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stargateficrec2009-04-29 02:22 pm
paian) wrote in stargateficrec2009-04-29 02:22 pm
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Diving to Drown by Tafkar (NC-17)
Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Sha're
Category: Alternate universe, angst, Daniel Jackson, dark, explicit sexual situation, het, non-consensual, rape, SG-1, torture, violence
Warnings: Rape, torture, violence, language, explicit sexual content, dark psychological themes
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tafkarfanfic
Author's Website: tafkar's writing
Link: Diving to Drown
Author's summary: The colonization of desire.
Why This Must Be Read:
Today and tomorrow morning in the Daniel Jackson category, two AU fics. In this one, it wasn't Skaara and Sha're who were captured by Apophis; it was Skaara and Daniel. Apophis took Daniel for a new host, and Sha're joined SG-1.
This fic is remarkable not just for its brutal psychological honesty and the brilliance of its flip-one-critical-element premise but for its development and follow-through. In another writer's hands, this story might have been a tearful angstfest, heartachey but ultimately shallow. In Tafkar's hands, the narrative digs deeply and painfully under the skin, reaching down into the viscera of the psyche to show how it adapts in order to survive -- and how it learns to hide pieces of itself, from saviors as well as from abusers.
Most awful and appropriate of all is that it's Daniel -- in so many ways the heart and soul of the Stargate story. Which makes the fic one of the most effective and affecting nightmare inversions of canon that I've ever read. It's like an X-ray film on a lightboard in a pitch-dark room, illuminating the bones of the character with a cold glare that hurts the eyes. The development of Sha're into an experienced gate-team operative is a triumphal recasting and redirection that twists the knife even more deeply. An outstanding, unforgettable fic.
About 8000 words. Pay attention to the warnings.
Excerpt:
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Sha're
Category: Alternate universe, angst, Daniel Jackson, dark, explicit sexual situation, het, non-consensual, rape, SG-1, torture, violence
Warnings: Rape, torture, violence, language, explicit sexual content, dark psychological themes
Author on LJ:
tafkarfanficAuthor's Website: tafkar's writing
Link: Diving to Drown
Author's summary: The colonization of desire.
Why This Must Be Read:
Today and tomorrow morning in the Daniel Jackson category, two AU fics. In this one, it wasn't Skaara and Sha're who were captured by Apophis; it was Skaara and Daniel. Apophis took Daniel for a new host, and Sha're joined SG-1.
This fic is remarkable not just for its brutal psychological honesty and the brilliance of its flip-one-critical-element premise but for its development and follow-through. In another writer's hands, this story might have been a tearful angstfest, heartachey but ultimately shallow. In Tafkar's hands, the narrative digs deeply and painfully under the skin, reaching down into the viscera of the psyche to show how it adapts in order to survive -- and how it learns to hide pieces of itself, from saviors as well as from abusers.
Most awful and appropriate of all is that it's Daniel -- in so many ways the heart and soul of the Stargate story. Which makes the fic one of the most effective and affecting nightmare inversions of canon that I've ever read. It's like an X-ray film on a lightboard in a pitch-dark room, illuminating the bones of the character with a cold glare that hurts the eyes. The development of Sha're into an experienced gate-team operative is a triumphal recasting and redirection that twists the knife even more deeply. An outstanding, unforgettable fic.
About 8000 words. Pay attention to the warnings.
Excerpt:
They got Daniel. They got Skaara. They could have taken Sha're, too, if O'Neill hadn't been quick-thinking enough to grab her, clamp one hand over her mouth, and drag her toward the back of that huge cell when she tried to run to him. Collect the whole set.
If Amaunet, too, had been in need of a host, he could be looking into her eyes right now, both of them trapped within their bodies by these alien creatures, being forced to couple for the Goa'ulds' pleasure and amusement, trying somehow to signal their love for each other with some flicker of the eyes.
How horrifying, Daniel thinks
How delightful, Apophis whispers to him.