Meme time!

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From lls_mutant:

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment

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[lobselvith8]

Got the popcorn ready

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The day after the end of everything, one of the last Cavils in the universe sits at his desk aboard one of the last Basestars, his head pillowed upon one of the last whiskey bottles.

The repetition of "the last" here is meant to reinforce the sense of loss. I wrote this something like two days after the finale, and it's very much a reaction fic -- I still can't believe the show ended on a note like this.

He doesn't want to remember, but he had Simon rev up his liver function a couple of years ago, and now he can't drink enough to forget. He still tries, taking shot after shot straight from the bottle, but it comes to him regardless:

I like the idea that Cavil lets Simon screw around with his metabolism, like the mad scientist and his robot. It's a fun dynamic.

Everybody had paired up at random, almost as if it were their last night alive instead of the first. He'd ended up on the floor with a Simon, another Cavil, and a very willing Doral, like in one of those jokes where they all walk into a bar.The punchline to this joke is, of

[nicole_anell]

He returns to the eyrie, happy, so happy! All of his brothers are happy, too, and even the voice is happy. [Brave warrior, first among the brethren. Good hunting, good hunter! Whatever else you are, you are that; now you are a Raider,] it sings to him. He wants this to happen again

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He returns to the eyrie, happy, so happy! All of his brothers are happy, too, and even the voice is happy. [Brave warrior, first among the brethren. Good hunting, good hunter! Whatever else you are, you are that; now you are a Raider,] it sings to him. He wants this to happen again.

There are a couple different callbacks to the series, here: "good hunting" is the phrase the Colonials use to wish the Viper pilots well, and "whatever else you are, you are that" comes straight from Six's words to Baltar, when she tells Baltar to "become a man" on Kobol. I liked the sound of that line, and it seemed appropriate, because Scar has just come of age in the same way...

It doesn't, at least not right away. He and his brothers fly many more times, learning, growing.

[Wave two-three-nine commences. Pro tip: come from above to destroy the enemy vessels! Press start to continue!]

I think this is my favorite of the Hybrid-babble bits from this fic. This conception of the Raiders really is just like some horrible video game.

He and his brothers