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I loved Urusei Yatsura, and this fandom has a collective RSS feed from Takahashi Rumiko's subconscious. I loved Shimpi no Sekai El-Hazard, and this has the killer bugs, the bluish illusionists, the overly lethal doomsday robots, the devices that transport one in space (and possibly time), and the one whose touch awakens the ancient technology. I loved Disney's Atlantis movie, which in a "when 'Omer smote his bloomin' lyre" mode threw the original Stargate movie, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Indiana Jones, and a quick sampling of takes on the Atlantis legend (including Nadia's) in a blender, and SGA near-promptly returned the favor. I survived the Shin Kidousenki Gundam Wing fandom with my liking for Relena intact. How could I not get into Stargate Atlantis fandom?
The Phoenix
"Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer; / now I sing within a spaceship's heart / Does anybody hear?"
-timeline- From well before start of canon to... well... end of third season at least.
-characters- Ensemble cast, plus at least six major OCs
-warnings- Discussion of religious themes and of historical controversy. A songfic that isn't.
-spoilers- First through third season inclusive, to be on the safe side.
-additional disclaimers- Loosely based on Julia Ecklar's song "The Phoenix," from the sadly out-of-print album Minus Ten and Counting.
I also spent a lot of time listening to Stan Rogers' "Mary Ellen Carter" while writing this. Further disclaimers are in the notes at the end.
Silver City Risen
Operatic version of history, with added love affairs and tragic death.
-timeline- Not precisely applicable; tracks first season and 2.01
-pairings- Within the opera, Teyla/AR-1, Carson/Perna, OMC/OFC, McKay/Sheppard, Weir/Sheppard, and Teyla/McKay/Sheppard
-characters- First season ensemble
-warnings- See description above
-spoilers- First season; a few things about the second season that are general knowledge
-additional disclaimers- "This looks familiar" is "I'm Going To Go Back There Someday" from The Muppet Movie;
"In the darkness I rise" is Kansas' "Icarus II";
"Oracle of Dudohn" is loosely inspired by A. E. Housman's poem "The Oracles."
(Most of the other music sounds like a symphony orchestra playing rock music from the latter half of twentieth-century Earth, if anyone's interested.)
For a... very... long time now, I have been unsatisfied with the denoument of a certain television show. Then, when watching the spinoff television series of a movie I loved, it proceeded to break my OTP and jump up and down on the pieces with heavy spiky boots. Some time later, when involved in yet another fandom, I realized how the two shows I had been dissatisfied with could fix each other, and my crossover world that I would come to call the "Zophonisbeion" began percolating.
With the addition of a great many other fandoms, most notoriously that of Stargate Atlantis, I became inspired to actually start writing it down. (And down, and down, and down...)
Days of the Dead
The first day is for letting go; the second for holding on; and the third for putting things in order, setting memories in their place and walking on with one's eyes forward.
-timeline-Shortly before "Aurora."
-characters- Ronon, Melena, Teyla, Miko, Sheppard, Elizabeth, Rodney, Lorne, Charin, a Heightmeyer cameo, and... others. ^_^
-ratings/warnings- Reference to canon pairings, including (or perhaps especially) Ronon/Melena. Non-explicit (and non-canon) het sex; reference to large difference in ages therein. Implications, both of possible eventual pairings and of in-story speculation. Some crude physical humor. Spelling/orthographic variations denoting mishearings or misunderstandings.
-spoilers-For "Sateda" and "Runner," obviously. And, in a way, for "Critical Mass."
-additional disclaimers- Characters and situations belonging to David Shore et al., David Gerrold, Aoyama Gosho, Gordon Korman, Hasbro, Alan Alexander Milne, Anita Loos, Disney, SquareEnix, and Madeleine L'Engle appear or are mentioned.
One of Ronon's lines is inspired by Terry Pratchett, one of the later scenes is a relatively direct port from Hagio Moto, and Ensign Sa'id's story is very, very loosely based on one I heard as office gossip.
Far and Far From Land
Not all of them are unbearably so, but all sea stories are sad.
-timeline- Season One through mid-Season Three
-characters- First and second season ensemble
-warnings- Mostly gen. Foul language, nudity, and mention of sex with other species. Rather tame, honestly. AU... but tracks the series fairly closely, at least in the parts mentioned.
-spoilers- First season, first half of second season, "Grace Under Pressure," "Irresistible," "McKay and Mrs. Miller"
-additional disclaimers- The Responsibility was directly inspired by the Responsibility in Diane Duane's Tale of the Five; the concept makes so much sense applied to Pegasus.
The mourning hymn was loosely inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "Song of the Dead."
Nine Springs
The peasants of Kui, the village of the nine springs, hidden in a fold of the mountains that shield the bay of Edo, have lived there for time immemorial; a standoffish lot, largely keeping to themselves, too far south of the Tama River and north of the Kai Province Highway to have risen to historical prominence. It remains true that the only three descendants of the Kui families to be identified as ATA-gene-bearers are the only three so far to be publicly exposed to ATA-based technology.
-characters- Miko, OCs, two characters from El-Hazard, six from Meitantei Conan, two-and-a-half from Magic Kaito, and walk-on appearances from Rodney, Jinto, Wex, Sheppard, Teyla, and Terumi from "Watashi ni Uso o Tsuite."
-ratings/warnings- Parental guidance suggested for mention of erotica and of dark subjects (over and above murder of random plot-device characters). Gen with references to canon pairings. Crossover: Detective Conan, Magic Kaito, "Lie To Me," El-Hazard, Stargate: Atlantis.
-spoilers- For Shimpi no Sekai El-Hazard OAV Series 1, and for the episode "The Gift" from the first season of Stargate: Atlantis. I don't think anything else I used is beyond the bounds of either a) general fan-knowledge of the series in question or b) the first episode of the show/manga/whatnot.
-additional disclaimers- If I were Aoyama, my pet MK threesome would be canon and at least somebody would have read Beatrice Gormley... i.e., not hardly. I own copies of Shimpi no Sekai El-Hazard, NOT the content thereof.
Contains one fairly direct reference to Holmes canon, oblique references to Fushigi no Umi no Nadia and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and dialogue references to The Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension.
Ellen Brand beat me to using the Hope Diamond in this context, for what it's worth, and promptly went on to do something utterly unique with it.
Stargate and its associated iterations, spinoffs, and the like belong to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; the original movie was the work of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, and the Atlantis series was created by Brad Wright and Robert Cooper.