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>But then Rodney would stand close to him, or be unexpectedly kind, or do something stupid and heroic, and John’s entire body would shout him, that one, Rodney McKay, him. Like the world was a candy store where John could just point and say I’ll have the genius with the big blue eyes and Rodney would be his with a bow on. / John did not ask to sprain his ankle, to be reassigned to the best quarters in Atlantis, or for Rodney McKay to become his new neighbor. But that’s what happened. Post-series. Here’s wishing callunavulgari a very Merry Christmas. She gave me a detailed letter with lots of avenues to explore. I was struck by “domesticity” and “a slow, lazy kind of jam that just makes me happy.” Here’s my attempt at that. <3</blockquote> ➤ aaahhhh I love it

<blockquote>A cube is a region of space formed by six identical square faces joined along their edges. It's also the region of space that John and his team are currently trapped in.</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>After John's ignominious departure from the Air Force he rents a beach cottage in Oregon, a quiet place to work on his PTSD and figure out what's next in his life. But after he finds a journal left by the previous occupant, John develops an irrational connection to Rodney McKay. When Rodney shows up on his doorstep after having been missing for two years and dealing with his own trauma, can they co-exist at the cottage?</blockquote>

<blockquote>McKay and Sheppard in the universe from SG ep. 10.13, "The Road Not Taken". After Carter returns to her universe, someone's got to finish saving this one from the Ori.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The jumper hummed to John in his sleep, a soft buzzy murmur that carried him as gently and as warmly as he would have carried a puppy. He was just awake enough to know where he was, and asleep enough to see the stars blurring past the walls. He'd been traveling a long, long time. "Your sleep cycle has ended," the jumper said, and John sighed. "I know," he said, not opening his eyes.</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>Friends do things together. :)</blockquote>

<blockquote>It's bad enough being a teenager and probably gay, but going crazy makes it all worse.</blockquote> ➤ In which teenage John starts having visions of the future that he thinks are hallucinations. Rodney of course eventually shows up to fix it, though by "fix" I here mean "make John forget about the future so his crappy life at the time is the only one he knows" so you know, not a super cheerful ending. But someday he'll be on atlantis!

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

➤ backstory between Cameron Mitchell and John Sheppard in Afghanistan

<blockquote>"Any plans for shore leave?" Rodney asks, and this time Sheppard doesn't even look at him.</blockquote> ➤ an old classic; I don't love it but it's good

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

<blockquote>John gets fed up with the whole looping thing.</blockquote>

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

<blockquote>“Teyla.” Her name sounds more like a curse than anything else, and she supposes she deserves that, given what he’s seen her do over the years.</blockquote> ➤ a snapshot of one moment far into Teyla's experience of a timeloop. dark.

<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>Something gives John's cock magical healing powers. Carson presses him into service.</blockquote> ➤ of course sga has a fic that takes the magical healing cock trope and writes it with a straight face, this is amazing

<blockquote>Engineer Rodney McKay went to North Carolina's Crystal Coast to help his sister design a series of bridges. He hoped to rebuild his career following a professional disaster; he didn't expect to be drawn into the small community of Athos Island, where he found friendship and perhaps something more with helicopter pilot John Sheppard. But when Rodney tries to learn more about John's past, what he discovers might tear them apart. (non-Stargate AU)</blockquote>

<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

➤ goddamn this is beautiful and gave me feels. It's a vid about SGA and Atlantis, and to a song with no lyrics which usually I'm not as into but I am SOLD here

<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

➤ I NEVER BOOKMARKED THE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES FIC???

<blockquote>when everyone's lost, the battle is won, with all these things that i have done.</blockquote> ➤ In which John survives Atlantis, but is done with it after Rodney dies of a heart attack ➤ also at http://minervacat.stormwerks.net/gates/sga/notasoldier.html

<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