"Water" by imaginary iby (G)

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Rec Category: Character: Teyla Emmagen
Pairing: Teyla/John
Category: Romance, Friendship, UST
Warning: N/A
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: Unknown

Link: Water

Why This Must Be Read: This is a quiet, simple little piece about memory and love. It has a beautiful tone that feels both melancholy and hopeful all once. While it is romantic and pairs John and Teyla, it is also about Teyla herself and who she is and who she has been.

( Itty Bitty Bit )

Link: Water

The Bang and the Clatter by trinityofone

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Rec Category: Crossover - Good Omens
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: trinityofone
Author's Website: tales of an unreal city
Link: The Bang and the Clatter
Summary: Heaven and Hell's North American representatives have an Arrangement, too.
Why This Must Be Read: John and Rodney as Demon and Angel. Lovely read. ( And I especially love these lines )

Seems very true to the character.

Loving Words by 1000Traenen (PG-13)

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*sighs* Well this is 4, not that I might not have more recs but I know I at least made my minimum. Worried about that going into this.

Rec Category: Slash: Other
Pairing: McKay/Lorne (mention of BeckShep)
Category: Atlantis, Angst
Warning: Slash, Use of Nick as Lorne's first name
Author on LJ: 1000traenen
Author's Website: unknown

Link: Loving Words

Why This Must Be Read: Sweet little story of Lorne defending the man he loves to keep him from being put to death.

Four Times Jack Cried…, by Niamaea (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill

Pairing: none
Categories: Jack O'Neill, gen, episode related, character study, angst
Warnings: language, reference to canon character deaths
Author on LJ: niamaea
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Four Times Jack Cried, and One Time He Didn't

Why This Must Be Read: Niamaea gives us four moments of strong emotional anguish for Jack O'Neill, when he was moved to tears – and one time that he wasn't, despite the wishes of others. All of these are based satisfyingly in canon, and they're written with a sparse intensity that simply breathes Jack.

While my personal favorites are the fourth (the snippet below) and fifth, all of these are powerful and well worth reading for as an excellent character study on Jack O'Neill.

( Snippet of fic... )

Throwing Pebbles Up the Mountain by Synecdochic (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Episode related
Warning: Sex, Language
Author on LJ: synecdochic
Author's Website: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sg1/main.html
Link: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sg1/throwing_pebbles_up_the_mountain.html

Why This Must Be Read: I wanted to start my Jack/Daniel recs for the month with a few that are on my short list for all-time favorites. First up, Synecdochic has been recced for her amazing John/Rodney, Sam/Cam and Daniel/Cam, and I'm hoping to catch up with recs of her J/D stories.

Throwing Pebbles Up the Mountain is chronologically the first in her Eurydiceverse series, which she has described as a slightly off-canon look at the characters -- as if the horrific experiences they go through had the kinds of consequences that a television series doesn't go into with their weekly "reset" button. This story takes place in the wake of Secrets, when Daniel has to come home and face the messages his wife gave him before she got taken over by her goa'uld again.

It's written from Jack's point of view, and for as much as he claims throughout that he can't tell what's going on inside Daniel's head, he does know him better than anyone. Though it's first chronologically in the series, it was the third Jack/Daniel written, and beautifully introduces the caretaking Jack who will do anything for Daniel. As with all of Synecdochic's stories, it's intelligent, perceptive and full of marvelous details that illuminate the characters more fully than mere descriptions.

( Excerpt under the cut )