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i. Have just watched Bones. it was good. She stole his fries, so it must be love. :) Is there any fic about this? Brennan/Boothe, that is.

ii. Am entertaining self by imagining various AU scenarios for SGA. So far, I've got...

Academics in the Field of English (which, to be honest, would probably not amuse anyone but me, but then again it's amusing me a lot *g*)
Rodney is a brilliant linguist, is very hard to work with and but is great for RAE because he's developed a whole new theory of language and has loads of publications. The students hate him because he keeps saying things like "What do you mean you can't learn 21 different languages, are you retarded or something?". John, on the other hand, is from the field of literary studies (the soft sciences *g*), and is a Romanticist, specialising in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Rodney keeps making jokes about drowning and free love, and John responds by quoting horrific gothic romances. (Oh and Elizabeth is Head of School, and a post-colonialist. Teyla is a visiting scholar, specialising in her dying, tiny language and Ronon does physical theatre. Cadman, of course, does post-feminist theory. *g*) Smut ensues.

Hogwarts Teachers
Rodney (Ravenclaw) teaches Transfiguration after McGonagall and speaks loudly about the Gryffindor bias in the school and how nobody ever learns anything. John (Slytherin) comes to teach DADA. Nobody trusts him because he's the first Slytherin to hold a post since Snape. Except Rodney, of course, who only cares about whether the Quidditch practice John teaches in his spare time bothers his classes. Since, for some reason, they always seem to take place just outside Professor McKay's classroom. There might be housepoints for how many funny faces you can make while hanging upside down from your broom and giving Rodney palpitations. Smut ensues.

Yes, my mind is a sick, sick place, why do you ask?

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Yes to both, but especially the Hogwarts one because: Elizabeth as Dumbledore! Hooray!

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I died laughing while reading the first scenario. (Or I would have if I wasn't sitting at the reference desk right now.) Are you amenable to bribes? Because, seriously, that was hysterical and I'd love to read it.

I don't think John is Slytherin, he isn't nearly ambitious enough. Instead his foolhardiness puts him straight to the Gryffindor camp. But Rodney is such a Ravenclaw it isn't even funny :-)

I could weep with happiness whenever I see Sheppard pegged as a Slytherin. On the other hand, I can only see Rodney as a Gryffindor.

I swear there is no AU too cracked out to work in SGA.

BONES!!! You watched BONES! *squees* So much love for Booth/Brennan. Though I very much dislike Hodges/Angela. I haven't seen last night's episode yet though so please don't spoil me! Plan to watch tonight...

There is a fandom and there is fanfic...um, but I don't have any recs. There may be good fic out there now, but I gave up fairly early on because I realized how very, very spoiled HP has made me. *twitches*

The biggest comm I know of is

206_bones.

(PS I agree with you, that it's about values rather than actual traits - doesn't JKR say as much somewhere?)

No way John's a Slytherin - he's not interested enough in the machinations of power, of being the puppetmaster, the guy behind the throne. He's all bluster and *action* I do actually think he's all about courage - about doing the right thing and running off like a good little soldier, without necessarily thinking through the consequences. Caldwell in Sateda - now there's a guy who's thinking through the consequences and weighing the value of risk and loyalty. John? He's just - I'm getting my friend back and I'm doing the right thing by him no matter what. Just watch me. He's very Harry Potter in a supremely twisted way.

I love both of these but I adore the Hogwarts one more for one major reason. You didn't put Rodney in Slytherin. It seems that most of the people I come across insist that Rodney is an obvious unquestionable Slytherin.

Personally, I feel that Rodney's character arc in SGA is him adding Gryffindor and Hufflepuff traits to the Ravenclaw traits he already has. The Return I being the best example with Rodney missing being on a gate team and not enjoying being at Area 51.

It amuses me, too, even though I don't even know the cast of SGA, never mind any of the story. ;)

Okay, I see the Hogwarts train is just running away with itself, but I'm so putting in a second for the English academics request. It would amuse me to no end, and I will throw wine and chocolate and good-looking men at you if you write it.

Rodney keeps making jokes about drowning and free love, and John responds by quoting horrific gothic romances

::dies of the laughing:::
Also, I don't know if, despite the lurking, I've ever actually posted here before, so, um, hi!