DPP: Show Yourself!!

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Welcome to this week's DPP, everyone!

I'm going to kick this off with something we haven't had at all this year (WAY too long if you ask me), i.e.

THE FRIENDING MEME!!!!!!!!

I've noticed some new faces among the comments in the last few months, so whether you're new to the comm or a returning friendly, consider this the Shipper Nation Roll Call aka our very own Bat-Signal and show yourself - we want to get to know you all (or know you all over again)!

(all you have to do is copy/paste the code below into your comment, and answer the questions - as many or as few of them as you'd like)

<b>Name/Callsign:</b>
<b>Age/Location (if you want):</b>
<b>When did you start watching BSG?</b>
<b>Why do you ship K/L?</b>
<b>Do you ship anyone else in the show?</b>
<b>How did you find this comm?</b>

<b>Favorite character(s):</b>
<b>Least favourite character(s)</b>
<b>Favourite episode:</b>
<b>Favourite scene:</b>
<b>Favourite eyefrak:</b>
<b>Favourite handclasp/handshake:</b>
<b>Favourite pilotkiss:</b>
<b>Favourite Lee!Hair:</b>
<b>Favourite Kara!Hair:</b>
<b>Favourite pilotfic:</b>
<b>When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc). 

<b>Other fandoms:</b>
<b>Favourite book:</b>
<b>Favourite movie:</b>
<b>Favourite tv show (currently airing):</b>
<b>Favourite tv show(completed):</b>

<b>What do you post on your journal?</b>
<b>Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly?</b>
<b>List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like</b>
<b>Three random facts about you:</b>
<b>If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose?</b>
<b>Anything else you'd like to share?</b>

feel free to back up your answers with pics, gifs and all that jazz - evidence of why stuff is your favourite is very much welcome :)

Comments

Any questions?

[winegums.livejournal.com]

ask away.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: Vavia
Age/Location (if you want): 27, So Cal
When did you start watching BSG? "Water" the first time it aired
Why do you ship K/L? Chemistry + badassitude makes me a happy shipper
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Adama/Roslin in a "well, obviously that's happening" kind of way.
How did you find this comm? beyond_insane

Favorite character(s): Kara, Lee
Least favourite character(s): Baltar, Leoben, Sam
Favourite episode: "Flight of the Phoenix"
Favourite scene: Lee comes back from the dead, in the mini
Favourite eyefrak: See above ;)
Favourite handclasp/handshake: Continue to see above.
Favourite pilotkiss: "Eye of Jupiter".
Favourite Lee!Hair: I know I'm in the minority, but I like the longer politician hair
Favourite Kara!Hair: The "current" part of UB
Favourite pilotfic: Stupid Thing Last Night
When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc): I'm a fic and meta girl, love the words.

Other fandoms: Avengers, Warehouse 13, Queen & Country, West Wing
Favourite book: Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean
Favourite movie: Much Ado About Nothing
Favourite tv show (currently airing): Warehouse 13
Favourite tv show(completed): Slings & Arrows

What do you post on your journal?: Not much anymore, but time was, icons and personal wittering
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly?: Always open
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like: Twitter @bardic_lady, Tumblr barefootdramaturg
Three random facts about you: I work in live theatre, I was an award winning mock trial lawyer, Greg Rucka is my favourite author
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose?: Shakespeare

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Amen to all your favourite pilotstuff. (Stupid Thing Last Night is an unholy mixture of genius+hotness, praise be to it) And Kara had fantastic hair in UB, both current and flasbacks. Short hair looks so good on her.

I love that you worked mock trial. I studied law, but having to argue stuff in front of people gives me the heebie-jeebies, which is why I have mad respect for anyone who can do it well.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

lol I kind of like Lee's long hair, even that borderline beachy-waves situation he had going on in Daybreak couldn't put me off completely (except for that terrible wig or weave or whatever was on his head in the battle scenes - he looks better with it loose than all gelled into place, if it's long). And I think the Starpony aka Kara's Season 2 default hair gets a lot of love from all of us :)

Fountain pens are the absolute best, writing-wise. It's a pain in the ass to refill them, but no other writing instrument can make handwriting look so gorgeous (I've never tried quills so can't say what they'll do)

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

WAW - apparently it's that time again.... BTW, thanks bb for this. These threads are always like a very welcomed slap to reality for me (and I guess I'm not the only one).

