How not to be hot:

Like hot satin, pressed so close and fitting so well, that he could feel her strange single pulse in her iliac arteries.

Okay, ick.

Maybe it's written for vampires?

"Cowboy Days" is really, really good. A bit of a wallow. But there is nothing at all wrong with that. I thought it was an excellent extrapolation from season two.

'Suela, did you mention this in here already? Because I got the link/rec from you. A Mirror For Observers, really freaking good SG1. And I feel like it's been a long time since I could put those works together. Long. Very long. But totally worth staying up to an obscene hour to read. One of the most well-fleshed stories I've ever read; the author surpasses probably the writers of the show itself with her knowledge of canon over the years, and her ability to bring it all together like I always secretly wanted. Can't reccomend this enough.

SA, I haven't recced that one here. It's interesting -- the writer has written a whole series of AUs based around that Danielle Jackson concept, including one or two that reverse the setup from "Mirror". If you go to Heliopolis and search on Ivory Gates you'll find "Alternate Endings", which takes the premise that they never figure out the whole puddlejumper-mirror combo, and wanders on from there. Also, there's "Obverse Variations", in which Daniel finds himself descended into Danielle's lab immediately after Kelowna, and can't figure out why.

I really like the creativity shown in the plotting, but I wouldn't mind less focus on romantic relationships, given the length of these stories.

If you go to Heliopolis

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....I'm going to assume that this is a website? Because that was a weird collision of fandom and my reality just there.

...of course, I'm typing this looking out over the Valley of the Kings, so the past couple of days haven't exactly lacked for Stargate material. (It's odd how fiction infuses your take on reality. I swear, I more than half expected Amelia Peabody's Emerson to come and yell at me when I photographed a dig with a hand-written 'No Photographs!' sign stuck up haphazardly (and only visible once one had already taken photos and wandered on). And I found myself looking at these extraordinary tomb paintings and thinking 'Hmm...lot of snakes there. Huh. Guess we know why THAT would be, eh?' It's ...odd.)

Wow. Those alternate endings sound pretty heady. I'm not sure I could read much more from that 'verse, though, at least not right now.

I really like the creativity shown in the plotting, but I wouldn't mind less focus on romantic relationships, given the length of these stories.

Mmm. I agree. I hate to contemplate it, and it might just be that fandom has scarred me for life on this, but at times Dani seemed kind of Mary-Sueish. In a particularly tolerable way. I mean, come on: four PhDs? excelling in hand to hand combat? the only person who could figure out the Furlings' trick? That being said, it's not that I enjoyed it any less for those qualities, but much along the same lines, coming into a story and getting both Jack AND Daniel, even when you happen to *be* Daniel is kind of a feat.

Though that may not be quite what you're talking about.

Someone once described a Mary Sue as someone who doesn't laugh at themselves. I've always thought it was a particularly apt description.

....I'm going to assume that this is a website?

Indeed it is. Heliopolis. I'm perfectly willing to bet, though, that yours is cooler.

I don't think you're necessarily wrong, SA, although Daniel himself is pretty much statistically improbable. But, you know, there's MarySues and MarySues, and nearly every characterization has an element of wish-fulfillment in it.

I found the whole thing to be just a classic fannish engagement with the text. It's pure id, but with plot, and a readable style that just keeps dragging you along.

In that way, it reminds me a bit of KodiakkeMax's In the Company of Ghosts, although it's not as well done.

Funniest Whofic ever. When people get annoyed by badfic, wonderful things happen.