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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 4, 2007 11:45:35 GMT -5
I realized I haven't recommended very much plain old McShep here; if you want to read it, there's an LJ community full of it, and you can go binge by author ot topic, all of it's tagged. And then there's "Bitter in E Flat" by Enviropony, for the new SGA Flashfic challenge "Scars" where the core of Rodney McKay's fucked up ness, which is the secret to his popularity, gets exposed and the dust shaken out and a little of it is finally outgrown: community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/544635.html#cutid1G, post "McKay and Mrs Miller" and piquant. Julia, good gen is a jem above price
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 6, 2007 23:13:28 GMT -5
Skoosiepants is a name to conjure with, although, until today, I hadn't read any of her fic because she writes mostly cracked-out AUs. This was a grave mistake. Once upon a furry octopus is... a cracked out in-canon... thing... with Ernie. The daft follow-up And they lived happily ever after where Ernie further modifies reality to his (her) personal taste. “And what sort of fantasy land do you live in where Ernie’s the responsible one?” Temp Ama McKay Sheppard brings thing to a sort of end. Just go read. Really. Unless you absolutely can't stand kidfic, or hate nonporny (mostly) McShep. Julia, but swallow quickly, keyboards are a hassle to replace.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 18, 2007 14:16:15 GMT -5
Sophonisba's Bone Deep is a dandy exploration of the ways in which ontogeny is not, as Rodney says, destiny. SGA up to early s2, Teyla, Shepperd, McKay, Ford, and escaping the trap of personal history. Julia, so very well written
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 4, 2007 12:26:46 GMT -5
Comment fic on Amireal's three day challenge thread is a little hard to navigate, but if anyone else was as eager to see what follows "First Impressions" in ltlj's Retrograde verse, recommended above, here's the answer: Major Evan Lorne gets an idea of what serving as Sheppard's exec is going to be like, in Lorne in Atlantis. Julia, finding out that X is in more words than one would think before the X key starts sticking
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 11, 2007 23:49:27 GMT -5
I've been looking for this for three days, and I remember so little of it that I have to read it again before I rec it. I thought I had recced it before. (After reading) So, Rodney shows up at John's door three years after John leaves Atlantis for two weeks and never comes back. John's living- keeping his house spotless, running on the beach, and not much else- on the Mexican coast, and why he's there, what Rodney's come after him, and what they want and have done, unfold in a relaxed and emotionally convincing story. S/M, R+, and sort of AU from, say, mid season 2? seperis.illuminatedtext.com/sga/somethingmore.htmlJulia, so glad I found it through that messy list of personal archives, since the next step was going through Wraithbait.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 23, 2007 15:29:12 GMT -5
Lovely, lovely bit of McKay gen from the SGA Flashfic Backstory challenge "Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon" By 2ndary Author. community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/569493.html#cutid1Why Rodney McKay is not afraid of the dark. Julia, and must go find the title to edit in, sorry, brain dead today
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Post by Lola m on Jul 3, 2007 11:59:35 GMT -5
I don't generally read Stargate fic and I don't much keep up with this author (she writes some pretty serious NC-17 Spander and Sentinel stuff that I don't follow) but Nan used to rec her so I check her LJ once in a blue moon. She's got an SG1/BtVS crossover where Willow apparently opens up a portal in the fight against Glory and it crosses paths with a wormhole and Willow, Xander, Spike, Jack, Teal'c, Sam and Daniel wind up on the same planet but in a slightly alternate universe from either of theirs. So far no sex and no pairings. It's up to 10 chapters, she's posting once a week. It's got some fairly interesting observations about Xander. Jack can't quite figure him out. The first nine chapters can be found here: lit-gal.livejournal.com/tag/magical+cagechapter 10 is here: lit-gal.livejournal.com/142572.html#cutid1Funny how much trouble people who fight demons have accepting aliens and vice versa. Clicking on the link above for the first nine chapters now brings you to all the chapters, up to the conclusion. A nice, action-packed, slightly AU, no-real-pairings, fic. I found it intriguing that the story is primarily presented from Jack's viewpoint, yet focuses on the BtVS gang. So, we really get to see what Jack thinks about Xander and Spike and Willow. Good read! Thanks for the link, Sue.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 7, 2007 12:31:36 GMT -5
More of the Backstory challenge at SGA Flashfic. Permafrost, by Liondragon: Rodney in Siberia, trying to break the Russians of serving lemon with caviar. Julia, a lovely little thing, of which I am too braindead to write a properly effusive rec
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 10, 2007 12:31:49 GMT -5
