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TITLE: Laws Of Parsimony
SUMMARY: Rodney is trying to save their lives again. Teyla is interrupting him.
CATEGORY: Drama, humour, team.
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 680
THANKS TO: allisnow for bouncing ideas; and arabel for betaing!
NOTES: For the teylafen '12 Days Of Teyla' challenge!

TITLE: Bitter
SUMMARY: Sometimes the mirror of her eyes reflects a subtle tension, a memory of bars between them - she the prisoner, he the keeper.
CATEGORY: Angst
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: 5.03 - Broken Ties
NOTES: For all the people who felt that Teyla and Kanaan seemed very careful not to touch during Broken Ties.

( Bitter )

TITLE: Pegasus Ascendant - Part Four
SUMMARY: When an offworld crisis requires her attention, Teyla throws a surprise into the city alliance.
CATEGORY: AU, gen, action-adventure, drama
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: Definitely the end of the calm. Section two will probably mostly be from Elizabeth's POV - she might have to share space with Ronon.

Pegasus Ascendant

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

( Part Four )

TITLE: Pegasus Ascendant - Part Three
SUMMARY: The Earther expedition settles into Pegasus, and it's not long before antagonists and allies begin to form.
CATEGORY: AU, gen, action-adventure, drama
CHARACTERS: Teyla, Sumner, Elizabeth, Ronon, John, Sora, Kel...assorted others.
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: This is the calm before the storm hits in the next section. And it's a big storm. I'm a little freaked at the magnitude of it! The next chapter probably won't be out for a while, though - I'm trying to finish off my sgabigbang in the meantime. I apologise for the wait and will do my utmost to make the next chapter worth the wait! *grins*

Pegasus Ascendant

Part One | Part Two

( Part Three )

TITLE: Partnership
SUMMARY: John and Teyla under fire to gain a treasure of the Ancients.
CATEGORY: gen, action-adventure, drama
RATING: PG-13
NOTES: More details of the story in Part 1.

( On the periphery of his vision, John saw the replicator lunge and turned to meet the threat - for all the good it did. )

TITLE: Partnership
SUMMARY: Until John arrived on the planet of the Combori, nobody in the Pegasus galaxy had suspected that this cheerful, friendly, trade-oriented people had been keepers of Ancient secrets and technology. Now he and his team-mates must prove their worthiness to take away that which the Ancients left in the Combori's keeping thousands of years ago.
CATEGORY: gen, action-adventure, drama
RATING: PG-13
WORD COUNT: ~13,000 words total, split into five parts
NOTES: Written for the 2007 Stargate Atlantis gen-and-het zine "Taking Flight II", published in May 2007 but up on the internet for the first time now. I'll be posting the other four parts over the next week. And for those of you who prefer SG1 gen-and-het, check out "The Other Life Unlived" over on my SG1 journal.

For other great Stargate Atlantis stories, gen and het, check out the "Taking Flight" and "Taking Flight II" zines by clicking on the graphic below.



( Partnership - Part 1 )

TITLE: His Own Kind Of Freedom
SUMMARY: When John Sheppard rides into Atlantis town looking for his cousin Laura Cadman, he finds himself involved in an old grudge: the Genii are back in town.
CATEGORY: crackerrific AU, four queens, action
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Not my characters, making no money from them.
NOTES: An AU that I 'finished' about three-four months ago, but which needed some polishing and putting together. A birthday gift for greenconverses, since sjhw_tolerance doesn't read AUs (and she's already got a penguin, anyway)! Enjoy!

( His Own Kind Of Freedom )

I haven't had time to go through a lot of the stories yet - mostly because I'm still trying to finish off the ones I owe.


From the femme_fic ficathon:
(these are just the Stargate favourites with more to come later as I read through the non-Stargate categories)

Dry City by allisnow
[Gen/UST: Laura Cadman, Evan Lorne]
Set during The Return, Laura's finding it hard to adjust to life back on Earth. I love the characterisation, the difficulty Laura's having getting used to the ordinary world.

Ancient Sounds And Floating Images by noafterglow
[Gen/UST: Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, assorted other characters.]
I love this story because it actually does something with Teyla during the 2nd half of Season Four - something that's specific to her, her people, and her people's history. Has a touch of Teyla-angst, and assumes that the Athosians didn't just spring into existence at the moment the Atlantis expedition showed up.

Weak Spot by rolleson
[Het: Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard]
This is an adorable, fluffy little fic. Teyla teaches women's self-defence classes in Atlantis.

Transitions by kiarasayre
[Gen: Sam Carter, Daniel Jackson]
Light humour, some action, and the last intended mission of SG1...slightly different to how they expected it to end.

And the story that was written for me!

Time To Howl by sehkmetenkare.
[Buffy The Vampire Slayer, gen, Faith Lehane, Buffy Summers]
I was watching Salvage, Release, and Orpheus the other night and was thinking sadly of just how much Faith rocked in the later seasons, and how much I regret that she didn't get her own series. This is early Faith - S3 Buffy - so she's still running wild, but I loved the tone of it, the edgy voice of Faith, footloose and guilt-free.


From the sga_genficathon:
(authors not included because we don't yet know who they are)

The Great Pegasus Train Robbery
Personally, I think this should be called "The Adventures Of Calamity John And His Merry Band Of Failed Thieves". A little crazy, but amusing.

Mea Culpa.
I love this story. Ronon and Rodney get captured and tortured by a madman; John and Teyla nearly go mad trying to find them. The balance of relationships is perfect, and the characterisation excellent. Dark John, Teyla as his anchor of sanity while trying to manage her own pain and loss, Rodney and Ronon both snapping at each other and keeping each other focused. What I love most about it, though, is that this fic illustrates how John's whole team is important to him. In this story, it's clearly not just meaningless words to the author but something to hang her pen by. All the more worth reccing for its rarity.

Rites Of Passage
A return to the children of M7G-677, and the politics of leadership there. I like stories that delve back into the consequences of interference in the galaxy. It's not a theme that the show generally follows - and when it does, the consequences are usually defanged, played down, or glossed over - so it's a pleasure to see it directly addressed in fanfic.

Into The Woods
Rodney McKay. Comes with a return policy. Good thing, too!

Light Up, Light Up
A marvellous story about so many more people on Atlantis than just the team. I love the team and I don't deny that; but I love it when other authors are capable of fleshing out the 'little people' in the city, their backgrounds, their lives, their loves and hates and interactions with the 'hero' characters. This one is utterly brilliant and beautiful and painful - like something haunting and aching and yet still clung to. Bittersweet.

TITLE: Feint
SUMMARY: Teyla faints.
CATEGORY: vignette, challenge
RATING: G
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, etc, etc, etc.
NOTES: Written for the John and Teyla Yahoogroups "5 minute fic challenge" to the prompt of "Teyla fainted and John leapt for her." Someday, I want to see a fic where John faints.

( Definitely no fainting flowers here! )