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Title: All the Difference (The Brave New World Remix)
Characters: Kara Thrace, Sharon Agathon, Hera Agathon, Kacey, Nicholas Tyrol, Cally Tyrol
Pairing: Kara/Sam, Sharon/Helo, Cally/Tyrol
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: suicidal thoughts
Original Story: Liminal Fate by

lunar47 . Written for

bsg_remix
Betaed By:

lizardbeth and

leakypaintpen
Word Count: 10,650 words

Summary: All this has happened before. What if it doesn't have to happen again?

At AO3

( What if it doesn't have to happen again? )

I'm feeling the need to write something different. You know what that means; fic prompt time. So. Anyone who wants me to write them a fic, comment here. Fics will be at least 500 words long. Each person should make at least two requests, of which I will write one. Each request should contain one or more characters from the list below and a short prompt (theme, quote, etc). ONE request may be for a sequel/timestamp/missing scene/etc. from a fic I have already written. (For instance, I would not be averse at all to writing something more in the universe where Maria von Trapp from the Sound of Music was a Potential.) Crossovers are acceptable, provided I am familiar with both fandoms. I do not write slash or explicit sex.

BSG:
The Cylons (including the Final Five)
Bill Adama
Laura Roslin

Once Upon A Time:
Emma
Snow
Charming
Henry

Stargate: SG-1
Teal'c
Sam
Daniel
General Hammond
Sha're
Jacob Carter

Superman:
Clark/Kal-El/Superman
Lois
Richard
Jimmy
Perry
Kon-El
Martha Kent
Jonathan Kent

Batman:
Bruce/Batman
Lucius Fox
Jim Gordon
Tim Drake
Babs Gordon
Terry McGinnis

Wonder Woman (as long as you don't mind a mish-mash of all DC canon regarding her)

Babylon 5:
Lennier
Marcus Cole
Delenn
Vir
G'Kar
Stephen Franklin
Susan Ivanova
Londo

Star Wars:
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Princess Leia
Mara Jade
Luke Skywalker
Han Solo
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader
Padme Amidala

Star Trek:
Spock
Amanda
Sarek
Scotty
Uhura
Sulu
Troi
Geordi
Dax
Sisko
Kira
Odo
Garak

Vorkosigan:
Any

Terminator: SCC
John
Sarah
Derek
Cameron
Ellison
Weaver
John Henry

Marvel Movieverse:
Steve Rogers
Peggy Carter
Dr. Erskine
Pepper Potts
Maria Hill
Natasha Romanov
Bucky Barnes

So! Blood and Chrome, the new BSG series about a young Bill Adama, is out on Youtube as webisodes, at least the first two eps. It's okay so far, not as good as BSG but I'll keep watching in case anything interesting happens.

Title: Four Times Laura Roslin Regretted Banning Abortion, and One Time She Didn't
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Word Count: 900
Written For:

geekbynight in the Awesome Ladies 2012 ficfest.

Read on AO3.

( Four Times + One )

rarewomen is open, and there are a lot of great fics from a lot of great authors! Here are some of my faves:

BSG
Free To Choose. Her memories define who she is, her choices define who she will be. (Sharon Agathon)

Buffy
As a Queen, Sufficient. Kendra, debriefing after her first trip to Sunnydale.

Discworld
A Ladies' Day Out. The impact of unregulated collection on the draconic biodiversity of the greater Ankh-Morpork region by Vimes (née Ramkin), S. Presented to the Ankh-Morpork Dragon Fanciers Society, Grune, Year of the Reversed Ptarmigan. Hypothesis: poachers can be firmly deterred by a gumboot to the ear and some stern words, by Jove. (Sybil Ramkin, the Emmas, Sacharissa Cripslock)

Doctor Who
Human Behavior. The TARDIS learned a lot from her time in a human body; that doesn't mean she knows how to put a human together again. (Idris, Tardis)
Cold Hands, Warm Heart. Jenny finds a Silurian warrior behind the house. Then she puts the kettle on. One of the Jenny&Vastra stories I have been craving.

Star Trek TNG
Shadow-walking. Ro Laren and Deanna Troi undertake a secret mission on a matriarchal world.

Vorkosigan Saga
Five Strays Elizabeth Naismith took in (and One That Got Away). Dear Cordelia, I'm sure I don't need to tell you that Miles is a charming and intelligent young man; I've been enjoying his company immensely. He's made plenty of friends, and taken to the social opportunities at school with a great deal of verve. (For more details, please see the attached disciplinary reports from Principal Hatter.)

