fanfic recs for the weekend

[minxy]

A'ight. I've renewed committment to labelling the ratings on fic. Poke me if I miss one and you want clarification of whether it's worksafe, or age appropriate or whatever.

First off, it's April Fool's Day, and the rather incredibly funny Anais (notmonkey) has written a Jack/Daniel fic in honor of this most austere day. April Fool. PG-13 for snark as only Anais can serve it up.

There are also two notably grand fics over at tealc_fic in response to the challenge prompt "escalade", the first by jalabert is Frustration and may be the first genuinely angry Teal'c fic I've read and it's well done. Also we have ldyanne's Scaling the Wall, which works up to the betrayal in Children of the Gods with impressive momentum. Both gen. PG for content? Dunno.

And can we send a shout out to moonshayde @ tealc_fic for prompting, inspiring, organizing and assigning the creation of more T centered fic than I have ever seen before? And it's good. This is so cool.

In the non-Teal'c categories, also known as omfgTHREESOME! J/D/S, I give you uberaeryn. These aren't new, but they're hot. And quite NC-17. Sam in the Middle and Six Hours, Nine Minutes and Thirty-two Seconds. Both PWP, fun and bordering on kinky. And then there was the Daniel/Sam/Female + voyeuristic Jack marvelousness that is Harder. No bordering, this is definitely marvelously voyeuristically kinky. Heh.

SGA author I Did Not Know:
torakowalski, Scenes From An Accidental Courtship. I'd read that just for the rhythm of the title alone. John/Rodney; first time; NC-17. Also read Wounded, a tag for The Eye. Also NC-17.

(and some I did)

eretria and auburnothenna have collaborated on the last of a triptych of John/Rodney fics that they wrote the first two of (for? of?) individualy and respectively: Vapor, Dragon Smoke and Vapor Lock (for murron). I'd give these an R rating for subject, but not terribly explicit content. The way they tell the story is cool, though, everything through a haze, whether self-imposed (inflicted?) or accidental, which leads to realization being stumbled onto with the kind of honesty that only confusion can bring. Interesting, and I think it really worked, particularly impressive since this wasn't originally supposed to be a series, and every part really has a different story, different point.

from synecdochic, a long gold sliding into dawn. John/Rodney, first time in it's own way, maybe early courtship, where you're still really surprised every time the other person shows up, NC-17.

And an author from SG-1 dun switched sides: James Walkswithwind (zortified) wrote the inevitable All's Fair in War which is lighthearted, fun, and sexy (all about Beckett man, this is one fic where the traditional pairings won't work at all). McKay/Beckett, R-ish, pretty tame, though, it's more about the foreplay. There are also a number of very sexy McKay/Beckett/Sheppard threesomes, and I stayed up far too late reading some last night. Heh. Good dreams, though.

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Mmmmm, and some really really nice Beckett/McKay/Sheppard, which I've just been happily perusing.

Doesn't change the fact that I originally know him from his Jack/Daniel work, though. *g* I may be just a teensy bit biased towards my favorite fandom. Juuuuust a leeeeettle bit...

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I may be just a teensy bit biased towards my favorite fandom.\

Yeah, know what you mean. Personally, I'm not always a Carson fan, so I don't always read her SGA fic, since Carson is often in them. (Although that seems to be changing. I'm getting to like him more and more all the time.)

BTW - She goes by zortified on LJ, and uses gilascave for her fic journal. There's also a drabble journal, but I can't remember the name at the moment (gilasdrabbles, maybe?) (Oh, and yes, it confused me, too, but James is female.)

Do you like transformation type fic? If you've been on her website, you probably noticed her Houston Knights fic (which centers around a centaur.) So when she joined SGA, she started writing Centaur fic for it as well. The SGA Centaur Series (http://gila.fakingsanity.net/stargate.html#centaur)

I usually hate that kind of thing, but I love the Centaur myth in her stories. She goes to great detail, using myth as well as equine behavior, and it's all rather realistic and makes a lot of sense. And I'm addicted.

I found out about them in a round about way - Nix crimsonquills started writing in James' Centaur Universe to create her Myths and Revelations (http://ncis.fictionresource.com/search.php?action=search&type=like&field=fic_title&value=Myths+and+Revelations+&submit=View+fics) NCIS series, which is my favorite Centaur Series, by far. She wrote them to be independent of James' stories, so you don't need to have read those before you read Nix', but it's the same universe.

I think what fascinates me about them, is the Dom/sub element. A Lead Centaur is most definitely Dominant, and any other male he deals with (centaur or human) will have to be subordinate to him, so the whole dynamic of Gibbs being the team leader and most definitely "top dog" in his relations with his team and the other members of his hand picked "herd" fit in just perfectly.

Don't know if this kind of thing squicks you - I know it does some (and I used to be one of them.) But if it doesn't, they're worth checking out.

:::uses her centaur Gibbs icon:::

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You know, in fandom, there is always that chance that you're dealing with a woman even if you see a male name, so that surprises me not so much. *g* Thanks for the heads up to the LJ alteregos (did see 'gila' on the website) I shall mosey over and check out her friending policy.

Centaurs... I don't know if it completely squicks me but it's not calling to me exactly. I'll keep the rec in mind and take a look at some point if I come across it, though.

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I don't know if it completely squicks me but it's not calling to me exactly

Yeah, I can relate. What got me was that I really liked her other NCIS fic, and I kept seeing new chapters go up, and they sounded interesting. I just kept saying...gee, if only that wasn't about centaurs, I'd read it. Finally I gave in and read the first two or three (shorter pieces), then suddenly, I was hooked. It still embarrasses me sometimes, but I'm willing to work through it, and admit my weakness... *g*

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LOL. The beauty of kinks in this environment is that no one is really going to make you explain or excuse them. I have read some terribly embarrassing fic that I can only explain as crack to me, because it hit a kink. I even try to own up to it in recs. Heh. Sometimes. *blushes*