Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Jack and Teal'c friendship
Categories: team, friendship, character study, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: ivorygates
Author's Website: ivorygates at AO3
Link: X is for Explore, Explanation, Excitement, and Xenophilia

Why This Must Be Read: Treat yourself to a wonderful look at Jack's thoughts on Teal'c's first exposures to Earth and his perceptions of the planet and the people, including the joys of team and friendship. This is feel-good fic at its best!


“It is odd,” Teal’c says at last, “to be presented with so many choices.”

Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: Sam, friendship, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: MidKnightRider at AO3
Link: One of the Guys (wrong link before - fixed now!)

Why This Must Be Read: In the wake of Jolinar's death, the guys try to find a way to cheer Sam a little. They are adorably clueless :) but with a little help from Janet, they get it right.

Sweet Jack and Daniel interaction with Teal'c prominently on the sidelines, then a really lovely denouement in an ice cream parlor. Classic style SG-1!

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Rec Category: Jack and Janet friendship
Categories: angst, character study, Cassie
Warnings: watch where you step
Author on LJ: thothmes
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: Night Terrors

Why This Must Be Read: Stories in which Janet has to deal with Jack's gift to Cassie never get old. And this gem, where a frustrated, exhausted Janet calls Jack to vent about the dog at zero dark thirty, is pitch perfect for them both.

It wasn't easy for Cassie or for Janet at the beginning. This is a great look at how both of them deal with it.

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Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: Jack, Daniel, Teal'c, angst, character study
Warnings: adult themes
Author on LJ: marzipan77
Author's Website: Marzipan at AO3
Link: A Loss of the Same Size

Why This Must Be Read: This is a powerful episode tag to COTG, in which Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c form the points of a triangle of pain and loss. Bereavement isn't anyone's choice of a bonding tool, but Marzipan deftly weaves the beginnings of common ground into something hurtful but oh, so good!

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Categories: character study, angst, ep related, time travel
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: ivorygates
Author's Website: Fic Journal Table Of Contents / Ivorygates on AO3
Link: M is for You Must Remember This

Why This Must Be Read: This is a powerful, almost angry character study of Jack O'Neill, within the context of 1969, time travel and its ramifications, and Jack's original memories of the era. So, so good!


He’s got a sunburn from an August day that was thirty years ago and yesterday: the first time he saw that August he was seventeen in Minnesota waving his acceptance letter from the Academy like the Get Out Of Jail Free card that it was (in 1969, people worried about the Draft, the ’Nam, and it was ‘hell no, I won’t go,’ for half his generation and ‘my country: right or wrong’ for the other half; there’s a lesson there for cynics). It wasn’t that he wouldn’t have been proud to serve (the O’Neills tended to be Navy men), of course. It was just that he wanted to fly. (Wouldn’t you know it, four years later he was jumping out of perfectly good airplanes over the same godforsaken jungle half his high school classmates had been lost in.) And the second time—thirty years removed but not in any way that matters—he was in Washington DC, breaking into an armory to catch the brass (naquadaah) ring for a free ride home.

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Categories: episode related, friendship, Jack and Daniel friendship, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: jdjunkie
Author's Website: jdjunkie at AO3
Link: Finding Home

Why This Must Be Read: Classic team, classic style ep tag: Daniel post-Fire and Water, contemplating the unpacking of his apartment and the unexpected closeness that makes it necessary. Team love, solid friendship, nice introspection - this is your feel-good read of the day!


Smiling to himself, he placed the candlesticks on the bookshelf and started putting his apartment back together again.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Categories: Jack, Teal'c, humor, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: lokei
Author's Website: lokei at AO3
Link: Accidentally on Purpose

Why This Must Be Read: Jack just knowsthat the Wonder Twins wind him up on purpose. In this fun fic, he imagines a few possible scenarios...

If you enjoy team with an extra dose of Sam and Daniel friendship, this story is definitely for you!

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Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship
Categories: angst, episode related
Warnings: implications of Hathor
Author on LJ: dani_the_girl
Author's Website: SG-1 tag
Link: Moving Forward, Shutting Down

Why This Must Be Read: Jack helps Daniel learn how to face - or possibly, not-face - the aftermath of Hathor. This one hurts, but the bleak humor and dark edges from both of them suits all too well, and it's not difficult to picture Jack and Daniel dealing with events like this... over and over again.

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Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: Jack, Kawalsky, team, friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: sid
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: Five old 'war stories' O'Neill tells that feature Kawalsky

Why This Must Be Read: This fic is filled with warmth and friendship and bittersweet humor, as new friends join Jack in saluting an old friend he's lost. Complete with snark, increasing drunkenness, and a constant refrain of "Shut up, Daniel," (in the nicest possible way, natch), Sid does sparkling credit to Jack, Kawalsky, and all of SG-1.


"To Charlie Kawalsky, and to fallen comrades everywhere."

Rec Category: Crossover
Categories: Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, humor
Warnings: crossover with Discworld
Author on LJ: unadrift
Author's Website: Unadrift at AO3 / Livejournal Fic Index
Link: Entirely Possible

Why This Must Be Read: Even if you have only the vaguest concept of pTerry's Discworld, this absolute gem of a crossover is not to be missed. Read it for the sheer joy of in-character crackiness as Sam struggles with Discworld "science" and Unseen University, Jack squares off against Carrot and Vimes, Daniel suffers an anthropological crisis and meets Death, and Teal'c disapproves of their accidental annointment into the priesthood of Oz. This is the rational world meeting the irrationality of Discworld and saying, "ow!" - complete with laugh-out-loud moments that will make you want to read it all over again!

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Rec Category: Team
Categories: friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: smg01
Author's Website: Fanwork Listing
Link: Team's Night Out

Why This Must Be Read: Classic team goes bowling = friendship, humor, Teal'c pwnage, and sheer GLEE!

Rec Category: Cassie
Categories: Jack and Daniel friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: trelkez
Author's Website: Greensilver at AO3
Link: Planet of the Penguins

Why This Must Be Read: This story is just plain adorable. Jack and Daniel take S1 Cassie to the zoo and try to convince her that they really can't free the penguins (or the camels), with or without Teal'c's staff weapon to assist them. Great banter, unashamed fluff, and a guaranteed smile on your face when you're done!

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Rec Category: Sam and Janet friendship
Categories: ep related, Cassie, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: penknife
Author's Website: Penknife at AO3
Link: New World

Why This Must Be Read: This is a gentle, endearing missing scene from Singularity, as Sam and Janet carefully talk Cassie through her invented backstory as a relative newcomer from "Toronto." Friendship, caring, a generous dash of humor -- it's all here, and well worth reading.

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