It is now time, once again, for our weekly foray into the wonderful world of cliche fic--those tried and true excuses to get our OTP to stop being stupid and admit they like/love/want to do each other, already!
This week, we're going straight for cliche-gold:
Stranded!
A 'gate/ship/communications malfunction, evil manipulation by friends/enemies/aliens, or just plain bad luck ends up stranding our favorite characters on another planet/country/time/alternate universe with little to no hope of ever being rescued. And of course, as a result, all the rules change.
One of my personal favorites is "And These Valleys Unknown" by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nandamai
A great look at Sam/Jack realistic stranded fic. One of the absolute best...but then, it's Nanda.
There's another one I really like, that's Sam/Pete, Sam/Jack, with Pete off-world, too...but I can't find it. So if you put that one in the comments, you're my personal hero for the day. :-)
ETA: Annerb helpfully supplied the link to surrealphantast 's "Bird Stealing Bread."
Remember: We're looking for the *best* fics--fics that you enjoy, bookmark, and come back to, time and time again. All pairings welcome.
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Date: 2007-06-20 05:03 pm (UTC)From:I am also a big sap for Gail Delaney's Twilight. It's the ultimate Romance Novel version of 'stranded off world.'
http://outoftheroom.homestead.com/TWILIGHThome.html
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Date: 2007-06-20 10:17 pm (UTC)From:*loves*
I totally hadn't seen it before...and it's even illustrated.
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Date: 2007-06-20 05:15 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 04:35 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-20 11:20 pm (UTC)From:You know, I have a problem with this recs thing. Initially I think, "Ooh, what a lovely cliche! I must know lots of fic with this!", and then I go look through the fic I've saved/bookmarked... and then I start reading it... and reading it... And, several hours later, I've forgotten all about finding the fic I was initially vaguely looking for. *g*
Fun, though.
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Date: 2007-06-21 04:42 am (UTC)From:I have no idea if I've read the one you mentioned...oh, yes, yes I have. What a lovely fic...without the standard rescued ending. Oh, I'm so glad you mentioned this, 'cause I didn't have it bookmarked. And now I do.
:-)
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Date: 2007-06-21 01:24 pm (UTC)From:Sam and Jack even have a kidlet!
And I know I've read a coupla really neat OT3 takes on the cliche. I'll have to see if I can dig them up.
Aha!
Date: 2007-06-21 02:16 pm (UTC)From:Princess of Geekland's How We Laugh The Day Away which is a lovely, light-hearted take on the whole cliche.
And sadly, I can't seem to find the link to Wheel, but it's the one that got me into OT3 in the first place because it's just an amazing team-love piece. Anyone know where it's moved to?
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:51 pm (UTC)From:I don't remember "Wheel."
"How We Laugh the Day Away" is very lovely--perfectly added one pairing after another and then all of them together. I hadn't seen it before, and I'm glad you mentioned it. :-D
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Date: 2007-06-21 04:12 pm (UTC)From:Well, Brighid, who wrote Wheel, is now
Re: Aha!
Date: 2007-06-21 11:39 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 01:45 pm (UTC)From:Thanks for reccing mine. :)
Hopefully I will be back later with something. Oy.
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:22 pm (UTC)From:Does Moebius fic count?
... and none of those are really the shipper cliché, are they? Weird. I thought I had a lot of OT3 ones but it turns out they're all apocafic.
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:33 pm (UTC)From:Moebius fic certainly counts! Alternate Timeline/Stranded in Tiiiiime.
Oh! I love "West!" I'm pretty sure I haven't seen "Mnemophobia," but from the two paragraphs I've read, it looks interesting.
I *know* there's a fic that's kinda sorta anti-Sam/Jack...like Daniel manipulates them in the initial situation so they can be together, but it just doesn't work out.
It really bugged me at the time, because I was on that initial Sam/Jack kick and I was frustrated that somebody so talented wasn't writing ship and giving me my happy ending, damn it. Can't remember for the life of me what it was.
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Date: 2007-06-25 01:37 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Melissa M.
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Date: 2007-06-22 11:46 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-22 01:38 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 02:25 pm (UTC)From:I know you have some great recs for this cliche. I know I've come across plenty that are awesome, too...but I must not have been bookmarking fics the months I found them all. *sigh*
Oh! And, random sidenote--I was on your site looking up that fic, and got distracted...I don't think I'd ever read "Matrix" fic before. :-) (I also might have stopped by the X-Files page, too.)
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Date: 2007-06-21 04:29 pm (UTC)From:*smooch*
I know you have some great recs for this cliche.
I'm not so sure of that. I don't bookmark the bad ones in case anybody should ever invade my computer and think less of me for my guilty pleasure. *g*
I don't think I'd ever read "Matrix" fic before. :-) (I also might have stopped by the X-Files page, too.)
Oh dear. ;)
I think I'm going to post in my lj begging for more stranded recs, as you've now got me in the mood, you evil thing.
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Date: 2007-06-21 07:26 pm (UTC)From:I bookmark them (well, I do now that's I've gotten smarter and know I'll want almost every fic again at one point or another) on del.icio.us, but if I'm really embarrassed by them, I mark them as private. Although, if one were to use my home computer, they'd be visible, anyway. :-)
I think I'm going to post in my lj begging for more stranded recs, as you've now got me in the mood, you evil thing.
Yes! Do eeet! And then I can mooch off your flist, too. *grins wickedly*
(Old fandoms are the best, aren't they?)
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Date: 2007-06-22 11:56 am (UTC)From:Okay, but you should share the embarrassing stranded ones with ME. *g*
When I started reading SPN fic last summer, I too got smart and did the del.icio.us thing. It only took me a zillion years in fandom to figure out that I'd want to have links to everything remotely readable.
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Date: 2007-06-22 03:07 pm (UTC)From:Well, that's why I'm doing this. :-) And stranded fics really got left out of my del.icio.us.
(Mostly it's the PWP stuff I make private...sometimes, and then I usually uncheck the box later).
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Date: 2007-06-22 01:00 am (UTC)From:http://greensilver.livejournal.com/320165.html?view=1952677 Living in the Moment, or Sexual Perversity in Denial
Author: Fran Hartman (J/D)
http://www.geocities.com/cc_carolynclaire/usedtoit.html Used To It
by Carolyn Claire (J/D)
http://www.lyricalmagic.com/fate.html A Heart For Every Fate
a Stargate story
by
Destina Fortunato (J/D)
Sorry if there seems to be a lack of variety in the pairing! And I've got more...
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Date: 2007-06-22 05:30 am (UTC)From:Thanks for playing!
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Date: 2007-06-22 08:29 am (UTC)From:Hi, got here via sg1_debrief, hope you don't mind me jumping in :) Ah, stranded fic - my fave type of cliche fic. Second only to the old chestnut of 'one half of your OTP is missing/imprisoned and it's all up to the other half of your OTP to find/free them'...
Anyhow, fic recs. All SJ, all rather long:
'What will it take?' by SG1_Fanfic:
http://sgnovels.shahrazad.net/storiesw/whatwillittake.txt
- Jack under alien influence kidnaps Sam and strands them offworld.
'Thyself, Unknown' by Missanthropic:
http://sgnovels.shahrazad.net/storiest/thyselfunknown.txt
- Beneath the Surface AU.
And finally, the aptly named, 'Stranded' by Divine Joker:
http://sgnovels.shahrazad.net/storiess/stranded-divinejoker.txt
- Um yeah. Does exactly what it says on the tin; Several SG teams get stranded offworld and this is how things turn out.
Have fun!
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Date: 2007-06-23 06:21 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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