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So, where do you all stand on songfics and fanmixes?

A couple months ago (while procrastinating on the paper I posted a few days ago) I accidentally committed songfic, which seems a little embarrassing. But then I thought about it and I think that in the BSG fandom, songfic is really canonically sanctioned. After all, they wrote in Watchtower, so we should be able to write modern songs into the universe, too. Right? I don't know. Read the fic if you like, and see what you think.

Taking Chances
Takes place after the poof. No spoilers other than the poof.

In terms of fanmixes, I know I asked last week about song lyrics for icons, but what can I say? I like music. I thought I'd start us out with the celebrity iTunes playlists that Katee and Jamie each posted about a year and a half ago. Playlist titles and covers are mine.



1. I'll Think of Reasons Later - Lee Ann Womack
2. Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
3. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
4. Stay - Sugarland
5. Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Angry All the Time - Tim McGraw
7. When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls
8. Nothin' Better to Do - LeAnn Rimes
9. No One - Alicia Keys
10. Best of You
11. Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
12. Just to See You Smile - Tim McGraw
13. Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
14. Head Over Feet - Alanis Morrissette



1. Cherry Lips - Archie Bronson Outfit
2. Liberation - OutKast
3. Atrocities - Antony & the Johnsons
4. Songbird - Eva Cassidy
5. Creep - Radiohead
6. Space Oddity - David Bowie
7. All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan
8. First Breath After Coma - Explosions in the Sky
9. Love and Affection - Joan Armatrading
10. Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
11. Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake
12. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
14. Beautiful Day - U2

(Since there's no signifier for links on the community page, a quick note. Clicking on the album covers will take you to the zip files)

Daily Pilots Post

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Two questions today:

1. What's your personal fanon for how Starbuck and Apollo got their callsigns? There's no official reason given in the show (I'm told Kara's is explained in one of the comics, which I have but haven't read yet, but having read most of the comics, I'm rather loathe to count them as any kind of canon) but there has to be a reason she came out Starbuck and he Apollo. (Because there were characters with those names in the original is NOT a valid reason)

2. What advice would you give to a person for whom BSG was her/his first "real" fandom? How would you explain fandom to a newbie?