Meta: John Sheppard: Johnny, Are You Queer, Boy? (Don't Ask, Don't Tell.)

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Is he or isn't he? What canon/subtextual evidence is there to support either side of the argument?

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Part two.

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Then there's the other side of it. John and guys. He says to Elizabeth in Inferno, before he goes back to the planet to mess with Rodney to flirt with Norina to... supervise, that he didn't notice what the leader of Norina's people was like because the leader was a guy.

Yet, he has chemistry with male characters. Rodney and Ronon, most notably to my mind, so I'm going to concentrate on those two.

I had a hard time seeing the John/Rodney in the early seasons, but not any longer. And now that I look back, there were little things, like in Hide and Seek, not only were John and Rodney playing with the personal shield like happy little kids, completely unselfconsciously and gleefully, but John later says to Teyla, "Don't tell McKay what I said about hockey not being a real man's sport ‘cause, uh, it's a Canadian thing; a little touchy about it." So he already likes Rodney and considers what the consequences of saying certain things might be. He might not notice guys, but he notices Rodney.

Then there's Ronon, my god. I know it can be argued that John and Ronon have a whole brothers-in-arms thing going, and it might be squicky from a chain of command point of view, but John really wanted Ronon to stay on Atlantis with them, so much so that he hounded Elizabeth about it. He wanted to help Ronon, almost to the degree where he wanted to rescue him, and was willing to be pushy about it. I saw John/Ronon way before I ever saw John/Rodney. If you can see that John and Chaya immediately clicked on some level (which I can), you can say the same thing about John and Ronon. They meet and just know each other, so to me, that's a nice basis for slash.

And once the back half of SGA S3 airs in the US, there's going to be more to talk about.

And that's my two cents.