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A few years ago I posted pics of a number of horse skeletons and one corpse I came across while deerhunting in central Ontario, Canada.

As the story goes, the owners had a riding camp and stables, and this was where dead or euthanized horses were dragged to return to dirt. It was a little unsettling the first time I saw it.

I grabbed two skulls two years ago, but this was the first time I've been back there since then, and I was curious to see what sort of further disarticulation had happened to the skeletons. Quite a bit, as it turns out. Legs have been dragged away from the rest of the bodies, bits and pieces are strewn about, etc. I had to take a stack more pics.



( 50+ more after the cut... )

Better late than never, I suppose.

My contributions to bsg_pornbattle. It may be unnecessary to mention it, but you know, these ficlets are mostly porn. Angsty, sexy porn. I hope.

( Running to stand still, Kara/Lee, during Scar, prompt: forgetting )

( it's not that I'm a willing witness, Lee/Kara (Lee/Six), prompt: collaborators )

( You've got a fast car, Kara/Lee, prompts: i tried to stay away but i couldn't, Zak )

Tags: bsg, fic, kara/lee, prompts
Current Mood: okay

I'm 96% done with my shawl for the wedding, but am I going to be knitting through this? HELL NO.

( Spoilers ABOUND. But only for aired episodes. And the trailer for 8x03. )

Tags: richard armitage, spooks

disclaimer: not mine
pairing: Kara/Sam
set: Caprica, post-Resistance
length: 2800
rating: R/NC17, genre: pwp
notes: this was originally intended for the porn battle, using the prompt 'an itch that needs scratching', but I figured it could wait and got some other things done instead. This is the... fourth time I've done Kara and Sam's first time iirc. Much thanks to bluediamond421 for prodding to finish.

Eyes Open to the Possibilities
by ALC Punk!
( Read more... )

Tags: bsg fic, fic: 2009, kara/anders fic
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Snow Patrol - Hands Open

THE BILL PASSED!!

Now, the Senate.

Current Mood: hyper

So, that twelvecolonies challenge of 25,000 words by Dec. 1? I don't know. I'd like to help out the team. The word count doesn't particularly scare me, since I've done 20K in two weeks before, for my yuletide assignment in 07.

But. I have a sg_rarepairings fic to write by beginning Dec, too. I have Ariadne to finish editing and put up next week. (OMG! NEXT WEEK! *flail*) And several of my possible longfic ideas tend to tread all over Ariadne and its sequel, since they're all S.4 AUs.

But on the other, other hand (yes, I'm an octopus, shut up): I have two ideas that might work.

1. Do a fic compliant with The Plan, in my Before it's too late-'verse, where Sam and Leoben get to know each other on Caprica, really really well.

2. Something completely different in an Earth AU (not Nellis-verse). A few of you may remember I did a comment-fic sometime ago in which Kara is a concert pianist, and Sam's a physicist. I did a vague outline for how they meet and run into bad guys and stuff, awhile back, and that could go 20K easily.

So, since I have to decide NOW, A POLL! :)

Poll #1482291 Choose a Project!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

What should I write for the challenge?

Tags: writing

How about a short linkspam?

-- Slate has a general review of The Travel Channel's shows.
-- Mental Floss offers a history of toilet paper and fictional celebs who've visited Sesame Street.
-- Speaking ... Fresh Air (from NPR) has a collection of stories about Sesame Street.
-- Wired reveals how I unmasked @FakeAPStylebook. Ah, grammar geeks.
-- Televisionary has a cute video interview with Yvonne Strahovski of Chuck.
-- A reporter from MSNBC reads Heidi and Spencer's new book so you don't have to. (Funny, even though I barely know who they are.)
-- The Morning News searches for a Lego nomenclature.
-- A picspam for my fish-obsessed nephew: 10 bizarre and frightening deep sea creatures.
-- Aww! Discovery Channel has updated their "I Love The World" commercial!
-- Ever wondered how TV shows determine screen credits? Ken Levine explains the process.
-- A very grumpy Vanity Fair complains about all the "cuteness" in the world.
-- And another reason why I adore Ewan McGregor: he drops trou so often in the name of feminism.

Current Mood: busy

Title: Wash Your Cares Away
Author:kappamaki33
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Hoshi, Gaeta, Tigh, Tory, Sam, Tyrol, Dee, Athena, and a few others briefly drop in
Summary: Hearing that music was a nightmare, but being a Cylon gives Louis a means of escape, too.
Pairings: Gaeta/Hoshi
Notes: For puszysty's "Never Will I Ever" prompt, "cylon!Hoshi"

Links to Parts 1 and 2

twelvecolonies is having a long fic challenge. Impossible? Yes. Am I going to try to do it? Heck yes.

So, I'm looking at my BSG story prompts and wondering what would work for this. Here are my options:


#1. New Caprica AU where Sam and Dee end up in each other's places and Kara and Dee run the New Caprica resistance. I'm not sure I can get 25,000 words out of this, though, even if I end up with it being Kara/Dee.

