are you ready to answer the big questions?

[krickets]

I saw a fandom secret the other day in which the person said that they would be more into the BSG fandom if it wasn't so homologous. And it really is true. Far too often, almost every fic compiled over at the_wireless is either Adama/Roslin or Kara/Lee. And I have to admit, that's one thing that makes me sad about this fandom as well.

I think if more people were writing more rare pairings, it would generate interest from other people and then it would just be this big snowball effect. (If only in hopeful theory.) I myself have been attacked by lack of muse and excess of little hater over much of the summer and so I very much feel that I'm not doing my part on that end. Not that it's all up to little ole me, but there's still the guilt in complaining about something I myself haven't done anything about.

My question for the bsg fen on my flist is this:
Is there a "rare pairing" bsg comm? If not do you think the fandom would benefit from something like that? What pairings would you exclude? Adama/Roslin and Kara/Lee only since they comprise about 85% of fanfic in this fandom? Or would you include other canon pairings as well like Helo/Sharon?

Another, somewhat related, question: Didn't there used to be a bsg fic finders or bsg fic recs community? Where is it? What happened to it?

Switching gears for a moment. Another thing I wanted to bring up, related to LOST, is something that slybrunette mentioned to me, and something I'd actually been thinking about.

[Poll #1254987]

The other vote is me. I just wanna see the results without having to click. I'm lazy alright!

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Yes, the above commenter mentioned bsg_rare. I write rare pairings! A lot of my fic is AU, too. It's just what I'm inspired by. I've written Kara/Felix, Kendra/Lee, Dee/Sam, Gaeta/D'Anna. I even vidded Gaeta/Baltar recently for a friend. I write canon pairings too. Whatever strikes muse. But there are people writing rare BSG pairings out there. Just hard to find them.

Oh and there is: bsgficfinders and bsgficrecs. Nothing happened to them, I think.

I know I write the fics mostly for me. Some people have told me they just can't suspend disbelief and read outside of canon. I dunno, I guess for some it's hard.

And dude, you wrote awesome Jawyercita this summer! No hating allowed! We will fight the little haters!

ETA: Okay, maybe you wrote that in May. But I remember it so well, it feels like you just posted it last month. :-)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with most canon pairings.

As for those two comms. greycoupon explained above that both of them were actually deleted for a few days and then put back up. Mystery solved.

But I remember it so well, it feels like you just posted it last month. → Hahaha, aw. Well thank you. ;)