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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We had some very nice recs in the last few weeks of open themes:

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Thanks, Paian and Rmbifan!

Time for a new theme, and here's one that Stargate fandom does very well despite the Boys at Bridge: awesome women recs!

Whether the woman in question is Sam, Janet, Vala, Sha're, Cassie, Catherine, Drey'auc, Gairwyn, Merrin, Reese, Kal'el (the Jaffa, not the Kryptonian), original or otherwise, if a gen fic features a woman being awesome, we want to see it recced here!

Feel free to refresh your memory of the comm rules at the FAQ before posting. Official format is included in the FAQ entry and on the comm's profile page. If you choose to tag your own entry (you don't have to do so), please include the theme: awesome women tag as well as any others that you find appropriate. And if you need a tag that isn't yet available, please comment and let me know.

As an added note, Dreamwidth is currently in the middle of the three weeks for Dreamwidth meme. sg1genrecs has a three weeks tag, so don't hesitate to use it. :)

Title: It's Always the Quiet Ones
Author's LJ/DWJ: unknown
Categories: episode-related, sentimental
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Lorien's Grove
Link to story: Stargatefan.com, Lorien's Grove
Why this should be read:
This short little story gives us a glimpse of what Daniel might have been up to during that year he spent Ascended. After all, Oma can't catch everything. Very sweet, and will have you smiling at the end.

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We had five apocafic recs over the past two weeks. I've linked to the recs here, in case you missed them:

Those Days Of Sahara, by Synecodochic (not rated)

The Wrong Button, by Knightshade (PG)

Now the Sun Has Come to Earth, by Abyssis (PG)

Strange Celebrations, by Cofax (teen)

Third Donut Shop From the Sun, by Surreallis (PG)

As today is the start of the third week for three_weeks_for_dw, I thought it would be appropriate to switch themes to something that some people might find easier to rec: crackfic. Determination of a fic's crackiness is at the discretion of the reccer. So everyone is invited to post recs for stories that are silly or ridiculous or just slightly over-the-top or even perfectly in character but with a ludicrous situation -- as long as it's SG-1 gen fic, we want to see that crackfic recced here!

Feel free to refresh your memory of the comm rules at the FAQ before posting. Official format is included in the FAQ entry and on the comm's profile page. If you want to tag your own recs, please include the tag theme: crackfic as well as any other tags you feel are appropriate. And if you need a tag that isn't yet available, please comment and let me know.

Even if you ordinarily enjoy the recs but aren't inclined to rec yourself, I encourage you all to take a few minutes to link to your favorite crackfic in honor of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth. Have fun!

Time for a new theme! Apocafic was one of the most popular choices in our poll earlier this year, so it's time to rec all those stories where the Earth (or another planet) goes boom and life continues anyway (or doesn't). Disasters on-world or off-world, with or without death counts, AUs or alternate timelines, Goa'uld or Ori or even self-inflicted - if it's apocafic and gen, we want to see it recced here!

If you tag your own recs, please include theme: apocafic.. Don't forget that you may rec other fic that doesn't fit this specific theme, too. And now's a most auspicious time for reccing any gen fic, since three_weeks_for_dw goes live today!

Feel free to refresh your memory of the comm rules at the FAQ before posting. Official format is included in the FAQ entry and on the comm's profile page. And, as always, I will happily answer any questions you might have, and welcome any suggestions for future themes.