DPP: Bring on the Kara Love!

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First, a HUGE thank you to everyone who posted in Lee's thread yesterday.  He is truly awesome and you guys provided bunches of reasons why...just in case looking at him is not enough. *g*  You shippers completely rock.

Now let's switch to our girl Kara.  Please spam it up in here...pics, lists, vids, metas.  Keep the celebration going strong!

(p.s.--Don't forget the Razor rewatch tonight!)

Let the Kara love begin...

I'll start with a cut from a post I made awhile ago.  I promise I will be back with more later today.

Why I love Kara Thrace...let me count the ways...

 

1. She's no angel.  And she'd be the first to tell RDM to frak off for trying to retcon her into that box.

2. There's no place like hack.
3. Everything's not fine.

4. *blushes* She inspired me to chop off my hair with a pocket knife...and it was truly cathartic.

5. "Nothing but the rain" is as good a motto as any.

6. BPD needs a poster child.  (See me or Cosette for an upcoming and more extensive LJ entry on this one.)

7. She may be frakked to hell in daily life, but she is the best there is when it comes to her career.

8. Leoben was too busy obsessing over her in S4.5 to even bother being seen trying to fix Galactica with the sixes and eights.  (Yes, i know CKR was also busy, but hey...i'm shuffling off reality and canon's mortal coil and interpreting to best fit our pilots from here on out.)

9. Kara represents the best and worst in me.

10. Frak or fight.

11. Mandalas are tempting potential tattoos.

12. Lee Adama loves her.

13. Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and P!nk wish they could be as bad a** as Starbuck.

14. Roslin, Cap6, and D'anna do too.

15. She's an artist.

16. Dirk may have been first, but Katee was best and her Starbuck lives in us all.

17. She's beyond insane.

18. She has a shitload of art and music in her apartment but only a packet of Ramen noodles to eat.

19. She is the leader of the thinky thoughts brigade, now overseen by Bee.

20. Kara Thrace loves Lee Adama.

21. This tree-hugging hippie shot a golf ball across the woods with an M-14 to indulge in gun!porn b/c Kara makes it look like so much fun.

22. She tagged a cylon ship with her callsign and pilot!danced it home until Lee realized it was her.

23. She's held a gun to pretty much everyone's head except the Adama men. 

24. Out of the box is where she lives.

25. She sees nothing wrong with almost always getting her own way...because she's opinionated but she's also usually right.

Comments

Re: part 3 of list from Shippers from 2007!

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#40: YES. If Kara decides to do something, she's going all out. On the flip side of this point, I think part of her need to be the best is to reassure herself that she's worthy. Bee and I were discussing how Kara has to continually prove herself with her actions, not to others, but to keep her own sense of self-worth somewhat steady. She doesn't always find herself worthy of love just because of her inherent beauty as a unique individual. Rather, she is continually questioning her value and thus it pushes her to be a perfectionist. Not the most healthy of traits, but certainly one to which I can relate!

48's point about working outside the box without being careless is a valid one. And, dude, I think I do have Kara in me, I'm just not always sure whether it's the healthy or the unhealthy parts. Likely a combo of both.

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I know, right? As Starbuck would say "COME ON" people!

I love her more than I could ever put into words. Maybe her infinite awesomeness has rendered everyone speechless.

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We will get there, bb. Even if I have to picspam the night away. Kara deserves it. And well, she doesn't always fight fair, but she does do what she must to win, so if I have to make a separate post for each pic, it's just to show what Kara has taught me about life, right? ;)

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p.s.--A huge thank you to Shippers 2007 for paving the way for Shippers 2010! :)

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*sighs*

Oh, Kara...her honesty and humor are so rare and so very essential to her being. <3

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So, the harbinger of death? They’re going the wrong way? I think we the audience is being led the wrong way. There will be death. There will be Earth. This I know. But I’ve been here before. Kara Thrace once said that she writes her own destiny. I still believe she can.

Daybreak, thanks bunches for posting! The above is my favorite part of KTAW. Especially the last two sentences.

(I hope you don't mind I answer each section of your post in separate replies. I'm really sorry to clog your inbox, but we need to pump up our girl's post count!!)

[(Anonymous)]

Taragel, I think there's a lot of Kara love out there, more than the comments may indicate. I think if you had a poll on whether people want to be like here you would get a lot of we see parts of ourselves in her but wish we could be half as badass as her.

I love Kara but can't put into words the reasons I love her and I'm trying not to just duplicate other people's reasons.
When I think of why I love Kara, I think it summarizes to a few things:
I love that she's a badass. I love that she's the top pilot in the fleet (meaning I love that she's the best person in the universe at her job).
I love that she's a strong independent woman.

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YAY! Those are good reasons anon. Thank you for posting them.

