[Day 3] - Recs: Stargate:SG-1
Day 3 of 14valentines is about Health, and the post can be found -> [here]
Today's recs are non-standard pairings/characters, so be prepared. :)
Recs: SG-1
gen:
Revelations by annerb
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack and Cassie, after the apocalypse. I wonder, if the world hadn’t ended, how long I might have continued to pretend to be something I am not.
Pimp:
Jack and Cassandra surviving after a major disaster. This is all from Cassandra's POV - she's a little older and a little wiser. The entire story is a character piece on Cassandra, giving you an in-depth view of how she deals knowing that something happened at Cheyenne Mountain - because that's where one of the craters are - but unable to do anything. She clings to Jack, her only living friend and family, as they try to carve a life out for themselves.
Beautiful writing and a wonderful look at a character that doesn't get much screen or fic-time.
Excerpt:
Long after the sun set, Jack drove off the main road, pulling into a dark forest of towering trees. A mile in, he pulled over and exited the truck. He still hadn’t said a word to me. I thought maybe he was on auto-pilot as I watched him build a small fire.
We sat across from each other for long silent hours. I tried to pretend, like I did as a child, that I was on an SG team. We were camping off world, having just finished surveying one of Daniel’s amazing discoveries: maybe an alien machine that solved world hunger or one that brought people back from the dead.
I find it harder to play make believe than I used to.
het:
A Bargain, A Lady by ChelleyBean
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: A Marine finds herself a prize of war.
Pimp: I'm generally not a fan of OCs, but I'll make an exception this time. This is a story of marine Captain Jessica O'Fallon, who gets captured by the goa'uld Camulus and taken as his 'war prize' years before we ever see Camulus in the show. I like this story because it shows a side of the stargate universe that is rarely shown - how the goa'uld 'Gods' live. It also shows how Jessica and Camulus change each other over time. What they will do for each other and what they will give up for the other.
The story follows Stargate canon fairly accurately, but there are some twists.
Excerpt:
"A great prize. I watched you face a Jaffa who was larger and stronger than yourself, your fallen enemies lying about you. I witnessed you turn what should have been a defeat into a flawless victory. You were glorious and I knew you would be mine."
"Most men don't get off on watching a girl kill someone."
"I am a god of war. I cherish warriors above all others."
slash:
Take These Broken Wings by synecdochic
Rating: R
Summary: It's crazy. It's impossible. Then again, a year before, Cam had spent fifteen frozen hours slowly dying in a downed plane made from scavenged alien technology, after having shot down alien ships bound and determined to invade Earth, so who's he to say impossible? The kid's seventeen, eighteen at most, but he walks like O'Neill and sounds like O'Neill. And he can't be O'Neill's son, because the brain living behind those old man's eyes has shaped the face into expressions no teenager should ever know.
Pimp: How's this for different? Cameron Mitchell and clone!Jack O'Neill. A weird and slightly twisted pairing, because as one line of the story states, both parties can be seen a robbing the cradle. This is a Cam that never fully recovered after that crash in Antarctica; he's resigned from the Air Force and doesn't have much else to do. In sweeps JD Neilson with a plan and an offer, and a need to distance himself from General O'Neill as much as possible.
I normally don't like rec-cing WIP, but the author keeps insisting this isn't a WIP, but self-contained stories that just happen to have continuity and are labelled 'Part X'. It's a deep look into Cam's family and life, and how the introduction of JD sets off fireworks because he's so much 'younger' than Cam. Then some plot starts to happen, and the two of them get draw back into the intrigue that is the SGC, putting them in the same space as General O'Neill - and that is something to see.
It's interesting to read how JD is different from Jack, yet still the same; how he's let himself have in his new life, what he denied himself in his old, and how Jack deals with the knowledge that Cam, this stranger, knows him better than anyone ever has.
Excerpt:
Cam spends the entire length of the drive out to Black Mountain filling up the SUV with nervous chatter. Family history, Who's Who, tips on what to say and what not to say. "Mitchell," JD finally says, amused. Cam takes a deep breath to cut him off, and then the surreality of JD never bothering with his first name makes him want to crack up. JD tips him a quick look, tinged with a grin. "I told you. I've got it covered. You relax."
Cam hushes, but he doesn't relax. JD might have spent seven years dealing with alien cultures so varied that Cam knows he'll never even have a glimmer of a clue about the breadth of them, but JD's never seen the Mitchells at a holiday, and Cam's willing to bet money they're weirder.
