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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[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of an odd duck in that I didn't start shipping K/L until after the end of the series - way after the end of the series. They actually both irritated me a ton the first time through, I have to admit and even now, I find I like them much better post-canon when they have time for each other and time to heal. I wound up writing Staying Solid (http://plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com/155489.html) (which really, really needs a sequel - I should get on that). I couldn't have done it without deborah_judge's The Return (http://deborah-judge.livejournal.com/222899.html), which got me thinking about them and then the_applecart sustained my interest and here I am. I find they really complement my OTP (so many parallels between K/L and Bill/Saul) and that drew me in, too, writing them all together as a family.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say that the first time I saw pilots together in the brig, I rolled my eyes, thinking, "oh, so this is who they're going to hook her/him up with.".

They sold that scene well enough that I actually liked the prospect of an eventual pairing-off, and I liked them more and more through the miniseries, but I didn't realise I'd gone full-tilt into shipper territory until the scene in my icon.

I mean, everyone else was PDA-ing like it's going out of fashion, but pilots, just looking into each other's eyes and holding hands (aka handshake) and unable to let themselves even hug?

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

As for how I got into BSG in the first place, it all started because Joss Whedon said he loved it, and In Joss I Trust.

Well, that and one of my favourite Firefly fanfic writers also wrote quite a bit of BSG fic - I was already interested in the show, but took the plunge because I wanted to be able to read her BSG fic.

In my early fandom days, I used to hang out on forums, but there was way too much pilots hate there so I just quit fandom altogether - I think I found this comm through a link from taragel last year, and it was the best discovery ever :)

[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.

[rirenec.livejournal.com]

I first got into BSG spring 2010. I first found Lee and Kara so cocky, but by the end of the mini, I loved them both. As a shipper, I'm more into Kara/Leoben (in case you didn't know ;D) But I'm also a multishipper for anyone Kara and Lee is so, so, wonderful <3 (and let's face it, hot! And cute!) My first fic was Kara/Leoben, second a Kara/Leoben/Sam fic (on New Caprica) and then an epic multishippage fic (made up of several fics) with Kara/Lee at its head (it's still to be finished about 200,000 words in - Kara's got pregnant and I'm still to deal with that :/)
Finally, I got introduced to this corner of fandom by Mserrada!

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch BSG until after the series ended, and so watching the mini I saw the brig scene, recognized the names, thought "this is who I'm supposed to ship?" skeptically, and, well, YEAH.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I watched BSG February of 2010. I really like the chemestry of Lee and Kara from the brig scene but it was the scene when Lee comes back from the dead that sold me. I just remember thinking "She loves him" and sighing happily.

I found fandom and fic as soon as I realized there was no way K/L would be the couple I wanted them to be, the couple who knew just how poorly two people fit in a hospital bed. It was another three months before I actually said anything or wrote anything. The first thing I wrote was for a ficathon here at N_T.

[n-e-star.livejournal.com]

How did you first get into BSG?
Last April "Doctor Who" was winding up and BBCA started airing commercials for "BSG". It was the same day, the same time - plus there were TWO episodes a night. So we gave it a try (watching glowing back sex with your dad = awkward).

Who were you drawn to first?
BILLY!!! He gets all of my lovings!

When did you start shipping Kara/Lee?
For about a second during the brig scene, but then Kara had the line about what Zac was to her and I put it out of my mind.

But then half way through the season I got an inkling, then the water fight happened and I was like, "OH! So they are thinking about this?" and then the blue dress happened and I was like, "OMG! They are doing this!" and then the next episode started with sexy times and I was, "OMG! OMG! OMG! HAPPY DANCE!" and then it was Baltar and I was like, "WTF?! I WILL CUT A BITCH!!!"

How did you get over to the fandom and this corner of it?
Well, LJ is my homeboy; but I was very careful when I first stared looking for fics, since I had only seen the first season.

What was the first fic you read or wrote?
The Cutting Edge (http://taragel.livejournal.com/132069.html) by taragel, cus that is my all time favorite movie of all time - ever.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

I started watching BSG after *numerous* people had recommended it - I'd held off for years just because it sounded like the kind of thing I'd be addicted to (hint: I WASN'T WRONG). I liked Kara all along, but my first real shipper moment was the end of Hand of God, when she hands him a drink and a cigar and UST. And then Colonial Day and KLG and no looking back :)

The first fic I wrote was Kara gen during the Pegasus arc - the first Kara/Lee I wrote was my premini piece, Prologue, which was intended to be followed with canon scenes running through all four seasons. I have tons of notes on that, and still mean to write it, but that was when I discovered LJ and ship swaps and comms and other things to write :)

I'd actually had an LJ in high school (that still exists! it's weird to see what I thought about at 16) but I started this account last April because there wasn't much activity around BSG on ff.net and I followed links from some of KAG's stories over there to their unabridged versions here...and then found the rest of LJ.

Anyway, that's my story :)

[neifret.livejournal.com]

So, I'm a bit late to the party, and don't really have the time right now....
But very quickly !:

How did you first get into BSG?
Well I went to an exhibition in Paris last year whose topic was "Science and Fiction". It was a remarkable exhibition whose goal was to draw parallels between the most famous SciFi books, movies and TV shows and the actual state of the science when they were written/shot. And in this exhibition, there was a "real sized" plane with "Starbuck" written on it... And a bit behind a gigantic screen with lots a videos, including one with this plane and a blond girl screeming gleefully. I was with two friends, we loved it and then I said "you know, I actually think that I've got this show at home - one of my friends told me to watch it 2 months ago". Well, we went back home, and spent the night watching the 1st season :D

Who were you drawn to first?
Difficult to say. Cally, the Chief, Helo and Sharon I think... Although Lee and Kara came quickly after !

When did you start shipping Kara/Lee?
Easy for me to answer this one ! During the 1st episode, when they argue in front of Starbuck's plane, because Lee wants her to take the stims. Best scene ever !! (especially when the chief rolls his eyes at the end). For me, it was obvious at that point.

How did you get over to the fandom and this corner of it?
I've been reading fanfiction for a long time now (the way I learnt English !), so I quite naturally started looking immediately for fics on BSG. As for LJ, I think I got it through Kag523, as she was posting regularly on FFN, but I wanted to read the complete version of her fics ;) And that's how I stumbled upon you all.

What was the first fic you read or wrote?
Can't remember !!! But my best bet would be one by Hackaddict/Mystic83 (still addicted to her fics and still hoping, one day, that others will appear... Yes, exactly like I hope that Starbuck did not really go "poof" at the end).

[pennyante.livejournal.com]

I had the (apparently canonical for this community) reaction to the initial brig scene of "I can see where *this* is going"--but it's actually really fast that you realize that you *can't*--and then way later in canon when you realize they were always going to screw you.

I watched the whole thing last summer, after it aired. Been thinking about it lately because it was this time last year that my bf and I started, and am kind of itching for it. I had read Jacob's reviews--lots of them, but I read them devotedly, including reading his Gossip Girl reviews instead of ever watching the show--and it was the hardest thing ever not to read ahead for what happened to the pilots, but instead watch the show at the pace my boyfriend was capable of (an episode, at most two, a night? ugh). They really eclipsed almost all of the other plotlines of the show, although any scene with Laura Roslin is a good scene in my book.