Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: see below
Categories: Cassandra, drama, AU, episode related, General Hammond, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: ryf
Author's Website: yviwriting
Link: The Other Side of the Time Loop

Why This Must Be Read: To quote the original prompt: There must have been a closed time loop when SG-1 ended up stranded in the future, before Cassie and/or Sam somehow got word back to the past to have Cassie waiting at the right moment. What was life like for Cassie in the loop where SG-1 never came back from 1969?

Yvi did a fabulous job of creating an entire alternate reality in which SG-1 never came back. Her world's history is rich, detailed, and realistic: the Jaffa are more wary of the Tau'ri without Teal'c, the Asgard have less to do with them without Jack, and there is little information on the Ancients without Daniel. On the other hand, there are the fascinating twists of this other reality, including Furlings, the program gone public, victory over the Goa'uld, and a certain civilian becoming head of the SGC.

Cassie gets a long, satisfying life, including marriage and a family... and then she knows she's going to live another one, all over again.

Full disclaimer: the prompt that inspired this story was mine. Yvi did a great job with it, didn't she? :)

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Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, humor, fluff
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: kellifer_fic
Author's Website: SG-1 Fic Master List
Link: Downtime

Why This Must Be Read: Jack is going to get his teammates to relax.

Even if it kills them.

Happily, it doesn't. :)

Jack as the master in gleeful teamy goodness!

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Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, hurt/comfort, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: pepper_field
Author's Website: My stories
Link: Ganging Up

Why This Must Be Read: Keeping the Wonder Twins under control may be like herding cats, but their teamwork is always stellar, especially under crisis...

Despite the Jack whumpage, this early-seasons ficlet is fun and fluffy and gleeful and absolute teamy goodness! Go read, and smile. :)


Up, commanded his brain. Get up. You're being defended by an archaeologist with a P-90.

Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, humor, fluff
Warnings: very slight spoilers for The Curse
Author on LJ: lokei
Author's Website: lokeis_pen
Link: SG-1 and the Fuzzy Dinosaurs

Why This Must Be Read: Lokei offers this hilarious little ficlet of gleeful team in the Museum of Natural History in New York. Oh, how they know each other!

This will take you perhaps two minutes to read, and will have you grinning all day. Sounds like a good investment, doesn't it? :)

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Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: none (but see below)
Categories: Cassandra, gen, character study, humor, angst, team, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: majorsamfan
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Five Things Cassie Fraiser thinks about SG-1

Why This Must Be Read: Cassie's thoughts on SG-1 changes over the years, ranging from comfort to amusement to affection to annoyance and back again. Majorsamfan chronicles it all for us: her reactions to the team when she first met them, her reactions to them over the years, and the underlying love for each other that shines through everything.

Cassie marries at the end of this fic, and she has own ideas about Sam and Jack and Daniel and Vala, but I'd still solidly classify this as gen - and as a delightful fic about Cassandra Frasier, too!

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Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, Sam, gen, humor, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: surreallis
Author's Website: surreallis_fic
Link: Stormy Weather

Why This Must Be Read: Nobody does sheer team love like surreallis!

It's Sam and her boys in this episode tag to The Other Side, as she gets to do a little venting at her frustration at being put squarely between her CO and her fellow scientist. And Teal'c... well, he has that stupid chin caterpillar she can be annoyed about, right? :)

Delightful characterization, spot-on dialogue, and Surreallis' classic touch of deft humor - it's all here, and all gleeful!

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Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: none
Categories: Cassandra, Daniel Jackson, drama, angst, gen, episode related
Warnings: spoilers for Heroes
Author on LJ: jd_junkie
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Getting Through It

Why This Must Be Read: Shortly after Heroes, eighteen-year-old Cassie shows up on Daniel's doorstep. With ice cream floats as a backdrop, Cassie and Daniel share a truly adult conversation, ranging from gentle humor to honest pain and tearful comfort. This is beautifully anguished, powerfully written, and perfect closure for them both.

