Seeking Long Recs!

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I used to be a huge fan of SGA fanfic, but drifted away from the fandom a couple of years ago.  Today I'm feeling a bit nostalgic and am looking for SGA recs.  However, since I've already read a *lot* of fic in the fandom (and what a big fandom it is), I do have a few qualifiers that will hopefully make this a somewhat less daunting request.

1.  McKay/Sheppard, please.

2.  With a happy ending and no character death (at least with regards to McKay or Sheppard). 

3.  Longer stories are of win.

4.  Website/archive links only, please (I've just about given up reading anything on LJ).  [EDIT: The reason I read so little on LJ is because I download stories to read later and many stories on LJ have just a couple of thousand words per post, which makes downloading long stories a challenge.  However, long stories with ~10,000 words per post would be great, LJ or no.]

5.  I've already cleaned out the Big Bang sites, unless there's one for 2009 that I missed.

6.  I seem to have lost my taste for AUs (which is a huge departure for me -- that used to be 90% of what I read), so stories at least mostly based on canon would be appreciated.  [EDIT 2: (because I suck at clarity)  All fanfic is AU to some extent, so I'm not going to quibble about John and Rodney both going into the time dilation field, or the circumstances of them ending up in Atlantis not being canon, or them ending up on a deserted island together for six months where they have nothing to do but have sex.  I'm just hoping to avoid total AUs, like where John's a caterer *cough* or some such.  As long as there is an Atlantis, John and Rodney are both there, and Sumner is, preferably, not, all is good.]

7.  The really big fandom classics can probably be skipped (this includes anything by Pru, Astolat, Speranza, trinityofone, 'Freedom Is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose', and/or anything with 'Iowa' in the title or premise).

(8.  And since I'm crossposting to a genre-specific comm, I love long angsty stories with happy endings (touches of humor to relieve the tension a bonus).  Not so much a fan of graphic violence, non-con of any sort, or really dark stories.)

Thanks in advance!

(x-posted)
 

Comments

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. It's actually very limiting to go only for non-LJ links.

I do recommend Rebuilding Babel (http://fiercelydreamed.talkoncorners.net/main/archives/stargate-atlantis/rebuilding-babel/#more-4) by fiercelydreamed. It's long and angsty (with a positive ending), and extremely well written. It's the one where Rodney loses the ability to communicate through speech.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I have read this one before and loved it -- great rec!

My only problem with reading fic on LJ is that I don't ever read online; instead, I download it to read later. Which is fine for authors who maximize their word count per post on LJ, but these days so many authors post just a thousand or so words per post, which results in too many posts to make it worth attempting to download the story for later. (Actually, I was also hoping that folks would offer up a bunch of stories from Wraithbait -- I haven't had much luck with their search engine, but I know others have.)

Thanks for the rec!

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally undertstand why you would prefer non-LJ sources. I just kept being stumped when I would think of a great story and then find that it wasn't on Wraithbait and the author didn't have a website. :o( I was surprised, because back when I got into the fandom, it seemed like a majority of authors also posted to archives. I was either mistaken then or there's been a shift toward LJ in the fandom.

If I find off-LJ links for good stories, though, I'll come back and share.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I really can't cast stones: I found Wraithbait to be a bit difficult to negotiate, and so until I got my own website, there was a stretch before some of my own stories were available off LJ. On the other hand, I did make sure that my stories were broken into as few parts as possible.

So with that in mind: if you know of any stories on LJ where each chapter is ~10,000 words, I would totally be on board with checking it out.

Thanks again!

[ratcreature]

Madison has several long McKay/Sheppard stories. Her Wraithbait page is here: http://wraithbait.com/viewuser.php?uid=1593

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Wee! I read several stories by her before, but there's lots more I haven't read. Thanks!

[ancientreader]

I'm not sure how old or new these stories are, but I didn't see Shaenie's name or titles on your list of Really Big Fandom Classics, and life is not complete without "Indelible." Long, plotty, angsty, happy ending. And, actually, all Shaenie's stuff is terrific. Here: http://www.fictumfictorium.com/shaenie/fiction.html

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

I have read Indelible, but there looks to be a few on her site I haven't read before. Thanks!

[strawfyre.livejournal.com]

With Intent
http://www.fictumfictorium.com/shaenie/intent.html

Do Over
http://crys.mrks.org/sga/fic/doover.html

Repellent by Neena
http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=13182

Taking the Long Way Home
http://smiley.zonezine.net/html/39997.html

Atlantis City Limits
http://smiley.zonezine.net/html/29007.html
- 5000+ words but my favorite of her's if you don't count the AU's

Live journal but posted in large parts

Where You Want To Be
http://semivowel.livejournal.com/2757.html

Rules of Engagement
http://liketheriverrun.livejournal.com/50231.html


Atlantis AU’s that are really really good.

