As for the alienation routine, well...sadly, I think we're all doing that these days. I think good writers are being drowned by all the crap out there. I wish I could find them so I could read them :( Anais has something new and promising, but it's still WiP. But it involves J/D/Paul Davis, and her inspiration is the French farce, so read it for the fun and not for the characters. Another well kept secret is that the delightful Byrne writes J/D. You can find her stuff here http://www.prettymuses.com/ . She is also a professional writer, like Anais as well. To be honest, I am finding myself wondering outside the Stargate fandom more and more myself. One of the things that attracted me from the beginning was the wealth of good writers in the fandom, now you have to search for the needles in the stack of hay. And I found that my criteria of what make a good writer do not match those of the fandom. As you said, bad characterisation is one of the main culprit(there is a well respected writer who has Jack and Daniel calling each other Hun and Luv. Now last time I checked, Jack was a general in the Air force and Daniel a multiple PhD linguist, not two shopkeepers in a fish & chips shop in the North of England. I love fish and chips, but unless you write an AU on the dangerous world of deep friers and the search for the perfect batter, all you need is a good Beta), bad sex is another one, and the way the team has been wriiten by th PTB in recent seasons hasn't helped. Sam's character gets most of the beating, but even the staunchiest J/D fan have to clutch at straws at the moment. Sorry i did wake up bitchy this morning. :)
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Anais has something new and promising, but it's still WiP. But it involves J/D/Paul Davis, and her inspiration is the French farce, so read it for the fun and not for the characters. Another well kept secret is that the delightful Byrne writes J/D. You can find her stuff here http://www.prettymuses.com/ . She is also a professional writer, like Anais as well.
To be honest, I am finding myself wondering outside the Stargate fandom more and more myself. One of the things that attracted me from the beginning was the wealth of good writers in the fandom, now you have to search for the needles in the stack of hay. And I found that my criteria of what make a good writer do not match those of the fandom. As you said, bad characterisation is one of the main culprit(there is a well respected writer who has Jack and Daniel calling each other Hun and Luv. Now last time I checked, Jack was a general in the Air force and Daniel a multiple PhD linguist, not two shopkeepers in a fish & chips shop in the North of England. I love fish and chips, but unless you write an AU on the dangerous world of deep friers and the search for the perfect batter, all you need is a good Beta), bad sex is another one, and the way the team has been wriiten by th PTB in recent seasons hasn't helped. Sam's character gets most of the beating, but even the staunchiest J/D fan have to clutch at straws at the moment.
Sorry i did wake up bitchy this morning. :)