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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Nest-Building
Author: cofax([livejournal.com profile] cofax7)
Characters: Teyla, Ford, Rodney, John
Prompt: 50 - Reccer's Choice (Friendship)
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: After the storm, it is time for things to be repaired and for life to return to normal. More than that, though, the team's relationships with each other have been tested and need to be put back together, and John's disappearance during the aftermath unites them all.

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Link to the story: Nest-Building
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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Somewhere I Never Have Traveled
Author: Brighid ([livejournal.com profile] brighidestone)
Characters: Season One team – Sheppard, McKay, Ford, Teyla plus OCs
Prompt: 44 - Mask
Rating: Mature
Length: Long
Brief summary: The interesting thing about the amnesia story is how the core elements of a character still show through, even when they don’t remember who they themselves are, and while I may personally disagree with some of the choices made as ‘core characteristics’, it makes for a very compelling story.

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Link to the story: Somewhere I Never Have Traveled




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Obiter Dictum
Author: eretria([livejournal.com profile] eretria)
Characters: Teyla, Carson, Rodney
Prompt: 45 - Trapped
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: After The Storm/The Eye, Teyla goes to the infirmary to treat her own injuries, really needing little more than bandages and antiseptic. She gets trapped there by Carson and Rodney, who start off arguing until Carson nearly collapses from his concussion. Carson and Rodney's friendship is explored through Teyla's eyes, along with some of the ramifications from this episode set.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Look
Author: tigs ([livejournal.com profile] tigs)
Characters: McKay, Teyla
Prompt: 42 - Holiday
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: I guess that technically, an anniversary isn't a holiday, but then again, it's not really Teyla and Rodney's anniversary, either. I like how both Rodney and Teyla are portrayed in this, and how the fact that they are together surprises them both. They aren't overly demonstrative, and the outward face of their relationship is restrained, and I really liked that containment. Because of it, their friendship is front and center to me, and if there happens to be more, it's a bonus, warm and sweet.

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Link to the story: Look




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Itch
Author: Lyndac([livejournal.com profile] lyndac)
Characters: Teyla, Ronon
Prompt: 43 - Denial
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: The enzyme makes Teyla nervous and unsettled, and Ronon thinks he is handling it better than she is. Only Ronon turns out to be wrong. This is one of the enzyme stories that I was looking for -- sensual, hot, and powerful --dealing with fallout between the two of them, with both of they aggressive and hyped up from the drug.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Catharsis
Author:tigs([livejournal.com profile] 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




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Visiting Hours
Author: Teza([livejournal.com profile] 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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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Three-Part Harmony
Author: kageygir ([livejournal.com profile] kageygirl)
Characters: Elizabeth, Teyla, Carson, Radek, John, Rodney
Prompt: 49 - Reccer's Choice (episode tag)
Rating: G
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Three couples discuss the events of Duet. I have a real fondness for episode tags and stories that center around aired episodes; I like when they take and expand my knowledge of who the characters are and what were their reactions to the events that I saw. Kageygirl has a great grasp of who these characters are, and it really shines brightest in these kind of short vignettes.

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Link to the story: Three-Part Harmony




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Ache
Author: the_moonmoth([livejournal.com profile] the_moonmoth)
Characters: Teyla, and mentions of others
Prompt: 39 - Break-up
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: I put this one under break-up, but it could have just as easily have gone under denial; the break-ups in it are all Teyla preemptively deciding not to take it to the next step.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Dinner at Eight
Author: Selenay ([livejournal.com profile] selenay936)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth
Prompt: 37 - Make-up
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Elizabeth and Teyla have been enjoying dinner together on a sporadic basis, but the events of Suspicion has caused problems with their building relationship. It's a very sweet story of the two of them coming to an understanding, and I love the subtext of them agreeing that their jobs will affect their personal life.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Need
Author: eretria ([livejournal.com profile] eretria)
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla
Prompt:38 - Betrayal
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Brief summary: Another follow-on to The Gift, where Teyla is driven to seek out John in the middle of the night. I really like eretria's writing, and so much of it has a darker, more realistic edge.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Ritual
Author: teaphile([livejournal.com profile] teaphile)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth
Prompt: 36 - Family
Rating: G
Length: Short
Brief summary: Elizabeth and Teyla are caught in a hailstorm on the mainland, and -- well, that's pretty much the action/adventure part of the story. Aside from that, it's a story of friendship, respect, and the definition of family in less than one thousand words.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Floating
Author: shell([livejournal.com profile] umbo)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth, Sheppard
Prompt: 34 - Vacation
Rating: G
Length: Short
Brief summary: Okay, this one is pushing the definition of 'Vacation' a little, but in Atlantis, any day off is a vacation. It is also a friendship story, and a story about overcoming fear. I love the subtext in this too.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Gifts Unasked For
Author: tigerlady([livejournal.com profile] docmichelle)
Characters: Ford, Sheppard, McKay, Teyla
Prompt: 35 - Threesome
Rating: Mature
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Written during the season one/season two hiatus, this story starts with John, Rodney, and Teyla looking for Ford, only to be stranded once they find him. This is a more gentle story than many I have recc'd; the threesome develops while they are isolated from Atlantis, in a post-Season One/pre-Season Two timeframe. And while bad things happen, both physically and emotionally, the bad things are external to the relationship that develops between John, Rodney, and Teyla. So while not paradise, there is a certain 'desert island' feel to it that I enjoyed.

