Title: A Resonant Transliteration
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: jenlev
Categories: character study, character: Daniel Jackson
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Stories
Link to story: A Resonant Transliteration
Why this should be read: A beautiful study of Daniel as the team goes through the gate to explore a planet they haven't been to before. This fic is a sense-of-wonder refresher: a celebration of how fundamentally marvelous gate travel is. It's also a gift to Daniel, who is musing, as the story opens in the embarkation room, that it's been a long time since they met a truly alien race. The fertile Daniel headspace, rich with associations, is portrayed in loving detail. Through Daniel's perceptions and deductions, so is what they find in the new ancient world they step into.

About 1200 words.

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Title: The Cold Hard Equation
Author's LJ/DWJ: blahnicity
Categories: angst, character: daniel jackson, character: jack o'neill, character: samantha carter, character: siler, era: season 8, friendship: jack and sam, friendship: sam and daniel, theme: awesome women, theme: super sam
Warnings: implied character death
Author's Webpage/Fic list: SG-1 tag at yung_luk
Link to story: The Cold Hard Equation

Why this should be read: Sam. ♥
Or, in more coherent words: Sam Carter. Being science-y and saving the day. Being a pilot and saving the day. Living one of her dreams and saving the day. Making the hardest of all decisions, and saving the day.

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Title: B is for Betrayal
Author's LJ/DWJ: rachel500
Categories: apocafic, character: cameron mitchell, character: daniel jackson, character: jack o'neill, character: jonas quinn, character: samantha carter, character: teal'c, character: vala mal doran, era: season 9-10
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Rachel500's SG-1 fic on AO3
Link to story: B is for Betrayal

Why this should be read: Plotty Jonas fic! Jonas comparing his new Langaran anti-Ori team to his old Tau'ri (and Jaffa) anti-Goa'uld team. Jonas being incredibly competent and unsure of his own competence. Plus a very nice appearance by Tomin.

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Title: The Cat Came Back (Again)
Author's LJ/DWJ: thothmes & bethinexile
Categories: character: daniel jackson, character: jack o'neill, character: samantha carter, character: teal'c, character: vala mal doran, character: cameron mitchell, crackfic, era: post-series, team
Warnings: nonpermanent character death
Author's Webpage/Fic list: fic tag @ thothmes & fic tag @ bethinexile
Link to story: The Cat Came Back (Again)

Why this should be read: Daniel Jackson. Is. A. Cat. A cat that can walk through coffee tables and pounce through lit candles. A cat who brings home mice that don't exactly exist. Those damn Ancients and their sense of ... is it humor or justice?

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Title: Hamlet Never Saw This Coming
Author's LJ/DWJ: domarzione
Categories: character: cameron mitchell, character: daniel jackson, character: samantha carter, character: teal'c, era: season 9-10, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: domarzione's SG-1 fic on AO3
Link to story: Hamlet Never Saw This Coming

Why this should be read: Cam has a hard time knowing where his place is on the team. That doesn't stop him from knowing how to entertain himself around them. Light-hearted Cam fun: what better way to start your day?

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Title: Survival
Author's LJ/DWJ: somehowunbroken
Categories: character study, character: Daniel Jackson, character: Sarah Gardner, theme: awesome women, theme: getting snaked
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Master List of Fics
Link to story: Survival
Why this should be read: At the end of 'Chimera,' canon gave Sarah Gardner a hug and abandoned her forever. This fic checks in to see how she's doing -- she's changed, and she's haunted, but she's OK, and she calls Daniel and tells him so -- and presents an affecting study of the quiet triumph of the good days over the bad.

870 words.

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Title: Evening Shadows
Author on LJ/DW: settiai
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, things that go *boom*, drama, action/adventure, hurt/comfort
Warnings: none
Author's Website: settiai.com
Link to Story: Evening Shadows

Why This Must Be Read: Because as much as I love the Wonder Twins...

And as delightful as it is to see Sam working out a scientific puzzle, or Daniel fitting bits and pieces together to find the answer...

Sometimes, it's just great fun to turn Sam and Daniel loose on the universe and watch things go boom. :)

When a planet's government betrays its treaty with the SGC and attacks the team, it's up to Sam and Daniel to use their fists and their weapons - and each other - to get safely back to the Stargate. There's whumping and shooting and banter galore, and it all adds up to an intense and satisfying read!