When I saw the post a couple of things crossed my mind. Some (not all) of them were like: how the frak did I manged to answer all of this last time and why did the answers keep changing on a daily basis. and then there was the part about the guilt of not really being active these last couple of months. And the fact that I should probably do a post on my LJ about what went on and all of that RL crap. But enough about my rambling self...

Name/Callsign: Ana-Maria
Age/Location (if you want): 33, Bucuresti (even if Eastern Europe is usually enough)
When did you start watching BSG? aaaaa... 2,3 (?) years ago? about the time that they announced Caprica. Don't ask cause the story about me and starting BSG is known to provoke headaches.
Why do you ship K/L? Do we actually have to answer this? Because they are THEM????
Do you ship anyone else in the show? ship, like ship.... nobody. I don't have anything against other couples like Helo/Athena, Adama/Roslin or even Gaius/Caprica but I don't really ship them.
How did you find this comm?another strange story. it involves a lot of fics from kag523 and her mention on ff.net about some unabridged versions and... lets just don't go there because...

Favorite character(s): Lee (probably Felix from outside the pilots zone)
Least favourite character(s) Cavil
Favourite episode: depends on the day. HoG, Home, UB, even DB2 some crazy days.
Favourite scene: that's even worse. as an example.... we did Exodus part 2 and Collaborators for the rewatch 2 days ago and I really liked the scene with Lee and Bill when they speak about Lee trying to lose weight. YES, I know, I'm crazy like that.
Favourite eyefrak: hmmmm.... the QoD at Joe's.
Favourite handclasp/handshake: the one from the Mini.
Favourite pilotkiss: the Brig scene.
Favourite Lee!Hair: are you going to shoot me if I say the Mini????
Favourite Kara!Hair: I like all of her hair. It's way more realistic than some "hair" from other characters during the series.
Favourite pilotfic: WAW.... There is a list, a long list. If anybody wants details, fell free to ask.
When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc). I tend to read a lot of fics (or at least I used to and I'm trying to). When I have time I like to at least read and even jump into meta, I'm always available for squee-parties and all of that. IDEK what to say about writing. As some of you might know I tried here and there to write some stuff but I don't seem to find the time (or the self-confidence to be more precise) to actually finish anything.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Other fandoms: depends on the level of involvment... there are a couple that I was (still am) sort of involved in but I usually tend just to watch a show and when it's over, it's over. Which makes this one so special. almost 3 years after I watched it I still think about it.
Favourite book: There is one book (series of books) in Romanian. Long story... but it involves spies, paranormal and alien activities, a lot of romance and other stuff.
Favourite movie: Depends of when you ask. These days I'm sort of obsessed (like some of you) with Avengers.
Favourite tv show (currently airing): White Collar, Rookie Blue, ....
Favourite tv show(completed): today.... Star Trek: Enterprise - I just finished watching it a couple of days ago. All in all.... probably JAG or the original L&O. Hard to choose.

What do you post on your journal? Lately, nothing at all. What I would like to post is a totally different story.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly? I don't have nothing against new friends on my Flist.
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like @eu_anamarya on twitter and ana79ro on YM. I tend to use Gtalk for work so that's trickier. It's safer to look me up on FB and add me there - my students are doing oit with pretty good results.
Three random facts about you: 3? Really? like how am I going to choose just 3? ok, I'll try... 1. I like cats. A lot. 2. Even if I can wear high heels (pretty high for my own height) I tend to use sport-shoes in 95% of the time. 3. I don't own a driving licence - I just didn;t found the incentive to apply for one. Is that random enough?
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose? OMGs, that's the hardest question of all.... but I guess these days - Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes. I want to ask him to come back and do something to the political class in this country.
Anything else you'd like to share? Not at the moment. But that might chance in 5 minutes or never....

