LINKDING

<blockquote>“I don’t know how they do it in the United States Air Force, but in Canada if someone can’t keep their core temperature up, we share body heat. Scoot up Colonel.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Written for the 2016 SGA Secret Santa. Dave Sheppard's girls are kidnapped. John Sheppard and his team - and the dubiously-humored Dr. Daniel Jackson - show up to help. Gun fights and car chases ensue.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"I'm sorry," the librarian said. His voice sounded genuinely regretful. "But I can't possibly grant access to a lone electron."</blockquote>

<blockquote>For Vega, friendship with Jennifer Keller is not a second place prize. Now if only she can get rid of these unwanted feelings that the doctor inspires in her.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In which it turns out that Radek Zelenka is a sex god.</blockquote>

➤ backstory between Cameron Mitchell and John Sheppard in Afghanistan

<blockquote>Rodney is stuck in an endless Monday.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It always starts the same way, and almost always ends the same way, too.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Summary: Rodney wasn't trained for this. Author's Note: So, I mentioned I was working on a fic where Rodney ends up involuntarily in charge, right? Yeah. This is it.</blockquote> ➤ of course, Rodney ends up in charge bc of bad things having happened

<blockquote>John Sheppard goes west.</blockquote> ➤ The one where John's a ski instructor. I was convinced I'd read this fic before? But it was juuuuust published! So I guess that somewhere in the fandom's history there's another ski instructor au - wouldn't surprise me anyway. ➤ At any rate: I'm eternally delighted by how SGA au's, no matter how au, still often end with them getting to go to Atlantis. Because the otp is really an ot3: John/Rodney/Atlantis 4ever

<blockquote>John always gets a little thrill when he sees Rodney sign at him across the room, casually dissing people literally standing next to him and John is the only one who knows.</blockquote> ➤ In which Rodney is mute and talks in sign language

<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>"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>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>YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ALONE</blockquote> ➤ the one where John keeps walking into doors and injuring himself because he's used to the way Atlantis opens doors for him

<blockquote>Every morning's the same. John wakes up before dawn, goes down to the kitchen, and starts making honey bread. Next come muffins, turnovers, cinnamon twists, single batches of different kinds of cookies, and a second batch of honey bread for later. He starts in on his deliveries at six-thirty. When he walks into Weir & Caldwell Accounting, the receptionist brightens and says, "Oh good, the bakery guy is here! Thanks!" That's basically all he ever hears her say. He doesn't mind. He only knows her name is Laura Cadman because she signs the receipt neatly.</blockquote> ➤ yet another of those delightful sga fics I read but didn't bookmark back in the day

<blockquote>Featuring John Sheppard as The Man.</blockquote> ➤ oh dude so many feelings. ➤ Lovely established relationship fic about Rodney and John's actual functional relationship in amongst all the difficulties of life on Atlantis.

<blockquote>In Japan, it is not too much to say that everything is about appearances.   It is a habit cultivated over a life-time, and not one easy to break.</blockquote> ➤ a Miko character study ➤ series consists of: Zoh-onna Omote Tadaima ➤ also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/1182813

<blockquote>The memorable vacation Miko had at Lake Louise.</blockquote> ➤ time-traveled older married couple Rodney and Teyla meet bb!Miko. ➤ From Miko's perspective, so we never actually find out the explanation for what's up with the time travel and so forth, and that works really very well.

<blockquote>"I can't believe he ascended the baby," Dr. Kavanagh says.</blockquote> ➤ or: the one where Atlantis discovers Ancient TV, and Ancient soap operas

<blockquote>This is a question.</blockquote> ➤ the one where there's a satedan tradition of giving a gift of clay to ask a question and the recipient shapes the clay in answer

<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>John decides that California doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. After Antarctica, the sun is a very, very attractive prospect, and there are beaches for surfing, and he could go barefoot and wear shorts all the time, which is a nice thought after years in uniform. The letter from his great-uncle’s lawyer tells him that he’s inherited ownership of the store, and it’s probably in his best interests to sell it, unless he’s willing to put the time and effort into refurbishment.</blockquote> ➤ adding another in the list of "sga fics I read back in the day and inexplicably didn't bookmark"

<blockquote>Teyla is the beautiful one, Ronon is the enigmatic one, and Rodney, of course, is the genius one. But John, John is the star.</blockquote> ➤ A band AU, and kind of quietly tragic

<blockquote>"Okay, whoops," John said, just after Rodney turned into a dolphin. At least, he was pretty sure that the dolphin was Rodney: it was better than thinking that Rodney and the dolphin had unexpectedly switched places, and Rodney had been transported to the middle of the ocean somewhere.</blockquote> ➤ That's weird that I never bookmarked this before; I've totally read it!

<blockquote>In the present, Rodney was lying prone on his back, knees up and apart, covers rucked messily under him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was just Rodney's luck that the guy with the strongest expression of the ATA gene on Earth was some lanky alpha who couldn't follow an order as basic as "don't touch anything."</blockquote>

<blockquote>The thing about the Gate translator was that after the first few weeks, you stopped thinking about it most of the time, until something happened like Ronon bumping shoulders with Teyla after a particularly uncomfortable meeting with a village elder and saying, "Bros before hoes."</blockquote> ➤ Or: atlantis galaxy has a/b/o dynamics. John and Rodney are oblivious.

<blockquote>In a BDSM world, John meets Teyla at a secret underground vanilla club. Or: What does kink look like in a culture where what we'd call kink is standard practice?</blockquote>