LINKDING

summary: or: A piece of Ancient technology requires some honesty to grant access to its workings; Rodney and Jeannie find themselves telling each other a few unspoken truths. ➤ sga gen fic about Rodney and Jeannie's sibling relationship ➤ in order to access the Ancients' science thingy they need to tell each other truths....enough to make the door-opening device accept them ➤ some petty things get said but also, in the end, some pretty major acknowledgements ➤ I love this sibling pair and it's always a delight to see a fic focusing on their relationship with each other! ➤ the balance of their conversation and truth-telling and how it shifts over time is so well done ➤ 4k words in length

<blockquote>The diary of one of the Ancients responsible for designing the original Stargates is discovered. Some things that were previously thought to be fundamental features of wormhole physics turn out not to be. A comedy about the importance of software testing and mass-extinction.</blockquote>

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

<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.

➤ An Athosian harvesting festival, of sorts.

➤ Teamy adorableness, with a lovely Ronon POV http://archiveofourown.org/works/119260

➤ in which, while debriefing after a mission, the team makes a truly remarkable number of ass-related puns while talking about a donkey-like animal. Hilarious

➤ Zelenka and other non-offworlder-team-members being wistful over the closeness that comes of being on a team, but Zelenka concludes he'd rather be where he is.

➤ Methos on Atlantis also at https://archiveofourown.org/works/169300

➤ Five dangerous things the team encounters

➤ Jennifer being a doctor and being awesome.

➤ does what it says on the tin!

➤ Rodney and Teyla are stranded and captured, with Ronon and John in a wraith buffer that's losing power.

➤ a lovely look at the character of Miko Kusanagi

➤ in which Rod gets turned into a cat, and muses about our universe's Atlantis personnel.

➤ in which Teyla crochets an afghan over the course of the five years, with contributions by friends. Lovely.