Rec: "Dorian's Children" by Sheafrotherdon (Common Ground)

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Recommendation

Title: Dorian's Children
Author: sheafrotherdon 

Episode and type: tag to Common Ground
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 3400
Thanks to dodificusfor the rec

"And I'm all better." John's aware he sounds sullen. "Fixed up, good as new."
"It would be nice if all consequences of that experience could be undone so swiftly," Teyla murmurs.

Recommended because...

There's angst and denial, but then there's comfort.

Rec: "How to Decompress" by 30toSeoul (Grace Under Pressure)

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Title: How to Decompress
Author: 30toseoul

Episode and type: Tag to Grace Under Pressure
Rating: PG-13
Categories: slash
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 1900

He didn't have any idea if this was the first time Radek had pulled Rodney out of his clothes. He wasn't sure if he wanted to turn around and look at them, but he obviously couldn't sit here staring at the jumper controls for the next three hours.

Recommended because...

I like the way John's tension is shown. He's this close to freaking out and it felt very real to me.

Rec: "Pressure Points" by crownglass39 (Common Ground)

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Title: Pressure Points
Author: crownglass39 

Episode and type: tag to Common Ground
Rating: PG-13
Categories: gen
Characters: McKay, Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 2700

John drew his knees up to his chest, bracing his elbows on his knees, the heels of his palms jammed against the pressure threatening to explode his eyeballs

Recommended because...

John has a headache and Rodney helps. A very comforting read.

Rec: "As Lost As You Get" by Lily (Epiphany)

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Recommendation

Title: As Lost As You Get
Author: Lily (lilysaid)

Episode and type: episode AU for Epiphany
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash, angst, first time
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 10000


Rodney keeps waiting for Sheppard to round everyone up for a debriefing, a meeting, something to remind everyone of their places. He waits, but it doesn’t happen. The closest thing to an official command is when Elizabeth asks Rodney to draw up plans for a shelter to fit the Atlantis team during their stay. Part of him wants to protest—it’s too permanent—but he’s tired of crawling out of his tent every morning and sitting, miserable and aching, at the breakfast table while Teer serves up plates of her nut bread with light, graceful steps. She always gives Sheppard the largest piece, and touches his arm as she serves him.


Recommended because...
Words (almost) fail me here. Utterly awesome characterization of both Rodney and John, brought along by their involuntarily prolonged stay in the Ancients' safe haven.

Rec: "The Game Tag" by Helenish (The Game)

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Title: The Game Tag
Author: Helen (helenish  )

Episode and type: tag to The Game
Rating: PG-13
Categories: het
Characters: Nola/Baden, Sheppard and McKay
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 1100

"Of course, who cares about level roads or moving beyond thatch as a roofing material—honestly, whose idea was it to find the most inflammable material possible to put on roofs—or clean drinking water when you could be—" Nola threw up her hand and quirked her fingers into quotes, and god only knew where had she picked that up, "blowing stuff up?"

Recommended because...

This draws an entertaining parallel between McKay and Sheppard, and their two city leaders from The Game.

Rec: "Contraflow" by Lobelia (Duet)

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Title: Contraflow
Author: Lobelia (lobelia321  )

Episode and type: missing scenes in Duet
Rating: NC-17
Categories: het
Pairings: McKay/Cadman
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 14200
Thanks to dodificus  for the rec

"At this rate," he says, after a while, after squeezing out toothpaste and brushing all our molars and incisors, after shaking out the toothbrush and placing it carefully back in its toothpaste glass, "we soon won't be needing to talk at all anymore. We'll be well on our way to telepathic communication."

Recommended because...

McKay and Cadman bond, reluctantly.

 

Rec: "Blue Skies" by TheGrrrl (Tao Of Rodney)

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Recommendation

Title: Blue Skies
Author: TheGrrrl (thegrrrl2002)

Episode and type: tag to Tao Of Rodney
Rating: PG-13
Categories: slash, first time
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 1000
Summary: John needs reassurance.

Recommended because...
Short and sweet, this is awkward John and smart Rodney at their best.

Rec: "Shed Your Skin" by seperis (Conversion)

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Recommendation

Title: Shed Your Skin
Author: seperis

Episode and type: tag to Conversion
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 6000

Beneath the sheet, his hands twists together, trying to rub away the alien in him, like last time, that led to sedation and Heightmeyer and Carson's worried bandaging of blood-slick hands and promises of restraints once upon a few days ago.

Recommended because...

Still changing back, John has Issues. But Rodney has a plan...

Rec: "In Your Dreams" by Lamardeuse (Doppelganger)

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Recommendation

Title: In Your Dreams
Author: lamardeuse

Episode and type: tag to Doppelganger
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash, first time
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 5400


Sheppard leaned in close until his lips were brushing Rodney's ear. "Relax, Rodney," he crooned softly. "It's me." A pause in which Rodney felt the barest flicker of something tickle his earlobe. "Me – me."
Rodney shivered. Holy shit, was this his subconscious?


Recommended because...
This is what happened afterwards. I'm sure of it.
Intense, and hot, and very makes-me-feel-happy.

Rec: "Be My Homeward Dove" by Sarah T. (The Siege III)

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Recommendation

Title: Be My Homeward Dove
Author: Sarah T. (harriet_spy)

Episode and type: tag to The Siege III
Rating: PG-13
Categories: gen, team, humor, earthside
Characters: McKay, Sheppard, Weir, Beckett
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 4400
Summary: John's promotion has got to be celebrated.

Recommended because...
Every single one of them is very much him-/herself. The tone is light, yet you're going away from this with the feeling that you learned something profound about all of them, something you didn't know before.

Rec: "True Enough" by ToraK (Progeny)

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Recommendation

Title: True Enough
Author: ToraK (torakowalski)

Episode and type: missing scene, tag to Progeny
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash, first time
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 3900


"Yeah, well," Sheppard shrugged, "There's nothing we can actually do at the moment, so we might as well take the time to relax, gather our strength for the big... escape thingy."
"The 'big escape thingy'?" Rodney echoed, "Sometimes it worries me that I put my life in your hands."


Recommended because...
You have to wonder what Rodney was being tortured with by the replicators. This is your answer. 'Torture' might not exactly be the right word, though.

Rec: "Obverse" by Frostfire (Hot Zone)

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Recommendation

Title: Obverse
Author: frostfire

Episode and type: tag to Hot Zone
Rating: NC-17
Categories: slash, h/c
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 700


"All in a day's work for SuperSheppard. Disobeying orders and saving the galaxy. Go away."


Recommended because...
This is Rodney, freaked by almost dying, and Sheppard, belatedly getting it.

Rec: "City on the Edge of Forever" by synecdochic (Rising)

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Recommendation

Title: City on the Edge of Forever
Author: synecdochic

Episode and type: AU to Rising
Rating: PG-13
Categories: gen
Characters: Sheppard, Weir, Ford, McKay
Warnings: none
Wordcount: 6500

The first thing Elizabeth Weir did when she received final confirmation of the Atlantis mission was to sit down with every member of a SGC gate team who'd ever been stranded off-world for more than 48 hours and ask them one simple question: what item or items would you have needed to have brought with you, to keep yourself alive and well if Earth had never been able to come back and get you?

Recommended because...

It's got the frontier-feel that I always wanted Atlantis to have, where they'd packed everything they could think of that would be useful in starting a colony, and they make intelligent command decisions. I'm not saying that they aren't ever intelligent on the show... but in this fic they really are the best and the brightest, and it's awesome.