X-Men First Class
A Piece of Her Mind. Agent MacTaggert really shouldn't be in this cocktail bar. And she really shouldn't be talking to two wanted criminals. But they seem to think there's a way for her to get back the memories she'd lost the previous year, and she can't help but listen. (Moira, Angel, Mystique)

Title: Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix)
Characters: Anastasia Dualla, a Six, Bill Adama, Lee Adama
Pairing: Anastasia Dualla/Lee Adama, Six/Lee Adama
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: assault, Cylon mindgames.
Summary: Dee is on Pegasus, finding her place. A Six is on New Caprica, learning what she doesn't know. Lee Adama is a Cylon prisoner, but this is not his story. A New Caprica AU.
Original Story: Give You All by

nicole_anell
Author's Notes: Many thanks to

lls_mutant for the beta
Word Count: 32,560 words

At AO3

( Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix) )

Anybody got any chess-for-beginners primers they could recommend that would help me understand the subtleties of the game at least well enough to write a fic with it? Because I just signed up for and got the most stylishly awesome piece of art at

trekreversebang this year, and it's Pike, Spock, Kirk, and Uhura against a background of a chess board and pieces. So I'm thinking I should know something about chess to write this.

Other ficathons:

bsg_remix is done, and Remix Redux is coming along nicely. Anyone want to beta 30k words of BSG AU on short notice, or about 10k words of SG-1 on slightly less short notice?

I'm signing up for

rarewomen and it was tough! You only get three fandoms (up to five women per fandom), and I really really wanted a fourth--New Who, with Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter), Idris, Liz X, and Joan Redfern as my character picks. But, alas, it was not to be, and I chose BSG, SG-1, and TNG as my fandoms not necessarily because I wanted to see those more than New Who, but because New Who is bigger and so I have a better chance of getting fic for those people outside this ficathon than I do the ones I picked.

( General Notes and Preferences )

( BSG )

( SG-1 )

( TNG )

trekreversebang is open for signups! This is the big bang where the art comes first, and then the authors write stories about it. I had lots of fun last year and love the story I wrote, despite the fact that my artist flaked out and I never got a finished piece of art. They've changed the rules this year so that can't happen--the art has to be finished, not just in rough draft form, before authors can claim it. I'm signing up and looking forward to it!

trekreversebang

I don't think I'll be doing

bsg_remix this year--I've had fun in the past, but I've only written one new BSG fic since doing last year's remix, which tells me that it's not where my inspiration is currently going.

What I really need to be working on is my sequel to Lieutenant Bennet's Visit, which is from Darcy's POV. Maybe, since I have a snow and ice day, I will get working on it.

(Maybe I will work on saving all the fics I've bookmarked over the years to my computer, instead--finished Doctor Who last night, next up Battlestar Galacactica.)

Here is my current WIP list:

xover_exchange fic. (And once it's done, I'll probably have Yuletide to start.)

Desert Between sequel, set several years later focusing on Spock's Vulcan wife. And what she thinks of the whole situation. (I'm still not sure this is what would happen, if this is the choice Uhura would make; but

laurajv wanted to know what would happen if it did, and upon reflection I realized so did I.)

DS9 original character fic that's been on the backburner for some time but is slowly moving up my priority list. It began out of my fascination with Vulcans, and my love of Bajor and DS9, and my realization that it was highly unrealistic that the only non-Vulcans we see marry Vulcans are Humans, and there's a whole Federation out there. So I set out to write a Vulcan/Bajoran love story. Which then got bogged down. I have since realized that it is not, in fact, a love story. It is a gen friendship story, about growing and learning and respecting culture despite differences, and about being in transition. It's one of those where I'm not sure it will ever be finished, but I like it and so keep going back and fiddling with it.

Batman Beyond--Terry and guns. A short meditation on guns and the way people react to them that

hradzka rightly pointed out needed an actual, you know, plot to go with the philosophy. I will get back to it some day.

Superman Movieverse/DC fic to the same plot bunny that spurred

ljs_lj to write Biopsychology (and are you ever going to get around to writing that new sequel to it?) My version is quite different, as the plot would focus on/be triggered by Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) arriving on Earth. It's mostly about her and her issues and what she thinks of Earth and her cousin (and, eventually, his screwed-up love life, which is where the plot bunny comes in). Since I finished my Richard-focused post-Superman Returns fic "A Family Story," I've had very little motivation to get back to this one, so it's staying on the back burner for now. Maybe next year. (I do intend to eventually get back to it.)

