TEAM REC POST
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Category 1 Recs:
one
Title: Mutually Decohering Histories
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ's baby
Word Count/Length: 3800
Summary: Five times TJ's baby lived
Why you should read/watch this: It's probably one of the best SGU fics I've ever read. Imagining the possibilities is what makes this great and zip captures the voices, the setting, the feel, perfectly
two
Title: Duets
Author/Artist: laure
Characters/Rating: Everett Young, Tamara Johansen, Chloe Amrstrong, Ronald Greer, Matthew Scott, Eli Wallace, Camille Wray, Vanessa James, Lisa Park, Dale Volker, Adam Brody, Darren Becker, Nicholas Rush/ GEN
Word Count: 1776
Summary: Friendships form. Sometimes unlikely. Sometimes out of necessity. Sometimes very simply. On a ship like Destiny, everyone needs some one to make the days and nights a little easier.
Why you should read this: Bite-size ficlets about friendships - what's not to love?
three
Title: Paper Cranes
Author/Artist: kriadydragon
Character/Pairing/Rating: Miko, Sheppard, Ronon, Teyla, Mckay
Word Count/Length: approx 3500
Summary: Miko does not consider herself a woman of faith.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its reallly, reallly, reallllly, lovely. and Miko and team bffness and atlantis bffness.
four
Title: Cheating the Other Guy
Author/Artist friendshipper
Word Count: 2000
Summary: Sam and Teyla find themselves in a Western. Sort of. And Teyla seems to have accidentally sold her teammates to buy a ranch, but who can blame her.
Why you should read/watch this: Because teyla and sam SELL the boys. sort of. its LOLZY and the girls are badass.
five
Title: Life Stress
Author/Artist: penknife
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sg-1, Gen
Word Count/Length: 700
Summary: The ordinary scale may not apply.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its cute :D
six
Title: Board Wars
Author/Artist: greyias and jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, Team SGA
Word Count/Length: medium - longish
Summary: "Earth seems to have a lot of games." "We get bored easily."
Why you should read/watch this: because the team goes through a lot of games and they tend to end in disaster and its cute and funny.
seven
Title: The Laundry Ultimatum
Author/Artist: explodedpen
Character/Pairing/Rating: gen, pg 13
Word Count/Length: 6630
Summary: A week in the life of the bravest man to ever walk the hallways of Atlantis... the laundry guy.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its an interesting look at the "day-to-day" of Atlantis.
eight
Title: Fake Birds and Real Holidays
Author/Artist: xparrot
Character/Pairing/Rating: GEN
Word Count/Length: 8,300
Summary: The team descends on the Miller household. No turkeys were harmed in the making of this story. Much to Rodney and Ronon's disappointment.
Why you should read/watch this: Because Jeannie is always a delight, there is friendship between her and teyla and of course rodney's bickering.
nine
Title: Just Your Typical Day
Author/Artist: kristen999
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon, Gen
Word Count/Length: 2200
Summary: What does Ronon do when he's not shooting bad guys?
Why you should read/watch this: Because its nice seeing another side of Ronon.
ten
Title: Four Times Ronon Usurped Rodney's Dessert and One Time He Didn't
Author/Artist: linziday
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, Team SGA, Rodney, Ronon
Word Count/Length: 4,000-ish
Summary: pretty much what the title says.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its cute and funny.
eleven
Title: Practicing Medicine
Author/Artist: kristen999
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Keller, PG
Word Count/Length: 6000
Summary: Jennifer learns that accepting and upholding an oath, requires living it.
Why you should read this: It's a really well written fic that gives us a look at Jennifer's day to day reactions to different scenarios.
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_genficathon/60757.html
twelve
Title: Third Donut Shop From The Sun
Author/Artist: surreallis
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c (PG)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Teal'c is the last SG-1 member left after a zombi apocalypse.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's an amazing Teal'c piece about hope, zombies and donuts.
thirteen
Title: Why Teal'c Likes Star Wars
Author/Artist: ami-ven
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell, Teal'c (PG)
Word Count/Length: 580
Summary: Cam finally ask why Teal'c keeps watching Star Wars
Why you should read/watch this: perfect teamy fic and great buddy times between Cam and Teal'c.
fourteen
Title: A Collection of E-mails from the SCG Archives (the Wanky Wormhole X-treme Remix)
Author/Artist: beatrice_otter
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala, Jack, Daniel, team. (PG)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Vala writes fanfiction and she and Jack battle it out on fandom wank.
Why you should read/watch this: Vala starts wank by writing Wormhole X-terme slash fanfiction.
fifteen
Title: Walking The Line
Author/Artist: annerbhp
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Keller, Cameron Mitchell (G)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Jennifer Keller and Cameron Mitchell: His last words to her before she left Earth were: "Give 'em hell."
Why you should read/watch this: Great gen piece about the new kids on the block. I love the idea of them being friends.
sixteen
Title: The Universe Is Infinite
Author/Artist: maraynya14
Character/Pairing/Rating: SG-1 team (G)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: The team meets the last of the Four Races and have to tell Jack the tale.
Why you should read/watch this: FURLINGS, Greatest protrayl of them yet.
seventeen
Title: Jester's Silence
Author/Artist: holdouttrout
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c, Vala (G)
Word Count/Length: 2,580
Summary: After five years Vala is bored and in need of a new victim.
Why you should read/watch this: During "Unending" it's a wonderful depiction of friendship between the resident aliens. Lovely character study.
eighteen
Title: Incredible Luck, Annoying Charm
Author/Artist: ana-grrl
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c and Vala, (G)
Word Count/Length: 659 words
Summary: moment between Vala and Teal'c right before "Beachhead"
Why you should read/watch this: I love the issues Vala manages to bring up and how Teal'c answers and listens to her. It really gives depth for these two characters.
nineteen
Title: The Towers On The Heights Reach To Heav'n's Own Blue
Author/Artist: minervacat
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Cameron Mitchell, SGA ensemble (R)
Word Count/Length: 9200 words
Summary: In which John Sheppard hates cricket and accidentally starts an intramural soccer league, and Cameron Mitchell thinks McKay's sister sucks.
Why you should read/watch this: Hilarious character piece about John and Mitchell talking sports and basically being best friends. It's amazing how much Cam's presense is felt in the fic when he's not technically even in it.
twenty
Title: Made to be Broken
Author/Artist: Tierney Beckett
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam, John, Jack (G)
Word Count/Length: ~2k
Summary: John breaks some records.
Why you should read/watch this: Hilarious little piece about John and some long standing SGC records.
twenty-one
Title: The Best of the bad ideas
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters/ PG-13
Word Count/Length: 18,910
Summary: What if the communication stones had glitched and Young had been unable to switch back to his body after going to the alien ship the second time? How will the Destiny crew deal with aliens amongst them? And what does it really mean to be an alien? Sometimes the definition is only skin deep.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it includes all the characters and them working together as a team.
twenty-two
Title: Three Years Later
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Destiny and her crew
Word Count/Length: 240
Summary: Three years later she still misses them - an alternate ending
Why you should read/watch this: Because Destiny is a member of the SGU team.
twenty-three
Title: Four purple sweet potato recipes that were a disaster, and one that was a winner
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: various SGU characters
Word Count/Length: 390
Summary: Exactly what the title promises.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it has Becker the cook in it, i.e. a rare character.
twenty-four
Title: A turkey (of a) story
Author/Artist: tallulah_rasa 0r tallulah_rasa on DW
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 1100 ish
Summary: Team Sg-1 talk thanksgiving
Why you should read/watch this: cos Holiday fics are always adorbs, and i'm not even american and i still think this is cute!
twenty-five
Title: Five people Teal’c sent Valentines cards to
Author/Artist: gategremlyn
Character/Pairing/Rating: teal'c, others, gen
Word Count/Length: 700+
Summary: Five people Teal’c sent Valentines cards to
Why you should read/watch this: Because its not often you get a fic centered around Teal'c and earth customs and its ADORABLE.
Category 2 Recs:
one
Title: big_blue_bin
Author/Artist: spud66cat
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGU, SGA, SG-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: she does beautiful work!!!
two
Title: fragile-basket
Author/Artist: regularamanda
Character/Pairing/Rating: SG-1 mostly
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: because she regularly posts lovely icons.
three
Title: brightestbuzz
Author/Artist: feel_the_fire
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mostly Sg-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Cos she has such vibrant colouring <3
four
Title: stolen_garden
Author/Artist: far_to_nowhere
Character/Pairing/Rating: mostly sg-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Because she is my favourite. :D
five
Author/Artist: picon
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Because they make a large variety of awesome Stargate stuff.
six
Title: sail_your_sea
Author/Artist: hihoplastic
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGA, Elizabeth Weir, Elizabeth/John
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Fabulous J/E fanfic, and really gorgeous Elizabeth fanart.
seven
Title: gate_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: every single character in Stargate - SG1, SGA, and SGU
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Its a unique comm that features challenges from all of the Stargates - SGA, SG1, and SGU.
eight
Title: sgu_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: All Characters from SGU
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Its one of the few SGU Iconntests out in LJ land.
nine
Title: lantis_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: All Atlantis Characters
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: It has some great icons of the all the great characters from Atlantis.
ten
Title: oneill_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: Just Jack
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: They don't have many entries lately but the quality of icons is great
Category 3 Recs:
one
Title: It's My Life
Author/Artist: ladrine89
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Pg-13
Word Count/Length: 4.01 minutes
Summary: umm John shows everyone how badass he is.
