Where are all the good 2007 SGA fics?

[icarus]

Rec me!

I'm looking for all the great 2007 Stargate Atlantis fics.

I've read fiercelydreamed's marvelous "Unidentified" and some of the SGA Big Bang fics. I've been enjoying stories like "Catch-19" and the "Blue Moon Ball" (authors unknown) from the SGA Olympics or whateveritscalled. I devoured the closing of auburnnothenna's brilliant "In The City Of Seven Walls" and her fascinating John/Vala fic, and I've poked around the kissing meme and the belly-fic meme. Naturally I've enjoyed the latest updates to sheafrotherdon's "Farm In Iowa" series. But... surely I must be missing something? Some of my rec-sources have dried up of late.

Maybe I should take out a personal ad:

SGA fic reader seeks compelling John/Rodney, John/Lorne, or John/pretty-much-anyone fics.
Enjoy light-hearted romance, comedy, and exploration by the sea -- but not adverse to adventure and stories that make me think.

I floss and am looking to try something new!
Will rec!
Contact me at 206-555-1212
(Self-pimping is A-Okay.)

Comments

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

I would totally rec recs, but I'm pretty sure you don't ship Sparky. >_> *terribly unhelpful*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sparky?

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

O rite -- John & Elizabeth. Hence the new Rodney/John/Elizabeth comm on IJ being called McSparky. >_> Okay, partly because that sounds like the best burger ever.

...uh, what was I saying. ANYWAY. Yes.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*fascinated* How do you get from "John and Elizabeth" to "Sparky"?

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

So the legend tells, once upon a time on a list, people were trying desperately to come up with something better than "Shweir" (oh god anything is better than "Shweir", but apparently it's an actual last name, people are so weird), and "sparky" was suggested -- as a totally random, off the wall thing. And it stuck. So people call John/Elizabeth "Sparky", and it's sort of a trend, because now you've got your Spanky (Ronon/Teyla) and Snappy or Snarky or something (Rodney/Radek).

I would ship Rodney/Ronon/Teyla just to call it McSpanky.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ha. These little bits of fannish history are so interesting.

Icarus

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

yyyy! I enjoy them.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Now you have me interested. If you were to rec the top, say, five Sparky fics so far this year -- what would they be?

Icarus

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

Oh man! It would be lol cheating to say "everything [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] wrote this year, right?

OKAY, lemme give this a go. (I can provide links, but it'll take longer to write this comment if I hunt them all down at once)

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] S/W version of "Genesis" (mutant AU for [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] -- it was the set up fic for an open AU). There was also a gen version (no sex, tension from various people), which I loved, but the S/W had Bug!John/Telepath!Elizabeth sexytiems and all sorts. Basically, a few years ago or something, Dr Rodney McKay fucked up monumentally and spilled shit all over California (or somewhere, it's been a while). He caused a lot of mutations in people -- John's got his bug powers, Elizabeth and Daniel are telepaths, Teyla can walk through walls (I think) and Ronon has SUPER STRENGTH ARRRRRR. Elizabeth is working for some American intelligence thing, and she's setting up a team to take down the latest big threat. John is an ex-cop commercial pilot who can incidentally rip you to pieces if he feels that way inclined.

On that note, the sequel, "Echoes" (I think) which isn't finished yet is also badass, and the tension is super awesome interesting because the sex from the first story happened in ~*the future*~ (lol time travel) and Elizabeth knows/remembers but John doesn't and hasn't seen her since he said "lol no" to her job offer.

I can't pick just one of these stories, so the whole [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] series (renaissance AU). It's been quite a few stories so far and they've only kissed like, once, but the series is about waaaaay more than just the fact John and Elizabeth want to be boning; political intrigue, Jack is lols, Sumner featured in the first story, awesome Rodney and Sam interaction. Some really cool pairings aside from the big one, and a lot of "oh my god oh my god WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?" I love it, even though I haven't read the most recent story.

HMMM, I'm not actually sure what was written when. I think I can safely say "everything that [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] has written, because ilherwriting. Oh!

