DPP: Love Languages

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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.

( need inspiration? )