Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Categories: Jonas,episode related, character study, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: paian
Author's Website: Paian at AO3
Link: A Foot in the Door

Why This Must Be Read: Jonas said, "The truth is, I don't think that Colonel O'Neill was very comfortable having me around."

Daniel said, "That's not what he told me. ..."

Take that quote from Homecoming and give it the classic Paian treatment for sharp and shrewd amnesiac!Daniel, using all his skills as an archaeologist to explore the mystery that is Dr. Daniel Jackson... and his friendship with Jack O'Neill.

Lovely stuff!


So he studied Daniel Jackson's professional history the way his curriculum vitae informed him he had studied the history and languages of this planet. He made private, independent assessments of the people around him, uncontaminated by what others might have told him about them or about his past interactions with them. He learned what he could learn by reading. What the four members of SG-1 didn't seem to realize, despite knowing full well that one of Doctor Jackson's specialties was anthropology, was that he was nearly as good at reading people as he was at reading text.

Rec Category: Jonas and Vala friendship
Categories: Sam and Jonas friendship, angst, hurt/comfort, post-series
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: gingasaur
Author's Website: Gingasaur at AO3
Link: Wherever We Go

Why This Must Be Read: I could try to be pithy and summarize this as "Vala and Jonas bond over being tortured by the Ori," but this story has much greater depth than that. It's an honest, clear-eyed look at a long, painful recovery from abandonment, pain, and loss of hope. This is a perfect Vala and an excellent Jonas, with bonus well-characterized Sam, dealing with the fallout of Langara's fall to the Ori. It feels very real, and very well done.

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Rec Category: Sam and Jonas friendship
Categories: humor, Jack and Sam friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: Nift at FF.net
Link: By Proxy

Why This Must Be Read: Sam is delightful in this short story, as she helps their new resident alien find a method of recreation and handles the subsequent conversation with her CO with aplomb. I love her sense of humor, Jonas' enthusiasm for new things, and Jack's wry acknowledgment of who's really responsible for the whole thing.

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Rec Category: Jonas Quinn
Categories: character study, friendship, Jack, Sam, Teal'c
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: night_spear1287
Author's Website: List of Stories
Link: Z is for Zat

Why This Must Be Read: An excellent look at Jonas and his gradual progression from frightened outsider to team member, touched with his own perspective on the nature of choice and responsibility. Jack is perfectly in character here, as is Sam and Teal'c. This is a good, solid S6 fic that does Jonas (and the team) justice.

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Rec Category: Gen
Categories: Catherine Langford, Cassandra Fraiser, Sarah Gardner, Loran, Jennifer Hailey, Jonas Quinn, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: stringertheory
Author's Website: Fic List
Link: Star Light, Star Bright

Why This Must Be Read: Minor characters deserve focus, too. Here, Stringertheory offers an enchanting character sketch of six characters - four women, two men - whose lives are both touched by the Stargate and tied to the stars. From gentle to bittersweet to angsty and back again, each of these is a deft portrait of the characters we meet and then often forget after the episode ends.


There are so many small moments that created the path her life has taken. Some of them were missteps or stumbles, but they were all heading in the same direction: toward the stars.

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: Jonas, team, friendship, angst, ep related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: grav_ity
Author's Website: Gravity Not Included
Link: The L Words

Why This Must Be Read: Grav touches lightly, one drabble at a time, on Jonas Quinn: his initial loneliness on Earth, the wonder of slow friendship and acceptance, the bittersweet, full circle return to Langara when "home" isn't so easy to define any more. Lovely, deft, and layered, and well worth the read.


"Carter, why are we lost?”

“There’s too much magnetic interference on this planet for our compasses to – .”

“Why’s it always magnets? Jonas, what do you think?”

This is when Jonas knows he’s part of the team.

Rec Category: Walter the Chevron Guy
Categories: Walter, Jonas, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: pepper_field
Author's Website: Pepper on AO3
Link: Insider Info

Why This Must Be Read: In Descent, Jonas mentions that he was warned about Teal'c's sense of humor. Who else could have supplied him with such crucial insider information, if not Walter the Chevron Guy?

Try this ficlet for a fun, quick read that will leave you with a smile on your face!

Full disclaimer: I was lucky enough to inspire this. :)


"Everyone here must be alert and ready for anything to happen," he said, portentously. "Anything. At any moment, there could be an event that threatens the safety of our entire world." There was a slight pause, in which they both seemed to be waiting for an apocalypse. There was a distinct lack of apocalypsii. "Any moment," reiterated Walter, firmly. "We just don't know when."

