Title: Not Just a Footnote
Author's LJ/DWJ: lady_starrkaat 
Categories: character: Sha're, alternate universe, awesome women, drama
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: On LJ
Link to story: Not Just a Footnote
Why this should be read:

Because Sha're is awesome!  You want more?  There are several fics about Sha're and writing, but this is my favorite.  This is an AU in which Sha're was with the SGC when Daniel died, and chose to stay there.  But it's about history, and finding your place within yourself, and about being the center of your own story.  I love it, and it's very well written.

When Sha’re first arrived on Earth and began to walk around in their world, the casual attitude towards the written word stunned her. The Tau’ri thought absolutely nothing of it; language was everywhere—piled in books on shelves, scribbled on sticky-notes stuck to doorways, and transmitted electronically to little devices that beeped and twittered.

Three years later, she found herself carelessly moving a stack of magazines out of the way so she could sit down, completely unconcerned about all the writing contained within. Once, she had felt an uncertain thrill every time she picked up a pen, constantly stifling the urge to look over her shoulder and make sure there were no Jaffa waiting to haul her away for defying her (false) god; once, she had flipped through every book and magazine that came to hand, just to look at the words. What would Ra think to see her now, one of his ignorant slaves bordered on one side by glossy fashion and science magazines, on the other by thick physics books, and a stack of notebooks in front of her, stuffed full with her own scrawled writing?