LINKDING

<blockquote>Their voices filter through the sedative, an anxious duet. Kate: "The word the Ancient used for Colonel Sheppard was 'shell.' Now, I've never treated him, but I've observed him for five years, and I've always wondered." Rodney: "Wondered what?" Kate: "Didn't he ever seem a little…glib to you? He struck me as having a very weakly integrated personality, composed of traits that would normally be considered contradictory. He was a lot of different things to a lot of different people."</blockquote> ➤ I love that this is both straight-up good sga fic but ALSO amazing meta on the subject of the characterization of John Sheppard ➤ Also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/337878 under the author name Sarah T

<blockquote>This was a pinch-hit for the Multiverse crossover ficathon, and the request was 'Rodney McKay & the Doctor'. Which I had fun with, even if I did give myself a headache hammering out the two separate-but-interweaving chronological threads :)</blockquote> ➤ auuuugh oh I love this, and I love how as Rodney's timeline progresses he gets more stable and happy, whereas the last we see of the Doctor is him in the middle of the Time War and OUCH. ➤ also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/522052

<blockquote>He just wants to drum.</blockquote> ➤ the band au ➤ http://archiveofourown.org/works/108442

➤ Waiting for each other in an in-between place after death. ➤ Deathfic but somehow peaceful and heartwarming and awesome

<blockquote>The snow fell heavily for three days, covering tracks and drawing a veil across the world. By the morning of the fourth, they were out of food, and Ronon went hunting. He'd thought McKay was asleep, but the tightly wrapped bundle of silvery emergency blankets stirred, and a tuft of brown hair poked out the top, along with one fever-bright blue eye. "You'll never find your way back," Rodney rasped. "Yeah I will," and the snow swallowed him, muffling whatever protest Rodney had made.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"No names," Rodney tells them, one more time. "And no dates -- I'm serious about that. No one can know what anyone else is planning." John learns the structures of life and death.</blockquote> ➤ the ones where the people who love Pegasus make plans to fake their deaths and stay, when they hear that the Atlantis outpost is going to be shut down