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https://archiveofourown.org/works/18437735

Show: SGA

Rec Category:AU/Sentinel Fusion
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Marshall Sumner, et al.
Pairings: Atlantis/John
Categories: Gen
Warnings: None
Author's Journal:

esteefee
Author's Website:

esteefee

Link: Waiting for Atlantis

Why This Must Be Read: Sentinels have to have Guides, but John Sheppard hasn't found his and is beginning to think he never will. He's something of an anomaly, living his life alone and managing his Sentinel gifts. This story is both serious and funny, sad and joyful, as John meets Atlantis and learns how to function with an AI as his Guide. I really enjoyed how

esteefee took a basic idea from canon--John's connection with Atlantis--and expanded on it. It's a fast-paced story, a new look at Rising, and the way a different sort of Sentinel and Guide can make all the difference in the world.

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mific

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Radek Zelenka
Characters: Radek Zeklenka, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Carson Beckett, Bates, Aiden Ford, Elizabeth Weir, Marshall Sumner, etc.
Category: Gen
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:

mad_maudlin
Author's Website: See the AO3, or on LJ
Link: These are available on the AO3, but the stories are full of M-dashes which haven't copied properly in the import, which make the fics hard to read due to stuck-together words. I recommend reading the series on LJ instead:
Rising (to the Occasion)
Team-Building Exercise
Measure of a Man
Why This Must Be Read: This is set in Mensaverse, in which Radek, an engineer-officer in the Czech army ends up as the ranking military officer of Atlantis. We also have Rod McKay and Dr John Sheppard from Mensaverse. The stories are a lot of fun and interesting, with everyone in slightly different roles as they go through AU versions of three familiar episodes.

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Marshall Sumner, John Sheppard, Sgt Bates, Elizabeth Weir
Pairings: None
Categories: GEN
Warnings: Character deaths, Character Study Alternate Universe
Author on LJ:

daughtershade
Author's Website: Wasting time the old fashioned way
Author's Website: daughtershade on AO3
Author's Website: daughtershade in Wraithbait
Link: Five Ways Marshall Sumner Died on LJ
Link: Five Ways Marshall Sumner Died On AO3
Link: Five Ways Marshall Sumner Died On Wraithbait

Why This Must Be Read: The Summary says: Five ways to live a life...
Its not often you come across a fic from Marshall Sumners point of view and in canon not a lot about him was explored because of the circumstances of his death.

This fic give five different ways he died, five different universes and an excellent character study.

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duonoaikouka.livejournal.com

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Marshal Sumner
Pairing: none
Het/Slash/Gen: gen
Warning: canon character death, spoilers for following episodes: Rising, Underground, Siege II, Before I Slept
Author on LJ: daughtershade
Author's Website: AO3, Altantis fic tag on LJ
Link: Five Ways Marshal Sumner Died

Why this must be read:

Ah, Marshall Sumner, the man that fandom forgot. Used mainly for other character's development and to further the plot by being big ol' bad Col. Sumner and dying, it's hard to find fics that illustrate him as a character and further develop him. Go figure that the best example of that I could find would be one that shows us five ways he died... *sigh* What I really like about Shade's piece here, though, is that we get to see Sumner as a man and not just the cookie cutter Colonel that just makes Sheppard look good. He's a man with a protective streak towards his men, a man with a sense of humor, a man who likes Westerns, and a man who knows how to die when it's in the cards. Every one of these five, from the canonical first to all the other possibilities, will make you respect the man more and wish to God the writers had kept him around longer. Rest well, Colonel Sumner, you are missed and respected.

Story Summary: see title really

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asugar.livejournal.com

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Pairing: Elizabeth Weir/Colonel Sumner, Katie Brown/Rod McKay, Ronon Dex/Melena, Jennifer Keller/Ronon Dex/Melena, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard
Category: Alternate Universe, Crackfic, Humor, Drama, John Sheppard, Gen, Het, John Sheppard & Teyla Emmagan Friendship, Elizabeth Weir/Colonel Sumner, Threesome, Jennifer Keller/Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard
Warning: Incredibly crack-ish, kissing, suggestive comments
Author on LJ: http://mad-maudlin.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: none known
Link: http://www.alyse.info/sesa_files/heteronormativity.htm and http://community.livejournal.com/sga_santa/175261.html

Why This Must Be Read: You will die laughing over the hilariously genius Heteronormativity, Gender Construction, and Non-Verbal Signalling in Intercultural Communication Situations (A Comedy). DO NOT read at work because it is literally laugh-out loud funny, possibly one of the funniest SGA stories I've read. The comic timing is note perfect and there's crackling chemistry between the characters. It takes place in the Mensa AU that Rod popped over from in canon. The author took the few scraps of character information about their other selves that were given in the episode (Rod's on the Athosian council, they didn't wake the Wraith, Teyla doesn't talk to anyone but John, John's an arrogant genius and into MENSA, Ronon is...Ronon) and spins a marvelously well-developed, thoughtful and yet completely cracked-up, screwball and comedically gold new universe to play in.

mad_maudlin does an incredible job fleshing out the dead-on characterizations. No matter how different things are in this AU, the essential core of each person is still the same. I adore the very strong John Sheppard POV and how she perfectly captures and satirizes Sheppard's cluelessness, inability to talk about emotions and general "never see it coming" attitude. His terrorizing of Eldon and his other assistant, his indulging of his geeky and dorky side (even a shout out to his Nintendo DS Lite addiction), John's running feud with "pigeon perv" Zelenka, his wandering gypsy childhood, his loving to fly all seem perfectly John despite being so different from the canon universe's Sheppard.