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: Rachel
When did you start watching BSG? After it was off the air, that's for sure. Maybe 2010?
Why do you ship K/L? I just like them :)
Do you ship anyone else in the show? Nope.
How did you find this comm? probably searching Kara/Lee on google, I don't really remember. I first came by here right about the time the DPPs started up.

Favorite character(s): Lee (he's my favorite), Kara, Tigh, Gaeta. Adama and Roslin are interesting though I usually disagree with what they're doing.
Least favourite character(s) Baltar, Six, Leoben
Favourite episode: Crossroads Part 2, probably
Favourite scene: I like the hug at the end of Captain's Hand
Favourite eyefrak: I don't really have one?
Favourite handclasp/handshake: Ressurection Ship 2
Favourite pilotkiss: Six of One
Favourite Lee!Hair: I like it longer. The gelled duck-bob of first season annoys me.
Favourite Kara!Hair: Unfinished Business, in the ring
Favourite pilotfic: anything by mercurial_wit
When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc). Mainly I read, write, and meta. I admire vidders, too, they've made some beautiful creations.

Other fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (all incarnations), Harry Potter (Snape-centric), Batman, Whedonverse, many random other things
Favourite book: Pride & Prejudice
Favourite movie: Lawrence of Arabia
Favourite tv show (currently airing): Doctor Who and BBC Sherlock
Favourite tv show(completed): That's tough. Buffy or the Granada Holmes series, probably.

What do you post on your journal? Fic and occasional memes.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly? I don't do friending much, but that doesn't really matter since I've never posted anything private. No one is missing anything!
Three random facts about you: I'm six feet tall. I like carrot cake. The first trimester of pregnancy is tiring #whatashock.
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose? Hmm. Maybe the Marquis de Lafayette, he seems like a sweetheart.
Anything else you'd like to share? Best wishes to everybody!

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

I speak Russian and lived in Russia! I'm sort of a writer in real life, too! I write with fountain pens!

This is so cool - on both counts. I like fountain pens. I tend to make a mess I I try to use one but that's another story. And Russia - I should just stop being lazy (or resentful for historical reasons) and go visit that country.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Favourite book: Pride & Prejudice
Favourite movie: Lawrence of Arabia

OMGS, I should really re-read/re-watch these. I loved them the first time around and for the life of me I don't know why I didn't go back.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Might as well answer my own questions

Name/Callsign: I go by N, but call me winegums
Age/Location (if you want): 27
When did you start watching BSG? Sometime in 2006 after Joss Whedon sang its praises

Why do you ship K/L? Short version: because they're like no other fictional couple I've ever seen, before or since.
Long, trivia-based, angst-free version: here (http://winegums.livejournal.com/14077.html)

Do you ship anyone else in the show? Bill and Laura, because, well, canon. And they're great together.

How did you find this comm? via another comm, and I'm here since it's the most active BSG shipper comm on lj and I like talking to people.

Favorite character(s): Apart from Lee and Kara? Felix Gaeta (poor, poor bb) and Kendra Shaw.

Least favourite character(s) bloody Cavill. Having to watch him through the rewatch is a new form of torment, given how much time I spend wishing he and his existential/mommy issues would go die in a fire.

Favourite episode: Every episode with a decent amount of pilots in it.
Favourite scene: You can't make me choose! (if I had to, it would be every pilotscene ever but my broken heart has a special soft spot for the scene under the wing in Maelstrom)
Favourite eyefrak: All of them? I love the playful ones in Final Cut and Flight of the Phoenix, the knicker-scorchingly intense ones in Unfinished Business, the ones when they first met in Daybreak....can't choose!
Favourite handclasp/handshake: Tie between The Captain's Hand, the Six of One brig scene, and Lee's return from the dead in the miniseries
Favourite pilotkiss: Possibly the Six of One brig kiss, but it's a pity this is only an outtake from Scar
(http://s1062.photobucket.com/albums/t491/winegumsbsg/pilotgifs/?action=view&current=SCARMAKEOUT.gif)

Favourite Lee!Hair: Short, with that little ducks'-arse tuft sticking up in front
Favourite Kara!Hair: The season 2 ponytail, Unfinished Business flashbacks and Season 3 post-chopping-with-knife.

