Meme time

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Taken from kappamaki33

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

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[kappamaki33]

“Thing is this,” Gaeta says. “I know you know all about how life can suck, so I won’t insult you by explaining to you. But, you know that point when all these things have happened, and you think, okay, you’re really sure by now that it isn’t all your fault because you can’t possibly be that bad of a person to deserve it all?” He waits for her to nod and she does, because boy, does she ever. “Well,” Gaeta continues, sagely. “That’s actually a very good state to be in

[trovia]

Okay! One thing that immediately jumps at me when I look at this snippet is the quip about how Gaeta suddenly got wings one day although the CIC considered it betrayal. I don't remember where that story came from originally but, after using it here I kept it in mind and I was planning on using it in a little Gaeta/Helo prequel I considered writing one time. The story was about how the navigator was considered almost a pilot by the pilots, and how the former navigator was this really old Major who always gave the pilots privileged treatment because he had been a pilot in the war alongside Tigh and Adama. So the pilots expected a cool new watch officer and along came Gaeta instead, who was an academy graduate and who didn't even have wings. They despised him. The CIC on the other hand took Gaeta as this big CIC victory. Long story short, at the end Gaeta took leave and came back with wings. And the pilots thought it was this big nod at the pilots but Gaeta declined all their congrats, going back to work in that Gaeta-esque way he has.

[kappamaki33]

I love that back-story for the wings. I've always been curious about this one because this was the one I thought I was going to remix until I ran across "Recapitulation." That *is* an awesome last line, too.

[trovia]

:)

Really? How would you have written that remix?

[kappamaki33]

I was going to write it from Anders' perspective, starting somewhere around when Felix gets up to talk to Hoshi. He and Helo were going to have been kind of watching Dee, trying to figure out what was going on with her, and then Dee was going to come over and have that drink with Anders. I didn't know how that conversation would go, but it seemed like it had a lot of potential.