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[SG-1] Beneath A Beating Sun by Magistrate
Good evening. I shall be reccing Stargate SG-1 fiction all this month. Stargate SG1 is pretty old in fannish years, but like Granny Weatherwax, it aten't dead yet – for which I am grateful as I only started watching it properly less than 18 months ago.
These recs will mostly be gen and OT3/4s of various kinds. Stargate may be the only show I've ever watched where I found both major slash pairings more plausible than the canon het, but I like a slice of Sam/Jack anyway. There may be a slight Sam-centrism, if only because much of my favourite J/D has been recced, occasionally more than once.
I've excavated my way through the tags and memories and I don't think there are any repeats, but if there are, please just take it as confirmation that the story is well worth reading.
I'm going to start with one of the best things I've read in any fandom, ever, and which has probably been missed by a whole stack of people who would love it because it was only completed last year.
Fandom: STARGATE SG1
Pairing: Gen.
Length: Novel (127,700 words)
Author on DW: Magibrain
Author Website: Go here AO3. Read everything.
Why this must be read:
SG-1 find the unlikeliest of worlds, an abandoned base on a planet locked inside the jets of a pulsar, which may provide the key to winning the war if Sam and Daniel can just decipher the technology left behind. However, the sacrifice SG1 must make in pursuit of that goal is one they never wanted to consider.
This is a terrific, twisting, gut-wrenching read about memory and the nature of identity; about grief and the nature of team-as-family. It even has a pretty good science fiction plot and an end that feels earned and satisfactory without ever tieing everything up with a neat little bow.
It never forgets that Sam is an astrophysicist, not an identikit scientist; it never forgets that Jack loves his team beyond all reckoning, even though he doesn't admit it; it never forgets that Teal'c is alien in outlook but feels deeply for his comrades; and it never forgets how damned clever Daniel Jackson is.
It start from canon mid-season 7 then hurtles AU-wards thereafter.
Beneath A Beating Sun
These recs will mostly be gen and OT3/4s of various kinds. Stargate may be the only show I've ever watched where I found both major slash pairings more plausible than the canon het, but I like a slice of Sam/Jack anyway. There may be a slight Sam-centrism, if only because much of my favourite J/D has been recced, occasionally more than once.
I've excavated my way through the tags and memories and I don't think there are any repeats, but if there are, please just take it as confirmation that the story is well worth reading.
I'm going to start with one of the best things I've read in any fandom, ever, and which has probably been missed by a whole stack of people who would love it because it was only completed last year.
Fandom: STARGATE SG1
Pairing: Gen.
Length: Novel (127,700 words)
Author on DW: Magibrain
Author Website: Go here AO3. Read everything.
Why this must be read:
SG-1 find the unlikeliest of worlds, an abandoned base on a planet locked inside the jets of a pulsar, which may provide the key to winning the war if Sam and Daniel can just decipher the technology left behind. However, the sacrifice SG1 must make in pursuit of that goal is one they never wanted to consider.
This is a terrific, twisting, gut-wrenching read about memory and the nature of identity; about grief and the nature of team-as-family. It even has a pretty good science fiction plot and an end that feels earned and satisfactory without ever tieing everything up with a neat little bow.
It never forgets that Sam is an astrophysicist, not an identikit scientist; it never forgets that Jack loves his team beyond all reckoning, even though he doesn't admit it; it never forgets that Teal'c is alien in outlook but feels deeply for his comrades; and it never forgets how damned clever Daniel Jackson is.
It start from canon mid-season 7 then hurtles AU-wards thereafter.
Beneath A Beating Sun
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I recognise the name!
I'm afraid I can't do dude-centric, as I have zero patience for anything without women in it -- and in Stargate that means if the writer hates Sam and I can tell, they are off the Christmas card list. It's bad enough that Hollywood writes women out of the narrative without fandom doing it to themselves.
Also, did fandom spend the first three years of Stargate's TV run thrashing Daniel Jackson practically into his constituent molecules and then having him and Jack talk about it endlessly OR WHAT?
Flamebaitishly,
K.
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What, there were two major slash pairings? I left the fandom so only knew about J/D. I'm curious, and looking forward to your recs!
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Yes, I think there are. Jack/Daniel obviously (totally canonically plausible, wonderful stories); Sam/Janet (totally plausible, somewhat fewer stories. Fandom, I am disappointed in you, as usual.)
Later there's some wonderful Cam/Daniel and Cam/Tealc that is nothing but joy and rainbows and snark. A veritable cornucopia of good things!