DPP: All AU, All the time

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Good day to you all, today's post is a little bit on the late side because public transort in England is enough to frequently make you want to kill yourself. But on to happier things :)

Yesterday we talked about our musical inspiration when it comes to writing pilots fic, I have started compiling a new playlist of all your favourites, they were most excellent.

Today's show is slightly different.

I have a slight problem, I suspect that some of you share it, in that I SEE PILOTS EVERYWHERE! So today I thought we could talk about the other films/tv shows/books that you all think are PERFECT for Pilots.What do you want to see as a crossover? What stories would be made better with Kara and Lee as the main characters?

Can't think of any?




The BRILLIANT and as of yet unfinished *cough* The Cutting Edge by taragel




Beautiful poster by kag523 with accompanying fic Monkeys in Space by nazkey which is just really darkly beautiful and manages to evoke the tone of fight club without being fight club, so if you haven't read it yet, do.




Again, poster by kag523

Along with the strange melding of the two zany genius brains of kag523 and nazkey that takes the form of First Impressions which is a Pride and Prejudice crossover that doesn't have any cylons in it, but is wacky and wonderful anyway.

And then there's a whole host of stuff that kag523 graciously said I could mine from her stores for your inspiration, there are no accompanying fics for these, but you could always fix that if you liked ;)








Hopefully that's enough to keep everyone going! I have to go have a shower but I shall be back with some thoughts of my own, and possibly some incredibly cracked out manips. Have fun!

Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Actually, queenofthorns did write a K/L/Casablanca story: Of All the Gin Joints, part 1 (http://no-takebacks.livejournal.com/119634.html?thread=7049810#t7049810) and part 2 (http://no-takebacks.livejournal.com/119634.html?thread=7050066#t7050066). And there are a few Star Wars ones banging about.

My favorite crossover is rayruz's Fight the Break of Dawn (http://tulipfic.livejournal.com/63004.html), which puts Kara and Lee and Zak in the world of The Hunger Games.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

I stand happily corrected :) And reminded of how much I just need to READ HUNGER GAMES ALREADY!

[lizziec]

While washing up today (why is it I have all my random Pilots thoughts while washing up?) it suddenly occurred to me that Pilots are sort of like Les Mis. I could see Lee as Marius, with Kara as Eponine (she dies knowing that he doesn't love her like that after their Under The Wing talk) and Dee would be sort of like Cosette. Not really sure where anyone else would fit in there at the moment -- I finished my washing up before the thoughts could get any more formed.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Check this icon Amaliak made me. We had the same thoughts. ;) I filked some of it too in an old post: http://taragel.livejournal.com/98126.html. Sadly LJ ate the bottom of that post, including my last five favorite pilots moments which makes me want to cry a little. LJ sucks sometimes.

OH and I actually went ahead and filked/vidded Laura Dreams a Dream:
http://taragel.livejournal.com/145205.html

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

This is a really cool idea, I had never considered that before, although yeah, I don't know how you'd fit the other characters in. GET BACK TO THAT SINK WOMAN!!!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I love all of these! Crossovers are so fun and the manips really bring them to life. First Impressions does have cylons in it, although it is not explcitly stated. There are all sorts of strange goings on and two of the "sisters" are described as almost identical. A clue? You decide. ;)

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

:D Crossovers make me happy, there's just something about pilots that make me want to put them everywhere!

heh, I took those parts of First Impressions to be more like a kind of inside joke than hints to actual cylons, I may have to go back and reread in a new light :)

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

I am DYING of laughter at all of those manips! OMG, I can't decide which is my favorite! I think Lee's hair in the Scott Pilgrim one just made me pee my pants a little...

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

I recently rewatched Some Kind of Wonderful (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094006/) and Watts was making me think of Starbuck so much. I could see them in a High School AU and she would give him a kissing lesson. And the idea of Adama screaming "Where's the frakking money, Lee?" just about killed me dead.

I feel like In Plain Sight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0935095/) is a good pilot match. You have the snarky blonde bad ass who is great at her job (even though she doesn't follow all the rules) but lousy at her private life. You have her slightly effeminate but ruggedly handsome partner who knows how to handle her like no one else. She's even engaged to a nice looking ball player who sort of worships her but sort of doesn't really understand her - at least not to the extend her best friend/partner does.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

YES! Kara is Watt's. taragel and I have had this discussion before, and yeah, the daddy issues are all Lee. You should write this :D

I never watched In Plain Sight, but I can definitely see Katee in a Mary McCormack role, and that description does sound very piloty :)

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

On Twitter the other day, smack talk about the Red Sox-Phillies game (being pitched by Lee/Beckett) started talk of a crossover with Castle. Not that I've been thinking about it. 'Cuz I really haven't.

I haven't thought about murders in the fleet, in the style of a certain surviving famous author. Or that Starbuck and Apollo would be sent to Cloud 9 to meet said author and his former-Caprican-homicide-Detective/not-girlfriend.