Why you should read/watch this: Its not a bad vid showing john's season two arc
two
Title: My Skin
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ.
Word Count/Length: 2.09 mins
Summary: TJ's storyline.
Why you should read/watch this: because its amazingly well done like all her vids are and its nice to see some more of TJ.
three
Title: The Look
Artist: Sammy
Character: Vala
Length: 3:47
Summary: She's got the look
Why you should watch this: It's a humour/action video, and the song fits Vala perfectly.
four
Title: Tears of an Angel
Author/Artist: GCm4n
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ
Word Count/Length: 3:31
Summary: Looks at TJ's story mainly covering the pregnancy and the loss of the baby
Why you should read/watch this: It is beautifully done!
five
Title: Stargate Universe - Dale Volker
Author/Artist: GCm4n
Character/Pairing/Rating: Dale Volker/ G
Word Count/Length: 4:51
Summary: A fan video for Patrick Gilmore. From some loyal fans :)
Music: The Jayhawks - Blue
Why you should watch this: Because it's really really sweet and the claustrophobia scene is sooo well done!
six
Title: A Tribute to Colonel Young
Author/Artist: ashimon/ashimon2
Character: Colonel Young
Summary: Season 1 video of Young, pondering a lot of the issues he had to face. I personally find this a superb summary of who Young is or was in season 1. It shows the best of him but also his mistakes as well as the burden he has to carry for the rest of the crew.
Why you should watch this: For those who love Young: because he is awesome and hot. For those who are less enthusiastic: because you might just get the hang of why we, Youngites, would kill for the guy. :)
seven
Title: Stargate Universe SGU Destiny Music Video
Author/Artist: SheppardG1
Character/Pairing/Rating: Destiny/ G
Length: 4:51
Summary: A collection of Destiny beauty shots
Why you should read/watch this: Because Destiny deserves to be considered as a character in SGU.
eight
Title: New divide
Author/Artist: TatyanaOracle
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teyla Emmagen
Word Count/Length: 4:30
Summary: fanvid showing off Teyla and her badassness.
Why you should read/watch this: It's well edited and really shows all she went through and how strong she is as a person.
nine
Title: Girl's A Genius
Author/Artist: nouveaulove
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala Mal Doran
Word Count/Length: 1.24 mins
Summary: Vala's a girl genius.
Why you should read/watch this: Fun Vala vid.
ten
Title: Brand New Day
Author/Artist: Jemo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ba'al/pg13
Word Count/Length: 1min 52sec
Summary: A look at Ba'al, set against the song "Brand New Day" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Why you should read/watch this: Even if you're not a Ba'al fan, the conjunction between song and subject is fun. The editing is technically fabulous and extremely well matched to the lyrics, from literal interpretation to deeper parallels (Horse to Horus? Genius!)
Category 4 Recs:
- 15 unique SG1 pairings
one
Title: First Born
Author/Artist: lavitanuova
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Vala; R
Word Count/Length: ~1700
Summary: (from the author's page) Written for the stargateland Bingo challenge. Loosely intended as a filler for Roswell but it has been over a year since I've read that book, so. don't hold me to that continuity. Essentially Qetesh has taken Vala has a host, but is pregnant with Cam's child so Vala has emerged again
Why you should read/watch this: This is my one and only non-canon pairing. IMO, this particular story has a little loophole (as apparently it's part of a novel in which Vala really does have Cam's baby). I think it captures the characters beautifully.
two
Title: The Hero's Flame
Author/Artist: denise1
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Hailey/Lt. Elliot - K+ (PG-13?)
Word Count/Length: 5462
Summary: Hailey's point of view during Last Stand.
Why you should read/watch this: I'm a fan of this pairing since 'Proving Ground' and denise1 spins a wonderful (albeit sad) story for these two. It switches from the past to the present to the future and gives such a great insight in the relationship of Hailey/Elliot.
three
Title: Daniel Jackson's Diary
That link appears not to be working anymore. you can download it here if you want to read.
Author/Artist: Anais
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Jack, Sam/other, Daniel/Paul Davis
Word Count/Length: very long.
Summary: umm crack
Why you should read/watch this: because its epic crack and hilarious. Seriously. it had me in stitches for like a whole evening.
four
Title: We Disappear
Author/Artist: brilliantrouble & darkbunnyrabbit
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Carolyn Lam
Word Count/Length: 6944
Summary: An alternate Dr. Lam and her team come through the Stargate during Ripple Effect and one thing is very apparent, the worst has happened. Sometimes there's nothing left to do but stop.
Why you should read/watch this: Fabulously written, and heartbreaking.
five
Title: Make Crosses From Your Lovers
Author/Artist: synecdochic
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack/Vala (hard R)
Word Count/Length: 10k+
Summary: Vala understands far more than people give her credit for understanding; Jack needs a night off from living his life.
Why you should read/watch this: part of synedochic's Eurydiceverse it's an excellent telling of how Jack and Vala come together out of their mutual love of Daniel. Excellent character piece.
six
Category: Four
Title: Laterals
Author/Artist: dirty-diana
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Sam, P-13
Word Count/Length: Medium
Summary: "You're saying somewhere there's a reality where you and I are still together?"
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its about the only sam/cam fic i like?
seven
Title: The Mating Game
Author/Artist:
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Baal, R
Word Count/Length: 36,776
Summary: Relationships can start in the strangest places...
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's funny and hot and never gets old even when you've read it a dozen times (not that I have... not quite, anyway)
eight
Title: Medical Directives
Author/Artist: Rogue Cnidarian
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Janet; PG-13
Word Count/Length: 1000
Summary: Janet, Daniel, fruit and first aid.
Why you should read/watch this: It's funny and rather cute!
nine
Title: Frustration
Author/Artist: Mexx
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Jonas; rated R
Word Count/Length: 1002
Summary: Daniel's feeling a little frustrated. Jonas is the only one not frustrating him.
Why you should read/watch this: Who'd have thought? Daniel and Jonas!
ten
Title: In his arms
Author/Artist: LE McMurray
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Sha're; PG
Word Count/Length: 513
Summary: Missing scene from "Secrets"
Why you should read/watch this: It's short and sweet.
eleven
Title: A Cookie is a Cookie
Author/Artist: Smellen of Troy
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Sam; PG
Word Count/Length: 1,888
Summary: After a team night, drunk!Sam and drunk!Daniel have fun in the kitchen; cookies, peanut butter and booze are involved.
Why you should read/watch this: It's got lots of cookies! And it's funny, too.
twelve
Title: Lost in Transit
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Charlie Kawalsky [PG-13]
Word Count/Length: ~3860
Summary: The more things change, the more they stay the same (spoilers for 'Ripple Effect').
Why you should read/watch this: I was always intrigued by the Charlie/Sam scenes in the first episodes and wondered if there could have been more. This story - while quite sad and melancholic - offers a wonderful wrap-up for a Charlie/Sam ending in an AU!verse.
thirteen
Title: Equanimity
Author/Artist: walkingshadow
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill [Adult Themes]
Word Count/Length: 1846
Summary: It hurt. And it bled. And it made him feel ... free. (Post S8 but before S9)
Why you should read/watch this: A bit sappy and cute but it's a perfect they-get-finally-together fixer with some hot make-out thrown in.
fourteen
Title: Hard Hit
Author/Artist: JosephineLL
Character/Pairing/Rating: Malek/Kelmaa [PG]
Word Count/Length: 100
Summary: 'Cure' deals a double blow to Malek.
Why you should read/watch this: A look inside Malek's mind and what he really lost that day. It's heartbreaking.
fifteen
Title: Rules for Survival
Author/Artist: natalia5345
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala [PG]
Word Count/Length: 100
Summary: 'It's a Daniel/Vala story filled with a bunch of angst (what else would I write) as well as some romance and a bunch of Vala backstory!
Vala has been on her own for a long time, she developed a set of rules to live by in order to survive, but a certain archeologist always seems to be making her question her personal code...
Why you should read/watch this: Its always nice to combine Daniel/Vala with Vala backstory!
- 10 unique SGA pairings
One
Category: FOUR
Title: Five Reasons No One Knows Lorne's First Name.
Author/Artist: torakowalski
Character/Pairing/Rating: Pg, Lorne/Parrish
Word Count/Length: Short
Summary: pretty much the title.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its nice to get to know lorne, its funny and cute.
two
Title: Three Hundred and Sixty-Four
Author/Artist: sardonicsmiley
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Rodney, background Teyla/Lorne, Nc-17 i think.
Word Count/Length: Long
Summary: This is not the solution that Ronon would have chosen for dealing with the IOA.
Why you should read/watch this: Because this is about the only Ronon/Rodney that i've read and its adorable.
three
Category: FOUR
Title: Four Blatant Lies About Atlantis (And One Thing That's Totally True)
Author/Artist: sabinelagrande
Character/Pairing/Rating: McShep, passing mentions of other pairings, pg-13, crack
Word Count/Length: 4286
Summary: Wherein aliens don't make them do it, John loves ASCII, Carson hates everyone, Weir is highly amused, and Lorne's just trying to be a pal.