The link is to Part 4 of the story. The first 3 parts are linked in at the top of the page, just after the header.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Rubicon
Author: ladyjax ([livejournal.com profile] ladyjax)
Characters: Teyla, Sam Carter
Prompt: 33 - Crossover
Rating: G
Length: Medium
Brief summary: It's been two years since Janet died, and Sam has taken a posting to Atlantis. One of the things that I liked about this was all of the possibilities and potentials that exist in the Sam/Teyla relationship. They are both the only women on the premier team in their respective universes (SG-1 and SGA), both leaders that could have had command roles -- but chose not to.

And both women can kick ass.

This is very much a farewell to Janet story, but there are hints of how the relationship between Teyla and Sam built that I really enjoy. It's a throw-away line, not even a scene actually in the story, but one of my favorite images from this is Sam and Teyla at weapons practice together. Sam gets just a kick out of showing off her skills with a P90, and I'm sure Teyla would appreciate it.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Forgetting
Author: Salieri ([livejournal.com profile] troyswann)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth
Prompt: 31 - Discovery
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: It is not easy to juggle everything that Elizabeth has to manage in order to keep the Atlantis expedition running smoothly. And sometimes, because she is human and no matter how hard she tries not to, Elizabeth will forget something and a details will be missed. This is a warm and gentle story showing Elizabeth's anxious mind as she tries to keep track of everything, and how she discovers that Teyla can derail it, giving Elizabeth momentary peace.

It is a discovery that Elizabeth needs.

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Link to the story: Forgetting




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Go Forth
Author: Frostfire ([livejournal.com profile] frostfire)
Characters: Teyla
Prompt: 32 - Secrets
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: A short glimpse of what life is like for the Athosians, living in the shadow of the Wraith, and what has become a focus of their culture, one hidden from the Earthers: how they will survive. The story is very short, but powerful and intense.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Clutching Straws
Author: Sel ([livejournal.com profile] seldear)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, Lorne
Prompt: 48 - Reccer's Choice
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Ummmm. Ah, Wraith enzyme, how I do adore thee? I love that so many have written aggressive!Teyla based on her reaction to the drug. In this story, Sheppard comes across several of the Marines drawing straws for who will let Teyla beat up on them while she is working through the rest of the enzyme left in her system -- and the implication is that it may not stop with just 'training exercises', and become something sexual. Naturally, Sheppard is the one who decides he should take one for the team. Only not as crassly as I just put it, of course. There's actual motivation for why he decides to do what he does. And as usual in stuff that I've been reccing, there are themes of power and control.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: The Taste of Apples
Author: auburn([livejournal.com profile] auburnnothenna)
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagen, Aiden Ford, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Sgt. Bates, Radek Zelenka
Prompt: 30 - Seduction
Rating: Mature
Length: epic
Brief summary: Seduction. Destruction. They sound very similar, don't they? In this novel-length story, Sheppard's team encounters an insidious grey mold that warps and changes them, blending them together and seducing them away from Atlantis. The edges of self are filed away, and eventually their bodies will go with it, no matter how desperate the rest of Atlantis is to save them. This is primarily a team story, told from John's POV, but it is interesting to see what happens to Teyla too.

Just an excellent drama, complete with personality destruction.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Push and Pull
Author: Miss Pamela([livejournal.com profile] misspamela)
Characters: Teyla, Ronon
Prompt: 29 - Weapons
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: Stick-fighting with Teyla has become something of a fandom cliché, letting her train with everyone in Atlantis and then some. As she spars, she is strong and powerful, aggressive and attractive. She totally kicks ass. And in fandom, that kind of movement isn't far from sex.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Paper Moon
Author: Pares([livejournal.com profile] kormantic)
Characters: Sheppard, McKay, Teyla, Weir, Zelenka, Jilan, Dandin
Prompt: 27 - Original Character
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Jilan and Dandin are actors, well-known to Teyla, who has seen their stories before. She doesn't explain how detailed the experiences are that Jilan and Dandin present, and Rodney and John learn more about themselves and each other than they really wanted to know.

The description and dialogue are wonderful in this story, and it's really the language that draws me in to this story, as it all feels very character-driven.