I haven't thought about how Starbuck wouldn't like Castle, maybe until they played some Triad. And that Lee and Beckett might commiserate over their "partners" being loose cannons and sloppy with procedure.

And I certainly haven't thought about anyone getting jealous about anyone else getting attention from the opposite sex, 'cuz that works in too many directions.

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

Heee! Oh that'd be awesome. I can hear Starbuck annoyed that Beckett plans to chase bad guys around in heels and hairspray but in the end Kate and Kara save the day and bond over how amazing they both are. Then they go to the bar and discuss Michael Trucco.

Everyone put your HANDS ON THE KEYBOARD!

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Okay - I've decided since First Impressions is appearing up top that I'm totally taking over today's post using this post for leverage, and I'm just going to take a second to *cough* point out...



So yeah, maybe if you all would like Naz to do that, *smirks* you might want to... remind her of that today.

*hands back your microphone*

*waves on the way out*

Re: Everyone put your HANDS ON THE KEYBOARD!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahahahaha. See, if you hadn't mentioned this heckling on Twitter, I would've never even known. And just for that?



Okay. No. Wait. That's not a good idea. Okay, maybe I'll send it off … one of these days.

PS Um … there might be Cylons, you guys just never know, do you?

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

all of those are just awesome - well, on the Fight Club thing is just a guess because i didn't managed to read it until now but the premise sounds sort of perfect and you do have to take the author into account when you guess on stuff like this.

and yes, i see pilots in strange places but nothing really relevant comes to mind right now. that if don't consider the whole JAG thing. and maybe even Dark Angel.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

oooh...Dark Angel...I like this. Although I feel like Max is kind of too well adjusted for Kara, and Logan is maybe a bit too suave. I can totally see her on a bike breaking into compounds and generally kicking ass, and I can definitely see him as Eyes Only (and by the way, what eyes!). This is interesting...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Not sure I want to take on something as long as Ice!Pilots again, but been kicking around the idea of a While You Were Sleeping crossover. Kara as the subway worker (probably not a token taker, something a bit more interesting) with no family who saves poor Zak from death, but while he's in a coma she falls for the wacky family (yes they'd have to change a bit) and then in comes older brother Lee, who has daddy/job issues... and is very very skeptical of her until she wins him over... ;)

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

is it wrong that i can actually see that? well, with the necessary adjustments but still.... imo, the family part would be really tricky but the rest can totally work. maybe if instead of family would be the crew? *just thinking out loud*

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Has someone pimped rayruz's crossovers yet? She did an AWESOME Dollhouse one called Did I fall Asleep. She has others - ALL EQUALLY EPIC! Go. Go read them all NOW!

p.s. uberscribbler is doing a Fight Club fic too. I think he's going to repost on his live journal soon, but right now it's just Comment!Fic here. Check it out!

http://kag523.livejournal.com/165731.html?thread=2320227#t2320227
http://kag523.livejournal.com/165731.html?thread=2325091#t2325091
http://kag523.livejournal.com/165731.html?thread=2327395#t2327395

[winegums.livejournal.com]

OMG!!!!!!!! I was just about to rec Did I Fall Asleep too! It is EPIC indeed, and I love how she wrote Lee and Kara as well, our Lee and Kara - the scenes with pilots remembering what they'd forgotten (especially Kara's) had me simultaneously flailing and coming out in goosebumps. SO AMAZING.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Pilots should totally be in the Temeraire series (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temeraire-k-His-Majestys-Dragon/dp/0007258712/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308776654&sr=1-1), it's like Hornblower (oh hi, Jamie!) with DRAGONS(!!!) forming an air force. And the deadliest dragon breed in England will only accept female captains (see where we're going, here?).

IMO this is THE most perfect fit for pilots ever - they'll still be basically themselves, but flying dragons. It kind of helps that the main protagonist of the series is a sweet, principled young man, while his eventual love interest is a cigar-smoking, short-haired, incredibly blunt dragon jock - they're basically pilots already. Just, you know, with different accents.

PS: Because they command 20+ tons of flying beast, the aviators in Temeraire, let's say, aren't big on normal 1800s social rules like marriage (which ----> lots of sexing!!! among other things, but yeah).

[antismiles.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting on the Pirates of the Caribbean crossover. IT WILL HAPPEN.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Ha, you KNOW they'd be SO MUCH MORE BADASS than Will and Elizabeth.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I would also LOVE a Firefly/BSG crossover to pieces, I have a lot of fun imagining Lee as Simon (sweet, gentlemanly, devoted to his younger sibling) and Kara as Kaylee (cheery, great with machines - though she's a genius mechanic here and not a genius pilot - and loves sex). It wouldn't need more than minor adjustments to work, honest.

I love both couples, though I will admit I love pilots more.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

rayruz has written a Firefly crossover too! It's Out of The Black. Check her fic journal. It's really good, but the BSG people don't replace the Firefly peeps exactly, they just operate in that universe, sometimes along side them (Chief & Kaylee are a ship).

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

So I wanted to discuss these earlier, and I've mentioned them before, but I decided I wanted some visual aides. So these are my pet pilots crossover ideas.