Why you should read/watch this: COS ITS HILARIOUS.
four
Title: Meals on the Run
Author/Artist: raisintorte
Character/Pairing/Rating: Lorne/Cadman, PG13
Word Count/Length: 2362
Summary: (There is none) Lorne and Cadman off world, things go wrong, people get tied up, and seasoned with condiments.
Why you should read/watch this: It's Lorne. It's Cadman. And there is licking, won't say who does that - spoilers.
five
Title: And Since We've No Place to Go
Author/Artist: [info]peanutbutterer
Character/Pairing/Rating: Elizabeth, John, Cameron, Sam and Lorne (John/Elizabeth), PG
Word Count/Length: 3550
Summary: When General O'Neill had first mentioned the idea to Cameron, the colonel thought it was absurd.
Why you should read/watch this: Cameron Mitchell playing matchmaker, Lorne being sneaky and flirty with Elizabeth, and mistletoe.
six
Title: Past Time
Author/Artist: siriaeve
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Amelia, PG
Word Count/Length: 600
Summary: (0ne not given) Ronon teaches Amelia a "traditional Satedan sport"
Why you should read this: I love the way that Amelia is written. Very believable for a character we've hardly seen.
seven
Title: Dark Places of the Soul Series | In The Dark (first story)
Author/Artist: Keira Marcos
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Keller, McKay/Lorne, John/Cadman (R - NC-17)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: summary for the first story: Dr. Keller gets separated from Ronon and Major Lorne on a routine mission.
Why you should read/watch this: excellent excellent AU series on how season 5+ could have gone.
eight
Title: Glints in the Night
Author/Artist: lallybroch
Character/Pairing/Rating: McKay/Cadman (NC-17)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: She couldn't even say 'one thing led to another' because she's still not quite sure how she ended up with her panties around her ankles, having a spectacularly loud orgasm in the middle of Lab 4.
Why you should read/watch this: sexy and hot McKay/Cadman porn
nine
Title: The Hidden Lore of Old Ocean
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir (PG-13)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: The darkness enveloping Atlantis is oppressive. The city looks abandoned, but even in its emptiness, Elizabeth has the niggling sense of being watched.
Why you should read/watch this: AU based on the themes of H.P. Lovecraft. Excellent and creppy.
ten
Title: Unspoken
Author/Artist: Chaps1870
Character/Pairing/Rating: Carson/Rodney, Shep
Word Count/Length: Long
Summary: John finds out Rodney and Carson are in a relationship and it threatens his friendship with Rodney.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its also about friendship.
- 5 unique SGU pairings
one
Title: Broccoli Trees, and the sequel You smell like apple candy
Author/Artist: cerebel at http://cerebel-fics.livejournal.com
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Rush and Young/ TJ/ Rush; Teen/ NC-17
Word Count/Length: 4700 / 4300
Summary: Young and Rush stranded on a planet with strange trees that help them get back to Destiny. There are consequences to communing with that kind of nature.
Why you should read this: Because it's incredibly well written, very haunting in atmosphere and just plain beautiful.
two
Title: black and white/white and red
Author/Artist: cerebel at http://cerebel-fics.livejournal.com
Character/Pairing/Rating: Everett Young/ Camile Wray, Teen/ NC17
Word Count/Length: 3800
Summary: Camille Wray hates Everett Young. Doesn't she?
Why you should read/watch this: Anything cerbel has ever written is worth reading. The characters are all spot-on and the story provides new insights into why they do what they do.
three
Title: A Ghost's Story
Author/Artist: wneleh
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Riley; R
Word Count/Length: 2400
Summary: Airman Hunter Riley's ghost first appeared to Col. Everett Young the night Everett killed him.
Why you should read this: Because Riley is LOVE. And the author gets his voice just right.
four
Title: Three Ghosts
Author/Artist: salieri
Character/Pairing/Rating: Eli and Mrs. Wallace, Gloria and Rush, Telford and ??. Rating is probably PG-13 (no warnings)
Word Count/Length: 1800
Summary: three snippets of the characters above
Why you should read/watch this: These are hauntingly well written, heartbreakingly beautiful stories
five
Title: Something Holy, Something More
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Emily/ Everett Young
Word Count/Length: 8361
Summary: A marriage does not fail overnight; it takes years for the cogs to wear down enough to start slipping, but even then, the wheels continue to turn.
Why you should read this: Very well written account of Emily's experience of losing Everett that does not place blame on any one thing.
5 crossovers (crossover between stargate shows)
one
Title: Ocean's Pull
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack O'Neill/Elizabeth Weir NC-17
Word Count/Length: 2,782
Summary: The knock on her door is tentative, almost awkward-sounding.
Why you should read/watch this: A wonderful gap filler for the The Return, a wonderful O'Neill/Weir fic, that's magnificently in character and one that could easily be canon.
two
Title: A Good Man
Author/Artist: irony_rocks
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Elizabeth Weir
Word Count/Length: 21,779
Summary: There was no fight over authority. She just wanted what Cameron wanted: their people back, safe and sound.
Why you should read/watch this: For a pairing that logically shouldn't exist, irony_rocks writes a wonderfully plotted and perfectly in character fic, that's also incredibly LONG. Her characterization makes you completely forget how these two characters had virtually no screen time. The story is set in the Ori plotline, where Earth has been taken over and it's Atlantis' turn to save the day. An amazing story that everyone should read.
three
Title: That Our Sons May Follow After
Author/Artist: medie
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Elizabeth Weir NC-17
Word Count/Length: She dreams of her townhouse in flames, wakes up screaming at the feeling of the fire licking at her skin.
Summary: 4,336
Why you should read/watch this: An AU where Elizabeth never joined the Atlantis expedition, there's political intrigue, amazing writting and characterization, all in an apocalyptic setting. What more can you ask for?
four
Title: Last Year's War
Author/Artist: Cinaed
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack O'Neill/Elizabeth Weir PG
Word Count/Length: 1,434
Summary: They tell him it's a promotion, but he knows better.
Why you should read/watch this: A heartbreaking AU, where Jack is transferred to Atlantis to replace John. The characterizations of both Jack and Elizabeth are wonderfuly in character.
five
Title: Cold Fish
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Dr. Brightman/ Everett Young (SG1/SGU)
Word Count/Length: 2,554
Summary: Sometimes they don’t know if they’re even talking about the same person.
Why you should read/watch this: Because the interim doc at the SGC gets no love otherwise.
Category 5 Recs:
One
Title: Tell me one more time TJ and Varro
Author/Artist: Songhee84
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ and Varro
Word Count/Length: 4:22
Summary: Looks at TJ and Varro's relationship
Why you should read/watch this: I think it is nicely done and focuses on a less common but interesting pairing (despite the fact that I am not for it ;P)
two
Title: Halo
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict / valamd
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Sam
Word Count/Length: 1.43min
Summary: Cam and Sammmm
Why you should read/watch this: cos they are adorable and her vids are flawless.
three
Title: open your eyes
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict / valamd
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala/John
Word Count/Length: 3.11
Summary: umm Vala/John?
Why you should read/watch this: Because for a pairing that never really met, this vid is amazing and kinda made me ship it.
four
Title: FEVER
Author/Artist: milena_d
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala
Word Count/Length: 2 mins 28
Summary: A short video epitomizing the push/pull/prod/hook/bite/kiss relationship that is Daniel/Vala of SG-1. Slightly removed from linear canon. Just slightly. Barely noticeable, honest.
Why you should read/watch this: COS ITS AWESOME :D
five
Title: Faceless
Author/Artist: SeanDreamCatcher
Character/Pairing/Rating: Matt/TJ (SGU)
Why you should read/watch this: Probably one of the most interesting and creative SGU videos I've seen. It does a great job creating an AU storyline for Matt/TJ that is pretty darn believable (and true to the characters).
six
Title: Welcome to the Family
Author/Artist: milena_d
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ba'al/Adria (+team)
Summary: Ba'al knocks up Adria so her 'family' (ie members of SG-1) decide to send him a message.
Why you should read/watch this: The crackiest video I've seen for any of the shows, it'll definitely make you laugh!
seven
Title: Desperately Need You
Author/Artist: dangerousinsanity
Character/Pairing/Rating: Rush/Chloe
Word Count/Length: 2:03
Summary: Wonderful Rush/Chloe vid. Well edited, Clips very well manipulated.
Why you should read/watch this: It's the best Rush/Chloe vid i've seen so far.
eight
Title: Flying High
Author/Artist: EwigeStudentin
Character/Pairing/Rating: Eli/Ginn
Word Count/Length: 2.38
Summary: Eli/Ginn
Why you should read/watch this: Well there aren't many eli/ginn vids around so its a bit of take-what-you-can-get, but still!
nine
Title: Halo
Author/Artist: eden2222
Character/Pairing/Rating: Tj/Matt pg-13
Word Count/Length: 2.44
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Another ship where vids are thin on the ground, but i love this song and it shows the could-be of matt/tj
ten
Title: Hot & Cold
Author/Artist: perkin127
Character/Pairing/Rating: mcshep, pg-13
Word Count/Length: 3.34
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its actually really funny and makes me smile ;D
Category 6 Recs:
one
Title: Defender
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: PG, gen
Word Count/Length: 43 min
Summary: May I have your attention, please? This is Colonel Carter. Colonel Sheppard is to be considered an immediate and serious threat to the security of the city.