BSG AU called Jumping Time (and this may be the only time in my life I've ever been able to come up with a title before I had to post the fic). Of all my WIPs, the least likely to get finished because while I have quite a number of scenes for it running around my head, I have no plot to tie them together with. Basically, at the end of the series when Kara jumps the Galactica, instead of finding a new Earth they find themselves back in time about 6 months before the Cylon attack, and decide that the best way to save the Colonies is for the Rebel Cylons and the Final Five to infiltrate the Cylons and stage a coup against the Ones

I have several other plot bunnies, but those are the ones that not only have files, they have files pinned to my start bar so I can access them easily and they will stay in my head.

Title: Walk the Earth Unseen
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Head!Six
Spoilers: none
Word Count: 821
Summary: Head!Six keeps watch over Gaius. And debates.
AN: This is my attempt to make sense of the character of Head!Six, which was radically different at different times.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
—John Milton, Paradise Lost

( Gaius Baltar sleeps, slumped in his chair in the pitiful lab that is all Galactica can manage for him. If he were awake, he would say he is alone. He isn’t. )

Title: Measure of a Man (the Thoughts and Actions Remix)
Author:

beatrice_otter
Summary: Human or Cylon, we all make choices. Then we have to live with them.
Characters: Bill Adama, Sam Anders, Sharon Agathon
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,292
Warnings: none
Betaed by:

sci_fi_shipper
Title of original story: To Think Oneself A Man by

lizardbeth_j
Author Notes: I had such a hard time choosing which of

lizardbeth_j’s stories to remix; I hope this one works well.

( Measure of a Man (the Thoughts and Actions Remix) )

Meme stolen from

ljc :

The Watchmen/BSG crossover about Doctor Manhattan, going off to explore the universe and create life. All this has happened before, all this will happen again. He doesn't like being called God.
The BSG AU where, when Kara jumps them using the coordinates from that song at the end of the last episode, they wind up back in time in the colonies just before the Cylon attack.
The Criminal Minds/SG-1 crossover where the SGC is negotiating with a planet that doesn't really want any of the standard trade goods, but they've got a high-profile serial killer but no law enforcement types with the psychological training to catch him/her. So someone suggests that hey, maybe we should lend them a BAU team for a few weeks, catch the serial killer, and give them a start on developing their own profilers.
The Stargate Goes Public story that focuses on the reactions of the US military peeps who weren't in on the program. Navy guys complaining about the Air Force having starships. Special forces guys pointing out that having four-person teams is really stupid; six is a much more tactically flexible number, and if they hadn't given the Stargate to the Chair Force maybe they'd have had fewer screwups like that. JAG lawyers trying to figure out how to fit the de facto decisions made by the SGC over the years because they face situations nobody's ever thought of before into the UCMJ. Marines being ooo-rah. Etc.
The Stargate story that focuses on the diplomatic teams: how they figure out what to trade with each world, and the person who noticed that most worlds are resource-rich and manpower-poor, and that the thing most useful to most worlds is technology just a leetle more advanced than whatever they've got--still within their manufacturing capabilities, but just a little more energy efficient. Cotton gins. Spinning jennies. Better plows. Better mettalurgy. Etc. Or some worlds want sheep with better wool, or larger horses, or other agricultural things. And then having to figure out how to convince General Hammond that what they really need is for the engineers (who want to be studying Ancient or Goa'uld or Asgard technology) to figure out how to build these things and teach the locals how to make and use them. Or convince General Hammond that the SGC needs to buy Merino sheep or what have you. And then figure out how to get them through the Stargate.
Babylon 5. The one about the Centauri princeling in The Lost Tales that Sheridan takes home to Minbar to keep him from turning into the monster Galen says he will.
Doctor Who/Atlantis. The sequel to Survivors.
BSG AU. The stories hinted at in Five AUs I Will Never Write.
Batman Beyond. The one where Terry's in college, still Batman, but moonlighting with the Justice League when they really need him. And they've got a list, really heavily encrypted somewhere, of family members of JL heroes, so that they can whisk them away to a secure location if necessary, and of course Terry's mom and brother are on that list but they still don't know he's Batman, and consequently are sure someone's made a mistake when they get kidnapped to a safehouse with superhero families. The security people guarding them are all, no, you're on the list, Mrs. McGinnis.
Star Trek Reboot. Away team beams down, locals don't like Spock because of his brother, and Spock's all, I don't have a brother, but what's Sybok done? And it turns out that he had forced a telepathic marriage bond on one of the women in town and raped her during his Pon Farr, and now she's pregnant, and Spock has to deal with figuring out how to help her and track down his brother to bring him to justice (which traditionally would be putting him to death, but so many Vulcans have died already, but on the other hand Vulcan doesn't have the resources to deal with a prisoner and most other Federation worlds don't have prisons designed to hold such powerful telepaths as Sybok). Also, Spock has to deal with his friends and crewmates now that part of the story about Pon Farr has come out in the worst possible way.

