Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Jack and Sam Friendship

Categories: humor, team, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: stringertheory
Author's Website: stringertheory
Link: Something Borrowed

Why This Must Be Read: Classic team for the win as Sam takes over when Jack disappears off-world. Inverted marriage tropes and betting pools may be a factor...

Competent team, humor, snark, friendship... what more do you need?


Sam closed her eyes on a sigh. Having to pretend to be married to her CO to keep him from being forced into matrimony with a benevolent dictator was a new one. She was pretty sure there wouldn’t even be a base betting pool about it yet.

Rec Category: Humor

Categories: Sam, Teal'c, Daniel, Mitchell, humor, Sam and Teal'c friendship, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kalquessa
Author's Website: kalquessa
Link: Retail Price

Why This Must Be Read: So what's the going rate for a colonel and an archeologist? Sam and Teal'c are about to find out!

Very short, very fun, slightly innuendo-ish (for Kalquessa, certainly). Sam and Teal'c as the slightly amused adults are always a win. :)


"So what's the plan for getting us out of these?" Daniel pulled the chain between his wrists taut.

"Well it's a bit crowded for a fire-fight, so we're going to buy you from that nice man in the leather shirt over there," Sam hefted the bag of coins she had been carrying, which clinked satisfyingly.

Rec Category: Humor

Categories: Jack, Daniel, off-world shenanigans
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: kalquessa
Author's Website: kalquessa
Link: Linguistic Dendrology

Why This Must Be Read: I am delighted to see that Kalquessa is archiving her fics on AO3! Here's a delightful little bit of Jack and Daniel snark to celebrate.

Trees and Jack off-world, just a little more... verbose than you might expect. And Daniel apparently speaks twenty-tree languages.


"So what you're telling me," Jack said slowly, "is that we now have a treaty...with some trees."

Rec Category: Crossover

Categories: team, humor, outside POV
Warnings: crossover with Howl's Moving Castle
Author's Journal: pepper_field
Author's Website: pepperf
Link: Unexpected Visitors

Why This Must Be Read: I am very fond of this little ficlet, because the intriguing outside perspective of our beloved team made me curious enough to read Howl's Moving Castle, which led me to the Chrestomanci novels and the other Diana Wynne Jones novels and...

Ahem.

Very short, very sweet, and entirely worth it just for Sophie's automatic assumption regarding Teal'c and his staff weapon!

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Rec Category: Teal'c and Vala friendship

Categories: humor, Teal'c, Vala, team, original characters
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: holdouttrout
Author's Website: holdouttrout
Link: Ten Easy Steps Toward Piracy

Why This Must Be Read: It's a technical alien conspiracy!

Okay, it's really Teal'c and Vala vs. the Ori and the Orici, with Vala doing everything short of donning an eyepatch in her quest to be a really good pirate...

Great Teal'c POV, Vala at her shameless best, and a great romp - bother figuratively and literally.


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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Categories: humor, five things
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: deltatime
Link: With Difference and Some Brilliance

Why This Must Be Read: One of my favorite aspects of Sam and Daniel's friendship is how well they click with one another. And as this lovely five things shows, what looks like romance to outsiders can be something much deeper and closer and still be wonderfully gen - even when they try the ship thing instead. :)



"Tell you what, I'll go to the wedding as your arm candy if you go to the Museum of Natural History with me and count the things in the Egyptian Mummies exhibit that actually belong here."

Rec Category: Walter the Chevron Guy

Categories: SGC ensemble, friendship, fluff, humor, slice of life
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: looneylizzie
Link: The Writing on the Wall

Why This Must Be Read: This is a genuinely charming bit of SGC fluffiness, all from Walter's perspective (and how often do we get that?) - exactly who and what is responsible for the increasingly elaborate graffiti that is decorating the SGC walls?

There's banter and snark and friendship here, all from Walter's wry POV, and this is a real pleasure to read.


Outside the gym was an amusing image of Teal’c dressed up as a Jedi battling Darth Vader, complete with an exploding Death Star in the background.

Rec Category: Original Character

Categories: humor, episode related, outside POV
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: redbyrd
Author's Website: redbyrd
Link: Don't Ask

Why This Must Be Read: One of my favorite authors is rearchiving her fic on AO3, which makes a great excuse for me to reread her work and discover the odd gem or two that I haven't recced yet!

I love good outsider perspective, and I love all the little, unknown yet crucial cogs that go into making the SGC tick. So Redbyrd's stolid janitor, cleaning up all the inevitable messes that smash up the Gateroom and every other level in Cheyenne Mountain, is a real keeper. You know what he doesn't know - and it will definitely leave you grinning.


Bill nodded knowingly. You couldn't work in this place without knowing that there was some seriously strange stuff going on. If you wanted to stay, you signed everything they gave you and kept your trap shut, no matter how weird it got. And Bill did want to stay- for cleaning up weird messes and taking special training for chemicals and biohazards and god-knows-what, you got a salary that was pretty much unheard of for what was basically janitorial work. All you had to do was ignore the occasionally oddly dressed people you saw and never ask questions.

Rec Category: Crossover

Categories: gen, humor, crack, team
Warnings: crossover with AOS Trek
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: sourassin
Link: Fascinating/Indeed

Why This Must Be Read: This is a shameless excuse to have Teal'c and Spock raise eyebrows at one another and have multiple exchanges of Fascinating and Indeed, but it is also a delightfully in-character crackfic told from AOS Jim Kirk's POV of the entire classic team interacting with the newer version of Star Trek's Enterprise crew. Guaranteed to leave you grinning!

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Rec Category: Paul Davis
Categories: Jack, George Hammond, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: pepper
Author's Website: pepperf
Link: Sleeping Dogs

Why This Must Be Read: Paul Davis is a long-suffering saint and Jack is the worst administrator ever.

Neither of those statements is news, but this fun little ficlet is just extra confirmation!

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Rec Category: Team
Categories: Teal'c, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, humor, not-quite-crackfic
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: samantilles
Author's Website: samantilles
Link: B is for B Beasts!

Why This Must Be Read: Start the year with some slightly silly teamy goodness, as SG-1 joins other teams in S&R for SG-6, reportedly under attack by offworld carnivoree... only for Teal'c to pwn EVERYONE. Because of course, he does.

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Paul Davis
Categories: gen, Jack and Daniel friendship, humor, fluff
Warnings: none
Author's Journal: tallulah_rasa
Author's Website: Tallula Rasa at AO3
Link: Where the Rain Gets In

Why This Must Be Read: Shiny new Tallulah Rasa ficlet, complete with Jack and Daniel banter that will have you grinning like an idiot and falling in love with SG-1 all over again...

You've clicked already, haven't you?


Another head popped into view. "Daniel," it said amiably, as though interrupting the head of the SGC were no big deal. "There’s a big honking void in the Great Pyramid of Giza."

Daniel shrugged. "Not my doing," he said. "Sorry. And hi, Jack."