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

[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:)