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[pogrebin]

First off, hello to those who are new to my journal. I believe there was some kind of friending frenzy a while back and so I have some new people on the flist. I've finally gotten around to friending you back-- sorry that it has taken so long. Do pop over and say hello, and tell me about yourself. If you come bearing fic recs you will be given

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Re: part two

[pogrebin]

The community of New Earth is small and squat and surprisingly quick to spike up from the dead earth in steel and brickwork. There are exactly one hundred and twenty three persons in the commune, and only thirty two humans, including Kara Thrace. Though the numbers of Cylons has been slightly augmented with the occasional survivor or defector from the other side, D'Anna has established herself firmly on the basestar with only the Centurions for company, and Anders and Tigh would rather eat molten Tilium than leave the fleet their numbers are fairly stable. The Cylons try to be careful now, they are few, and they cannot be replaced. For some reason they have more Sixes than any other model, followed by Eights. There are only fifteen Twos, including the one that Kara calls Leoben, and a handful of Fours and Fives that defected after the Hub (but no Ones

Re: part two

[zauberer_sirin]

The community of New Earth is small and squat and surprisingly quick to spike up from the dead earth in steel and brickwork.

I am always floored by your skill to create whole, closed, independent universes with very few words.

I loved the bit of chat about "destiny" Kara and Leoben.

There are fifteen Twos left, and despite what everyone in the Fleet seems to think, Kara Thrace has taken great pleasure in systematically fucking all but one.

*dies*

Oh, and Leoben's "serene smile"? YESSS. Quite perfect that, yes.

I loved this liek woah. will now stop fangirling like the thing MDE OF FAIL i am XD

Re: part two

[pogrebin]

Ahaha, that was so much fun to write, thankyou! I love Kara & Leoben, from where they started, through to now. Basically, Battlestar kicks my arse, time and time again-- I think that ep with Kara & Leoben in that house together, that storyline, just made me fall in love with them, and the show.

I'm happy to try and write you a prompt, if you like, BSG or otherwise. :P

Re: part two

[zauberer_sirin]

I think that ep with Kara & Leoben in that house together, that storyline, just made me fall in love with them, and the show.

that part is my favourite thing EVER. I love BSG a lot. I just don't seem to be as fannish about it as other fandoms (I mean, I read fic, but not hungrily, and I have never attempted to write it). I am happy just to watch.

you could make me very happy if, seeing how well you did with Elizabethan fic in recent post, you could write me something about Shakespeare and the Dark Lady. I think I am a bit obssessed (Burguess' "Nothing like the sun" is my favourite book in the world, after all).

but no compromise.

[pogrebin]

My dear, I am afraid my knowledge of Shakespeare's sonnet sequences is actually abysmal for an English student. But I have attempted to come up with something, after rereading the Dark Lady sequence, which was most enjoyable, so thankyou for the nudge in that direction.... And lordy, it's in first person.

slander
shakespeare & the dark lady

In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,
And thence this slander as I think proceeds.- Sonnet 131

[zauberer_sirin]

oh my.

you have no idea how many times i have read this already, and will re-read it in the future. it's 4 in the morning so my thoughts aren't very coherent so i might have to go back to this in the future and comment about the gorgeousness of the reading, or the perfect, perfect Shakespeare voice (he was too self-conscious for his own good, the joke was never lost on him) but for now let me say this-

She writes with a total exaggerated grace, with one that has stolen knowledge from the shelves & books & pens of richer men, blind to their own blessedness and blind to her

SASFDJHGFJAHFJ!!!!

You bring together the erotic impulse and the creative impulse and I BLOODY LOVE YOUR FOR THAT. The Dark Lady as smuggler of half-understood words, repeating bits of the men she has slept with, and as co-writer of Shakespeare's sonnets by lying with him... It's just too perfect. You have given me the version of the Dark Lady I didn't know I was looking for and I cannot thank you enough for that.

Seriously. wow.

Thanks.

Re: part two

[fahye]

Yes, glorious & grubby & exactly what I wanted. You have an amazing knack for condensing narrative and meaning into a short space without giving the impression that it was at all rushed.

And this -- Laura Roslin offers them this choice through bitterly clenched teeth -- tells a whole little subset of stories all on its own.

LOVE.