DPP: Your K/L Origin Story

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

Hey guys! I'm PS and I'll be doing the DPPs for this week. I guess I'm still kind of new to K/L, so I thought I'd start out with something basic. It might be good for the old hands to look back at this again and us newbies can share for the first time.

How did you first get into BSG? Who were you drawn to first? When did you start shipping Kara/Lee? How did you get over to the fandom and this corner of it? What was the first fic you read or wrote? Reminisce howevermuch you'd like. :)

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[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I watched Katee in Bionic Woman first, and was very impressed by how she stole the whole show. And I'd heard good things about BSG, and I knew Jacob at TWOP recapped it (and I loved his American Idol recaps) and I read the big EW article on Katee and figured I'd give it a shot, even though I really don't like SciFi stuff much. And I fell for Starbuck right away, by the end of the mini I knew she was totally my girl. The smirky attitude, the toughness, the crazy ballsy bravery, plus the vulnerability in all her scenes with/about Lee? Oh yeah I was all over it.

I was a Kara fan right from the start and loved her scenes with Lee especially, but I was mostly a Kara fangirl and was ambivalent on Lee for a really long time. The end of Scar when he finishes her toast is the moment it really clicked for me, but I can't say I ever really had much fannish interest in shipping her with anyone else. (After the finale, I became far far more Kara/Lee focused.)

But anyway, back to watching the show, started/finished around April of 2008. I had started an LJ a few months earlier just to begin journaling again and so I started seeking out comms, and commenting at SASA HQ and Canadiangirl_86's journal and then Beyond Insane and then reading fic and found my way to YouTube fanvids. It was the summer of obsessive fic reading. I can't possibly remember the very first one I read, but I think that brynnmck's Detour was very near the beginning. And is still one of my most favorites of all K/L fics. (THE BANTER! THE KISSING! LOVE!)

I wrote my first ficlet in July-- a pre-mini convo between Lee & Zak about Kara, which Lee suffers through uncomfortably, and then gets even more uncomfortable when Kara comes in and flirts with him. Hee. I wrote a couple more fics for Wisteria's summer bsg porn battle--including Driving Lessons which was kind of my real entrance to fandom, because then people found me and started friending me and I had comments! And uh, never really looked back after that. Hee.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

I knew Jacob at TWOP recapped it

Yes! I'd read his Doctor Who stuff and when I started watching BSG (fall '10) and had no one to talk to about it, I'd just read the recaps after each episode :) (LJ came later!)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I know a lot of people find him...problematic, and sometimes I think he's way off-base but I truly enjoyed reading his takes on each episode because they're so far out of the normal recap realm that it's almost like reading a completely different fanwork based on the episode. Hee.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh God, Jacob. His recaps got so rambly by Season 3, they took longer to read than the actual episode did to watch (and TWoP's recap layout is a bitch to navigate because you simply can't see it all on one page), and half of it was stuff that had nothing to do with the show.

I loled SO HARD when I came to his Daybreak recaps - he luuuuurved the entire mess that was Season 4 (and loved it with extreme determination), and then was so bitterly disappointed by DB, it was hilarious.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

That's totally his thing though--he'd go way off topic in his AI recaps also on the craziest rants and they were so entertaining and spot on about the reality-whoreness to AI for the most part.

I was saying to embolalia above that I know his rants are sometimes sexist/misogynistic/problematic but at the time I just mostly enjoyed reading them like almost crack-fic/weird AU interpretations of the actual episodes.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I guess because I didn't start off following BSG on a week-by-week basis, reading his reviews one after another can just be so....grating. And flat-out exhausting, too - especially when each page has like two little paragraphs of his rambling and you have to click through 40-something pages to get to the end.

(and his Cally hate, I couldn't with it. She's not my favourite character, but the way he ranted, it's like she was single-handedly responsible for genocide, forced abortions and puppy-kickings)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I loved how long they were. But then, I always am very "MORE IS MORE!" about things I enjoy.

Yes the Cally hate was baffling. Hell, the SHOW's Cally hate was pretty baffling too. I will never get over "smelled like cabbage." UGH.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

lol yeah, me too. And I liked his recaps up to the end of Season 2, but he got progressively worse with each season after that. Who knows what he'd have been like had BSG had a Season Five, lol.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I remember Maelstrom was the weirdest.

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

I don't get this at all either! I love Cally; she's my favorite character I don't write about (which... is kind of faint praise, but I really can't think of anything to write about her because she doesn't normally interact with the characters I write about.)

I've tended to avoid the non-LJ portions of BSG fandom and I can kinda see why.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I like Cally too but I haven't written about her much either. I did make her a little sister type (not actually related) to Lee in a Grease 2 crossover and she was dating Zak in the epilogue of a long Academy fic series I wrote once. Hmm. I think that's really it, aside from a few bit parts in canon-set pieces.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like Cally too, in-show - and re: avoiding non-lj portions of BSG, that's a wise decision. Fandom outside of lj.....can be nice sometimes, but is also overrun by assholes.