DPP: Pimp Your Favorite Fandom Community/Site

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Greetings and salutations, 'shipper nation! This is Amy, known on your internets as ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...

What continues to amaze me in this fandom is the breadth of active BSG communities. To ease into the week, I thought it might be nice if we took a minute or two to pimp our favs.

My new obsession is icon-making. Have you heard about the new Lee-centric icon community, iconic_lee? You could do a lot worse than staring at images of Jamie Bamber all day! We're just a few weeks into things over there, but the pretty is just mind-numbing... Er, where was I headed with this? Don't know, don't care. Go. Look at teh pretty. You know you want to. We'll wait.

What about you? Do you have a favorite BSG haunt? It doesn't have to be at LJ. Is there a great screencap site you get your material at? A video collection or other media site? Somewhere you go to get your kink fix? Pimp away...

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

How appropos! I hope you all will come and join this brandy-new one:

(http://community.livejournal.com/pilotspresents)

SIGN UP FOR THE SECRET SANTA GIFT EXCHANGE: pilots_presents pilots_presents pilots_presents

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

OK back with another response!

My favorite site is the video clips collection of K/L scenes (used to be known as leeandkara.org) at http://karalee.boostcast.com. Dangerous though, cause I could spend all day there.

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Ha! Me too! I go there sometimes to, um, do research... :)

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Hurray for pilot-y holiday goodness!

[kag523.livejournal.com]

I'm obsessed with Lee Adama Daily. SO SO PRETTY!!!!

http://community.livejournal.com/leeadama_daily/

[kag523.livejournal.com]

That's an AWESOME manip - hee hee! Great job!

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

*clicks*

*drools*

I'm sorry. You were saying? 8'D

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

LOL. The best part is: It is NOT A MANIP!! THAT'S THEM! (This is the image I was searching for with that tineye site. Thanks so much for that! I had an icon but couldn't find the full picture!)

USA Weekend Magazine posed them super uncomfy like this for some cover article on regifting. It's really weird, there's not even any reference to BSG or Starbuck or Apollo or anything. Here it is in context:

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/3903/usaweekendoh4.jpg

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

O_o

Yikes... :)

[kag523.livejournal.com]

WTF???? That is just... bizarre!?!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say the exact same thing (get out of my head K) and saw this, so yes, my fave comm is Lee Adama Daily. As a Kara girl through & through, I need my "staring at the hotness that is Lee Adama" fix first thing in the morning. Nothing, er, wakes me up like Lee & a good cup of coffee. *g*

[kag523.livejournal.com]

No. I will not get out of your head. Shove over. I'm staying. :>)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I was wrong, there's actually a tiny, tiny reference to BSG and their real names to the right of the cover (it's half cut off on the scan).

It's still so bizarre and they look so weird (BUT FESTIVE! Lol.)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

HEY, AS A KARA GIRL THROUGH AND THROUGH, HOW ABOUT SOME LOVE FOR karathracelives?

Your logic. It is fail. :(

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I like to think Kara would whole heartedly approve of waking up with Lee. :D

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

LOL. No seriously, I'm sitting here actually laughing. I check that comm every morning too woman. I just don't comment. But I DO check it. I swear! If it makes you feel better, I don't comment on Lee Adama Daily either unless there's a discussion about tape and I feel the need to set people straight ;-)

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Fine. Just stop hogging the couch. *hands you some hot chocolate*

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

SOCKS!

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

But that's the problem! No one ever comments.

I'm thinking of shutting it down to be honest. :(

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Don't do that!!!! I love that comm. I personally don't comment because I have my own peculiar way of K/L shipping and I just don't want to get into long drawn out discussions with people mostly because my opinions tend to be pretty different. That might sound like chickening out, but I just don't want to end up in a heated debate with anyone, so I just stay away from commenting. I actually do that on all the comms that I watch, even this one. I comment on goofy, cracky, fun posts.

Don't take down the comm T. Seriously. It would be a sad, sad thing to do. We need our Kara comm and your posts are always so intriguing!

