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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Category: Five Things, angst, het
Warnings: het, general ouchiness
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paian
Author's Website: Enkomion, also LJ fic tag
Link: Five things Sam wishes Jack had never said in bed
Why This Must Be Read:
This is a prime example of a stunning fic with no natural fandom audience.
It's a Sam/Jack fic, but not a happy one. But it doesn't bash either of them, and thoughpaian may be best known as a slash writer, none of the "five things" are "actually I'm in love with Daniel/Teal'c/Thor."
Instead, it's a thoughtful, compassionate but unsparing picture of how a relationship between these two smart, complex, unhappy people might turn into a quiet trainwreck, and it makes you hurt for both of them.
I recommend giving this a try regardless of how you feel about the pairing. It's not a fluffy view of Sam/Jack, but I do know some devoted Sam/Jack shippers who like it as a painful but respectful exploration of how things might potentially fail to work out. Equally, for non-lovers of the pairing, this might be a complicated and ouch-y vision of it that you can believe in.
For so long she yearned for him to open up to her emotionally, and when he does she just feels ... sorry for him. Sorry to find out what he really thinks of himself, how invested he is in his own self-recrimination -- that inside him somewhere might be the steady, quiet, attractively vulnerable man she's fantasized about but what he chooses to show her, or can't stop himself from showing her once the bottle's uncorked, looks a lot more like self-pity.
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Category: Five Things, angst, het
Warnings: het, general ouchiness
Author on LJ:
paianAuthor's Website: Enkomion, also LJ fic tag
Link: Five things Sam wishes Jack had never said in bed
Why This Must Be Read:
This is a prime example of a stunning fic with no natural fandom audience.
It's a Sam/Jack fic, but not a happy one. But it doesn't bash either of them, and though
paian may be best known as a slash writer, none of the "five things" are "actually I'm in love with Daniel/Teal'c/Thor."Instead, it's a thoughtful, compassionate but unsparing picture of how a relationship between these two smart, complex, unhappy people might turn into a quiet trainwreck, and it makes you hurt for both of them.
I recommend giving this a try regardless of how you feel about the pairing. It's not a fluffy view of Sam/Jack, but I do know some devoted Sam/Jack shippers who like it as a painful but respectful exploration of how things might potentially fail to work out. Equally, for non-lovers of the pairing, this might be a complicated and ouch-y vision of it that you can believe in.
For so long she yearned for him to open up to her emotionally, and when he does she just feels ... sorry for him. Sorry to find out what he really thinks of himself, how invested he is in his own self-recrimination -- that inside him somewhere might be the steady, quiet, attractively vulnerable man she's fantasized about but what he chooses to show her, or can't stop himself from showing her once the bottle's uncorked, looks a lot more like self-pity.
