Aurora's Stargate fic

Okay, so fabrisse was asking about a fic, which made me start searching through my fic recs (awww, hi old stories by cool authors!)

And then I remembered an old favorite...except for the title...or the author. Dammit.

It was a "Proving Ground" type story. It switched from one character to another. There was a group in the commissary/mess hall. Janet had a strong role.

What was this story?!

ETA
My dreamwidth f-list came through!

synecdochic's The Only Winning Move

Funnily redbyrd_sgfic came to mind when I was looking, but scanning briefly, hers are *all* missing scenes and I knew it was independent. Turns out she inspired syne's efforts with Training Exercises. So my brain's only *mostly* fried, not totally. *grin*

Hi guys! Hope you're enjoying this holiday season, and maybe even partying like it's 1999!

wyomingnot just posted a new Stargate Vid, and it's completely appropriate for today, the Mayan Apocalypse (personally, I think the Mayans just got tired of chiseling dates and figured people could just start reusing the calendar).

Fans of brihana25's Eight Years On should really enjoy this. It's got clips from Stargate The Movie through Continuum.

Anyway, here's the link to wyomingnot's Jack feels fine

I'm feeling all nostalgic and wanting to watch some SG-1 episodes now.

ETA: Apparently it's just new to me. Not new in general, which she reposted because of the 12/21/12 thing. But it's still really cute! I've been checking out her youtube vid page and there's lots of cute ones there.

See, I am still around! Yes, I mostly lurk and comment rather than write in my own journal, but I am still here! *waves to flist*

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm still loving my new job but it's keeping me very very very busy. I'm usually brain and computer fried by teh time I catch up on my flist. However, I did wander around this week and discovered paian rec'cing a round robin kind of fic set up on Dreamwidth.

It's called arboreal_gate. It's for gen/het/slash/femslash and any kind of Gateverse you like, SG-1, SGA, or SGU. Write a scene. Write a line. Start a new one. Branch an existing WIP into a new direction.

I just wrote a scene in a second version of a fic Fluffy Branch 2. The team's returned from a strange offworld experience and now they've got problems of their own.

Go enjoy the fics there, or play yourselves!

I know I haven't been around much of late. Work and life and family funerals and work again have just had me going non-stop.

But I have been lurking from time to time. And I've seen some lovely fic, especially in the last few days! Here's a list of a few cute stories I've run across:

Bad Birthdays by thothmes is a great group of ficlets, each one wonderful of a not so great birthday for various Stargate characters. My personal favorites are Teal'c's, Sara's and Shau'ri's, but there's something in there for every taste. (make sure to read BOTH parts).

Two People Talking by sallymn, is a fantastic little crossover with Jack O'Neill and Orac of Blake's 7. I know *nothing* about Blake's 7 except that a few of my flist think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. However, from the Jack perspective, completely awesome!

Sound by cyren. This is a wonderful Jonas vignette exploring some of his own aftereffects post-Meridian. Characterization is great.

New Years Eve Janet and Daniel spent together by cnardian. Daniel/Janet in one but the other could read as ship or gen (with some teamy goodness!). Plus JANET!!!! (Also, there's other fics that spun off from them that are older and I never knew about before. So AWESOME BONUS FIC! *be sure to read the grilled cheese incident*

See, I've been doing SOMETHING in my spare time! ;-)

I was searching for the High School Never Ends music vid, because I love it as my "happy place" video and wanted to link it to tafkarfanfic.

I then realized the same vidder came up with a few more, and this one especially caught my eye. You know how SG-1 can be seen as one big happy, dysfunctional family? MilenaDaniels takes it to higher levels with this cracky country song with a main pairing of Ba'al/Adria. Yes, you read that. Just trust me.




Crossposted

Links of coolness.

Evening the Odds was cleothemuse's answer to The One Prompt comm on lj and it's a hilarious look at Reynolds's philosophy of being a team leader.

To Dance on the Floor in a Round by pepper is a great team story. I'm not a fan of this genre, but this "realistic" spin on a very cracky cliche will have you laugh and cry.

Rumor Mill by cowardly lion is a "comic" aby rec'ced. You'd think the screencaps used were posed specifically for cowardly lion's story. Hilarious.

And last but not least:

The Baby Job. A Leverage fic by beanpot (featuring stargazer's Baby Thor!) Even as a straight up story, it's character perfect.

*laughs that two of my fic recs involve babies...well three from a certain point of view*

ETA: Oh, and a pimping rec. Solutions Site has gone through a site redesign. It's still being doctored with new features, but the main page is done and the news blog has been updated (with tags for the main cast for all three shows to make it easier to find tidbits about your favorite actor).

You may want to check out the retrospectives that DeeKay has been doing of all the past seasons of SG-1 and SGA (she calls them 13 for 13, but what they are is a look back at the cast and crew's thoughts about the seasons from back then. It's a kinda neat walk down memory lane.

Aurora has had a no good crappy horrible day. What is the solution?! Read good fic!

First a rec of a fic I just randomly discovered wandering the interwebs.

Routine Mission by maranya14
SG-13 intrateam banter and friendly rivalry with their comrades as far as bragging rights. It's DAVE DIXON. How can you not love it?