There's many fascinating and original possible changes in this AU: the Athosians are imperialists (30 colonies and counting), gender role reversals (hiding under the glorious comedy is a biting commentary on gender roles), Satendans are polyamorists (wait until you read Keller's reaction), Sumner's obsessed with knitting, Teyla was a Runner and is in the "Sex, Blood, Bombs and the City" gang.... I just can't praise this story enough and have too many favorite parts to list so I can only beg the author to please, please, please write more in this wonderful world.

ed-84.livejournal.com

Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir
Category: AU, Sheppard/Weir, Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Marshall Sumner, Laura Cadman, Rodney McKay, Jeannie Miller, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Chuck, Samantha Carter, Carson Beckett, etc...
Warning(s): sex and violence
Author:

lanna_kitty
Author's website: N/A
Link: Conflicts of Interest

Why This Must Be Read: Loooong fic written for

sgabigbang. Awesome, in-character, supernatural AU dealing with steampunk. It's one thing to write a totally new universe where you have to make up rules and species and define new terminology, and yet quite another to breath such life into the world. Lanna_Kitty does an awesome job of creating a whole new world where "the world is an alternate history version of our own world with a few radical changes. The first is that magic is real and works. The second is the presence of supernatural races that live, work, love and fight with normal humans. Most notable of these are the Werewolves and the Vampires. The third is that it is a steampunk setting."

All of this should not mesh with SGA, but dude, like I always say, Sheppard/Weir fandom kicks ass at AUs. Loved that she had that same sense of adventure/exploration in it that we're familiar with in the show, and how everybody was in character despite being in different roles. It should not work, but it totally does because Lanna never goes bad with characterization. Even with Teyla and Ronon as werewolves, or Elizabeth as a vampire, etc.

This story has a great supporting cast, including everyone from Sumner to Sam to Jeannie Miller to Laura Cadman. Practically everyone. Plus, there's some steamy romantic scenes with John and Elizabeth that will reduce your brain to liquid! Read! Go! It will amaze you!

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abyssinia4077.livejournal.com

Rec Category: Gen
Pairing: None
Category: Gen, AU, Quantum Mirror, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagen, Radek Zelenka, Marshall Sumner, gen
Warning: none
Author on LJ

ltlj
Author's Website: Watergate
Link: On LJ: Deflection
On website: Deflection

Why this must be read:

ltlj tells this story from the PoV of a John Sheppard who is drugged and confused and thinks he's numb from being cloned after dying and losing Atlantis. As the story slowly unfolds the reader, along with John, learns of a more sinister plot unfolding. What follows is a wonderful blending of AU's and universe elements from both SG-1 and SGA all turned into a well-crafted story. Once you finish you'll want to read it a second time to see all the little hints both you and Sheppard missed the first time around.

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medie

Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: Elizabeth Weir/Colonel Sumner
Category: Elizabeth Weir, het, Alternate Universe
Warning: explicit sex
Author on LJ:

smittywing
Author's Website: SmittyWorld 2.0
Link: http://smittywing.livejournal.com/249134.html

There's a lot of what might have beens running around, and this is one of my favorites. It's got Sumner, Sumner/Elizabeth, and most important of all - it's got a hell of an Elizabeth in it. Great backstory, even better characterization, and a practicality that's just of the win.

This Elizabeth knows what she wants, how to get it, and how to make everyone else think it was their idea. This? Is fun times.

One To Let Go

Current Mood: chipper

settiai

Rec Category: Het

Pairing: Sumner/Weir
Category: Atlantis, het, Elizabeth Weir, Marshall Sumner.
Warning: Explicit sex.
Author on LJ:

smittywing
Author's Website: SmittyWorld!
Link: One to Let Go

Why This Must Be Read: Based entirely on this preview picture that was posted on Gateworld ages ago, Smittywing has managed to write a completely believable story. In the last weeks before they leave for Atlantis, Weir and Sumner find a common ground ... even though they know nothing will be able to come out of it if the wormhole to Pegasus actually opens.

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Entries tagged with character: marshall sumner

Waiting for Atlantis by esteefee [G]

Major Zelenka 'verse (by Mad_Maudlin) (T)

Five Ways Marshall Sumner Died by daughtershade (PG-13)

Five Ways Marshal Sumner Died by Shade (PG13 by reccer)

Heteronormativity, Gender Construction, and Non-Verbal Signalling... by mad_maudlin

Conflicts of Interest, by lanna_kitty (nc-17)

Deflection by Martha Wilson (PG-13)

One To Let Go by smittywing (NC-17)

One to Let Go, by Smittywing (Adult)