DDP: Guilty Pleasure

[jeebs83.livejournal.com]

I'm not having the best of weeks so I thought we'd talk about something that normally cheers me up. Love it or hate it, everyone seems to have an option about...


BABYFIC!

When it's done right (sometimes even if it's done wrong), there's no denying there's some great fic out there to read. What is your opinion on it? Is it a love/love, or love/hate? So let me have your best recommendations.

Here's my list:

Unexpected Consequences by CrysWimmer on ff.net.
Now, this probably isn't the best written fic out there, but it was one of the first fics I read where Kara and Lee had a child. I still like to go back for a re-read every now and then.

Fic by njborba
'All Is Not Loss'
'The Long Way Home'
'Wing and a Prayer'
Fic Master List Here

Insanity Underrated by amidala_thrace
In case you're living under a rock, this fic is still a WIP but there's usually a chapter or two a week. One of the best representations I've seen of Kara and Lee having a child together.

Without by ez_as_pi
This is one of my all-time favorite fics. Stop what you're doing and go read. I can't wait for her to post the sequel.

Lies I Not Need To Tell by ez_as_pi
Sort-of AU - What if the move to New Caprica took and everyone settled down. Now what happens when Kara wants a child and Sam can't have any because of his time spent on Caprica. Who does she turn to?

Also, does anyone have any good recommendations where either Kacey ends up staying with Kara or is really her daughter? I really don't see enough of those fics anywhere!


Kacey and Kara thank you for your time.

Comments

[lapsedprof.livejournal.com]

In general, I agree with cynicalshadows - I tend to flee at the first sign of a baby. But I'm willing to have my prejudices challenged. So I just read "Places to Stand" based on tara and cossette's little discussion of it above - and I really enjoyed it, in part because it dealt explicitly with how profoundly traumatic a pregnancy would be for Kara. I suspect my resistance is to a conventional domestic scenario for the two of them, because it seems so out of character for them. But a story that deals with the challenge they'd face and doesn't suggest that a baby would magically solve the tensions in their relationship...ok, I'm game.

And now I'll have to check out more of these recs.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

In that case, I second Imperative by Wisteria which Rayruz recced up thread.

I also think she has The Greater Good that you might like (if I'm recalling correctly.)

(Not that it matters what her fic are about, they're all excellent so you should read her whole canon anyway.)

[lapsedprof.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Thanks. I'll check 'em out.

[lapsedprof.livejournal.com]

Just back from reading "Imperative." Another really good one that looks squarely at the challenges that Kara would face - and still has a (measured) happy ending that's not a conventional domestic one (which I just can't see for them). And I also like that it's concerned with the broader issue of repopulating the fleet, a canonical concern that was never developed.

So - cheers and thanks! You're helping me blast through my prejudices.:)