Looking for Dark Toned Mcshep fics and Great World Building

[prlrocks.livejournal.com]

I'm in a dark mood and therefore am looking for Dark toned John/Rodney fic. I'm very open on what causes this darkness. It can come from the characters or relationship itself or it can be the world around them. If it is the second I'd like it if the world building is well done.

The only thing I DON'T want is heavy drug addition. That bothers me. Anything else is fair game. Seriously. :D

I actually DO prefer happy endings, but in this case if it doesn't that is ok. Just warn me if isn't.

And while I'm at it, any other good recs you have with well done world building (light or dark) would be great. :D

Thank you so much ahead of time.

Comments

[ellie567b.livejournal.com]

What about The Hard Prayer by Rheanna
http://www.goldenmaze.com/hardprayer.htm

AU where Sheppard and McKay never went to Atlantis.

Author's summary: One year after the end of the world, John meets another survivor.

all McShep, even the shortest ones pack a punch

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Tannhauser Gate (http://trinityofone.livejournal.com/75513.html) by trinityofone. John's not sure what he is... (Happy ending depends on your perspective.)

John (http://khohen1.livejournal.com/648932.html) by kHo. John's just trying to pass as human... (Happy ending of a sort?)

The last full measure of devotion (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/326892.html) by sarah t. John is very dark... (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

Just Rodney (http://community.livejournal.com/mensa_au/29320.html) by losyark. Mensa-verse AU Rod has serious issues... (Fairly happy ending.)

By Whirlwind Scattered (http://archiveofourown.org/works/89556) by busaikko. After the jumper crashed, Rodney has serious issues... (busaikko said somewhere -- in comments? -- she was more hopeful about the ending than the text implies.)

Failsafes (http://www.perchance-to-dream.net/luna/failsafes.htm) by luna. Timeloops aren't always fun... (Hopeful ending.)

If You Want to Kiss the Sky (http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/419084.html) by siegeofangels. To function in this AU, John can never be himself. (Hopeful ending.)

Take Clothes Off As Directed (http://helenish.talkoncorners.net/asdirected.html) by helenish. John and Rodney in a BDSM-dystopia AU. (Hopeful ending.)

maybe This Gun's For Hire (http://helenish.talkoncorners.net/gun.html), also by helenish. A surprisingly cheerful "Earth is permanently lost" story. (Hopeful ending.)

Hands Away (http://mandysbitch.livejournal.com/214061.html) by mandysbitch. Rodney has issues about being with John. (Not very hopeful ending.)

Stubble on My Sticky Lips (http://torakowalski.livejournal.com/57801.html) by torakowalski. John has issues about being with Rodney. (Rather more hopeful ending.)

a few more...

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Three Fates (http://archiveofourown.org/works/84537/chapters/114140) by auburn & eretria. ~160,000 words, John/Rodney/Elizabeth. Trinity-AU. It wasn't just the Dorandan solar system that got destroyed. (Happy ending for certain values of John & Rodney.)

valderys' fascist Mensa-verse: Thule-Gesellschaft (http://valderys.livejournal.com/13141.html) and Edge of Control (http://valderys.livejournal.com/16371.html) and Freedom of Choice (http://valderys.livejournal.com/38618.html). (Somewhat hopeful ending?)

A Sonnet for Robert Oppenheimer (http://gaiaanarchy.livejournal.com/14294.html) by gaiaanarchy and its companion-piece A Requiem for Leo Szilard (http://valderys.livejournal.com/14150.html) by valderys. Trinity-AU. The Arcturus Project worked and was successful beyond their wildest dreams. (Oddly hopeful ending.)

Re: all McShep, even the shortest ones pack a punch

[rsharpe.livejournal.com]

I found By Whirlwind Scattered extremely creepy, in that it bothered me for days.

Re: all McShep, even the shortest ones pack a punch

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Agree! (And let's not even talk about John, When He's Gone, which creeped me out enough that I can't link to it.)

[(Anonymous)]

Crimes Against Humanity, http://seperis.illuminatedtext.com/sga/humanity.html -- the one where they're all war criminals, literally. The main story is unfinished but it's very long as is and has enough in it and the side stories to see the shape of it all. And considering they're psychopaths the McShep is oddly sweet.

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

Some spontaneous recs for good fantasy world building:

A Clear and Different Light (http://sgabigbang.talkoncorners.net/?view=fic&id=53)
The Bearskin Cloak (http://archiveofourown.org/works/117992/chapters/164987)
- both light with dark elements, or neutral with creepy villains; something like that.
The Sacrificial Mage (http://www.alyse.info/sesa_files/TheSacrificialMage.htm)
Damper (http://michelel72.dreamwidth.org/2405.html)
- both neutral with less creepy villains.
Hell, Rising From a Thousand Thrones (http://10leaguesbeyond.livejournal.com/14916.html) - Lovecraft crossover and therefore dark.

[danceswithgary]

I consider these dark McShep (I'll borrow skaredykat phrasing for some of the warnings:

An Equation for Perfect Beauty by aesc (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

Basura by zaganthi & tzigane (Not very hopeful ending.)

Ellis by laytoncolt (Nixa Jane) (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

Here There Be Fractals by kodiak_bear and The Geometry of Damage by kodiak_bear (ambiguous ending)

Hideous Progeny by Kat Reitz and Tzigane (Not a hopeful ending)

I See Skies of Blue by in-wintertime (Not a hopeful ending)

Judas Doesn't Answer by Auburn (ambiguous ending)

Not the Fine Man You Take Me For by sardonicsmiley (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

Pay No Worship to the Garish Sun by rysler (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

(These Precious Things)In My Hands by reddwarfer (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

The Fourteenth of Green by kyuuketsukirui (Not a hopeful ending)

Working Towards One by skellerbvvt (Not a hopeful ending)

Zero Sum by nightdog_writes (ambiguous ending)

Chance, Fate, God or Grace by sardonicsmiley (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

lion body, head of man by thingswithwings (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

Hegira by kellifer (Happy ending for certain values of Rodney and John.)

DADT, Damyata, Dayadhvam by trinityofone (hopeful ending)

Hunger by Kat Reitz and Tzigane (hopeful ending)

[hickman1937.livejournal.com]

For world building,

This Tardiest Explorer by mirabile-dictu (http://mirabile-dictu.slashcity.net/SGA/Tardiest.html)

The White Island by mirabile-dictu (http://mirabile-dictu.slashcity.net/SGA/Island.html)

but the nights are better(out here)by auburn (http://www.eternalvox.net/auburn/butthenights.html)

This is only the tip of the iceburg. If you want more, say so and I'll try to find them. Many authors in this fandom have built worlds.

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

for world-building, especially alien/Pegasus worlds and cultures, mirabile-dictu and auburn are two writers who deliver often and well, so I'd say don't stop after reading just the two or three fics of theirs recced above. :)

[noxnoctisanima.livejournal.com]

Ripples in the Space Between (http://www.mardahin.net/sga/Ripples/ripples.html) This has awesome world building.

Colony Atlantis (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/colonyatlantis.html) is pretty awesome too, though may be more of an independence fic than just world building.

L-Space Incursions (http://slybrarian.livejournal.com/5054.html) is great world building of the same kind as Ripples, baby having and colony making.

Memoirs Universe (http://www.mardahin.net/sga/memoirs.html) Excellent world building, very interesting structure.

And I assume you have read Written by the Victors (http://www.trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Victors.html).