#2. The follow-up to my AU where Kara uses "All Along the Watchtower" to wake Sam up at the end of "Someone to Watch Over Me", where unwiped!memories!Sam and Kara work together to help the fleet get to Earth more plausibly than in "Daybreak". This is probably about the right length, and I have most of the plot points outlined already.

#3. Another 4.5 AU where Lee and Gaeta run the mutiny with a lot less bloodshed and shady participants, leading to a universe where the younger generation of military leaders, political leaders, cylon leaders, etc., are in charge, make peace, and take the fleet to a better end. I'm not sure I could finish this in 25,000 words, though, and the outlining on this fic would be insane.

#4. Crackfic sequel to my fic where Head!Leoben inspired Glen Larson to make old!BSG and Head!Six inspired RDM to make the more-accurate-but-not-perfect new!BSG, and all the head!people get together to have frakparties and mock the adaptation of the "true" story of BSG (pseudo MST3K). Depending on how much story I put into this, it could easily be the right length, and if it goes too long, the seasons make perfect stopping points.

#5. Pre-series Kara gen fic about her life as a flight instructor, with appearances by BFF Helo and various students, including Zak but pre-Kara/Zak. I have most of the outline for this, but I'm not sure how I want it to end.

#6. New Caprica AU where Leoben stops Kara from stabbing him during the kiss and shoots Sam when he comes in. Sam dies, Kara's taken to a baseship, and Sam downloads. Again, I know where this story goes for a while, I just don't know what the endpoint is, so I'm very hesitant to start it.

#7. Sequel to my bsg_bigbang fic that only karate0kat has read so far, but will be published before the twelvecolonies deadline. The story doesn't necessarily need a sequel, but I'd love to write more of that universe.


There are some more prompts for longfics, but I can tell that they'd end up being much longer than 25,000 words; I just wish I could narrow it down even further. I should really get started writing one of these in the next couple days, but I have no idea which one...

Tags: battlestar galactica, fanfiction, on writing

Apologies for the lateness; I took the weekend off for the pornbattle, but then completely forgot to start posting these again.

"No Exit" - The Deep Geeking Rewatch

Check back here if you need a reminder of how this works.

Discussion, theorizing, and any squeeing can all commence...now. Feel free to drop in any time from now until the discussion for "Someone to Watch Over Me" will start.

(And yes, dammit, I'm using this pic because this is how the episode ends in my favorite AU)



Discussion questions:

How long has it been since we last saw Kara and Sam in "Blood on the Scales"? What has Kara been doing, other than prepping for surgery?

How long between the first surgery and when Sam wakes up? Has Kara spoken to anyone else in the meantime? Does anyone else come to see her and/or Sam?

What do you think Kara's mental reactions are on hearing what Sam has to relate?

Do you think Sam's frustration is mostly with himself (his memory issues) or with Kara and her behavior? What do you think Kara's behavior through this episode says about her?

Kara's promise to Sam to give "all the time we need" and to "get you back"--is this solely in relation to their destinies, or is this more personal? And is it motivated by guilt, or by a different realization?

What do you think Kara does immediately after the episode ends?


And now, because that ending absolutely sucks and should not have existed, some lighter questions:


When Kara says that the Cylons want a musical, does this mean that Sam has played the guitar/sung before, so she knows he can do it?

Are Kara/Sam not the most touchy-feely, speaking-without-words couple ever? <3

You know that old rule about modern television shows—in their universe, their show cannot exist. For instance, The Office can reference Battlestar Galactica, which is on TV in The Office's universe, but The Office itself does not exist in The Office's universe.

One would assume that this also applies to actors, so that Steve Carrell does not exist in The Office's universe either, nor do any other actors that appear on The Office unless they appear as themselves. This is kind of tricky however...

But my question is—does the show "Farscape" exist in the universe for "Stargate: SG-1"? Obviously, Stargate as a show does not exist, though a near-equivalent called "Wormhole X-Treme" does. But what about Farscape? You would think no, given the presence of Ben Browder and Claudia Black. However, this clip has me wondering:



Is Vala supposed to be ripping off Farscape, which the TV executive has not seen? If so, does she cast herself as Aeryn because she sees the resemblance? Isn't that kind of weird?

Or, does Farscape not exist in the universe of Stargate: SG-1, and therefore is just Vala's wacky mind creating a scenario?

And for that matter, in this same episode, the reason for making the "Wormhole X-Treme" movie, despite it only lasting a few episodes on TV, is because it performed well on DVD. Is Wormhole X-Treme supposed to be Firefly, or does Firefly exist in the Stargate: SG-1 universe, and Wormhole X-Treme is just like Firefly?

*sigh* They shouldn't be able to do this, make references without more implicit understanding of what they mean.

Tags: farscape, firefly/serenity, stargate sg-1

Ficlet

So I wrote femslash! Very short, G-rated, implied femslash. ;) I really have no excuse for myself here: I blame the porn battle for putting the idea in my head and twelvecolonies for making me write it.

Relief, Cally Henderson/Tory Foster (yup, for real!), rated E for everyone:

( Suicide had been her first thought, but Cylons were hard to kill. )

Fic Meme

Snerched from about a quarter of my flist, most recently taragel

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

All my stories are archived here.