I read this fic and instantly thought, "I've got to rec this one!" I'm glad I've got the chance to do it now. :)

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Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, humor, fluff
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: lilyleia78
Author's Website: My Fanfiction Master List
Link: Grounded

Why This Must Be Read: To quote the author's own comment: "The team that puppy piles together stays together."

Absolute team glee in early S7, shortly after Daniel's return from the Land of Glowy. Go. Read. Smile. :)

Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: none
Categories: Cassandra, gen, character study, angst, futurefic
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: slm76
Author's Website: matt1969
Link: Pearl in the Shell

Why This Must Be Read: In the aftermath of Janet's death, Cassie isn't exactly willing to tamely follow the bright and shining path that others have mapped out of her. Stubborn and angry, she goes her own way... until that way proves nearly disastrous. It takes Sam's unquestioning love and support, a quiet and honest conversation with Jack (with Thor for company), and the memory of an exchange with Teal'c to lead Cassie to a new decision and a new vocation. Her final, unexpected choice is a moving tribute to her past, a promise for a better future, and absolutely right.


I knew, of course, that I could have gone anywhere and done anything. People were constantly telling me that the world was my oyster, although I never really understood what that meant. Daniel tried explaining it to me once, but I got lost in the anthropological meaning of the phrase's origin. Teal'c set me straight, sort of. "It means the world is yours to explore, Cassandra Fraiser." And, while I got that, I still didn't understand the connection to slimy and disgusting shellfish. Perhaps there are some things one non-Earthling should never try to explain to another.

Rec Category: Team
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: wishfulaces
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Brush Up Your Shakespeare, SG-1

Why This Must Be Read: Team off-world. William Shakespeare off-world. Teal'c pwnage, Sam sassiness, secretly smart Jack, and delightful Daniel POV.

...What, you need more? :)

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Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: none
Categories: Cassandra, Janet, team, gen, character study, episode related, futurefic
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: chocolatekettle
Author's Website: unknown
Link: The Family You Choose

Why This Must Be Read: Chocolatekettle gives us three birthdays that Cassie celebrated on Earth: her first one after Hanka, the first one after Heroes, and her twenty-first, which coincides with another momentous occasion. And throughout the moments of uncertainty and heartache and triumph, her adopted family - Janet and SG-1 - are there for her.

Lovely snapshots with deft characterization and tender maturity make The Family You Choose an absolute pleasure and a wonderful tribute to Cassie.

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, angst, humor, episode related, character study, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Jack O'Neill, General Hammond, Walter the chevron guy
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: sidlj
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Eight Gen Five Things

Why This Must Be Read: Sid treats us to no less than eight delightful Five Things here!

Five things Daniel would go back in time to fix (the deaths, Kelowna, the Ori). A fabulous character study of Jack, and five jobs he had as a teenager that taught him priceless values he would apply to his leadership of SG-1. The ways the team has changed over the years, and the one crucial thing that never has changed (and never will). Oma and Daniel, with all of Oma's very human quirks of personality. Five times Sam got to be girly for a change (because doesn't she deserve it?). Five very unusual tags that Walter uses in the course of what only passes for "everyday' expenditures at the SGC. Five generals, from West all the way through Landry, who nearly quit - with George Hammond's as my personal favorite. And for a last hilarious list, five memos Jack really, really should have read, before Daniel got homicidal!

These range from angsty to wistful to funny to thoughtful, and I love every one of them! I'm sure you will, too. :)

Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, Siler, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: splash_the_cat
Author's Website: Moments of Adoration
Link: Five reasons the SGC needs Siler's giant wrench

Why This Must 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!

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: aurora_novarum
Author's Website: List of My Stories
Link: Alkesh Answers

Why This Must Be Read: This fic is pure Wonder Twins delight - Sam and Daniel, in a highly entertaining precusor to Serpent's Venom: Daniel translating an overly flowery instruction manual while Sam is up to her elbows in alien technology. There is humor and banter and philosophy - not to mention Kermit and sherbet (but no ice cream - sorry, Jack). What more do you need? :)

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, Jonas, General Hammond, futurefic, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: paian
Author's Website: Fic Index
Link: Five Things for Jonas and Hammond

Why This Must Be Read: Paian writes the most wonderful Five Things - I've recced many of them before. This pair of Five Things features Jonas Quinn and George Hammond: five times Jonas wanted to go home, and five things George did when he retired.

