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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Episode Related
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Samantha Carter
Categories: gen, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

lokei
Author's Website:

lokei
Link: Falling Back Into Metre, at AO3 (logged in only) or at her old LJ fic archive

Why This Must Be Read: Here's some oldskool fic to brighten your day!

In the wake of One False Step, various members of the SG-1 reach out to one another to make amends after their various dustups while under the influence of off-key singing plants. (That's an accurate description of the episode, but it sounds like the crackiest summary of the crackiest fanfic ever, doesn't it?) It's deft, wry, and perfectly in character - and a very satisfying coda to the episode.

The slow and steady beat of their understanding wove its way across the phone line, un-vocalized but not unheard, like the deep and vital tones of an alien world.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Episode Related
Characters: robot!team, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Categories: gen, angst, character study, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

troyswann
Author's Website:

mssalieri
Link: Tin Men

Why This Must Be Read: This is oldskool fic in aching, stellar Jack POV, showing us Robot!SG-1 in their first weeks with Harlan and the gradual decision to try and go through the Stargate.

Jack wonders how long it will take them to know each other’s stories by heart.

His new brain corrects another stumble. He hasn’t got a heart.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Sha're
Characters: Sha're, Amaunet
Categories: gen, angst, character study
Warnings: Goa'uld possession with everything it entails
Author's Journal:

nuh_s
Author's Website:

rosemarycat5
Link: Not Myself Today

Why This Must Be Read: The host survives. Nothing of the host remains. The symbiote learns what the host knows. The host absorbs...

Sha're. Amaunet. Dreams and the blurring of lines. Bleakly good.

In their dreams, Amaunet conjured feasts of strange fruits and bodies on the ground nearby. Sha’re supplemented the table with fresh breads and wrapped chocolate. She sat at one end of the conjured table dressed how she would have in Abydos, and across from her was her double, eyes glowing, and dressed in the garb of a system lord.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, character study, angst, episode related
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

briarwood
Author's Website:

morgan32
Link: Emotional Archeology

Why This Must Be Read: Fresh off the archive! This is a fantastic Jack and Daniel friendship piece in the wake of Show and Tell, with Daniel helping Jack deal with the emotional fallout. Understated, intelligent, sideways approaches... in short, perfectly Jack and Daniel. :)

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel Friendship
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c
Categories: gen, team, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website:

moonlitesonata
Link: Sugar Fix

Why This Must Be Read: Lovely Sam POV that is quite literally the sweetness of team bonding via baked goods, with Daniel playing host. You've heard of the language of flowers? Daniel speaks cookies, cake, and pie, too!

Teamy goodness, a light dose of angst, and a slight warning for probable cravings by the time you reach the satisfactory ending. :)

Jack liked cake, so after each time he and Daniel went at it, after whatever tiff they had ran its course, Daniel would show up with four slices of red velvet or tres leches or plain old chocolate cake, and Jack would give him a twitchy smile, and Daniel would reciprocate with a twitchy smile of his own, and Sam would relax for the first time that week, catching Teal’c’s eye. They ended up eating a lot of cake.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack and Daniel Friendship
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

lokei
Author's Website:

lokei
Link: Because, member-locked at AO3 or open on LJ

Why This Must Be Read: This is oldskool Jack and Daniel friendship at its snarkiest, genuine best, with a stellar Jack POV in the wake of Spirits. Sometimes "Because!" is all you really need.

Jack rocked back on his heels and let Daniel happen to him.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Characters: Cassandra Frasier, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, episode related, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

cirque
Author's Website:

cirque
Link: Here at the quiet limit of the world

Why This Must Be Read: Post-Heroes, so you all know what that means...

A bittersweet, aching return to Hanka, as Cassie seeks closure in the wake of other momentous changes in her life. Teamy support, excellent introspection, and a hopeful ending.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Teal'c
Characters: Teal'c, Jack O'Neill
Categories: gen, character study, Jack and Teal'c friendship, angst
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

princessofgeeks
Author's Website: POG at AO3
Link: R is for Ry'ac

Why This Must Be Read: In honor of Father's Day and Teal'c, who was always amazingly gentle with children and gave up the chance to mentor his own for the sake of his son's future...

It's early S1, before the team knows that Ry'ac even exists, and Jack takes Teal'c to the local mall where a glimpse of a karate class brings up painfully wistful memories. Brief, poignant, and stoic - in short, perfectly Teal'c.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Janet Frasier
Characters: Janet Frasier, General Hammond
Categories: gen, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

havocthecat
Author's Website:

havocthecat
Link: Vigil

Why This Must Be Read: Here is a lovely Janet and George introspective, as they grapple with the need to hold down the fort when they'd rather be doing something. It's quiet and gentle, with that steely resolve underneath, and it fits them both perfectly.

