DPP, Day One. REC-O-RAMA.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Bee!Club week on the DPP!!!**

The rules of Bee!Club are simple...


The FIRST rule of Bee!Club is... we don’t talk about Bee!Club.
No wait---that’s not right.  Of course we talk.  Talking is what we do, yo.  Talk it up in the comments---bring me your thinky thoughts, your gifs, your crack, bring your ficlets and drabbles and bears oh my!  I wants it all.  The DPP is all about the conversation.

The SECOND rule of Bee!Club is... we dont talk about Bee!Club.
Shit!  That’s not right either.  Of course we talk, and second only to talking about the Topic ‘O The Day (tm) is talking to each other.  I have met some of my very bestest of buds by straying over into someone else’s convo and setting up camp.  It’s fun!  It’s ridiculous!  You might find the COOLEST KIDZ EVAR!  Just give it a whirl.  The worst thing you can do this week is stay in your own little  sandbox comment thread and never venture out.  I’ll bring the punch and pie.  All you gotta do is show up. *g*


So, today’s theme is REC-O-RAMA!!!!

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ETA:::::Apologies in advance, y'all.  LJ cut is not working for me, so you get this gianormous post all up on yo' interntez.  Sorries. :-/

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Here’s the deal:

1.  You rec three fics.

2.  You tell us WHY you recc’d those fics.  
Greatest Story Ever Told? Sentimental favorite?  Has the greatest alpha!Lee or badass Kara imaginable?  Made you see the monumental rightness of babyfic?  Got you hooked on the hawtness?  Best wallsex, hate!sex, angsty!sex, sweet!sex, crazy!bad!wrong!dirty!sex ever? Pre-mini perfection or post-poof healing?  Canon, AU, no-U?  WHAT-EV-ER.  But you have to tell us why you love it.  (B/c we peeps is nosy and we wants to know.)

3.  Here’s the twist:  To make this a true rec-o-rama and avoid the same golden oldies cropping up (not that we don’t love ‘em but they’re classics for a reason, y’all), if a story’s already been recc’ed, you cannot rec it again-- you’ve got to come up with new fics to rec.  (Of course, if you see a story you love crop up in the comments feel free to squee about it until Bee calls last round and kicks your drunk ass out of this bar for the evening till the cows come home.)

It’s doesn’t have to be old-- it doesn’t have to be a classic.  Just tell me what’s struck you lately.  What have you been reading that makes you smile?

4.  Here’s where it gets awesome-- feel free to play multiple times.  I want this to be the rec post to end all rec posts, full of holiday fun and cheer and fantastic reading material.  So please---come back for seconds, m’kay?

Got it?  Sweet.  Here are three to get us started:

1.  Possibility: Different by mystic83
SO much love for this story, y’all.  I first discovered it when I was new to the show and a total lurker!bee and had only barely heard of fannish things (What is this fan fiction you speak of?  What?  AU?  What?)  And I stumbled across this little gem that imagines a world where the attacks never happened and K/L get to work their shit out over the course of a lovely little weekend.  It just made my heart go pity-pat in all the right ways and sealed the deal as far as my love of fic goes.  From that moment on, I was like  YES.  MOAR.  PLS.

2.  Kara Thrace’sTerrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Special Destiny by taragel
I love this story for two reasons-- one, it was the first tfic I ever beta’d (and I love my betabee fics like WHOA-- rest assured well dicuss more on this topic later), and also?  It’s wonderfully cracky and funny and earnest and a fantastic little love letter to our ship at a time post-finale when were were all needing a reason to smile.

(And OMG the identity of the One True Cylon God is just genius, y’all.)

Warnings--- for pigeon violence.

