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Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, some Kara/Sam (both chapters are mainly Kara and the Cylons)
Word Count: 1,838 and 3,030 respectively
Spoilers: Through S2's "The Farm"
Disclaimer: These characters are owned by RDM, Skiffy and Universal. I am owned by three cats, a beat-up Honda and some debt. Obviously, no copyright infringement is intended.
Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing themes
Summary: After getting shot in a skirmish, Kara lands in an old hospital where the doctors are not what they appear to be ... and learns something shocking about herself.
Author's Notes: In the second chapter, I introduce what will come to be a major plot point in this fic, and I have to say I'm quite nervous about it! It's been in the outline from the beginning, though, and I don't see any other way of saying what I want to say in this fic without it. I just hope you guys will trust me with it, to take the characters where they have to go while still keeping them in-character. :) Enjoy!

Read Chapter 8 here @ jedionpaper

Read Chapter 9 here @ jedionpaper

(Crossposted as usual - apologies if you're seeing triple!)

Title: Road Trippin' and Tent Pitchin' (Prologue and Ch1)
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Rating: PG13 for now
Spoilers: Post-Academy, Pre-mini, AU.
Summary: Lee and Kara decide to head off into the wilderness for one last hurrah before he starts his first posting after War College and she starts as Flight Instructor.
Author's Note: Much love to taragel for the beta and brainstorming and general fabulousness! Credit also goes to pali167 for the prompt that started it all, and eugis for demanding a sequel, which then gave me the idea for making it into a multi-chapter piece.

(Prologue/Chapter 1)

Title: Lost and Found
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Rating: PG13
Spoilers: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Pt 1
Summary: Kara needs a reason to stay. Maybe, just maybe, Lee Adama can give her one.
Author's Note: Many thanks to taragel for the beta! Inspired by the no_takebacks KGL rewatch, and our collective desire for these two crazy kids to just yell it out already.

(Lost and Found)

Title: So Much Left Unsaid
Author: JenRose
Word count: ~3500
Pairing: Lee/Kara
Rating: R
Summary: Lee wasn't her type, she reminded herself, and he was absolutely not supposed to look this good in a dress.
A/N: AU, pre-mini, dedicated to rayruz and her kink-free zone.  See if you can count how many kinks I've included.
Disclaimer: None of it's mine.  I'm just using them gently.  Kinda.
Thanks:  The title is from Halestorm's I Get Off, because I couldn't get it out of my head while I was writing this.  And special thanks to workerbee73 for doing the beta for me, even though she's not a fan of cross-dressing.

(So Much Left Unsaid)

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Title: Deserved
Rating: all ages
Characters: Kara, Boomer, brief appearance by Lee
Genre: genfic, mostly fluffy
Warnings: Vague spoilers through 1.05 You Can't Go Home Again
Word Count: 1538
Summary: Sharon looks back at Kara with a wink. "So," she says, lips curling into a smirk. "You gonna tell me why you've got a picture of the new CAG up in your locker?"

Author's Note: This came out of a need to write someone ribbing Kara about the picture in her locker. I decided post-YCGHA was the best way to go, since then I could use the excuse that, until her knee healed, Kara had someone helping her get dressed and such. That person became Sharon, and then Lee popped in for a bit, and just for kicks, I threw in a reference to one of my favourite fanfic cliches, and all of a sudden I had a 1500+ word fic.

Title comes from a quote by Walt Whitman, in vague reference to Kara: "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."


( Kara's been out of sickbay and back in her bunk for a week when Sharon plops herself down at Kara's feet, disturbing her from the cheap paperback horror she's been reading in her downtime. )

This is why I love Mo Ryan (television critic for the Chicago Tribune) and yet another reason why I stopped watching SGU after the 2nd episode.

(Actual post coming up soon) :)

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Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Mostly Kara/Sam this chapter, with many mentions of Kara/Lee
Word Count: 2,529
Spoilers: Through S2's "The Farm"
Disclaimer: These characters are owned by RDM, Skiffy and Universal. I am owned by three cats, a beat-up Honda and some debt. Obviously, no copyright infringement is intended.
Rating: Hard R
Summary: The trouble was, she had chosen.
Author's Notes: This chapter is quite heavy on the Kara/Sam interaction but with tons of Kara/Lee mentions tossed in there (which is why I'm crossposting it to the K/L comms, same as always). K/L fans, don't fret: your turn is coming. And in a big, BIG way. Promise!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

(Crossposted to the usual suspects - I'm sorry if you're seeing this in triplicate!)

Title: Not The Colonial Dream II
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~6400
Pairing: Kara/Lee
Summary: “Try is not an option for us now, Lee. We’re having a kid. Okay? We’re stuck with it. So either be there, or don’t.”
A/N This is the continuation of the short-ish pregnancy!fic I wrote for the 3rd BSG Porn Battle-- Not The Colonial Dream. Massive amounts of love and hugs and rainbows and puppies to taragel and thrace_adama for putting up with me while this fic kicked my ass in every way imaginable and helped turn it into something presentable. csm37 and eugis as well for being helpful and letting me talk at them.

( Not The Colonial Dream - II )

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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.

Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(

Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.

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Author: elzed
Fandom:Battlestar Galactica
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara
Rating:NC-17
Spoilers:Season 3; up to Eye of Jupiter
Wordcount: 1,700 or so
Disclaimer:I would love to lay claim to Lee Adama, especially, sweat and all, but sadly cannot. Borrowing the characters and setting, and making this a labour of love, not lucre.

Prompt: Can't get off this ride.

This is an expanded entry of my porn battle comment fic (and heavens, this has been a long time coming...)

Thanks to taragel for reminding me to take part; and to my fab beta overnighter for turning this around, as her name suggests, overnight...

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Conquer Writer's Block

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If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?

1. I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
2. Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
3. This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
4. I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
5. Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
6. SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
7. I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
8. I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
9. I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
10. Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.

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