I very much like that Paian chose to archive these two together, for the sheer poignancy of the sharp contrast of what Jonas and Hammond face. Once Jonas walked away from Kelowna in Meridian, he never really had a home again; and in the bright and gentle future that Paian lovingly paints for George, he enjoys home in every sense of the word, in both his family and his choices.

Paian offers wincing angst with the first set and then alleviates it with sweet hope in the second. In both cases, you'll find yourself enjoying every word.

Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, AU, angst, Jack O'Neill
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: katie_m
Author's Website: Katie's Stargate SG-1 Fanfic
Link: Iphigenia

Why This Must Be Read: Four different timelines: October 5th, 1995, in which Charlie O'Neill didn't accidentally shoot himself with his father's gun.

And one horribly inevitable result of that change: November 10th, 1997.

I've always believed it. Katie M makes it real.

Go. Read. Shiver.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, humor, episode related
Warnings: accidental innuendo
Author on LJ: lokei
Author's Website: lokeis_pen
Link: Possibly Pod People

Why This Must Be Read: In the wake of Foothold, Daniel and Sam share a lighthearted discussion about the implications of Sam impersonating Daniel. There's not-so-gentle Daniel and Sam in Daniel-defense mode and good-natured banter, with an extra dose of Jack inadvertently putting his foot in his mouth for good measure. Lokei deftly presents Sam and Daniel in prime Wonder Twins mode, full of fun and life and mischievousness, and you'll finish this ficlet with a smile on your face!

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, Daniel, humor, Sam and Daniel friendship, Jack and Daniel friendship, character study, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: lilyleia78
Author's Website: My Fanfiction Master List
Link: Two More Five Things

Why This Must Be Read: Lilyleia treats us to two fantastic Daniel Five Things: five way his different senses got him landed in jail, and five reasons he didn't appear to Sam while he was Ascended. The first list ranges from hilariously funny to painful poignancy; the second is beautifully, elegantly Daniel, both in his love for Sam and the rapport that they share. You'll be amused and moved in turns, and love every one of these!

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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: sg_betty
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Time Heals All

Why This Must Be Read: Here's a nice twist on the Sam and Daniel friendship: Moebius!Daniel and AU!Samantha, sitting on the sands of Ancient Egypt. Even more, Betty offers us a rarity in a Moebius!Daniel who is at peace with the choices he's made, and is optimistic about a future that he will never get to see, but which he is content to know will happen once again... and an AU!Samantha who is ready to hear about the woman she once was, even if it's never going to fit what she is right now.

Most Daniel fans are horrified at the sheer pain that Moebius inflicted on him. Betty not only gives him solace, but also gives him a friendship with Samantha - not the same, certainly, as the one he had with Sam, but a hopeful one nonetheless.

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, episode related, angst, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Cassie, team, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: vain_glorious
Author's Website: Fic Index
Link: Five Times Jack Held Daniel's Hand

Why This Must Be Read: One of these is fun and teamy and original and delightfully Jack. It makes a nice contrast to the other four, which are all episode-related and angsty as anything and pack a powerful punch. The fourth, for all its brevity, will break your heart... and so will the fifth. And the first, and the third.

Powerfully good stuff. Go read!


Right before Ba’al killed him. Every single time. Daniel doesn’t remember it, but Jack does.

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, drama, episode-related, hurt/comfort
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: rigel_7
Author's Website: Fanfiction Index
Link: Cold Water Burning

Why This Must Be Read: Rigel plunges us straight into Sam's muddled confusion, as she seems to flash from one crisis to another over the years. She snaps from hot to cold and back again, with only one single constant: Daniel, desperately urging her, "You've got to keep moving, Sam."

