SGA Fic: Rodney's Poetry Months
This story is something of a labour of love, and has had input from some very generous people.
It started with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bironic, who wrote Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney, based on these poems by Wallace Stevens. For reasons that are still not entirely clear, I decided it would be really fun to translate them into Latin. Except then I started thinking why would someone do that?. Someone who isn't me, I mean. And so the story below was born. I'm not sure if it's an expansion, a remix or a misuse of the original, but I had fun putting it together, and have learnt a lot along the way.
Huge thanks must go to:
bironic for writing the poems in the first place, and letting me play with them.
sepia_words who checked my grammar and made incredibly helpful suggestions for translation.
greyias who introduced me to the mysteries of Photoshop and then solved them for me.
donutsweeper who is always encouraging and stopped me drowning in commas.
All remaining deficiencies, howlers and logic-holes are my own.
Title: Rodney's Poetry Months
Author:jadesfire2808
Rating: G
Warnings: Only for gratuitous use of the Latin Language.
Spoilers: From The Tao of Rodney through to Lifeline.
Notes: Contains small images. Transliterations available by hovering over the pictures. Translations at the end.
The full set of 13 poems can be found here: Tresdecim Modi ut Rodneius Videri Posset
Summary: Someone's leaving Rodney notes. Now all he has to do is work out how to read them.
( Rodney's Poetry Months )
It started with
bironic, who wrote Thirteen Ways of Looking at Rodney, based on these poems by Wallace Stevens. For reasons that are still not entirely clear, I decided it would be really fun to translate them into Latin. Except then I started thinking why would someone do that?. Someone who isn't me, I mean. And so the story below was born. I'm not sure if it's an expansion, a remix or a misuse of the original, but I had fun putting it together, and have learnt a lot along the way.Huge thanks must go to:
bironic for writing the poems in the first place, and letting me play with them.sepia_words who checked my grammar and made incredibly helpful suggestions for translation.greyias who introduced me to the mysteries of Photoshop and then solved them for me.donutsweeper who is always encouraging and stopped me drowning in commas. All remaining deficiencies, howlers and logic-holes are my own.
Title: Rodney's Poetry Months
Author:
jadesfire2808Rating: G
Warnings: Only for gratuitous use of the Latin Language.
Spoilers: From The Tao of Rodney through to Lifeline.
Notes: Contains small images. Transliterations available by hovering over the pictures. Translations at the end.
The full set of 13 poems can be found here: Tresdecim Modi ut Rodneius Videri Posset
Summary: Someone's leaving Rodney notes. Now all he has to do is work out how to read them.
( Rodney's Poetry Months )
