in comparison!

Ah, the angst of writing! *g*