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neuralclone, having had a look at the state of Battlestar Galactica fanfic, not unreasonably observed a certain dominance of Kara/Lee stories and compared it to the absolute domininance of John/Aeryn stories in Farscape fandom. Mind you, so far - i.e. first season, we don't know what's to come, of course - this isn't mirrored by the show itself. One many things I treasure about BSG that it offers a rich ensemble of characters to love, and they all get development and airtime.

(Though as opposed to Firefly, where I love everyone equally, I do have my favourite on BSG. All hail Madam President.)

One thing that Kara and Lee have in common with John and Aeryn for me as well is that I'm far more interested in stories about them separately than about them together. Because I do like them; I'm just not into them as a couple. So I was delighted to find "Belief", a Kara/Leoben story set post-Kobol's Last Gleaming on Caprica. Human/Cylon relations at their most messed up this side of Six and Baltar.

Meanwhile, k_julia has started to post a terrific work in progress, starting here, with subsequent installments at her lj. It's gen so far, emphasis on Laura Roslin and Lee Adama, but everyone, from Kara to Billy to the locked up Boomer, is characterized with great skill and detail, as is the brittle, tense atmosphere. Only few more weeks, and then I'll have to be very disciplined to remain spoiler free for a few days. I'll probably try and do that via reading classy fanfic like this.

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Incidentally, I'm getting the feeling it will be this way for me with Dr. Who as well. I like the Doctor, I like Rose, but I'm not interested in stories about them as a romantic couple, and I bet that's what's dominating the fanfiction. Frankly, at this early stage I'm mostly interested in more episodes, not yet fanfic, but hey. I'll change my mind before Christmas, I know. About the fanfic longing at any rate, not about the lack of interest in 'shipper fic.

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andrastewhite has now seen the entire fourth season of Alias and speculates about season 5. No spoilers, just speculation.

Another OTP meme

1. Pick your 5 favorite OTPs.
2. Find pictures and post them.
3. Give the name of the OTP and what fandom they're from.. List your favorite moment
between them.
5. Tag 5 people from your flist to do this meme.

I should mention here that I have a somewhat more lenient definition of OTP. Meaning that I usually like both halfes of the OTP in other relationships as well. And I don't think they should end in married bliss or the slash equivalent thereof, either. With that caveat, let's see...

( And I couldn't even include John and Rygel... )

Five people tagged for picture-posting duty: honorh, buffyannotater, muffinmonster, artaxastra and bimo