Notes on a Fandom: SGA
Oct. 15th, 2011 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fojeeConfession: I have only watched two episodes of Stargate Atlantis. And yet I think the fandom is the most glorious place ever. Why? Quality and quantity are the short answers. Also, I happen to love AUs, and SGA produces the best ever. Just a few favorites and recent discoveries: (Warning: mostly John/Rodney)
1. Unidentified by thedrifter - has the distinction of being the first SGA story I have ever read, which means I entered an AU world without knowing who Rodney and John were (or Teyla, Ronon, etc.) and this sort of works in the story because Rodney doesn't know who he is either, and he's still figuring it out. This story also turned me onto Glenn Gould.
2. Know How to Fall by Auburn - I don't even like horses, but I've read Auburn's stories before and they're always universes you get lost in. Even after 84,000 words of this, I still can't get enough of John as a farm owner and Rodney as a horse trainer.
3. The Best Things in Life are Free by Smittywing - Highschool AU based on Can't Buy me Love.
4. The Stars My Destination by Mad_Maudlin - SGA reimagined as Star Trek, which is another newish fandom I'm just starting to explore. Story still has typos and glitches, but I sped through it in a day, and left work an hour early to finish it last night. This definitely needs a sequel, or at least stories set in this universe.
SGA also has a lot of excellent crossovers, marine!fics, alien culture meets earth (gonna look for more of these), mpregs or the Atlantis tech equivalent, university-setting Rodney-as-a-teacher stories, and more. And Canada!fics. Yey.
1. Unidentified by thedrifter - has the distinction of being the first SGA story I have ever read, which means I entered an AU world without knowing who Rodney and John were (or Teyla, Ronon, etc.) and this sort of works in the story because Rodney doesn't know who he is either, and he's still figuring it out. This story also turned me onto Glenn Gould.
2. Know How to Fall by Auburn - I don't even like horses, but I've read Auburn's stories before and they're always universes you get lost in. Even after 84,000 words of this, I still can't get enough of John as a farm owner and Rodney as a horse trainer.
3. The Best Things in Life are Free by Smittywing - Highschool AU based on Can't Buy me Love.
4. The Stars My Destination by Mad_Maudlin - SGA reimagined as Star Trek, which is another newish fandom I'm just starting to explore. Story still has typos and glitches, but I sped through it in a day, and left work an hour early to finish it last night. This definitely needs a sequel, or at least stories set in this universe.
SGA also has a lot of excellent crossovers, marine!fics, alien culture meets earth (gonna look for more of these), mpregs or the Atlantis tech equivalent, university-setting Rodney-as-a-teacher stories, and more. And Canada!fics. Yey.