Today's recs are non-standard pairings/characters, so be prepared. :)
Recs: SG-1
gen:
Revelations by annerb
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack and Cassie, after the apocalypse. I wonder, if the world hadn’t ended, how long I might have continued to pretend to be something I am not.
Pimp:
Jack and Cassandra surviving after a major disaster. This is all from Cassandra's POV - she's a little older and a little wiser. The entire story is a character piece on Cassandra, giving you an in-depth view of how she deals knowing that something happened at Cheyenne Mountain - because that's where one of the craters are - but unable to do anything. She clings to Jack, her only living friend and family, as they try to carve a life out for themselves.
Beautiful writing and a wonderful look at a character that doesn't get much screen or fic-time.
Excerpt:
Long after the sun set, Jack drove off the main road, pulling into a dark forest of towering trees. A mile in, he pulled over and exited the truck. He still hadn’t said a word to me. I thought maybe he was on auto-pilot as I watched him build a small fire.
We sat across from each other for long silent hours. I tried to pretend, like I did as a child, that I was on an SG team. We were camping off world, having just finished surveying one of Daniel’s amazing discoveries: maybe an alien machine that solved world hunger or one that brought people back from the dead.
I find it harder to play make believe than I used to.
het:
A Bargain, A Lady by ChelleyBean
Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: A Marine finds herself a prize of war.
Pimp: I'm generally not a fan of OCs, but I'll make an exception this time. This is a story of marine Captain Jessica O'Fallon, who gets captured by the goa'uld Camulus and taken as his 'war prize' years before we ever see Camulus in the show. I like this story because it shows a side of the stargate universe that is rarely shown - how the goa'uld 'Gods' live. It also shows how Jessica and Camulus change each other over time. What they will do for each other and what they will give up for the other.
The story follows Stargate canon fairly accurately, but there are some twists.
Excerpt:
"A great prize. I watched you face a Jaffa who was larger and stronger than yourself, your fallen enemies lying about you. I witnessed you turn what should have been a defeat into a flawless victory. You were glorious and I knew you would be mine."
"Most men don't get off on watching a girl kill someone."
"I am a god of war. I cherish warriors above all others."
slash:
Take These Broken Wings by synecdochic
Rating: R
Summary: It's crazy. It's impossible. Then again, a year before, Cam had spent fifteen frozen hours slowly dying in a downed plane made from scavenged alien technology, after having shot down alien ships bound and determined to invade Earth, so who's he to say impossible? The kid's seventeen, eighteen at most, but he walks like O'Neill and sounds like O'Neill. And he can't be O'Neill's son, because the brain living behind those old man's eyes has shaped the face into expressions no teenager should ever know.
Pimp: How's this for different? Cameron Mitchell and clone!Jack O'Neill. A weird and slightly twisted pairing, because as one line of the story states, both parties can be seen a robbing the cradle. This is a Cam that never fully recovered after that crash in Antarctica; he's resigned from the Air Force and doesn't have much else to do. In sweeps JD Neilson with a plan and an offer, and a need to distance himself from General O'Neill as much as possible.
I normally don't like rec-cing WIP, but the author keeps insisting this isn't a WIP, but self-contained stories that just happen to have continuity and are labelled 'Part X'. It's a deep look into Cam's family and life, and how the introduction of JD sets off fireworks because he's so much 'younger' than Cam. Then some plot starts to happen, and the two of them get draw back into the intrigue that is the SGC, putting them in the same space as General O'Neill - and that is something to see.
It's interesting to read how JD is different from Jack, yet still the same; how he's let himself have in his new life, what he denied himself in his old, and how Jack deals with the knowledge that Cam, this stranger, knows him better than anyone ever has.
Excerpt:
Cam spends the entire length of the drive out to Black Mountain filling up the SUV with nervous chatter. Family history, Who's Who, tips on what to say and what not to say. "Mitchell," JD finally says, amused. Cam takes a deep breath to cut him off, and then the surreality of JD never bothering with his first name makes him want to crack up. JD tips him a quick look, tinged with a grin. "I told you. I've got it covered. You relax."
Cam hushes, but he doesn't relax. JD might have spent seven years dealing with alien cultures so varied that Cam knows he'll never even have a glimmer of a clue about the breadth of them, but JD's never seen the Mitchells at a holiday, and Cam's willing to bet money they're weirder.