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] wrote a brilliant S4 spec fic that wasn't precisely John/Elizabeth, but it did focus on them. The premise is that Elizabeth is considered a security risk because of the Asuran bullshit, and is held in a little cell for months and John gets all lol angy, and then badass stuff happens. I totally spoiled the whole thing, and then went "ahahaha no", so just, it's amazingly awesome. Includes Radek helping with a rescue mission! ilu Radek.

My last pick is definitely the [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] series (one multichaptered story, I think it's called Vortex, is up so far). This is another AU (I'm big on AU), and it's actually John/Elizabeth/Heightmeyer. John is a cop, Elizabeth is the leader of a vampire coven and Kate is a witch. Way cooler than the crack sounds like it should be. The first story has a lot of how Kate and John and Elizabeth get involved, the Wraith, and a really keen subplot of Michael being Teyla's husband (he WAS, but then she became a vampire and he became a Wraith and now he's all "WE R MARRIAGE" she's all "lol no").

Uh. I describe things really badly. >_>

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Wow. Okay, cool!

[saltroseortopaz.livejournal.com]

:D! It was kind of hard -- I ship like half a dozen Elizabeth pairings, so I kept having to go "lol not Shep, Dele, stop trying to rec Weir/Sumner".

:( brainwashed by the T1000, clearly.

[melodyunity.livejournal.com]

Have you read thingswithwings's The New Atlantean Dictionary of Literary Terms (http://thingswithwings.livejournal.com/13198.html#cutid1)? If you haven't, it's pretty awesome.

[melodyunity.livejournal.com]

Oh -- and Bang (http://glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/bang.html) by rageprufrock was a lot of fun.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

"Bang" I've read, and it's hilarious. Totally forgot about that one.

Is it my imagination, or are there a lot of challenges this year?

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. Cooooool! Thank you.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Adored Dictionary.

[melodyunity.livejournal.com]

Yay! It was wonderful, wasn't it? One of the most original things I've read.

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, some of these will be ones you haven't read yet.

"Fat My Dust" (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/579080.html) by cesperanza - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17

"Fix" (http://crysothemis.livejournal.com/46909.html) by chrysothemis - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17 - I recommend reading Rodney's POV first, then reading John's.

"All These Places We Have Met" (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/565739.html) by toft_froggy - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17 - This is a great fic, but it still makes me tear up when I think about it, so warning for angst.

"A Slightly Different Quality of Light" (http://glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/qualityoflight.html) by Pru - McKay/Sheppard - PG-13

"Satisfaction" (http://hth.gatefiction.com/satisfaction.htm) by Hth and Caroline - McKay/Dex - NC-17

"Guns and Butter" (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/563400.html) - by 2ndary_author - McKay/Sheppard - R

"I Am Your Image Dressed As The World" (http://mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com/66173.html) - McKay/Sheppard - PG-13

"Junk Cheap" (http://devildoll.livejournal.com/751627.html) by devildoll - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17 - AU

The "Checkmate" verse (http://beadattitude.livejournal.com/tag/checkmate) by beadattitude - McKay/Sheppard - PG to NC-17 - John gets turned into a cat, and Rodney takes care of him. This might be my favorite fic of 2007.

"Inundation" (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/581973.html) by ltlj - Gen, teamfic - PG-13 - really awesome gen fic with a neat plot and great characterization. another one of my 2007 favorites.

"Weapons of Some Distraction" (http://shrift.livejournal.com/144919.html) - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17 - one possible version of John and Rodney's time on Earth during The Return

"High As Heaven" (http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/222656.html) by siegeofangels - McKay/Atlantis/Sheppard - R

"M(eredith +1) Theory" (http://lallybroch.livejournal.com/74000.html) by lallybroch - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17

"This Gun's For Hire" (http://www.helenish.net/gun.shtml) by Helen - McKay/Sheppard - NC-17

Hope you enjoy them!

*eye grow big with delight and wonder*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I love you. Oh, yes I do. I've only read four of these.

