Also, although I did see it widely recced and read it early in my encounters with SGA, I didn't have the same response as most people to Freedom's Just Another Word. I didn't think it was overrated or anything, I thought it was well done and it might even have choked me up a little, but I didn't respond to it in a "must have more!" way at all.

The story that probably tipped me from occasionally reading SGA fic to actively looking for more was Helenish's Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending. At that point I had still never seen the show and pictured Teyla as Zhaan from Farscape. Anyway. I think I need humor to really draw me into a fandom, so Freedom wasn't my gateway drug.