Why you should read/watch this: The slow build up makes this almost a mystery.
two
Title: Five Times McKay and Sheppard Arrived Back In Atlantis Without Their Clothes (And One Time They Nearly Had To Leave Without Them)
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, warning of nudity
Word Count/Length: 43 min
Summary: Does exactly what it says in the title.
Why you should read/watch this: It's so very funny. I couldn't stop laughing.
three
Title: Culinaria
Author/Artist: eretria
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 16 min
Summary: Men in skirts, fantastic whisky, lots of rain." - Four men. One table. TMI, lessons in stereotypes and ... food.
Why you should read/watch this: Funny with tidbits of information and good characterization, how can you go wrong?
four
Title: Five mission reports Sheppard's team turned in (and one they didn't)
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, PG
Word Count/Length: 17 min
Summary: Sometimes, things just go wrong.
Why you should read/watch this: The reports they filed were really interesting. I won't spoil it for you, but I will tell you I laughed, a lot.
five
Title: Necessary Things
Author/Artist: minnow1212
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 54 Min
Summary: In which McKay's quest for the contents of Kavanagh's iPod leads him into deeper waters than he expected.
Why you should read/watch this: It's a great mix of slice of life and character study.
Category 7 Recs:
one
Title: Females, Fashion and (Science) Fiction
Author/Artist: sarvs
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter & Vala Mal Doran
Summary: Exploring favourite female sci-fi characters through costume, pictures and out-of-context quotes. You will see sides of your favourite characters you never before imagined existed...
Why you should read/watch this: It's an interesting look at all the fashion these ladies get into.
two
Title: Stargate: Atlantis TROPES
Author/Artist: peanutbutterer
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen SGA
Summary: "There are, predictably, a zillion tropes in Stargate: Atlantis. I whittled it down to eight."
Why you should read/watch this: Because exploring tropes of a show is awesome. Good picspams, quotes, and trope explanations.
three
Title: Sha're of Sha'uri?
Author/Artist: sg_fignewton
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sha're
Word Count/Length: about 1600
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: A very well written piece about a strong character that tends to be passed over in fandom.
four
Category: 7
Title: Psyching the Fruitcakes, or Why Daniel and Vala's Destiny Is Scientific
Author/Artist: ivanolix
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala
Word Count/Length: ~1k
Summary: Because yes, opposites don't attract, but complements do
Why you should read/watch this: Wonderfully written meta on why Daniel and Vala work as well as they do when you wouldn't think that in a million years they could.
five
Category: 7
Title: Elizabeth Weir is no shrinking violet. Nor is John Sheppard an alpha male.
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, John/Elizabeth
Word Count/Length: ~1.5k
Summary: This is all leading up to the fact that Elizabeth and John have a relationship of equals, whatever sort of relationship you see them as having, whether it be romantic or friend
Why you should read/watch this: Excellently written thought on both characters and how they work together as equals.
EXTRA Recs:
Category: 1
Title: Over Time
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all the SGU characters/ Gen
Word Count/Length: 423
Summary: Speculation about the future of the SGU characters
Why you should read/watch this: Because this might have happened had they not cancelled the show.
Category: 1
Title: Community
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Various Microbes/ Gen (NC-17 if you're a single cell organism)
Word Count/Length: 346
Summary: The episode "Water" from a different point of view.
Why you should read/watch this: It's crack.
Category: 1
Title: Destiny's Laws
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters/ Gen
Word Count/Length: 401
Summary: Murphy's Law - Destiny style
Why you should read/watch this: Because every SGU character gets their say.
Category: 2
Title: Not Ready to Make Nice
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala.
Word Count/Length: 4 mins
Summary: vala is grumpy.
Why you should read/watch this: because its amazingly well done like all her vids are and Vala is adorable.
Category: FOUR
Title: Small Fantasties
Author/Artist: Little Red
Character/Pairing/Rating: Janet/Daniel/ PG-13
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Never the Obvious Answer
Why you should read/watch this: Because Janet/Daniel would be such a cute couple. And this is such a fluffy feel-good fic.
Category: FOUR
Title: It's Growing Day by Day
Author/Artist: Telesilla
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mcshep, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Various, nc-17 (but blink and you'll miss it)
Word Count/Length: LONG
Summary: The SGA team gets stuck on a planet and have to trek to the other side.
Why you should read/watch this: this is one of my all time favourite fics, and the Mcshep and other pairings are mostly background, its the team bffness that is the best part and i'm a sucker for stuck-on-a-planet-fics. (you don’t even need to ship anyone to read this)
Category: FOUR
Title: @lantis - Incidentally, a Love Story.
Author/Artist: immoralilly
Character/Pairing/Rating: PG, Mcshep, Team SGA
Word Count/Length: 4,500 words
Summary: From: rodney.mckay@lantis.pg
To: john.sheppard@lantis.pg, teyla.emmagan@lantis.pg, ronon.dex@lantis.pg
Subject: Greater openness between team members
Why you should read/watch this: There is mcshep, but this is mostly adorable team email sendings. so cute.
Category: FOUR
Title: Another Day of Things that Can't Happen
Author/Artist: tenacious_err
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mulder/Scully (UST), John/Elizabeth, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Rodney McKay, PG
Word Count/Length: 9743
Summary: When Dr. Elizabeth Weir turns up in Nevada claiming to be part of a top-secret military program, Mulder and Scully go to investigate.
Why you should read/watch this: It's entirely from Scully's POV, outsider POV for the win.
Category: FOUR
Title: Getting Warm
Author/Artist: journeyman04
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Keller (PG-13)
Word Count/Length: 13K
Summary: Ronon and Jennifer in the snow and ice
Why you should read/watch this: sharing body and cute shippy moments, along with nice backstory and team moments.
Category: FOUR
Title: The Hot Date
Author/Artist: squeelated
Character/Pairing/Rating: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, the SGC
Word Count/Length: 2500~
Summary: Elizabeth learns more than she wants to know about John’s extracurricular activities.
Why you should read/watch this: Lovely humorous piece about misunderstanding and hot dates.
Category : 4
Title: Angelmaker
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Kiva/ Anateo, The Monk from Kheb (SGU/SG1)
Word Count/Length: 3,102
Summary: She gathers whatever materials about the Ancients she can find. Call it a hobby.
Why you should read/watch this: Because as far as I know this is a unique crossover pairing
Category : 6
Title: Mr Bean has the ATA gene
Author/Artist: starrylizard
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mr Bean, Rating G. A Mr Bean/Stargate Atlantis crossover
Summary: Mr Bean just can’t resist touching the Ancient technology…
Why you should read/watch this: In this case you should listen to it because it is the silliest thing that I have ever heard and it made me laugh.
Category : 6
Title: Curiosity kills the kino
Author/Artist: Nanuk Dain
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Rush
Word Count/Length: 7 min
Summary: Eli watches something he's sure he shouldn't have.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's an SGU podfic and we're Team Universe. Besides, it's Young/ Rush slash and only PG 13.
Category: 7
Title: When Universes Collide
Author/Artist: theladymore
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGA/The Turors
Summary: "How characters from two different fictional universes relate to one another (Or A Comparison of Characters From SGA and The Tudors in a Girl's Twisted Reality)"
Why you should read/watch this: I love it when people compare two completely different shows and find their interesting similarities. And comparing a period drama with a scifi show? Interesting!
Category: 7
Title: Demographics of Stargate SG1, Season 1
Author/Artist: dsudis
Character/Pairing/Rating:
Word Count/Length:
Summary: dsudis literally counts how many characters, female characters, and characters of colour speak in each episode of S1 of SG1 and whether they pass the Bechel or race-Bechel test.
Why you should read/watch this: Well I just like stats to be honest and I think its interesting to see how many episodes don't pass either the Bechel or race-Bechel test
Category: 7
Title: TVTROPES
Author/Artist: I wish I knew!
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters
Word Count/Length: 4782
Summary: great character discussion of Young, Rush, Eli, Scott, Chloe, TJ, Greer, Wray, James, Telford, Park, O'Neill, Riley, Becker, Brody, Franklin, Volker, Perry, Varro, Ginn, Simeon, Destiny
Why you should read/watch this: Funny and "nail-on-the-head" accurate character discussions.
Thanks to far_to_nowhere who coded half this - it took forever :D
Category 1 Recs:
one
Title: Mutually Decohering Histories
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ's baby
Word Count/Length: 3800
Summary: Five times TJ's baby lived
Why you should read/watch this: It's probably one of the best SGU fics I've ever read. Imagining the possibilities is what makes this great and zip captures the voices, the setting, the feel, perfectly
two
Title: Duets
Author/Artist: laure
Characters/Rating: Everett Young, Tamara Johansen, Chloe Amrstrong, Ronald Greer, Matthew Scott, Eli Wallace, Camille Wray, Vanessa James, Lisa Park, Dale Volker, Adam Brody, Darren Becker, Nicholas Rush/ GEN
Word Count: 1776
Summary: Friendships form. Sometimes unlikely. Sometimes out of necessity. Sometimes very simply. On a ship like Destiny, everyone needs some one to make the days and nights a little easier.