When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc). I've written the odd drabble here and there, but meta and squee are what I am best for because I like to overthink things a LOT.

Other fandoms: Harry Potter, Buffy, Firefly, the odd anime/kdrama, and most recently The Avengers movieverse.
Favourite book: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Favourite movie: Keeps changing, but for the last year Attack The Block has held steady at #1.
Favourite tv show (currently airing): Sherlock
Favourite tv show(completed): apart from BSG? That would be Blackadder or Firefly.

What do you post on your journal? nothing much, mostly the odd bit of fannish stuff when I feel like it.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly? Friend away, I like it :)

Three random facts about you:
1. My favourite sweets were wine gums (hence the username).
2. One of my feet is bigger than the other.
3. I have a crazy lot of nicknames. I don't think anyone I spend time with on a regular basis has called me by the name on my birth certificate in years.

If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose? Joss Whedon or J.K. Rowling.
Anything else you'd like to share? Thank you everyone for doing this!

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Name/Callsign: kate
Age/Location (if you want): old enough. Seattle.
When did you start watching BSG? February 2009
Why do you ship K/L? Because they hit everything right for me. (There is a longer point by point explanation which I’m more than happy to share if you ask nicely.)
Do you ship anyone else in the show? when I was watching, no, not at all, even the couples I knew were inevitable. Now, I also ship Bill/Saul.
How did you find this comm? I don’t remember now.

Favorite character(s): Lee, Kara, Leoben
Least favourite character(s) I feel like there’s a million of them this morning but all with a long explanation so… ask.
Favourite episode: Acts of Contrition/You Can’t Go Home Again
Favourite scene: the boxing in UB
Favourite eyefrak: Lee coming back from the dead in the mini
Favourite handclasp/handshake: Captain’s Hand
Favourite pilotkiss: the brig scene in Six of One
Favourite Lee!Hair: S2
Favourite Kara!Hair: S2, although I have a soft spot for the mini chip job because it’s so Kara and so gloriously different from most TV starlets. If Kara had started with her S4 hair I probably wouldn’t have liked her so much.
Favourite pilotfic: All That Matter by sci_fi_shipper
When it comes to pilots fandom, are you more into (reading or writing) fic, meta, or just plain squee? Or do you prefer other fanworks for them (fanmixes, graphics etc). fic

Other fandoms: not really. Dublin Murder Squad, Longmire
Favourite book: Emma, Who Saved my Life Wilton Barnhardt, In the Woods by Tana French, Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Favourite movie: Wonder Boys
Favourite tv show (currently airing): Haven I think. Or Longmire
Favourite tv show(completed): Firefly

What do you post on your journal? fic mostly, personal stuff occasionally. Although I have a bunch a TV related topics to discuss if I ever get around to writing them.
Are you open to adding new friends to your FList or are you just super private and prefer to keep things locked down until you get to know people properly? sure.
List your Twitter and chat (AIM, gChat, Yahoo) if you'd like ask me.
Three random facts about you: I’m a stay at home mom with 3 kids. I’m currently writing a murder mystery which is kicking my ass – in a good way – because my mind does not work that way. I prefer cookie dough to actual cookies.
If you could meet any person (dead, alive, real, fictional, apart from pilots of course) who would you choose? Honestly, no clue.
Anything else you'd like to share? no.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Favourite Lee!Hair: I know I'm in the minority, but I like the longer politician hair

Not really a minority. I really like that hair for that stage in his "journey" so to speak.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Favorite character(s): Apart from Lee and Kara? Felix Gaeta (poor, poor bb) and Kendra Shaw.

