"Catharsis","Visiting Hours" by Teza

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Big Damn Table.

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Catharsis
Author:tigs(tigs)
Characters: Teyla, Rodney
Prompt: 40 - Confession
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: I like the way Teyla and Rodney's friendship is portrayed here, and it makes sense that as they have worked together on the team, they had grown close. They can complement each other -- Teyla is nuanced and quiet, while Rodney is bold and brightly lit -- and their friendship would be a little wondrous to them both.

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Link to the story: Catharsis

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Visiting Hours
Author: Teza(teza)
Characters: John, Rodney, Ronon, Teyla
Prompt: 41 - Redemption
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short
Brief summary: This is a interlaced series of drabbles set around "Conversion" where Ronon, Teyla, and Rodney each get a chance to deal with their reactions to what happened to Sheppard. I like the way each of the sections portrays the person and their relationship to Sheppard, as well as how they function as a team.

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Link to the story: Vising Hours by Teza

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"Final Darkness" and "Bottoms Up!"

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My table

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "Final Darkness"
Author: tielan
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, mentions of others
Prompt: 26. Death
Length: approx. 1000 words
Brief summary: The alternate Weir's last moments, as she looks back on her life and remembers all the pivotal moments with gorgeous, fresh imagery. Would have also worked for the "light" or "dark" prompts but I already filled one of those, and besides this seems more comprehensively appropriate anyway. *g*
Link to the story: Final Darkness

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "Bottoms Up!"
Author: Dr. Dredd
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Carson Beckett, mentions of others
Prompt: 45. Trapped
Brief summary: Weir and Sheppard get stuck in a rather, er, embarrassing position and have to call in outside help to free them. Characterization is a little outside the norm, but vastly understandable under the circumstances and utterly hilarious.
Link to the story: Bottoms Up!

"Beyond the Sea" and "One Step"

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My table

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "Beyond the Sea"
Author: Claire
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, mentions of others
Prompt: 03. Angst
Length: mid-length one-parter
Brief summary: Elizabeth keeps a box for the names and dogtags of the people they've lost, her own private penance for bringing them to Atlantis to die. Set after "The Siege," it's a compelling glimpse of the personal responsibility we know Weir feels for her people, relatively brief but impactful.
Link to the story: Beyond the Sea

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "One Step"
Author: doylefan22
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, Rodney McKay, mentions of others
Prompt: 06. Anger
Length: longish one-parter, possibly 2000+ words
Brief summary: An expansion on the argument between Weir and McKay witnessed by Teyla at the end of "Trinity"; Elizabeth is angry with Rodney for nearly getting himself killed and with herself for not stopping him sooner, but there's more to it than that, something deeper and more personal that she can't acknowledge even to herself. Could have also worked for the "UST" prompt.
Link to the story: One Step

"A Twisted Sort of Luck" and "Dreams"

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My table

(Why yes, I am making up for lost time, why do you ask?)

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "A Twisted Sort of Luck"
Author: medie
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard
Prompt: 32. Secrets
Length: longish one-parter
Brief summary: Explores the question, "what if John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir weren't really strangers at the beginning of 'Rising'?" Basically explores the potential subtext involved in the chair scene if Weir's blurted "Who is this?" had been a cover for her utter shock at seeing the last person she'd ever expected to need to involve in her expedition. Slightly AU--pretty much by the very nature of the story, it has to ignore Simon or at least presume the Weir/Simon relationship is much more recent than later episodes would imply--but intriguing and extremely well written. And yes, I know I've rec'ed a lot of medie's stuff, but I can't help it, she's *good*!
Link to the story: A Twisted Sort of Luck

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Elizabeth Weir
Title: "Dreams"
Author: Wendy Parkinson
Characters: Rodney McKay, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka
Prompt: 28. Dream
Length: one part
Brief summary: Lately, McKay has been fantasizing rather vividly about Elizabeth every time he falls asleep, and a meeting with her doesn't help matters. He discovers that the only way to make a dream come true is to take a chance. Simultaneously hot and sweet, with a dash of humor and spot-on characterization.
Link to the story: Dreams

Go Lightly Down + how am i without you

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My Table.

Claim: The OC, Seth/Ryan
Title: Go Lightly Down
Author: torchthisnow
Characters: Seth/Ryan
Prompt: Discovery
Rating: unrated
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This story is filled with awesome lines and moments. It's a story from Kirsten's POV, where Seth and Ryan tell her and Sandy that they're together. Seth is very characteristically nervous and rambly, while Ryan is terrified of disappointing them. Kirsten and Sandy's reactions to the news is exactly how I'd think they would react, were Seth/Ryan canon. Sandy is just so *Sandy* in this fic, and Kirsten is so motherly and perfect - the characterization is *brilliant*.