Why you should read this: Bite-size ficlets about friendships - what's not to love?
three
Title: Paper Cranes
Author/Artist: kriadydragon
Character/Pairing/Rating: Miko, Sheppard, Ronon, Teyla, Mckay
Word Count/Length: approx 3500
Summary: Miko does not consider herself a woman of faith.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its reallly, reallly, reallllly, lovely. and Miko and team bffness and atlantis bffness.
four
Title: Cheating the Other Guy
Author/Artist friendshipper
Word Count: 2000
Summary: Sam and Teyla find themselves in a Western. Sort of. And Teyla seems to have accidentally sold her teammates to buy a ranch, but who can blame her.
Why you should read/watch this: Because teyla and sam SELL the boys. sort of. its LOLZY and the girls are badass.
five
Title: Life Stress
Author/Artist: penknife
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sg-1, Gen
Word Count/Length: 700
Summary: The ordinary scale may not apply.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its cute :D
six
Title: Board Wars
Author/Artist: greyias and jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, Team SGA
Word Count/Length: medium - longish
Summary: "Earth seems to have a lot of games." "We get bored easily."
Why you should read/watch this: because the team goes through a lot of games and they tend to end in disaster and its cute and funny.
seven
Title: The Laundry Ultimatum
Author/Artist: explodedpen
Character/Pairing/Rating: gen, pg 13
Word Count/Length: 6630
Summary: A week in the life of the bravest man to ever walk the hallways of Atlantis... the laundry guy.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its an interesting look at the "day-to-day" of Atlantis.
eight
Title: Fake Birds and Real Holidays
Author/Artist: xparrot
Character/Pairing/Rating: GEN
Word Count/Length: 8,300
Summary: The team descends on the Miller household. No turkeys were harmed in the making of this story. Much to Rodney and Ronon's disappointment.
Why you should read/watch this: Because Jeannie is always a delight, there is friendship between her and teyla and of course rodney's bickering.
nine
Title: Just Your Typical Day
Author/Artist: kristen999
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon, Gen
Word Count/Length: 2200
Summary: What does Ronon do when he's not shooting bad guys?
Why you should read/watch this: Because its nice seeing another side of Ronon.
ten
Title: Four Times Ronon Usurped Rodney's Dessert and One Time He Didn't
Author/Artist: linziday
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, Team SGA, Rodney, Ronon
Word Count/Length: 4,000-ish
Summary: pretty much what the title says.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its cute and funny.
eleven
Title: Practicing Medicine
Author/Artist: kristen999
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Keller, PG
Word Count/Length: 6000
Summary: Jennifer learns that accepting and upholding an oath, requires living it.
Why you should read this: It's a really well written fic that gives us a look at Jennifer's day to day reactions to different scenarios.
http://community.livejournal.com/sga_genficathon/60757.html
twelve
Title: Third Donut Shop From The Sun
Author/Artist: surreallis
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c (PG)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Teal'c is the last SG-1 member left after a zombi apocalypse.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's an amazing Teal'c piece about hope, zombies and donuts.
thirteen
Title: Why Teal'c Likes Star Wars
Author/Artist: ami-ven
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell, Teal'c (PG)
Word Count/Length: 580
Summary: Cam finally ask why Teal'c keeps watching Star Wars
Why you should read/watch this: perfect teamy fic and great buddy times between Cam and Teal'c.
fourteen
Title: A Collection of E-mails from the SCG Archives (the Wanky Wormhole X-treme Remix)
Author/Artist: beatrice_otter
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala, Jack, Daniel, team. (PG)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Vala writes fanfiction and she and Jack battle it out on fandom wank.
Why you should read/watch this: Vala starts wank by writing Wormhole X-terme slash fanfiction.
fifteen
Title: Walking The Line
Author/Artist: annerbhp
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Keller, Cameron Mitchell (G)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Jennifer Keller and Cameron Mitchell: His last words to her before she left Earth were: "Give 'em hell."
Why you should read/watch this: Great gen piece about the new kids on the block. I love the idea of them being friends.
sixteen
Title: The Universe Is Infinite
Author/Artist: maraynya14
Character/Pairing/Rating: SG-1 team (G)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: The team meets the last of the Four Races and have to tell Jack the tale.
Why you should read/watch this: FURLINGS, Greatest protrayl of them yet.
seventeen
Title: Jester's Silence
Author/Artist: holdouttrout
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c, Vala (G)
Word Count/Length: 2,580
Summary: After five years Vala is bored and in need of a new victim.
Why you should read/watch this: During "Unending" it's a wonderful depiction of friendship between the resident aliens. Lovely character study.
eighteen
Title: Incredible Luck, Annoying Charm
Author/Artist: ana-grrl
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teal'c and Vala, (G)
Word Count/Length: 659 words
Summary: moment between Vala and Teal'c right before "Beachhead"
Why you should read/watch this: I love the issues Vala manages to bring up and how Teal'c answers and listens to her. It really gives depth for these two characters.
nineteen
Title: The Towers On The Heights Reach To Heav'n's Own Blue
Author/Artist: minervacat
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Cameron Mitchell, SGA ensemble (R)
Word Count/Length: 9200 words
Summary: In which John Sheppard hates cricket and accidentally starts an intramural soccer league, and Cameron Mitchell thinks McKay's sister sucks.
Why you should read/watch this: Hilarious character piece about John and Mitchell talking sports and basically being best friends. It's amazing how much Cam's presense is felt in the fic when he's not technically even in it.
twenty
Title: Made to be Broken
Author/Artist: Tierney Beckett
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam, John, Jack (G)
Word Count/Length: ~2k
Summary: John breaks some records.
Why you should read/watch this: Hilarious little piece about John and some long standing SGC records.
twenty-one
Title: The Best of the bad ideas
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters/ PG-13
Word Count/Length: 18,910
Summary: What if the communication stones had glitched and Young had been unable to switch back to his body after going to the alien ship the second time? How will the Destiny crew deal with aliens amongst them? And what does it really mean to be an alien? Sometimes the definition is only skin deep.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it includes all the characters and them working together as a team.
twenty-two
Title: Three Years Later
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Destiny and her crew
Word Count/Length: 240
Summary: Three years later she still misses them - an alternate ending
Why you should read/watch this: Because Destiny is a member of the SGU team.
twenty-three
Title: Four purple sweet potato recipes that were a disaster, and one that was a winner
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: various SGU characters
Word Count/Length: 390
Summary: Exactly what the title promises.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it has Becker the cook in it, i.e. a rare character.
twenty-four
Title: A turkey (of a) story
Author/Artist: tallulah_rasa 0r tallulah_rasa on DW
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 1100 ish
Summary: Team Sg-1 talk thanksgiving
Why you should read/watch this: cos Holiday fics are always adorbs, and i'm not even american and i still think this is cute!
twenty-five
Title: Five people Teal’c sent Valentines cards to
Author/Artist: gategremlyn
Character/Pairing/Rating: teal'c, others, gen
Word Count/Length: 700+
Summary: Five people Teal’c sent Valentines cards to
Why you should read/watch this: Because its not often you get a fic centered around Teal'c and earth customs and its ADORABLE.
Category 2 Recs:
one
Title: big_blue_bin
Author/Artist: spud66cat
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGU, SGA, SG-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: she does beautiful work!!!
two
Title: fragile-basket
Author/Artist: regularamanda
Character/Pairing/Rating: SG-1 mostly
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: because she regularly posts lovely icons.
three
Title: brightestbuzz
Author/Artist: feel_the_fire
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mostly Sg-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Cos she has such vibrant colouring <3
four
Title: stolen_garden
Author/Artist: far_to_nowhere
Character/Pairing/Rating: mostly sg-1
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Because she is my favourite. :D
five
Author/Artist: picon
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Because they make a large variety of awesome Stargate stuff.
six
Title: sail_your_sea
Author/Artist: hihoplastic
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGA, Elizabeth Weir, Elizabeth/John
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Fabulous J/E fanfic, and really gorgeous Elizabeth fanart.
seven
Title: gate_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: every single character in Stargate - SG1, SGA, and SGU
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Its a unique comm that features challenges from all of the Stargates - SGA, SG1, and SGU.
eight
Title: sgu_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: All Characters from SGU
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: Its one of the few SGU Iconntests out in LJ land.
nine
Title: lantis_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: All Atlantis Characters
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: It has some great icons of the all the great characters from Atlantis.
ten
Title: oneill_icontest
Character/Pairing/Rating: Just Jack
Summary
Why you should read/watch this: They don't have many entries lately but the quality of icons is great
Category 3 Recs:
one
Title: It's My Life
Author/Artist: ladrine89
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Pg-13
Word Count/Length: 4.01 minutes
Summary: umm John shows everyone how badass he is.
Why you should read/watch this: Its not a bad vid showing john's season two arc
two
Title: My Skin
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ.
Word Count/Length: 2.09 mins
Summary: TJ's storyline.
