Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

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: Pre-series
Categories: Daniel/Sha're
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: regentzilla at AO3
Link: Snapshot

Why This Must Be Read: Daniel's framed picture of Sha're had to come from somewhere...

If not for our knowledge of what's coming, this little ficlet would merely be charming fluffiness. As it is, this is bittersweet, gentle, and makes you glad this opportunity didn't slip past before it was too late.

Rec Category: Sha'uri
Categories: Skaara, pre-series, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: magibrain
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: Y is for Yearling

Why This Must Be Read: This is a delightful peek at Abydos in the pre-movie days, full of imagery and humor and perfect characterization. Every older sister (and, yes, younger brother) will recognize the dynamic between Sha'uri and Skaara. It's impossible not to be charmed by this... and to smile, too, at the introduction of a character-of-sorts who will definitely play a major part in the movie!


She stamped her feet to be sure the sandals held firm. "Go on, then," she whispered. Careful not to wake anyone who might hear. "What have you found?"

Skaara grinned at her and took off running, and Sha'uri rushed after him.

Rec Category: Pre-series
Categories: Sha'uri, Jack, Catherine Langford, Sam, Kawalsky, Daniel, character study, ep related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: bakaknight
Author's Website: Bakaknight at AO3
Link: Sunrises

Why This Must Be Read: This is a thoughtful episode tag to Stargate: the Movie, offering a glimpse of the aftermath to a variety of different characters. (Well, Sha'uri's is more a prologue.) My personal favorite is Catherine Langford's, but all of these feel very real and very right.

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800 recs, people. Fandom, I salute you!

Rec Category: Drama
Categories: angst, AU, Sha're and Sam friendship, ep related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: magistrata
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: Of Dreams and Desperations

Why This Must Be Read: Two of my favorite women, being utterly awesome!

In this stunning AU of FIAD, it's Sam who confronts Amaunet, not Daniel, and ends up being taken prisoner. What follows is twisty and powerful and full of raw strength and courage, as the two women use the battlegrounds of mind and body to defeat their common jailor and find their way to victory. Gorgeous phrasing, stellar characterization, and an absorbing, gripping read.

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Rec Category: Sha're
Categories: Daniel/Sha're, drama, AU, ep related, Gairwyn, Kendra
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: carlinjona
Author's Website: Stargate Fic by Caprice
Link: Safe

Why This Must Be Read: Here's another AU in which Sha're makes it to Cimmeria, but with an extra twist: in this reality, the timing is just before Daniel makes his side trip to an alternate universe. Gairwyn and Kendra are there to help her when she emerges from the Hammer, and they offer sanctuary... but this Sha're isn't going to sit things out when she can destroy Apophis -- and save her husband, too!

Such wonderful strength from Sha're here: her courage, her daring, her sheer stubbornness to take her greatest nightmare and twist it to her own advantage. You'll be cheering for her every step of the way!

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Rec Category: Sha're
Categories: Sha're, Janet, AU, angst, character study, ep related
Warnings: references to disturbing canon off-screen events
Author on LJ: magibrain
Author's Website: FF.net / AO3
Link: Child, Choice, and Crocodiles

Why This Must Be Read: This gorgeous story gives us a quiet nighttime conversation between Sha're and Janet, after a Secrets AU in which Sha're -- and her infant Harcesis, Shifu -- are rescued and are now safe (for the moment) on Earth.

With Janet's help, Sha're soberly explores the possible ramifications and futures she now faces as a former host with a child touched by evil who is wanted by both the Tok'ra and the NID. Egyptian mythology and imagery may clash with Janet's practicality and open heart, but their conversation meshes elegantly into a coherent, cohesive whole. This fic beautifully portrays two of the strongest women in SGC canon, and it will stay with you for a long time to come.

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Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: Daniel, Jack and Daniel friendship, Abydos, Sha're, angst, AU, drama
Warnings: very slight Daniel/Sha're
Author on LJ: graculus
Author's Website: Gen fic by Graculus
Link: Whom the Gods Would Destroy

Why This Must Be Read: Here's a neat little AU twist on Legacy: what if Teal'c never got close enough to Daniel for the Goa'uld-killer to transfer, and Daniel ended up under Kasuf's care on Abydos instead? Especially when you consider which Abydos-related episode takes place shortly after Legacy...

An interesting might-have-been that makes an awful lot of sense and a very interesting read!