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Link to the story: Go Lightly Down


Claim: The OC, Seth/Ryan
Title: how am i without you
Author: pinn2480
Characters: Seth/Ryan
Prompt: Break-Up
Rating: R
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This fic broke my heart when I first read it, and even now when I re-read it. Pinn has an amazing ability to capture these moments and just make your heart *ache* for the boys, and this is no exception. The story is post-breakup, with flashbacks of pre-breakup woven in, and it's told through a series of phone calls between Ryan and Seth and even one between Ryan and Zach. ( Examples & Excerpts. )

In the end - and through the entire story itself, really, but especially in the end - it's very quietly painful, and it almost feels like just the beginning to a much more painful time in both of their lives, and it's absolutely *amazing*.
Link to the story: how am i without you

Fit + untitled

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My Table.

Claim: The OC, Seth/Ryan
Title: Fit
Author: nifra_idril
Characters: Seth/Ryan
Prompt: Confession
Rating: unrated
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This fic is the story of a late-night encounter in the poolhouse. It's a very simple premise, but it takes a look into some of Ryan's past and his experiences in juvie, without coming out and *telling* the story of them. It hints at some of his weaknesses and vulnerabilities, in a very believable way. Seth is appropriately rambly in this one - especially closer to the end, when the confession comes into play - and her portrayal of Ryan is perfect. He's very quiet and hesitant, seeming to overthink everything before he says it.

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Link to the story: Fit


Claim: The OC, Seth/Ryan
Title: untitled
Author: issaro
Characters: Seth/Ryan
Prompt: Reccer's Choice
Rating: unrated
Length: Short
Brief summary: This is a very short piece from Ryan's POV, about teaching Seth to kiss, but it's so beautifully written and such an excellent snapshot of the beginning of everything. It brings in elements of autumn - cider and apples and pumpkin patches - and it has a real feeling of warmth and comfort to it. This is a s1 fic, and it feels so new and exciting, and I love the *mood* of this fic - the way it just *feels* like the beginning of something awesome.
Link to the story: untitled

"Blood in Old Snow" "No, Really"

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Blood in Old Snow
Author: Jane St Clair (3jane) and Sheila (mimesere)
Characters: Ronon Dex (pov), Teyla Emmagen, John Sheppard
Prompt: 35. Threesome
Rating: Nc-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: They were supposed to spar, but then Sheppard moved like that and it was on. (This is pure, sweet porn, folks.)
Blood in Old Snow

Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: No, Really
Author: basingstoke
Characters: John Sheppard (pov), Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen, Rodney McKay
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: They're trapped in a cave, so their choices are Mutually Assured Destruction or Orgy. They choose Orgy.
No, Really

"One thing Ronon's tattoo doesn't mean" and "Acclimation (Eight Days)"

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: One thing Ronon's tattoo doesn't mean
Author: Livia liviapenn
Characters: Ronon Dex, incidental original characters
Prompt: 45. trapped
Rating: G
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Atlantis has not explored where Ronon came from or how he came to be in a militia unit that was given to the Wraith. Livia takes a whack at the question and arrives at a compelling answer that expands on the notion that life is different in the Pegasus, that death is coming for as many as it takes to fill the belly of a Hive ship, that some people staying alive means some people dying.
One thing Ronon's tattoo doesn't mean


Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Acclimation (Eight Days)
Author: Bone thisisbone
Characters: Ronon Dex (pov), John Sheppard, Rodney McKay (incidental)
Prompt: 21. Ephiphany
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Ronon was on the run, without human contact for seven years before the Atlantis Expedition found him. It takes him more than a week to remember what it's like to live indoors, eat cooked food, and have other people around him. It takes him more than a week to decide to stay.
Acclimation (Eight Days)

"Untitled", "Skirting the Issue"

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Untitled
Author: L.C. lcsbanana
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex
Prompt: 15. Crack!Fic.
Rating: G
Length: Short
Brief summary: Ronon is turned into an adorable baby animal.
Link to the story: Untitled

Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Skirting the Issue
Author: Bone thisisbone
Characters: John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Prompt: 01. First Time.
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Ronon asked girl!John wanna fuck. Hot sex ensued. This is a really amazing story, up until the last line, which just doesn't work. Before that though, Ronon is dominating, sexy, physical, and John doesn't know what to do with him except let him go forward, which I think epitomizes their relationship.
Link to the story: Skirting the Issue

"Outward Bound" / "Nothing Rhymes"

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Outward Bound
Author: Hth hth_the_first
Characters: Charles Gunn (pov), Ronon Dex, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay (peripherally)
Prompt: 33. Crossover (Angel the Series)
Rating: Nc-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: I admit, this story is more about Gunn than about Dex. But Gunn and Dex have lead strangely parallel lives, and Hth plays nicely with the similarities of these two guys from different worlds, and how their solutions might work for each other.
Link to the story: Outward Bound

Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Nothing Rhymes
Author: Hth hth_the_first
Characters: Rodney McKay (pov), Ronon Dex, John Sheppard
Prompt: 34. Vacation
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: After they saved Atlantis, Rodney and his smoking hot boyfriends were forced on six weeks of leave on Earth. They fall into a routine. (This story is good because a) Hth manages to inject a moment of tense suspense into a story so domestic it's practically curtainfic and b) she manages to show each of the guys as comfortable in their own skins and with each other, but at the same time very different from each other. Sometimes, in threesomes, characters get mashed, two of them characterized as a unit, but Hth adroitly avoids that trap, and gives us a beautiful day in the life instead.)
Link to the story: Nothing Rhymes

"Lingual"

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis, Ronon Dex
Title: Lingual
Author: nestra
Characters: Rodney McKay (pov), Ronon Dex
Prompt: 04. Fluff
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: There's a cocktail party, so they eat. There's a bed, so they have sex. It's all good.
Link to the story: Lingual

The Call of the Wild

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my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Call of the Wild
Author: Helen – found at helenish and her website
Characters: Dan, Casey, Natalie, Jeremy
Prompt: 01. First Time
Rating: R
Length: long
Brief summary: Dan is in therapy, Casey suggests maybe it’s because Dan is gay…and this sets things off as Casey and Dan both dance around their feelings for one another. The characters sound like they should, banter and talk like they would on the show, but gives all us Dan & Casey shippers what we really want.

( a small excerpt to further entice you to read... )

Link to the story: Call fo the Wild

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Sleepwalker

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My table of Harry/Ginny recs

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Dream
Title: Sleepwalker
Author: Audra Lachesis (andromeda_25)
Characters: Harry, Ginny
Rating: PG
Length: medium
Brief summary: Complete; 3 chapters. Nightmares alone can drive one to distraction. But how do you run from the terrors of your own dreaming mind? Harry wakes at night and finds that he isn't the only one experiencing nightmares. A nice fic that explores one of the commonalities between our two favorite characters.

The Bet, Translation

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My table of Harry/Ginny recs

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Seduction
Title: The Bet
Author: basilm
Characters: Harry, Ginny
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: Written for the hpgw_ficafest, for the challenge "To win a bet, Ginny has to seduce Harry." Author's summary: Things never do go as planned, do they? This one is this is well worth the read-- Weasley spunk and humor combined with well-written smut. I was laughing throughout, which is *rare* for a smutfic.


Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Discovery
Title: Translation
Author: poseida9
Characters: Harry, Ginny
Rating: R
Length: short
Brief summary: Harry is a foreign language. Ginny is learning to read. I love Poseida's writing, and she has a great grasp of Harry and Ginny. I actually recommend all of her fics. This one in particular is a very nice portrayal of the ways in which Ginny learns to understand Harry over time, and the ways they fit together without needing explanations.

Percy Weasley: Rogue Demon Hunter

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My table of Harry/Ginny recs

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Crossover
Title: Percy Weasley: Rogue Demon Hunter
Author: viola_dreamwalk
Characters: Percy, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ginny, Harry, others
Rating: PG-13
Length: long
Brief summary: Warning: WIP, unfinished. It's the summer after OotP, and Percy Weasley is a man without a mission. A crossover with Angel, this fic is funny and fun, and features a very nice Percy-Ginny sibling relationship, as well as a sweet developing Harry/Ginny one.

Captain's Prerogative, Train Ride

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My table of Harry/Ginny recs

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Anger
Title: Captain's Prerogative
Author: magnolia_mama
Characters: Harry, Ginny, Gryffindor Quidditch
Rating: 'teens' (PG-13-ish)
Length: short
Brief summary: Harry bumps Ginny off the team to make room for a new Chaser who appears to be a prodigy. Harry reasons that he has made a fair decision as a captain. Ginny is spitting mad. A cute, fluffy fic, with lovely in-character Harry and Ginny. And Quidditch! I love quidditch fics. :)


Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Break-up
Title: Train Ride
Author: Lynn, aka likeatuesday
Characters: Harry, Ginny, Ron
Rating: K (PG-13-ish)
Length: short
Brief summary: This was written as a 'missing moment' from HBP, although it takes place after the end of the book. The author's intention was to round out the book for those readers who feel that a Harry Potter book isn't complete without a train ride at the end. I'm not in that camp, but I still think this is a very nice picture of the aftermath of the breakup scene in Chapter 30 of HBP.

Therapy

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my rec table for Sports Night

Claim: Sports Night - Dan/Casey
Title: Therapy
Author: Waldo - kwaldo12 and Fiction By Waldo
Characters: Dan & Casey
Prompt: 26. death
Rating: T (PG-13)
Length: medium
Brief summary: I think what I love most about this story is that Danny finally allows himself to properly grieve his brother's death, and he does it with Casey. It only further cements the fact that the two are there for each other through everything and the author does a great job of showing us that, without hitting us over the head with it. And while it's not necessarily slash, the innocent touching and emotional trust between the two has always allowed my mind to wander...( I really enjoyed this particular paragraph... )

Link to the story: Therapy

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