Stargate Fic Recommendations

I'm your devoted Daniel reccer this month! Let's start with an absolute gem, shall we?

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Pairing: see below

Categories: Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Jack O’Neill, Teal’c, gen, Sam and Daniel friendship, AU, drama, episode related, angst

Warnings: some language, spoilers through Season Six, one apocafic, spoilers for Moebius, AU major character deaths

Author on LJ: abyssinia4077

Author's Website: Masterlist of fanfiction

Link: Please Hang Up and Try Again

Why This Must Be Read: This beautifully rendered story will unquestionably break your heart.

Abyssis gives us two times five telephone conversations Daniel never had: five because they never existed - each takes place in a different AU - and five that were left on his voice mail during the year that he was Ascended, but were subsequently erased before he ever heard them.

The erased voice mails are poignant and heartbreaking and wistful in turns, left by Sam, Jack, Jonas, and Janet, echoing events of Season Six until Sam finally erases them. And the AUs cover the gamut from hope to anguish and back again - the embittered, exhausted Daniel from Moebius, a Daniel on the run from Kinsey, a Daniel who finally achieves public recognition, a Daniel who loses his SG-1... and a Daniel who gets back Sha’re, which brings tears to my eyes every time.

You will be blown away by the sheer power of this fic and its scope of if-onlys and might-have-beens. Go and read this one right now.

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Rec Category: Episode related

Pairing: none

Categories: episode related, gen, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Sam and Daniel friendship, character study

Warnings: none

Author on LJ: abyssinia4077

Author's Website: fic list

Link: Metaphors and Beer Bottles

Why This Must Be Read: In the middle of S8, while Daniel was busy getting beaten up by Vala in Prometheus Unbound, Sam suffered the trauma of dealing with her Replicator double in Gemini. In this lovely story, Abyssis gives us the two of them, a little drunk and a little maudlin in the aftermath… but also coming to a lovely, gentle understanding.

There’s the charm of their attempts to one-up the insanity of their lives, and the sober acceptance of knowing what capabilities simmer just beneath the surface. With an intriguing look back at Absolute Power and the warmth of the support that friendship offers – the key that “makes all the difference” – you’ll find that Metaphors and Beer Bottles makes a satisfying tag to these episodes. Read and enjoy!

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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, episode related, humor, angst, character study
Warnings: references to events in Reckoning/Threads
Author on LJ: annerb
Author's Website: Annerb Fic
Link: Brave New World

Why This Must Be Read: She likes the idea that maybe their weakness for each other is the charm that keeps this delicate blue sphere spinning calmly under the cold stars.

I fell in love this story when it was first posted for the sd_ficathon. Reading it again makes me love it even more.

Idle, bantering speculation as to just how Sam and Daniel would go about ruling the universe leads leads abruptly to the more serious topics of Ascended!Daniel’s failure on Abydos, and his murder by Replicarter, and how much of Sam’s own self was truly part of Fifth’s creation. Sam and Daniel quietly, thoughtfully talk their way through to acceptance of who they both truly are and how much they, and the team, mean to each other – and why that connection is what keeps them safe and grounded.

This beautiful fic is written with a deft touch that speaks straight to the heart of what makes Sam and Daniel’s friendship so wonderful, and you’ll remember it for a long time to come.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, humor, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: 6beforelunch
Author's Website: Nomadic Spirit
Link: Ex Libris

Why This Must Be Read: This charming little ficlet offers us a glimpse of Sam and Daniel in an off-planet library, with all their quirks and foibles and humor. Daniel, he insists, is a book person; Sam is merely a reader. Venn diagrams might not be needed to explain the matter more clearly, but Daniel likes making them anyway.

This fic is cheerfully plotless; it simply offers a chance to spend some highly entertaining time with Sam and Daniel at their delightful best. And really, what more do you need?

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, episode related, humor, character study
Warnings: very image heavy
Author on LJ: linnet_101 
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Scraps and Scribbles, parts one and two

Why This Must Be Read: Here is another special fic that I’ve been waiting a long time to rec. It’s not an actual story; rather, as the title suggests, it’s scraps and scribbles from Sam and Daniel’s life, showing their evolving friendship over the first five seasons of SG-1. The links are image heavy; keep that in mind if you’re on dial-up.

Rigel offers us a wide range of carefully designed glimpses – their doodles during briefings, the note Sam wrote after Sha’re’s death, the tally of their running competition during Upgrades. Many of these are taken directly from canon, like the increasingly-silly exchange of Post-It notes about Cassie and the certificate of merit (in Ancient!) that Daniel creates for Sam. Others simply reflect their characters, including Sam’s dozens of “while-you-were-out” notes and the stuffed toy Daniel leaves for Sam in a cardboard box. You will find these funny and warming and poignant and heartbreaking in turns – especially when you get to Sam’s final, crumpled note, written at the end of S5.

This tribute to Sam and Daniel’s friendship is beautifully unique and an absolute joy!