help, i'm being oppressed? want fic now...

[rivendellrose]

Dear universe (or possibly just LJ):

Would you please stop thwarting my efforts to reward myself? I've been a good girl this morning, I have written over a thousand words *beyond* my required word count for the day, today is Sunday, and I would damned well like to go through this random person's nice BSG fic. And possibly related posts. Please? I'm asking you this because every time I hit their tags for the relevant subjects, you give me three entries and nothing more, even though the tag system says they have 58 entries under that tag. Excuse me, I would like my shameless fangirl happiness, now, please.

...Come on, please? I've already finished my lunch and should get back to work, but I really want some nice quiet time with my fangirl brain. Pleeeeease...?

(*Coughs* So, yeah, if anybody else has had this problem and knows how to make it work, I'd love some advice... I thought it was her layout maybe, but style=mine is not solving the problem... DX)

Edit: Problem somewhat solved for the moment (archives are a good thing, as is viewing with no style), but I'd still love to know wtf was going on there. ...And also why my stomach suddenly hates me, but that's an unrelated (albeit very disturbing) issue.

Comments

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Do post links to fic you find and love...I'm curious what you're finding.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I will if you're interested! So far I've, erm, mostly been indulging my petty and entirely shallow desire for Helo/Sharon fic, mostly of the PWP variety. If I could find more plotty stuff for the pairing I'd devour it, but all I've found so far is pretty much... yes. Which, happily, was exactly the kind of brain-candy I wanted this afternoon. ♥

*Is a bad, shallow person... but very much enjoying it. ;)

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

I don't mind a good PWP, but I'd also be curious to see Helo/Sharon fic exploring serious stuff...they'd be a good pairing for thinking through what a Cylon really is and the boundary between Cylonicity and Humanity. I was just re-watching Home1 and although Sharon tends not to talk theology as much as her fellow Cylons she's really, really familiar with human mythology and can quote human sacred texts by heart. I wasn't happy with where Athena's arc went in canon, and the way she was defined purely by her motherhood, and that horrible scene where she kills Natalie, but I think there's a lot of room to do interesting things with her in fanfic.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's sort of been tweaking me, as well - there was a lot of stuff in their relationship that I felt could do with exploration (the things you mentioned in particular), and I'm seeing some people deal with it, but... not as much as I'd like.

Which I suppose is good, as it means there's still stuff to do, but it does kind of make me go "what's this fandom been doing with itself all this time?!"

The answer to which seems to be "Lee/Kara," which... makes me sigh.

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

Yeah...the fandom sort of imploded after the finale. I think that's what was worst about the finale, not that it was a terrible episode in itself, but that it ended so many threads in a way that was both not-completely-satisfying and was final in a way that it left no room for further exploration that wasn't AU. For the first two seasons I was in love with Laura Roslin and I would have loved to write redemption-fic for her in which she comes to a fuller understanding of her role in the prophecies and becomes a powerful leader again, but after the finale there was just no room to move. Not just her death, but the way her arc went in the last half-season. To write the kind of story I wanted to write about her I'd really need to go AU from 4.11.

And, well, 'they landed on Earth and became our ancestors 150,000 years ago' makes it very, very hard to write stories that mean anything, because any story we write would have to end (at least ultimately) with most people dying and the survivors descending into barbarism. That's one reason I had to get my protagonists to a different planet in the last chapter, because otherwise it's hard to end on a note of hope for the future.

So yeah. Writing interesting, hopeful stories post-finale takes a lot of creativity and willingness to work against canon. The Lee/Kara and Bill/Laura communities are still going strong, but that seems to be most of what's still being produced.

I am really not up on the current state of the Helo/Athena ship, but I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it! Maybe you could figure out *why* Hera being our mother matters so much. I'd be curious to know.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Hope your stomach stops giving you grief, you definitely don't need that.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was fine. I think it just disagreed with me a bit about having omelettes for breakfast or something.