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Link to the story: Paper Moon




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Falling Down
Author: lyndac ([livejournal.com profile] lyndac)
Characters: Teyla
Prompt: 28 - Dream
Rating: R
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This isn't precisely a dream, but I think it's close enough to qualify. We get to see bits of Teyla's life, from childhood to the present, and what her friendships mean to her. Lonely and spare in tone, with great imagery, it takes very few words to tell a full story.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Ethnocentricities
Author: Sin ([livejournal.com profile] sinden)
Characters: Teyla, Sora
Prompt: 26 - Death
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: Sora was the female Genii soldier captured during the storm, the one who blamed Teyla for her father's death. We never learned what happened to her, other than she was imprisoned on Atlantis for a while. This story, which is written in second person present tense, details what happens to her and how her life is entwined with Teyla's.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Shadows Before Dawn
Author: the moonmoth ([livejournal.com profile] the_moonmoth)
Characters: Teyla, McKay
Prompt: 24 - Future Fic
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This is set at an indeterminate point in the future, where Teyla has gone through the same type of scenario many times, and finally cracks when one more mission goes wrong in just the right way. I like the idea of that, that it is just one more bad thing, but that one thing is enough at some point to totally swamp her.

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Link to the story: Shadows Before Dawn




Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Tantalus
Author: kbk ([livejournal.com profile] kbk)
Characters: Elizabeth, Teyla, John
Prompt: 25 - Kink
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Threesomes with two women and a guy are very rare in this fandom, and oh, the kink in this is that the women are the ones running the show, even if physically, they are the ones being fucked. Don’t think too hard about characterization in this. Instead, think 'power', 'control', and 'hot.'

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Taste of Autumn
Author: Canadian_Snoopy([livejournal.com profile] canadian_snoopy)
Characters: Teyla
Prompt: 47 - Reccer's Choice (remix)
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This is a remix of my choice for #03-Angst, Night Breeze. In it, she fleshes out the story a bit more, incorporating more details of Teyla's history and her determination, her relationship to both John and Rodney, and how she feels as Atlantis falls. There is some very lovely imagery in this.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Heightened Awareness
Author: miera ([livejournal.com profile] miera_c)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard
Prompt: 22- UST
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Beautiful meld of setting and characterization. Sheppard's team takes refuge inside a cave while a Tornado is building around them, and the author uses the physical sensations associated with that as a background and metaphor for the relationship building between Sheppard and Teyla. Nothing is explicitly stated, but it builds just the same.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Typical Day
Author: Martha Wilson ([livejournal.com profile] ltlj)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, Ford, McKay, Beckett
Prompt: 23 - Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Time, in this case, means 'A Day in the Life' of Sheppard's team. It's fun and slightly absurd, yet still remains strongly rooted in the characters.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: More than Enough
Author: tielan([livejournal.com profile] tielan)
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, Bates
Prompt: 21 - Epiphany
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: One of the things that I like about this story is that it lets us see into Bates mind, and it's a little different spin that what we normally see. In canon, he doesn't like Teyla, he doesn't trust her, and no matter how many times and no matter how many ways he'd told to get over it, he just cannot. The author keeps that in this story and doesn't pull any punches with it, which means we get a really different take on Sheppard and Teyla's relationship. It’s a very cool outsider perspective.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Dark Moon, High Tide (aka Pegasus Ba'al)
Author: tafkar ([livejournal.com profile] tafkarfanfic)
Characters: Aiden Ford, Carson Beckett, Daniel Jackson, Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Jack O'Neill, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ba'al, and others
Prompt: 20 - Non-Con
Rating: Mature
Length: epic, about 50K words.
Brief summary: First of all, this novel-length story is impossible to summarize briefly. It is an AU of the Pegasus-B universe, a universe that presupposed that Daniel Jackson never joined SG-1, and that he and Rodney were once lovers. In the shared [livejournal.com profile] pegasus_b universe, Daniel ends up on the Atlantis expedition, while the Military head of Atlantis is Colonel Jack O'Neill. (Jack had survived his ordeal at the hands of Ba'al but had retired after, until he is asked to be a part of the Atlantis team.)

In Dark Moon, High Tide Ba'al got to Atlantis first. He is already waiting for them when the expedition steps through the gate, and is cut off from Earth. Ba'al takes Jackson as his slave/lover, along with Sheppard, whom he kills and revives repeatedly using the sarcophagus. Meanwhile, Rodney and Jack end up in hiding, while Dr. Wier foments rebellion, with the help of Dr. Heightmeier and Sgt. Bates. Teyla comes in late in the plot as another slave, 'tribute' from her people to Ba'al, and ends up as a rival with Daniel for Ba'als favor.

Ba'al's favor, by the way, isn't necessarily pleasant. I'm going to take non-con to mean coercion for the purposes of this rec.

As with much of "Pegasus B", DMHT is still primarily a Daniel/Rodney story, one with a cast of thousands. (Well, dozens) The action/adventure plot is complex, the integration of SG-1 canon is deftly handled, plus there's a lot of time spent taking the characters apart. No one gets out of the story with out at least a few scars, and yes, some of the characters do die.

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