LINKDING

<blockquote>Spiraling down. The Wraith are many and the Daedalus is just one ship. Things go very, very badly.</blockquote> ➤ Very effective use of structural choice

<blockquote>"What's your name?" "Second Lieutenant John Sheppard, United States Air Force." He only needs to say it a few more times to make it seem real. Maybe a few more thousand times, just to be safe. Scottish Guy blinks. "What's today's date?" He frowns. It's a little hard to come up with. "The 27th?" "And where are you?" "The Academy, I think," he squints around at the big, high-ceilinged room full of beds and weird-looking equipment, "except this doesn't look like the cadet clinic." The guy sighs and taps at his cheek. John notices he's wearing some kind of slim earpiece. "Doctor Weir," he says, "we may have a small problem."</blockquote>

<blockquote>He rode into our valley six years after the end of the war. I was just a kid, sitting on the fence and watching the dusty road that wound down from the blue-grey mountains, waiting for something to happen. Nothing ever seemed to happen back then, especially not to an eleven-year-old girl.</blockquote> ➤ John, after the defeat of the Wraith

<blockquote>John and Rodney go looking for a former Atlantis scientist with annoyingly perfect hair, and end up in the most scientifically interesting community in the US. Now the question is, will they ever be able to leave...</blockquote>

<blockquote>A jumper crash separates the team on a wilderness planet, and they aren't alone. Late season five, somewhere before "Brainstorm"; mostly gen with background references to past Ronon/Keller, pre-Rodney/Keller, implied Teyla/Kanaan.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Dave Sheppard learns more about his brother and gets drawn into a tangle of secrets and truths.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Very clever and clearly erroneous deduction, Major Sheppard. Congratulations, you're ready to come be part of the science team." "Thanks, I think I'll pass on that," Sheppard said dryly. "So can you fix this or what?" "I think it's safe to assume that there's a way to fix it." "And by that you mean, yes?"</blockquote> ➤ or: Ancient device causes timeloop

<blockquote>An accident with an Ancient device changes Rodney's course.</blockquote>

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21586 <blockquote>Radek passed photocopies of both the text and its translation around the room while Rodney laid out his hypothesis. "It's written in a dialect of Ancient that's even more obtuse and pointlessly lyrical than normal," he said, "but Elizabeth's come up with a pretty complete translation. It references a 'Keeping Place' where 'that which is drawn from elsewhere' is stored, on a planet that Radek and I have identified from charts in the database as M4X-411. Now, the pronoun that was used to refer to the stored material is one which in Ancient is used specifically to refer to non-corporeal objects or abstract ideas."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Secret Santa story for Alipeeps. They all have their fears, and in the Pegasus Galaxy, fears are all too likely to come true. Sheppard and McKay whumping, friendship, humor</blockquote> ➤ fire and suffocation

<blockquote>Lorne invites a recovering Sheppard to accompany his team on a traipse around Atlantis.<blockquote>

<blockquote> Sheppard falls afoul of an Ancient device, and McKay has to save him. Twice.</blockquote> ➤ Ancient device makes John switch places with a John from another universe. Follows both Johns.

➤ the one where Rodney's supposed to fix the machinery of heaven but it turns out that although the king really wants it fixed nobody else does because it gives him absolute power (it's some sort of weapon thing). ➤ Also the escape involves a chicken. Also there's coffee beans and a ZPM that need to get left behind. ➤ the sex scenes seem pretty superfluous, and I'm deeply curious what's going to go on with the politics of the place after SGA-1 leaves, but the fic is also very enjoyable as is.

<blockquote>Hi! No, no, you're not late. It's easy to get lost around here. My first day, I ended up in some sub-level I swear hadn't even been cleared yet, and there was a whole citywide alert because they thought a sea monster had eaten me, no joke. char-Ichar- was just doing what they told me in orientation, which is if you're lost, stay where you are till the Marines come to find you, but what no one told me is that totally doesn't apply if you wander directly underneath the mark five naquadah generator on level thirty-two, because it cancels out the sensors. Eventually they did find me though, so... yeah, have a seat! I'm actually just getting you set up here on the network. How are your quarters?</blockquote> ➤ the future of atlantis! the outgoing admin assistant introducing the new one around atlatis

➤ The one where, post-Atlantis-beating-the-Wraith, John ends up on a backwater planet helping out a frontier family dealing with the local bully

➤ the one where the aliens make them NOT do it

➤ the one where an ancient device temporarily gives Rodney telepathy.

➤ the one where they're trapped on the seismically unstable planet. ➤ Except in my memory the stargate actually got destroyed while the planet did its thing? But apparently not. ➤ Maybe I conflated multiple fics in my head -notes from a 2014 reread

➤ the one with the khama nuts and the forehead mark that makes John obedient to Rodney, and is supposed to be of short duration but keeps on keeping on

<blockquote>"Just, since Antarctica, I can surf dreams."</blockquote>