DPP: Love Languages

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

The idea of "love languages" was popularized by Gary Chapman in his Christian marriage book, The 5 Love Languages. Chapman describes five specific love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, giving/receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. His theory is that individuals have specific ways they communicate love, and ways love is best communicated to them, and to understand one another's love languages would help relationships because couples would be better able to communicate love to one another in the way we need to hear it.

Now, leaving aside the marriage-therapy-talk and the fact that he was discussing healthy relationships and pilots can be dysfunctional at best, LOL, I thought it would be interesting to look today at how Kara and Lee communicate love to one another (or how we wish they would/envision them doing in fic). In canon, as far as we know, there are very few sweeping declarations of love...just Lee's "I love you" in Home and the legendary "LEE ADAMA LOVES KARA THRACE"/"KARA THRACE LOVES LEE ADAMA" in Unfinished Biz. However, one could argue they tell each other they love each other all the time...in the way they fly, work together, touch one another, kick ass and take names together, etc. etc. etc. You get the picture. (I hope.)

 

SO. Today we will be talking about how pilots SHOW love for one another (I'm going to go all fifth grade English teacher and say SHOW DON'T TELL, childrens). This can take the form of vids, clips, gifs, metadiscussion of moments in the series that fit the theme or when you wish they'd shown love for one another, fic, drabbles, fic recs that fit the theme, whatever you want! I want to see some luuuurrrrve.


I was going to post more but they stopped loading :*( Here are a few clips to get you going though...

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Fanfic Fanvid

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Is it real...? *shifts nervously* Define real. Hmmm?

In any case, I made this a while back and it JUST might fit this topic. K :>D

Intaglio Mashup Trailer (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgqrok_intaglio-mashup-trailer_shortfilms) by kag523 (http://www.dailymotion.com/kag523)

HUGE kudos to ddt73 for finding all the footage for this! Woot!</b?

Re: Fanfic Fanvid

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten all about this vid, which I loved the first time I saw it (and it actually served as a trailer for me, inspiring me to read the fic).

Now I still love it, but it's a lot funnier having seen more of Katee and Jamie's filmographies. (Man, White Noise II really suited this project!)

Re: Fanfic Fanvid

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for this! All of the WOW factor on the vid clips has to go to ddt73, since Dave single-handedly found all of those clips. He's AMAZING! I'm glad you enjoyed the vid! K :>D

Re: Fanfic Fanvid

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

i love all of your trailers SO much but i think intaglio might be my fave. i've been working my way through your aus and i haven't read that one yet, but after re-watching the trailer i'm dying to read it now... hehehe :) the clip mashup is really amazing work. i also love the graffiti'ed all of this has happened... & where he is she needs to be too :) SO SO TRUE.

Re: Fanfic Fanvid

[kag523.livejournal.com]

I get crazy obsessed with doing little tiny special effects (which take more time than they are probably worth) so when someone mentions them I end up grinning. *GRINNING LIKE CRAZY* So uh... THANK YOU!!!

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Well, pilots! and their relationship are as much, if not more, about what goes unsaid between them as what they actually manage to say or let slip (see my icon for an example).

I mean, I wait and long for the letting things slip, but it's THAT MUCH MORE intense because they don't say it out loud, but know it anyway.

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

YES THIS. i think that's why i love the love languages idea so much - because pilots are amazing at showing they love each other and it means so much because they almost never say it. i love the moment from your icon especially :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

*sigh* that was the moment that turned me into a pilots!shipper for life - before that, I was all "oh, attractive young leads snarking at each other, I am genre-savvy enough to know how this will turn out, ha ha!"

What got me to stop being smug and turn into a fangirl was the look on Kara's face in that scene when she saw him, and Lee being adorable and underplaying the fact that he's, y'know, NOT DEAD, and both of them trying to defuse the EPIC UST with jokes (and me going "aieeeeeee, holy frak there's something already there!").

Pilots have basically ruined me for any other ship, especially the kind that do witter on about their "feelings" at length. It just seems so empty compared to them, if less painful . And I'm sorry to be gabbling, but the idea of miniseries!pilots just sets me off.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

just for reference, this was my icon up there - changing the tags changed it to default.