Title: Half-Crazy
Author's LJ/DWJ: teand
Categories: character: cameron mitchell, character: daniel jackson, character: samantha carter, character: teal'c, character: vala mal doran, era: season 9-10, team
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: "fic" tag @ LJ
Link to story: Half-Crazy
Why this should be read: Cam's in the hospital, and it's up to his team to make that as painless as possible. Vala eats his chocolates and teaches him about wheelchairs. Daniel brings all of Cam's favorite foods. Sam steals internet access from a General. And Teal'c ... is Teal'c, in all the best ways possible.

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Title: Fair Play
Author's LJ/DWJ: penknife
Categories: character: cameron mitchell, character: daniel jackson, character: samantha carter, character: teal'c, character: vala mal doran, era: season 9-10, friendship: teal'c and vala, humor, theme: awesome women, theme: teal'c friendship, theme: valuable vala
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: fic tag @ LJ
Link to story: Fair Play

Why this should be read: This is an excellent look at Vala's early time spent with SG-1, complete with not really fitting in, but even that pales in comparison to the sheer humor running rampant through this fic. Vala cheats. Teal'c lets her cheat. In fact, Teal'c encourages her to cheat and comes up with thieving plans of his own to cheer her up and invents the Tau'ri Right of Gel'a'tin. If anyone can bring out Teal'c's inner troublemaker, it's Vala.

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Title: Brain Bugs
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: thassalia
Categories: angst, humor, character: Cam, character: Daniel, character: Sam, character: Teal'c, era: Season 9-10
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic tag at LJ
Link to story: Brain Bugs
Why this should be read: For movie night in the aftermath of 'The Scourge,' the team watches Starship Troopers. Unsurprisingly, and not all on account of the film, the tone of the evening shifts from bantery decompression to serious review of the choices they made on the mission. The cute parts of the fic are very cute, the discussion (and the fic-as-meta) is thought-provoking, and the characterization and Cam point-of-view hit just the right notes.

About 1500 words.

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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: 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: A Pleasant Road
Author's LJ/DWJ: wishfulaces / wishfulaces / aces
Categories: angst, au, friendship, cameron and teal'c friendship, time travel
Warnings: Spoilers for Continuum
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic tag at DWth | Works list at Archive of Our Own | Fic tag at LJ
Link to story: at DWth | at AO3 | at LJ
Why this should be read:
Because it's another road-trip fic by Aces, because this fic and that one make a beautiful pair, and because the first fic I recced this week had Cam cooped up inside. This one has Cam cooped up in another timeline, the road trip he never took with Teal'c playing out (in skillfully rendered conditional tense) in his head as he makes a solitary drive of his own, and it's achey and haunting and gorgeously written ... and, ultimately, both moving and hopeful. About 2300 words.

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Title: To Travel Hopefully
Author's LJ/DWJ: wishfulaces / wishfulaces / aces
Categories: friendship, sam and vala friendship, season 9-10, team
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic tag at DWth | Works list at Archive of Our Own | Fic tag at LJ
Link to story: at DWth | at AO3 | at LJ
Why this should be read:
It's summer in the hemisphere where I am, and that's a good time for road trips and road-trip fic, which Aces writes with her customary warmth, gentle humor, and insightful characterization. This one is Sam and Vala -- as Cam says in the opening, "You're going to Thelma and Louise it with an alien chick across the American Southwest for a weekend?" -- and it's as amusing as you'd expect with Vala involved, but it's also a beautiful vehicle (pun not entirely unintended) for the kind of interaction between them that I was dying to see on the show, and the concluding scene is wonderfully teamy. About 5500 words.

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Title: Visiting Hours
Author's LJ/DWJ: teand / teand
Categories: friendship, humor, season 9-10, team
Warnings: Unexplicit pre-fic violence and injury
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fanfiction Index
Link to story: Visiting Hours (DWth) | Visiting Hours (LJ)
Why this should be read:
After being hit with a staff blast and healed by Vala with a purloined hand device, Cam is held for observation and tests in the same room of the same hospital where he recuperated after Antarctica, and the rest of the team pitches in -- each in her or his own delightfully in-character way -- to make his stay bearable. Fabulous Cam point of view, smart and entertaining dialogue, and outstanding, 100% sap-free team friendship. About 4600 words.

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Title: Those Days Of Sahara
Author's LJ/DWJ: synecdochic
Categories: apocofic, Sam and Cam friendship, drama
Warnings: character death, language
Author's Webpage/Fic list: venus in furs
Link to story: Those Days of Sahara

Why this should be read: After the Ori conquest the remaining members of sg-1 start a resistance movement. By the time of this story the rest of the team is not there (although their presence is still felt). Sam and Cam never give up - on either the future or their daily lives. Their stubborn insistence in continuing to try and put things right against absurd odds is perfectly in character, as is their mutual support and camaraderie.

It's a hopeful and beautifully written fic, with all the little details that make you believe that you are right there.

Written for the 2007 SG-1 Jubilee fic exchange: Thanksgiving with the Ori resistance.
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Title: five things Teal'c and Cam did together on Earth

Author's LJ/DWJ: synecdochic
Categories: Teal'c and Cam friendship, character study, five things
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: (venus in furs)
Link to story: five things Teal'c and Cam did together on Earth

Why this should be read: Funny, touching, and brief, these five things take place while Teal'c and Cam are still getting to know each other. Teal'c shines in his role as mentor to the new guy, Cam is endearingly well intentioned and clueless. It's a bit like the best of cannon Teal'c and Cam friendship in season 9, amplified, with a Synecdochic twist.

Teal'c hadn't said that no one had needed to "take" him anywhere for years, because Colonel Mitchell was making an effort, and Teal'c respected effort.

Yeah, yeah, I know I've gone a little overboard reccing this category, but I've only got one left to go after this one, and then I'm done (I wanted to get my favorites all recced before class starts up again).

Title: Prodigal
Author's LJ/DWJ: miss_porcupine 
Categories: Crossover
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: the DMZ
Why this should be read:
Honestly, I wasn't sure if I should rec this fic, because the Stargate character who receives the greatest focus is Major Lorne, and it's after he leaves the SGC to become Sheppard's XO on Atlantis. However, I think there are enough SG-1 characters in large roles to qualify for this community.

Told from NCIS's POV, this fic provides an excellent and well-written look at the SGC from the outside.  Gibbs and Co. have several dead scientists who may have been killed by Marines, and all their investigations lead to dead ends.  Naturally, Gibbs is not one to bow out of a case just because some Air Force general hells him to; he's determined to solve the case and find out about whatever nefarious program they're so desperate to hide.  As with all of Domenika's fic, the military details are perfect (or as perfect as possible given the source material).


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