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Rec Category: Episode Related
Categories: episode related, AU, angst, drama, Daniel/Sha're, Sam and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: mad_maudlin
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Forever and a Day

Why This Must Be Read: This heart-wrenching AU takes a bit of canon continuity and fits it neatly into FIAD to give us a wistful might-have-been for Daniel and Sha're. Powerfully, achingly good.

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Rec Category: Sha're
Categories: Sha're, AU, angst, Sam and Sha're friendship, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: telepathicpixie
Author's Website: Fanfiction Index
Link: Not Just a Footnote

Why This Must Be Read: This bittersweet AU gives us Sha're on Earth after Daniel is gone. I love her characterization here - her very human resentments, her pride in her continuing defiance, her wry acknowledgment that there can be no going back to innocence. This is perfectly Sha're: strength, courage, and determination, armed with a pen and notebook. Read this and savor.


What would Ra think to see her now, one of his ignorant slaves bordered on one side by glossy fashion and science magazines, on the other by thick physics books, and a stack of notebooks in front of her, stuffed full with her own scrawled writing?

Rec Category: AU
Categories: AU, episode related, drama, angst, team, Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Sha're, Kawalsky
Warnings: Sam/Jack, language, temporary character death
Author on LJ: annerbhp
Author's Website: Fic Master List
Link: Falling Back to Earth

Why This Must Be Read: In over four years and nearly 600 recs, this is my second Sam/Jack fic rec ever. That should tell you something. :)

In this fabulous AU rewrite of COTG, Sam and Jack are already involved before the story begins. (There are two backstories in this series, both linked at the master post for the fic, which I did not read and are not necessary to enjoy Falling Back to Earth.) What follows is a painfully honest exploration of Jack's struggle to reconcile the regs and Hammond's orders (“ I hereby order you both to cease and desist your personal relationship from this moment forward.”) with his very human reactions and Jack's second-guessing of the choices he makes on the mission, and the twists and turns that happen when Sam is left behind in the Abydos Gate room when Apophis comes calling.

You will love the Jack-voice here. You will love this for Kawalsky, for Sha're, for Daniel. But most of all, you will love this for Sam - wonderfully competent determined Sam, who bonds so fiercely with Teal'c and never, ever stops fighting. By the end of the fic, the formation of SG-1 and SG-2 are delightfully altered, and you'll join me in hoping that Annerb continues to write in this fascinating AU.

If you're a Sam/Jack fan, go read this. And if you're not a Sam/Jack fan, go read this anyway. I most certainly am not, and I loved it!

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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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Three years. 450 recs. Thanks, guys. :)

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Pairing: none
Categories: Daniel Jackson, gen, drama, episode related, AU, Jack and Daniel friendship, Teal'c and Daniel friendship, team, angst, series, Skaara, Sha'uri
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: night_spear1287
Author's Website: List of Stories
Link: Brotherhood

Why This Must Be Read: Have you ever had a series of novels that you wanted to make people sit down and read? Daniel of Abydos is mine.

Translations and Diplomacy gave us a 14-year-old Daniel who was raised on Abydos and came to Earth when his parents (who opened the Stargate in '82) were killed and his "brother and sister," Skaara and Sha'uri, are taken by Apophis. What follows is a long, lovingly detailed, intricate, fascinating AU, where a teenaged Daniel tries to find his way on Earth... and maybe, just maybe, become part of the SGC - and, when he's old enough, a member of SG-1.

When Brotherhood opens, Daniel is already 16 and has been agitating to join an SG team for over two years. There's a lot of reluctance, both from Jack and Hammond, at the idea putting a teenager at risk - Daniel's previous scheduled trips through the Gate have either been directly to Abydos or to thoroughly vetted safe planets. Can Daniel convince them to let him be part of SG-1?

The friendships between Jack and Daniel, and Teal'c and Daniel, will amaze and delight you. Robert Rothman comes to brilliant, vibrant life. Hammond is awesome beyond belief. The AU versions of Seth, of Legacy, of The Devil You Know, of Pretense mixed with FIAD - they are all beautifully realized, realistically different, and with honest repercussions. Crystal Skull twists fantastically, as Jack (who is more protective of this younger Daniel) ends up getting zapped instead. And trust me when I say that Nightspear's version of Shades of Grey will absolutely break your heart.

This AU series is one of my all-time favorites. Even if (like me) you don't like kidfic, run to read this. And if you do enjoy a younger Daniel... well, what are you waiting for? :)

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