That one story

[madwitch58.livejournal.com]

I know every one has that one story that they have read many times and still love. I think it would be a good idea if every one posted a link to that one story that they can not get enough of.

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[gottaluvit123.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Just one??

Thats tough as there are so many great fics in this fandom, but i'll go with this one because not only have I read it to many times to count, but i have the podfic on my mp3 and listen to it often- 'Your Cowboy days are over' - http://www.butcheredart.net/Fiction/YourCowboyDays.html

[neos-girl.livejournal.com]

101 Ways To Get Lucky (In Love) (http://community.livejournal.com/undermistletoe/51353.html)

Summary: Rodney hires John as his relationship coach. (John has a daughter who does not make you cringe with that stickey-treacley precociousness you sometimes get with kids in fics.)

Makes me smile every time I read it.

[leonie-alastair.livejournal.com]

http://trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Sheppardslaw.html

Sheppard's Law by Speranza
"Author's Note: This is the story of...John Sheppard's whole life, and it takes about forty years to tell."

My current reread for comfort fic.

[ancientreader]

Helen's "Take Clothes Off as Directed," afaik only available on the Wayback Machine now, http://web.archive.org/web/20080210035711/www.helenish.net/asdirected.shtml,

because helenish.net is down and who knows when it will be up.

[psychgirl81.livejournal.com]

I love this one too and it is also available as podfic at jinjurly's site.

[bunsdarien.livejournal.com]

Fan of Trinity: Spoiler stories here that episode.
A Great General one:
Of Duty, Atonement, & redemption
by SFCgategirl.
It's 24 chaps,but friendship and lots and lots of lovely Rodney Angst.
http://www.chaps1870.com/deprivation.htm

And Angsty and Mcshep:

Title:Deprivation
Author: Chaps1870
http://www.chaps1870.com/deprivation.htm

[vonnix.livejournal.com]

I don't think I can narrow it down to just one... I'll try though...

*combs through fic-bookmarks*

If I could bring only one SGA fic onto an island with me I would have to choose synecdochic's 'Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose' (http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/59305.html)

Summary: SGC finally stops calling him by December. Rodney celebrates by writing a final exam for his relativity class so difficult that it reduces four students to tears in the exam hall. Upon reflection, he decides to be merciful and offer partial credit.

And its Sequel (http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/95718.html)

And I have no clue where I found it but this piece of art had to get a mention:

'Kavanaugh Motivation' (http://www.merples.com/art/kavanagh.jpg)

[abrokencompass.livejournal.com]

I have to space out my re-reading of this to once about every six months, otherwise I'm just a wreck. FJAWFNlTL is just.....wrenching in it's last part, and while it's beautiful and hopeful and great, I couldn't go back to it too often.

[altyronsmaker.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I have too many to mention, but I know for a fact that I've read this one at least four times and every time, it always makes me feel just GOOD.

On Life and Living (http://home.comcast.net/~wesleysgirl/fanfiction/sga/life.html) by wesleysgirl.

If you go to her Stargate Atlantis Fic (http://home.comcast.net/~wesleysgirl/sgafic.html) page, she lists the entire series there. But yup. It's probably my favorite right now.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconded! I don't know how many times I've read this story, or the others in the series. Just all around feel good fics. ^____^

[silkensky.livejournal.com]

A McDex Bonding Fic (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&textsize=0&sid=8763&chapter=all)

Crossover with The Sentinel. Awesome story.

[mercury973.livejournal.com]

Bell Curve, or, Ladies Night at the Boom Boom Room by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
http://glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/bellcurve/bellcurve.php

Rodney as a professor at CalTech. John is a TA/Stripper. The funny and sexy timed ensues. This is my favorite story of all time that I totally do not get tired of. Enjoy!

[crusoe89.livejournal.com]

Too many to count, but I adore:

Running On Empty (http://friendshipper.laylalawlor.com/running.shtml) by Friendshipper
Summary: Sheppard and McKay are captured by Wraith, implanted with trackers and released to run and die.

and

The Perfect Sky (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3461750/1/The_Perfect_Sky) by Ammanalien
Summary: An imprisoned McKay clings to hope.

not so much a fan of sad

[scificionado.livejournal.com]

I read over and over all the stories in likethekoschka's Geeks and Goons series. They are funny and heartwarming stories.
On Fanfiction.net http://www.fanfiction.net/u/852967/likethekoschka
or on LJ http://likethekoschka.livejournal.com/profile
Sorry, I can't do those nifty real LJ links.

Re: not so much a fan of sad

[busaikko]

Seconded! An amazing series.

[em_kellesvig]

Checkmate Verse by beadattitude is one of my all time favorites. John is turned into a medium sized cat and still manages to do his job -- and fall in love.

Written By The Victors by cesperanza is the other.

Oh, and sheafrotherdon's A Farm in Iowa.

Classic SGA, all three of them.

