Oh! Speaking of fic, I read Katie M's "The Wrong Story" last night, and it was very good. Mmmmm, yummy post-col angst and implied SG threesomes.

Aw, thank you! You're very kind.

Katie needs to write more. ::pokes::

Working on it. Honest. The current project's just... sloooooooow.

And then I surfed off to Talullah Rasa's site and read a bunch of her SG fic, which is also very good.

You people are going to make me care about Daniel Jackson, damn you.

Working on it. Honest. The current project's just... sloooooooow.

Is it ... post-col? t hopeful I'm such a post-col junkie.

You people are going to make me care about Daniel Jackson, damn you.

Sorry about that, she said unreprentantly. Hey, you want recs? You should read the Cost of Doing Business. Maayan liked it. And I enjoy pointing people to it and then watching them howl.

Is it ... post-col? I'm such a post-col junkie.

Alas, no, though there may be at least one more of those. (That one I'm leaving the infrastructure intact, though, because I am not trying to do plot in a story where I have to spend half my brainpower thinking "but where are they getting their water? Shouldn't they all have, like, dysentery?") AU, branching off mid-S7; Teal'c goes home. I'm pretty close to the end, actually; I've got wild hopes of getting there today, though I don't really expect to.

I am not trying to do plot in a story where I have to spend half my brainpower thinking "but where are they getting their water? Shouldn't they all have, like, dysentery?"

Oh, yeah, that's always fun. Hard, hard, hard. And lots of handwaving. And yet, when it's done well, like in The Stand, or Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather", or Analise's "The Thin Veneer" or "Weight of the World", I just love them to death.

There's something terribly romantic about stories where they're struggling in the ruins. Even though I'd never want to be there myself.

I've even read a few post-apocalyptic Buffyfics, although they usually end very badly.

And yet, it was a post-apocalyptic Buffy fic that cemented my place in fandom, so I hold them dear to my heart.

Oh, yeah, that's always fun. Hard, hard, hard. And lots of handwaving.

Hee, yes. "And... we don't care about that. Hey, look over there, a turtle!"

I was very chuffed to discover that the emergency ham radio network works exactly like I thought it should, and then I had to forcible restrain myself from pulling a Jean Auel and infodumping.

Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather"

Just went and looked that up. Oh, that's a lovely thing. You know, inasmuch as one can call postcol lovely.

There's something terribly romantic about stories where they're struggling in the ruins. Even though I'd never want to be there myself.

The impossible odds thing, and then again the chance to have a whole new context. It's like a full-on "and in this story, they're pirates!" AU wherein you don't have to ignore past canon.

Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather"

Just went and looked that up. Oh, that's a lovely thing. You know, inasmuch as one can call postcol lovely.

I am a complete ho for XF post-col. So add to that Rachel Anton's "Love During Wartime", and CazQ's "The Furious Winter", Alicia K's (yes, our Alicia K) "Looking for America", and Meredith's "Show of Strength" and "Tangible". All of those are excellent, and several will make you cry.

("Col" is "colonization"?)

"Col" is "colonization"?

Yes. So it works for XF and Stargate and Farscape fic pretty well, NSM for the Jossiverse.

Hey, did someone call my name? I mean, did someone say "post-col"?

Yeah, I got so used to the wealth of *great* post-col fanfic in The X-files fandom, I was quite befuddled at the lack thereof in the SG fandom when I first started reading SG fanfic. (I also see that Consuela has modestly left her name out of the good post-col fic list. The "Wartime" series for which she collaborated with Marasmus and Maria Nicole really sets the bar for the post-col genre, IMO.) Katie and I had a long-ish conversation about this on my LJ a while back if I recall; I think I argued that unlike TXF, SG-verse, despite its premise and the constant threat of global annihilation, had a fundamentally optimistic worldview which didn't foster bleak post-col scenarios. Or something like that.

I can't recall if I've read anything other than "In the Wrong Story" that fits the 'post-col' definition. Oh! Christine (cgb) had a couple, one of them a 2010-based dystophic AU with a Janet/Daniel pairing. And there's Jemina's White Dove, which both Katie and I had recced a few weeks ago. But other than that, I'm drawing a blank. Which is a pity.

NSM for the Jossiverse.

Yeah. I think it's the lack of a long-term, seasons-spanning enemy in the -verse. I *have* read a few good dystophic AU Buffyfic though, which is sort of the emotional equivalent to post-col fic in TXF. Most of Wishverse stories, Roseveare's Return, and Lise William's Ripcord come to mind.