Eating his Unhappiness by Ankhmutes (G)

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Rec Category: Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: None
Category: Atlantis, Pre-slash or Gen, Angst
Warning: Spoilers for Tao of Rodney
Author on LJ: ankhmutes
Author's Website: Area 52
Link: Eating his Unhappiness

Why This Must Be Read: The thing is, Stargate canon has no problems using various medical ailments to generate humour, but rarely address the more serious aspects of these same problems. (This is by no means exclusive to Stargate.) Sometimes I’d like to see more balanced approach the story telling on the show, see some of the potential fall out from those health problems. Till then we have stories like this short gem that grew out of a scene from “Tao of Rodney”. One that irked me a little, for reasons similar to those listed in the Author’s Story Notes. Ankhmutest weaves a charming McKay/Beckett friendship fic revolving around the very real consequences for McKay should he indeed suffer from hypoglycemia.

Quiet Strength, by Moonshayde (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Sha’re

Pairing: Daniel/Sha're
Categories: Sha’re, Daniel/Sha’re, episode related, drama, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: moonshayde
Author's Website: Scribal Traditions
Link: Quiet Strength or on her LJ

Why This Must Be Read: In Quiet Strength, Moonshayde does a fantastic job of letting us take a peek inside Sha’re’s head during the events of COTG. A clever twist explains the Sha’uri/Sha’re contradiction in names, as Sha’re leaves the “quiet strength” of her marriage behind in order to once again become Sha’uri, the fiery heroine who defied Ra. We see her memories of Daniel, her efforts to rouse the other prisoners to rebel, and her interactions with the woman abducted from Earth. And in the end, when she realizes that she is about to be overcome, she chooses a memory that will give her quiet strength in the internal, eternal struggle she will face against Amaunet.

Quiet Strength won first place in the 2007 Isis Awards. When you read it, you’ll understand why.

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