Regarding BPAL, I have imps of Namaste and Lucy's Kiss I can pass along to you, gratis, if you're interested. While BPAL has recently sped up their shipping times tremendously, the wait time is still about five weeks for international orders. Send me an e-mail at voleuse@livejournal.com and we can discuss details. I live to enable. *g*
Regarding BSG 2.13, briefly, I really appreciate the various issues brought up within the episode, but I really, really wish they had been developed in the past few episodes somehow. The biggest problem I have with this ep (and with "Flight of the Phoenix") is the tendency to canonically spring a problem on the audience, and then resolve it within the episode.
Regarding fic, I am on the edge of my seat for whatever you end up posting first. Regarding my own fic, I recently realized I haven't written L/K since September. APPALLING. And I can't think of anything, either!
five weeks!?! yikes. I'll get an email off to you about the imps. Other than that - BPAL good? What's the quality like? do the oils store well?
That's the real problem with BSG isn't it? The whole idea of story arc extending past an episode is becoming contracted. They want to wrap things up fast. Now, if this was a show in any danger of being cancelled, I'd get that motivation. I don't think BSG is going anywhere for a while now, so it doesn't fit. And that's like the Lee/Dee thing. Instantaneous, while K/L has been kicking around since the mini. I hate abrupt changes in direction. Things do not happen that way without some catastrophe, and I hardly think anything that's happened this season has really been catastrophic. Damaging, painful, enlightening, yes. But catastrophic? no.
Fic! PLEASE L/K us all. I'm trying but the shippery stuff is all in the background now for me seeing it's in the foreground and almost incomprehensible in the show at present.
Yeah, it is a bit daunting when you first come into it, but it's really, really worth it. It's kind of hard to explain, without actually smelling them, but I've found their perfume oils to be, for the most part, unique and complex. It's different for everybody, due to body chemistry, ingredients, etc, but I've very rarely been disappointed by any of the scents.
As for storage, I just keep them in a box under my bed. From what I've gathered, as long as they're out of sunlight and in a relatively cool place, there shouldn't be any problem with them. I think once I found an imp where the ingredients had separated a little, but that was easily put right by rolling it around for a minute.
Anyway, send me an e-mail, and I'll get a couple of imps posted to you. *g*
As for BSG...I think somebody on my f-list (was it jennyo? I don't remember) put it best when they described BSG as very, very good at setting up plot arcs, but very, very bad at concluding them. And a few things--like Lee/Dee--aren't bad in and of themselves, but the
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Kara/Lee, maybe dealing with jealousy while they're both dating other people? I'm really curious to see how they would deal with having been 'replaced' in each other's lives.
Or, you know, smut. Without necessity of much plot. *G*
Oh these fics sound so fabulous! PROD? I really like the AUs you are coming up with - I want to read Tantalus NOW! Not to mention the end of Eris and Aurora. Plus there's the hot - whenever you write sex I like it *g*
Congratulations about the friend too. Yay for friends with major benefits! I hope the months fly by for you I know how you could amuse yourself til then... PROD
I too had major 'meh' at Epiphanies - but I do feel slightly better after a whole two hours consideration (and major amounts of meta-reading). I'm disappointed because the show (especially the last three eps) has been so fabulous that a relatively badly paced, rather badly scienced episode had me worried that it would never again reach those heights.
I know Edward James Olmos told someone that if they thought Pegasus was dark and hard to cope with that they should 'stop watching now'. So I hold out hope for the pace and the drama and the politics and the wonderful. Even if it takes my 'ship places I'm not comfortable with.
I'm making a concerted effort to write one thing at a time - hence "Eris". But half my problem with finishing things these days is that there's so much hanging around and my attention span is never that reliable *G*
As for pilot!sex... well, there will be some. *pokes self* yes there will. Somehow. (Hard to fathom that the last smut I wrote until today was the brief alllusions to it in Tacit. I'm finishing up part 3 of Eris today and there is smut.) But I seem to have lost the PWP knack.
It's just that exactly, isn't it: the contrast between the three-parter and the tension and performance in it, and what we got in Epiphanies... that's what makes it feel like a let down. I suppose it's a small price to pay for the Resurrection Ship eps, but still... sad that such important things were so sketchily resolved.
On the personal front, I’m glad things are working out for you. It’s a great feeling when something /someone you’ve wanted for so long finally happens. =) About the fics, I was happy just reading about them, I can’t wait until you post. =) They sound so interesting and they are almost all Lee/Kara! Oh and there is going to be Katie smut!!! *squee*
Honestly, people - if you and your best friend look to each other for everything, that should be a clue, right? *G* no wonder I'm a L/K fan. It's wonderful to have some kind of idea where this is headed and know that A. is happy about it. It's just taken us a long time to figure this out, so the overwhelming sensation at the moment is relief.
Honey, almost everything I write is L/K, subtextually *G*. Even my recent L/D fic (which wasn't really L/D so much as L&K). I have a one track mind.
Katie smut isn't something I'm real comfortable writing, because I feel kind of intrusive, and the characters aren't 'characters' but conglomerations of their tv personas and what general knowledge might provide. But I like the storyline, so... *G*
I've been wondering about BPAL as well...I'm kind of scared to buy perfume off of the internet, and yet it's all so tempting.
Yay for fic. I don't know what you're thinking of going re: #5, but I'm very interested in how Kara copes with the Cylonization of Sharon--they were supposed to have been close friends, as I recall from some RDM thing I saw.