3.  Periapsis by peri_peteia(f/k/a rawles)
One of the great stories ever told by a giant of the previous generation.  A re-imagining of Lee and Kara’s journey as if they were both fully functioning psychopaths, all Dexter-style.  It sounds insane and it kind of is---and I’m not going to lie, it can read a little harsh and shocking at times but it’s totally why it works.  Moreover, the really unbelievable thing about this story is that the characterizations are staggeringly authentic.  And it does such a wonderful job of highlighting the distance pilots always kind of feel from everyone else, from the entire world at large.  From every one but each other.  I’ve long suspected that the have an incredibly humanizing and simultaneously destabilizing influence on each other and this fic just spells it out with each gorgeous word.  The writing is also effortless and yet so carefully constructed.  Run, don’t walk to this one, y’all.


So there are my intital offerings.  Come on out and bring some more to the table. Go forth and par-tay my lovelies.  :D


**THE INEVITABLE DISCLAIMER
If my over-the-top take-no-prisoner-style offends you, um... sorry?  Just know that I don’t really take anything seriously (least of all myself) , and I’m really quite nice so long as I stay well-fed and watered, and also that fandom is all about the fun.  So jump in a live a little.  ; P  

Comments

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Well, my taste tends to run to the character study, I think. Hard-hitting, insightful, spare. I love walking away from a story feeling like I finally figured out something about a character I love that had eluded me before. Here are three favorites in that vein:

tomorrow's dust (flares into breath) (http://bsg2003fics.livejournal.com/285532.html?style=mine) by spamdilemma. Lee loves first, and you follow. This is a Zak-POV take on Lee; gorgeous, concise, quiet, poetic, and sad, it says so much about Lee's feelings for both Bill and Kara. And it really highlights all Lee's contradictions, the tremendous passion - both anger and love - that he keeps so tightly under wraps, and the way he winds up cheating himself out of the things he wants because he can't bear to be open with people. And Zak just makes me love him here, because he is so open, even in the last moments of his life.

Amateur (http://fahye-fic.livejournal.com/30990.html) by mercurial_wit. Everyone's probably already read this one, but what can I say? I love it. It is a Sam-POV piece on Kara and Lee and eventually Kara/Lee, and it performs the miraculous and actually does right by everybody in the Quad of Doom. It shows how beautiful each of these characters is, how much they care about each other, and it allows Sam both to appreciate Kara for the amazing person she is and also to come into his own as an independent guy who isn't anyone's doormat and who has talents and gifts all his own.

And I'll go ahead and rec Against (http://hell-fic.livejournal.com/5061.html) by spoonishly just because that author's fic is rather difficult to find so I bet some of you haven't read this before. It's an AU take on what happens when Kara comes back from Caprica with the Arrow of Apollo, and there's something really right about her interactions with kinda!rebel!Lee. Bum Wheel (http://hell-fic.livejournal.com/6555.html) by the same author is also a winner; one of the best hurt-comfort fics ever written. So delightfully in-character.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

**SEALCAPS**

Character studes... so much yes to this.

Amateur is just ... inspired. And more than anything to me it feels like such a thorough study of Kara (which is so insanely difficult to do, as getting across her nuance in fic is I think one of the most challenging things to do when writing her.) Two of my favorite bits in particular:

What’s frakked up about the whole thing is that Anders knows this: if Kara had to choose between them, one to live and one to die, she’d probably still pick him.

It’s not love. It’s guilt, and it’s duty, and it’s the simple fact that her head tells her that her boyfriend has higher priority than her captain. And Kara listens to her head far more than most people realise, because it’s a damn sight less complicated than listening to her heart.

And what’s really frakked up is that Anders now knows this: she liked him better when she didn’t have him. When she could carry him around like an invisible shield against life and love and Lee. When he was alive enough to be an excuse, but dead enough to feed the guilt that keeps her on a narrow crazed trajectory through her own existence. Actually having him there is finally derailing her, disturbing the ecosystem, knocking them all out of orbit, any of a million scientific metaphors that he could name.


And also this (and just a great description of a kiss in its own right):

But it’s been just over three weeks since Anders left her fighting tears in the middle of the officers’ quarters, and when he finally walks into one of the workout rooms to find them pressed up against a wall he almost doesn’t recognise them. Of all the ridiculous things. Their eyes are closed, Lee’s hands cupping her face and resting at her waist, hers curled up against his chest. Anders steps back and watches them from the hatchway, adjectives presenting themselves in his mind: slow. Careful. Deep.

It doesn’t look exciting, or dangerous, or rough, or spontaneous, or any of those things he would normally associate with Kara Thrace.

What it does look is real.



GAH! **and Bee is ded**

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

Reunion (http://choosing-sarah.livejournal.com/tag/reunion) by  choosing_sarah is one of my VERY FAVORITE fics.  It's STILL a WIP but it's so compelling about what would happen if Lee and Kara got a mulligan (a do over)

Lee and Kara, Kara and Lee (http://literarylemming.livejournal.com/194098.html) by literarylemming is number 2.  I just love the way they FINALLY work through their shit!

Contrecoup (http://fahye-fic.livejournal.com/29199.html) by fahye_fic I just love the way it's written! that's why

also, i've never done these cuts and links before so i hope they work


 

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

haven't read tomorrow's dust in a long time and now my heart just hurts.

I love amateur. I'm not sure if i've read the other one so thanks.

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

Ugh! I am garbage at keeping track of fic that I like. #totalfail

But I am stellar at reading other people's recs. #itbalancesout

[kag523.livejournal.com]

Through Violence with Love (http://sci-fi-shipper.livejournal.com/79669.html) by sci_fi_shipper

I love this story SO MUCH! First, because it's an EPIC TALE of Lee and Kara. Second, because it's a PERFECT crossover with Fight club... and by perfect I mean that neither story stays the same. This isn't a 'replace Name A, with Name B". It's fully formed on its own. Last...? Because IT'S ONE OF THE HOTTEST THINGS I'VE EVER READ and sci_fi_shipper is in her full glory as a storyteller with this fic.

He Kindly Stopped For Me (http://rachelindeed.livejournal.com/11816.html) by rachelindeed

First, please just go into this next story realizing that Rachel could write out my grocery list and I would LOVE IT! The woman has a way with words that FREAKS ME OUT! And since I'm a big word nerd AND history nerd... then this fic is for me. It's an allegorical retelling of the Kara / Lee story with so much beauty it just leaves the reader aching. Wow!

Kepela (http://howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com/20145.html) by howlinchickhowl

I love angst. Let me say that again: I LOVE ANGST! And this fic - seen through a variety of snapshots - has exactly that... along with a slowly unfolding storyline and realizations about the nature of Kara's personality which addresses all of her major relationships. It's as much a character study about her as a lovely retelling of canon. So worth reading!

Awesome topic Bee! These three popped to mind but I'll be back again later with more!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Gah! Yes! Tomorrow's Dust has such a wonderfully drawn Zak in it. I love Zak to pieces, so I always really like to see good protrayals of him. And the isolationist way he presents Lee here-- just wonderful. Liek some otherworldly creature. The distance works so well.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Is Reunion still being continued? I heard talk that it was...

Also-- You did it! Huzzah! you have now WON THE INTERNETS. :D

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

You think you're gonna get out of this assignment just by being all adorable? No way, missy! REC UP!

(doesn't quite have the same ring as "suit up" does it? ; P)

[koolaidmom11.livejournal.com]

Great great choices!!!!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Would you believe I've missed reading all three of these???? **promptly considers climbing on to window ledge**

I blame the baby!bee hiatus. ((I blame the baby!bee hiatus for most of the moments where I've discovered I've checked my brian in the luggage compartment.))

Awesome! And I'm excited to see newer recs! This is good. It's always great to be reminded about the stuff that still out there getting written.

**TACKLEGLOMPS FANDOM**

You better be back, bb. I'm a-countin' on it. :D

[kag523.livejournal.com]

It takes me forever to locate fics (as I never actually bookmark anything) but I'm DEFINITELY coming back. There are a couple more poking at my brain. No worries. More more MOARRRR!!!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

**waves**

Hi there, New-to-Fandom Person!!! :D

It's awesome to have you here. This is a fantastic bunch of people (--you see how I'm not bothered with modesty? it only adds calories--), and it's a very welcoming and lovely place to hang out. AND OMG, IT'S ALWAYS SO HAPPY TO MEET A NEW SHIPPER! Woo!

