Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Hello! Me, again! (I know, you're really tired of me. But TOO BAD!)

First off, a quick reminder! The Where on Galactica drabbleathon is awaiting your wacky ideas about where pilots can do the nasty on Galactica! Sign up! Tell your friends! Post on Wednesday! It'll be fun!

Second, topic du jour!
There's a fair amount in our little corner of fandom dealing with Colonial Fleet Academy/Flight School. What are your thoughts about our pilots meeting as cadets? Do you have favourite fics/ideas about that early part of their lives? Do you favour the idea that Kara was a hellraiser and Lee had a giant stick up his ass, or do you think our CAG was looser than that? The Academy. Discuss.

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[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I have so much love for Academy fics ~ it took me a while to realize this, but I think they're my very favorite kind of Kara/Lee story. I just really, really love watching the two of them meet and get to know each other. Academy stories are bittersweet, they're heartbreaking, and some of them even go AU and let our two heroes work things out, and somehow that's the most convincing AU for them I can imagine. Because they *were* right for each other, and if they'd met at the right time I think it would have changed so much for them. I think at that moment in her life Kara was finding herself and starting to escape her past and she might just have been ready to give herself a chance at happiness with less of the self-loathing, guilt, and fear that kept sabotaging her post-Zak relationships.

My personal favorites are so well-known that they really don't need to be recced, but this gives me an excuse to gush about them.

Polish the Stars (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3539249/1/bPolish_b_the_bStars_b) by shuchong -- Quite simply one of the most fun and poignant Lee voices ever; in this story he is studying to be an Academic historian, and his fascination with observing and analyzing the people around him leads him into wry contemplation of Kara Thrace. She quickly manages to make him lose his sense of perspective, and the love, the friendship, and even the horrible mistakes he makes with her are just fantastic. I *love* historian Lee, and I love the way Kara's amazing, prickly, vibrant fragility comes through in this fic. They are both irresistable.

One Taste of the Apple (http://brynnmck.livejournal.com/32749.html) by brynnmck -- Kara at her most heartbreaking; it's such a real friendship, and it hurts every time to see her decide that Lee is unattainable when he's waiting right there at her fingertips.

Thy Delicious Notes (http://community.livejournal.com/bsg2003fics/270331.html) by spamdilemma -- This one requires some patience from us Kara/Lee shippers, because Lee is so far in the background. It's a story about Kara/Zak and an AU version of Caroline Adama (before "A Day in the Life" established her backstory). It's less an Academy fic than a fic set in an Academy universe ~ Lee knows Kara from their days in the Academy, though she is now with Zak. But seeing Kara, Zak, and Lee through a mother's perceptive eyes is amazing, and Lee absolutely breaks my heart in this story. He's so silently, hopelessly in love. It's a beautiful companion piece to Tomorrow's dust (flares into breath) (http://community.livejournal.com/bsg2003fics/285532.html).

Our Pataphysical Divigation (http://mercurial-wit.livejournal.com/34490.html#cutid1) by mercurial_wit: My favorite of their first meetings, and a lovely study of their identities, legends, and realities.

And Taragel is absolutely right about daphnaea's "Simulations" and all her other stories. They are masterful.