Male Enhancement (The Soul and the Company Store Remix)
http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=12788

What Might Have Been Series (Atlantis AU)
http://keiramarcos.com/what-might-have-been-series-atlantis-au/

Through the Noise to the Sea
http://smiley.zonezine.net/html/87157.html

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! About half of these are new to me (which is actually a fabulous percentage, considering how much I've read in the fandom:) Thanks!

[strawfyre.livejournal.com]

Ok this is another Atlantis AU but it doesn't stray that far from canon and it's really really Long.
Ardhanarishvara
http://www.eternalvox.net/~auburn/Ardhanarishvara.html
There is a short John/Ronon and Rodney/Ronon but main pairing is John/Rodney

Your request is really hard because most of the long fics are at least a little AU :)

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Ooo, entirely new to me! Thanks!

[elkebaby.livejournal.com]

You might want to give Kiera Marcos a try: http://keiramarcos.com/
I love her "What Might Have Been" series--it's AU, but give the first story a look, you might like it: http://keiramarcos.com/what-might-have-been-series-atlantis-au/

Overall, I've found the search engine for Wraithbait to be sub-par, but I enjoy looking through the offerings when I instead just click on a specific pairing under categories.

Have you searched Area 52 recently? Or Archive of Our Own? http://archiveofourown.org/en/tags/Stargate%20Atlantis/works

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

SGA archival search engines and I haven't gotten along very well over the years (primarily because length is second only in pairing in importance to me in a fic, and archives built on eFiction have a hit-or-(usually)miss success rate when it comes to searching via length. That said, a whole new author! This always makes me happy:) Thanks!

[angellec.livejournal.com]

I bet you have read this but the World according to Rover by Rina and Orithain is a long multi-chaptered story that's really good. Another is the Geeks and Goons series. There are a couple by Lady RA that are also good. The Connection is a long cross over with SG 1 with Jack as John's father. All these are on Wraithbait.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Just posted yesterday, whizzy's first SGA story is novel length at 64K words, and it's wonderful. It's a pre-Atlantis story that brings John and Rodney into the Stargate program through different routes than canon, but they are most definitely the same characters; their lives just took slightly different branches on the way to Atlantis.

Black Helicopters at Dawn (http://whizzy.livejournal.com/590305.html) by whizzy (LJ post links to fic offsite)

My rec post for it is here (http://malnpudl.livejournal.com/580123.html) if you want a bit more info.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Dude! Brand new fic! You are my hero! Thanks:)

[vanitashaze.livejournal.com]

Though you said that you didn't want anything from Cesperanza - I assume because you've read it all already - she did just post a new fic a few days ago, Sheppard's Law (http://trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Sheppardslaw.html), and it is both long and really, really good.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[aqualegia.livejournal.com]

Sentience Series (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewseries.php?seriesid=9) by Tarlan - 5 stories totalling 62,232 words

The rest are single stories with over 20,000 words.

Architects of Fate (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=115) by Tarlan

Alchemy (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=86) by Tarlan

Atlantean Delicacy (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=32) by Tarlan

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=35) by Tarlan

The Lonely Sea (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=95) by Tarlan

The Slow Slide of Indifference (http://wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=10690&chapter=all) by ladyholder

And its sequel: An Uncomplicated Choice (http://wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=14243&chapter=all)

(http://wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=14243&chapter=all) by ladyholder

Parallax (http://sajinn.com/sgafic/parallax.html) by sajinn

Wraith Killers (http://wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=12387&warning=12) by Lady Ra

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you!

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've seen the sga_epicfic community ...

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

A comm after my own heart:) Thanks!

[badesquisse.livejournal.com]

I'll never be tired of pimping Rheanna's stories. They are here (http://www.goldenmaze.com/#SGA). The Hard Prayer (http://www.goldenmaze.com/hardprayer.htm) is an AU fic, but an AU that could be a beginning of something resembling the canon. It also is my favourite story of the fandom. She has a very beautifully done Flowers for Elgernon kind of story (http://www.goldenmaze.com/theoryofeverything.htm), and couple of other good long fics. Hope you'll enjoy.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

I just want to thank you for posting this request! I've just fallen headlong into SGA after resisting it for umpty-twelve years and now I'm filling up my ebook reader with lovely, long stories.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've read about 60% of what's been recced here, but hey, that still leaves *lots* of new stories. Definitely a win:)

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

Ooo, forgot to add: epic_recs has a lot of SGA recs, most of which top 40,000 words. Summaries, reviews, lengths, etc are included;

http://community.livejournal.com/epic_recs/tag/fandom:+stargate+atlantis

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful, thanks!

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Wow, how had I not stumbled across epic_recs before? I am very pleased to have discovered it now though! :)