General Hammond smiled at her. It was one of those sad little smiles he saved for late at night when the losses were too much to bear. He didn't smile like that often. She smiled back, a wry almost-grin that she saved for the morning after the final sutures had been put in place, the infirmary was scrubbed clean, and she'd had enough coffee to get a start on feeling human again.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters: Jack O'Neill, with references to Daniel, Sara, Charlie, Kawalsky...
Categories: gen, character study, angst, pre-series
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

ljs_lj
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Jack O'Neill Does Not Believe

Why This Must Be Read: Superb old skool style fic, featuring an in-depth character study of Jack in the nebulous year between movie and COTG. Complete with a loving nod to Jack's Irish heritage and lots of foreshadowing, this is a fantastic glimpse of Jack's metamorphosis from the movie to the show.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Original Character
Characters: original characters, cameos from Janet, Teal'c, and Daniel
Categories: gen, angst, drama, character study, non-linear
Warnings: OC death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website:

elivira
Link: Breathlessly to Scream

Why This Must Be Read: This is a fascinating glimpse at life for a civilian scientist at the SGC, complete with tragedy and powerful, realistic reactions to the trauma of going through the Gate. I am a sucker for good non-linear narrative, and the 2nd person POV is an intriguing twist. Complete with occasional cameos from familiar faces, this fic will make you care about the characters you meet.

Yes, I recced this one already, reread it on my Kindle, forgot I'd done so, and recced again without checking first. That's how much I liked it.

The first time you see the event horizon it's blue, beautiful, and it takes your breath away. Now, in your dreams, the surface is bloodstained, bright red.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Characters: Samantha Carter, Jacob/Selmac, Jack O'Neill
Categories: gen, five things, character study, Sam and Jack friendship
Warnings: references to canonical minor character deaths
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website:

mysterytour
Link: The Telescope

Why This Must Be Read: Five times with Sam and her childhood telescope, ranging from her childhood dreams with her mother to her stormy relationship with her father to making peace with herself (and old age!) in the future. Lovely, thought-inducing stuff.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Teal'c
Characters: Teal'c, team
Categories: gen, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

lokei
Author's Website:

lokei
Link: L is for...(Teal'c drabbles)

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely triptych of Teal'c musings, offering a peek into the thought processes of our favorite inscrutable Jaffa. From loyalty to Lya to Luke Skywalker, this is perfectly, thoughtfully Teal'c.

On SG-1, Teal’c realizes, loyalty works remarkably like love.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Tok'ra character, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, other SGC personnel
Categories: gen, character study, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

marzipan77
Author's Website:

marzipan77
Link: U is for Us and Them

Why This Must Be Read: Tok'ra in genuine shades of grey, Daniel in sharp anthropologist mode, Jack at his snarky best, and some uncomfortable observations on reality...

This is an uneasy read, but a good one!

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, character study
Warnings: reference to canonical minor character death
Author's Journal:

jedibuttercup
Author's Website:

jedibuttercup
Link: Five Times Death Failed to Stop for Daniel Jackson

Why This Must Be Read: Five times Daniel thinks death would be kinder...

Short but not sweet, fully canonical, and very Daniel indeed.

Every time he gets close to another human being, he can't help but feel the echoes of an eight year old's pain and denial, listening in incomprehension as some stranger or other tried to tell him that his parents had "gone away" without him.

They were only the first in a long line of people to leave him, but he's never quite managed to forgive them for it.

Show: SG-1/SGA

Rec Category: Episode Related
Characters: Stephen Caldwell, Hermiod, Asgard, SGA/SGC ensemble
Categories: gen, crossover, character study, mourning
Warnings: canonical species death (only in Stargate, heh)
Author's Journal:

kelincihutan
Author's Website:

KelinciHutan
Link: Casualty Notification

Why This Must Be Read: I disliked Unending for many, many reasons. This wonderful story is an excellent episode fix for one of the most egregious flaws: the blink-and-you-miss-it reaction to the loss of an entire race.

When news of the Asgard's fate reaches Atlantis, Caldwell reaches out to Hermiod. What follows is a tribute to the Asgard, a nod to Cimmeria, the meaning of friendship and camaraderie, and a much more satisfying sendoff than anything in the show.

Thor and the Asgard deserved better, and this lovely fic gives it to them!

How do you hold a funeral for an entire race?

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Teal'c
Characters: Teal'c
Categories: gen, five things, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

rachel500
Author's Website:

rachel500
Link: Cultural Gaps

Why This Must Be Read: Being alien doesn't just mean a lack of knowledge of Tau'ri culture; it means a Jaffa culture, too. And this thoughtful, beautifully Teal'cish five things does a superb job of highlighting different aspects of Jaffa culture that SG-1 never fully comprehend.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Original Character
Characters: original, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, drama, angst, character study, non-linear storytelling
Warnings: violence, OC character death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website:

elivira
Link: Breathlessly to Scream

Why This Must Be Read: I think this is a shiny new author, and definitely one worth encouraging! Here is a superb OC in the immediacy of second-person POV: a civilian going through Stargate, with all the trauma and determination and courage you can imagine.

As I commented, I am now going to mentally insert Callie into every background scene in the SGC, because this short fic brings her vividly to life.

The base psychologist asks if you still want to work on a gate team, to work with Evans and Takeda, or if you’d prefer to stay earthside.

