DPP: First Fic Friday!

[winegums]

We've had a comfortably quiet week here, and it's been nice (I would like to speculate that it is because people are following the collective meltdown of one of the most annoying fandoms in existence in the wake of scandalous celeb gossip, but that's just me and my cackling, plus my eternal gratitude that we're not anything like that level of crazy

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[anamarya]

hmmm... first pilots fic that i read? I think it was Dark Days of Apollo on ff.net

[winegums]

lol ff...I remember mixing up the BSG categories and ending up reading fic for the 1978 series first. I gave up and ran to lj pretty quickly :)

[anamarya]

auch that must of hurt.

actually, ff worked pretty well for me for a while. I even had my first contact with the KAGverse there which lead me here :)

[rachelindeed]

The first BSG fanfic I read was flowrs4ophelia's Where Soul Meets Body. I clicked to read it on impulse because I liked the author's Harry Potter fic -- I had never watched an episode of BSG at the time, but I was pretty sure given the quality of her writing that it would be a good story, and I thought it might give me a sense of whether I'd like to try watching the show.

Unfortunately, that particular story is basically totally incomprehensible if you haven't seen 4 seasons worth of BSG, so mainly I thought, "Gosh, this all sounds intense and confusing. Must be nice for the people who are into it." And then I wandered off again for another year or two :)

[winegums]

flowrs4ophelia has some wonderful fic, you got the most amazing intro to BSG fic ever! None of that grubbing around in FF and trying to figure out if things are decently-written from their summaries, lol :)

[cosetteferaud]

Ha, I find this story about your BSG fic introduction quite amusing. No wonder you didn't get a thing, and then you forgot all about BSG for two years, lol. But seriously, that story is super amazing! flowrs4ophelia is so talented, I wish she had written more for BSG.

[rachelindeed]

Yeah, it was a real pleasure to come back and read it again once I watched the show. I was like: "I always suspected this must be awesome, and now I see I was right!" :)

Fanfic window shopping is an odd little pastime, but fun. Good authors tend to write good stories, whatever they're writing about, and it's cool (though often confusing) to dip your toes into a new set of characters and a different world that way. There are some stories out there that I love a lot without particularly loving the actual source material. Comic books for instance -- I basically can't stand any actual graphic novel I've ever picked up and tried to read, but I know quite a lot about comic book storylines because there's great fanfic out there.

[winegums]

haha, I can't actually remember my first BSG fic either. Some things are just lost in the depths of ff. net...I know fahye-fic and some of the early fandom writers were among the first fic authors I read, but the actual first, I can't remember.

[bristow1941]

Awww, that's when I totally fell in love as well (except for the hair - I thought it was practical but oh so hideous!) I think my first read was something by Claira... which totally made me like "hiatus, what hiatus?" *grin* between the miniseries and Season 1. Tim Goodman, then of the SF Chronicle and my favorite tv critic, raved about BSG so much I had to netflix the miniseries. Remember when RDM was like "if you want to write fanfic, I'm not coming after you" in one of the early podcasts? That's how I learned there was such a thing. Too bad the writers didn't take any notes!

[winegums]

lol Kara's miniseries hair, I just remember being so charmed by her (when I wasn't irritated) that I even loved that ragamuffin mop :)

Miniseries pilots are just lethal in that scene, there is no hyperbole that is too much to describe by love for them.

[ninety6tears]

I'm pretty sure the first K/L fic I ever read was a little oldie called Water.

[winegums]

I just read it, it's lovely, thank you for the link!

(and Sherlock! All the hearts ♥♥♥♥♥)

[ninety6tears]

I barely remember the fic, haha, I should reread that author's few K/L things.

And oh, Sherlock ♥