LINKDING

<blockquote>John didn't remember the crash. He knew he lay sprawled on the jumper's deck, that every part of his body hurt, and that he could hear the others shouting. Teyla, Rodney, Dr. Simpson. Memory flooded back abruptly and he managed to open his eyes. No, it wasn't a nightmare.</blockquote> ➤ I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a fusion where John is Raksura, but it's a fun fic nonetheless

<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>It turned out they'd been having fun on M3Y-828 for nearly two days, and Zelenka hadn't been seen since before they'd left. Nobody else had used the gate, none of the jumpers were missing, and scanning the city showed no life signs unaccounted for. He wasn't answering any radio or city-wide hails, and search teams hadn't found him in the occupied sections of the city. "That's ridiculous," Rodney snapped. "I saw him right before we left. Obviously you've made a mistake. He's asleep under a console somewhere."</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>The English major at home.</blockquote>

<blockquote>So in last week's Databurst, shusu (who I might be sortakinda secretly stalking) wrote the following about trinityofone's Misery to Man: "This is a triumph of sprogfic, and a totally incredible story, missing being the Pick of the Week by that much. Why so awesome? Because there is no conceivable way to give it a happy ending. NONE. All of fandom is trying to disprove that theorem, but as of right now, it's the Millennium Prize of SGA fanon." Now, me being me, and determined that there ain't no pairing high enough (except for McBeck, which makes me want to puke), ain't no sadness low enough, ain't no cliche wide enough to keep me from at least giving it a go, babe, have decided to prove her wrong. A happy ending for Misery?</blockquote> from skaredykat's rec on fancake: <blockquote>The premise: In trinityofone's Misery to Man, Rodney's about to accidentally die on an alien planet when the aliens kindly offer John the option of mpreg-reincarnating him. John says yes, wee!Rodney has no memories that his father used to be his lover. In the fic I'm reccing here, La Dulce Espera, a sequel to Misery to Man, John has a hard time dealing with this; Teyla steps in. Interesting but somewhat sad, until the end.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which John Sheppard is an Immortal, making him at least 30% less suicidal than he appears.</blockquote> ➤ three vignettes that don't really tell a story but offer an interesting look into this version of the universe

➤ the story of the scribe who wrote down the Revelation According to John, and of John, who is kind of unstuck from time

<blockquote>The expedition finds surprising signs of a long-missing race, but a greater surprise lies in store.</blockquote> ➤ what happened to the Furlings? Here is an EXCELLENT ANSWER. Rodney and Jeannie are furling children!

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

<blockquote>All John ever wanted was for people to stop meddling in his personal life. Too bad he has so many well-meaning friends.</blockquote>

<blockquote>John finds what he's been waiting for when Teyla places it on his chest, warm and heavy and smelling of milk. Or: Six people John never told, and four he didn't need to tell.</blockquote> ➤ John is asexual. And it is a story about asexuality that's not about sex.

➤ the last in the series about Mer'deth the goa'uld and John his host. ➤ In which Lorne ends up becoming Mer'deth's First Prime to save Earth. ➤ (contains links to the earlier stories)

<blockquote>In Pegasus, there can be considerably more than one.</blockquote> ➤ YESYESYES.

<blockquote>Everyone says the same thing when they see the TARDIS for the first time. Well. Ish.</blockquote>

➤ Methos in Atlantis!

➤ I, uh, don't remember...but it was good

➤ Sequel to Sequelae (by diff author). In which Rodney and John return to Pegasus to fix John's relapes of Iratus-bug-ness, and Teyla's willing to give up a lot to save him. Sequelae is at https://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/712183.html 26k words by spike21

➤ awesome xover in which John Sheppard is Vulcan!

➤ the Robot!Rodney story! yay!

➤ deals with memory. John loses ALL his memories to an ancient device (coma-causing!) and Rodney has to carefully collect them all from city-wide terminals.

➤ early season one -- John actually took quite a while to warm up to McKay, especially after his lacklustre performance in his first mission ever in 38 Minutes

➤ post-series on earth, still friends

➤ Ronon and John go on a canoeing challenge and get taken by Wraith. ➤ Involves the rest of the Atlantis characters too, not just Ronon and John.

➤ John freaks a little on their first night in Atlantis and Rodney finds him; Rodney and John bonding; John decides he wants Rodney on his team and 'interviews' him for it ➤ series consists of: Apples Brokedown Palace Configuration ➤ not on AO3 is #4: D.O.A. http://merryish.livejournal.com/260149.html in which they bond further over more coffee after 38 Minutes

➤ John and Daniel talk just before Rising, about Goa'uld and so forth

➤ Tag for rising, in which John asks Rodney to be on the team

➤ John and Nancy go camping just before the war