“Yes,” you say, voice hoarse, “I want.” You don’t know why you agree, don't even know if you really do want to, but it's as if you can’t do anything else. You wonder if this is how Sergent Takeda feels when he talks about the gate, about his time in Atlantis, about his ten years at the SGC. As if there’s no way he can leave it behind for good, as much a part of him as his hands or feet.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jacob Carter
Characters: Jacob Carter, Selmak
Categories: gen, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

lokei
Author's Website:

lokei
Link: T is for Time

Why This Must Be Read: A triptych of Jacob Carter snapshots, at various points in his life, and the nature of time wasted and saved. Thoughtful and personable at the same time!

Jacob thinks about days measured by doctor’s appointments, by military operations, by phone calls that change your life, and then about great mysteries locked in mountains that seem to defy time and the progress of ‘normal’ life entirely. He smiles.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, pre-series, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

paian
Author's Website:

paian
Link: Daniel's First Six Languages

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely exploration of pre-series Daniel, developing his affinity for languages. Short and sweet!

He works in a crazy business these days, and you never know when you're going to need to know how to write with your off hand, or dial a phone with your toe, or read with your tongue.

Using my Teal'c icon due to my sad lack of my old Bra'tac one...

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Bra'tac
Characters: Bra'tac, Apophis, Samantha Carter
Categories: gen, pre-series, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

beatrice_otter
Author's Website:

beatrice_otter
Link: E is for Elegance

Why This Must Be Read: Bra'tac is wily and pragmatic and fierce. He also has style, wit, and perception. And in this gorgeous character exploration, it's those very traits that lead him to understanding that Apophis=false god... and that the Goa'uld must be defeated for the sake of Jaffa freedom.

Read this and savor.

( snippet of fic )

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: General Hammond
Characters: George Hammond, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, episode related, character study, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

randomfreshink
Author's Website: unknown
Link: G is for General

Why This Must Be Read: This is George in delicious General Hammond rocks! mode, dealing with each original member of SG-1 in turn - with grace, with wry humor, with just enough selective blindness, and with every ounce of class that makes him the best general the SGC ever had.

Dr. Jackson fell into step, and George started spinning the tale. The least he could do was look after his people--and sometimes that meant nothing more than this.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jonas Quinn
Categories: gen,episode related, character study, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

paian
Author's Website: Paian at AO3
Link: A Foot in the Door

Why This Must Be Read: Jonas said, "The truth is, I don't think that Colonel O'Neill was very comfortable having me around."

Daniel said, "That's not what he told me. ..."

Take that quote from Homecoming and give it the classic Paian treatment for sharp and shrewd amnesiac!Daniel, using all his skills as an archaeologist to explore the mystery that is Dr. Daniel Jackson... and his friendship with Jack O'Neill.

Lovely stuff!

So he studied Daniel Jackson's professional history the way his curriculum vitae informed him he had studied the history and languages of this planet. He made private, independent assessments of the people around him, uncontaminated by what others might have told him about them or about his past interactions with them. He learned what he could learn by reading. What the four members of SG-1 didn't seem to realize, despite knowing full well that one of Doctor Jackson's specialties was anthropology, was that he was nearly as good at reading people as he was at reading text.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Teal'c, team, original characters
Categories: gen, character study, Jack and Teal'c friendship, Teal'c and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

rachel500
Author's Website: Rachel500 at AO3
Link: It's All in a Name

Why This Must Be Read: An exploration of Teal'c. Or Murray. No - of Teal'c.

Team as family, wonderful friendships, stellar characterization.

He is home.

And he is happy to be both Teal'c and Murray.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Episode Related
Characters: Samantha Carter, Vala Mal Doran, Teal'c, Cameron Mitchell
Categories: gen, teamy goodness, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal:

stringertheory
Author's Website: Fic List
Link: V is for Viable

Why This Must Be Read: This one is for the fans of nu!SG-1 (aka S9-10). Remember Line in the Sand opening with the team returning from a successful test of Merlin's device? This is a great peek in Sam's head during that mission, reflecting on team and teamwork and the loss of Daniel.

If the best they could do for now was hide, then Sam would figure out how to hide the whole damn galaxy, if she had to. But first, she had to start small.

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fignewton - Falling Back Into Metre, by Lokei (PG)
fignewton - Tin Men, by Salieri (PG)
fignewton - Not Myself Today, by Rosemarycat5 (PG)
fignewton - Emotional Archeology, by Morgan Briarwood (PG)
fignewton - Sugar Fix, by Moonlitesonata (G)
fignewton - Because, by Lokei (PG)
fignewton - Here at the quiet limit of the world, by Cirque (PG)
fignewton - R is for Ry'ac, by Princess of Geeks (G)
fignewton - Vigil, by Havocthecat (G)
fignewton - Jack O'Neill Does Not Believe, by LJ (PG)
fignewton - Breathlessly to Scream, by Elivira (PG-13)
fignewton - The Telescope, by Mysterytour (PG)
fignewton - L is for...(Teal'c drabbles), by Lokei
fignewton - U is for Us and Them, by Marzipan (PG)
fignewton - Five Times Death Failed to Stop for Daniel Jackson, by JediButtercup (PG)
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