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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 16, 2009 16:27:58 GMT -5
I've fallen off my rec-a-day resolution while finishing "Birds of a Feather," and after I posted it my brain fell out when it came to reading other stories. The One Who Walks In by deltacephi is about the first thing over 500 words that I've managed to read through and retain, which says a lot for its coherence and lucidity. A Vegas AU tag, starting as many of them do which John Sheppard surprised to wake up alive, and not thrilled that he's in the familiar confines of a military hospital. Largely introspection, with a nice energetic argument with Rodney at the end. Just smooth, a character study that gets down to the nub of what is essential to these two characters, and how different multiverses produce different details on the standard template. PG-13-ish for adult despair, no overt pairing. Julia, try to make it through a few other things in the next couple of days.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 19, 2009 13:19:28 GMT -5
From the SGA Secret Santa challenge, an AU where John is a guy with a kite shop somewhere not exactly dissimilar to Cannon Beach, Oregon, and unexpressed secrets in his past and Rodney is the usual double PhD with social skills challenges; nice job of making something new of the basic dynamics of character, with some grand descriptions of kites and paragliders. Fly Wishes to the Sea, by Cathalin: NC-17, McShep, Earth AU, long and plotty (you know, I'm getting to the point where I'll just skip the porn for the sake of the rest of a well-written story:How lame is that?). Julia, pretty lame. What kind of a fan am I, anyway?
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 20, 2009 16:07:53 GMT -5
Bluflamingo is another writer who has worked in a couple other fandoms; she's good at restrained and implicit emotions and dandy in-canon characterizations. Gray Skies Surround me is a post "Vegas" AU, PG, with a recovering Sheppard caught like a bone between two dogs: Vegas !McKay wants him for Atlantis, for his gene, and Cameron Mitchell wants him...for his team. Julia, and O'Neill's in command, so the little matter of a dishonorable discharge is not quite the thing it would be with Landry.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 20, 2009 20:50:15 GMT -5
Ladycat777 can write anything at all; back around the first of last month she wrote Rodney as a girl, and John as a less-than-articulate suitor: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps; it is sweet, and entirely in-character, and PG, maybe PG-13. She's calling the storyverse Lally's Marriedverse. An earlier (by a few days" story in the same verse is Indulgence which is NC-17 for old married sex. JUlia, I may some day get caught up with reading and reccing, but probably not soon
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 20, 2009 22:04:34 GMT -5
Mireille719 is writing SGA! Like Poprocks on the Tongue is a charming Jr. High Math Club bit of McShep of the most innocent and blushing kind possible. It's almost all written as Rodney internal diaologue: twice as many words per minute than anyone else. Julia, I'm big on sweet stories tonight, and this one is of the sweetest
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 22, 2009 12:07:10 GMT -5
One of Those Days All Week by Mad Maudlin reminds me way too much of the time I was prescribed diet pills at 13 and stopped sleeping at all. Rodney is kidnapped by a culled race who are desperate to get some ancient tech fixed and not so good with distinctions between human and robot, or genius and omnipotent. Hallucinations ensue. Julia, great story, although miserable experience
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 26, 2009 2:10:13 GMT -5
There are a ton of stories for the Sheppard/Mitchell Thingathon (at the live journal community sg_flyboys), som gen, some slash. A favorite meme in that ship is aparticularly reasonable one- that Cameron Mitchell and John Sheppard have known each other over their entire Airforce carriers, and have been lovers of more or less exclusivity for a very long time. Discontinuity by Slylibrarian is a really good example of that core idea, chosing the period between the Battle of Antarctica and The Return, Part 2, to develop a story closely involved with the canon of both shows. It's quite long, very plotty, rising once and a while to take a small glimpse at NC-17 vistas but mostly staying at R or even PG-13 levels. Very funny in parts, very well characterized, and involving all the core characters from SG-1 and SGA (the take on Chuck and Walter are particularly funny). Lorne is a big part of their story, too, which adds a nice touch. Julia, so, trying to get back on more frequent recs, sorry, this flu has knocked me out
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 3, 2009 22:57:02 GMT -5
