Enshrine me in castles of splendor

[frakcancer]

Frakking phone monopoly kept me offline for days, but I'm still using the rat icon because bsg_aussiegirl challenged me to write this within a specific number of minutes.

For ar_drabbles challenge 31: home

Comments

[bugsfic]

This is very interesting to me. I've always had this image of Laura's father as supportive, not quite as sexist. LOL! If pragmatic. I guess that's where she got it from?

Richard was her only work affair, and she knew it was ending when he stopped calling her the smartest member of his cabinet and starting calling her the most beautiful.

Jerk. Really need to make an unflattering Richard icon for these occasions.

[frakcancer]

I hope Daddy Roslin didn't come off as sexist; I'd meant it as pragmatic. He sees that Laura's both beautiful and smart, but the rest of the world won't let her be both, so she'd better chose young and go with one option only. And yes, in my personal canon, Laura and her dad are a lot alike.

Really need to make an unflattering Richard icon for these occasions.

With the 30 seconds of material you've got on screen?

[kastari]

Just what in the hell do I say? Nothing worth anything because it's brilliant.

Maybe he doesn't even think of her looks. She doesn't think of his when she thinks of him -- just his voice, his eyes, his hands, and always his words.

Voice, eyes, hands, words. Always. Workeds for Roslin; worked for me. *snort*

Love the glimpse of Laura & her father & the beauty versus brains.

Richard was her only work affair, and she knew it was ending when he stopped calling her the smartest member of his cabinet and starting calling her the most beautiful.

This is awesome.

I wasn't fond of Roslin's running scene. You made me believe.

She runs, thinking of him, feeling light and easy. She's running toward something, she doesn't know what, but finds it waiting for her at the top of the stairs.

Perfect. And I don't even really believe in perfect.

She'd chosen smart. It worked out to nothing but a handful of poisoned dirt.Whoa. This is harsh

[frakcancer]

I agree about the running scene -- it's one of many scenes that I can't quite figure out, but the expression on Laura's face seems off and forced. And the way they recut Bill's "getting ready" scene -- would he really spend so much time taking care of his hygiene when the dying woman he loves is doing something that might be injurious to her health?

You know how fascinated I am by the way Laura carries herself in the mini, particularly in her first scene with Adama -- it's not the way a woman who knows she's beautiful carries herself. And yet she is beautiful. So... Plot bunnies ensue.

[redrockcan]

Ahh, such a wonderful piece of work!! So much packed into so few words. I love the running scene as well. I always find it so liberating after she's been suffering for so long. Her realization that she is running to him and that she's found her home is perfect.

[frakcancer]

Thanks! I love having to pack a lot into a short piece. This week's challenge (#32) kicked me to the curb because I could just go on and on and on. Shorter word counts force me to focus.