DPP: Your K/L Origin Story

[plaid_slytherin]

Hey guys! I'm PS and I'll be doing the DPPs for this week. I guess I'm still kind of new to K/L, so I thought I'd start out with something basic. It might be good for the old hands to look back at this again and us newbies can share for the first time

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[plaid_slytherin]

I'm kind of an odd duck in that I didn't start shipping K/L until after the end of the series - way after the end of the series. They actually both irritated me a ton the first time through, I have to admit and even now, I find I like them much better post-canon when they have time for each other and time to heal. I wound up writing Staying Solid (which really, really needs a sequel - I should get on that). I couldn't have done it without deborah_judge's The Return, which got me thinking about them and then the_applecart sustained my interest and here I am. I find they really complement my OTP (so many parallels between K/L and Bill/Saul) and that drew me in, too, writing them all together as a family.

[winegums]

I'm ashamed to say that the first time I saw pilots together in the brig, I rolled my eyes, thinking, "oh, so this is who they're going to hook her/him up with.".

They sold that scene well enough that I actually liked the prospect of an eventual pairing-off, and I liked them more and more through the miniseries, but I didn't realise I'd gone full-tilt into shipper territory until the scene in my icon.

I mean, everyone else was PDA-ing like it's going out of fashion, but pilots, just looking into each other's eyes and holding hands (aka handshake) and unable to let themselves even hug?

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH.

[winegums]

As for how I got into BSG in the first place, it all started because Joss Whedon said he loved it, and In Joss I Trust.

Well, that and one of my favourite Firefly fanfic writers also wrote quite a bit of BSG fic - I was already interested in the show, but took the plunge because I wanted to be able to read her BSG fic.

In my early fandom days, I used to hang out on forums, but there was way too much pilots hate there so I just quit fandom altogether - I think I found this comm through a link from taragel last year, and it was the best discovery ever :)

[callmeonetrack]

I watched Katee in Bionic Woman first, and was very impressed by how she stole the whole show. And I'd heard good things about BSG, and I knew Jacob at TWOP recapped it (and I loved his American Idol recaps) and I read the big EW article on Katee and figured I'd give it a shot, even though I really don't like SciFi stuff much. And I fell for Starbuck right away, by the end of the mini I knew she was totally my girl. The smirky attitude, the toughness, the crazy ballsy bravery, plus the vulnerability in all her scenes with/about Lee? Oh yeah I was all over it

[embolalia]

I knew Jacob at TWOP recapped it

Yes! I'd read his Doctor Who stuff and when I started watching BSG (fall '10) and had no one to talk to about it, I'd just read the recaps after each episode :) (LJ came later!)

[callmeonetrack]

I know a lot of people find him...problematic, and sometimes I think he's way off-base but I truly enjoyed reading his takes on each episode because they're so far out of the normal recap realm that it's almost like reading a completely different fanwork based on the episode. Hee.

[winegums]

Oh God, Jacob. His recaps got so rambly by Season 3, they took longer to read than the actual episode did to watch (and TWoP's recap layout is a bitch to navigate because you simply can't see it all on one page), and half of it was stuff that had nothing to do with the show.

I loled SO HARD when I came to his Daybreak recaps - he luuuuurved the entire mess that was Season 4 (and loved it with extreme determination), and then was so bitterly disappointed by DB, it was hilarious.

[pressdbtwnpages]

I didn't watch BSG until after the series ended, and so watching the mini I saw the brig scene, recognized the names, thought "this is who I'm supposed to ship?" skeptically, and, well, YEAH.

[winegums]

I love that so many of us seem to have reacted to pilots the exact same way, lol.