Stevie, you know what's coming, do you have fic recs for Daniel and Jack?
I'm always open to new ships and one as old as those two must have a lot of good ones written :)
YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PLACE LOLOLOLOL I HAVE SHIPPED JACK/DANIEL FOR OVER A DECADE aight SO
this is my favourite jack/daniel fic yes it's smut but it just [chef's kiss] hits all the right buttons, ya know? paian in general is perhaps just my favourite author in the tag and a lot of their stuff is highly rated for a reason
the down side is some of the best fics are episode related! but it means that you'd know which episodes to watch lol. unless, have you seen any of SG1? because if you have, that will make this so much easier.
because like. in the show, there's angst, there's bickering, there's kidnapping and rescue missions, bodyswapping, torture, mind control, there's clones, sometimes you become a caveman, sometimes you get superpowers, sometimes you join a secret society and piss off your friends because you didn't tell them it was as a double agent, there's character deaths, there's resurrections, there's a big ol' "no homo" in episode 200 that everyone crops the frame to make it about the fucking ship anyway because FUCK IT.
paian's off-world "we're having sex but is it okay that i love you" fic
you ever see groundhog's day?
literally please watch the show if you haven't this one is based on a two-episode special where daniel gets kidnapped and tortured and jack - who has been promoted to a desk job and could very well make someone else do it - goes to save him
paian again but this time it's a sex party masquerade and jack gets possessive
here's an example of a fic that's not episode related but has a bit of angst, a bit of "aliens made them do it," a bit of the fact that jack is a military man during a time of "don't ask, don't tell," and has their dialogue and characterization to a T.
the thing is, most of my fic recs would just be at the top of the list if you sort it by kudos on ao3 anyway lol. because a lot of the fic writers came to ao3 from livejournal and dreamwidth anyway.
if you want, i can even make an episode rec list oh god you could watch the movie but you honestly don't have to. the budget of the show started on showtime, then went to Sci-Fi (now SyFy), and then got more budget and better CGI dude like. 10 seasons for the core show, 5 seasons of a spinoff that has some good cameos, and then there's one season of SG-Universe...
i will always say, between star trek and star wars, i choose stargate. every time. i fuckin... i watched it as a child, rewatched it as an adult, would rewatch it now if i had the time... (honestly i might just rewatch it again)
IF ASIDE FROM ALL OF THIS you want fic that includes both spoilers and a bunch of references that i would have to explain, i could do that to lol lmk