LINKDING

<blockquote>Friends do things together. :)</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>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>sometimes the darkness follows you home</blockquote> ➤ HOW DID I NOT HAVE THIS BOOKMARKED ALREADY???

<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>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>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>"You want to recruit me for what? You want me to go where?" Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.</blockquote> ➤ most of this fic is absobloodylutely wonderful. The ending doesn't quite live up to the everything else but it's still totally worth a read.

<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>"Oh, I see how it is. Botany's not a real science; it's just a bunch of plants. No one ever wants to take a botanist hostage, it's always "oh, Doctor McKay, could you build us a bomb," or "construct a death ray or die"."</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>Watching the gate teams come through got pretty hilarious at times, Chuck thought. Even those that didn't come through hot still frequently had something that had gone wrong. It was apparently a rule in the Pegasus galaxy that the Atlantians had to be screwed with in some fashion before they got to go home. It had gotten to the point where Chuck had come up with a rating system for gate returns and he posted the daily winner's score and security footage on the Atlantis internet.</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

<blockquote>"Ray, don't touch that—" *ZAPS* The boys find themselves lost in an alternate universe where spacecowboys make (break) the rules</blockquote>

<blockquote>Rodney McKay /really/ hates small towns.</blockquote>

<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>After the year that wasn't, Martha tries to move on with her life.</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.

➤ does what it says on the tin!

➤ 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)

➤ In which Americans (in the SGC!) who don't like immigrants shoot at Teyla, and the team goes and hides out in a cabin in the woods, ➤ from a great matter-of-fact Ronon perspective.

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

<blockquote>Turns out both Ronon and Rodney are rampant sleep-cuddlers when off world. John and Teyla make them bunk together so they can cuddle each other.</blockquote> ➤ SO ADORABLE.

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

➤ An Athosian harvesting festival, of sorts.