[syble4.livejournal.com]

I'll have to go with beadttitude's Checkmate series.

http://beadattitude.livejournal.com/267757.html

[skeddy-kat.livejournal.com]

If I work really, really hard, I can narrow it down to two:

A Better Fate by Chelle: http://chelle.slashcity.org/atlantis/betterfate.shtml

A Beautiful Lifetime Event by Astolat: http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/stargate/lifetime_event.html

[djin7.livejournal.com]

I second ABLE. *nods*

[kirinin.livejournal.com]

Hard to come up with just one, but when I was new to the fandom, it was quite clearly semivowel's Transference (http://semivowel.livejournal.com/1888.html), for its tongue-in-cheek tone ("It’s been 7 days since our last kidnapping/drugging/participation in an embarrassing fertility ritual"), its clueless!boys ("This wasn’t supposed to work on him, Rodney thought vaguely") and its subtle sort of romance.

<3, <3, <3. I read Rodney's freak-out scene over and over. :D

-K

[greenapple (from livejournal.com)]

Another vote for "Take Clothes Off As Directed" by Helen. [ http://web.archive.org/web/20080210035711/www.helenish.net/asdirected.shtml ] Sheppard/McKay, Sheppard/OMCs, adult, AU

My second most-reread is probably "Teenage Rebellion" by Yin. [ http://community.livejournal.com/yinfic/15288.html ] Sheppard/OMCs, adult (PWP), preseries

[ex-rogerpit.livejournal.com]

One of my all time favorite SGA stories: Transcendental (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/stargate/transcendental.html) - McKay in command of Atlantis, Sheppard in the brig, and some seriously hot McShep sex.

[jendavis.livejournal.com]

"Fourteen Years" by Hth has been my all-time go-to John/Ronon stories for years now. It focuses on Ronon's seven years as a Runner, which is amazingly done, and balances it with his first seven years on Atlantis. There isn't anything that isn't awesome about this story.

And I'm really glad I had to go search it out again today, because I found out that Hth wrote a sequel, called "Seven Years" which I just finished reading, and which only makes my adoration for the story even more epic.

Fourteen Years: http://web.archive.org/web/20080111111423/hth.gatefiction.com/14years.htm

Seven Years: http://hth-the-first.livejournal.com/43759.html?view=1269487

[utterfrivolity.livejournal.com]

Man, I could list at least twenty stories that I've read dozens of times and still return to every two or three weeks. I guess the ones I've read the most are Kid A (http://trickster.org/speranza/cesper/KidA.html) by cesperanza and Straight as a Circle (http://toomuchplor.livejournal.com/52472.html) by toomuchplor.

I like this question, btw. People usually ask for must-reads, and for me that's an overlapping but not identical list. Some of my favorite stories are too emotionally taxing to re-read a hundred times. And I think I have read the above stories a hundred times each (which is fucking frightening, really).

[greenapple (from livejournal.com)]

Some of my favorite stories are too emotionally taxing to re-read a hundred times.

Or even more than once! (eg, Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose)

[onlystarchild.livejournal.com]

Ophthalmology (http://www.kormantic.com/sg/glasses.html) by Pares is one of the first SGA stories I read and I still go back to it time and again.

It's made up of lots of little "slice of life" snippets that weave together into a wonderfully rich story. It made me fall even more in love with Team Sheppard. Utterly gorgeous. <3

[onlystarchild.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it's McShep, btw. :)

[fearlesssisters.livejournal.com]

my favorite sga fic of all time is the "what might have been" series by keira marcos. i go back and read it often and love it just as much if not more each time. here is the link: http://keiramarcos.com/what-might-have-been-series-atlantis-au/
i also second the rec for "freedom's just a word for nothing left to lose." its unbelievable!

[syble4.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I agree. I've re-read this series several times.

[nlgatefan.livejournal.com]

Like several others, I have a really difficult time paring my list down to less than a dozen (my folder of Best Stories contains 123 tales), but two stories I go back to again and again are:
Misconstrued, by NotTasha - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2343433/1/, and Maybe I'm Dead, I Just Haven't Stopped Moving Yet, by cybersyd42 - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3148301/1/

Misconstrued was the story that got me started reading SGA fic -- it features angsty h/c with a bit of humor, and features the S1 cast.

Maybe I'm Dead is largely a Rodney h/c fic, with major doses of angst for Rodney and the rest of the team, plus Carson and Sam Carter. It will keep you guessing!

Both stories are gen.

[allyndra.livejournal.com]

Scenes From a Lesser War (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=5362&warning=12) by amireal. But I can also second most of the stories listed here. ♥ We have some amazing fics in this fandom.

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

Definitely Hindsight (http://www.glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/hindsight.php)

[onlystarchild.livejournal.com]

Definitely! <3

[vida-boheme.livejournal.com]

The four that I keep returning to (and I suspect that I always will ♥)

Tarlan's wonderful Road 'verse (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/browse.php?type=categories&catid=12)

Neevebrody's amazing, angsty, and utterly beautiful The Last Word (http://community.livejournal.com/mcsheplets/89651.html)

Madison's heartbreaking and uplifting SGA/WWII crossover Enigma (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=12079)

Bluespirit_star's angsty and hot (with a happy ending) Make a wish (http://community.livejournal.com/starshinedreams/49678.html)