*hangs head in shame, because story-guide is so out of date...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.)
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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.)