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>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>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.

➤ 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

➤ 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

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

➤ John and Nancy go camping just before the war

➤ skeevy ancients and their sentient computer, based on a fairy tale

<blockquote> Rodney can't read people, Rodney is always oblivious, so Rodney had always been safe, would have never figured it out, but now he knows, and when John had touched him, he'd flinched.</blockquote> ➤ one-sided ust

<blockquote>Teyla has 3 brothers: They're all born in Pegasus. When they're still kids, Sateda creates a great alliance across many worlds and exchanges male children between them to cement the agreement. Teyla loses her cousin Kanaan and gains three brothers she never wanted.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes he dreams that he can fly, but when he awakes, the doctor with the amber eyes tells him that men will never fly, and injects him with gentle drugs to stop him dreaming…</blockquote>

<blockquote>The guy's name was Rodney McKay and touring the Science Centre with him was like having a backstage pass.</blockquote> ➤ Oh Rodney how so awesome.

<blockquote>“Well, that was fun,” said Rodney, shifting the bag of beans to his left shoulder. “Why did we leave the jumper at the gate, again?”</blockquote> ➤ for the Worst Case Scenario prompt "how to survive a tsunami"

<blockquote>"I want flying lessons on the jumper," Kavanagh said.</blockquote> ➤ remix of necessary things by minnow1212

<blockquote>Rodney can't speak. Surely Sheppard wouldn't be so cruel as to tease him…?</blockquote>

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

<blockquote> twenty-five things John doesn't ever talk about.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Survival is a criminal act. Seven people, six conversations.</blockquote>

<blockquote> There are other universes out there and John Sheppard is seeing them all.</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

<blockquote>"As per usual, we offered medicine and friendship, but they weren't terribly interested. It was at this point that everything went straight to hell."</blockquote> ➤ mission report template! which Ronon then uses bc it's funny

<blockquote>Rodney swallowed. "They've told you what happened with the artificial intelligence?" "Yeah." Sheppard nodded. "It replaced us both. It took them two weeks to notice, and then Ronon shot me. Or maybe Teyla did. They're not telling." "They didn't notice at all with me." It was little more than a mumble. "They came to rescue you, and found me there, which was a bit of a shock, given that they'd left me back on Atlantis working on trying to understand the machine that was you."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Nancy and David learn that John has been declared KIA.</blockquote> ➤ (John's really truly dead in this fic)