GET YOUR FIC ON! Ladies Fic Battle Begins
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This is a prompt-driven GENERAL fanfiction battle revolving around all of the ladies of the BSGverse.
General fanfiction may include allusions to romantic relationships, maybe even employ romance as an element to illustrate a larger theme, but, romance, or the lack of it, should not be the point of focus for the story. Let's face it, the BSG ladies were awesome and they didn't always get the chance to show off that awesome. Especially in the latter seasons of the show.
Action-Adventure, Friendship, Humor, Angst, Comfort, all of these are good categories to explore. The ladies could lead a mission, make a sacrifice, exact revenge, solve a mystery, confess a secret, come to a decision, teach a student, go on a quest, reflect on a mistake, celebrate a victory, learn a lesson, question an order, save a life, or roll the hard six (just to name a few options). The possibilities are endless
Prompt sub starts: October 1
Prompt sub ends: October 5 11:59 PM EST
Master List posted: October 6
Fic posting begins: October 7 11:59 PM EST
Fic posting closes: October 15 11:59 PM EST
General Rules:
Prompts may be simple words, phrases, concepts, song lyrics, scenarios, or quotes you’d like used. I heartily encourage specific and unusual prompts.
Sample: zombies, happiness is a warm gun, “You win some, you lose some”
Submit as many prompts as you like as often as you like. (Please do not edit posts, but add any additional prompts after your first post in a new comment.)
Get your thinking caps on and HAVE FUN!
And please spread the word to BSG fic fans far and wide! The more participants, the merrier!
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Date: 2010-10-02 04:35 am (UTC)Most days
I try my best to put on a brave face
But inside
My bones are cold and my heart breaks
But all the while
Something's keeping me safe
And alive
(~Sweet Silver Lining, Kate Voegele)
Kara, best day of my life
D'Anna, protecting her sources
Laura, secretly a nonbeliever or how she found faith
Marcia Showboat Case, Life on the Beast
Seelix, Teaching the nuggets
Cally, her POV on Jammer joining the NCP and then him freeing her
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Date: 2010-10-02 05:30 am (UTC)Racetrack, make peace with imperfections
Laura, "Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. -George Weinberg"
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Date: 2010-10-02 05:47 am (UTC)growing up--flashes of memory prior to Earth 2.0
Kat (or Racetrack):
an event or action that distinguishes either as individual rather than a foil for Starbuck
Cally:
the life that could have been: dental school
Kara:
"women, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em"
D'Anna:
journal--"what I did/discovered when I stayed on scorched Earth 1.0"
The Women of the Baltar Cult:
witchcraft is better practiced by women
Author's Choice of Character:
"sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it" --Indigo Girls
random crack:
--the women of bsg are in lockdown together (sorta like a crazy church lock-in thing or possibly due to quarantine). The cylon ladies turn into vultures/vampires/zombies/etc and the human women must find a way to survive/escape/defeat them
--bsg ladies as manifestations of the seven deadly sins OR bsg ladies must fight for the right to be the One True embodiment of that sin (ex. Cap6 vs. Ellen for the crown of lust)
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Date: 2010-10-02 04:31 pm (UTC)Showboat: origins
Cally: dental school(sorry, Liz!)Six: potential
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Date: 2010-10-02 04:48 pm (UTC)Dee: "Oh I need something to help me sleep / But I know that you're not good for me / And I need something I can keep / From the empty space in between / From the empty space in between
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:26 pm (UTC)Dee, first day in the military
Kacey, angels, when I grow up
Kara, favorite movie, first day in the military, I felt like destroying something beautiful, Is that your blood?/ Some of it, yeah., motherhood, This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
Hera, when I grow up
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Date: 2010-10-02 08:20 pm (UTC)Dee: unsent letter, out the window, duty above all else, fooling yourself
Racetrack: time in hack, lucky streak
Ishay: one step at a time, torture, nursing training, doctors are assholes
Sgt. Mathias: military life, taking orders, making sergeant
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Date: 2010-10-02 08:41 pm (UTC)Kara and/or Dee, welcome to Galactica
Dee, voice, always a good listener, could-have-been, wish you were here
Tory, history books forgot about us, politics, love and war
Laura, get out the vote, first day of school/work, temple, the first day of the end of your life
Kacey, bad dreams, babysitter, walking on Earth, gravity
Kara, can't keep still, bird, song, teacher, coach, drill sergeant, flying so you won't land, shades, five finger discount, wrong side of the tracks, taking up space, life is a dance floor, baby I'm bad news,
Kara bonding with any other woman, really. In any capacity.
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Date: 2010-10-02 11:49 pm (UTC)Kara, "i'll be waiting, with my eyes on the clouds"
Kara, "don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able"
Laura, "my baby needs an angel / she never learned to fly / she'll reach not sanctuary / just by looking at the sky"
Laura, "i've held the phoenix to my chest and ended up alone"
Laura, "and when they go to work, they hear drums / the boom fills all the empty space"
Elosha, "some of god's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers"
Dee, "mary, you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes, you're covered in rain"
Kendra, "no colors anymore I want them to turn black"
Cain, "everybody knows that the boat is leaking / everybody knows that the captain lied"
Gina, "heard of a van that is loaded with weapons / packed up and ready to go"
The Hybrid, "images of broken light which / dance before me like a million eyes / that call me on and on across the universe"
Hera & Kacey, "after the rockets / after the rockets / calm"
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Date: 2010-10-03 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-03 01:16 am (UTC)Laura Roslin: 1. Voldemort: O.