*nods* the sharon/Kara interaction has always been interesting to me. She cares enough about Sharon in the mini to ask after her even though she's obviously crushed about Lee's supposed death, and her bitterness about the whole thing strikes me as completely right for a Kara that's been betrayed. From one extreme to the other, you might say.
Gods pity the man who ever 'cheats' on Kara Thrace, natch. If she cared about a guy and he turned on her? Yikes.
You can't tease us with all those WIPs, Leda, and then not give up the goods! I have been crazy busy lately, but I have been reading and enjoying your AU (though it is hurting me deeply, the Kara and Adama thing!), and will feedback soon. If there's anything I can do to prod you on the new stuff, I would be more than happy. :)
And YAY for your happy personal news. :) Sometimes friends make the best lovers, I think.
I promise I'm not just teasing. These things are all WIP, and while I've been slow lately, I'm trying. They'll arrive eventually. *distracts you with more Eris to be posted tomorrow*
It's very happy. I'm very happy. So long as I don't look at BSG spoilers, I'll probably remain happy! *G* And yes, they do ;)
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Regarding BSG 2.13, briefly, I really appreciate the various issues brought up within the episode, but I really, really wish they had been developed in the past few episodes somehow. The biggest problem I have with this ep (and with "Flight of the Phoenix") is the tendency to canonically spring a problem on the audience, and then resolve it within the episode.
Regarding fic, I am on the edge of my seat for whatever you end up posting first. Regarding my own fic, I recently realized I haven't written L/K since September. APPALLING. And I can't think of anything, either!
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That's the real problem with BSG isn't it? The whole idea of story arc extending past an episode is becoming contracted. They want to wrap things up fast. Now, if this was a show in any danger of being cancelled, I'd get that motivation. I don't think BSG is going anywhere for a while now, so it doesn't fit. And that's like the Lee/Dee thing. Instantaneous, while K/L has been kicking around since the mini. I hate abrupt changes in direction. Things do not happen that way without some catastrophe, and I hardly think anything that's happened this season has really been catastrophic. Damaging, painful, enlightening, yes. But catastrophic? no.
Fic! PLEASE L/K us all. I'm trying but the shippery stuff is all in the background now for me seeing it's in the foreground and almost incomprehensible in the show at present.
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As for storage, I just keep them in a box under my bed. From what I've gathered, as long as they're out of sunlight and in a relatively cool place, there shouldn't be any problem with them. I think once I found an imp where the ingredients had separated a little, but that was easily put right by rolling it around for a minute.
Anyway, send me an e-mail, and I'll get a couple of imps posted to you. *g*
As for BSG...I think somebody on my f-list (was it jennyo? I don't remember) put it best when they described BSG as very, very good at setting up plot arcs, but very, very bad at concluding them. And a few things--like Lee/Dee--aren't bad in and of themselves, but the ( ... )
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Kara/Lee, maybe dealing with jealousy while they're both dating other people? I'm really curious to see how they would deal with having been 'replaced' in each other's lives.
Or, you know, smut. Without necessity of much plot. *G*
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Congratulations about the friend too. Yay for friends with major benefits! I hope the months fly by for you I know how you could amuse yourself til then... PROD
I too had major 'meh' at Epiphanies - but I do feel slightly better after a whole two hours consideration (and major amounts of meta-reading). I'm disappointed because the show (especially the last three eps) has been so fabulous that a relatively badly paced, rather badly scienced episode had me worried that it would never again reach those heights.
I know Edward James Olmos told someone that if they thought Pegasus was dark and hard to cope with that they should 'stop watching now'. So I hold out hope for the pace and the drama and the politics and the wonderful. Even if it takes my 'ship places I'm not comfortable with.
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As for pilot!sex... well, there will be some. *pokes self* yes there will. Somehow. (Hard to fathom that the last smut I wrote until today was the brief alllusions to it in Tacit. I'm finishing up part 3 of Eris today and there is smut.) But I seem to have lost the PWP knack.
It's just that exactly, isn't it: the contrast between the three-parter and the tension and performance in it, and what we got in Epiphanies... that's what makes it feel like a let down. I suppose it's a small price to pay for the Resurrection Ship eps, but still... sad that such important things were so sketchily resolved.
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About the fics, I was happy just reading about them, I can’t wait until you post. =) They sound so interesting and they are almost all Lee/Kara! Oh and there is going to be Katie smut!!! *squee*
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Honey, almost everything I write is L/K, subtextually *G*. Even my recent L/D fic (which wasn't really L/D so much as L&K). I have a one track mind.
Katie smut isn't something I'm real comfortable writing, because I feel kind of intrusive, and the characters aren't 'characters' but conglomerations of their tv personas and what general knowledge might provide. But I like the storyline, so... *G*
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Yay for fic. I don't know what you're thinking of going re: #5, but I'm very interested in how Kara copes with the Cylonization of Sharon--they were supposed to have been close friends, as I recall from some RDM thing I saw.
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Gods pity the man who ever 'cheats' on Kara Thrace, natch. If she cared about a guy and he turned on her? Yikes.
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And YAY for your happy personal news. :) Sometimes friends make the best lovers, I think.
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It's very happy. I'm very happy. So long as I don't look at BSG spoilers, I'll probably remain happy! *G* And yes, they do ;)
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