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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 15, 2009 21:19:39 GMT -5
I have a bit of a thing for fics set between Part 1 and 2 of "The Return" because of the whole question of what individual characters are doing is left open to speculation on details and events. Smilebackwards' Displacement has John Sheppard at the mountain, subject to the special good intentions of SG-1. Great characterizations, snappy although almost invisible plot, and more respect for the need for friendly humans than one tends to get from most of canon. Julia, still cranky about the whole end of the series thing
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 26, 2009 17:23:13 GMT -5
Somehow, I managed, back when I first read Scenes From a Lesser War (McShep, NC-17) and friended the writer, Amireal, not to recommend the story; bad thing, since I spent an hour last night trying to find it and ended up joining SGAstoryfinders to ask after it. It's a story which has two parallel story lines, one telling how they got together and came apart and the other how the repeal of DADT hit the restart button but caused emotional and work-related complications including a rainbow prom and Radek ending up with a broken rib. Rereading it after all this time (originally written in February 2006!) has done nothing to decrease my appreciation of this story; it's sharply observed and brilliantly constructed. Please do read. Julia, really, great stuff.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 26, 2009 22:57:09 GMT -5
Mirror Girl, Detox; Post The Seige/The Storm gen, PG or PG 13 for abuse of stimulant medication. If Rodney and Radek hadn't stolen Carson's stimulants, he might have given them valium instead of kicking them into a locked cell. Things get a little weird. Julia, this: Rodney, Radek, boredom, toungdepressors and superglue
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 7, 2009 23:28:29 GMT -5
I'm poking around on Sga Storyfinders since the SGA fandom is slow for new fics lately (I've found that SGA Big Bang and McShep Match do not produce my favorite writer's best work, for some reason). Today I found a wonderful fic from someone on my friend's list, dating from New Year's Day last year: Telesilla's Growing Day By Day which is primarily a team fic (John, Rodney, Teyla, and Ronon) with a little McShep running in the background. The team is exploring a secret (as in, not easily found on the ancient data base) lab when a rock-slide buries the gate. They have a few good breaks, but at the best of it they have to cross a continentand live off the land. How they cope with the trek takes good story-telling, on both the author's part and that of the team. Great stuff, highly recommended. Julia, now, if I could just get my fingers thawed.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 15, 2009 20:08:54 GMT -5
I'm poking around on Sga Storyfinders since the SGA fandom is slow for new fics lately (I've found that SGA Big Band and McShep Match do not produce my favorite writer's best work, for some reason). Today I found a wonderful fic from someone on my friend's list, dating from New Year's Day last year: Telesilla's Growing Day By Day which is primarily a team fic (John, Rodney, Teyla, and Ronon) with a little McShep running in the background. The team is exploring a secret (as in, not easily found on the ancient data base) lab when a rock-slide buries the gate. They have a few good breaks, but at the best of it they have to cross a continentand live off the land. How they cope with the trek takes good story-telling, on both the author's part and that of the team. Great stuff, highly recommended. Julia, now, if I could just get my fingers thawed. Thanks for reccing this, I'd read it a while back and then lost the link. It's a good one! Also? I too find that I tend to not get into most Big Bang stories. They often seem too meandering and/or too padded for my taste. I'm reading and my mind keeps saying "get to the point already".