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 07:45 pm (UTC)That means either Zarek or Baltar would be Snape, and Tory would be an excellent McGonagall. I can kinda see Athena as Hermione and Helo as Ron...
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Date: 2010-10-03 12:46 am (UTC)Kara, life by starlight
Laura, the stories we tell ourselves
Caprica Six, living among humans
Athena, exile
Boomer, the thing she misses most
Ishay, she sees more than she says
Cally, the things you do to get by
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Date: 2010-10-03 01:30 am (UTC)Julia Brynne, readjusting to life with Kacey after NuCap
Playa Palacios, all the news that's fit to print (and some that's not)
Laura, Things are different now, but I'm still the same
Jean Barolay, volunteering for the Demetrius mission
Kara Thrace, Ace Detective (AU or...investigating for Fleet)
Female pilots of Galactica palling around, doing just about anything. Maybe pranks/hazing?
General crack, Ladies of Galactica take over Joe's Bar for KARAOKE NIGHT!!
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Date: 2010-10-06 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-03 06:27 pm (UTC)Dee: going down to New Caprica, Pegasus was home, AU where she leads the mutiny, something about Sagittaron
Athena: general in the Cylon army, pre-Helo
Cally: first day on Galactica, friendship with a female from the Pegasus
Showboat: Getting promoted
Kacey and Hera: battling over a doll
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:19 pm (UTC)Ellen Tigh: Ellen knew that Bill Adama was Saul's ticket to redemption and a decent post. So, in addition to maneuvering to advance Saul's career, she also helped to get Bill his own command, without his knowledge. How?
Laura Roslin: Working with Richard Adar's wife on a campaign or committee, after Laura started sleeping with Richard
D'Anna: Visions and experiences while boxed
Starbuck: Anything between the destruction of her viper in "Maelstrom" and her appearance in the nice, shiny new one
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If we see something we like, do we just write it, or do we have to say, "I'm going to write that one." Is there a limit to how many people can write something for a single prompt?
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:31 pm (UTC)(This works basically the way the big BSG porn battles do, it's just non-porny and meant to focus on the ladies and not their love lives/ships so much.)
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-03 07:36 pm (UTC)Elosha: Entering the priesthood
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:24 pm (UTC)Dee- just bending the rules, stereotypes
Kara- being childish, crying with laughter
Cain (or any Pegasus female)- Colonial day
Showboat- puzzles
Crack every woman on Galactica- keeping time after the end of the world by that time of the month
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Date: 2010-10-03 11:29 pm (UTC)Racetrack, AU, lousy day, don't be a hero
Dee, AU, the graveyard shift, waiting for nothing to happen
Tory, AU, LIVE in 60 seconds, cold sandwiches
Racetrack, AU, fall leaves, playdate
Jean, AU, aliens and coffee, playlists
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Date: 2010-10-03 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 12:00 am (UTC)They're two different prompts, but *technically* for the same character, yes.
If that's totally wrong, I can fix it if you need me to. :)
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 12:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 12:47 am (UTC)The list of prompts will be posted on the 6th and then there'll be a few days to think about it and then about a week to submit the ficlet, so there's plenty of time. (Fics don't have to be long either; I mean they can be but normally they're a couple hundred words or so.)
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Date: 2010-10-04 08:00 pm (UTC)Kara and Gunny: discovering that both played piramid in hight school and then remembering that they where adversary in the hight school League.
Kara and Ellen: pre-mini, they meet in a bar not knowing that Kara was serving on board Galactica and that Tigh is her XO.
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Date: 2010-10-04 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-05 12:59 am (UTC)Racetrack: bullet
Kara: infinity
Roslin: flight as a weapon
Barolay: backstory of her life before getting into Pyramid
Sonja (Six): waiting to figure out how to find forgiveness
Dee: that time she didn't politely offer the last (insert tasty treat here) to someone else, but ate it herself instead. And enjoyed it.
I'll be back, hopefully...
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:37 am (UTC)Racetrack, don't be shocked when people die be surprised you're still alive, tears, shots
Boomer, I'm not the only one, gunshy, cowboys
Jeanne, prayer for the dying, all the things I cannot see, secrets
Paulla, candles, survival of the fittest, inside out
Jean Barolay, box of truth, drowning, fists, guns and boots, home on the range
Ellen Tigh, back-country vacation, high heels, I never change but I am become different all the same
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:52 am (UTC)Kara and Tory: Tory is sent on the Demetrius with Kara instead of Sam.
Kara and Dee: drawn together in the wake of Lee's tragic death in Maelstrom.
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Date: 2010-10-06 03:55 am (UTC)Cally Henderson, can't live inside of fear, caves, small hands
D'Anna Biers, diva, time flies when you're boxed, last chance saloon
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Date: 2010-10-06 04:16 am (UTC)Kacey, her POV on anything and everything
Jean, you've been kicking ass since I met Tory
Tory, this is how it was, screwed over, you don't know what I'm thinking
Kara, blood on my hands, so what, how do I lose something I never had in the first place?
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Date: 2010-10-06 02:32 pm (UTC)Dee, in someone else's eyes: the watcher being watched.
D'Anna and baby Hera. Anything: changing diapers, falling in love; falling out of love?
A time Kara was guided (or not) by the thought of "what would admiral Cain do?"
Kara and Dee, a game of triad, pre- love quadrangle. High stakes.
Laura Roslin's sister gets an abortion; pre apocalypse, or how this affects her decision to ban abortions in the fleet.
Caprica Six, guitar, maybe a duet.
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Date: 2010-10-06 02:40 pm (UTC)