*dances*

Re: *eye grow big with delight and wonder*

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Also? I left off two of the author's names. "I Am Your Image Dressed As the World" is by mirabile_dictu, and "Weapons of Some Distraction" is by shrift. And if you're looking for a good source of recs, cupidsbow's rec_room is an excellent one.

Re: *eye grow big with delight and wonder*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh. I'd forgotten the name of "This Gun's For Hire" and I'd read "High As Heaven."

I loved "Weapons of Some Distraction" and have now read "Fix" about four times. "Checkmate" was almost too sweet, but I couldn't resist it, like pink cotton candy at the annual fair. As for "Guns & Butter" -- I have a real fondness for Atlantis black market fics. "Inundation" and "I Am Your Image Dressed Up As The World" left me breathless with their visual beauty. The others I'd read (and loved or liked as well).

Thank you.

Icarus

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

I've read all but the gen fic here, I think, but still, wow, way to go! I'll bookmark this post. *g* Thanks from me, too.

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

If you still haven't read "Inundation", I highly recommend it. I hardly ever read gen fic, but this one is fantastic. It's only 3,200 words, but she's managed to pack excellent characterization, humor, danger, cool aliens, and an awesome scifi plot into what ends up being one of my favorite SGA fics ever. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you read it.

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you made this post. I've only read about 5 SGA fics total this year, and 3 of them were yesterday. *grin* Now I can get caught up. *adds post to del.icio.us and thumbtacks it*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we'll rope in some more. My main fic supplier has been sliding out of this fandom and into SPN, so I'm not as up on the latest as I have been.

Icarus

[whetherwoman.livejournal.com]

Ack stupid tags! Deleted old comment, here's a better one:

runpunkrun's month o' fic. (http://runpunkrun.livejournal.com/tag/that+particular+month)

thingswithwings's Always Should Be Someone You Really Love (http://thingswithwings.livejournal.com/8873.html) is possibly my favorite story of 2007. Such great interpretations of gender and fanfic tropes and all that good stuff.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the reminder of "Always Should Be..." It's a marvelous story with vivid OCs.

I love Punk. Let me see if... *runs off to vacuum up fics*

Icarus

Only Gen?

[nuetronorange.livejournal.com]

Hi, I can see you asked for John/? but if you're interested in John and Rodney friendship fics, with a good dose of action, adventure and whump (usually Rodney) Tippers fics http://megtipper.tripod.com/fanfiction6.htm are absolutely wonderful. Just something different to read maybe?

Re: Only Gen?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Yes. Friendship fics, adventure, excitement. Thank you!

*explores*

Re: Only Gen?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh. Too many. Which one do you recommend I read first?

Icarus

Re: Only Gen?

[nuetronorange.livejournal.com]

Sooo Many ! Hmm, well Failure to Communicate is pretty damn fine and it won an award. Show of Trust and Bio-luminescence are good McKay Sheppard ones. The Eledgias is a good team fic. One of my favourite opening sequences in a fic is in Down Came a Spider and Hidden Recources is good for Rodney whump! (my favourite theme)

But I have to say I haven't yet read one of her fics that I didn't like, I like her stuff so much I'm even reading the WIP Desert Orkids which is almost finished (I think).

Happy reading.
Nue.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

I tag my del.icio.us links by year. If you look at the SGA+2007 links and check out the stories with high numbers in the "saved by X other people" category, maybe you'll find something that you've missed. :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm frustrated by del.icio.us. It gives people almost no space for a valid description, and most people just use author summaries. I don't tend to use it that much for recs.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm impressed. You are really thorough. That is a lot of fics.

Icarus

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

You are really thorough.

You mean I'm obsessed. *g*

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

light-hearted romance, comedy, and exploration by the sea

Heh. Me too.

http://monanotlisa.livejournal.com/617341.html

http://monanotlisa.livejournal.com/tag/rec

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ooo, read this if you haven't already: While You Were Out (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=12203) by mad_maudlin.


"Did I mention we have two ZPMs now?"

