Desert Islands
May. 22nd, 2012 12:09 pmHello everyone -- thanks so much for your hilarious contributions yesterday! So fun.
I thought today we could play the old "desert island" game: You are going to be stuck on a desert island with access to only 8 items related to BSG. These items can be anything - episodes, fanfic, vids, interviews, images, a discussion thread. Which 8 would you want to come back to again and again? Share your list with us! It will be interesting to see if there are certain items all of fandom picks as essential, or if everyone will have their own unique taste on display :)

(Wherever we go, and whatever we do, we're taking this luggage with us. - Joe vs. the Volcano)
I thought today we could play the old "desert island" game: You are going to be stuck on a desert island with access to only 8 items related to BSG. These items can be anything - episodes, fanfic, vids, interviews, images, a discussion thread. Which 8 would you want to come back to again and again? Share your list with us! It will be interesting to see if there are certain items all of fandom picks as essential, or if everyone will have their own unique taste on display :)

(Wherever we go, and whatever we do, we're taking this luggage with us. - Joe vs. the Volcano)
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Date: 2012-05-22 04:19 pm (UTC)I would want:
1) Dave's Pilotography (http://pilotography.yolasite.com/) site
2) DPP posts/No takebacks comm (NO LINK NEEDED!)
3) BoomQueen's Speedracer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONOChDEjJiY) vid
4) Daphnaea's Simulations (http://daphnaea.livejournal.com/6013.html) fic
5) Peripeteia's Meta on Pilots: 1 (http://peri-peteia.livejournal.com/313921.html), 2 (http://peri-peteia.livejournal.com/174417.html), 3 (http://peri-peteia.livejournal.com/189978.html)
6) Kate Andrews' Something Pretty (http://svilleficrecs.livejournal.com/25078.html) fic
7) Dualbunny's trilogy of Kara/Pink vids (http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/118215.html) (Yeah, so I'm cheating. SO WHAT? ;))
8) Vain as it is, access to all my own fic (http://taragel.livejournal.com/53045.html)/vids (http://taragel.livejournal.com/99311.html). ;)
TOUGH. TOUGH, TOUGH CHOICES.
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Date: 2012-05-22 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 06:36 pm (UTC)Also, I love that you go back often to your own stories -- I reread mine a lot, too, it just seems natural (we write what we like, right?) I'm not sure I've seen that Speedracer vid, will definitely check it out.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:39 pm (UTC)Oh Speedracer is the best!!!! It's my favorite K/L vid of all time.
I do re-read quite often, mostly so I can remember that "Hey, Look, you must be able to do this, because you've written all this other stuff!" ;)
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:46 pm (UTC)Exactly! More power to us!!
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Date: 2012-05-22 04:55 pm (UTC)I guess if I could bring ANYTHING BSG related, I'd go for...
1. Adama's lighter
2. Gaius's knowledge of farming
3. Kara's out of the box thinking
4. Lee's muscles (ALL of them, mmm)
5. Athena's hunting skills
6. Kendra's razor
7. The Chief's still
8. Kara's poetry books for reading material
...I know this doesn't fit what you were going for but I'm garbage at remembering/tracking fics and vids, etc.
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 06:41 pm (UTC)"Have you thought much on luggage, Mr. Banks?"
"Not really."
"It has been the central preoccupation of my life."
:)
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Date: 2012-05-22 07:13 pm (UTC)Plus, anytime my mom and I get into disagreements about semantics we pull out the old standard, "I'm not arguing that with you. I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?" schtick. Classic!
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:22 pm (UTC)(.... unless that's actually what you meant.)
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 07:27 pm (UTC)1) Vid: Sort Of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9gdJo6JTSE) by MintEnergy
2) Vid: The Scientist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6SSXUu_rjU) by euphoniesvids.
3) Fic: Our Pataphysical Divigation (http://fahye-fic.livejournal.com/34490.html) by fahye.