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Title: A Cinderella Story
Author's LJ/DWJ: tallulah_rasa
Categories: Jack and Daniel friendship, humor, character study, theme: Jack friendship, post-series
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: To Explore the Universe and Eat Pie
Link to story: A Cinderella Story

Why this should be read: Read this one for the sheer joy of classic Jack and Daniel friendship, complete with snark, humor, banter, and both of them being perfectly themselves... even if, courtesy of Jack's subconscious, Daniel is stuck in a gown and tiara. :)

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Title: Between Two Waves of the Sea
Author's LJ/DWJ: stringertheory
Categories: angst, AU, character study, character: Daniel, character: Jack, character: Sam, character: Teal'c, drama, team, theme: quantum mirror
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic list
Link to story: Between Two Waves of the Sea
Why this should be read: A thoughtful, lyrical ensemble piece in which the could-have-beens ghost across the gaps between quantum realities, brush the characters like soft breaths, and die away.

908 words.

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Title: Kaboom
Author's LJ/DWJ: kellifer_fic 
Categories: Things that go *boom*, Action/Adventure, Daniel, Jack, Sam, Teal'c
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: SG-1 Master Fic List
Link to story: Kaboom
Why this should be read:
As with all of kellifer's fic, this is amazingly written. SG-1 is captured by the NID and separated, Jack with Sam and Daniel with Teal'c. We follow Jack's point of view as he and Sam do morse code with their boots, dig their way out of an explosion, and discover that Daniel and Teal'c have saved the day. The glimpse of Daniel and Teal'c friendship at the end is also very nice.

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Title: She Went On
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: nonisland / nonisland
Categories: Character study, character: Sara O'Neill, character: Jack O'Neill, character: Daniel Jackson, theme: awesome women
Warnings: Canonical pre-series character death
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic Masterlist
Link to story: She Went On
Why this should be read: Sara fic is a rare find. Even rarer is good Sara fic that really is Sara fic, not Jack fic in disguise. This is a spare and unsentimental 500-word portrait of Sara becoming about herself.

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Title: The Saga of Anubis (Or, How Daniel Jackson is Followed By a Kitten)
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: ladylade
Categories: Character: Daniel, character: Jack, character: Sam, character: Teal'c, character: Hammond, character: Fraiser, character: Siler, crackfic, humor, team, theme: crackfic
Warnings: Strong language, sexual references
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Unknown
Link to story: The Saga of Anubis (Or, How Daniel Jackson is Followed By a Kitten)
Why this should be read: It's not just a kitten that follows Daniel into his bathroom. It's not even just a Goa'uld kitten that follows Daniel into his bathroom. It's a macro-spouting baby Goa'uld LOLcat that follows Daniel into his bathroom, and about 2100 very funny words follow that.

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Title: Zephyr
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: gabolange / gabolange / gabolange
Categories: character study, character: cam, character: daniel, character: jack, character: sam, character: teal'c, character: vala, era: futurefic, team, theme: super sam
Warnings: Secondary-character death
Author's Webpage/Fic list: nextnonsequitur
Link to story: Zephyr
Why this should be read: Set about ten years in the future, when Sam is the general in command of the SGC and the Stargate Program has just gone public, this lovely, pensive fic is a combination of turning-outward (Sam wrestling with the demands of presenting the Program to the world accurately and sympathetically via the unruly media) and turning-inward (the team, coming back together to mourn the passing of a longtime comrade, closing in tight on itself). Outstanding Sam characterization, plausible and poignant extrapolation, 2431 words.

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Title: Structural Integrity
Author's LJ/DWJ: etrangerici
Categories: episode related, theme: Jack friendship, angst, character study, team
Warnings: none
Author's Website: unknown
Link to story: Structural Integrity

Why This Must Be Read: Just when you think there can't be possibly be yet another good episode tag for Shades of Grey, you discover an absolute gem like this one, in which a heavy-hearted Jack thinks he's lost his team and their friendship... and discovers that he hasn't.

Stellar Jack POV and characterization lend an extra degree of impact to etrangerici's story. Teal'c is a stunning bulwark, both figuratively and literally. Sam uses her military knowledge to comprehend Jack's choices. And Daniel - watching Jack watch Daniel slowly talk his way into understanding will move you nearly to tears.

Lovely, lovely teamy goodness. This one is just plain fantastic.


He finally felt that he was solid on his foundations once more. Because they were his team. And they weren't letting go.

Title: Untitled Jack Birthday Ficlets
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: niamaea
Categories: character: Daniel Jackson, character: Jack O'Neill, character: Samantha Carter, character: Teal'c, era: Season 9-10, team, theme: Jack friendship, theme: joy of Jack
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic tag
Link to story: Part 1 and Part 2
Why this should be read: Two charming ficlets, written at different times in response to different memes, that together form one delightful friendship fic in which Jack's old teammates make his Season 9 birthday one to remember ... and then outdo themselves. Warm and humorous and wonderfully in-character.

About 1200 words total.

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