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rose_griffes) wrote2010-04-25 06:39 pm
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BSG fic recs for women who didn't make it into the show's opening credits
Have some gen (or mostly gen) women-centered Battlestar Galactica fanfics. These stories are NOT mainly about Laura, Kara, Athena or Caprica Six. They're about other women: primarily about them, written from their POV, or they play a major role. The four women I just mentioned by name do appear in some stories, but I tried to make sure those stories had a large enough focus on the other women that it 'counted.' (It's pretty arbitrary.) I didn't list stories with original characters playing a key role. I am including some of my own stories. I didn't link any crackfic (sorry, werewolf Maggie) or crossover stories.
I finally stopped once I'd gone back about two and a half years in the bookmarks, 'cause I was tired. And I didn't put any of the current![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bsg_remix stories on the list. You should definitely go read them anyway!
This isn't meant to be definitive, even without the rules I (randomly) set up. I just grabbed as many as I could from the stories I already have bookmarked. Feel free to put some of your own favorites in the comments.
Ellen Tigh
Chavelle's Primrose Mystery by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lls_mutant: The last cosmetics vendor in the universe has turned up dead. Ellen Tigh needs to figure out who killed her, before she's accused of the crime herself.
What's Past is Prologue bygotatheory: Ellen Tigh on Earth.
Dead Letter Box, byfalafel_musings: Ellen Tigh finds a way to help the resistance and rise above her degradations on New Caprica. Oh, Ellen... *sniffles*
Eights (but not Athena)
Honor and Duty bylls_mutant: Sometimes you have to do things for the good of your people… even if don't understand. (The Eight from the season 4.5 webisodes. Not very gen, but the story really isn't about romance, either.)
Sinistra by me: She started having trouble connecting to the parts of herself she knew as Sharon; she held onto them tightly, fearful of losing what she knew of herself (Boomer).
Reawake, bydaybreak777: They are all family. I will find them. Especially her. (Boomer)
Cally
Not Where I Belong bylls_mutant: AU for season four, "Tory might have pulled her from the launch tube, but Cally's life still felt like it was over. Everything she loved was gone, or at the very least, changed to something that she hated."
Obviously we need more Cally gen(ish) fic! Good thing that the above story has multiple chapters, I guess. And that it's AWESOME, and also has Dee and lots of other women.
Sixes (but not Caprica)
Schoolgirl's Crush bydemonqueen666: "We were just trying to help these people." (Not really gen, but it's unrequited, and... I just have to keep it on the list, because it makes the perfect explanation for this Six and why she killed Jean.)
Glass Slipper bynicole_anell: Gina still has nightmares that she is ugly.
Why Colors Disappear bylyssie: There are times when you can pretend you're fine and it never happened (Gina).
Racetrack
Into the Underworld by me: Maybe Maggie's already in Hades.
End over End bylint138: This is starting to become become a habit don't you think? You, me, and a frakked up Raptor.
Seelix
Rook bylint138: It's a funny feeling getting your greatest wish in times like these.
Pretty Girl by me: Seelix is caught while working for the Resistance
Ensign byrayruz.
Layne Ishay
Battle Scars bylyssie: Layne Ishay deals with the mutiny and the Cylons in her own way.
Do No Harm bybrennanspeaks: The story of a mutiny, a medic, and the three patients who stayed with her.
Jean Barolay
Nemesis by me. DB reminded me that I forgot to include this. I was sort of purposely forgetting because I love this story so much that IT HURTS ME INSIDE that it's now been made AU by "The Plan." *dramatic sigh* (Yes, I like my own stories. So there.) Anyway, it's post-attacks on Caprica, before Jean meets up with the C-Bucs. Yup, totally AU now.
Jean keeps getting written with Sam! She needs more gen!
Anastasia Dualla
Ghost Ship bykappamaki33: "Based on prophetkristy's prompt: "Felix and Dee as ghosts on the Galactica. They can't touch anything "real", but discover they can touch each other. I ended up not doing the not touching anything "real" part, though I suppose that depends on whether you read this as being Sam's dream or something that 'actually' happened."
Still Life byhaving_written (aka munditia): If she’d been more like Starbuck, she could have been loud and angry and looking for a fight; but she was a follower of Hestia and Hebe, a quiet onlooker trying to keep the home-fires burning.
Latter Days bypellucid: another written for the galpalficathon, prompt "Laura Roslin and Anastasia Dualla / intersections."
Feet of Clay, byswatkat24: Gods have this habit of having feet of clay.
Touched by the Sun, by me: written for the prompt "Kara and Dee, the two are forced to join forces for a common good. Season four spec. would be great."
Logic Dictates, bylyssie: Anastasia Dualla was raised to put others before herself, and to believe that things would work out right in the end. The cylons, however, had other ideas.
Five Times Dee Didn't Play Cards and One Time She Did, bykappamaki33: Dee and Gaeta's friendship, though there's a lot more going on as well.
Tory Foster
Light at the End byfrolicndetour: "Whatever happened to Tory Foster?"