4) Fic: Amateur (http://fahye-fic.livejournal.com/30990.html) by fahye.
5) Fic: Aerilon Girls are Easy (http://flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com/113085.html) by flowrs4ophelia.
6) Fic: Six Swans, A Frakked-up Fairytale (http://innibis.livejournal.com/46658.html) by innibis.
7)
8) And this comm :)
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Date: 2012-05-23 01:21 pm (UTC)And I would absolutely take LAD or KTL, only I'd have to jettison n_t for either of them and taking n_t is more efficient because it is for both pilots, after all.
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Date: 2012-05-22 09:16 pm (UTC)I'm quite new to the community, but right now I would say (although the choice was EXTREMELY difficult):
1) fic: Intra by Kate Andrews
2) fic: Gold to Iron by stars_like_dust and fahye
3) fic: Contraventions by Leda13
4) fic: everything by Hackaddict (I don't even know how to choose!)
5) fic: the crackfics ! (stupid thing last night - the video tape edition, Benevolent Sibling,the Absolutely Positively True (Sort of) Fictional Adventures of Hot Pilots in Love)
6) fic: How Apollo took on Dyonisos and Lost by Elzed
7) Vid: So What? by Taragel (I could take every fic and vid, but I must at least pretend to make a choice)
8) fic: Academy days, by Maevenly
well, yes, I know, I cheated.... Sorry (?)!
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Date: 2012-05-22 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-22 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 12:46 pm (UTC)And Gold To Iron is one of my favourite fics, ever. So much hotness.
(and yeah, sure you cheated - just like pilots ;)
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Date: 2012-05-22 10:29 pm (UTC)2. All of n_t (thank you for that idea, Tara!)
3. Nine Lives (http://taragel.livejournal.com/164307.html) by
4. Something Pretty (http://svilleficrecs.livejournal.com/25078.html) by
5. one of
6. The Road Not Taken (http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/129076.html) by
7. The Stupid Thing Last Night (http://stars-like-dust.livejournal.com/155274.html) series by
8. Quadrille (http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/684742.html) by
(also, lj tells me this is my 10,000th comment? I feel like I should have a party or something, considering how many of those 10,000 were posted here/on BSG-related things.)
10,000th Comment
Date: 2012-05-22 11:21 pm (UTC)In conclusion, hurrah!!!!!!!!! Your thoughts, they flow like wine! Your words are a river! Your wisdom runneth over!
*****KARA AND LEE SALUTE YOU****
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Date: 2012-05-23 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-23 12:42 pm (UTC)Though I could just cheat anyway and then angst about it (like Lee!). Or be all 'haha, I'm just bending the rules!', like Kara.
Revising Rules to Fit
Date: 2012-05-22 10:49 pm (UTC)Anonymous!Fangirl #1: because she's an RL BFF and all around GOOD person.
Anonymous!Fangirl #2: because she writes from the heart and her words make me cry.
Anonymous!Fangirl #3: because we are planning a flash mob at D*C and I totally expect it will happen.
Anonymous!Fangirl #4: because she's got my back, bitches!
Anonymous!Fangirl #5: because she (not so secretly) shares my LC kink, but only as a side to K/L.
Anonymous!Fangirl #6: because she is the QUEEN OF SNARK! And I love it.
Anonymous!Fangirl #7: because she writes the HOTTEST fic (and RPF) EVERRRRRR!
Anonymous!Fangirl #8: because she makes me see the beauty in ALL things and she's just an all around amazing person!!!!
Re: Revising Rules to Fit
Date: 2012-05-22 11:29 pm (UTC)Kag and her Anonymous Fangirls on the Island of Squee
Re: Revising Rules to Fit
Date: 2012-05-23 12:20 am (UTC)Re: Revising Rules to Fit
Date: 2012-05-22 11:39 pm (UTC)(and ooooh, Moriarty!)
Re: Revising Rules to Fit
Date: 2012-05-23 12:29 am (UTC)