thematic list: Atlantis is cut off from Earth or secedes

[ratcreature]

I've decided to start a new thematic list for another one of my favorite SGA fic tropes: an Atlantis expedition that either by necessity or by choice has to fend for itself in the Pegasus galaxy.

E.g. Atlantis is on its own because Earth has been lost or is too occupied in the Milky Way, or has never (or only much later) reestablished contact in the first place, or Atlantis declares its independence, or its allegiance to one or more Pegasus cultures/alliances, or develops into a colony city in the (far) future, or the Atlantis expedition members (i.e. a large group, more than just the team) settle as a colony somewhere else in Pegasus...

So far I've listed about thirty stories, but I'm sure there must be more. If you know any not yet on my list that fit, I'd love to hear about them. The list so far is here:

SGA thematic list: Atlantis is cut off from Earth or secedes

Comments

[roxy-palace.livejournal.com]

Honey, do you have a thematic list of your thematic lists...because I am sure that would be made of win!

[ratcreature]

uh, I'm not sure what you mean. I have a webpage from which I link the thematic lists I maintain, along with my rec pages and stuff. Is that what you mean?
http://www.ratcreature.net/fandom.php#thematiclists

[roxy-palace.livejournal.com]

That is totally what I mean.

Sorry, it's late and I'm not explaining myself properly! Thanks for this though.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

I'm kind-of self-pimping, and feel free to ignore me if it's not what you wanted, but I maintain a directory of Stargate lists, including all of ratcreature's...

http://partial-eclipse.net/sglists/

I suppose I should update it soon... along with my other two lists directories (for other fandoms).

[lothy.livejournal.com]

That's great :) I've bookmarked it to add to my List of Lists site. I'll also be having a look through it for fics to read at some point. (I'm currently obsessed by Jane Austen fics, so it might be a while!)

I've actually had some things of this sort bookmarked to read, I don't know whether you've got them all... *has a quick look*

Do you have everything from here? http://delicious.com/Kirinin/independent!Atlantis

Not sure what this is as I haven't read it yet... http://community.livejournal.com/sgastoryfinders/1464676.html?style=mine

Oh, try:
http://delicious.com/search?p=atlantis+colony
http://delicious.com/search?p=sga+colony
http://community.livejournal.com/sgagenrefinders/61964.html
http://delicious.com/loriel_eris/colony

I'm not sure if any of the individual fics I have bookmarked qualify because obviously I haven't read them yet ;) But maybe you'll find some fics you haven't got on those links I assembled above?

[ratcreature]

I checked the previous posts in this comm and browsed del.icio.us, but it is sometimes hard to tell just from the tags without having read the stories or confirmation they mean the same, because some also seem to tag for independent Atlantis when the plot is stuff like a leadership coup (e.g. Rodney kicks out Elizabeth to save John) or whatever, but no longterm consequences actually happen in the story itself, so you couldn't say whether they cut ties to Earth or what.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

...and I completely forgot to look through my list of fics I *had* read ;)

I *think* this one fits though it's ages since I read it...

City on the Edge of Forever (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/126570.html) by Synecdochic
She wasn't just provisioning an expedition. There was a very good chance she was equipping a colony. Gen.

I think you already have the others I know of.

[ratcreature]

I love that story, but Atlantis isn't actually cut off or independent in that one.

They just equip for the eventuality. It's just an AU to Rising. I mean, if the series ran longer it would maybe fit, but as it is it's like a more prepared canon expedition without anything actually happening to the expedition.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Well, I told you it had been a while since I read it! Lol, sorry.

I hope you do get some het recs for your list... I'm always on the look out for good Stargate het considering that the vast, vast majority of SG fics I come across are slash or (occasionally) gen.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, besides gen and slash I read John/Teyla and Rodney/Teyla but not John/Elizabeth, so I don't know any of those stories at all when left to my own devices, and they always lack on my lists. Also because the John/Elizabeth crowd doesn't even seem to have much overlap with the forums I know, even the ones nominally for all pairings (like this one or the noticeboard or storyfinders and such) so there isn't much exchange.

[lothy.livejournal.com]

Also because the John/Elizabeth crowd doesn't even seem to have much overlap

I've noticed that. There are a few rare het pairings that crossover just occasionally (mainly ones involving Teyla or Ronon, or v occasionally Laura/Carson) but John/Elizabeth apparently has a big fanbase and yet I never come across it :s I actually like the pairing, or the concept of it, and yet I have a sum total of one fic with it among my delicious bookmarks.

