Title: Growing Pains
Author's LJ/DWJ: bungakertas
Categories: Jack, Jacob, Tok'ra, ep related, angst, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: tags list
Link to story: Growing Pains

Why this should be read: I love it when authors fill in the gaps between episodes. Here, we have a fantastic exploration of Charlie-the-Reetou's first weeks with the Tok'ra: his blending, his loneliness and uncertainty, some hard truths, and the beginnings of some real friendships. Just wonderful!

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Title: Widow's Walk
Author's LJ/DWJ: penknife
Categories: Drey'auc, Ry'ac, Episode Related, Angst
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Penknife's fic at the Archive of Our Own
Link to story: Widow's Walk

Why this should be read: What happened when Drey'auc and Ry'ac were abandoned by Teal'c in "Children of the Gods"? The character voices and atmosphere in this ficlet are perfect and heartbreaking. and it's a wonderful little view of the ordinary life that will continue on Chulak for most Jaffa. Penknife's Drey'auc is truly awesome and I would love to see more of her. (740 words)

The ones left behind.

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Can I request a character tag for Drey'auc?

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: Point of Intersection
Author's LJ/DWJ: sixbeforelunch 6beforelunch
Categories: Women being awesome, secondary characters, tok'ra, recovery
Warnings:
Author's Webpage/Fic list: sixbeforelunch 
Link to story: Point of Intersection
Why this should be read:

"Of all the amoral former hosts I've spent time with, I wanted to kill you the least."

Anise/Freya got a really bad rap in fandom; there was more than a little misogyny in the "Tok'ra Barbie" label.  And okay, she was annoying, but just because Our Heroes didn't like her doesn't make her Evil.  This is the fic that fleshed her out and made her real to me, with all her flaws and all her strengths.  And this fic is about Vala, too, another character who sometimes gets a bum rap in fandom.  This fic is about their friendship, two very different women who learn to value one another.  This fic is about Vala, recovering from her time as Qe'tesh's host and the immediate aftermath.  I would never have imagined these two together, but I am so glad sixbeforelunch did, because this is an awesome story, about awesome women.

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Mods, can I get a tag for Anise/Freya?

Title: Damage Control
Author's LJ/DWJ: redbyrd_sgfic / redbyrd
Categories: drama, missing scene
Warnings: some bad language
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Redbyrd's Stargate Fanfiction
Link to story: Damage Control

Why this should be read: One of my favorites, I have reread this story so many times that it's characterization of Steven Raynor has become cannon for me. Part of the fun of this fic is the view of Daniel through Steven's eyes and his comparison of pre-Stargate Daniel to the changed person he meets during "The Curse". But I also became very fond of Steven and really felt for him by the end.

Redbyrd brings some sanity to the Stargate world and the stakes in war against the goa'uld, the loss of Sarah and Dr. Jordan feel more real because of it. She writes "I wanted to tie up some of the loose ends in this episode and to try developing Steven's character into something a bit more complex than the very limited view we got from the show. I felt he couldn't be all bad if his first thought when they find him injured at the end of the episode was to apologize to Daniel."

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Title: contemporary wushu
Author's LJ/DWJ: kormantic 
Categories: Crossover
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: The Ska Lab
Why this should be read:

Bra'tac is Awesome! What more needs be said? And Teyla and Teal'c are also awesome, and Ronon is determined and cute.  Kids these days.

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contemporary wushu

Title: Indiana Jones and the Ring of Ra
Author's LJ/DWJ: Fiery Fred
Categories: Crossover
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Stories by Fiery Fiend
Why this should be read:

It's 1939. Europe is on the brink of war. Indy's dad asks him to help out an old colleague. And the adventure begins...

Seriously, how awesome is this?  I'm surprised there aren't more crossovers on this premise; the Stargate was in Egypt in the late '30s, right when the Nazis and Indiana Jones were chasing each other across Northern Africa and Europe; of course the most intrepid (and likely to stumble across supernatural/scifi artifacts) archaeologist of his day would have been involved!  It's not a perfect story (the Langfords were Swedish, not German, for example), but it's a fun adventure no less plausible than any Indiana Jones movie (or Stargate episode, for that matter).  Also, it has Catherine Langford being awesome, too.

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Title: Routine Mission
Author's LJ/DWJ: maranya14
Categories: character: dixon, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Master list of completed fic
Link to story: Routine Mission

Why this should be read: Gleeful SG-13 for the win! Dave Dixon and his merry band, hiding out from dinosaurs - and utterly unfazed, because hey, this kind of insanity is routine.

Great banter and teamy goodness and wacky scientists - what more could you want?

Yeah, he reflected. Weird rocks, killer alien robots, and flying dinosaurs. Dave Dixon, this is your life now.

Title: Five reasons the SGC needs Siler's giant wrench
Author's LJ/DWJ: splash_the_cat
Categories: five things, character: Siler, humor
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Moments of Adoration
Link to story: Five reasons the SGC needs Siler's giant wrench

Why this should be read: Pure glee, people.

From fix-its to giant aliens with teeth to baseball games to hallucinating colonels trying to take over the base... Siler's wrench is one of the most important tools at the SGC. :)

Go read, and laugh!

I'm cheating with this one, just a little - I'm reccing Five Things for stargateficrec this month, and this fit the bill for this week's theme much too neatly to resist posting it twice. :)