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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Oct 24, 2007 21:31:17 GMT -5
So, what is wrong with my head, as I was asked recently on Fandom Wank. Me, I think it's a combination of Atenelol and sleep deprivation, but obviously I am imperfect, as I've pimped Speranza's "Written By the Victors" twice on the main thread, and not here. The title, as one might expect, refers to history: to events as they unfold, to what is said after, and to the difference between historical research and archival study. It begins when the Atlantis expedition is ordered to fly Atlantis back to earth, leaving the Pegasus galaxy unprotected; the story unfolds through the wrangling voices of archival historians commenting on events we witness as they happen, and part of the fun is seeing how scholoarly observers are blinded by their assumptions, both personal and academic. It's a fic for a long rainy day, or for a series of nights with no good TV. Julia, and it may be the first fic I print out, ever.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 1, 2007 22:16:41 GMT -5
SGA Flashfiction has been running a "Supernatural" challenge for Hallowe'en, and today I read a fic which is wonderous enough to goose my neurotransmitters to "recommend" level. The term in the fandom is Shepwhump, and this is whump to end all whump: "Speaking for the Dead" has Sheppard kidnapped, tortured, and kept going by Sumner and others. Kriadydragon spins a tight, rhythmic, and supremely spooky PG genfic: community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/626883.html#cutid1Julia, good, really good.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 3, 2007 16:43:06 GMT -5
I'm just now watching "Miller's Crossing" but I've been reading fic for three days. Most of the stories concentrate on John Sheppard's climactic decission to do with the wraith, and its emotional repercussians; one of the best is Lady Cat's Coffee Klatch, where Sheppard can't let go of being the guard dog: ladycat777.livejournal.com/937407.htmlJulia, I would have done the same thing; obsessives are dangerous
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 29, 2007 23:42:44 GMT -5
Grade-A full fat Christmas Schmoop, McShep division: "Christmas at the Millers." by Fiareynne; zero angst, no bodily harm (well, the last line is "Didn't you used to have eyebrows?", but, you know, nobody gets eaten or paralysed, and this Christmas, that's a rare thing) and a whole lot of warm fuzzy. Julia, hey, even I need warm fuzzy at times Christmas at the Millers at Wraithbait.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 6, 2008 16:48:59 GMT -5
Argosy has a nice, romantic (sort of) humourous (way much) sibling-rivalry over the decade McShep and Jeannie/OMC story called Who Can Turn the World on With Her Smile wherein Jeannie comes to work at Atlantis and, uh, well, whackiness ensues, in all the best ways. PG, although no parents are harmed. Julia, quite thoroughly gigglesome
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 11, 2008 14:19:02 GMT -5
"One Leg at a time" by Mallory Klohn is one of those McShep fics that reminds the reader at every turn that, in relaxed moments, the language these two speak is comprised of insults and geek refrences and sophomoric jokes, and that's a good thingJulia, let's see, with it be Proboards or Comcast that folds up like a wet cardboard box this time? One Leg at a Time at Archive of Our Own
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 23, 2008 13:00:24 GMT -5
Poisontaster As a Tree Grows gen, G, "Quarantine" related. Katie Brown and just another life or death situation in the Pegasus Galaxy. The difference between doing what you can and pushing the river. Julia, a succinct and unusual look at what the botanists and other scientists must go through a lot.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 24, 2008 11:48:19 GMT -5
Tzzzz, A Little Bit Like Goldilocks, a Lot Like a Woody Allen Movie John Sheppard and Samantha Carter have a history, Rodney McKay is... displeased. This would be a perfect story except for one instance of the nonword "cum." Author says NC-17, but a very fluffy NC-17, het and slash, that many authors would call R. Julia, I love the helicopter bit best.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 31, 2008 1:45:37 GMT -5
Nymphaea1 is not a name I recognize, but 'When I'm 64" puts her firmly on my names to remember list. It's a rambling, episodic look, through Rodney's eyes, at two men who've been together, one way or another, for a long while, and the ways that a relationship shapes the people who make it up- not just theirs, but also the people around them R, I suppose, a very little sex and a whole lot of story, if not precisely plot. Julia, a very nice thing, indeed.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 31, 2008 13:07:22 GMT -5
