Stargate Fic Recommendations

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Sha're
Categories: het, angst, fluff, pre-series, episode related, AU, character study
Pairing: Daniel/Sha're
Warnings: canonical minor character death
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: boton
Link: Five Moments Daniel and Sha’re Shared, and One They Didn’t

Why This Must Be Read: As the categories list indicates, this short fic covers all the bases of Daniel/Sha're possible interactions, from post-movie to pre-series to COTG to AU. Great Daniel POV, poignancy and fluff and angst, and a short, satisfying read.

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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.

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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

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.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five Things
Characters: Robot!team
Categories: gen, episode related, angst, missing scenes, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: smilebackwards
Author's Website: smilebackwards
Link: S is for Synthetic

Why This Must Be Read: We all know about Robot!Team's mission to Juna, but what about the other missions they undertook before that final disaster?

Smilebackwards gives us glimpses of four others (plus their last one), which range from angsty to wry to amusing and back again. All in superb Jack!voice, too!


Sure, they’ve all gone through the stages of grief and have periodic existential crises, but organic Jack never could have wrapped his hands around the rusting bars of their rustic prison getaway and— Creak!

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Five things
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c, Samantha Carter, General Hammond
Categories: gen, friendship, angst, episode related, hurt/comfort, references to Daniel/Sha're, Jack and Daniel friendship, Teal'c and Daniel friendship, Sam and Daniel friendship
Warnings: references to canonical character deaths
Author's Journal: rachel500
Author's Website: Rachel500 at AO3
Link: Every Darkness Has a Light

Why This Must Be Read: The summary of this is "five times Daniel sat alone in a dark room," but in reality, it's "five times Daniel tried to sit alone in a dark room, until someone rescued him." And it's truly lovely, as five different depressing, dark moments that Daniel canonically suffered are mitigated and consoled by various friends. I love how the choice of each person so fits the situation. A very warming read.

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