figs_sg1_rec: (fanfic fix)
Rec Category: Cameron Mitchell
Categories: Cam and team, Tokra ensemble, Sam, Martouf, Teal'c, Daniel, Elizabeth Weir, AU, episode related, canon rewrite, Sam and Cam friendship, Cam and Teal'c friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: [personal profile] slybrarian
Author's Website: [archiveofourown.org profile] Slybrarian
Link: Ophiucus Rising

Why This Must Be Read: This is what the SGC/Tok'ra relationship should have been, and a very plausible way to bring Cam into the SGC program a full season earlier: instead of putting him through a year of agonizing therapy that might not be successful, Sam - still host to Jolinar - offers Cam the opportunity to be a Tok'ra host.

This leads to a very different S8, with Cam and his fellow Tok'ra-Tau'ri blends working at the SGC.

You'll enjoy the different twists on various episodes, the hilarious inner dialogue, and the warm friendship between Cam and Sam. A very satisfying story!


As everyone began settling down, Cam took a look around at them all. They were, to a man, woman, and snake, a bunch of neurotic, insane, and sneaky basket cases, but they were also brilliant, brave, and loyal. Part of Cam still ached for the squadron he had been forced to leave behind, but if he had to replace them he couldn't have asked for a better group. He didn't think he would mind calling them family for the next three or four hundred years.
figs_sg1_rec: (daniel)
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: [personal profile] 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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figs_sg1_rec: (jack and daniel friendship)

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Pairing: none

Categories: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter, Teal’c, drama, hurt/comfort, Jack and Daniel friendship, team, Janet Fraiser, Martouf

Warnings: some language, some whumping

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] destina

Author's Website: Worlds Without Boundaries

Link: Ciphers

Why This Must Be Read: How is it possible that this classic Daniel fic hasn't been recced here yet?!

An accident off-world leaves Daniel with a new, crippling perspective on the written and spoken word. At first, it seems as if Daniel can handle the situation; but as the problem deepens into crisis, the struggle begins to keep him not only alert and functioning, but alive.

 

The entire team shines in this one. Sam is brilliant and dedicated and fierce in her pursuit of a solution; Teal’c lends his strength and his silence and his grace at a time that Daniel so desperately needs it. Jack is a bastion for Daniel, in leadership and friendship, as he inevitably finds the words - and the silences - that Daniel requires to keep going. But most of all, this is Daniel’s story: the drive to comprehend and adapt, the will and the courage to persist in the face of such damage. With an excellent guest star appearance from Martouf, and Janet in usual fine form, Ciphers is a wonderful team fic and Daniel fic that you’ll want to read again and again.



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