The Little Astrophysicist by Tzzzz (gen)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: McShep
Note: The stories I'm reccing this month have a sort-of-a-fairy-tale quality to them.
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Slash, Gen, Cross-over, Time-travel,
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: tzzzz
Author's Website: Ao3 fic page for Tzzzz
Link: The Little Astrophysicist


Why This Must Be Read: It's a McShep/The Little Prince cross-over conflation! With charming pictures!
This will be more enjoyable if you read and liked The Little Prince, but it can be read without being familiar with that book. tzzzz does a wonderful job getting the innocence, tone and pacing just right. And, even though the end of the original Prince is somewhat ambiguous, there is a clearly happy ending in this delightful little gem of a story.

"snippet of fic"
Now there is something powerful about imagining, something that when we grow up we tend to ignore. For there are forces in the universe, dark ones perhaps, that can tell you the power of belief: the way it bends and folds the veil of matter that composes the universe, dips down into the energy at its zero point and weaves truth like the gossamer strands of an infinite spider web. But adults ignore this truth, and let magic slip from their lives like a thief in the night, stolen from them by facts and figures and the belief that it cannot be so.

This is why most little boys grow up into businessmen or mechanics or scientists without ever once thinking that their dreams of space flight could have come true. John Sheppard could have been one of those boys too, but he was rescued from that fate by a little man with a crooked smile and blue eyes that sparked like the web that holds up the stars.

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First Contact, Last Encounter by Jb (PG-13)

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Show: SG-1
Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Sam Carter
Pairings: None
Categories: Gen, Action/Adventure, Episode Tag
Warnings: Violence, mental and physical trauma
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: The Tablet
Link: First Contact, Last Encounter

Why This Must Be Read: The First Ones is one of my favourite episodes in the series, if only because I absolutely love Chaka and the Unas. This story doesn't actually include any of the Unas, but it picks up where the episode left off and shows us a very realistic continuation of what might've happened after Daniel was rescued. It was a long walk to the gate, after all. And Jb makes it a very harrowing journey.

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