astridv | fic recs: Indelible / Spirits of the Dead (SGA)

fic recs:
Indelible by

shaenie
McKay/Sheppard; NC-17; 129,000 words (yes, very very long. And so worth it, every word of it!)
Summary: John has a useful gift for compartmentalization: he discards the irrelevant and moves on. Then Rodney makes an ill-considered move on a mission, John steps up to take responsibility for making reparations to the locals, and things take a turn for the complicated as Rodney, an alien society, and an armada of ships make standard operating procedure completely impossible.

This story is epic, one of the very best fics I read last year. Excellent, original plot that makes the most not just of the characters but of Atlantis itself; an intensely deep John POV that's always spot on; an OC who makes a very interesting addition to the cast and blends like she always belonged... simply fantastic.

Spirits of the Dead by

kodiak_bear
Gen; PG-13; Characters: Sheppard, team, Lorne, OCs; h/c; Spoilers through S5 Whispers; 28,000 + words

Good plotfic with a fascinating look into Pegasus culture, one the show doesn't offer: the Hoffan plague rages through the galaxy, and the people hit by it do what they must to survive.

Over at

halfamoon, a fourteen day challenge celebrating female characters in fandom, they got The Unpopular Woman Love Post -- there's a thread for sharing the Jennifer Keller love (and, fic recs and the like...)
eta: some fans are somehow mistaking "sharing the love" with "airing the grievances" (which at this point doesn't even surprise me any more). So, y'know... beware of a bit of anti-squee even in that post. (so rude...)

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Hee! I just saw your post about the bashing of Jennifer on sgaficfinders and went looking for the link to the Jennifer-love post to share with you... and you found it! :D

Ha. Yeah, I saw and commented. Never shall I miss an opportunity to share my favorite fics. :)

But did you notice how certain people can't even stop from bitching about her in places that are dedicated to be 100% bitching-free? It's getting absurd. They're just so RUDE.

I think I'm gonna try to pick the Keller category at ficrecs soon as I can... so, soon as I have enough stories lined up to rec. If you know of any good Keller stories that haven't been rec'd there yet, I'd love to hear them. I think I still might need one or two for my set of four.

Yeah, I noticed the back-handed "compliments". *sigh* Oh, fandom...

If you know of any good Keller stories that haven't been rec'd there yet, I'd love to hear them.

I'll keep my eye out! :) I may even go looking actually. I've been afraid to click on a story not otherwise recced for fear it'll do something horrible to to the character. Oh! Have you read this one? Story of My Life (http://busaikko.slashcity.org/?p=131) by

busaikko? It's dark, but I like it. :) (I'm not sure if it's been recced at ficrecs though....)

I loved Story of my Life. I could see a long!fic lurking behind it and I would've loved to read that one even more. Actually I'm pretty sure I rec'd that one myself as part of my McKeller set; I'll have to go back and check.

I've been afraid to click on a story not otherwise recced for fear it'll do something horrible to to the character.

Me too!

But, yesterday I found a nice one that fits the bill (the one rec'd at Keller Daily) so I have at least three already. I should go and sign up.

OHAITHURBB!!!

*waves*
:O)

HOW R U

The unpopular woman love post is an awesome idea, but when I went and started looking through the threads, I was *really* turned off by how many of the comments (not just in the Jennifer thread) seemed to be either rehashing the complaints that the fans make about the characters ("I love her even though she's terribly written and badly characterized" isn't much of a compliment!) or moaning about how their character gets no love from the fandom. I was expecting squee, but it seems like people are more interested in having a gripefest. (You're not, and there are some squee comments, but mostly it's just a lot of bitching ...)

I know! That really annoyed me and I almost commented to kyuuketsukirui's comment which I thought was pretty much anti-squee and completely out of place there... but then I figured, I didn't want to add any more negativity. But people are so bloody thoughtless that they won't let us have even one place to squee in peace. Nope. Not gonna happen.

but... I'm sort of glad that you say it's *not* just in the Jennifer thread (I didn't read most of the others).

No, it's not just the Jennifer thread; I poked through some of the others and commented on the one for Hollis Mann (a character I really loved on NCIS, though I'm not in that fandom enough to have even noticed that people don't like her) but eventually bailed on the whole thing because it was all gloom, gloom everywhere -- like I said, either people complaining about the character in canon, or people complaining about other fans, and just ... gaahhhh. Fandom! I think it would bother me less if I didn't see so much unqualified squee for the popular characters; I bet anything that if you started a squee thread for, say, John, you wouldn't end up with a lot of comments along the lines of "He's terribly and inconsistently written, and kind of a jerk, but he has nifty hair" or "I think most Rodney fans make John look like an idiot when they write him, and he's not" or whatnot.

It's just frustratingly unfair; it seems like characters who don't get much squee (well, their fans, really) ought to deserve a negativity-free squee post even more than the rest! The whole thing didn't make me feel more squeeful about unpopular characters I like; it just reinforced the negativity, IMHO, if even the characters' fans can't seem to come up with nice things to say about them.

fic recs: Indelible / Spirits of the Dead (SGA)

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