Love and Basketball/Love and Pyramid - I was going to do some kind of really cracky manip but it just kept looking really creepy. So just the trailer shall have to do.




Aaandd...Young Americans/Young Capricans, which I may be writing...veeeery slowly.



There are others, but these are the ones I keep coming back to :)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Lol. LEE'S ARMS ARE SO SKINNY! Heh.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Such a fun topic! I love K's manips to pieces. They are so much fun to look at.

So a few days ago I was watching Up and the first 30+min of the movie just reminded me of pilots. It was fun to watch the spunky Ellie just come and take over Carl's life and how they inseparable from the moment they met. Animated movies never remind of pilots but I could very easily replace Ellie and Carl with Kara and Lee. Plus I can totally see Lee doing something like Carl to fulfill Kara's dream. :)

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD the beginning of UP just DESTROYED me. I have NEVER cried in the first twenty minutes of a film before. It was just so tragic!

They are so pilots! They even wanted to fly. Now I'm really sad.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Last week, I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the first time. And all I could think about was Butch Apollo and the Starbuck Kid (okay the "Butch Apollo" thing sounds awful, but it's hard to make anything sound good with "Butch," and "Apollo" is kind of a one-name thing, a la Cher). So somebody please, indulge me. Write me a fic. Make a manip (K, I'm looking at you). Tell me I'm not totally crazy.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

"Make a manip (K, I'm looking at you). Tell me I'm not totally crazy."

She totally already did! (http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/No%20Takebacks/Naz-ButchSundance.jpg)


You're not crazy, not even at all :)

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

See, my AU ideas are generally more vague. Sort of a pick a totally un-Galactica setting, insert characters, write your own story idea.

Like the college/barista AU I randomly started once where Kara, Helo, the Chief, Boomer, and Sharon were all grad students who owned a coffee shop.

Or lately I've really wanted a Titanic AU. Not, like, a recasting of the movie, but where Adama is Captain Smith and the Galactica crew are stewards etc, etc.

Oh, or there was the time I wanted a Wicked AU where Kara was Elphaba, Lee was a Galinda/Fiyero mash-up.

I love AUs. So much. Can Kara be Jack Skellington now?

I'M HERE … SO WATCH OUT!!!!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

First off, thanks for the shout outs on the post and the pimpage of my late night comment!fic turned actual fic.

Here are my recs:

Link to all of rayruz's BSG/Dollhouse crossover page (http://tulipfic.livejournal.com/tag/%23dollhouse%3A%20paul) because they are all seriously EPIC.

Another rayruz fic of awesome: BSG/Firefly crossover Serenity (http://tulipfic.livejournal.com/68122.html) which she wrote for me (so of course, I love, love, love it)

shah_of_blah wrote a pretty cool BSG/Lost one here: With the Tide (http://shah-of-blah.livejournal.com/49193.html) I think this verse is totally ripe for major crossovers.

Of course, Ice Pilots is a lot of fun and YES, I PROMISE TO FINISH ACT 3 OF FIRST IMPRESSIONS, but then you'd have to wait for Acts 4 & 5. LOL.

Here's some more Fassy to ease the pain.

(http://s853.photobucket.com/albums/ab92/nazkey/?action=view&current=tumblr_lna1mq11Ze1qkp1awo1_500.gif)

Re: I'M HERE … SO WATCH OUT!!!!

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

FASSY EASES ALL PAIN.

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

Call me crazy but I would love a BSG crossover with a rom-com. Like Sweet Home Alabama just so Kara can say "You don't wanna marry me. I gave my heart away a long time ago. My whole heart. And I never really got it back."

And my favorite crossover is wisteria_'s Aegis (http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/993982.html/)

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

I meant http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/993982.html

[amaliak.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's been a lot of crack!crossover involving our dear pilots.

but I agree with several comments above and say that HANDS DOWN the best ones have been:

-wisteria_'s Aegis (http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/993982.html) which contains my favorite xover!ship EVER: Matt/Kara.

-rayruz's "Did I fall asleep?"

-innibis's Frakked Up Fairy Tales.

There's also sunshine_queen's BSG: Mean Girls (http://sunshine-queen.dreamwidth.org/tag/bsg+mean+girls). Not pilots necessarily, but still damn funny.

On that note, SoSayWeAll (http://sosayweall-.tumblr.com) made this:



of things that I've made, there's also kag523's Happy Days idea:


and my own crack!idea:

(which there may or may not be fic for already as well)

also, (based on a con identifier for Jamie)

and I'm working on Raiders of the Lost Tomb fic.

yes.


Also, thanks to pali167, I am now going to be working on a quick X-Men/BSG fic.

Why?
BECAUSE MAGNETO IS THE INSTANT CYLON DETECTOR.




WHADDUP.



cheers.
--Lex

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

well, CSI:Caprica would be something. but the small problem would be that the CSI franchise has even worse track record with ships than BSG. but it would still be interesting.

*just saying*