Secondly, I've had a couple of belated birthday presents (seriously, I'm very overwhelmed by the fandom love I received)

The Interview by sg_betty. A linguist gets recruited to this strange classified program, and now he's cooling his heels post clearance checks waiting for the job interview...it's not quite like he expected. :-)

A Birthday to Remember by thothmes. It's Daniel post Homecoming in Season 7, heading offbase and to his new apartment, but he's forgotten the date. Nice insight into Daniel's mindset, and sweet teamy goodness.

Since I thought of a few more fics to supplement minxy's extensive list of Teal'c fic recs, I'm reposting them here to remind *myself* of some of my favorite Teal'c stories (and my list is NOT exhaustive. I was trying not to repeat minxy's [like paian's Speak the Living is a favorite and I know I completely forgot TONS of other awesome stories because my brain is a sieve. )

But in any case...

The Magic of Myth by pepper Which IS Jack and Teal'c at a cathedral. Teal'c's got his own interests in making a pilgrimage there. (Plus, pepper wrote it for MY birthday...but that doesn't make me biased one bit).

Team's Night Out by smg01 is a funny team adventure where SG-1 takes Teal'c bowling for the first time.

Divided Loyalties by moonshayde Teal'c feeling adrift after the defeat of the Goa'uld. Character study and view of team friendship

In Memoriam by Cynic_al is a look at future-old Teal'c (he's a grandfather), telling his grandson about his old team (written pre-Unending)

They're Waiting All the Same... by beanpot. Sam and Teal'c friendship, set post Counterstrike through a lot of Season Ten. Sam and Teal'c friendship as they think of a lost team member. (There's also a sequel/prequel from another perspective called "Come Ride a Choo-Choo Train").

A couple of beanpot's Gran'ma Mitchell series, Gran'ma has a particularly close connection to Teal'c:
Tomorrow I Will Open My Door Again where Gran'ma and Teal'c meet over Cam's hospital bedside.

Granma Said There'd Be Days Like This kidfic, (I'm not usually a fan, but this one cracked me up. And I'm not just saying that because I betaed).

Some really cool fic came out of the latest rendition of the tealc_ficathon from this spring, including... [see, this is bad because I'll list a few personal favorites, but really, you should go read ALL of them because there's not a loser in the group]

Package Deal by kernezelda Set S10, Teal'c has a birthday party.

Just Like Old Times by beatrice_otter Teal'c and Daniel have to go on a search and rescue mission for some wayward Jaffa chal'til (children).

Like a Bicycle by astrogirl2 is Teal'c learning how to ride a bicycle. It's a wonderful character study on Teal'c and his views on the Tau'ri.

Let's Leave While We're Happy by beanpot Teal'c helps Sam move to Area 51 (s8-s9 era). [I may be partial since this was the fic written for me]

The Sleeping Warrior by annerbhp Teal'c/Ishta. Set Season 9/10 era ish (kinda AU...or at least early S9 since it's an Oriless universe). Bra'tac needs to be rescued.

Like I said, I'm atrocious at bookmarking/archiving fics I love (Which is a bad thing since I also have a bad memory for names. Hum a few bars and I'll tell you everything that happens in a fic, but ask me the title or author? Hah!)

RUN! Do not walk, but RUN! to This Bill Lee comment fic written by ziparumpazoo off mrspollifax's prompt.

Bean wrote a Sam/Lorne fic which is adorable as much for the insights she gives for Carter and Lorne as much as for the understated ship she slips into it. Lovely little fic.

tenaya wrote a cute untitled ficlet on Daniel Jackson/Supernatural Crossover as her entry to Dreamwidth. Here on LJ, Here on Dreamwidth (I barely watch the show SPN and I was amused).

Also, I am seriously fangirling dsudis dira. She's studying SG-1 via a Bechdel test (basically female characters in scenes together not talking about guys) and where she can spot a way on screen, she fills in the necessary dialogue in missing scene stories. I'm not explaining it well, but they're the most awesome missing scenes! I'm still haunted and reread the one she's done of Sha're and the poor (no longer) unnamed Air Force Sergeant, but dsudis is going down the list of Season One and I'm trying to follow every step of the way. Here's the link to her bechdel tag on lj.



Yay! I made the tealc_ficathon deadline (mainly because beanpot is a rockstar). And am enjoying the lots of cool Teal'c fic there! Now I just have to knuckle down and see if stargate_summer is at all possible for me.

Pepper has opened the leftover jacksamfriends prompts up. No grabbags, just the leftover plot bunnies if anyone feels the desire to give them a home, because we all need more jack & sam love (even in the friendship boat of D'Nial).


Crap, I was going to link to so many of my cool new icon posts I've been seeing too, but I'm not even sure what I'm listing is going to work!

It's really gratifying as one of the mods to see that five seasons in, people are still excited to signup for recaps at redial_the_gate, and a lot of new faces signed up! All the recaps are gone, but still room for lots of meta.


Also, I am cross posting this entry on livejournal and dreamwidth (well, I'm doing it the old fashioned way of copy pasting). I am over there (same name) and plan to have dreamwidth more my fic journal. I can fit my uberlong stories all in one post there! Whee! Nothing's set in stone of how I use dreamwidth.
( teal deer about my dreamwidth move navel gazing )

ziparumpazoo wrote a sequel to her Christmas Cookie theater.

Peep Gate.

It's delicious hilarious.