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 17, 2009 3:04:43 GMT -5
Secret Santa fics are, on the other hand, almst always among the best of the year- they tend to be light on the angst, for one thing, and also people often tend to have the story run away with them (I just read a 34,000 word post "Enemy at the Gate" fic called "Silent Shepherd- quite good, too). Anyway: SGA Santa is displaying new stories every day from now until Christmas: go for it! Julia, yowza
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 2, 2010 21:55:36 GMT -5
I've been hanging around a lot at SGA Storyfinders lately, hoping to find some older gem of SGA fic I've missed; mostly I've been amazed at what some people want to reread (including a whole lot of fine OK no problem short fics and an awful lot of what I've already recommended here). Today, though, there was a nifty-keeno McShep PG-13ish AU, where Rodney is a professor hired as a temp while SamanthaCarter recovers from being hit by a car, and has a fourth-floor walk-up rented for him by the department in a building full of nosy senior citizens where a slacker guy runs a second hand store called Junk Cheap on the ground floor and does household repairs for pastry. Great Rodney voice, funny situations, and relaxed pace that fits the characters well. Julia, link goes to part one; second part linked at the bottom of the first.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 19, 2010 0:23:33 GMT -5
Hah. Sometimes checking SGA Storyfinders works; today I've gotten sucked in to The Physics of the Spin a SGA/Gilmore Girls (no, wait, don't walk away, really, it's a superior story, please, hear me out) crossover that starts when, well, things happen at random- and then Christopher had the same leukemia that killed his dad and Rory takes a blood test to be a donor and, well, things proceed from there. Let me just say that the part where Rory takes Vala to a Stars Hollow Town Meeting is some of the best writing I've read recently, and whereas it's not an absolutely perfect work, it's so much better than anything I've read lately that I'm more than willing to put up with the very minor and mostly matters of taste problems for the absolutely note-perfect characterization of everyone from Paris to Torren, and the great action sequences, including a couple of classic Friday dinners. Julia, really, read it, it's a gas (cross-posted on SG and Other threads)
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 22, 2010 15:54:53 GMT -5
I've been betaing, off and on, and sometimes feel insecure about recommending stories into which I've put time and work; however, Tesserae's Colorbilnd (John Shepperd/Cameron Mitchel, post-series, R) is so much superior to the general runof the just-completed SGA Flyboys chalenge that I'm secure in my recommendation. This is as much a character-sketch as a plotty story; John, Cam, and, in a short, vivid, and dialogue-light bit, Walter, all come through as distinct and identifiable humans. A '67 Fastback, pizza and heirloom china all play their part, as does the IOA's suspicion of the amazing ability of Atlantis' crew to get into trouble. Great fun, all told. Julia, short, sweet, and very much a story of manly men tm[/size]
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 26, 2010 13:39:48 GMT -5
This week's hot find via SGA Storyfinders is Drifter's Rebuilding Babel (R, McShep, although not very shippy and with the relationship stuff mostly in service to the plot, and not vice-versa). Rodney finally comes to after a mission gone wrong and has full receptive and productive aphasia: no words at all. The story details a fully in-universe and in-character working out of the way out of that worst-case scenario, with all major canon characters (Elizabeth and Carson era) fully and convincingly involved. It's an ancient device that gets Rodney to the place where he can put his genius to use, and Sheppard's team loyalty and intelligence which is instrumental in finding that solution. Character and plot-driven, science department and team heavy, lots of action, and when the shippy stuff kicks in it's fully justified and makes all kinds of sense: my kind of fic. Julia, nice way to start the day, so to speak.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 10, 2010 2:20:20 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 23, 2010 1:08:46 GMT -5
At absolute counter to my last rec, A Richer Dust Concealed (link goes to part 1, part 2 linked in that post) (R, McShep) by Mirabile Dictu is anything but a laugh-fest. John is lost, and Rodney and Radek andMiko are having to pull out all their genius-y stops to find him, while he, in turn, is on a journey through a blasted landscape somewhere between Shackleton's and The Road, except alone and without the possibility of allying himself to anyone on the impoverished and inhospitable land. Great piece of writing, which I'd thought I had recommended here the day it was first posted. Sorry for the delay. Julia, H/C in a big way.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 2, 2010 23:54:44 GMT -5
After Rodney picks up with Jennifer, John Sheppard tries a wide assortment of bad coping strategies. and if you don't expect too much from me by Sabinelagrande is a funny, funny look at heartbreak and how not to deal with it. McShep, PG, warnings for overdoing everything. Julia, and nobody listens to poor Carson, anyway.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 16, 2010 12:33:45 GMT -5
Another post-EatG how-it-might-go-down from Pir8fancier, Sheppard's Law of Martyrdom has Rodney bending over backward to be Jennifer's perfect fiance and John coping more or less well with being stuck on Earth, on Atlantis, with no constant Pegasus dirty tricks to shake out the kinks in group cohesion. And then the show tunes start... Julia, Pir8fancier is one of those authors whose name is sufficient recommendation...
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 23, 2010 12:03:15 GMT -5
So, Ronon's a well-trained soldier from a technologically advanced planet that's been travelling through the Stargate for a long time, right? So why, in canon, is he treated like an illiterate savage? Copperbadge explores why that's the case, how it might fall out that his intellectual skills are recognized and used by the Atlantis Expedition, and what change that would bring to him and those around him. My Home and Native Land (link goes to part 1 of 4, subsequent parts lined in text) PG, Ronon and Chuck friendship, speculation and betting pool re:McShep. Includes extensive recitations of poetry, to good effect. Julia, funny, but also touching in the way it recognizes a couple of Ronon's primary griefs.
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