SGA thematic list: Wraith/Iratus bug transformations

[ratcreature]

Because it is such a common, recurring request on the SGA genrefinders comm (and because I love Bug!John stories), I decided to compile a proper thematic list for stories relating to Wraith/Iratus bug transformations. The majority is Bug!John, but I have included sections for stories in which another human character is transformed into a Wraith or Iratus bug hybrid, as well as a section for stories dealing with the reverse, i.e. Wraith transformed into humans. Currently it lists about forty stories, but I'd love add any fitting story that I missed. I did not include those Conversion tags that are set completely after John reverted, unless there were at least some remaining transformation related aftereffects.

To avoid having to update the list in multiple journals I maintain it on my website, like with my other thematic list:

SGA thematic list: Wraith/Iratus bug transformations

Comments

[ratcreature]

Thanks, I have such a soft spot for Bug!John. Though having gone through all my links wished that there had been more where Teyla's Wraith traits have been enhanced somehow. I thought I remembered reading more of that, but then I couldn't find any. I hope they'll turn up in the collection eventually, and I didn't somehow imagined them. (Sometimes I have weirdly vivid fannish dreams, that I confuse with fanfic I read, like once I dreamed an action-adventure SCC/HP crossover in which the Terminators where initially built to take care of the Wizard world war and protect the muggles and then it got out of hand...)

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I concur with popfantastic above. Yay!

(Although, if you wouldn't mind? "After such knowledge" is Michael/Teyla by the usual fannish definitions, I think (it bugs me but I think it's not fair to the reader to call it gen), and...hm....for the summary of "Six crooked highways" you can put "I saw Colonel Sheppard before he ran. The odds are he didn't make it. And it would be better for him if he didn't.")

Though having gone through all my links wished that there had been more where Teyla's Wraith traits have been enhanced somehow.

She has a power-up in "Salve regina," but it's not through biological enhancement, so perhaps it doesn't count.

[ratcreature]

I label stories as the author for my thematic lists, though I put "pre-slash" or "pre-relationship" labels under either gen or just label it for the pairing if the UST seems prominent, because I find labelling for "pre-anything" just so ridiculous that I can't stand it on my lists (it's a quirk...). Since you listed the characters separated by commas in the comm post, I listed the story as gen, but I will change it to Michael/Teyla if you prefer. And I'll add that summary for the other story.

Non-biological is okay, as long as the character is changed towards more Wraith traits, so I'll add Salve regina to the Teyla section.

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

I listed it by character rather than by pairing because I really hate listing by pairing--sometimes it gives away too much and most of the time it's not really accurate (because it gives the impression that the point and focus of the story is the romance). Here I think it's even more misleading to call it gen, though, so if it's one or the other, I'd prefer M/T. I apologize for the neurosis!

[ratcreature]

No problem. I get the issues with pairing labels-- my first really unpopular fannish opinion was in the warning debates in TS when I was in the crowd not wanting warnings but expanded that stance to not wanting to know whether something was gen or slash because it basically gave away whether they'd get together or not. I was quite in the minority with that one.

It's just, people want them so much, and since I do recs and lists for use by other fans rather than jsut for myself, I put on labels as the author does, or list explicit pairings if the author didn't label at all, like with snippets and such.