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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 22, 2008 15:08:47 GMT -5
For the SGA Flashfiction AU challenge, Vacation Hours by Slylibrarian. McShep, hard R, once again an ancient object creates more problems than it could ever solve. Julia, also
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Post by Lola m on Apr 12, 2008 14:04:07 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 12, 2008 21:52:11 GMT -5
The Sheafrotherdon fic Lola just recommended showed up on my flist the same day as Speranza's OK Computer- last week was a great time for fic, especially given the dry spell just before. This is a long fic (207K) with Cesperanza's usual deft balance of humor and pathos, with a good heaping helping of meaningful, plot-relevant porn erotica. It's McShep from several angles- there's two Rodneys, arguing about their place in the multiverse, a canon John trying to make sense of their interaction, and another, very different John in red socks and a pink and black paisley shirt who makes things possible/necessary/complicated. Not to mention an ancient device which seems even more badly thought out than usual, some lesbians, and infinite snack food. Hard R soft NC-17, high ratio of weirdness to sex, and unlike the general run of stuff. Julia, it's hard to confuse Speranza with anyone else, or mistake one of her stories for another
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 15, 2008 23:25:34 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. And now a bit more- Canon for Two Instruments is a NC-17 erotica as character exploration missing scene from Part 3 of "Unidentified" which lives up to the high standards of the original story. And there's also a dvd commentary track for Unidentified where the author talks about how she wrote the story and where she was going with things (which, the story being so well written, is no great surprise, but still, it's an interesting read and a chance to reread one of the two best stories of the past year). Julia, enjoy!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 19, 2008 1:53:46 GMT -5
I forgot to recommend the fics that aged off a Zine timetable (many electronic Zines have exclusive rights to stories for a set period of time). There are a lot of good ones, but my favorite is "Ordinary Life" by Speranza and Shalott, a short-story length McShep divertisment about what happens when you tag along behind Rodney McKay when he chooses to do a bit of consultation. NC-17, witty, full of other-than-NC-17 action, and with an appearance by Jack O'Neill which feels as if it's recorded in his voice. Julia, so very far behind on everything, bad me
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 19, 2008 16:17:37 GMT -5
Miss Porcupine is an author I should rec more- she writes military flavored Gen from a position of experience, and today's Fictional Marine Humor is an awesome take on the Zombie Fighting meme that was all over Live Journal in the past week. Julia, short, funny, and PG, max, for implicit violence
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 25, 2008 12:28:39 GMT -5
There is new fic daily in the SGA fandom. At least, there's fic posted that hasn't been posted before- little of it is novel or engaging and also not full of kinks that I'm not doing at this juncture. Secondaryauthor has written a short piece of shining novelty in sixty-eight whiskey where John Sheppard is interviewing a very young military doctor for a job on Atlantis. Read also the story linked in headers, similar in style and tone but otherwise a different voice and time. (Both safely G, gen) Julia, SGA Flash Fiction is a good place to look for things not like everything else you've read lately
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jun 26, 2008 11:02:05 GMT -5
So, I was commenting on Beadattitude's Live Journal, and remembered back when this thread started and I was fighting assorted demons I had mentioned The Checkmate Verse and then neglected to write a full recommendation. Up front: John Sheppard gets turned into a cat, and stays that way for a while (the least harrowing version of Shepwhump ever). He is, however, a cat fit to be the milatary commander of Atlantis. He is also a very cat-like cat, unwilling to be handled by most people, unwavering in his whim, and fond of sleeping in the places he prefers. And Rodney is John's friend, and a cat-lover, and that fact informs the emotional dynamic. Great fun, nice schmoop, and some very dandy writing. Julia, on more thing off the infinite to-do list.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 6, 2008 14:02:02 GMT -5
Sardonic Smiley has put together a finely crafted and utterly devastating piece of post traumatic stress-fic, devoid of humor, with a long way between bits of hope, and yet one of the best things I've read in months Scar Tissue... I'm tempted to say NC-17 for utter despair, or invent some new rating on the "Man's Inhumanity to Man" scale. The author has linked a full paragraph of warnings. But: there is none of it egregious, extraneous, given more emphasis or explanation than it deserves, and I with my ingrained distaste for the dark and dismal read it all at once and wrote a coment and a rec when I'm not actually doing much of that lately. Julia, take my word for it: if you can tough it out, you'll be enriched by the experience.
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Post by Matthew on Jul 23, 2008 19:16:42 GMT -5
Interesting little piece of... heck, I don't know if "slash" is the right term for this little alternative universe. But it's a fascinating take on John Sheppard being a misfit in any universe. Features an interesting world-building premise. Warnings for some semi-skeeviness. Consensual but not preferred type stuff. If you want to kiss the sky
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jul 25, 2008 19:30:38 GMT -5
McShep, short, amusing, and an investigation into the unexplored parts of Rodney's brain, thence hilarious. Beadiffic, Midnight (or Later) Confessions. PG, and giggle warnings. Julia, the fic Matthew recommended is fascinating and a bit vertiginous.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 8, 2008 1:01:11 GMT -5
I'm having an all-Cesperanza night, I guess; I just finished writing the Due South fic rec for the crack van tomorrow (posted to her archive in July of 2004), and this story is her newest. Five Lies John Told (And Then A Whole Lotta Truth) is McShep, and nearly perfect (which is to say: Speranza wrote it). It's about a little lie at a very bad moment, and the changes John Sheppard goes through until he can take it back. PG-13, and her usual no-word-wrong style. Julia, so very nice indeed.
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Post by Lola m on Aug 9, 2008 22:40:37 GMT -5
Can't believe I've forgotten to link to this, but I have no brain lately. Sheafrotherdon asked for recs back in May and got a whole lot of good ones. (In a nice bit of circular fun, you'll find Julia's link to our rec page in this list of recs that I'm . . . um, reccing here. ) Not only is this good for finding stories, but with all the authors listed you're only a click away from lots of other good SGA fic. Woot!
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 23, 2008 0:43:57 GMT -5
Fiareynne On the Same Page episode tag for "The Shrine" which, if people note the time mark on this some future day, i have not yet seen the end of but need the healing power of an episode tag to make it the last 18 minutes. McShep: and who did he call for? How can people ignore subtext at that volume? Julia, there's slash goggles and then there's a big diamond-vision screen with dolby stereo right there with everything on the surface
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Aug 28, 2008 11:47:29 GMT -5
There are a dozen "Shrine" codas kicking around right now, pretty much all of them good. Leave it to Sheafrotherdon to make one achingly beautiful. And These Are Mine to Understand PG, Mcshep, incidentally. Julia, Rodney's whole life as a genius
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