Rec Category: Jonas Quinn
Categories: Jonas, Teal'c, humor, friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: abyssinia4077
Author's Website: Masterlist of Fanfic
Link: Tartan

Why This Must Be Read: Jonas. Teal'c. Kilts.

Need I say more? :)

Bonus Daniel and Bra'tac fic at the same link!

Rec Category: Jonas Quinn
Categories: Jonas, Mackenzie, ep related, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: cyren_2132
Author's Website: fanfic tag
Link: Sound

Why This Must Be Read: Short, honest, and hurting, as Dr. MacKenzie helps Jonas recognize the nature of PTSD and the painful memories of the events of Meridian.

I love fics that recognize that Jonas acted as an untrained civilian in a crisis, and not out of cowardice. (And that recognize that MacKenzie has to be good at his job, or he wouldn't have been part of the SGC for at least seven years!) Very real, and very good.

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Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: Jonas, drama, angst, hurt/comfort, apocafic
Warnings: language, torture
Author on LJ: vixys
Author's Website: Master fic list
Link: Now is the Winter

Why This Must Be Read: Jonas on Langara. Under the Ori.

This story will dig at you, until you are aching together with Jonas and shivering in the cold. Hope and despair, driven determination, utilizing the knowledge he gained through SG-1 as well as the bitter remnants of Nirrti's manipulations -- this is Jonas Quinn, very bloody but definitely unbowed, struggling for freedom for his people.

Long. Intense. Good.


Word spreads of a man who blazes in his disbelief, and has not been struck down.

Rec Category: Five Things
Categories: futurefic, team, humor, friendship, Cassie, Jonas
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: tarimanveri
Author's Website: tarimanveri_fic
Link: Five Ways It ALL Ended Happily

Why This Must Be Read: Exactly what it says on the tin: five delightful happy endings for the team, for Cassie, for Jonas. From the silliness of the "Fairway to Heaven" to the triumph of Langara's resistance of the Ori to the sweetness of Cassie joining the SGC, every one of these is guaranteed to make you smile!


The first annual invitational interplanetary golf tournament tees off from the base of the ramp at Stargate Command and snowballs from there, quickly becoming known to its participants as “Fairway to Heaven” and expanding in its second year to include the Pegasus galaxy. The annual Intergalactic Invitational becomes something of a bureaucratic nightmare for the Pentagon and the IOA (although the SGC doesn’t mind the extra work), but as it happens, the tournament continually provides such a boost to Earth’s off-world public relations that they can’t shut it down. Besides, competitive sports turn out to be remarkably effective in uniting the fractious Jaffa and in promoting friendship between suspicious neighbours across the ‘Gate network.

Rec Category: AU
Categories: AU, Daniel, Jack, Jonas, Jacob, Nyan, Martouf, Sam, Teal'c, Oma, Skaara, Sha're, team, drama, episode related, Jack and Daniel friendship, Jack and Teal'c friendship.
Warnings: minor and major character deaths
Author on LJ: nightspear
Author's Website: List of Stories
Link: Journeys

Why This Must Be Read: Nightspear concludes one of my all-time favorite AUs with the fifth in the series, Journeys, covering the events in her Daniel of Abydos universe from mid-S5 through mid-S7.

Daniel of Abydos originally began as a kind of kidfic (and nonetheless made me fell in love with it!), but by the time this final novel begins, Daniel is already an adult and a full-fledged member of SG-1. Still, his relative youth and the changes in this Au's backstory means that Revanna, Kelowna, Abyss, Changeling, Full Circle, Orpheus, and other canon incidents happen very differently, with a fascinating exploration of the challenges of Ascension and the limitations and rules that Daniel has to face. ("Tell Jacob to stop" will break your heart, trust me.) Some die who lived in canon; others live who died.

I love Nyan's brave attempt to take Daniel's place on SG-1, and the twist of Jonas earning his position partially by virtue of being untainted by guilt. I love the way Nightspear wove the mythology of the later seasons into Daniel's version of S6 and made it work. I love her Abydos and its people, and the courage and determination they continue to show. But most of all, I enjoy Nightspear's loving attention to detail, her craft at characterization, and the wonderful way she depicts these characters who are just a little different from the SG-1 we know and love, but are delightfully, perfectly themselves.

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Rec Category: Jonas Quinn
Categories: Jonas, Sam, Teal'c, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: noveltea
Author's Website: The Writing Bilble of Meridian / meridianicons
Link: Kitchen Chemistry

Why This Must Be Read: Sam and Jonas discuss Jell-O, with a certain canon-based contribution by Teal'c. :)

Sweet (in all senses of the world), light, and funny. Go read and enjoy!