"No," John said, "and if you stole them from the US Air Force, I don't want to know about it."

"Nonono," Rodney said. "Not stealing. Stealing is wrong. We, um, traded for them."

"Traded what?"

"Caldwell," Rodney said quietly."

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, er, um. I should have probably commented with a thank you, because I, uh, already checked your rec, oh, a week ago. (Loved both fics. *g*)

Icarus

[coquettemoves.livejournal.com]

*Bless* you for making this post -- I wish I could rec, but I've been so lazy (and have gotten sucked into reading bad fic just to goggle at the badness and melodrama). Instead, I'm going to tear through a lot of the fics posted in the comments. Oh SGA, sometimes I forget you also inspire actual good fanfiction and not just crap where John's a secret cutter.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Here's one that's not on the list, but it's absolutely hilarious.

While You Were Out (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=12203) by mad_maudlin, who's just as funny as ever:

"Did I mention we have two ZPMs now?"

"No," John said, "and if you stole them from the US Air Force, I don't want to know about it."

"Nonono," Rodney said. "Not stealing. Stealing is wrong. We, um, traded for them."

"Traded what?"

"Caldwell," Rodney said quietly.

[coquettemoves.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, AMAZING. Thank you!

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

It's just barely not a 2007 story by like 4 days, but if you haven't read it I'd highly recommend "You're Pretty Good Looking for a Girl" (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/473387.html) by trinityofone.

tielan just posted a set of seven short fics (http://tielan.livejournal.com/167555.html) yesterday that are very well-written. And "Blurring Lines" nearly melted my laptop monitor.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I love "You're Pretty Good Looking For A Girl" -- especially John's plan for his father at the end, heh.

As for tielan's fics -- *nabs*

Icarus

[tonicollins.livejournal.com]

Good Guys Don't Always Wear White by nel ani (http://www.pertifity.com/fanfic/goodguys.htm)

Aegis by Leah and Springwoof (http://sgabigbang.talkoncorners.net/?view=fic&id=16)

Both stories are long, along the same theme, but completely different in tone. Hope you like 'em.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm trying to get the extension to work that will make nel_ani's story black on a white background. (My nearsightedness is only getting worse as the years go on.)

I tried Aegis and it wasn't to my taste. The idea was interesting, and I liked some of the Gifts they picked (Bates knowing whenever someone lied was inspired, and Sumner's almost primal gift was cool). But the story feels stretched, like the authors were struggling to make it longer than it wanted to be. I finally gave up at the suicide.

Icarus

[tonicollins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm trying to get the extension to work that will make [info]nel_ani's story black on a white background. (My nearsightedness is only getting worse as the years go on.)

Ah, I download, format and read off paper. There's no way my back or eye sight would support reading fic on line.

You could always save it as a text file and read it off Word. (I say, subtly encouraging the reading of this story again *g*)

[djinanna.livejournal.com]

For Firefox? From the main menu, go View -- Page Style -- No Style.

If you still don't like the colours, then go Tools -- Options -- Content -- Text and click the colorbox to chose black, then Background and click the colorbox, then chose white (or, as I prefer, a light pastel).

Then "OK" your way out and your screen should be good.

Note, though, that this will affect all your tabs until you switch it off again.

There's also a menu button, which I think comes in one of the menu button extensions (I have two installed and don't know which it's from) that turns this on/off for just the tab you're on at the time.

For Windows, you need to look in Internet Options (or maybe Browser Options - the name changes sometimes w/different versions), where there's a Text & Background control on the first page/tab of the menu popup.

If you're using a different browser (or a Mac), you're on your own. Best luck from one owner of aging eyes to another. *g*

ps ... I also thank you for the making the post. Mmmm, fic links!

[feanna.livejournal.com]

You are following the McShep Match, aren't you. Just asking because you didn't metion it above, but that is probably just because the stories are just being posted. I personally haven't gotten around to reading the fics yet (I plan to) but I've already seen some of them recced. (And by authors you've mentioned, so I'm sure you know about this.)

Also, guess who: