in an attempt to prevent a pilotlove panic

okay, certain poodles are upsetting themselves about the fact that kara and lee may possibly never get together in canon.

in an attempt to make her flail, i am accepting suggestions as to when pilots had time/opportunity/desire to sex at various points in various episodes. and what sort of sexing it was. and then i'll write it.

maybe.

did that make sense?

i have a rant to follow, if that makes you happy.

a rant on shipping, and on being constrained when presenting information in fandom newsletters

For those who don't know, I post at galacticanews. I read so many links, and friendslists belonging to many different people in order to find as much news as possible. I try to link to everything I can, regardless of if I agree with it, or if I think it's pointless, or if I think it's the best thing ever. The only rule is, if it's spec or reaction, it has to be longer than a sentence.

At the end of each edition, I like to rec a fic. I don't link to all the fic out there (that's what the_wireless is for), but I like to rec one fic that is really great, or about an underused character, or is just really interesting (if not fabulous). This rec is the only part of the newsletter that is based on my opinion. Every other element of the newsletter is a simple presentation of facts.

Couple of weeks ago, during my trawl for links and discussion, I read one or two discussions on the "unfairness" of BSG fandom, and its propensity towards Kara/Lee. This rant was bolstered by a number of comments remarking on the size of the Kara/Lee element in fandom. One of the comments complained that even the newsletter took to reccing Kara/Lee fics.

After reading this thread, I took exception to these comments. I try really hard to be unbiased and fair towards every element of this fandom. The characters, the plot lines, the romances. And if I rec a fic, it's not because you're being repressed by a Kara/Lee shipper. It's because I read a fic, and it moved me, and I want to share it with everyone else.

So, anyway, after I took exception to this, I stopped writing and reccing Kara/Lee for a little while. I wrote two fics (one was a Zarek gen piece, and one was a Galactica gen piece), and every fic I recced on GD was a non-K/L piece.

And that's so stupid. I read some really great fic last week, and I felt like I couldn't rec it simply because I AM a rampant K/L shipper, and everyone knows it, and I wanted to prove that being a K/L shipper doesn't mean oppressing fandom or whatever.

And I'm wondering if I should be swayed by fandom in this way. I am reflecting fandom through GD, so I should rec what's out there. And that is both K/L and non-K/L, and I shouldn't feel restricted in this way. But at the same time, the aforementioned discussion made me contribute more to non-K/L fiction in fandom, and promote more non-K/L fiction in fandom, and that's pretty good too, isn't it?

My Zarek piece went generally unloved. I don't think anybody wants to read about Zarek. I don't feel oppressed: I just don't think that everybody else likes Zarek as much as I do.