Why you should read/watch this: because its amazingly well done like all her vids are and its nice to see some more of TJ.
three
Title: The Look
Artist: Sammy
Character: Vala
Length: 3:47
Summary: She's got the look
Why you should watch this: It's a humour/action video, and the song fits Vala perfectly.
four
Title: Tears of an Angel
Author/Artist: GCm4n
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ
Word Count/Length: 3:31
Summary: Looks at TJ's story mainly covering the pregnancy and the loss of the baby
Why you should read/watch this: It is beautifully done!
five
Title: Stargate Universe - Dale Volker
Author/Artist: GCm4n
Character/Pairing/Rating: Dale Volker/ G
Word Count/Length: 4:51
Summary: A fan video for Patrick Gilmore. From some loyal fans :)
Music: The Jayhawks - Blue
Why you should watch this: Because it's really really sweet and the claustrophobia scene is sooo well done!
six
Title: A Tribute to Colonel Young
Author/Artist: ashimon/ashimon2
Character: Colonel Young
Summary: Season 1 video of Young, pondering a lot of the issues he had to face. I personally find this a superb summary of who Young is or was in season 1. It shows the best of him but also his mistakes as well as the burden he has to carry for the rest of the crew.
Why you should watch this: For those who love Young: because he is awesome and hot. For those who are less enthusiastic: because you might just get the hang of why we, Youngites, would kill for the guy. :)
seven
Title: Stargate Universe SGU Destiny Music Video
Author/Artist: SheppardG1
Character/Pairing/Rating: Destiny/ G
Length: 4:51
Summary: A collection of Destiny beauty shots
Why you should read/watch this: Because Destiny deserves to be considered as a character in SGU.
eight
Title: New divide
Author/Artist: TatyanaOracle
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teyla Emmagen
Word Count/Length: 4:30
Summary: fanvid showing off Teyla and her badassness.
Why you should read/watch this: It's well edited and really shows all she went through and how strong she is as a person.
nine
Title: Girl's A Genius
Author/Artist: nouveaulove
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala Mal Doran
Word Count/Length: 1.24 mins
Summary: Vala's a girl genius.
Why you should read/watch this: Fun Vala vid.
ten
Title: Brand New Day
Author/Artist: Jemo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ba'al/pg13
Word Count/Length: 1min 52sec
Summary: A look at Ba'al, set against the song "Brand New Day" from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
Why you should read/watch this: Even if you're not a Ba'al fan, the conjunction between song and subject is fun. The editing is technically fabulous and extremely well matched to the lyrics, from literal interpretation to deeper parallels (Horse to Horus? Genius!)
Category 4 Recs:
- 15 unique SG1 pairings
one
Title: First Born
Author/Artist: lavitanuova
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Vala; R
Word Count/Length: ~1700
Summary: (from the author's page) Written for the stargateland Bingo challenge. Loosely intended as a filler for Roswell but it has been over a year since I've read that book, so. don't hold me to that continuity. Essentially Qetesh has taken Vala has a host, but is pregnant with Cam's child so Vala has emerged again
Why you should read/watch this: This is my one and only non-canon pairing. IMO, this particular story has a little loophole (as apparently it's part of a novel in which Vala really does have Cam's baby). I think it captures the characters beautifully.
two
Title: The Hero's Flame
Author/Artist: denise1
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jennifer Hailey/Lt. Elliot - K+ (PG-13?)
Word Count/Length: 5462
Summary: Hailey's point of view during Last Stand.
Why you should read/watch this: I'm a fan of this pairing since 'Proving Ground' and denise1 spins a wonderful (albeit sad) story for these two. It switches from the past to the present to the future and gives such a great insight in the relationship of Hailey/Elliot.
three
Title: Daniel Jackson's Diary
That link appears not to be working anymore. you can download it here if you want to read.
Author/Artist: Anais
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Jack, Sam/other, Daniel/Paul Davis
Word Count/Length: very long.
Summary: umm crack
Why you should read/watch this: because its epic crack and hilarious. Seriously. it had me in stitches for like a whole evening.
four
Title: We Disappear
Author/Artist: brilliantrouble & darkbunnyrabbit
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Carolyn Lam
Word Count/Length: 6944
Summary: An alternate Dr. Lam and her team come through the Stargate during Ripple Effect and one thing is very apparent, the worst has happened. Sometimes there's nothing left to do but stop.
Why you should read/watch this: Fabulously written, and heartbreaking.
five
Title: Make Crosses From Your Lovers
Author/Artist: synecdochic
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack/Vala (hard R)
Word Count/Length: 10k+
Summary: Vala understands far more than people give her credit for understanding; Jack needs a night off from living his life.
Why you should read/watch this: part of synedochic's Eurydiceverse it's an excellent telling of how Jack and Vala come together out of their mutual love of Daniel. Excellent character piece.
six
Category: Four
Title: Laterals
Author/Artist: dirty-diana
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Sam, P-13
Word Count/Length: Medium
Summary: "You're saying somewhere there's a reality where you and I are still together?"
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its about the only sam/cam fic i like?
seven
Title: The Mating Game
Author/Artist:
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Baal, R
Word Count/Length: 36,776
Summary: Relationships can start in the strangest places...
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's funny and hot and never gets old even when you've read it a dozen times (not that I have... not quite, anyway)
eight
Title: Medical Directives
Author/Artist: Rogue Cnidarian
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Janet; PG-13
Word Count/Length: 1000
Summary: Janet, Daniel, fruit and first aid.
Why you should read/watch this: It's funny and rather cute!
nine
Title: Frustration
Author/Artist: Mexx
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Jonas; rated R
Word Count/Length: 1002
Summary: Daniel's feeling a little frustrated. Jonas is the only one not frustrating him.
Why you should read/watch this: Who'd have thought? Daniel and Jonas!
ten
Title: In his arms
Author/Artist: LE McMurray
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Sha're; PG
Word Count/Length: 513
Summary: Missing scene from "Secrets"
Why you should read/watch this: It's short and sweet.
eleven
Title: A Cookie is a Cookie
Author/Artist: Smellen of Troy
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/ Sam; PG
Word Count/Length: 1,888
Summary: After a team night, drunk!Sam and drunk!Daniel have fun in the kitchen; cookies, peanut butter and booze are involved.
Why you should read/watch this: It's got lots of cookies! And it's funny, too.
twelve
Title: Lost in Transit
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Charlie Kawalsky [PG-13]
Word Count/Length: ~3860
Summary: The more things change, the more they stay the same (spoilers for 'Ripple Effect').
Why you should read/watch this: I was always intrigued by the Charlie/Sam scenes in the first episodes and wondered if there could have been more. This story - while quite sad and melancholic - offers a wonderful wrap-up for a Charlie/Sam ending in an AU!verse.
thirteen
Title: Equanimity
Author/Artist: walkingshadow
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill [Adult Themes]
Word Count/Length: 1846
Summary: It hurt. And it bled. And it made him feel ... free. (Post S8 but before S9)
Why you should read/watch this: A bit sappy and cute but it's a perfect they-get-finally-together fixer with some hot make-out thrown in.
fourteen
Title: Hard Hit
Author/Artist: JosephineLL
Character/Pairing/Rating: Malek/Kelmaa [PG]
Word Count/Length: 100
Summary: 'Cure' deals a double blow to Malek.
Why you should read/watch this: A look inside Malek's mind and what he really lost that day. It's heartbreaking.
fifteen
Title: Rules for Survival
Author/Artist: natalia5345
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala [PG]
Word Count/Length: 100
Summary: 'It's a Daniel/Vala story filled with a bunch of angst (what else would I write) as well as some romance and a bunch of Vala backstory!
Vala has been on her own for a long time, she developed a set of rules to live by in order to survive, but a certain archeologist always seems to be making her question her personal code...
Why you should read/watch this: Its always nice to combine Daniel/Vala with Vala backstory!
- 10 unique SGA pairings
One
Category: FOUR
Title: Five Reasons No One Knows Lorne's First Name.
Author/Artist: torakowalski
Character/Pairing/Rating: Pg, Lorne/Parrish
Word Count/Length: Short
Summary: pretty much the title.
Why you should read/watch this: Because its nice to get to know lorne, its funny and cute.
two
Title: Three Hundred and Sixty-Four
Author/Artist: sardonicsmiley
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Rodney, background Teyla/Lorne, Nc-17 i think.
Word Count/Length: Long
Summary: This is not the solution that Ronon would have chosen for dealing with the IOA.
Why you should read/watch this: Because this is about the only Ronon/Rodney that i've read and its adorable.
three
Category: FOUR
Title: Four Blatant Lies About Atlantis (And One Thing That's Totally True)
Author/Artist: sabinelagrande
Character/Pairing/Rating: McShep, passing mentions of other pairings, pg-13, crack
Word Count/Length: 4286
Summary: Wherein aliens don't make them do it, John loves ASCII, Carson hates everyone, Weir is highly amused, and Lorne's just trying to be a pal.
Why you should read/watch this: COS ITS HILARIOUS.
four
Title: Meals on the Run
Author/Artist: raisintorte
Character/Pairing/Rating: Lorne/Cadman, PG13
Word Count/Length: 2362
Summary: (There is none) Lorne and Cadman off world, things go wrong, people get tied up, and seasoned with condiments.
