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[Apparently nothing says "Happy Christmas" like fic recs. Yes.]
Way back in March 2009, I first asked my flist, "Should I try this show called Battlestar Galactica?" A couple people told me no, because the show was so depressing I would want to kill myself (hee) but most said, "OMG LUNA YESSSSSSSSSSSS". I was intrigued and added the first season to my Netflix queue. I watched the miniseries and thought, "Okay, this is a cool show, but I could take it or leave it". I slowly started making my way through the series via Netflix. I liked the show, and appreciated the hotness of the actors (especially Katee Sackhoff and Jamie Bamber, and wouldn't it be awesome if those two got together on the show?) but I wasn't totally sold. It took me months and months to get through the first two seasons. Sometime around the end of Season 2.5 something changed - it was probably the episode "Scar", in which Starbuck and Apollo almost hooked up. I started really caring about these characters and this silly little space show.
Then I got into Season 3, and there was all the stuff on New Caprica with the Resistance and all that, and suddenly I was all like "I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SHOW GOOD LORD". I think I made it through all 6 discs of Season 3 in 2 weeks.
When I saw the episode "Unfinished Business", that was it for me - I went from thinking the Kara/Lee pairing would be hot together to going "THESE TWO MUST GET MARRIED AND HAVE BABIES OMG YES". At some point (probably about when I got spoiled for the ending of the show, dammit) I realized it would never happen in canon, because it's just not that kind of show - the writers like breaking our hearts far too much. Not just that, it's not realistic for the type of characters we're dealing with. But, hey, I don't exactly think Pete Wentz and Patrick Stump are going to get married and have dark eyed red haired babies, but that doesn't stop me from reading a million FOB mpreg fics. I like my denial, okay?
Aaaaaaaaaaanyways, yes. So, knowing that my two pet characters would probably never be happy together on the show, I decided to start looking for fanfic. And I discovered something: BSG ficcers like breaking my heart almost as much as the BSG show writers. Frak! In all my various fandoms - Buffy, LoTR, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Bandslash, etc - I've NEVER seen so much angsty fic. But it's okay, because they usually also give me porn along with the angst. Yay porn!
So, here's some of the Kara/Lee fics I have recently discovered. Please note:
1) A lot of these fics were written like 5 years ago, so you've probably already read them. But they're new to me, so, like, sorry about that.
2) I always refer to this pairing as Kara/Lee instead of Lee/Kara. That's because Starbuck always goes first and is always on top. Hee.
3) For whatever reason, the Pilots! fandom seems to be quite vanilla (aka kink free), all things considered - especially when I contrast it to my most recent fandom, bandom, which is rife with genderswap, foursomes, wingfic, facials, etc etc. I've talked to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) taragel and she seems to think the vanilla is because there's so much angst to work through with Kara & Lee, there's no room for kink. Hmmmm.
~*~ Oh, and a final thing: If you're the author of one of these fics and would prefer not to be on my recs list, just drop me a comment or an email at lunalore[at]gmail.com & I'll happily take you off. Mwah! ~*~
( So many Kara/Lee fic recs! )
For more of my various recs lists in the Harry Potter, Bandslash, and Twilight fandoms, click here.
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