Moderator post: share your recs!

[fiercelydreamed]

 People have contributed lots of great prompts for the kickoff festival that starts in a week. If you haven't checked them out recently, I recommend you go peruse them and find some inspiration. To those of you who are already working on a work in response: full steam ahead!

In the meantime, let's whet each other's appetites and share recs for gen works about sexual and gender minority characters. Fanworks and original works are both welcome. To help people navigate the comments, please put the universe(s) of the works you're recommending in the title of your comments (example: "Recs for Veronica Mars, historical RPF, and original works"). In the rec, please give us some basic information about the work: title, author, rating/content information, and maybe a short excerpt or a quick explanation of why you're recommending it. Something like:

My Name Is John Sheppard: I'm a Mathematician, by thingswithwings.* SGA, mild swearing. Reason for the rec: Guys, it's SGA + Mathnet! And queer!Rodney without that being in any way The Point of The Story or leading to mandatory makeouts.

One last favor -- when you're linking, please make sure your link doesn't lead people to bypass the header information; it's important to give people the opportunity to decide whether they want to read/view the content there.

Rec away!


*As per usual, I'm picking on someone who I hope will forgive me. Seriously, though: Mathnet!

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[thingswithwings]

(this is hard! there are so many gen stories where I just ASSUME that the characters are queer, but where it's not really in the story itself . . . stupid queergen goggles! But here are some of my favourite stories that are actually queergen, rather than just in my imagination.)

SGA:

Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose, by synecdochic - one of the most famous fics in this fandom, and a great example of queer gen. Absolutely beautiful story about how Rodney moves on after Atlantis.

Nondisclosure Agreement, by synecdochic - Twenty-five things John Sheppard doesn't talk about.

X, by trinityofone - actually an SGA/X-Men fusion, that I think does a wonderful job of using both the literal queer bodies of X-Men as well as the queer metaphor that X-Men makes use of, within an SGA context.

Five Times Meredith McKay Came Out, by ceitie - this story is a sequel to Storm Damage, which I love to pieces as a story about women dealing with (sexual) violence together, and it's in the same universe as Five Times Aiden Ford (Almost) Wished He Were On a Different Team, which is an adorable little story about this AU team. Basically it's a universe in which both McKay and Sheppard are women. And in which, as you can see from the one story title, Meredith McKay is queer.

as if we live by different laws, by me - this might be pushing the boundary of gen, because it does have a bit of a description of a sex scene in it, but to me it's mostly a little story about how Rodney and John are both gay and both know that about each other.

Calvin and Hobbes:

Transmogrification, by hyperfocused - a wonderful story about how Calvin - who is in this story not only queer but also wonderfully non-neurotypical - grows up.

(edited because I cannot TYPE today)