And speaking of fic, am I just lazy, or is three weeks to write a 25,000 word story from scratch a little - what's the word - IMPOSSIBLE?? Sigh. :(((

Tags: bsg_fic, meme

So.. Apparently none of the computers in my house will let me watch  Girl Number 9. This is getting annoying.

I'll have to try again later.

Current Mood: aggravated

( Grisela's story )

Current Mood: hopeful

Just so you know, sblmnldrknss knows that "comic books aren't challenging."

Reading should only ever be at age level or above and though she claims to read EVERYTHING in one comment, she is quick to later inform us that, in fact, she never reads children's fiction for fun because it is beneath her.

Apparently "if you're over, I don't know, 12, reading Harry Potter doesn't 'count' as reading anymore than reading People magazine 'counts' as reading." An interesting judgment from someone who has never read the books at all.

In that same vein, one doesn't have to actually KNOW about something in order to deem it unworthy in her world. she has never seen an episode of the Simpsons, but can claim with all confidence that it is juvenile because it involves animation. Also, all video games are childish.

And yes, this is the same person who would let a teenage daughter die after a botched abortion because abortion is wrong and getting her child medical help would make her morally culpable for the abortion.

Hey. I run a few BSG slashy relayed fanlistings and I just thought I would post the links here.
 
Secret Agent - Sharon Valerii (Boomer)
Sharp | Hard | Cold - Helena Cain
She Bangs - Kara Thrace Fanfiction
Individual - Boomer & Starbuck
In The Dark - Grace Park
What Would A Cylon Do? - BSG 2003 Comic Series
 
I also run a SciFi banner exchange that can be found here and a small general fandom site; http://www.iknowstuff.org/ that currently has very little in the BSG fandom, (other then a wide variety of comic scans and a challenge generator) however we are on the looking for people to help out. Anyone interested in writing character bios or episode descriptions? We can use the help!

Tags: .pimping
Current Mood: silly

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

Recently several members of the BSG fandom noticed that fanfiction writers were not posting as many stories as they once had and, being the inquisitive people that they were, they began to discuss why this might be.

This discussion proved intriguing enough to prompt a couple of us to create a pair of polls exploring the complex relationship between fanfiction writers and readers as a means of getting to the bottom of this particular fandom mystery.

So if you are a reader or writer of Battlestar Galactica fanfiction, please head on over to our new community fandompollgeek and complete the appropriate poll (poll for writers; poll for readers). If you are both a reader and a writer, go ahead and complete both polls. Once we have our results we’ll post them to the community for everyone to review and discuss.

And if you, like us, are intent on solving the mysteries of the fannish universe via the most objective means LJ has to offer, or just happen to have an unnatural obsession with ticky-boxes and/or pie charts, please feel free to join the fandompollgeek community; after all, there are undoubtedly other fannish – or ficish – questions out there and it is our goal to answer them– preferably through the use of spreadsheets, bar graphs and pretty multi-colored pie charts.

But first, go and answer our writers and readers polls!

( lemme get that cowlick for ya )

During photography class, we were shown Richard Billingham's photos and I found this:

( best art photo ever )

Hey community! I promised some of my non-LOLcat-familiar friends that I would teach them about the LOLcats that started it all... but going through my archives, I realized I'm missing some important ones, such as "I are Serious cat" and "Happycat has run out of happy."

Anyone got these formative cat macros handy? Or any other important old cat macros that may come in handy?

For legal purposes, I will show some of my favorite macros that always make me laugh:



( Moar bribes here! )

Thanks for your help!

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Het
It All Came Tumbling Down~ 23/? by ruthkit Written in beyond_insane [Kara/Lee; M; Spoilers: All]
The Morning Light Has Washed Your Sins by crickets Written in bsg_creative [Caprica/Baltar; PG; Spoilers: Post Series]
Hour of the Wolf~ by geekbynight Written in bsg2003fics [Gaeta/Eight; R; Spoilers: None]
The Living VIII by umademebelieve Written in adama_roslin [Bill/Laura; NC17; Spoilers: None]
The Stars in Their Courses~ 9 by bugsfic Written in adama_roslin [Laura/Bill; T; Spoilers: 33]
Another’s Day’s… Work~ by tayryn Written in adama_roslin [Bill/Laura; MA; Spoilers: None]


Slash
Pleasure~ by bsg_aussiegirl Written in bsg_femslash [D’Anna/Kara; MA; Spoilers

Current Mood: relaxed

Still archiving commentfic, please disregard!

Title: he's as damned as he seems
Fandom: Star Trek reboot
Pairing: McCoy/Chapel
Rating: PG-13ish.
Summary: "'Chapel,' he says, his voice remarkably steady for someone who's probably well on his way to drinking himself into a coma." 900 words, originally written as commentfic for silverlining_99 (posted here). Title is taken from "Beautiful Disaster" by Kelly Clarkson.

( and more heaven than a heart could hold )

Tags: fic, mccoy/chapel, star trek