Newbie Guide: The Essential Emmagan Fics

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As with my Carson Beckett and Ronon Dex newbie guide posts, 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 Teyla Emmagan!

So, if you were writing an SGA newbie guide, what would you say are the essential Teyla gen and Teyla/someone fics out there, be that someone McKay or Sheppard or Zelenka or Weir or Ford or, well, you get the idea? Your mission, should you choose to accept it, rec the essential fics featuring Teyla, 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 Teyla-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 and Ronon posts. 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.

Emmagan, Unpaired:

Abrazo by rageprufrock, http://glitterati.illuminatedtext.com/fiction/abrazo.html, Emmagan/Sheppard friendship

Atavistic Pie by cofax7, http://mouldiwarps.shriftweb.org/stories/Pie.html

epiphany by SaraQ, http://www.kekkai.org/sarahq/epiphany.html

Frequency by liketheriver, http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2907876/1/

Never Stop Moving by Tipper, http://megtipper.tripod.com/neverstop.htm. Teyla-McKay, McKay-Sheppard friendship, team.

Night Swimming by , http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3312171/1/

Opening the Door to Strangers by ltlj, http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/strangers.htm

The Patient Search and Vigil Long by siriaeve, http://siriaeve.livejournal.com/225808.html

Postcards to Jeannie by friendshipper, http://www.laylalawlor.com/misc/sga-postcards/postcards01.html

Songline by Azar, http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=7757/

Transition Point by ltlj, http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/transition.htm

Turtle Soup by agriope23, http://agriope23.livejournal.com/10564.html

Typical Day by ltlj, http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/typicalday.htm"

Sunrise Prophecy by Alli Snow, http://salmonczar.net/writing/sunrise.htm

Strength and Honor Are Her Clothing by kajikia, http://kajikia.livejournal.com/2263.html

Beckett/Emmagan:

B by teza, http://teza.livejournal.com/513353.html

The Best Portion by pierson, http://pierson.livejournal.com/161321.html

Cadman/Emmagan:

Do No Harm by alizarin-nyc, http://alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com/60665.html

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

Unfaithful a vid by obfreak, http://obfreak.livejournal.com/13899.html. Also listed under Emmagan/Sheppard.

Emmagan/Heightmeyer:

Fell in Love With a Girl by Svendra, http://svendra.com/fanfiction/teylakate.html (NC-17)

Emmagan/Lorne

The House Doesn't Always Win by purple_cube, http://purple-cube.livejournal.com/61665.html

Emmagan/McKay:

There's So Much To See Through, They Say, by x_sleeptodream, http://x-sleeptodream.livejournal.com/223842.html

Unexpected by nel_ani, http://nel-ani.livejournal.com/286931.html (NC-17)

Emmagan/Sheppard:

Between This And That by ideal_girl, http://ideal-girl.livejournal.com/22705.html

Family Traditions by madjm, http://madjm.livejournal.com/10123.html

First Contact by liviapenn, http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/411968.html

Heightened Awareness by miera_c, http://www.geocities.com/mierac72/atlantis/03/awareness.html, UST

Helpless by allisnow, http://allisnow.livejournal.com/832394.html

The Mind's Eye by purple_cube, http://purple-cube.livejournal.com/46084.html#cutid3

Sojourn by ltlj, http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/warnsoj.htm

Unfaithful a vid by obfreak, http://obfreak.livejournal.com/13899.html. Also listed under Dex/Emmagan.

Emmagan/Sora:

The Trouble You're In and When the War Is Over by lilysaid, http://www.improvidence.net/trouble.html and http://www.improvidence.net/war.html

Emmagan/mystery (so we don't ruin it):

Somewhere I Never Have Traveled by mz_bstone, http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/19478.html

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

Emmagan/McKay/Sheppard:

Gifts Unasked For by shetiger, http://shetiger.com/fanfic/stargate/giftsunasked.html

The Silent Art of Watching by tafkarfanfic, http://tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com/134458.html

Also, I'll gladly accept more recs for Carson and Ronon fics in the posts linked to above.