How does your headcanon for your favourite characters vary from story to story? If you multiship your character in some way, how does your headcanon change between ships?

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I don't have many hard-and-fast head canons--that is, beliefs about characters that do not undergo change. Aside from what's established in canon (and just barely that), I play pretty fast and loose with back-story, likes and dislikes, political affiliations, etc. I've come to realize that the fandoms I get most invested in are those that I believe neglected their potential most. It's some strange combination of huge devotion/love on my part, mixed with a considerable amount of "YOU COME HERE AND TREAT THIS LIKE A JOKE? WE WERE ROOTING FOR YOU. WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU." When I look at the first story I wrote--about Kara and a botched abortion--which takes place on an established colony, with an orphaned Kacey, and no cylon threat--it's already clear what was driving me to write: an interest in family and personhood and body autonomy, which we get versions of in Canon, but generally not to my satisfaction.

That is to say, I frequently change important details about the characters in order to fit the themes that I am interested in addressing at a given time. Because we know that Kara came from a working class, military background, and is religious, I think that as far as the 12 Colonies is an analog for Earth, it is extremely likely that she would be anti-abortion. But to say what I needed to say about abortion in my fic, using my OTC, it was necessary that she found a reason to do it.

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Also, it's okay to disagree re: abuse and stuff, and feel free to voice that. I am trying to work it all out.

So, I've settled on Melody fic for SciFi Big Bang, which is really exciting, as Doctor Who will be a new, interesting fandom to work in. We've got to submit snippets of our work, and this is what I've got so far, and I'm feeling really overwhelmed as the project will be large!

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ETA: I finally remembered why I was so biased against Moffat! He wrote Sherlock, and I despise that show with the fury of a thousand (sentient, alive) suns. Benedict Cuntsnatch aint shit. Martin Freeman aint shit. Moffat aint shit. Soooo, we'll see if I continued. Part of what i enjoyed about this season so much was the racial narrative, and Moffat is literally the worst at race ever. The Worst. 

wat i wrote a thing last night!

i'm posting it here because i'd like to keep it locked for now. it's mostly kara/laura, with kara/leoben and kara/helena but not in a rightship sort of way. other characters that show up: hmmm, kendra and lee.

warnings for: underage, sexual violence, general unhappiness, references to drug abuse

it's 4700 words. it is rated MA.

ty to clare who doesn't hate me, so she says :P


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large sections of this fic are unpunctuated. there's no rhyme or reason to it. no consistency.

whoops.

that's just how i roll, y'all.

kara/laura, nc17, 4400 words, warnings for cancer stuff.

eta: clllaaareee i still don't know how you read version 1 of this, where there was literally ZERO punctuation

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Title: Return
Author: mermaidfangs
Characters/Pairings: Laura Roslin/Kara Thrace
Summary: Kara returns from tour. Kind of a not quite finished sequel to She's Not There, though it's not necessary to have read that.
Rating: MA
Warnings: None
Length: 1000 words

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warnings: drug abuse, child abuse,

a big thank you to clare for her very helpful feedback.


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