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minxyHeavy on the Sam/Daniel recs today. Hope you don't mind.
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goddessleia. Very nicely characterized Sam/Daniel in a comfortable, easy way, post-descension. I enjoyed the comfort that they found together, even when they were making dumb-ass decisions or working through their issues. R rated, nice and longish.
pre-Sam/Jack, or nearly Sam/Jack, in character, and I love Jack's reaction of being scared of Sam a little bit. Wow, PR-13 fromholdouttrout.
aurora_novarum wrote Drawing Straws, an alternative take on Shades of Grey that felt marvelously like a different camera angle on a favorite episode. Gen, PG.
brighidestone recc'd godofwine's John story, Things You Never Did, which she was quite right to do, as it was heartbreakingly pitch perfect John: sweet and capable, but distanced and emotionally bewildered. It really is heartbreaking to read, and then Brighid went and wrote a gorgeous poem as feedback: Entropic, which is perfect in tone and beautiful in its own right. Beautiful lyric twin stars. Worksafe, but UST abounds and there are endings.
There is no excuse for my continued failure to actually read the Sam ficathon stories (well, actually, there totally is an excuse, in the form of my dissertation and distraction,) but it does feel very odd that I've never perused those stories, possibly because anonymous stories have the ability to be offputting to me. But I'm working on my issues here, I swear.
And I've just readsurrealphantast's Sam & Daniel friendship from the ficathon as part of a theme of fics on the subject of why Daniel never visited Sam whilst ascended. It was for poohmusings, in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
samcarterfic and called No Creeds for Mathematics, PG. It's beautiful; Sam flailing in unknown emotional waters.
Answers, by Random, is another. Despite using a certifiably beta-squicky phrase* at one point, this is filled with tactile descriptions and a marvelously emotionally clueless Sam going through the data and not seeing the analysis. Sam and Daniel friendship, working through the data, and I really do love how Sam catalogues everything she's witnessing. PG, gen.
tripoli8 called WIP amnesty on a fascinating Moebius tag, partly because Jack is finding his bearings, partly because dork!Sam is coming into her own strengths and gaining the respect of those around her by degrees, but mostly for FirstPrime!Teal'c dealing with Jaded!Daniel. The exchanges between Teal'c and Daniel in this are amazing--and it's Jack's POV, incredibly. Fascinating character study on who they might have been. fill our mouths with cinnamon, gen, team.
katie_m also called amnesty on the opening for a ficathon piece that wanted to stay a little vignette. I think it's marvelous world building, and amazing alien POV, questioning assumptions and universal curiosities. Sweet little unfinished story without a title, gen, team.
And then she did post the ficathon piece. Jack/Daniel ficathon, foricarusancalion, S4, PG rated Jack/Daniel. The Best Policy, with pitch-perfect Jack and Daniel at loggerheads.
ETA: I almost forgot:geonncannon's femslash and threesome For Real, which is broken, lost Sam, with space piracy. Who she finds first and heals and who heals her is wonderful. Sam/Vala, Sam/Vala/Daniel for the threesome ficathon of goodness. NC-17. Smootches to green_grrl for the Space Pirates (!) rec.
*okay, it's possibly my own issue, but here is one beta-squick: some variation on 'and under the scent of soap, she smelled something uniquely and indescribably him,' which is weak, though props for trying to go to a sensory place. If you're smelling warm rain soaked into the cotton of his sweater, say that. If it's musk or body odor, say that. Aftershave? Fine. Shaving cream? Iodine from an earlier infirmary visit? Dust and mold from everything he owns being just unpacked from storage boxes? GRAND, but don't pull the shortcut of 'something indescribably... whatever.' Just, no. You're a writer, nothing should be indescribable, and you're shorting yourself out of a chance of really taking your readers into the moment in your head by using that trick.
Scenes from an Accidental Courtship by
goddessleia. Very nicely characterized Sam/Daniel in a comfortable, easy way, post-descension. I enjoyed the comfort that they found together, even when they were making dumb-ass decisions or working through their issues. R rated, nice and longish.pre-Sam/Jack, or nearly Sam/Jack, in character, and I love Jack's reaction of being scared of Sam a little bit. Wow, PR-13 from
holdouttrout.aurora_novarum wrote Drawing Straws, an alternative take on Shades of Grey that felt marvelously like a different camera angle on a favorite episode. Gen, PG.brighidestone recc'd godofwine's John story, Things You Never Did, which she was quite right to do, as it was heartbreakingly pitch perfect John: sweet and capable, but distanced and emotionally bewildered. It really is heartbreaking to read, and then Brighid went and wrote a gorgeous poem as feedback: Entropic, which is perfect in tone and beautiful in its own right. Beautiful lyric twin stars. Worksafe, but UST abounds and there are endings.There is no excuse for my continued failure to actually read the Sam ficathon stories (well, actually, there totally is an excuse, in the form of my dissertation and distraction,) but it does feel very odd that I've never perused those stories, possibly because anonymous stories have the ability to be offputting to me. But I'm working on my issues here, I swear.
And I've just read
surrealphantast's Sam & Daniel friendship from the ficathon as part of a theme of fics on the subject of why Daniel never visited Sam whilst ascended. It was for poohmusings, in samcarterfic and called No Creeds for Mathematics, PG. It's beautiful; Sam flailing in unknown emotional waters.Answers, by Random, is another. Despite using a certifiably beta-squicky phrase* at one point, this is filled with tactile descriptions and a marvelously emotionally clueless Sam going through the data and not seeing the analysis. Sam and Daniel friendship, working through the data, and I really do love how Sam catalogues everything she's witnessing. PG, gen.
tripoli8 called WIP amnesty on a fascinating Moebius tag, partly because Jack is finding his bearings, partly because dork!Sam is coming into her own strengths and gaining the respect of those around her by degrees, but mostly for FirstPrime!Teal'c dealing with Jaded!Daniel. The exchanges between Teal'c and Daniel in this are amazing--and it's Jack's POV, incredibly. Fascinating character study on who they might have been. fill our mouths with cinnamon, gen, team.katie_m also called amnesty on the opening for a ficathon piece that wanted to stay a little vignette. I think it's marvelous world building, and amazing alien POV, questioning assumptions and universal curiosities. Sweet little unfinished story without a title, gen, team.And then she did post the ficathon piece. Jack/Daniel ficathon, for
icarusancalion, S4, PG rated Jack/Daniel. The Best Policy, with pitch-perfect Jack and Daniel at loggerheads.ETA: I almost forgot:
geonncannon's femslash and threesome For Real, which is broken, lost Sam, with space piracy. Who she finds first and heals and who heals her is wonderful. Sam/Vala, Sam/Vala/Daniel for the threesome ficathon of goodness. NC-17. Smootches to green_grrl for the Space Pirates (!) rec.*okay, it's possibly my own issue, but here is one beta-squick: some variation on 'and under the scent of soap, she smelled something uniquely and indescribably him,' which is weak, though props for trying to go to a sensory place. If you're smelling warm rain soaked into the cotton of his sweater, say that. If it's musk or body odor, say that. Aftershave? Fine. Shaving cream? Iodine from an earlier infirmary visit? Dust and mold from everything he owns being just unpacked from storage boxes? GRAND, but don't pull the shortcut of 'something indescribably... whatever.' Just, no. You're a writer, nothing should be indescribable, and you're shorting yourself out of a chance of really taking your readers into the moment in your head by using that trick.