Newbie Guide: The Essential Sheppard Fics

[sgatlantislight]

As with my Carson Beckett, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Aiden Ford, and Rodney McKay newbie guide posts, I'm trying to gather what people would consider the essential fics that aren't, as in most guides, exclusively McKay/Sheppard or Sheppard/Weir. Thus, the next title character by alpha order is John Sheppard

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[wordwitch]

Harsh Continent by 30toseoul

The Jenny Code by Domenika Marzione (miss_porcupine

Here is no water by Frostfire

(I'd also like to recommend Straight as a Circle, but you said no ....)

[sgatlantislight]

Pairings? Or are the all gen?

[wordwitch]

The first two are gen, and the last one is with Mitchell.

They're all intense enough that you kinda miss that they're gen, actually.

[wordwitch]

AND!!!

Retrograde, by Martha Wilson and Hunting Parties, by Victoria Custer. Separate universes, both of them series, and very full of the John I love best.

[wordwitch]

Retrograde is very loosely Sheppard/Mitchell, and Hunting Parties is John/Other: Vanrin, with whom a whollllle bunch of us have fallen desperately in love, and we want him on the show, yes precious.

[wesleysgirl]

I like this Sheppard/Zelenka one -

http://pierson.livejournal.com/137717.html

(Melting the Darkness by Deirdre)

[comnena39]

Ooops!
Sorry.
Missed your comment and reccommended the same story a little later.
Ah well, just shows how good it is... and how ADD I can be.
C

[wesleysgirl]

Nah, that's cool -- like you say, it shows that it's a good story that two different people rec'd it. :-)

Dex/Emmagan/McKay/Sheppard

[wordwitch]

You only have one here. Have some more:

Oikos, by Siriaeve

Brownian Motion , and Secondary motion, by 30toseoul

No, Really and Yes, Maybe, by basingstoke

Sheppard/Zelenka

[comnena39]

There is of course the community: http://community.livejournal.com/sheppardzelenka/... )

Re: Sheppard/Zelenka

[comnena39]

How could I have forgotten!
The Secret Life of Scientists by Julad (how they get together and save the world at the same time, R?)
http://yearningvoid.net/stories/julad/000082.html

Re: Sheppard/Zelenka

[lilyayl]

Er.. isn't that McKay/Zelenka?

"Wait, Rodney!" Zelenka came running on board. "Tell Sheppard. Five minutes."

"Tell Sheppard," he repeated. "Got it."

"Oh, and by the way," Zelenka said, and kissed him, hard. "I am done waiting."

Re: Sheppard/Zelenka

[comnena39]

Yes... *hangs head in shame*
I skip back and forth between the two pairings all the time, and I got muddled.
*blushes some more*
And apologies for this being so late a response, my internet has been spotty and my RL frantic.