Okay, now to business.

Excellent recs. Claira's (stars_like_dust's) stuff is legendary and her voice with pilots is something I think stands alone (and I'm saying that coming from a group that's neck-deep with talented writers). But there's just something, a way her pilots capture me. Almost like I'm reading them for the first time.

Ditto with fahye. Different style but alamringly authentic (and masterfully so).

Beautifully written porn. And methinks the world be a better place if there was more of that.

I don't think you can ever go wrong with this sentiment. Ever. It should be on a t-shirt. *g*

Again--welcome!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I fail with bookmarking too. I'm always like shit! Where was that story? And then three days later I finally locate it again. Must get better about this.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Oh-- and as for fancy links? I've been around for a good long while and I've never learned how to do them so no worries about that. Sometimes you just have to throw in the towel when faced with the dancing robot montage and let the Roomba win. ; P

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

Aw c'mon! *pouts*

That's how I get out the rest of my assignments and it almost ALWAYS works. Dang! You're a strict one. Whelp, maybe I'll try to think of some after this staff meeting.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

**assumes the Hands-On-Hips Strict Schoolmarm Pose**

I know you have it in you. Just tell me what's been rocking your world lately. Don't even have to post links. We keep technologically talented fangirls around for that sort of thing. ; P

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

To challenge myself, I'm going to do authors that haven't been recced yet either...

All I need is the air that I breathe (and to love) (http://fadingphantom.livejournal.com/9890.html) by fadingphantom. Because it perfectly encapsulates so many things that I love about pilots but never put into words (they’ve never said goodbye, not really, because they are both supposed to know deep down that their someday will come). Because it will make you weep bitter tears. Because it's beautiful.

denial (anr.livejournal.com/252187.html) by anr. In case that last one didn't make you cry, check out this heart-stopping number. But seriously, if anyone hasn't read this yet, what are you waiting for? Get your ass over there.

This Transparency (http://moodfic.livejournal.com/76079.html) by voleuse. Because it could have happened like this, and maybe it should have.

[wicked-sassy.livejournal.com]

1) kag523's "Chain Reaction (http://kag523.livejournal.com/208940.html)." Collaborative fic is awesome! AcademyPilots ftw!

2) taragel's "Five Tattoos Lee Didn't Get (And One He Finally Did) (http://taragel.livejournal.com/157146.html#cutid1)" because I love tattoofic.

3)embolalia's recent "A Day at the Beach (http://embolalia.livejournal.com/21197.html#cutid1)" is great--I'm a sucker for pre-mini AU.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

YES, DAMMIT!!! MAKE ME CRY!!!

I have not read the first two. Very excited for both.

The third. So much yes. And I adore the Neruda reference. Can't go wrong there. ; )

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Aww yay! These are all so much fun. And yes, tattoo!fic should be it's own subcategory.

My very favorite of the genre would have to be Pulic Property by isla_verdad: http://isla-verdad.livejournal.com/2842.html

Tattoos + kinky!Lee = all is well with the world. *g*

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

OH! I know this one! Crap. Now I just need to remember it's name. I think maybe cparican_dame recc'ed it on her LJ once (PSA: she has a great list of recs if you're ever in the mood to browse.)

http://caprican-dame.livejournal.com/

[wicked-sassy.livejournal.com]

I would read every tattoo!fic ever! (There's a great book about writers & tattoos: Dorothy Parker's Elbow (http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-Parkers-Elbow-Tattoos-Writers/dp/0446679046))

Yeah, tattoos + kinky!Lee = very happy world.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

It's Starting Over (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3374440/1/Starting_Over). The author is called BSGaddict at ff.net and suffolkgirl on LJ :)

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

**smacks forehead**

Yes. Thank you. : )