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: Jack and Daniel Friendship

Categories: Jack, Daniel, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: lokei
Author's Website: lokei
Link: Because, member-locked at AO3 or open on LJ

Why This Must Be Read: This is oldskool Jack and Daniel friendship at its snarkiest, genuine best, with a stellar Jack POV in the wake of Spirits. Sometimes "Because!" is all you really need.


Jack rocked back on his heels and let Daniel happen to him.

episode related, character: daniel jackson, character: jack o'neill, character study, friendship: daniel and jack

Rec Category: Team
Categories:Jack, Sam, Teal'c, Daniel, Janet, General Hammond, drama, hurt/comfort, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: calantha2001
Author's Website: calantha2001
Link: Worth It

Why This Must Be Read: Competent, resourceful teamy goodness during an off-world crisis, complete with courage and out-of-the-box thinking and hurt/comfort! Read all about it!

...No, really. Go read. :)

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Rec Category: Jacob Carter
Categories: Selmak, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: lokei
Author's Website: lokei
Link: T is for Time

Why This Must Be Read: A triptych of Jacob Carter snapshots, at various points in his life, and the nature of time wasted and saved. Thoughtful and personable at the same time!


Jacob thinks about days measured by doctor’s appointments, by military operations, by phone calls that change your life, and then about great mysteries locked in mountains that seem to defy time and the progress of ‘normal’ life entirely. He smiles.

Rec Category: Jacob Carter
Categories: humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: thraesja
Author's Website: Thraesja at AO3
Link: K is for Kohl

Why This Must Be Read: Here is a light-hearted snippet of Jacob, gamely adjusting to life as a Tok'ra, and dealing with some of the more... unexpected aspects of going undercover in Zipacna's court.

As Marzipan noted earlier this month, the loss of Carmen Argenziano makes Jacob recs particularly fitting right now. So here's one in memory of the man who brought Jacob Carter so vividly to life that you'll easily hear him saying, "You've got to be kidding me!"


As a species, Jacob found that even male Tok’ra had pretty strange taste in wardrobes.

Rec Category: Team
Categories: friendship, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: AuroraNova at AO3
Link: Another Day, Another Planet

Why This Must Be Read: Teeeeeeeaaaaaaammmmmm. :D

Delicious, bantery, early season teamy goodness with lots of snappy dialogue to the background of an off-world mission. Cinderella gets analyzed, Daniel isn't mostly dead, Teal'c gets educated, and it's a happy-ever-after for SG-1 as they come home safely.

I love how easily their friendship shows through all this. Guaranteed to make you smile!


Jaffa legend. Giant rats. An alien moon. Just another day in Jack’s crazy life, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Rec Category: Team
Categories: Sam, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: princessofgeeks
Author's Website: POG at AO3
Link: When the Rain Comes

Why This Must Be Read: This is a short, sweet, smile-inducing snippet of the team at the very beginning of a mission, from Sam's POV. They might be experiencing rain, but you'll feel nothing but warm sunshine from the sheer team love.

Team bickering, rain, trees, a quiet late-afternoon kind of day… she had a good feeling about this mission already.

Rec Category: Teal'c and Daniel friendship
Categories: fluff!
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: jdjunkie
Author's Website: JDJunkie at AO3
Link: Lesson Learned

Why This Must Be Read: This charming little ficlet is both metaphorically and literally sweet: a peaceful moment of friendship between Teal'c and Daniel, at the beginning.

And of course this one pushes all my happy buttons, because JDJunkie wrote it at my request. :)


This world. Earth's. His world, and now Teal'c's.

Rec Category: Samantha Carter
Categories: character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: artaxastra
Author's Website: SG-1 tag
Link: The Art of the Return

Why This Must Be Read: Here is intelligent, thoughtful Sam introspective in late S1, considering the dangers of the Stargate and the odds of inevitable loss. I love this for her thought processes, her courage, and her determination. Excellent stuff!

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Rec Category: Teal'c and Daniel friendship
Categories: ep related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: sg_wonderland
Author's Website: sg_wonderland at AO3
Link: Cast Upon Foreign Soil

Why This Must Be Read: I adore fics that explore the remarkable friendship between Teal'c and Daniel. This is early, early S1 - post The Enemy Within - that features Teal'c and Daniel as two outsiders in a crowd, considering cultural conflicts and hoping to build some bridges together. Lovely stuff, all round!


Teal’s stood silently at parade rest, finally offering, “It is a temperate evening.”

Daniel frowned at him. “What?”

“I have observed that many of your people begin a conversation with meaningless exchanges concerning climate.”

“Oh, well.”

The silence stretched out again.

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Categories: Jack and Daniel friendship, team, ep related, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: gategremlyn
Author's Website: Master Post
Link: J is for Jeopardy

Why This Must Be Read: Daniel, in the aftermath of Need... not quite as alone and isolated as he thinks he is.

This is a beautiful, teamy friendship piece that showcases the sensitivity and caring the members of SG-1 have for one another. Just lovely!


“No, Daniel. You're a member of this team.”

“But what I did--”

“What you did, you'll have to live with. That's a sad truth. But you live with it here with us.”

Rec Category: Cassie
Categories: Cassie, Janet, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: xylaria
Author's Website: xylaria at AO3
Link: Threads of Earth

Why This Must Be Read: Short and sweet, this fic showcases Janet wisely recognizing what Cassie needs when she's awash with the easy technological advances of Earth. Truly lovely, with a real early SG-1 feel.


She longed for the basic chores of home, busywork for the hands that calmed her mind and would, maybe, for a while, erase the images of her friends, family, her whole village dying around her.

Rec Category: Walter the Chevron Guy
Categories: humor, episode related, team, time travel, General Hammond, Catherine Langford, Cassie
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: gategremlyn
Author's Website: Gategremlyn at AO3
Link: What Would Walter Do?

Why This Must Be Read: This is a joyful episode tag to 1969, flashing between Walter following up on his paperwork and various characters following up on events that took place thirty years before (or long in the future). The ending is one of my all-time favorite tropes, and the entire fic is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.


Walter grinned. Best. Damn. Job. Ever.