I know as mostly straight women we're not really gonna ogle her like Lee, but I always want to see more Kara love. :)

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Post as often as you like! It was a busy day. And hey, Kara love may need more than one day. That's why I gave her an entire week!

:-)

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I love this comment. Kara is at her best, I think, when she acknowledged the protection of the swagger and gives in to real, vulnerable feelings. We're all fascinate by her wibble, the almost shy, sweet way that she looks when she lets someone in, allows herself to think about what she feels and connect to the people around her. Let them in to see who she really is, on the inside. Kara, not Starbuck.

Lovely, honey. Very nice.

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I still love her. For five years and counting. :-) She will always be my favorite character on BSG.

I love her too although it's only been two years for me. She's deffo my fave character on BSG. She could easily be my favorite character of all time (literature, movies, theater, etc included). She and I have so much in common, both the healthy and the self-destructive traits, that I learn more about myself every time I see her.

It's so rare to see this side of Kara, but once seen you can't ever not see it again.

So true! That's also valid for her interactions on the show. She may only show that side to Lee +/- Papadama but after it's out there, they completely recognize that vulnerable aspect of Kara.

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I think my favorite line is, "I'll fly it!" Of course she will. She'll fly anything. She's their talisman. She's Starbuck, she can do anything. Don't you believe it in that moment? :-) And she's so darn cute. "You?" Lee asks. "Me." And then she giggles.

Yes! I love her there too. She is so giddy and completely willing to fly anything because that is one of the few things that makes her truly happy. And she kicks ass at it!

Thanks for the link to Pali's journal. I love all the links you guys are providing for the Kara!love.

Thanks to all of you who keep pilots!love so alive here.

No, thank you!! You guys started the pilot!love before a lot of us even started watching bsg and without you our ship would have no history. Instead we have a fantastic history filled with fic, vids, metas, and general love. :)

As a side note, do you mind if I friend you? I love me some K/L shippers. ;)

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True, I've linked our DPP post for today to our separate Lee and Kara threads so hopefully people will keep posting. :)

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Yeah, I've read that before and don't want to read it again. :P

In the interest of being polite, let me just go back to my reply from yesterday. Richard Hatch is a good sport. JB and KS made our Apollo and Starbuck the stuff of legend. Nothing more needs to be said about anyone else! ;)

Thanks for the post, Ray!!

KS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dirk

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I sort of want to be her.

Don't we all, babe, don't we all!

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No, I don't think she realizes it either. Kara is AWESOME at loving everyone except for herself. In the end, that's all I really want for Kara is for her to be at peace with herself...(and thus able to accept Lee's love and go frak and make K/L babies of course) ;)

Re: A Bonanza of Kara Love!

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Thanks for the picspam linky; you know I love your metas. The bonus!pilots just add to the general WIN factor.

WORD to #6. It may not be the most healthy, but I love it about her.

#8 made me laugh because it is so Kara. And it's nice to see a female role model with that attitude.

#10: During my rewatches I've come to appreciate this part of Katee's acting. KS has really grown on me...I think b/c she makes Kara seem so natural that I didn't even realize the work she put into her character until I went back and looked closer.

#20: Well, of course she is!! We love her and so does Lee. I don't think anyone else's opinion really matters because we are obviously right.

GREAT gifs! Badass!Kara at her best. :)

Re: AND MORE KARA LOVE!

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Just read "Fearful Symmetry"...very well done, thanks for the link!

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She was made to fly a viper.
She cut her frakking hair with a knife.
She killed her captor -- eleventy-seven times.
She spends more time in the brig than in her rack.

These are great. I adore the hair cutting scene. And...*looks confused*...I thought her rack was in the brig. ;P ;P

Thanks for the gifs...they are some of my favorite Kara and K/L scenes...love the blood spatter when saving Lee's ass, love the mutual punching showing them as equals.

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Agreed, I always took it as covering all the above.

Kinda like the "I'm a frak-up, Lee, try not to forget it" general catch all apology that K sometimes feels the need to give L when she forgets that he's Lee and that she doesn't have to keep her defenses up with him.

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Kara Thrace is not the object of your sentence; she is not acted upon. She is the subject of your sentence; she is doing the acting. I love that.

YES, this.

I love her when she's right and I love her when she's wrong, forever, the end, no takebacks. ♥

SSWA.

Have a great vacation!!

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Guh. OOC writing. :(

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I love how full of life Kara was. She loved it despite her insecurities, which I guess is why Maelstrom made me so sad. I wanted her to fight, damnit, and trust Lee, and well, anything besides suicide.

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LOVE Kara with the figurines praying. Kara is always beautiful but when she lets down her guard, as she does in this scene, she shows a grace and maturity that is just lovely.

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Aww, Eugie, you can still go add to the Lee day thread. You know you wanna. ;)

Thanks for the cute Kara gif! *g*