May Round-Up

[abyssinia4077]

Wow, May passed really fast and fannish-wise seemed mostly dominated by the sd_ficathon (I hear some of the S/J crazies are freaking out about the sudden influx of S/D fic?). That and fandom freaking out about stuff rather than writing.

Stories I recced:

For May I got to rec both Jack O'Neill and Original Character over at stargateficrec.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

It's so not the kind of thing I would read normally, so I ignored it at first until I saw other people reccing it - but what it tells you about Mitchell is AMAZING.

Psst, your gen is slipping ... :P

Actually, it makes me think of something I've been pondering for a while.

It would be fascinating to try to set up some sort of informal rec exchange or meme, where people could say: "Okay, I'm mostly into gen, these are my interests - rec me the slash/het stuff that you think I might like despite the fact that it's technically slash/het". Or vice versa. Or, "I don't get this particular pairing; rec me the fics that make you buy it". Etc.

IIRC, a while back _minxy_ had a post where she asked people to rec her Sam/Jack fics, because it was a pairing she didn't get.

[rydra_wong]

Also, don't mind me while I sit here in amazement that there's a link you're having trouble findin

Oh, you just had to make it a challenge, didn't you ... *g*

http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/56089.html

[eve11]

I think it needs to be (for me) a combination of the characters acting how I can believe they would, the situation being set up in a way I could believe they would follow through with the ship or sex, and them going through with it in a way I believe. In the 'gate universe, I'm much more open to ship when they are in an apocalypse or stranded off-world.

My sentiments exactly! I am much more forgiving of ship fic crossed with apocalypse. Which reminds me you should read cofax7's This Is Not Wartime series, if you haven't already.

[abyssinia4077]

Exactly - if they're stranded alone together (um, that phrase sounds like it shouldn't make sense but it does) then ending up shippy makes COMPLETE sense to me - and shippy for how ever many of them there are - so if it's just two, yep, if it's three of them, totally OT3, etc (because you can't leave someone out!)

I just...in their lives as we see them - much, much harder. Unless it's crack!fic like the one you wrote where they compete for who can have sex the most places.

I might have seen that one - not sure. Will go look!

[eve11]

It's a loooong series. But well worth it.

[holdouttrout]

I'm seconding this rec. I love that story. so. much.