Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Episode Related

Categories: team, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: lokei
Author's Website: lokei
Link: Falling Back Into Metre, at AO3 (logged in only) or at her old LJ fic archive

Why This Must Be Read: Here's some oldskool fic to brighten your day!

In the wake of One False Step, various members of the SG-1 reach out to one another to make amends after their various dustups while under the influence of off-key singing plants. (That's an accurate description of the episode, but it sounds like the crackiest summary of the crackiest fanfic ever, doesn't it?) It's deft, wry, and perfectly in character - and a very satisfying coda to the episode.


The slow and steady beat of their understanding wove its way across the phone line, un-vocalized but not unheard, like the deep and vital tones of an alien world.

character study, character: jack o'neill, friendship, character: samantha carter, sg-1, character: daniel jackson, character: teal'c, episode related

Rec Category: Sha're

Categories: angst, character study, Amaunet
Warnings: Goa'uld possession with everything it entails
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: rosemarycat5
Link: Not Myself Today

Why This Must Be Read: The host survives. Nothing of the host remains. The symbiote learns what the host knows. The host absorbs...

Sha're. Amaunet. Dreams and the blurring of lines. Bleakly good.


In their dreams, Amaunet conjured feasts of strange fruits and bodies on the ground nearby. Sha’re supplemented the table with fresh breads and wrapped chocolate. She sat at one end of the conjured table dressed how she would have in Abydos, and across from her was her double, eyes glowing, and dressed in the garb of a system lord.

Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship

Categories: Jack, Daniel, character study, angst, episode related
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: briarwood
Author's Website: morgan32
Link: Emotional Archeology

Why This Must Be Read: Fresh off the archive! This is a fantastic Jack and Daniel friendship piece in the wake of Show and Tell, with Daniel helping Jack deal with the emotional fallout. Understated, intelligent, sideways approaches... in short, perfectly Jack and Daniel. :)

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Rec Category: Jack and Sam Friendship

Categories: humor, team, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: stringertheory
Author's Website: stringertheory
Link: Something Borrowed

Why This Must Be Read: Classic team for the win as Sam takes over when Jack disappears off-world. Inverted marriage tropes and betting pools may be a factor...

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


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

Rec Category: Five Things

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

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

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Rec Category: Kidfic

Characters:
Categories: SGA, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, humor, time travel
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kuonji
Author's Website: kuonji
Link: Phone Call Home

Why This Must Be Read: Here is one of my rare SGA fics, although it's actually more of a kidfic rec, which is pretty rare for me, too... :)

Absolutely delightful kid!Rodney stream-of-consciousness as he meets this odd guy who needs to make a phone call from his house. Pitch-perfect, clever, and fun!

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Rec Category: Humor

Categories: Sam, Teal'c, Daniel, Mitchell, humor, Sam and Teal'c friendship, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kalquessa
Author's Website: kalquessa
Link: Retail Price

Why This Must Be Read: So what's the going rate for a colonel and an archeologist? Sam and Teal'c are about to find out!

Very short, very fun, slightly innuendo-ish (for Kalquessa, certainly). Sam and Teal'c as the slightly amused adults are always a win. :)


"So what's the plan for getting us out of these?" Daniel pulled the chain between his wrists taut.

"Well it's a bit crowded for a fire-fight, so we're going to buy you from that nice man in the leather shirt over there," Sam hefted the bag of coins she had been carrying, which clinked satisfyingly.

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Janet Frasier
Characters: Janet Frasier, General Hammond
Categories: gen, friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: havocthecat
Author's Website: havocthecat
Link: Vigil

Why This Must Be Read: Here is a lovely Janet and George introspective, as they grapple with the need to hold down the fort when they'd rather be doing something. It's quiet and gentle, with that steely resolve underneath, and it fits them both perfectly.


General Hammond smiled at her. It was one of those sad little smiles he saved for late at night when the losses were too much to bear. He didn't smile like that often. She smiled back, a wry almost-grin that she saved for the morning after the final sutures had been put in place, the infirmary was scrubbed clean, and she'd had enough coffee to get a start on feeling human again.

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill

Categories: character study, angst, pre-series, references to Daniel, Sara, Charlie, Kawalsky...
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: ljs_lj
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Jack O'Neill Does Not Believe

Why This Must Be Read: Superb old skool style fic, featuring an in-depth character study of Jack in the nebulous year between movie and COTG. Complete with a loving nod to Jack's Irish heritage and lots of foreshadowing, this is a fantastic glimpse of Jack's metamorphosis from the movie to the show.

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Rec Category: Humor

Categories: Jack, Daniel, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kalquessa
Author's Website: kalquessa
Link: Linguistic Dendrology

Why This Must Be Read: I am delighted to see that Kalquessa is archiving her fics on AO3! Here's a delightful little bit of Jack and Daniel snark to celebrate.

Trees and Jack off-world, just a little more... verbose than you might expect. And Daniel apparently speaks twenty-tree languages.


"So what you're telling me," Jack said slowly, "is that we now have a treaty...with some trees."

Show: SG-1

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

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


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

Rec Category: Crossover

Categories: team, humor, outside POV
Warnings: crossover with Howl's Moving Castle
Author's Journal: pepper_field
Author's Website: pepperf
Link: Unexpected Visitors

Why This Must Be Read: I am very fond of this little ficlet, because the intriguing outside perspective of our beloved team made me curious enough to read Howl's Moving Castle, which led me to the Chrestomanci novels and the other Diana Wynne Jones novels and...

Ahem.

Very short, very sweet, and entirely worth it just for Sophie's automatic assumption regarding Teal'c and his staff weapon!

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Show: SG-1/SGA

Rec Category: Clone!Jack
Characters: Clone!Jack, Jack O'Neill, John Sheppard, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, series, crossover, SG-1/SGA, episode related, AU
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: oFFs
Link: Great Enterprises

Why This Must Be Read: If the Ancient gene was such a valuable commodity in Atlantis that they wrote a completely ignorant and inexperienced John into the mission based on the strength of his, why would they ignore a young, vastly experienced guy who already knew about everything and had the gene as well?

In this two-part series, they didn't... and clone!Jack ends up as part of the Atlantis expedition.

These two stories don't actually get us to Atlantis, but it's an intriguing, well-written premise. And who knows? Maybe some feedback will prompt the author to write more! :)

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