#sga: vegas

[scifidancer]

#stargate atlantis #john sheppard #sga: vegas

[hero-in-waiting]

so like. a lot of the time I don't give a flying fuck who's on top or whose on bottom in a fic bc like, it literally makes ZERO difference.

but vegas rodney??

VEGAS RODNEY???

he expects people to listen and obey and I'm not mad about it

#tv: sga #sga: vegas #just me #with some late night ramblings and thoughts

[teylasbantos]

STARGATE ATLANTIS 5x19 VEGAS

#stargateedit #stargate #stargate atlantis #sga #sgaedit #john sheppard #scifiedit #sga 5x19 #sga vegas #*edits

[spockvarietyhour]

RIP to Star Trek: The Experience "Vegas"

#this was a line added by Picardo too #Stargate Atlantis #SGA #Vegas #Vegas Episode #Star Trek The Experience #Rodney McKay #Richard Woolsey #Radek Zelenka #Star Trek #sgaedit #stargateedit #syfysource #tvedit #scifiedit #GIF #my gifs #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch #Hide and Queue

[sheppardsmckay]

I’ve finally finished the incredible show that is Stargate Atlantis and I. Have. Thoughts.

I watched Vegas and Enemy at the Gates together (on the advice of my sga leader @lightthewaybackhome) and I’m so happy I did.

So Vegas feels like a different show entirely, from the filming to the characters. Sheppard does not seem like Sheppard nor does anyone else. They’re all darker, more broken versions. My heart was just broken the whole time, but I didn’t cry until I saw Rodney though. This is the Rodney without his Sheppard to guide him and help him. This is the Rodney who lets Keller pass him by. This is the Rodney that lets Sheppard go alone. This is Rodney without a Sheppard that lit up Atlantis (this is honestly worse than last man but it’s a good parallel).

This is the Sheppard that goes alone on yet another suicide mission because he’s lost everything anyway…and then he dies. While Johnny Cash’s “Solitary Man” plays. Because that’s who Sheppard is, not the man in black saving the world with his people, but the solitary man who is alone without a home and no chance to be healed. And yet still he sacrifices himself and is brave and dies saving the world. Sheppard becomes the action hero at the end of the movie that goes out guns blazing and, while it’s usually cool to see, this one just breaks our hearts.

And then we move to the finale and…oh! Sheppard is Sheppard again, and Rodney is Rodney and everyone is okay.

And we see the parallels between the Vegas world and ours throughout the episode. Sheppard about to go on a suicide mission stops right at the last moment because Rodney’s voice breaks through the radio. The team is about to die blowing up the hive ship but stops because Atlantis is there in time to save them. Atlantis is lit up because of Sheppard. And then we see them all at the end. They’re happy, and alive and not broken.

And even though they aren’t fully healed, cause who ever is in this life, they’re on the path to healing. There’s hope, there’s light that has broken through the darkness (the way the show ends with the light piercing through the clouds is so beautiful in a literal and metaphorical sense like I’m sobbing).

There’s a couple lines from songs that my Sheppard told me about that is forever linked with SGA now. Ghosts That We Knew has a beautiful line, “So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light”. Throughout the show there’s so much darkness and pain, but we stick through it with the team because there’s hope that it’ll be okay. There’s hope because John is there, because they’re all there right where they should be. It’s a beautiful metaphor for life.

And then there’s a song called Hospital for Souls. It’s mainly a Sheppard song, as he lets himself burn for his family, but it’s also how Atlantis is a hospital for all the broken souls and brings them together. It’s why Sam didn’t stay there long and Woolsey came on board. It’s why Ronon says at the end that he is home. It’s why Teyla chooses to stay and raise her son in Atlantis instead of her home world. Why Rodney waits 48000 years for Sheppard and why Sheppard realizes finally that he doesn’t have to die to be redeemed, that living and healing is possible for even him.

It’s been a wonderful journey watching this show, it’s changed me, helped me grow and made me realize that healing is possible for even me. That a family is what you make it and they can be your hospital for your soul no matter how weary, broken or hurt.

I just love this show. I’m immediately gonna start rewatching it from the beginning because this. This is my family, my home. I’ve found myself in the darkness of Sheppard and the outlierness of Rodney. In the fierce love of Ronon and sisterly bond of Teyla.

I’m ever so grateful my friend got me to watch this, so happy that I went through the darkness into the light with my team, through tears and shouts of joy. I always said Supernatural would be the only show with this kind of life-changing, life-saving impact. But Stargate Atlantis now holds that honor too, this little, cheesy, ridiculously funny and terribly sad series has changed my life, helped me be the person I wanted to be for so many years but always struggled with (yeah I’m louder, complain more and am maybe a bit more annoying but gosh it’s more fun) and just generally helped me with so many endless things. And I’ve found some great friends and got closer to one of my best friends, aka my Sheppard lol.

Anyway, all this to say that this show is beautiful and incredible and please do yourself the honor of watching it but definitely bring tissues. Don’t worry too much about why they wear sneakers for like two seasons or their military tactics are off, but just enjoy the friendship, the humor, and how wonderful it shows that it doesn’t matter how messed up you are. How dark you’ve gotten or how many pieces of your soul you’ve sacrificed for others. You can be redeemed and healed and made whole. You can find people who love you despite your flaws and shortcomings. And you can find the light no matter how dark the world has become. You too can be home.

#sga #stargate atlantis #enemy at the gate #vegas #hospital for souls #ranting #john sheppard #rodney mckay #teyla #ronon #my post #sga s5 #mumford and sons #bring me the horizon #tv #fave shows #thank you to my Sheppard friend…for everything #home #Atlantis #Atlantis team

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

SGA + Terry Pratchett

Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.

― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

Thanks @colonelshepparrrrd for sending me the quote and for helping choose the caps.

#stargate atlantis #sga #stargate #terry pratchett #john sheppard #joe flanigan #chuck #going postal #incorrect sga #midway #vegas #discworld

[johnsheppard-assshaker]

#sga #stargate Atlantis #mcshep #stargate #Rodney McKay #John Sheppard #remnants and Vegas are also bangers but the list ends there #except search and rescue she can stay

[dailystargatebooty]

#stargate atlantis #sga #stargate #spike #neil jackson #nice butt indeed #vegas

[twotales]

I've thought long and hard about Vegas!Rodney's wedding ring and considering his disposition I'm going to say he's married to Sam but he's cheating on her with Jennifer which I think could explain that random scene

#listen #i want to be wrong #but I cant help how right it feels #sga #stargate atlantis #rodney mckay #vegas!rodney

[audioletter]

Day Three: Skillful Dirtbag!Lorne (This was borne from a conversation on Discord with @trainofcommand that they no doubt don't remember - but this is dedicated to them. Enjoy!)

Evan was enjoying this way too much. The cop - Sheppard, he'd introduced himself as - and the dude in the corner who remained nameless getting more and more frustrated with each question that remained unanswered.

I mean, Evan thought, inwardly smirking, why did these fuckers deserve answers anyway?

"This isn't your first time in here, Lorne. Just spill why you were hanging around the building and we may let off with a light moment with the fellas at county." Sheppard was pissed, spreading his hands across the steel table and almost growling.

In another world, Evan would find it hot - hell, he did find it hot, but repressed, stubble-ravaged men were always worth a good time - and he smiles, bright like a diamond towards the dude in the corner.

"He looks like a Man in Black, he'd probably know."

"You were in a secured area, Mr. Lorne. Caught on the cameras trying to break into a restricted facility. That's a federal offence." The Man in Black spoke, moving forward from the wall and into the light. He's not an ugly man but not a hugely handsome one either, but he's got a gravitas about him that even Evan can't deny as being attractive.

Evan laughs. "My, my, two hot men interrogating me? What did I do to deserve such a wonderful Saturday night? This is better than sucking some dude off in an alley - which, I might add, is something I do skilfully."

"And we needed that information, why?" sighed Sheppard, moving back from the table to begin pacing. Got him now, Evan thinks, and he rolls his back into the uncomfortable chair.

"This would be kinkier with handcuffs, guys."

"Answer the questions and I'm sure we can assure you're someone's bitch in county."

"Now, now, Mysterious Man," Evan tsked, wide-eyed and faux shocked, "is that anyway for a government man to speak?"

"Answer the fucking question!" The bang on the table from Sheppard's hands doesn't even cause Evan to shrink. This ain't my first rodeo, and he leans even further back into the chair.

"What are you guys hiding in that place, anyway?"

"Need to know."

"I need to know, so -" Evan spread his hands in a shrug. "go ahead and I might tell you who hired me to go sniffin'."

"This is fruitless, Sheppard," the Man in Black sighed, visibly frustrated finally and Evan feels a spike of nasty glee. "Just - he's good, real good, but I don't know about sending him through."

"He's a fucking scumbag of a criminal," Sheppard sneers, pacing resuming. "Do you want that on your -"

"Need to know, Sheppard, and he hasn't earned it yet."

Ah, so there was something hinky about that place, Evan thinks, pondering, churning - something that could pay big if he played his cards right, and for once, he smiles at a cop genuinely.

"I'll tell you what. I'll fuck you if you fuck me, capisce? Gimme what I want if I give you what, tit for tat and all that -" he waves his hands - "bullshit".

Sheppard and the Man in Black exchange looks. "He is skilled in…well, he'd be a good way of infiltrating some of our more frustrating areas," the Man in Black hedges.

Sheppard smiles, and Evan feels a shock of something at the bared teeth. "Let's hope you're ready, princess."

"Oh, I am, Detective Sheppard. I'm always ready."

#audiolettertober fic #stargate atlantis #evan lorne #sga vegas #vegasverse #dirtbag!lorne is so fun to write #(I'm StrangerClegane ana on the server btw LMAO awkward tagging a person out of the blue hiiiiiiii) #and yes i listened to sisters of mercy while writing

[scifidancer]

Some time ago I shared a post about the SGA episode VEGAS on Instagram. Neil Jackson, who played that wraith commented it.

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I love it, when any of the cast make comments below my posts and tells about filming scenes etc.! ❤️

#stargate atlantis #sga: vegas #sga season 5 #alternate universe #wraith #wraith on earth #neil jackson #When a cast member comments your posts #love it #scifidancer screen caps

[chaos-monkeyy]

Self-promoting a couple older stargate fics today because @trainofcommand made me some stellar (🥁) collage cover art for them recently and I'm 😍😍😍

First up: Sweet dreams (are made of this)

Contains: Vegas Todd x Sheppard, stoned sex, and bonus weird melancholy romance-of-sorts. One of my favourite own-fics.

“How long would it take you to fly home from here?” John found himself asking hoarsely, staring up at the starlit sky again. He could tell that Todd was, too. “Like… if you could fix the ship you crashed in.” 

“Without a hive ship and hyperdrive? Even if it were possible, that would be a journey well beyond your comprehension,” Todd answered, his voice distant and still sex-rough. “And beyond even my lifespan.” 

John cocked his head. “Just how old are you anyway? Hundreds of years?” 

“Hundreds?” Todd laughed softly at that and shifted, his attention drifting back from wherever it had been and his fingers resuming their deliberately meandering trails over John’s sweaty skin. “No, Sheppard. I have lived for tens of thousands of your Earth years… with thousands more yet to come.” 

John blinked, trying to wrap his head around the sheer, impossible scale of what Todd had just said— not an easy task, particularly not with with his mind still fuzzy from weed and the aftermath of orgasm and that burst of pure life from Todd— and Todd was still talking. 

“I can extend a human life far beyond anything you’ve ever imagined,” the Wraith continued, a soft, almost dreamy quality touching the rumble of his voice. “I will not be trapped here on this little planet forever… and when I escape… 

“I can give you the stars, John Sheppard.” Todd hummed again, a now-familiar sound that never failed to send a weird, heady combination of threat and want shivering through John’s core. “If you want them.” 

#stargate atlantis #john sheppard #todd the wraith #johntodd #sga vegas #chaosfic #ana's art #smut

[teylasbantos]

Nice hand, huh? Got me again! It's almost like you can read minds, huh?

STARGATE ATLANTIS 5x19 Vegas

#stargateedit #stargate #stargate atlantis #sga #sgaedit #sga vegas #stargatesource #scifiedit #sga 5x19 #tvedit #steve schirripa #frank vincent #*edits

[spockvarietyhour]

You've never been married. The only thing you own is a car. You have $2,363 in the bank and are $13,000 in debt, not counting off-the-books gambling losses to a guy named Mikey. What else? You finally passed your detective exam after four years and two failed attempts and now barely scrape by on quarterly performance reviews. Occasionally, you solve a case. But, unfortunately, the charges don't always stick due to the means in which the evidence was collected. You don't have a partner, because no one can stand working with you.

Am I getting this right?

Stargate Atlantis "Vegas"

#Stargate Atlantis #SGA #Vegas #Vegas (episode) #John Sheppard #Rodney McKay #sgaedit #stargateedit #GIF #my gifs #syfysource #tvedit #scifiedit #alt sheppard #vegas sheppard #vegas rodney #alt rodney #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch #Hide and Queue

[queen-x-ishtar]

Kavan Smith playing a small time criminal in Smallville has big Vegas Dirtbag Lorne energy. For @trainofcommand - I hope you’re inspired! 😏😏

#Kavan Smith #Evan Lorne #Dirtbag!Lorne #Vegas Dirtbag Lorne #i love wholesome lorne but also i love total dirtbag lorne #sga vegas #stargate atlantis #atlantis #smallville #smallville s01e13

[carsonsweebabyturtles]

S05E19 Vegas

Just some really nice dark caps from Vegas. Normally I get quite exasperated at how dark the lighting sometimes gets on SGA but it was just perfect here.

#Stargate Atlantis #sga #stargate #John Sheppard #Rodney McKay #joe flanigan #david hewlett #mcshep #todd the wraith #christopher heyerdahl #vegas #to think that i hated this episode first time around #caps by me