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: Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c
Categories: gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: TerokNope
Link: Infinite Possibilities

Why This Must Be Read: Here is Daniel getting all thinky after seeing alternate realities, with first Sam and then the others adding in their own two cents. I love how they're all beautifully in character, with Teal'c (of course) getting the final zinger!

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack and Sam Friendship
Characters: Samantha Carter, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, humor, team, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: stringertheory
Author's Website: stringertheory
Link: Something Borrowed or on Dreamwidth
Why This Must Be Read: Classic team for the win as Sam takes over when Jack disappears off-world. Inverted marriage tropes and betting pools may be a factor...

Competent team, humor, snark, friendship... what more do you need?


Sam closed her eyes on a sigh. Having to pretend to be married to her CO to keep him from being forced into matrimony with a benevolent dictator was a new one. She was pretty sure there wouldn’t even be a base betting pool about it yet.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Team
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, original kid characters
Categories: gen, angst, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kormantic
Author's Website: pares
Link: The War Works Hard

Why This Must Be Read: This is a bleak, harsh reminder of the regular atrocities that Goa'uld leave behind them... but it's also a poignant, courageous glimpse of the team doing their absolute best to defend innocents off-world. Add Jack's typical rapport with kids and Daniel's meandering thought processes for a short and well-written fic.


Really, Daniel wondered that they hadn't run across more orphans in the galaxy.

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.

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Janet Frasier
Characters: Janet, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Categories: gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: pepper
Author's Website: PepperF
Link: Y is for Y Chromosome

Why This Must Be Read: This ficlet features the Little Doc at her competent, snarky best, dealing with the babies men under her care. Some people make good patients. Others... not so much.


"Bed, Doctor Jackson. It's the soft, squashy thing with the faint smell of disinfectant, just behind you."

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Team
Characters: Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter
Categories: gen, humor, crossover
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: tallulah_rasa
Author's Website: Tallulah_Rasa
Link: Odds Are

Why This Must Be Read: This delicious litle ficlet includes Teal'c pwnage, team snark, and bonus House cameo!

...Why are you still here? :)


“Damn it, man, I’m a doctor, not a miracle-worker!” House spit out, leaning over his desk with an air of furious intent.

Teal’c, on the other side of the desk, raised one eyebrow. “I have merely asked you," he said calmly, "for Daniel Jackson’s antihistamines.”

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Teal'c and Vala friendship
Characters: Teal'c, Vala Mal Doran, team, original characters
Categories: gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: holdouttrout
Author's Website: holdouttrout
Link: Ten Easy Steps Toward Piracy

Why This Must Be Read: It's a technical alien conspiracy!

Okay, it's really Teal'c and Vala vs. the Ori and the Orici, with Vala doing everything short of donning an eyepatch in her quest to be a really good pirate...

Great Teal'c POV, Vala at her shameless best, and a great romp - both figuratively and literally.


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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: Cameron Mitchell
Characters: Cameron Mitchell, Samantha Carter, Martouf/Lantash, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, Tok'ra ensemble, Elizabeth Weir
Categories: gen, AU, episode related, canon rewrite, Sam and Cam friendship, Cam and Teal'c friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: slybrarian
Author's Website: Slybrarian
Link: Ophiucus Rising

Why This Must Be Read: This is what the SGC/Tok'ra relationship should have been, and a very plausible way to bring Cam into the SGC program a full season earlier: instead of putting him through a year of agonizing therapy that might not be successful, Sam - still host to Jolinar - offers Cam the opportunity to be a Tok'ra host.

This leads to a very different S8, with Cam and his fellow Tok'ra-Tau'ri blends working at the SGC.

You'll enjoy the different twists on various episodes, the hilarious inner dialogue, and the warm friendship between Cam and Sam. A very satisfying story!


As everyone began settling down, Cam took a look around at them all. They were, to a man, woman, and snake, a bunch of neurotic, insane, and sneaky basket cases, but they were also brilliant, brave, and loyal. Part of Cam still ached for the squadron he had been forced to leave behind, but if he had to replace them he couldn't have asked for a better group. He didn't think he would mind calling them family for the next three or four hundred years.