SGA het?

[ratcreature]

I've been looking for John/Teyla fic, either shippy/UST or just friendship, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of it. Which surprised me. SGA is such a large fandom and it's not like John/Teyla is a wacky "way out there" pairing or something with minor characters, so I expected there to be a ton of ship fic available. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. I looked at the John/Teyla category in the memories of the sga_newsletter, checked the entries of the John/Teyla category tag in stargateficrec and even browsed Wraithbait, but there wasn't a lot. Of course I found some that I liked, for example I enjoyed most of tielan's John/Teyla fic, but compared to the gazillion Sheppard/McKay stories out there it seems seriously underrepresented. And it's not just that the slash side is more popular in general (with Sheppard/McKay being more popular than any number of other pairings combined in this fandom), for example it seems there's more John/Elizabeth too (a pairing which doesn't interest me as much).

Anyway, if someone had recs for good (or at least decent) John/Teyla or could point me to the archive places I've missed, I'd love to be pointed in the right direction.

Also, why isn't there more Cameron Mitchell fic of any type for SG-1?

Comments

[ratcreature]

Thanks for the recs, I'll check those out. About your J/T fic, IIRC it's not so much that I disliked any in particular, but that very short stories rarely hold any interest for me, so I often don't bother to read vignettes unless the author is an absolute favorite for me, and if I do they just don't do that much for me. It's more about my preferences in general than your writing.

As for writing J/T myself, well, I just don't write fanfic. It's not just that English isn't my native language, or that I'd have a hard time getting the voices right (I don't really hear the characters in my head), I also totally suck at getting plot or story ideas. My one shameful and aborted fanfic attempt was a piece of Sentinel fanfic years ago, which was mostly exposition dump to explore the AU setting I had an idea for. I mean the universe was actually quite cool, but I had a lot more fun to create alternate timelines, fake documents and altered pop culture references and generally world-building for the setting than coming up with a narrative. I was never any good with inventing stories. My few creative contributions to fandom are all fanart.

[tielan]

I often don't bother to read vignettes

Ah, okay. I was just curious - it's always interesting to see which stories appealed and which didn't and why.

Oh well, fair enough on the 'not writing fanfiction' front. I'm trying to persuade more people into at least trying John/Teyla instead of just dissing it or ignoring it. Uphill battle all the way.