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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 10, 2008 14:44:07 GMT -5
Pir8fancier is one of my favorite Due South authors; she also writes in Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, and now SGA- and as is typical, her first story, Last Man Standing reshuffle is rich with plot, deep with detailed and utterly note-perfect characterization, and unique in her take on the possibilities of other ways things might work out. That said: her stories are so full of little surprises, one after another, that beyond saying that this is post series, AU, McShep, and reaches, in the most brief and descreet way possible, NC-17 or hard R moments, well: go read it. Three parts, linked, and it took me about an hour to read last night. Julia, fun and games and heartbreak, all together.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 6, 2008 18:37:59 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 8, 2008 0:11:05 GMT -5
I've read- three? Four? of these stories, and so far they all deliver on the premise of the challenge: McShep Happyfic Challenge Various Ratings, mostly R or below. Chandri McCleod's "People will know we were here" is a bonanza: SGA 1 goes to the Vancouver Olympics with the Millers. Julia, fun and games all over.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 14, 2008 0:52:42 GMT -5
Semivowel has written a gem in Or Something Like It. John Sheppard cannot tell a lie- which, for the military commander of a small base in the Pegasus galaxy, is so very not a good thing. Mcshep, R, no spoilers, and damned amusing. Julia, amused, indeed
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Nov 25, 2008 2:27:25 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 But the Nights Are Better Out Here at Archive of Our Own; see my recommendation of February 27, 2014 for the entire series.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Dec 26, 2008 22:03:42 GMT -5
From the A Farm in Iowa series: Baby Jesus' Pompoms Mcshep, PG for the kind of language living with a four-year-old can drive you to, but only as PG as it gets with an 80 year old woman in the room. John buy's Rodney a knitted nose-warmer as a gift, Finn finds it and has his own interpretation of its use, and giggling ensues. Julia, mine, yours, everybody else's...
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 2, 2009 19:57:42 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
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 3, 2009 21:28:44 GMT -5
Bussaikko is another writer I first read in due South fandom; she wrote the first story I recommended at the Crack Van, under the name Mary Sue Fanfic. She writes well-rounded, fully human characters; in Three Times John Sheppard Woke up in the Infirmary and One Time He Didn't she writes John Sheppard from the Vegas AU episode who is saved from dying in the desert, hired to keep Rodney alive, and comes to succeed in a way he would never have otherwise. Julia, that sounds sort of lame, it's a much better story than this makes it sound
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Post by Lola m on Jan 3, 2009 21:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 4, 2009 21:51:50 GMT -5
I'm trying to write at least one recommendation every day; today Sheafrotherdon made it easy with Breath a post Vegas fix-it, of sorts, where John just almost dies and Rodney pretty much takes over and drags him to reform, redemption, and usefulness. Nice, tight, piece of writing with clear and intense character voices, John and Rodney of the Vegas reality and not mere shadows of the SGA main canon. Julia, it's tricky to swing that level of nuance.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 4, 2009 21:53:32 GMT -5
I'm being lazy on both SGA and Due South Secret Santa and going on other people's recs. Bad of me, but there was an overwhelming number of stories posted last week, and I got sort of... buried. Julia, also, closed that for you
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 6, 2009 0:45:26 GMT -5
I really like the work of Slylibrarian; I really am not sold on the idea of Rodney McKay/Jennifer Kellar. I was annoyed at some aspects of the "Brain Storm" episode. All three of these come together in the story Be Prepared where Rodney brings Lorne along and the crisis is short circuited in typically efficient Lorne-ish fashion. Julia, and he doesn't spend half the episode having to overcome his girlfriend's sabotaging of his competance, either
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 6, 2009 23:04:20 GMT -5
Rheanna and Astrid have written and drawn an SGA team-fic comic called The Long Way Home. I've gotten sort of blah about fan comics, which are too often chibi or manga style and sometimes the equivalent of dirty pictures sixth graders pass around during study hall. This one is slick- well drawn, well plotted, and complexly designed. Go, see. Julia, not big on comics in general: the pictures distract me from the words.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 9, 2009 13:15:12 GMT -5
Miss Porcupine is ex-Military, and she writes amazing SGA Genfic focussing mostly on the boys of Little Tripoli; here she constructs the world of s1 KP, cooking and food-scrounging and "eating for your country." The Marines take over the food side of the expedition, and things get weirder before they get better : Kalliergo, PG, warnings for immodium. Julia, I'm to the point of skipping sex scenes in a lot of fic, so if you are dedicated to NC-17 I'll probably be a horrible disappointment to you these days
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 11, 2009 0:58:54 GMT -5
Tara Keezer, One Down for the "Wish Fullfillment" challenge at SGA Flashfic. PG-13 for dry heaves. A good friend cleans you up when you try to hide in the bottom of a bottle; the best kind of friend shows you there's no reason to hide. JUlia, and makes you drink a gallon of water, for the topper
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