DPP: Creativity Week Day 7 - It's what we do (but why?)

[lizziec]

Remember, the posts are still open. If you're at a loose end this weekend then please come and play :)

Previously on DPP:
Monday: Dialogue - The play's the thing. Prompts are open, but no takers
Tuesday: Icons - There are some gorgeous pilots icons there for us all to share in, so please leave some love for the creators, and possibly make some of your own
Wednesday: Inner thoughts - What were they thinking?. Still some prompts open. Feel free to leave more prompts - or fill some. kdbleu has written a gorgeous ficlet here about Kara after EoJ/Rapture. Please stop by and leave her some love.
Thursday: Propaganda posters. There are some really brilliant ones, so please stop by and share in them. They're virtually guaranteed to make you smile :)
Friday: What's in the box? There are some absolutely fabulous drabbles here, so please stop by and read (and comment). There are also plenty of things still in the box, so dive in and play :D
Saturday: Advice - a couple of bits there that are well worth reading :)

Today's final DPP from me for this week is "It's what we do (but why?)". What drives you to create and/or view pilots stuff - fic, manips, icons etc? Are there any episodes/arcs that you feel especially driven to create around? Or look for stuff about?


Kara does it because she loves Lee, and he loves her ♥

Hope you have a great Sunday. You've been brilliant this week :) Your creativity always awes me :)

Comments

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Ok, I have thoughts...

At first, I thought it was all about fixing the wrongs done unto me and my bbs. I was completely gutted by the end for Kara and Lee and I knew that they didn't end up together but the way it was done killed me. But as I dipped my toe into fandom and actually writing, I realized it was more than that. BSG is for me just ripe with jumping off points for taking the 'other road' and exploring the plots and relationships I feel like the writers dropped. With so many 'what if...' moments it's hard not to play the possibilities. More recently, I recently I came to terms with my frequent discomfort the fics that explore without necessarily changing the outcome of canon. Character exploration pieces I understand and appreciate, but anything that changes and then resolves back to canon I find frustrating because I've seen that, I want to know what makes this change of course different and new. :)

I rarely write anything set in season 1. Part of the reason is that I really like the tone and direction of the show in general through the end of the Res Ship arc, but I also felt more hopeful about how the characters might grow and change in S1 and it's hard for me to write in that area without my (now dashed) feelings of hope sneaking in.

I am particularly fond of playing with the events of the Quad of Doom (UB to TAB) and with the second half of season 2 because there seem to be so many place where the characters could have made the other choice and changed things.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think I write and read about Lee and Kara (and fictional characters I've grown to love in other fandoms, for that matter) mainly because I miss them when there's nothing new coming in canon. I want to spend more time with them. That's really about it, I think. I'm not trying to fix much of anything. I just like to visit them, and I love stories that make me feel like they're really there, really themselves. I want to recognize them, no matter what they're doing.