So, over the past few years, my son and I have had a series of conversations about what it would be like to have a full-body adult clone for me, without all the damage done by 1950's medical practice and frequent high-velocity collisions with the planet. Unidentified, by Fiercelydreamed works the changes on a sort of converse question about Rodney McKay: what would he be like if Physics hadn't been the only thing that hadn't dissappointed him? This is AU, earth based, with John, Rodney, and Carson first thrown together as roommates at Caltech, and the concept at its core is from the documentary "Unidentified White Male." Just about in the middle of the story, this line encapsulates what he wasn't, before he mysteriously develops retrograde amnesia: I just got an hour long entomology lesson from someone in a princess costume -- seriously, there were Latin names and everything. That was either the most amazing or the most surreal experience I've had -- well, that I can remember, anyway -- only I think we should be worried that my niece is going to hit puberty and use cockroaches to take over the world.I don't rec a lot of McShep fic, compared to how much of it there is, because the non-AU stuff has a stultifying sameness, mostly due to the need to work around DA;DT and accomodate the death-defying aspects of canon. Yin and Ladycat777 and Bead and Tessarae and Sheafrotherdon and many others write great AUs and in-canon McShep, and you should read them all, but the ones which stand out, which say something sharp and novel about the characters, those are the ones I want to point out and say, see, see, nobody has done quite this thing before. Which reminds me, Bead has a dandy story called the Checkmate verse which I will be recommending, too. ETA Six months later: Yeah, it's as good as I remembered. If you're looking for something close to perfection, this is a good story to choose.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 21, 2007 22:07:38 GMT -5
So, even if you're a Lt. Col. with security clearance next to God, getting Ronon Dex past the TSA inspectors at the Denver Airport is probably going to leave you driving a Dodge Caravan to Washington DC, hitting every Waffle House along the way. Minervacat: 844,739 Ways to Eat a Hamburger PG-13 for overindulgence and bad driving. Utterly daffy, hilarious, and not a responsible thought behind it. (And John tries to explain the infield fly rule, while drunk, to a Ronon who wonders why the batters who strike out are still alive the next inning). Julia, do not read while eating. Take my word for it.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 4, 2007 11:23:15 GMT -5
Ladycat777 writes magically well, no matter what she's writing; this piece is G, maybe PG for some pain and danger, gen, for the "Cake or Death" challenge at sga flashfic. "Showing" and since death is cheated, cake: community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/587949.html?style=mineJulia, and since my recommendation juice is low, you have to know that this is excellant
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 27, 2007 11:46:02 GMT -5
I've just skipped through this, because I have an aversion to apocafic, but I found it from a recommendation from one of the best writers on my flist, Tesserae, and what I read was strongly characterized and well plotted. At the Hour When We Are Trembling: the Wraith have come to Earth and Atlantis must send in the experts. Long, plotty, eventually John Sheppard/Daniel Jackson, and with enough wit and art for anyone who didn't read On The Beach too young, after being traumatized by what the Army thought appropriate to tell grade-school kids during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Julia, the climax especially is handled with a great deal of ironic wit
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 5, 2007 15:07:05 GMT -5
Cesperanza has a new novella length story, Written by the Victors, which I have not finished. Which doesn't matter, because it's Cesperanza, and everything she has ever written is of the finest kind, and unless you're entirely allergic to SGA or slash, you should do yourself a favor and read it. Julia, honest, go read it now, otherwise you're going to stay up all night!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 6, 2007 23:59:54 GMT -5
Auburn (lj user auburnnothenna) is a dandy writer, capable of writing strong plots with totally true to canon characters; she writes het, gen, and slash, and unusual pairings, and of late I've come to appreciate that. "When there's nothing left to burn" is John Sheppard/Vala MalDoran, and it's a grand thing, in its way, told in hints and discontinuous flashes back and forward. It is not, alas, a story which people who are not familiar with SG-1 and SGA canon will be able to fully appreciate- much prior plot is alluded to. Which is too bad for the non Stargate fan, because there is much richness in the allusions. Julia, which, strangley enough, is the name of her website: Allusions
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 8, 2007 11:06:29 GMT -5
Cesperanza/Speranza/aka, early on, as Francesca, This post is a reminder that her website is near the bottom of the messy link dump on page 4 of "Archives and LJ Communities." Have you read MVP yet? Because if you've ever been tempted to read someone else's personel file, Rodney's here to tell you there are consequences. (NC17, in but it's but mostly a long plotty relationship w/adventure fic). Julia, and apparently I just walked off and left the iMac on last night, because when I touched the keyboard the 'puter woke up and there that story was; this is testimony to how tired I was, and not to the story. The fact I finished reading before I did anything else, that's testimony to the story.
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