Pegasus B

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I read The Animalia Sequence, and I am totally hooked.

Can you point me in the direction of your favorite Pegasus B? Thanks!

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[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

The master sequence (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=pegasus_b&keyword=%2A&filter=all) I've no idea whether it's up to date or not, but that's a link to a community specially for pegasus b, so you can browse that at your leisure.

[rydra_wong]

You might find the "story guide" - a map of the story offshoots and how they link - to be helpful:

http://community.livejournal.com/pegasus_b/35705.html

I've only explored bits of Peg B, but my favourites so far are actually in the AU-of-the-AU, Pegasus Ba'al: specifically, tafkarfanfic's Dark Moon, High Tide and raqs's sequel, Under A Broken Moon. They're pretty much the opposite of Animalia, though - dark and chilling and requiring heavy warnings (mostly for violence and rape; they're very un-gratuitous in their handling of things I usually run a mile from, but still).

[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

*hangs head in shame, because story-guide is so out of date... and with broken links too, apparently*

Standing back from PegB, I'd probably say that the two "main" threads really are the "Daniel/Rodney > Rodney/Daniel/Sheppard > Rodney/Shep & Jack/Daniel" thread... and PegBaal. Just, you know -- in terms of volume of writing. Obviously, the lovely thing about PegB was how fractal it was, and how so many, many threads developed. A lot of people developed a lot of really cool parallel ideas. But what attracted the most writing were those two threads, really.

Sal's "Pilot" is not to be missed.

When I look through the D/R > D/R/S > R/S & J/D section... yeah, almost all of those are favorites. (Also, many parts are quite short, so the number of them isn't so scary.) I'll also be cheerfully partisan and admit that the sequence by Raqs is an especial fav, and "Turbulence" (which isn't that short) is a big action/adventure stand-out.

But I second Rydra's rec here of PegBaal, and the duology of "Dark Moon, High Tide" plus "Under a Broken Moon". It's... yeah, warnings, quite dark, but yeah, good handling, and of all the things that came out of PegB, that is what sticks with me the very longest and what I just love the most.

If you want to try reading those two, I'd recommend Sal's fairly short "Five Ways Jack and Daniel Don't Arrive in Atlantis #1" first. (She never wrote #2-#5.) That was where she decided to experiment with a remix of her original "Pilot" concept, as it were (i.e. "how could this set-up be even more screwed up and dark?"), and what launched Tafkar off into her epic. (Raqs's sequel epic actually started with a dare from Tafkar -- the dare sort of being, "I'd love to see someone really attempt to do Jack/Rodney". I am a very, very staunch Jack/Daniel girl; I don't do SGA fannishly, although I like Rodney; but I can honestly say that that J/R, in that sequence of stories, worked better for me than J/D elsewhere in PegB; it's weird! but true.)

[rydra_wong]

If you want to try reading those two, I'd recommend Sal's fairly short "Five Ways Jack and Daniel Don't Arrive in Atlantis #1" first.

Yep, Tafkar includes that (with credit to Sal) as the first chapter of "Dark Moon" in the website version I linked to.

I can honestly say that that J/R, in that sequence of stories, worked better for me than J/D elsewhere in PegB; it's weird! but true.

*nods* I love it so much when someone manages to really sell a rare pairing, and make it look so right.

[eregyrn.livejournal.com]

Ah! Thanks. I was thinking in terms of somebody who was using the Story Guide to try to read along, since all of those links go to the original posts. (But it's a good suggestion to read the versions posted on their respective websites; those versions might be slightly revised from the original postings.)