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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Rating: G
Length: 1081
Creator Links: wneleh on AO3
Theme: Wings, AU: complete au: fusion, AU:complete au: historical, Unconventional format & style

Summary:
King Richard's name a tower of strength may be;
But still our heroes find they wish to lead
A life apart from kings (but not from wings).

Reccer's Notes: Wingfic! In the sense that Rodney makes John mechanical wings, and a cannon's involved. The joy of this story is that it's just over 1000 words of iambic pentameter blank verse and a fusion with Shakespeare's Richard III, where Rodney and John are in Richard's army as a new experimental... flying corps - well, John flies and Rodney's his tech support. Rodney gets cold feet about risking John just before the battle and is arrested and nearly beheaded, but thanks to the power of flight they live to fight or flight another day. It's a hilarious and brilliant tour de force and contains immortal lines such as: "Well, phras'ed thus, it does sound somewhat gross." Great stuff! 

Fanwork Links: Somewhere on Bosworth Field, 1485

(agh, third time lucky - managed to mistakenly post this to two other comms. Brain, WTF?)

Date: 2021-10-15 05:47 pm (UTC)
ride_4ever: (Fraser - grins)
From: [personal profile] ride_4ever
Ha! I was wondering why those other posts were like "uhm, no, nothing here".

TYK for this rec -- looks like an amazing fic. *scampers off to read*

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