DPP: Meta-ing the Meta

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

 Happy Thursday, everyone! :)

Today I thought it would be cool to share some love for no_takebacks...this is such an amazing fandom community! I would love to hear your favorite thing about no_takebacks, what you enjoy (or what drives you nuts) about it, why it enriches your life, funny stories from your time here, or any other comm-love you'd like to share!

Comments

[sammy567.livejournal.com]

no_takebacks is awesome because you guys are insightful, ridiculously talented, hilarious, and super creative. the stories, ideas, manips, captions are ALL awesome. I check in everyday if I can, hoping for a DPP post (refresh, refresh, refresh), along with new comments (refresh, refresh, refresh).

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Long, rambly story about my love of the comm...

This is not my first crazy internet fandom. My RL friends know this, but still I get the eyerolls when I try to share a funny-thing-happened-at-the-comm story. And then one day, after I had long ago given up trying to explain things, a friend who volunteers with a house rabbit rescue organization realized she's met people on the internet, then met up with them at conventions. ORLY?! The scifi/TV show bit still makes me seem somehow MORE kookie, sure, but now at least she gets finding people with similar interests and talking about stuff your other RL friends could give a flying frak about.

I've made a number of friends here. I've met a couple of folks in RL (aurora_0811 and lurkrealclose when the mini was shown at a Boston theatre), with talk of someday meetings others. We tweet, IM, exchange stories and emails. We rewatch, snark, and stare at pretty pictures and gifs. We share a love of teh angst. We do memes to share ourselves, we comment on each others' Facebook statuses. We fangirl (oh, do we fangirl) [I know I should be gender-neutral and fan-something-else for at least Dave's sake, but I'm stuck with fangirl].

We talk meta here- deconstruct characters and choices and scenes. We write poetry and comment!fic and epics. We post teh pretty. We get silly. We try to fix what The Powers That Be broke. We commiserate over the things about BSG and Kara and Lee that mean something to each of us. The conversations aren't always serious, but they're always respectful. Sometimes I read things that are so well-thought-out and reasoned that I cannot deny their blistering truth. And sometimes I'm moved by what someone has shared.

Sure, it was just a show. And sure, we're all faceless avatars who could really be anyone. But we share a common passion, and it's been nice to know that every day (or very nearly), I'll have something to read related to Starbuck and Apollo and their never-ending love of epic angst.

<3 <3 <3

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Well said, well said! I feel like it's the end of The Breakfast Club! "We are all fangirls, every one of us... (YES EVEN YOU DAVE!)" ;)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Sure, it was just a show. And sure, we're all faceless avatars who could really be anyone. But we share a common passion, and it's been nice to know that every day (or very nearly), I'll have something to read related to Starbuck and Apollo and their never-ending love of epic angst.

So say we all.

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

so very well said :) thank you for sharing!

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

I haven't been around here much in the last few months (and I see a TON of new faces), but I'll always remember that no_takebacks and the rewatch got my out of lurkerdom.

I've met a ton of amazing people through this comm, and I can't wait to see some of you again at Dragon*Con in a few months :D

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

This has been my first comm ever and I love everything about it. The people, the discussions, the amazing insights, the sillyness, the creativity, the recs ... I wish I had more time and talent to contribute more, but even when I don't comment, I check it out pretty much every day and it always adds some joy to my daily life. No_takebacks FTW!!!!!

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Ok, well this is a great idea for DPP.

This is the first comm I've ever been a part of where everyone has been so consistently welcoming and engaged in conversation and open to new people even though you all know each other so well already. I love this comm because I felt immediately welcomed here, and because you don't have to "earn" cool points or attention or anything, you just show up and flail about pilots and people respond with flailing of their own, and then it's just a huge flail party.

And lords know I love a flail party.

Other things I love, crazy awesome amounts of pretty pilots stuff, pictures and gifs and nutty cracky manips that are both creepy and hilarious, tonnes of new fic to read with all the comment!fic and recs, there's always something I haven't read yet, which for a fandom where the show has been finished for this long, is totally amazing.

In short, I LOVE NO TAKEBACKS, AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS! (someone had to do it right? right?)

Man this was mushy!