Least favourite character(s) bloody Cavill. Having to watch him through the rewatch is a new form of torment, given how much time I spend wishing he and his existential/mommy issues would go die in a fire.

I vote for rewatching everything Felix related 2 times and skipping the Cavil parts. What do you think?

I don't think anyone I spend time with on a regular basis has called me by the name on my birth certificate in years.

Not even at work? That's so coool. Hmmm... I should train my kids to use one of my nicknames instead of the all so weird "Madam" or the annoying "Professor" - especially if they use "Miss" before.

and most recently The Avengers movieverse.
we should really speak about this sometime.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I must be a masochist, but it is fun to shower Cavill with abuse during the rewatch. I support watching everything Felix does twice over, though!

And oh yeah, people at work do use my given name, I kind of forgot about that. :P

As for Avengers movieverse, I love it, even though my participation so far has been limited to hunting down and reading ALL of the Loki/Sif (from Thor) fic I can get and picspamming ontd Avengers posts. That Tom Hiddleston, his voice should be made illegal, lol.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

I must be a masochist, but it is fun to shower Cavill with abuse during the rewatch

No, you are not. or at least you are not alone. That is sort of fun to do.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

lol your favourite and least favourite characters, it looks like the rewatch is really getting to us :)

And you like the QoD scene at Joe's? That's a first, that scene is such a fountain of neverending angst (though I suppose that is the appeal). And it does feed shippers just enough hope for pilots because it makes it pretty clear they still love each other despite what they've decided.

PS: I don't have a drivers' licence either. Nice to know I'm not alone in that!

[winegums.livejournal.com]

although I have a soft spot for the mini chip job because it’s so Kara and so gloriously different from most TV starlets

I know, it's so very Kara, that hacked-up bowl cut. Sure, she looks like an urchin, but it suited her character as we were introduced to her.

And I wish the Dublin Murder Squad fandom was a bit larger, it's unfair that all the best popular (i.e. non-literary) fiction has such tiny fandoms.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Actually it's not the scene itself. I don't like the scene (or at least what it represents). But I do like the eyefraking and the strange hope behind it - even if I know that it's in vain. Call me crazy.

and YEAH, the rewatch is getting to us. *sigh* and OMGs UB is like - next week or something???? we'll need lots and lots of beers and tissues.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I have never been tired like the first trimester fo pregnancy. Never. #congratulations

[winegums.livejournal.com]

yeah, the eyefrakking does make it quite clear we're not done with pilots romantically just yet, and for that I'm very grateful T_T

I think UB is going to be in a couple of weeks? Beer will not be enough for me, it calls for something stronger (not too much of it though, I want to be able to type out my angst).

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Gods bless google for leading you here :)

And you're pregnant? Congratulations, bb! I hope the rest of the time is not as tiring :)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I also don't have a driver's license. :D

[dragoninthecup.livejournal.com]

Three random facts about you: I'm six feet tall. I like carrot cake....

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/evenmoregifs/?action=view&current=257-BaleandKermit.gif)

...The first trimester of pregnancy is tiring #whatashock.

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/evenmoregifs/?action=view&current=tumblr_lu2oidgIDw1qivacpo1_250.gif)

OMG - Rachel! RACHELLLLLLL!!!!!! This is FABULOUS news! Congratulations on the most AWESOME news! And now a gifspam of excitement!

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/evenmoregifs/?action=view&current=234-OMG-Katee.gif)

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/evenmoregifs/?action=view&current=225-HUGS.gif)

(http://s931.photobucket.com/albums/ad159/kag523/evenmoregifs/?action=view&current=tumblr_ly08mngjgO1qbu1x4.gif)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

lol Kermit Bale makes me cackle, your gifspam is awesome <3

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the love! They are old favorites of mine <3

Hope you are well, dear! Always lovely to see you around :)