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Aside from no_takebacks, I get my daily fix at leeadama_daily and karathracelives. I also love karaleefic and nowadays I couldn't live without our amazing kag523's daily fic updates.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

But it's not a shipping comm. It's a comm about Kara.

I'd like to think we could all talk about her and her exploits without dragging the men into it or that if/when we do it's because they're tangential but necessary to discussion and we can all be polite about it.

But maybe that's not the case. :(

Honestly, the lack of response there really bums me out and it's hard for me to look forward to posting things there, rather than just viewing it as a daily chore.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

LOL. You know? kag523's daily posts do qualify her fics as a comm, huh?

*runs away to catch up on writing First Impressions*

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I think so, too. Thankfully she never seems to run out of ideas for fics. I have no idea how she does it (I've suspected she was a cylon herself to have all that creative energy.LOL)

And you... yeah, great idea... go back to writing... ;)
*gently shoves you towards the computer*

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Psssst, guys the Starbuck/Apollo Holiday Flashficathon is warming up the eggnog! saholidayflash saholidayflash saholidayflash saholidayflash saholidayflash saholidayflash Come party! :D

[kag523.livejournal.com]

OMG you guys are too funny! *hugs tight* I'M A COMM!!!!!! Hee hee! That is so exciting!

P.S. I am not a cylon, but my superpower is stealing people's time.

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

LOL.

PS. I sometimes think of you as the Duracell bunny, as well. :)

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahahaha. Okay K., THAT needs an icon, right there. You as the bunny. *g*

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Maybe.

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Remind me of this in a week, okay? I'm a little crazy busy writing right now. :>)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Okay - that's just a weird ass pose. They look like Barbie dolls. That is crazy!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

So, I've been pic-diving lately at Flickr (http://www.flickr.com). It's crazy, but there are a lot of people who post pics of Jamie Bamber. Many are con photos, but wow, some are incredibly hot! :)

[eridani8.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Living on the other side of the planet (i.e. where our DVDs don't have extended scenes) and being a relative new comer to the fandom, I'd never seen a lot of the cut scenes that can be found in that archive. Wow. It's like a revelation! :p

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! It's a great resource. Wish it went all the way up to the end of the show, but still pretty great.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm sorry to hear that the comm is turning into a chore for you :( Maybe it could something you post on once or twice a week? I really enjoy the 'meta' questions that you ask and I try to respond to those (at length :P) I'm just super-busy at the moment so sometimes it takes me a while to respond (and even longer to respond to a response to my response!)

But please don't force yourself to do something that's supposed to be fun!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Although something in me dislikes having to downgrade to a few times a week when there should be plenty of things to discuss about such an active and dynamic character. The intractable part of me and the part that hates to give up on things, probably means I'll keep it going anyway, just bums me out that people have so little to say about her.

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Do you ever invite guest mods as you do here at No_Takebacks? My week here at DPP was loads of fun to put together. It might give you a break and lure in new readers at the same time. I'll have to admit I've popped by karathracelives, but in the few times I commented I never received any responses, so I just kind of got out of the habit. *shrugs* My bad I suppose.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I don't know why people don't crosstalk there. It's kind of odd to me. I also feel like I will overwhelm the discussion sometimes if I'm always the one to be commenting/talking so I try to refrain from that because I don't want it to feel like MY LJ. You know? Maybe that's not the right tack to take...

I have asked a few times about other people posting, setting up a schedule.... no interest. :(

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... tell me if you need a week off sometime. And I'll make a concerted effort to get over there and participate, T.

*iz guilty of comm laziness*

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I think I'll probably make a longish "State of the comm" kind of post tomorrow to discuss the lack of participation, my fading enthusiasm, what people want out of the comm, etc. I'll bring up the idea of guest hosting again as well as dropping it down to be less-than-daily (although I think even less posts would mean less participation possibly, because you have a smaller chance of hitting someone's flist at the right time, etc.)