... and with the theology of "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash. But if I knew how to make a vid, and I were going to make a BSG vid, I think that's the song I would pick.

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down

Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do My will!"

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light

You can run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Run on for a long time
Sooner or later God'll cut you down
Sooner or later God'll cut you down

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down

Characters: Bill Adama (knowledge of the new Caprica series a plus)

Specifics: this shouldn't need much in the way of spelling/grammar help, but it needs an outside view to make sure that it hangs together and makes sense and the theme and tone work. It's mostly a character study of Adama and his views on/interactions with Cylons, and it's set in late season 4. It's just under 3k words, and I'm not sure that it works as a coherent whole. It may need things added to it or taken out or re-written, and I'm too close to it to be able to see where the problems are.

I finally have a plot bunny for

bsg_remix !!!!

That is all.

Title: Orphaned Days
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Characters: Daniel (Seven)
Spoilers: All of BSG, none for Caprica which I’m not watching.
Word Count: 6,022
Betaed By:

lls_mutant
Summary: The Final Five weren’t the only ones Cavil exiled to the Colonies.

( There was a hard surface under him. Hard, and cold, and oddly rough, like one of the sections that had been hollowed out of rock but not finished yet. )

Title: A Burden Shared
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Atlantis
Notes: Sequel to “Reflexes” and “Back in Atlantis”

( A Burden Shared )

Title: Potential Problems
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Sound of Music
Notes: Sequel to “A Problem Like Maria,” “Georg’s Surprise,” and “Freedom”

( Potential Problems )

Title: A Superhero Team
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/DC Comics

( A Superhero Team )

Title: All This Has Happened Before
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Battlestar Galactica

( All This Has Happened Before )

Title: Duty
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/Shakespeare (Henry V)

( Duty )

Title: Play-time with Sweetums
Author:

beatrice_otter
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Challenge: #095—swifter, higher, stronger
Fandom: BtVS/The Muppet Show

( Play-time with Sweetums )

Here it is, a BSG fic (or ficlet collection) that is not my

bsg_remix. Gah. BTW, I still need a beta for a different BSG fic (also not my remix)

Title: Five AUs I will never write.
Author:

beatrice_otter
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: PG
Characters (in order of appearance): Saul Tigh, Laura Roslin, Anastasia Dualla, Billy Keikeya, Kara Thrace, Daniel, John Cavil, Natalie, Ellen Tigh, Leoben Conoy, Sharon Valerii, Sharon Agathon. Plus various OC Cylons.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: the whole series; nothing from Caprica.
Word Count: 3,581
Author’s note: If anyone wants to take any of these and develop them, go for it!

( The one where Adama was one of the Final Five, instead of Tigh. )

( The one where Dee said yes to Billy when he asked her to marry him. )

( The one where they found a prisoner on the Resurrection Ship raid besides D'Anna )

( The one where the Rebel Cylons were smart and secured the Resurrection ships and hub before starting their coup. )

( The one where Cally didn't shoot Boomer. )

Hey, I need two betas!

One is an Uhura-centric Reboot post-movie piece about her dealing with Vulcan culture. It is slightly under 12k words

One is a BSG pre-series fic about Daniel, the Cylon model that John wiped out. It is 6k words.

Help!

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Otter's Rock

Fic: All the Difference (The Brave New World Remix)

(no subject)

Blood and Chrome

Fic: Four Times Laura Roslin Regretted Banning Abortion, and One Time She Didn't

Rare Women Recs

Fic: Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix)

Chess

Rare Women ficathon: Dear Author

ficathons and writing

Current WIP List

Fic: Walk the Earth Unseen

BSG_Remix Revealed! Measure of a Man (The Thoughts and Actions Remix)

Top Ten stories that I would like to read and not have to write myself:

I vehemently disagree with the theology of BSG

I need a beta for a BSG story

(no subject)

Fic: Orphaned Days

TTH Drabbles--Challenge #95

Fic: Five AUs I will never write

Need two betas: Star Trek Reboot and BSG

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