Hieroglyfics Recs

Ray and Fraser as ELVES! Heeeeee!

An illustrated and rhyming answer to the sga_flashfic “Ways to Die” challenge, a la Edward Gorey. Randomly spoilery for various eps up through S4, will make you grin like a loon.

Gen Snape and Black, G, comic. Sirius Black and Severus Snape review “Deathly Hallows.” Funny as hell - er, heaven. In two parts so far - there’s a link to part 2 at the end.

Snape/Harry, NC17, art. I guess this is the art equivalent of songfic…no, don’t go away! This comic-strip illustration of the Beatles song gave me a well-needed giggle this morning.

A screencap story in seven parts, in which scenes from Burning Down the House are given rather a different slant with entertaining speech bubbles.

This pastiche of the Twelve Days of Christmas was created for last year’s DSSS; I stumbled on it and promptly came down with a fit of the giggles.

Teyla and Rodney (and the rest of the team) gen (offscreen Teyla/OMC), illustrated, art-format. Spoilers for McKay and Mrs. Miller - personally I don’t think they are huge spoilers, but if you haven’t seen the ep you might be confused by what Rodney’s sister calls him. Teyla and Jeannie strike up a correspondence. It’s a sweet, humorous, heartwarming look at family dynamics - both between Rodney and his sister, and among the members of Rodney’s team, who function more or less as a family.

McKay/Sheppard (and Zelenka-ship that gave me a giggle that I won’t spoil!) screencap comic. Zelenka’s greatest skill is as a yenta. Screencaps and other illustrations are used to great effect - if this doesn’t make you at least smile, you are beyond hope.

The true story of the well-known rock band, The Puddlejumpers! How they formed; how they found a manager; about the replacement of their bassist Aiden Ford. Little canon details are translated cleverly to this AU. I don’t see the point of it being McKay/Sheppard, really - it would have been a fine gen story, which lately is my complaint about a lot of SGA fiction, which is part of my recent meh-ness about fanfiction, but I digress. It’s worth a read - and a look at the art - and a listen to the song (!). Multimedia, woo!

A screencap story illustrated by images from the blooper reel! The Mountie looks for love. Giggle-inducing.

Ancient technology turns Rodney into a Wraith. This is a very cool idea, interestingly executed. It’s in the dreaded Present Tense, which I hate. There are also a few canon problems; there’s no mention of Beckett’s retrovirus project, and the climax contradicts things suggested in Allies (which I won’t detail as not to spoil anyone, and I have to admit the climax is really fitting for the story, and honestly, I’m not sure how I would handle this problem). But Rodney’s characterization rings true to me, the insight into what it feels like to be a Wraith is believable and somewhat frightening, and the pacing pulled me right along and had my heart racing with emotion.

[ETA: after some discussion with the author (who hasn’t seen Allies) and the illustrator (who has) I realize that my conception of that episode is a little mistaken because I forgot about facts established in The Defiant One. And as I say, the climax is really perfect for the story. Also, ETA as I re-add this rec to my database, this story was written BEFORE Common Ground. So there.]

An amusing entry in the documentation challenge. You need MS Word to see the meat of this “story”, which is Zelenka’s performance evaluation as written by Rodney. His chief accomplishments for the past year include “not dying horribly.”