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What life would be like as one of your ribs (3143 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage
Relationships: Apollo (BSG 1978)/Starbuck (BSG 1978)
Characters: Apollo (BSG 1978), Starbuck (BSG 1978), Cassiopeia (BSG 1978), Baltar
Additional Tags: UST, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Sex Work, episode: s01e18 Murder on the Rising Star, Partner Betrayal, Two Truths and A Lie
Summary:

Two truths and a lie about “Murder On The Rising Star.”

Weather is cray y'all! A foot of snow yesterday, bloody cold today, in the low forties by the weekend.

Getting back into the swing of things, with a new (and improved!) calendar number. Wrapping up 2013, here's my last story of the old year, for yuletide:

Kinky boots, or, first steps in the liberation of Lieutenant Sheba (1863 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Apollo/Starbuck, Athena/Boomer, Athena & Sheba, Sheba & Apollo
Characters: Lieutenant Starbuck, Captain Apollo, Lieutenant Sheba, Lieutenant Boomer, Lieutenant Bojay, Lieutenant Athena, Bree, Dietra, Lieutenant Jolly
Additional Tags: High Heels, Crossdressing, Forced Crossdressing, UST, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Gender Issues, Daddy Issues, Feminist Themes, Embarrassment
Summary: What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, even in space.

The only resolution I'm making this year - I never make resolutions, it's a self-love thing - is to try and get more words out. I'm having them all the time, but they get stuck in my fingers. Finishing is a consummation devoutly to be wished.sn

Internets, bless me, for I have gafiated. It has been three weeks since my last update. I needed to disconnect for a little bit after the holiday, but now I'mma try to hook back in.

Which means that I never got round to posting my 2012 fic roundup, or linking to my yuletide fic. So here's that:

for Yuletide, I wrote:
Other creatures that have eyes (4090 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Boomer/Athena, Apollo/Starbuck
Characters: Boomer, Lieutenant Athena, Dietra, Captain Apollo, Lieutenant Starbuck, Commander Adama, Colonel Tigh
Summary:

Boomer didn't often see the stars this way, although he flew among them daily; in a Viper space was segmented by tylinium plates and dark duralumin bars, broken into panes like oldfashioned glass windows.

I had a fun writing year, if a bit stop-and-go. (I'm not going to do a link list here, because I think the AO3 has started to obviate that convention; it's no longer hard to find an author's recent output listed chronologically!) I wrote in a megafandom for the first time since forever, and had awesome fun with the Avengers. That was awesome, I should write some more of that sometime. I think I'm most happy with Alive in your blood now, which said some things about the Vorkosigan saga and family and honor and progressive politics that are really important to me. Final fic stats: 11 stories, 33,552 words.

I also learned how to podfic, and am working on the vidding thing, so yay for new skillsets!

Goals for this next year: to finish and post some of the really large quantities of Prydain and original Star Wars words that have been accumulating on my hard drive.

So, okay, I am no longer quite so blue and fragile, but I am still badly out of touch with fannish squee. Idk why, but all of my post-yuletide writing projects are languishing and I'm not writing and argh. And I think part of it is that I miss being in an active fandom? Where people'll ramble about the sourcetext in a communally squeeful kind of way? So I'm going to ramble and squee about some things, and if you're feeling it squee back mmkay? Also there are picspams, because yay picspams right?

( early seasons of Supernatural )

( Original Star Wars )

( Battlestar Galactica Classic )

Hmm - I seem to being doing classic-style media fandoms at present? Which is funny because between Radclyffe Hall and George Eliot and also rereading stuff from the Brontës' Angria and Gondal games my non-media brain is very girl-centric at present. Maybe that's why I can't write! Anyway, off to watch more pretty boys on my screen - bugger productivity tonight.

Thank you for writing a story for me!

I'm a happy-ending kind of girl. I like stories about people in love, sexual or otherwise - stories where people care for and help one another. It satisfies my idealistic streak. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward. h/c is probably my biggest kink. I'm also really into family-of-choice tropes and stories about strong or passionate emotional intimacy.

I like female characters really a lot. Not all of my requests center directly on women, but it's important to me that narrative spaces reflect gender parity/equity, or specifically condemn the lack thereof in more realistically patriarchal 'verses. I like non-standard sexualities and imaginative modes of sexual engagement. Similarly, cultural diversity that opens up the imaginative space of the canon makes me seriously happy. There's no reason why kyriarchal western values, images, mores, or cultural practices need to rule speculative stories that are fairytales or take place in outer space!

( Battlestar Galactica (1978) )


( Limberlost books )


( Tamora Pierce, Tortall )


( Orlando )

001-010: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
011-024: Battlestar Galactica Classic (1978)



( a star might call: it's a long way across )