Why you should read/watch this: It's Lorne. It's Cadman. And there is licking, won't say who does that - spoilers.
five
Title: And Since We've No Place to Go
Author/Artist: [info]peanutbutterer
Character/Pairing/Rating: Elizabeth, John, Cameron, Sam and Lorne (John/Elizabeth), PG
Word Count/Length: 3550
Summary: When General O'Neill had first mentioned the idea to Cameron, the colonel thought it was absurd.
Why you should read/watch this: Cameron Mitchell playing matchmaker, Lorne being sneaky and flirty with Elizabeth, and mistletoe.
six
Title: Past Time
Author/Artist: siriaeve
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Amelia, PG
Word Count/Length: 600
Summary: (0ne not given) Ronon teaches Amelia a "traditional Satedan sport"
Why you should read this: I love the way that Amelia is written. Very believable for a character we've hardly seen.
seven
Title: Dark Places of the Soul Series | In The Dark (first story)
Author/Artist: Keira Marcos
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Keller, McKay/Lorne, John/Cadman (R - NC-17)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: summary for the first story: Dr. Keller gets separated from Ronon and Major Lorne on a routine mission.
Why you should read/watch this: excellent excellent AU series on how season 5+ could have gone.
eight
Title: Glints in the Night
Author/Artist: lallybroch
Character/Pairing/Rating: McKay/Cadman (NC-17)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: She couldn't even say 'one thing led to another' because she's still not quite sure how she ended up with her panties around her ankles, having a spectacularly loud orgasm in the middle of Lab 4.
Why you should read/watch this: sexy and hot McKay/Cadman porn
nine
Title: The Hidden Lore of Old Ocean
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: Teyla Emmagan/Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir (PG-13)
Word Count/Length:
Summary: The darkness enveloping Atlantis is oppressive. The city looks abandoned, but even in its emptiness, Elizabeth has the niggling sense of being watched.
Why you should read/watch this: AU based on the themes of H.P. Lovecraft. Excellent and creppy.
ten
Title: Unspoken
Author/Artist: Chaps1870
Character/Pairing/Rating: Carson/Rodney, Shep
Word Count/Length: Long
Summary: John finds out Rodney and Carson are in a relationship and it threatens his friendship with Rodney.
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its also about friendship.
- 5 unique SGU pairings
one
Title: Broccoli Trees, and the sequel You smell like apple candy
Author/Artist: cerebel at http://cerebel-fics.livejournal.com
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Rush and Young/ TJ/ Rush; Teen/ NC-17
Word Count/Length: 4700 / 4300
Summary: Young and Rush stranded on a planet with strange trees that help them get back to Destiny. There are consequences to communing with that kind of nature.
Why you should read this: Because it's incredibly well written, very haunting in atmosphere and just plain beautiful.
two
Title: black and white/white and red
Author/Artist: cerebel at http://cerebel-fics.livejournal.com
Character/Pairing/Rating: Everett Young/ Camile Wray, Teen/ NC17
Word Count/Length: 3800
Summary: Camille Wray hates Everett Young. Doesn't she?
Why you should read/watch this: Anything cerbel has ever written is worth reading. The characters are all spot-on and the story provides new insights into why they do what they do.
three
Title: A Ghost's Story
Author/Artist: wneleh
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Riley; R
Word Count/Length: 2400
Summary: Airman Hunter Riley's ghost first appeared to Col. Everett Young the night Everett killed him.
Why you should read this: Because Riley is LOVE. And the author gets his voice just right.
four
Title: Three Ghosts
Author/Artist: salieri
Character/Pairing/Rating: Eli and Mrs. Wallace, Gloria and Rush, Telford and ??. Rating is probably PG-13 (no warnings)
Word Count/Length: 1800
Summary: three snippets of the characters above
Why you should read/watch this: These are hauntingly well written, heartbreakingly beautiful stories
five
Title: Something Holy, Something More
Author/Artist: ziparumpazoo
Character/Pairing/Rating: Emily/ Everett Young
Word Count/Length: 8361
Summary: A marriage does not fail overnight; it takes years for the cogs to wear down enough to start slipping, but even then, the wheels continue to turn.
Why you should read this: Very well written account of Emily's experience of losing Everett that does not place blame on any one thing.
5 crossovers (crossover between stargate shows)
one
Title: Ocean's Pull
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack O'Neill/Elizabeth Weir NC-17
Word Count/Length: 2,782
Summary: The knock on her door is tentative, almost awkward-sounding.
Why you should read/watch this: A wonderful gap filler for the The Return, a wonderful O'Neill/Weir fic, that's magnificently in character and one that could easily be canon.
two
Title: A Good Man
Author/Artist: irony_rocks
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Elizabeth Weir
Word Count/Length: 21,779
Summary: There was no fight over authority. She just wanted what Cameron wanted: their people back, safe and sound.
Why you should read/watch this: For a pairing that logically shouldn't exist, irony_rocks writes a wonderfully plotted and perfectly in character fic, that's also incredibly LONG. Her characterization makes you completely forget how these two characters had virtually no screen time. The story is set in the Ori plotline, where Earth has been taken over and it's Atlantis' turn to save the day. An amazing story that everyone should read.
three
Title: That Our Sons May Follow After
Author/Artist: medie
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cameron Mitchell/Elizabeth Weir NC-17
Word Count/Length: She dreams of her townhouse in flames, wakes up screaming at the feeling of the fire licking at her skin.
Summary: 4,336
Why you should read/watch this: An AU where Elizabeth never joined the Atlantis expedition, there's political intrigue, amazing writting and characterization, all in an apocalyptic setting. What more can you ask for?
four
Title: Last Year's War
Author/Artist: Cinaed
Character/Pairing/Rating: Jack O'Neill/Elizabeth Weir PG
Word Count/Length: 1,434
Summary: They tell him it's a promotion, but he knows better.
Why you should read/watch this: A heartbreaking AU, where Jack is transferred to Atlantis to replace John. The characterizations of both Jack and Elizabeth are wonderfuly in character.
five
Title: Cold Fish
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Dr. Brightman/ Everett Young (SG1/SGU)
Word Count/Length: 2,554
Summary: Sometimes they don’t know if they’re even talking about the same person.
Why you should read/watch this: Because the interim doc at the SGC gets no love otherwise.
Category 5 Recs:
One
Title: Tell me one more time TJ and Varro
Author/Artist: Songhee84
Character/Pairing/Rating: TJ and Varro
Word Count/Length: 4:22
Summary: Looks at TJ and Varro's relationship
Why you should read/watch this: I think it is nicely done and focuses on a less common but interesting pairing (despite the fact that I am not for it ;P)
two
Title: Halo
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict / valamd
Character/Pairing/Rating: Cam/Sam
Word Count/Length: 1.43min
Summary: Cam and Sammmm
Why you should read/watch this: cos they are adorable and her vids are flawless.
three
Title: open your eyes
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict / valamd
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala/John
Word Count/Length: 3.11
Summary: umm Vala/John?
Why you should read/watch this: Because for a pairing that never really met, this vid is amazing and kinda made me ship it.
four
Title: FEVER
Author/Artist: milena_d
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala
Word Count/Length: 2 mins 28
Summary: A short video epitomizing the push/pull/prod/hook/bite/kiss relationship that is Daniel/Vala of SG-1. Slightly removed from linear canon. Just slightly. Barely noticeable, honest.
Why you should read/watch this: COS ITS AWESOME :D
five
Title: Faceless
Author/Artist: SeanDreamCatcher
Character/Pairing/Rating: Matt/TJ (SGU)
Why you should read/watch this: Probably one of the most interesting and creative SGU videos I've seen. It does a great job creating an AU storyline for Matt/TJ that is pretty darn believable (and true to the characters).
six
Title: Welcome to the Family
Author/Artist: milena_d
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ba'al/Adria (+team)
Summary: Ba'al knocks up Adria so her 'family' (ie members of SG-1) decide to send him a message.
Why you should read/watch this: The crackiest video I've seen for any of the shows, it'll definitely make you laugh!
seven
Title: Desperately Need You
Author/Artist: dangerousinsanity
Character/Pairing/Rating: Rush/Chloe
Word Count/Length: 2:03
Summary: Wonderful Rush/Chloe vid. Well edited, Clips very well manipulated.
Why you should read/watch this: It's the best Rush/Chloe vid i've seen so far.
eight
Title: Flying High
Author/Artist: EwigeStudentin
Character/Pairing/Rating: Eli/Ginn
Word Count/Length: 2.38
Summary: Eli/Ginn
Why you should read/watch this: Well there aren't many eli/ginn vids around so its a bit of take-what-you-can-get, but still!
nine
Title: Halo
Author/Artist: eden2222
Character/Pairing/Rating: Tj/Matt pg-13
Word Count/Length: 2.44
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: Another ship where vids are thin on the ground, but i love this song and it shows the could-be of matt/tj
ten
Title: Hot & Cold
Author/Artist: perkin127
Character/Pairing/Rating: mcshep, pg-13
Word Count/Length: 3.34
Why you should read/watch this: Cos its actually really funny and makes me smile ;D
Category 6 Recs:
one
Title: Defender
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: PG, gen
Word Count/Length: 43 min
Summary: May I have your attention, please? This is Colonel Carter. Colonel Sheppard is to be considered an immediate and serious threat to the security of the city.
