On The Brink by simonesimone (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Category: Angst Romance Hurt/Comfort Adventure
Warning: Slash
Author on LJ: simonesimone
Author's Website:

Link:
On The Brink Part One
On The Brink Part Two

Why This Must Be Read:

John and Rodney share a variety of adventures on missions involving alien princesses, a utopian society, a virtual reality trap and a broken ZPM. Along the way, John struggles to resist his growing attraction toward Rodney, but ultimately the two snipe and snark their way through the Pegasus Galaxy to find their happy-ever-after.

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Inflorescence by latentfunction (PG)

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Rec Category: Teyla Emmagan
Pairing: Teyla/Sora
Category: Femslash, pre-series
Warning: None
Author on LJ: latentfunction
Author's Website: None
Link: Inflorescence

Why This Must Be Read:

This was written for me for 2007’s sg_rarepairings exchange and I will happily confess to be gleeful and smug when I received it, because someone wrote this awesome fic just for me. And now I get to be gleeful and smug all over again while I rec it. Win-win.

Inflorescence starts with Teyla and her parents attending a naming ceremony on the Genii homeworld, where a very young Teyla suggests Sora as a name for a beautiful baby (did I mention I love stories about other world cultures? Teyla fic tends to have a lot of these). The rest of the story skips through the two of them growing up, until Sora’s coming of age ceremony at the end, full of bits and pieces of their culture, and of Sora and Teyla’s growing relationship.

What I really love about this is the little hints latentfunction weaves in about the Genii as we’ll see them in the show, and the effects of this on Sora, and then the effects of that on Teyla, and on their friendship, the way that Teyla seems to come so close to figuring it out, and then not. Also, she writes a really beautiful Teyla, so caring and compassionate, and a really clear picture of her growing up, even though we only see bits of it.

Countdown, by Aurora Novarum (PG)

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Happy birthday, Daniel!

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Pairing: none
Categories: Daniel Jackson, gen, drama, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: aurora_novarum
Author's Website: List of My Stories
Link: Countdown

Why This Must Be Read: Intent, focused Daniel, using his archeological skills and C4 to rescue his team.

...What? You need more? :)

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Never A Good Day To Die by Princess of Geeks (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: Jack/Daniel,
Category: Slash, established relationship, episode-related, h/c
Warning: Slash, cuddling
Author on LJ: princessofg
Author's Website: all on lj and DW
Link: Never A Good Day To Die

Why this must be read:

I sit at the feet of Princess of Geeks when it comes to recs: her SG-1 Rec List Of Doom was in an open tab on my laptop for months, and was responsible – directly, or in a six-degrees-of-separation way – for much of the fic I read when I first got into this fandom, but then I also learned what an incredible author she is. This one is a tag to S3 “The Devil You Know”, with Daniel taking care of an injured Jack. It's a quiet, non-plotty fic, with just Jack and Daniel on stage for most of it, and it captures beautifully the "what now?" of after the big escape.  There is some Daniel angst there, but it’s possibly one of the least angsty h/c fics from Jack’s POV I’ve ever read, and, as written here, it makes sense. Granted, Jack is drugged up to the eyeballs and bone tired, but that’s not (just) what is making him relax. This Jack is one that I recognise well, the one who has seen unimaginable horrors and endured – and committed – dreadful things, but who derives real value and comfort from ordinary, non-heroic pleasures.

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