I've been a bad girl and, like most, waited until the very last night to do this so everyone's getting their flist spammed I'm sure. Here's the first of my recs:
Rec Category: Drama
Pairing: Daniel/Janet
Category: SG-1, Drama, Psychology
Warning: Daniel/Janet, Trauma, Minor Violence, Sexual Suggestiveness
Author's Website: Gateview.
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meg_tdjLink: Mind Fever by MegTDJ.
Why This Fic Must Be Read:In this fandom, like most, the concept of 'angst' is both overused and overrated, designed as short hand to say 'my fic/this fic is deep and dramatic and ooh, isn't that shiny?' To an extent, of course, there's nothing wrong with this -- aside from the misuse of the term 'angst' but that's a rant for another day -- because the shiny is good (as the oft-quoted line from Buffy says: 'fire bad, tree pretty') but in a lot of ways we've become lazy: capable of using short-hand and therefore forgetting the long-hand forms.
MegTDJ brings us back to the root of fiction and novel-length work with
Mind Fever, taking the reader on a dramatic trip (and I do mean trip) through a month in the life of Daniel Jackson after he contracts an alien virus that nearly kills him and is left in pieces of the man he once was. It's a dark, painful journey through the consequences of action and is amazingly rendered. And while the author herself warns it as "extreme angst" I would argue that it's neither, merely a realistic look at what these sort of circumstances can do to people. It's drama, in the grand sense of the word.
What I really love about the piece though isn't just that it deals with consequences and responses to those consequences but that it does so in such a manner that it becomes one of those rare fics that one can feel what the character is going through and hate it along with them. I love that while it is Daniel/Janet it still deals with the existance of Sha're and her effects, that while it's a Janet (as well as a Daniel one) story it gives time and development to other characters, that it doesn't rely on convention or safe choices, and isn't anything more or less than exactly what it needs to be.
And now I'm gushing but the fic really is that good! I recommend not sitting down to read it when you don't have much time though because you might not be able to drag yourself away.
- Andrea.
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