Two nice and entirely dissimilar pieces of SGA gen fic showed up one after another on my flist: Two Ladies of Quality Things that shouldn't be in a sock drawer especially when there's a seven-year-old around, especially when she may have the ATA gene. Just cute and fun and nifty all around. Comfort fic of the "Why kids don't get security clearance" sort. On the other end of the comfort scale is Maisierita's The Shepherd Sipher, which is R for violence. Dave Shepherd gets an encrypted email from John, and finds out things he'd be safer not knowing. Two parts, linked. Julia, hoping for more fic on my list tonight, as I'm not up to watching things much
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 12, 2009 20:20:05 GMT -5
I love SGA genfic- that is my burden, because on any day there are four PWPs or kinkfic for every good genfic. Pogribin's Starting Over (In the Same Place)is a particularly rare piece- a full ensemble post series finale what happens next post full of political wheeling and dealing and scientific scrambling about and psych evaluations and Rodney going a little off the rails. Great stuff, do read it, fun OCs and possibly the most sympathetic (while in character) view of that poor old git General Landry ever, certainly moreso than in canon for either series, where he comes of as just a bit dumb. Julia, Sergeant Bilko and Beetle Bailey aside, you don't get to General unless you're pretty close to a genius
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Feb 12, 2009 22:20:50 GMT -5
LitGal writes in a lot of fandoms, and likes to mix it up. Dark, Still Water takes the low point of the Sentinel Guide relationship of The Sentinel s4 and combines it with the screaming paranoia of SG-1 season 4/5, when Daniel seems to get kidnapped or tortured every time he goes through the stargate. The investigation of a kidnapping leads both teams to meet in Cascade, and the SG-1 folks are immediately at odds with Jim Ellison over the way he's treating Blair Sandberg- especially the big guy, Murray, you know the one who wears a hat all the time? There's a whole lot of plot between the beginning in Cascade and the end at SGC, and both Jim and Jack get taken down a peg (their persistant alpha male faceoffs are sometimes disturbing but also hilarious) and Blair is led astray by his shamamistic impulses. PG, no explicit pairing, and long, which is fine with me. Julia, crossposted for both fandoms
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 8, 2009 21:46:57 GMT -5
New. Speranza. McShep. Sheppard's Law. 34,000 or so perfect words, wherein John Sheppard is Schroedinger's cat. But really, after one says "Speranza" what else is there to say? Julia, except she's the best, without a doubt, and whatever fandom she chooses to write in benefits from her attention.
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Mar 27, 2009 13:17:06 GMT -5
SG1/SGA/mostly NCIS crossover by the incomparable Miss Porcupine: some very worrisome deaths move Gibbs and team down a rabbit hole after some people who are way, way too good at what they do. Prodigal PG, casefic, and any details will spoil it, even casting. I can't say enough good stuff about this writer; she's always in command of her plots and her characters, especially her secondary characters are vivid and engrossing in ways that Wfright and Cooper and their minions just never other with. Julia, and her Jethro Gibbs is a gem, too
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 3, 2009 11:03:09 GMT -5
Breaking News Fic from Sheafrotherdon's A Farm in Iowa-verse. So, what happens in the Iowa Supreme Court has ramifications in an SGA-AU. JUlia, R, happy-fic, and let Iowa be more sensible than other places, eh?
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 11, 2009 22:47:45 GMT -5
I've mentioned how much I like gen fic, and long plotty fic, right? And it should surprise no-one that I am fond of Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell. so Men in Stiff Procession by Vain Glorious is a take on that bloody horrid badly written poorly directed worst SGA episode EVER "Inquisition" where one of the logic holes in that mess is patched and John Sheppard is convicted. The IOA calls off the search for him, or his body, three months after he's sent through a wormhole to a planet gate with no DHD, and replaces him with someone they trust- who lasts about a month until the wraith get him. Mitchell is the second choice for the replacement commander, and he's got troubles from day one: McKay's hiding from him, Dex treats him with utter disrespect. PG-13, and a nice thing all around. Julia, long day but a nice way to end it. ETA Men in Stiff Procession at AO3
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 25, 2009 11:52:05 GMT -5
So, I forgot to rec the McShep coffee AU when it came out? I'm too busy to write a recommendation for that (very good, well-written and fully characterized) plotty with some NC-17 action story; luckily it's linked at the beginning of this sequal, which is even funnier, pottier, snarkier and more fun (with NC-17 intervals). Starts out with orthopedic surgery; ends up with Rodney facing the consequences of what set him to his current job designing museum science exhibits "You're on the lam with two cats and a cripple," John pointed out. "Not exactly James Bond material." Moebius, by Estephee because there's very little in this world that can't be helped by excellant coffeeand maybe a raspberry scone. Julia, must get ready to leave an hour ago.
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