[folavril.livejournal.com]

I didn't see this on your list
Tarlan's Sentience series

http://davidhewlett.tarlanx.com/fiction/viewseries.php?seriesid=9

The City is sentient & cuts them off from Earth deliberately.

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I haven't read that one!

[folavril.livejournal.com]

Welocome!

I just remembered another one, Auburn's Up Into The Silence
http://www.eternalvox.net/~auburn/upintothesilence.html
Summary:What happens if, when we open the Stargate to Earth, the only answer is silence?


(its mirror might fit too

Rosebud (Atlantis doesn't answer)
http://www.eternalvox.net/~auburn/rosebud.html

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I added these. (and wow, those were depressing!)

[folavril.livejournal.com]

Yup - no one writes angst like Auburn ;D

[stasha2g]

Involuntarily cut off:

Blue by goddessleila

Season For All Things by kat_lair

Secession:

The Slow Slide of Indifference by ladyholder

Atlantis Lost/Settling elsewhere in Pegasus:

All the Things Rodney Never Was by sardonicsmiley

(Im)possible Universes by wojelah

Not Dead Yet by explodedpen

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I'll make sure to add these.

[viggofest.livejournal.com]

This is awesome--this type of story is one of my favorites, so thank you for gathering them in one place!

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I'm glad to hear my list is useful for you.

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

You are made of awesome, you know that, right?

Not only do I love all your lists, but I have been searching for this very thing all week. Thank you!

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I'm happy to hear my list came at the right time for you.

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

Yay for another of your awesome lists! Have added it to the Local Collection of Lists just now. Wish I could recall fics to rec you, but you already have most of them, and the one you don't has already been mentioned above, so. :-)

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

I have Triptych (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/561173.html) by mad_maudlin (oh god, I'd forgotten just how much this screws with your mind!) and Left to Fend (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=2350) by springwoof and the... sequel? prequel? (I can't remember) The Body Holographic (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=7849) by springwoof and Leah.

From what I remember The Dreaming (http://www.caffiends.net/viewstory.php?sid=424) by Kat Reitz and Tzigane is kinda colony.

Mortal I Have Ever Touch'd (The Non-Denominational Holiday Mission Report Remix) (http://community.livejournal.com/remix_redux/10611.html) by sheafrotherdon is subtly colony.

I haven't read The Origin of All Things (http://iloveatlantis.livejournal.com/7719.html) by iloveatlantis but from looking at the summary, I don't think you can get much closer to colony!

Five Things Elizabeth Will Never Tell (http://ismenetruth.livejournal.com/13784.html) by ismenetruth is set in a colony!AU verse, but I can't remember how much actually deals with colony/whether you want the fic to deal with the colony-ness or whether being set in colony 'verse is enough.

And with that, I think you've exhausted my links for colony!Atlantis.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I've listed The Body Holographic and Ismenetruth's series, but I'll check out the others.

[loriel-eris.livejournal.com]

I completely missed seeing Ismenetruth's series and The Body Holographic listed. I thought I'd managed to aavoid giving you duplicates!

[kay-tera.livejournal.com]

I think the very long series, "The Origin Of All Things" by chocolatephysicist, could be placed as a 'cut off from earth' story.
It can be found here (http://www.area52hkh.net/author.php?name=chocolatephysicist)
on Area52

[kay-tera.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise it was already domented, but it's a great series anyway.

[ratcreature]

Thank you, I vaguely remember that. I mentally filed it under time travel but I guess being stuck in the past counts as stranded and cut off from earth too. *G*

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

I love your thematic pages! Here's some you may have missed, in which they never hear from Earth again?

Eleven Moments (http://ladyflowdi.livejournal.com/385321.html) by ladyflowdi (Sam/Jack, Daniel/Jack, Sam/Rodney, John/Rodney)

Hoodie, or, How John Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sharebox (http://notpoetry.livejournal.com/140208.html#cutid3) by notpoetry (Rodney/Simpson, John/Rodney)

[ratcreature]

Thank you! I'll add these.

[ratcreature]

The one by Notpoetry is unfortunately locked. :( Do you know of a public place it is posted?

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

No, I don't. Sorry!