looking for SGA fic - the good stuff

[seldear]

Okay, I'm looking for Atlantis fic.

Title, author, summary, link. Self-pimping is acceptable.

Truly told, if someone can find me a long, gen/slight UST, action-adventure story featuring all our heroes interacting with each other, written descriptively, in-character and without cliché, then I will send gifts of chocolate and fic, and possibly LJ time if they so desire. I may also bow down and worship at the feet of the author and plead to become their disciple. I ask much, but I also give much.

Icon thanks to shallanelprin.

ETA: because people are going to look at my ideal requirements and promptly declare "I don't know any fic like that" and not rec anything at all, let me just state now that I am looking for Atlantis fic. Any. My specs up there is just the IDEAL fic, which, I expect, does not yet exist. If it does, then woohoo! If not, then give me something to read!

Comments

Oo! Pick me! Pick me!

[mitai.livejournal.com]

How does an unfinished sound to you? Current length - 30 pages, Times New Roman, size ten. Because it's unfinshed, of course, certain priviledges would be granted, including (but not limited to) the following:

Gifts of physical chocolate will be given upon completion of fic, if and only if it met with the reader's approval, and if and only if the fic were completed no later than one month prior to Squeecon.

Reader may have input in the progression of the fic.

In the case of Seldear, reader may have, if requested, coauthorship of the fic for suggestions and/or actual chapter writing could be attempted. [This is extremely restricted and allowed only at my discretion.]

Unfinished currently seems to revolve around Ford and McKay, with strong Weir and John roles. Teyla is currently being quiet, which is not out of character, and I soon expect her to lose patience and take matters into her own hands. I'll post it friendslocked to my own journal if you request.

Re: Oo! Pick me! Pick me!

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Are we talking Chaptered WIP for me to read? Or 'unfinished and I'm looking for someone off whom to bounce ideas'?

Re: Oo! Pick me! Pick me!

[mitai.livejournal.com]

Chaptered WIP for you to read. =) No beta needed or requested. Unless it just grabs you and makes you want to write a little of it . . . ::hinthinttryingtohelpSeldearoutofherwritingbog:: =)

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[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

LOL. Link me, then. :) I can't promise any really valuable reading until the weekend, though - I'm going to be watching from about 1.08 - 1.20 on the weekend.

Re: Oo! Pick me! Pick me!

[mitai.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's for your reading pleasure. They're filtered posts in my journal.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mitai/95651.html#cutid1

and

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mitai/95781.html#cutid1

(It wouldn't all fit into one post, darnit.)

[azarsuerte.livejournal.com]

http://www.wraithbait.com/viewuser.php?action=favstor&uid=6

My "favorite stories" page on Wraithbait. :-)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Will take a look.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

*looks at the Wraithbait archive*

*looks at the shipfic and genfic totals*

*looks at the slashfic totals*

*shudders*

[stef94.livejournal.com]

The overwhelming amount of slashfic scares me too.. I'm far from homophobic, but I just don't get the obsession that -women- show for this in fandom.. *shudders*

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I so don't get it. And I mean, people are willing to pair up whoever the hell they want in fic, doesn't change my life or anything. But... eek. I mean, seriously. I thought the JD stuff in SG1 was bad. Is it like this for shows in other fandoms, I wonder? Or is it just scifi that draws the weirdness?

[stef94.livejournal.com]

I don't play enough in other fandoms to form a properly substantiated opinion, but to me it certainly feels like it's especially crazy in the Stargate fandoms..
In Farscape they seem to either do het pairings (duh), femslash pairings or just throw everyone together.. but then I haven't dug up too much Farscape fanfic..
And from what little I've seen of the HP fandom, they've got some funky pairings going on as well, but I don't know how popular they are..
I have no clue about the BSG fandom. It's maybe a bit too young, still ;-)

As for my older fandoms: in Babylon 5 there didn't seem to be much slash, and in X-Files there was a little too, but hardly as insane as in the Stargate fandoms..

Huh...

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

You know, I always think about XF during times like this, because that was my first 'real' fandom... I was a devoted MSer but, young as I was, I was certainly aware of the Mulder/Ratboy and Mulder/Skinner and even (ew) Mulder/Spender stuff that went around. But, maybe it was just my perception of it, it didn't seem as... obsessive as it's always seemed in SG fandom. And it makes me feel kinda bad for Brad and Co. cause I'm sure they wouldn't find the fact that their characters are (apparently) easily slashable as any great compliment!

[stef94.livejournal.com]

Heh, X-Files will always be the benchmark for me ;-)
It introduced me to the internet, all of it ;-)
I was in college in those days, and definitely aware that there was slash, but never to the extent it seems to be present in the SG fandom(s)..

And yeah, I'm sure Brad & co aren't too happy with the slashyness ;-)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

I suspect that at least a part of the whole drive for slashiness in Stargate is because the original movie was about two men who later carried on into the series.

And if Amanda Tapping had proven a less talented actress, or Michael Shanks showed himself a more talented actor, then it's quite possible that there would have been a whole lot more slashiness in Stargate.

I do have to say: thank God it turned out otherwise...

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

As for my older fandoms: in Babylon 5 there didn't seem to be much slash, and in X-Files there was a little too, but hardly as insane as in the Stargate fandoms..

I guess you didn't play in the same places I did, then. ;) Seriously, there's TONS of slash for B5 and XF, just depends on where you hang out.

[stef94.livejournal.com]

I was definitely in different kinds of corners of the XF and B5 fandoms than the one I find myself in in the SG fandom.
The little corners I inhabited in B5 and esecially XF remained pretty much untouched by slash. We were aware that it existed, but we certainly had no clue how big or small it was.
Come to think of it, towards the end, one or two ppl in the B5 group I was part of ventured into slash.. but they took it to other lists.. hmm, must've blocked that out of my memory ;-)

What's interesting is that the slashfic seems to be taking over the SG fandom, but when CJ, MS and AT did a tally of the audience at GateCon last year, it turned out that about 1/2 of the audience was gen/team-oriented, 1/3rd was S/J shipper, and only 1/6th (or something obviously much smaller than the other groups) was slash-oriented..

Which could mean that
a) all the slashers must be online, as opposed to large numbers of genners and shippers who aren't, and
b) they write scary amounts of fic..

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

LOL! Or maybe not all the slashers could afford to go to GC while gen/shippers could. <g>

[stef94.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm sticking with the "There just can't be that many of 'em" view. Ahhhh, denial, gotta love it ;-)

[stef94.livejournal.com]

This is a lovely frienship fic I came across. Not team, but it has Teyla :-)
It's not something that I would usually jump up to read, but I took the plunge and liked it.

Title: Spoon
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Author: Rose Wilde-Irish
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Rodney spoons. Teyla finds she likes it.

Can be found here.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon. Will look it up.

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

Okay, I do have friendshippy or gen-ish fic, so I'll pimp myself. ;)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pixiesio/69462.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pixiesio/72450.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pixiesio/72837.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pixiesio/112067.html

I do have some other gen stuff poking around my brain, just ye olde excuse of finding the time to write it. <g>

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Will look at on the weekend. :)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

I liked 'em!

Well, I liked the first and the last ones best since Sheppard/Weir is the pairing I have the most trouble with at this point in time.

But they're all quite good. Nicely done!

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

LOL! Thanks hon. I guess even friendshippy doesn't work for ya? ;)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Friendshippy is more along the lines the show has shown so far. Give another season or so, and I can see Shep possibly hugging Liz because she's cold.