P.S. Dannica, where is this picture from? I always want to know and forget to ask when people post it.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

I just want to second gratitude for the welcoming vibe! I've convinced a couple people to watch this show since I got hooked, but no one wants to go on and on about it. Fangirl about it, if you will :) This place is fabulous!

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

FLAIL PARTY. LOVE. so much truth.

& squee at I LOVE NO TAKEBACKS AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS!

i actually don't know where that picture is from - i was looking for the hugging moment from home and couldn't find it but this came up in my image hunting so i used it instead :) maybe someone else might? i'll keep looking.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

It's likely a rehearsal shot from He That Believeth in Me. Because they were hugging (there's another shot where it looks like she's kissing his cheek, but I think it's just the way their faces are aligned), but her hair is in the ponytail instead of down.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the ponytail is what was putting me off, rehearsal makes sense :)

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

FLAIL!!! FLAIAIAFLAFIAFLAIFLIAFLILFIALFLAIL!!!!

Hehe, it was dorky, but I kind of had to :D

♥

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Hey there! I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents about the picture. I'm pretty sure it's a behind-the-scenes shot of the two actors as they are rehearsing/filming the scene in "He That Believeth in Me" (first episode of Season 4) where Kara comes back from the dead in her shiny Viper and Lee runs to her and hugs her. From the looks on their faces it looks like they are listening to the director or someone else off-camera telling them something, and then they are about to do the scene. So cute.

There are actually a couple great shots like that which were taken during rehearsal/filming, where you can see the two of them doing a scene, but then once the actual episode airs you can see that the director went with a different take and so there is no screencap that matches what you see in the picture. Here are a few of my favorites, one from Colonial Day, one from Maelstrom, and one from what looks like Scar, maybe? None of these moments/images appear in the actual episodes, but they are adorable.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

:D Pretties! Thank you, I have also always wondered where that last one is from, it's just so cute!

I really want to hear whatever conversation they're having in the Colonial Day picture, it's just so perfectly them in that moment. *sigh*

[winegums.livejournal.com]

*AIEEEEEEEEEEE PILOTS TOGETHER!!!!!!! PILOTS RUBBING NOSES!!!*

I know a million people have said this, but I absolutely LOVE how the concept of personal space just doesn't seem to exist for them - they're always in each others faces.

Oh, and that Colonial Day pic makes me want to cry a little bit, considering how everything went to hell afterwards.

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

BSG is my first...and last... fandom. While I adored Kara and Lee from the first time I saw them, fandom has made me love them even more. I wax lyrical about how amazing the world is. Friends now span the globe, and what sends us into passionate paroxysms shows me how much alike we all are. Pilots and No_Takebacks have made the world smaller, friendlier, cozier, more united.

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

"Pilots and No_Takebacks have made the world smaller, friendlier, cozier, more united."
YES THIS! <3 <3 <3

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I love no_takebacks because it's the only place where I can listen to lovely, insightful, welcoming people like the ones here still talking about pilots.

This is despite the fact that they* frequently make me want to weep, and it's been two years since Daybreak (which I watched early last month because it took me TWO YEARS to get over the fact that there was no more BSG and no more Pilots, and this was the last I'd have of them).

In short: Pilots have RUINED me for any other TV pairing, I probably feel the same way about the ship that they do about each other, and despite making my peace with Daybreak, Part 2 it's only here that I feel like I'm among my own, i.e. people who get it.

*pilots, not comm members!

[dannicawebb.livejournal.com]

i love no takebacks SO much :) bsg was far from my first fandom - my first fandom obsession was jag, but i haven't been active in fandomy stuff for jag in about ten years. my next super strong fandom obsession was (and still is) ncis, and it's the one i've gotten most involved with and ficced the most, met people offline, that sort of thing. i still am involved with the ncis fandom a lot, but finding bsg was so so awesome for me and i've begun to feel super at home in the bsg fandom.

i'm relatively new to bsg and was a bit intimidated to join communities and get involved in fandom as i started ficcing, but i immediately felt at home here. there are other communities that i'm active in, but very few exist with this sense of close-knit coziness. i love the dpp because it's like a little bit of joy in my life every day - i don't always have time to respond but some days it is the complete highlight of my day. seeing new pilots love every day just reminds me of how much i love the ship and the show, and everyone here has been really warm and welcoming, so i can't thank y'all enough for that and for creating this space.