Great imagery. Great characterization. Great friendship. Great fic! :)

[Full and smug disclaimer: I got to beta this for Rigel! Am I lucky or what?]

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, character study, Daniel, Teal'c, Jack, Jack and Sam friendship, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: see below
Author on LJ: cofax7
Author's Website: alchemy moudiwarps and coprophagy
Link: Prompted Five Things

Why This Must Be Read: Cofax offers a trio of Five Things here: five places on Earth that Teal'c wants to visit, five things that Daniel ate that he later regretted, and five promises that Jack has never broken. Marvelous character studies, all of them!

Be aware that the last of Jack's includes a reference to a future pairing (not with him) and a major character death (of old age). Interestingly, that one is among my favorites. But you'll find all of these good: thoughtful and wry and poignant and amusing and back again. Go enjoy!

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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, humor, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: pepper_field
Author's Website: My stories
Link: Stepping Into the River

Why This Must Be Read: When the Wonder Twins get some unexpected private time offworld (courtesy of a herd of wild elephants blocking the Stargate), Sam helps Daniel put some philosophical questions into perspective.

Pepper gives us lovely Sam POV and thoughtful conversation against the intriguing backdrop of sword dancing, as Sam and Daniel talk about expectations and observations and the act of doing instead of simply watching. There's humor and friendship and just the right touch of snark, and Sam's final pithy remark will leave you smiling for being absolutely right.

...And also there are elephants. We need more of those in Stargate! :)

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Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, team, Daniel, Mitchell, Sam, Jack, Teal'c, humor, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: abyssinia4077
Author's Website: Five Things Are Addictive

Why This Must Be Read: To start off this new category, I offer you five sets of Five Things is a single post from the always talented Abyssis!

Five times someone learned (the hard way) that SG-1 look out for one another, whether it's a barbarian off-world or an airman insulting Daniel on base or some guy in a bar arguing with Teal'c about Star Wars. A double Mitchell feature: five times he almost walked away from SG-1, and five alternate Mitchells that threw him for a loop. Five times Daniel was caught in the rain, ranging from the angst of the bewildered newly orphaned clinging to language to a team hug in the pouring rain out of the sheer joy of being alive. And five times Sam ended up eating red Jell-O, which spans pre-series to all seasons.

Personal favorites include alt-Mitchell's wife Mary Sue and what the team does to Kinsey and the contrast of Daniel and Jonas bringing Sam red Jell-O, but really, these are all fantastic. So go read, and enjoy!

The natives on P6R-459 looked disturbingly like giant humanoid cats and Daniel was incredibly allergic to their fur. Meanwhile Sam had been "enlisted" to fix their magic-ball-of-string device at claw-point and Teal'c found himself surrounded by their young. Cam looked around at his team - Daniel sneezing his head off, Sam alternately arguing about being forced to fix something and getting fascinated by the technology, and Teal'c good-naturedly shoving away purring balls of fur when they piled on him - and realized that, even if nobody would ever believe him, he was never going to quit this job.

Rec Category: Episode related
Pairing: none
Categories: episode related, gen, Sam
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: dsudis
Author's Website: Words Words Words
Link: Uncommon Threads

Why This Must Be Read: Dira has been writing a series of ficlets, one missing scene per episode, that pass the Bechdel test: two women conversing together about something other than a man. The experiment is fascinating in its own right, but this particular ficlet, set in the hugely unpopular Emancipation, is definitely my favorite.

This is the conversation between Sam and Moughal's unnamed wife, when she leads Sam away from the others to give her "more appropriate" clothing. I can't find the words to describe it properly, but it fascinating and fantastic. Sam faces preconceived notions, on both her own part and Abuez, and - like us - comes away from the encounter with a lot on her mind. This is poignant and moving and thought-provoking, and what else do you need in a fic?

"We spent a whole moon on this, last winter," Abuez said, and now her voice was stern--proud, and warning. Sam forced her attention to the gown, and took in all the tiny stitches. They'd all been done by hand, after the cloth had been dyed--after it had been woven--after the thread had been spun--after the fibers had been harvested...