Newbie Guide: The Essential Dex Fics

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As I explained in my Carson Beckett newbie guide post, I'm trying to gather what people would consider the essential fics that aren't, as in most guides, exclusively McKay/Sheppard or Sheppard/Weir. Thus, the next title character by alpha order is Ronon Dex!

So, if you were writing an SGA newbie guide, what would you say are the essential Dex gen and Dex/someone fics out there, be that someone McKay or Sheppard or Zelenka or Weir or Teyla or Ford or, well, you get the idea? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, rec the essential fics featuring Dex, give a brief answer as to why, give us a link if you can, and give any caveats (you know, kinks not everyone shares, other pairings in the fic, those sorts of things).

I'm going to keep doing this till we're through the main cast, then go through the regularly-recurring characters, and then have a big post for all the other folks. So, keep those URLs handy!

Feel free to discuss among yourselves. Oh, also, I'm not on every comm featuring each and every character, so if you think it would be relevant to a comm you're on that I haven't posted to (and it's acceptable to do so), feel free link here. Same goes with Gateworld message boards and the like.

Oh, and in case it isn't obvious, no Dex-bashing and no getting nasty on someone 'cause they don't share your pairing choices. Yes, that includes people who like Sheppard/Weir and McKay/Sheppard.

This is the list of recs so far, including those from the previously mentioned Carson post. Please note, these are the recs people have made. I haven't vetted them in any way, shape or form. If you disagree, feel free to say so, politely.

Dex, Unpaired:

A History of Knives by niannahfic, http://niannahfic.livejournal.com/16259.html, Warnings: Could be read as Dex/Sheppard pre-slash.

Snow Men by mahoni, http://hl2.bappy.com/SGA_Stories.html

Solum Patrie and Spirit of Place by idyll, Solum Patrie: http://tongues.brokensymmetry.net/viewstory.php?sid=77, Spirit of Place: http://tongues.brokensymmetry.net/viewstory.php?sid=80

Survival by niannahfic, http://niannahfic.livejournal.com/15207.html, warning: McKay/Sheppard slash

There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do by laceymcbain, http://laceymcbain.livejournal.com/188208.html, warnings: McKay/Sheppard preslash.

i woke up before you in the total darkness by minervacat, http://minervacat.livejournal.com/933827.html

Beckett/Dex:

Androcles and the Lion by isiscolo, http://hieroglyfics.net/androcles.htm

Scenes from a Courtship by soraya2004, http://soraya2004.livejournal.com/tag/series-scenes-courtship

Dex/Emmagan:

The Bee-Charmer by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/beecharmer.htm

Push and Pull by misspamela, http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/139784.html

Dex/Lorne:

Games People Play by denyce36, http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=9540

Dex/McKay:

In the Hands of Yes by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/handsofyes.htm.

Kept By Ourselves by Silence and Apart by spike21, http://spike21.livejournal.com/274341.html

Pianoforte by mirabile_dictu, http://mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com/52549.html. NC-17

Thirteen O'Clock by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/13oclock.htm

Dex/Sheppard:

Fourteen Years by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/14years.htm

Higher by idyll, http://idyll.livejournal.com/261244.html

Release Mechanism by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/releasemech.htm

Revelation by thisisbone, http://www.mrks.org/~bone/atlantis/01/index.html.

The Stargate Atlantis Publishing AU by lalejandra, http://www.aleuromancy.net/lalejandra/publishingAU.html

Unsaid and Reassurance by arsenicjade, Unsaid: http://www.the-archive.net/viewstory.php?sid=3402&i=1, Reassurance: http://www.the-archive.net/viewstory.php?sid=3938&i=1

Dex/Weir:

To Serve a Queen by tielan, http://tielan.livejournal.com/24281.html, warnings: also Teyla/Sheppard in the background, AU fusion of SGA with the Black Jewels universe

The Wrong Kind of Guy by tielan, http://tielan.livejournal.com/34154.html, warnings: Shermer High AU

Dex/Zelenka:

Predatory Analysis and Analysing the Predator by chopchica, Predatory Analysis: http://chopchica.livejournal.com/13931.html, Analysing the Predator: http://chopchica.livejournal.com/23073.html

Someone to Belong To by Orithain and Rina, http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=7176

Dex/Emmagan/McKay/Sheppard:

Brownian Motion and Secondary motion by 30toseoul, http://community.livejournal.com/oddball_sga/56187.html and http://community.livejournal.com/oddball_sga/57367.html?view=203287#t203287

No, Really and Yes, Maybe by basingstoke, http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=3008 and http://basingstoke.livejournal.com/285905.htm

Oikos by siriaeve, http://siriaeve.unrealwords.com/oikos.html

Three Lovers by cesperanza, http://cesperanza.livejournal.com/120889.html. NC-17

Dex/Emmagan/Sheppard:

Blood in Old Snow by Jane St Clair (3jane) and mimesere, http://3jane.livejournal.com/564957.html

Dex/McKay/Sheppard:

Alpha Centauri by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/AlphaCen.htm

Pull Back to Reveal by Sabine (iamsab), http://sesa.slashx-files.com/2005/38.html

Dex/Sheppard/Weir:

Pray For Rain by inlovewithnight, http://inlovewithnight.livejournal.com/825319.html

Dex/several:

Ring Eye Universe by jssangel, http://jssangel.livejournal.com/tag/ringeye

Dex/crossover character:

Myself in You by FaithUnbreakable, http://www.tthfanfic.com/Story-11247/FaithUnbreakable+Myself+in+You.htm, Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy/Ronon

Outward Bound by hth_the_first, http://hth.gatefiction.com/outwardbound.htm, Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ronon/Gunn, Gunn/Wesly implied

Also, if you had a Beckett rec that I missed (especially if you sent it to me in chat!), be sure to go back to the Carson Beckett post and do so! Likewise, if there's a comm or Gateworld message board or the like that you feel should be directed to the Beckett post, please, do so.