Title: C is for Child
Author's LJ/DWJ:  izhilzha 
Categories: Janet Fraiser, Samantha Carter, Female friendship, Janet friendship
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Masterlist of Fanfiction
Link to story: C is for Child
Why this should be read:

C is for Child is a bittersweet ficlet that sets the stage for Cassie in Singularity. When Janet faces the possibility of pregnancy, it's Sam she turns to for support and friendship. Both women are in character, and it's very easy to see them bonding like this over lunches. The ending is perfect.

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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: My Heart Shall Pass Unto Yours
Author's LJ/DWJ: pagan_twylight
Categories: Drama/Angst
Warnings: Discussion of violence and allusions to sexual slavery
Author's Webpage/Fic list: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/683376/Pagan_Twylight
Link to story: My Heart Shall Pass Unto Yours
Why this should be read: Background for Malek and his host. A quote angsty, but also beautiful story of how Malek got his current host.

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: Teal'c's and Daniel's Favorite Books
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: tripoli / tripoli8
Categories: character study, character: Daniel, character: Teal'c, theme: terrific Teal'c
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic tag
Link to story: Teal'c's and Daniel's Favorite Books
Why this should be read: Two compact and sparkling gems of characterization through reading material. Teal'c's choices (official and unofficial) are full of snark and satire and social commentary, conveyed in a style that perfectly emulates Teal'c's brand of deadpan humor. Daniel's choice is vividly evocative of his family history as he conceives it; his section is beautifully written, insightful and moving and uplifting. And both pieces have killer last lines.

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Title: Rites of Passage
Author's LJ/DWJ: randomfreshink
Categories: team, lost episode, drama, hurt/comfort, character study
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Random’s stories at AllDanielfic
Link to story: Rites of Passage, parts 1,  2, and 3

Why this should be read: Call this Season 1, Episode 2.5. Random treats us to a fantastic lost episode in which Jack, Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c become team, with four individuals coming together to fuse into that wonderful entity known as SG-1. The story includes a literal gauntlet, fascinating challenges, an actual solution to a major contradiction between show canon and movie canon, and excellent shifting POVs throughout. Teamy goodness like this is an absolute joy!

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Title: Next Steps
Author's LJ/DWJ: paian
Categories: Five Things, Cassandra Fraiser, AU
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Stargate Fic Index
Link to story: Next Steps

Why this should be read: Paian creates 5 different wonderful, horrible, sad, scary, amazing futures for Cassie and I believed every one of them. (2856 words)

Five ways Cassandra Fraiser left Colorado Springs, and what happened then.

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Title: Every Art and Artifice
Author's LJ/DWJ: thestylus
Categories: Janet, Drama, Angst, Pre-Series
Warnings: Violence, medical gore, language
Author's Webpage/Fic list: NA
Link to story: Every Art and Artifice

Why this should be read: This is an amazingly good pre-series fic about Dr. Fraiser during the first Gulf War. Although Janet is perfectly in character, it would stand up on it's own as a story about military medical personnel working near (or in) combat situations.

While not a comfortable narrative, very intense and heartbreaking, it's a beautiful backstory for the Janet Fraiser we meet at the SGC.

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I will strive always, to excel in every art and artifice of war. I know that I will be called upon to perform tasks in isolation, far from familiar faces and voices, with the help and guidance of my God. I will keep my mind and body clean, alert and strong, for this is my debt to those who depend upon me. I will not fail those with whom I serve. (from the US Army Special Forces Creed)

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Title: Bedside Manners (remix of Bedside Vigil)
Author's LJ/DWJ: minxy
Categories: Janet, Team, Drama
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fanfic Archive Post on _minxy_'s LJ
Link to story: Bedside Manners

Why this should be read: Because it made me remember how much I adore Janet Fraiser.

This fic take place during the early years of the SGC and Janet is busy doing what doctors do - while trying to keep her temper under control. (Thanks to one Colonel O'Neill.)

Minxy writes women who are clearly awesome on a daily basis and I think she gets Janet exactly right. It's also a great view of SG-1 being anxious for a sick teammate from an "outsider" POV.

Written for the Remix/Redux Ficathon, about 1700 words.

SG-3 could probably tell she was angry by the way her heels clicked curtly down the bare concrete floor and reverberated through the halls.

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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.

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Title: Determination
Author's LJ/DWJ: Otter's Rock
Categories: character: Sha're, alternate universe, awesome women, drama
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: On LJ
Link to story: Determination and Determination: Practicality
Why this should be read:

These are the fics that first made me love Sha're. In a world where Daniel was taken by Apophis and Sha're joined the SGC to look for him, beatrice otter follows Sha're as she fights for a place on SG-1 and responds to Teal'c's guilt over what happened to Daniel. Beatrice does a wonderful job of giving life to a character we only see glimpses of in canon.

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Title: Look to the Heavens and Number the Stars
Author's LJ/DWJ: minervacat
Categories: awesome women, original character, Daniel, Jonas, team, episode related, Janet, character study, angst
Warnings: spoilers through S9, including canon character deaths
Author's Webpage/Fic list: when the floods roll back
Link to story: Look to the Heavens and Number the Stars, parts one and two, and The Silent Language of the Star (a companion fic)

Why This Must Be Read: Minervacat introduces us to a superbly-realized original character, Claire, who is recruited to the SGC by Jack at Daniel’s behest. Claire slowly takes over the staggeringly difficult task of cataloging the artifacts that accumulate over the years. With time, she befriends the characters we know and love - especially Janet, her main source of gossip, and Daniel, who never returns her books. Yet Minervacat cleverly evades the Mary-Sue trap for Claire; this original character remains quietly on the sidelines, interacting only enough to be a part of the story without interfering in the events as we know them, or knowing more than she should.

Covering some seven years of SG-1 history - including a fascinating side-trip into the AU of Moebius - these two fics are elegantly written, with just the right touches of humor and distress to make Claire amazingly real.

A librarian at the SGC, with all that entails. Both these stories are too wonderful to be missed!

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Title: Walkabout
Categories: apocafic, stranded, Jack, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ/DW: cofax7
Author's Website: alchemy, mouldiwarps, and coprophagy/Cofax at AO3
Link: Walkabout on LJ/Walkabout at AO3 and mini-sequel

Why This Must Be Read: This is fabulously Jack, pared down to absolute essentials as he escapes Earth in the wake of Ori domination and Goa'uld occupation. Always moving, always searching, wary and skilled... and thinking that maybe, on the next planet, he can find a reason to hope.


Ingara follows PMW-957, and Walloon follows Ingara. It's like fishing, Jack decides as he hunches over a damp and fizzling fire a couple of klicks up the valley from the Stargate on Walloon. You can't really tell whether the fish is there, you can only cast the line out there and hope to get a strike. A good fisherman can tell where fish are likely to be, but you can't know for sure.

Story: Solidarity
Categories: stranded, episode related, Sam, character study
Warnings: none
Author on DW: dira
Author's Website: Words Words Words
Link: Solidarity

Why This Must Be Read: Okay, so Sam only thought she was stranded off-world in this one. But the struggle of dealing with being stranded fits perfectly, even if it's actually on the same planet.

This marvelous character study of Sam at the nadir point of Solitudes is full of despair and courage and sheer stubbornness, as Someone -- or Something -- will not let her give up.

Bleak, beautiful, breathless. Go read!


You're not dead yet. Wake up and get to work.

"Yes ma'am," Sam whispered. She staggered up to her feet, saluted with her burned fingers and then swiped the half-frozen pain-tears from her eyes and headed back over to the DHD.