Why you should read/watch this: The slow build up makes this almost a mystery.
two
Title: Five Times McKay and Sheppard Arrived Back In Atlantis Without Their Clothes (And One Time They Nearly Had To Leave Without Them)
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, warning of nudity
Word Count/Length: 43 min
Summary: Does exactly what it says in the title.
Why you should read/watch this: It's so very funny. I couldn't stop laughing.
three
Title: Culinaria
Author/Artist: eretria
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 16 min
Summary: Men in skirts, fantastic whisky, lots of rain." - Four men. One table. TMI, lessons in stereotypes and ... food.
Why you should read/watch this: Funny with tidbits of information and good characterization, how can you go wrong?
four
Title: Five mission reports Sheppard's team turned in (and one they didn't)
Author/Artist: jadesfire2808
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen, PG
Word Count/Length: 17 min
Summary: Sometimes, things just go wrong.
Why you should read/watch this: The reports they filed were really interesting. I won't spoil it for you, but I will tell you I laughed, a lot.
five
Title: Necessary Things
Author/Artist: minnow1212
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen
Word Count/Length: 54 Min
Summary: In which McKay's quest for the contents of Kavanagh's iPod leads him into deeper waters than he expected.
Why you should read/watch this: It's a great mix of slice of life and character study.
Category 7 Recs:
one
Title: Females, Fashion and (Science) Fiction
Author/Artist: sarvs
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sam Carter & Vala Mal Doran
Summary: Exploring favourite female sci-fi characters through costume, pictures and out-of-context quotes. You will see sides of your favourite characters you never before imagined existed...
Why you should read/watch this: It's an interesting look at all the fashion these ladies get into.
two
Title: Stargate: Atlantis TROPES
Author/Artist: peanutbutterer
Character/Pairing/Rating: Gen SGA
Summary: "There are, predictably, a zillion tropes in Stargate: Atlantis. I whittled it down to eight."
Why you should read/watch this: Because exploring tropes of a show is awesome. Good picspams, quotes, and trope explanations.
three
Title: Sha're of Sha'uri?
Author/Artist: sg_fignewton
Character/Pairing/Rating: Sha're
Word Count/Length: about 1600
Summary:
Why you should read/watch this: A very well written piece about a strong character that tends to be passed over in fandom.
four
Category: 7
Title: Psyching the Fruitcakes, or Why Daniel and Vala's Destiny Is Scientific
Author/Artist: ivanolix
Character/Pairing/Rating: Daniel/Vala
Word Count/Length: ~1k
Summary: Because yes, opposites don't attract, but complements do
Why you should read/watch this: Wonderfully written meta on why Daniel and Vala work as well as they do when you wouldn't think that in a million years they could.
five
Category: 7
Title: Elizabeth Weir is no shrinking violet. Nor is John Sheppard an alpha male.
Author/Artist: havocthecat
Character/Pairing/Rating: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, John/Elizabeth
Word Count/Length: ~1.5k
Summary: This is all leading up to the fact that Elizabeth and John have a relationship of equals, whatever sort of relationship you see them as having, whether it be romantic or friend
Why you should read/watch this: Excellently written thought on both characters and how they work together as equals.
EXTRA Recs:
Category: 1
Title: Over Time
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all the SGU characters/ Gen
Word Count/Length: 423
Summary: Speculation about the future of the SGU characters
Why you should read/watch this: Because this might have happened had they not cancelled the show.
Category: 1
Title: Community
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Various Microbes/ Gen (NC-17 if you're a single cell organism)
Word Count/Length: 346
Summary: The episode "Water" from a different point of view.
Why you should read/watch this: It's crack.
Category: 1
Title: Destiny's Laws
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters/ Gen
Word Count/Length: 401
Summary: Murphy's Law - Destiny style
Why you should read/watch this: Because every SGU character gets their say.
Category: 2
Title: Not Ready to Make Nice
Author/Artist: scifi_tv_addict
Character/Pairing/Rating: Vala.
Word Count/Length: 4 mins
Summary: vala is grumpy.
Why you should read/watch this: because its amazingly well done like all her vids are and Vala is adorable.
Category: FOUR
Title: Small Fantasties
Author/Artist: Little Red
Character/Pairing/Rating: Janet/Daniel/ PG-13
Word Count/Length:
Summary: Never the Obvious Answer
Why you should read/watch this: Because Janet/Daniel would be such a cute couple. And this is such a fluffy feel-good fic.
Category: FOUR
Title: It's Growing Day by Day
Author/Artist: Telesilla
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mcshep, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Various, nc-17 (but blink and you'll miss it)
Word Count/Length: LONG
Summary: The SGA team gets stuck on a planet and have to trek to the other side.
Why you should read/watch this: this is one of my all time favourite fics, and the Mcshep and other pairings are mostly background, its the team bffness that is the best part and i'm a sucker for stuck-on-a-planet-fics. (you don’t even need to ship anyone to read this)
Category: FOUR
Title: @lantis - Incidentally, a Love Story.
Author/Artist: immoralilly
Character/Pairing/Rating: PG, Mcshep, Team SGA
Word Count/Length: 4,500 words
Summary: From: rodney.mckay@lantis.pg
To: john.sheppard@lantis.pg, teyla.emmagan@lantis.pg, ronon.dex@lantis.pg
Subject: Greater openness between team members
Why you should read/watch this: There is mcshep, but this is mostly adorable team email sendings. so cute.
Category: FOUR
Title: Another Day of Things that Can't Happen
Author/Artist: tenacious_err
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mulder/Scully (UST), John/Elizabeth, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Rodney McKay, PG
Word Count/Length: 9743
Summary: When Dr. Elizabeth Weir turns up in Nevada claiming to be part of a top-secret military program, Mulder and Scully go to investigate.
Why you should read/watch this: It's entirely from Scully's POV, outsider POV for the win.
Category: FOUR
Title: Getting Warm
Author/Artist: journeyman04
Character/Pairing/Rating: Ronon/Keller (PG-13)
Word Count/Length: 13K
Summary: Ronon and Jennifer in the snow and ice
Why you should read/watch this: sharing body and cute shippy moments, along with nice backstory and team moments.
Category: FOUR
Title: The Hot Date
Author/Artist: squeelated
Character/Pairing/Rating: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, the SGC
Word Count/Length: 2500~
Summary: Elizabeth learns more than she wants to know about John’s extracurricular activities.
Why you should read/watch this: Lovely humorous piece about misunderstanding and hot dates.
Category : 4
Title: Angelmaker
Author/Artist: Shenandoah Risu
Character/Pairing/Rating: Kiva/ Anateo, The Monk from Kheb (SGU/SG1)
Word Count/Length: 3,102
Summary: She gathers whatever materials about the Ancients she can find. Call it a hobby.
Why you should read/watch this: Because as far as I know this is a unique crossover pairing
Category : 6
Title: Mr Bean has the ATA gene
Author/Artist: starrylizard
Character/Pairing/Rating: Mr Bean, Rating G. A Mr Bean/Stargate Atlantis crossover
Summary: Mr Bean just can’t resist touching the Ancient technology…
Why you should read/watch this: In this case you should listen to it because it is the silliest thing that I have ever heard and it made me laugh.
Category : 6
Title: Curiosity kills the kino
Author/Artist: Nanuk Dain
Character/Pairing/Rating: Young/ Rush
Word Count/Length: 7 min
Summary: Eli watches something he's sure he shouldn't have.
Why you should read/watch this: Because it's an SGU podfic and we're Team Universe. Besides, it's Young/ Rush slash and only PG 13.
Category: 7
Title: When Universes Collide
Author/Artist: theladymore
Character/Pairing/Rating: SGA/The Turors
Summary: "How characters from two different fictional universes relate to one another (Or A Comparison of Characters From SGA and The Tudors in a Girl's Twisted Reality)"
Why you should read/watch this: I love it when people compare two completely different shows and find their interesting similarities. And comparing a period drama with a scifi show? Interesting!
Category: 7
Title: Demographics of Stargate SG1, Season 1
Author/Artist: dsudis
Character/Pairing/Rating:
Word Count/Length:
Summary: dsudis literally counts how many characters, female characters, and characters of colour speak in each episode of S1 of SG1 and whether they pass the Bechel or race-Bechel test.
Why you should read/watch this: Well I just like stats to be honest and I think its interesting to see how many episodes don't pass either the Bechel or race-Bechel test
Category: 7
Title: TVTROPES
Author/Artist: I wish I knew!
Character/Pairing/Rating: all SGU characters
Word Count/Length: 4782
Summary: great character discussion of Young, Rush, Eli, Scott, Chloe, TJ, Greer, Wray, James, Telford, Park, O'Neill, Riley, Becker, Brody, Franklin, Volker, Perry, Varro, Ginn, Simeon, Destiny
Why you should read/watch this: Funny and "nail-on-the-head" accurate character discussions.
Thanks to far_to_nowhere who coded half this - it took forever :D