This is me trying to get back to writing recs; this is me writing another McShep rec, because, sadly, that's the largest fraction of good SGA fic; the Sparky stuff is all too ofeten labored, there's decent OT4/teamfic but it's rare, and when you come right down to it, I prefer SGA gen but there's not a lot of that, either. SardonicSmiley has written an "Animate Atlantis" fic with Rodney as the recipient of Atlantis' obsessive devotion and everyone else suffering, one way or another, from her disapproval. Logical Solutions to Illogical Situations has Atlantis noticing Doctormeredithrodneymckay because he is necessary to her, and because he is not healthy; she tries to convince Carson, Beckett, and Sheppard to take better care of him, but it's an uphill battle, at best. Lovely writing, wonderful plot, and dandy view of a stubborn entity eventually getting her way. Julia, and not so shippy among the humans as it is between Atlantis and Rodney
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 31, 2008 16:45:56 GMT -5
Don't, I expect, need to sell this one: Ballad of the Lincoln Cafe by Sheafrotherdon, a new "Farm in Iowa" story, and if you're not already hooked on this, well, I suppose if AU fics or Kid fics just utterly turn you off, you might not like it, but: damn, I'm sorry for you! Julia, McShep, AU, family fic with parents who love each other=sex, but not as often as they'd like.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 3, 2008 12:33:30 GMT -5
Oh, sweet, sweet SGA gen, how I've missed having a good piece to recomment. Blueflamingo takes the fact that Lieutenant Cadman and Major Lorne are both apparently SGC long-timers, and cooks up a funny friend-fic where they save each other's asses from death, destruction, boredom in the infirmary, bad dates and purple space-cows. Getting to Know You is PG and damned funny, while still being very canon-like in the constant necessity for rescue. Julia, and both characters have beutifully distinctive voices
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 12, 2008 13:38:59 GMT -5
Rec in Progress: this needs quotes, because I can't say anything about it better than what the author, Devil Doll, has written in Do You Know What I Know McShep, PG. For instance, it starts like this (eta 1): "What was in that punch?" John groaned, flopping onto his back to blink up at the night sky, legs dangling over the edge of the balcony.
Rodney shifted around so he could lean against the railing. The hard metal bars were only a nominal back support, but it was better than none, even if it meant sacrificing the view. "The dregs of every alcoholic beverage we had," he said. What he really needed was a cushion for his ass; he'd be completely numb from the waist down in a few minutes. "It was napalm with Tang flavoring, basically."(Tang flavoring, so Rodney is sober.)"It was goooood," John slurred through a goofy smile. After a long discussion of how John knows they're dating and Rodney doesn't, which includes a hilarious digression about the Marines they play D&D with, we then have this bit of speculation having to do with quantum mirrors: John tapped his belly some more. "What if you were with me, and we had a threesome with the other you?" he said, finally.
Rodney was aghast. "Oh my God, yuck! That's…that's incest!"
"I'm pretty sure it isn't incest."
"It's still creepy, and no. You are not allowed to have a threesome with anyone in a parallel universe, ever, even if they are both me."
It's a short fic, and there's pretty much about 90% high test fluffy funny along those lines. Go, read, it's an anodyne for melancholy. Julia, still wanting to go all smitey on the author of Against Happiness
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 12, 2008 23:02:35 GMT -5
Rianni1, else Two Ladies of Quality, is writing in the SGA fandom now; her first story, One Night in the Gym is a snippet of life as it is probably lived in the Pegasus Galaxy. John Sheppard, working the free-weights one sleepless post midnight hour, is interrupted by two scientists; the sane one trying to keep the slightly whacky one from breaking any more laptops. See, Kavanagh, safe on Earth, has decided to accuse Rodney of plagiarizing one of Sam Carter's papers. The heavy bag gets a bit of a work-out. Zelenka's voice is plus plus perfect in this story, and a grand time is had by all. Julia, and Kavanagh should be having a burning in his ears.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 13, 2008 13:09:39 GMT -5
Have I recommended anything of Miss Porcupine's before? She writes SGA gen from a military perspective, and does it with wit and sympathy. Today we have a "Duo" infill, where the old SGC hands have modified the report codes for having your body snatched by various sentient entities: Altered States and the Marines may never recover from Cadman trying to take her new form for a little run. Julia, fun stuff, PG if you're a very protective parent
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