The Rose's Grove

I couldn't resist.

Fandom: BSG (2003)
Characters: Kara and Socrata Thrace
Timeline: Pre-series.
Warnings: For once, for a miracle, I can think of nothing to warn for! Except possibly dubious craft practices. I'm fairly sure one could make ornaments this way, but I've certainly never done it, and I'm sure it'd be trickier than I've indicated.
Note: For deborah_judge. I didn't manage to get Leoben in there, but I managed to explain why Kara was making these ornaments... ♥

( Holiday Maelstrom )

(New-series) BSG fans should check out 13th_tribe, a new discussion community created by deborah_judge and rose_griffes for the appreciation and love of all the lovely Cylons of the 2003 series. I'm already signed up to mod a 2-week stint in late February, and am bouncing with glee at the idea of a whole community of love for our favorite toasters.

Speaking of which, Google is working on robots. (Apologies for the NYTimes link, which may not work if you don't subscribe - if I find anything about it later I'll try to remember to add the new link, but the article doesn't appear to be behind the pay-wall from where I'm sitting, at least.) Remember a few weeks ago when I said that I welcome our new Toaster overlords, in reference to another article about robotics? Yeah. That again. From now on, let's just take it as read that I've said that, shall we? ;)

Apparently this is the most "serious" Starbuck icon I have. *shrugs* I guess it works.

Fandom: BSG (2003)
Characters: Kara Thrace, Leoben, mentions of others.
Warning! Warnings: Blood, gore, and character death.
Summary: Kara can't seem to get away from death. Or from Leoben.
Spoiler Warning! Spoilers through the end of the series.
Notes: All deborah_judge's fault, mostly for dropping a Leoben-muse in my lap. He won't go away. This whole thing was his idea.
Title: Monsters

( Monsters )

BSG fans really ought to check out this discussion on NPR's Science Friday. It's about the origin of the word "robot," but I think you might recognize the plot description of the play the word was invented for.

Relevant bit of transcript from the interview under the cut: ( I think I've heard this before... )

There really is no new story in the world. ;)

Fandom: BSG
Characters: Leoben and Kacey, mention of Kara
Title: "To Be My Own"
Summary: She's meant to be his. They both are.
For: deborah_judge, with thanks for the loaning of her muse. He really is very amicable, even if he did insist that a drabble was far too short.

Warnings: Kidnapping of a child, and reference to this fandom's would-be Stockholm Syndrome situation.

Notes: I cannot for the life of me remember what we called the marketplace on New Caprica (if it was ever called anything?), so I have dubbed it 'the agora.' Agora means marketplace in Ancient Greek. *Shrugs* And if I've totally borked canon somewhere along the line, please forgive me - TwizTV's scripts are helpful, but only go so far. :P

( To Be My Own )

Last night after work I went upstairs to wait for The Boy, and was attempting to be a Good and Quiet Person because our CEO (...well, he's not really the CEO anymore since the crazy buy-out over the summer, but he's the highest-ranking guy in our building and he's still the CEO in my head) sits just a few desks away from him. (Yeah, I know, how awesome is that? My fiance sits right by the CEO! But gloating over that isn't actually the point of this story.)

The point of this story is that while I was waiting for The Boy to finish a few things up, my phone rang.

See, a while ago I thought "I need a new ring-tone." And it just so happened that this was after we'd just finished BSG. ...You can imagine what happened. ( Spoilers for plot significant music cue in season 4 of BSG ) Anyway, I love my stealth-geek ring-tone. But of course, all I'm thinking at that moment is "perfectly silent office, almost everybody's gone, CEO trying to work, god damn it, why can't I find my phone?" Eventually I got it, called miss_arel back briefly, and hung up... whereupon my phone, which had apparently decided it hadn't embarrassed me enough that evening, rang again, this time for no apparent reason. AHHHH!

Today, The Boy tells me he ran into the CEO in the office.

CEO smiles at him. And says, "So, is your girlfriend a Cylon?"

I admit - when he told me this, I squealed. I've worked for this company for almost four years without attracting the slightest attention from the CEO. If there is going to be only one thing he connects me with, I can stand that being it. ♥

You know that thing when you've finally dragged yourself out of a few weeks of not being able to write anything, and you've managed to write most of a story, but then when you get to where the end ought to be you just sort of keep staring blankly at the screen, twiddling with dialogue that goes absolutely nowhere, and vaguely feeling like you should probably just give up and have the ship explode or something?

Yeah, that's about where I am right now.

( Writing woes! These characters hate me and I can't particularly blame them! And some spoilers for BSG, given, well, those are the characters that hate me. )

In short: Somebody please tell the characters hanging out in my head to play nicely?

Time to get back to work. Only one and a half days until the new office. ♥

You know how when you go to the grocery store (or, worse, the drug store...), you sometimes catch yourself looking at the collection of items that you're purchasing and thinking "god, I hope the cashier doesn't pay attention to the image all this paints together" (like when you buy, I don't know, vaseline, eyeshadow, lipstick, and chewing gum? All for innocent purposes! But together it looks like you're thinking about making a really scary porno, which... is totally not really my point, but is perhaps somewhat related, tangentially)? Well, over the course of this weekend I bought:

Books
Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia
Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image

Music
Battlestar Galactica soundtrack: Season 3
Battlestar Galactica soundtrack: Season 4
Wailin' Jennies - Firecracker
Marian Call - Got to Fly

Gee, I wonder what picture all of that paints when put together. I'm not subconsciously (and over-academically) gearing up for a post-NaNo fic-writing binge... no, not at all...

It's been a very big 24 hours for BSG in our household - last night we settled in with pizza and wine to watch the whole extended cut of Daybreak (and a number of the little extended features on the making of the series, afterward), and then today we went to Seattle's adorable little Sci-Fi Museum and Hall of Fame to see the special exhibit on BSG, which opened last month but which we've been waiting patiently to go see until we'd finished the series.

( Spoilers for the whole series, and some photos from the exhibit, beneath the cut! )

Behind on NaNo for the first time this year, as I got busy with household stuff once I got home last night. Been letting things slip a bit over the last week, so I had to play catch-up, and by the time I finished up The Boy was home and I felt too sleepy and lazy and not-wanting-to-work to go lock myself in the office, so... surprise... we watched more BSG.

( 'Someone to Watch Over Me' )

Time to get back to work. Sigh.