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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 3, 2010 20:35:50 GMT -5
In Strange New World, Rodney's vituperative divorce from Jennifer sends a new medical officer to Atlantis, setting off a cascade of whacky and terribly familiar new scientists and military personnel, finally resulting in the solution to a mystery from the eariest days of the Stargateverse. R, by her meassure, for mentions of gay sex and STDs; in my mensuration, about PG-15. Juia, now: should I write a rec for the other half of the crossover, since getting there is half the fun.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 9, 2010 15:31:24 GMT -5
Oh, hey, I've got a rec to make once I write this blurble. SGA Recs at Archive of our Own; this list is by date newest-first, and is also searchable by author and tag if you poke it right. If you choose the thumbtab at the top of the page that says "fandoms" you get a list of all fandoms with fic on the archive. Julia, new stories, old stories newly archived.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 8, 2010 19:26:53 GMT -5
So, Rodney's at a conference on Earth, and it's going about as well as these things usually do. When it looks like half, or at least a quarter of the planet is going to blow up, a bossy redhead with some interesting assets comes to help him bull his way through, and, well, that's the story, innit? Displacement (The Longest Three Day Week) SGA/Whoniverse, Rodney/Donna and such a story. Julia, great thing on a Saturday afternoon.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on May 24, 2010 0:46:22 GMT -5
That story where...: possibly the most useful list ever, of descriptions compiled from the descriptions of the most-sought stories on SGS fic finders. If there's something niggling at the back of your mind, that you read and forgot to rec here so you could find it again (oh, argh, that reminds me... oh, well, in the morning) this list is the first place to start. Julia, and it's funny, too. ETA: only, if you do find that fic you forgot to recommend earlier, please remember to recommend it now. (So far I haven't found one I didn't rec: a lot of ones I did, though)
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 17, 2010 13:48:54 GMT -5
I need to lay my cards on the table here: I really don't like Sam Carter. I hated her characterization on SG-1 for as long as the series has been around, for reasons of Sue-ness and blandness and blondness and one-of-the-boysness. And I really love the fucked-up headcase that is John Sheppard. So a story where Sheppard gets relieved of command after The Return part 2 and replaced by Carter is never going to be a story I'll go back and reread with pleasure. That said, Bluflamingo's Adjustment Period is one of the best stories I've read recently (I've been doing a lot or rereading; new SGA is thin on the ground, and in the SG universe as a whole it's wank time rather than fun time) and that is its basic premise. For Sam fen, there's a well-observed and consistent Sam POV, for Weir fen there's the diplomat and administrator at her best. Not much for Rodney fen, though, except he's there being Rodney and doing his job, ditto Lorne, Teyla and Ronon. And Sheppard is respected in his absence. So, yeah, worth reading once even if the premise makes you all and and probably worth bookmarking and going back to if Sam Carter is your favorite character. Julia, *sigh*
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 9, 2011 2:42:10 GMT -5
This is a really excellant story, and I've got no idea how I missed it when it was originally posted in 2007. Convergence, by purna (link goes to the first of three chapters which are linked in the LJ fashion) is what I guess might be called a canon compliant AU: John has left the Air Force instead of being sent to Antarctica, and that changes a lot of things, until he sees a swimmer thrashing from his life guard chair in California and saves Rodney McKay from drowning. Things move on, move forward, move toward an ending anyone can recognize. McShep, Mature, but with no porn for the sake of porn, and a whole lot of story. Julia, so hard to find new good stuff of any length anymore, this was a rush Converging on Archive of Our Own
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 8, 2012 17:40:22 GMT -5
So, wow, I really don't do this very often any more, do I? Arwen Lune Rock Happy 'Verse is a great rich enthrallingly detailed totally canon-compliant SGA/Generation Kill crossover told from the POV of The Iceman, SSgt Brad Colbert (played by Alexander SkarsgÄrd) who is recruited from the Recon Marines to fill the position of a gateteam sergeant who stays on Earth after his leave is up. It's a really satisfying read, with lots of gate mission narratives and outsider POV descriptions of the usual SGA suspects. Gen, PG-13 on the outside, long, plotty, and full of Dick-Francis-level descriptions of skill-sets. I need to get the link together for a BtVS/SG1 crossover, too, but don't hold your breath, gotta go do chicken-related stuff. Julia, but I'll be reareading this story tonight, I suspect.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 13, 2012 12:10:12 GMT -5
Another story in the Rock Happy 'Verse: The Last Tickybox. After this mission, Brad is no longer a newby. Julia, Cadman's going to be so disappointed that she's missed it.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 27, 2014 23:50:48 GMT -5
Auburnnothenna is a good writer who gets better all the time; in But the Nights are Better Out Here she paints a cozy and useful future story, where a tension unexplained until the end runs like a cold draft under the warmth of family, firelight, festivals and useful occupations. PG, teamfic, very tame hints of McShep. Highly, highly recommended. Julia, best thing I've read in weeks Many years on, John takes one of the children to college in From the Edge of the Green Sea, filling in more of the backstory on how the team came to rest and how John and Rodney became a couple. R-ish, in passing; the story focusses on family and making a safe place in society, not on pleasures of the flesh. Julia, my kink is plot, man These two gorgeous and bitter-sweet stories were the beginning of what is now a five story cycle called Green Sea which gives vivid life to a vaguely Nordic, a little Eskimo/Inuit culture on a distant and lucky planet in Pegasus. Auburn's a gifted and distinctive story teller, and I've come back to this group of takes again and again, for comfort and color and vivid life. The latest was added on January 1, 2013, so we can hope for more: hey, Speranza had a new SGA story yesterday, anything can happen! Julia, will try to add Ao3 links to replace dead ones every time I get a chance.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 4, 2014 17:53:03 GMT -5
OK, rather than write six separate recs, I'll start the easy way: Speranza's SGA stories on Archive of Our Own; I haven't written the newest four: Key Largo, Tattoo, Phatic, and One Way Ticket, and although the third and fourth are my favorites, they're all good solod Speranza stories. Of course, to find here Ao3 stories in different fandoms you can just click on her name on any Ao3 page. Julia, trying to get a little rested before I go dress for a family thing.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 4, 2014 17:59:08 GMT -5
I'm divided on camshaft22 as a writer; she's prone to mindless PWPs and needs a better beta/more critical self betaing for a lot of her work. However, Illusions written for the Stargateland Big Bang in 2011, is a great piece of flyboy writing, with nicely written secondary characters and a coherent action-filled plot. Mitchell/Sheppard, hard R, and a nice solid O'Neil-driven introduction. All of her stuff is on Ao3 and if you choose to read the longer pieces you'll find the best of her writing. Julia, one more coming up.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 4, 2014 18:10:27 GMT -5
I'm astonished that I haven't recommended Telleer's "Like my Father Before Me" although since it appeared on LJ about the same time I finished a month of due South recommendations and Sarah Palin was nominated for vice-president, perhaps it's understandable. This is, for those as wheep at stories, a three-hanky story, with Rodney McKay single parenting two young adults and John long dead. And I can't say more about it except it's one of those pieces of fiction which takes the known facts and spins them into a vivid illumination of the human condition, and you should really read it. Gen, and thoroughly adult. Julia, so, there, I've done something besides feed the sheep for once.
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