Looking for fics, 5k-10k words min, ideally more, that fit other criteria too

[theeverdream.livejournal.com]

Looking for fics that fit a list of criteria. I know this is probably not the easiest request in the world so I'd appreciate any and all help you can give me. As always, self-recs are good!


** Fits all of the following
Length - are at least 5k, ideally 10k or more

Setting

- Don't take place on Atlantis or at the SGC. Ideally I'm looking for Earth-based AUs. Mention of the Stargate program is fine but I'm looking for fics where they aren't SGC members currently. (Although they may have had dealings with the SGC previously, or at the end there's a mention of them learning about or joining the SGC in the future.) Events can mirror some canon events or not, either is okay.

Characters/Relationships
* Are slash or friendship fics of a common slash pairing, ideally John and Rodney although other male relationships/friendships are fine,
* OR are team fics where everyone is encouraging and kind to everyone else (noticing flaws in someone is fine, demeaning them, even in thoughts, isn't)
* OR both - team fics with strong friendship/relationship element

Scenarios

- Do not contain zombies, apocalypse scenarios, graphic violence, long-term or permanent injury, or relationship betrayal

- These character deaths are okay but anything not fitting one of these is not okay
* the death off-screen death of a character who also died in canon
* the on-screen or off-screen death of a minor original character

- Have a positive ending


** Ideally but not required
- With main characters especially, I'd like to see characters that act like full three-dimensional people. John's self-sacrifice, for example, can be a large story theme, but I wouldn't want it to be the only thing John's about.
- Not a ton of "that's so lame" or the like to mean something's bad

Comments

[busaikko]

O.o You can read fic on a DS? brb, stealing one of the old ones from the kids!!!

/bad parent

[theeverdream.livejournal.com]

Hee! :D

Yep, you may have to download the browser from their store-thing but it's free. It's NOT a good browser, and currently I've been having more problems with it than I used to as LJ and AO3 changed some things. (I am using the DSlite, not the 3DS or anything so if you have a newer one than mine maybe the browser has changed somewhat)

I can't load normal LJ pages (used to, but their comment changes a while back made it impossible) but the mobile stuff works pretty well - this page, for example, would be http://m.livejournal.com/read/user/sgagenrefinders/975729 . I have had some problems in the past with certain tags not being accessable, or following a link from the mobile site won't keep you on the mobile site. So with that sometimes I'll click the link and if it doesn't load, I'll look at "go to page" for the address, then manually plug in the mobile site.

With AO3, I have found it's possible to read but I find it jerky, like it doesn't load very well. They have the download --> html button but I can't access the button on the DS. So when I am on my computer I have to find the html link (it incorporates weird numbers and some of the title there's no easy template that works for all of them) and I have in the past been plugging it into tinyurl.com.

But now I am doing something like this m.livejournal.com/read/user/theeverdream/131713 which is currently a reading list based on responses here and some other stuff.. just all the normal lj links cause those are easy to change, if they don't go to the mobile one from the mobile version of my entry, plus the download html links for AO3. (And as to the why of things, yeah, having that reading list is very helpful as I know I have a ton of stuff to read at night, instead of having to flail around finding lists of what the story address for tonight is, and recently I've really needed to be as calm as possible at night :) )

So yes, pardon my rambling, but if you do end up reading fic on the DS I wouldn't want you to have to start fresh with some of these issues, and if you have a better browser than I do and don't even have the issues it still was nice to type this all out.. I dunno why but I think it helped me say to myself "my frustrations.. I learned stuff from them!" and that is helpful today :):)

[busaikko]

I doubt I could pry the 3DS out of the young 'uns hands, but there should be spare DSlites around here. I'll ask the older kid which browser he uses (assuming, of course, that all those times he said he was doing research for school on the DS... he really was *skeptical* ). I like the idea of keeping a reading list! My usual method is to send myself email, but I get lazy and then I have a folder full of mails titled "links", "J/D link", "cool link", and so on >.< ) *bookmarks* <--(ineptly)

[busaikko]

Also, I just got back from a lunch of continual head-desking with my husband, who is all set to get himself "a computer" (though unclear on difference between laptop and desktop, what an OS is, what a program is, what the internet is, what wi-fi is, etc.) because his friends have persuaded him ~all the cool kids~ are doing it. And I was just like, "Why are you talking to your friends? Why haven't you been talking to ME? I have 20 years worth of mistakes for you to learn from wisdom!" Because yes: problem-solving and bending tech to your will is an awesome skill! ... roundabout way to say that I think it's awesome you figured out how to do this \o/