What did every happen to Tory? She got written in stories that were mostly about Laura Roslin, that's what happened here, at any rate. (I wrote Tory once! But she was having Leoben's baby; it was very much crack-filled and not particularly gen.)
multiple women
River to the Sea bygrav_ity: Everywhere he goes, Leoben starts a religion. (And all those religions are based on women from the show.)
Where Bullets Can No Longer Wound Us, byfalafel_musings: A three-part hauntings fic. Dee receives a visit from Billy before her suicide. Felix recieves a visit from Dee before his mutiny. Boomer recieves a visit from Felix while she is locked in the Brig. They reach out towards their respective ghosts. They reach for a place where bullets can no longer wound them. (Dee, Billy, Felix, Boomer)
In Limbo, byarenotvalid (aka smercy): Written for the galpalficathon, prompt "Racetrack, Seelix, and Cally / baby-sit." "After surviving an apocalypse, moral ambiguity is a luxury."
All the Poise of a Cannonball bynicole_anell: "You can't declare love on war." (Seelix, Barolay, other members of the Resistance after the alliance with the Cylons)
Echoes Knocking, bylyssie. I, uh, can't think of a summary.
Lost in Space on a Desert Island, byivanolix: Kara ends up stuck on a Raptor repair flight that has a lot more trouble than the brochure indicated, and she has to work with a new team if she's going to get them out of the trouble in one piece. (Kara, Boomer, Dee, Cally--set pre-series)
When There Were No More Graveyards, bykappamaki33: prompt "Dee friendship with anyone *but* Gaeta. Bonus points if it's a woman."
There are lots of shorter stories out there, too. I know I have some ficlets/comment-fics that would be too tiring to link to individually, for example.
I finally stopped once I'd gone back about two and a half years in the bookmarks, 'cause I was tired. And I didn't put any of the current
bsg_remix stories on the list. You should definitely go read them anyway!This isn't meant to be definitive, even without the rules I (randomly) set up. I just grabbed as many as I could from the stories I already have bookmarked. Feel free to put some of your own favorites in the comments.
Ellen Tigh
Chavelle's Primrose Mystery by
lls_mutant: The last cosmetics vendor in the universe has turned up dead. Ellen Tigh needs to figure out who killed her, before she's accused of the crime herself.What's Past is Prologue by
gotatheory: Ellen Tigh on Earth.Dead Letter Box, by
falafel_musings: Ellen Tigh finds a way to help the resistance and rise above her degradations on New Caprica. Oh, Ellen... *sniffles*Eights (but not Athena)
Honor and Duty by
lls_mutant: Sometimes you have to do things for the good of your people… even if don't understand. (The Eight from the season 4.5 webisodes. Not very gen, but the story really isn't about romance, either.)Sinistra by me: She started having trouble connecting to the parts of herself she knew as Sharon; she held onto them tightly, fearful of losing what she knew of herself (Boomer).
Reawake, by
daybreak777: They are all family. I will find them. Especially her. (Boomer)Cally
Not Where I Belong by
lls_mutant: AU for season four, "Tory might have pulled her from the launch tube, but Cally's life still felt like it was over. Everything she loved was gone, or at the very least, changed to something that she hated."Obviously we need more Cally gen(ish) fic! Good thing that the above story has multiple chapters, I guess. And that it's AWESOME, and also has Dee and lots of other women.
Sixes (but not Caprica)
Schoolgirl's Crush by
demonqueen666: "We were just trying to help these people." (Not really gen, but it's unrequited, and... I just have to keep it on the list, because it makes the perfect explanation for this Six and why she killed Jean.)Glass Slipper by
nicole_anell: Gina still has nightmares that she is ugly.Why Colors Disappear by
lyssie: There are times when you can pretend you're fine and it never happened (Gina).Racetrack
Into the Underworld by me: Maybe Maggie's already in Hades.
End over End by
lint138: This is starting to become become a habit don't you think? You, me, and a frakked up Raptor.Seelix
Rook by
lint138: It's a funny feeling getting your greatest wish in times like these.Pretty Girl by me: Seelix is caught while working for the Resistance
Ensign by
rayruz.Layne Ishay
Battle Scars by
lyssie: Layne Ishay deals with the mutiny and the Cylons in her own way. Do No Harm by
brennanspeaks: The story of a mutiny, a medic, and the three patients who stayed with her.Jean Barolay
Nemesis by me. DB reminded me that I forgot to include this. I was sort of purposely forgetting because I love this story so much that IT HURTS ME INSIDE that it's now been made AU by "The Plan." *dramatic sigh* (Yes, I like my own stories. So there.) Anyway, it's post-attacks on Caprica, before Jean meets up with the C-Bucs. Yup, totally AU now.
Jean keeps getting written with Sam! She needs more gen!
Anastasia Dualla
Ghost Ship by
kappamaki33: "Based on prophetkristy's prompt: "Felix and Dee as ghosts on the Galactica. They can't touch anything "real", but discover they can touch each other. I ended up not doing the not touching anything "real" part, though I suppose that depends on whether you read this as being Sam's dream or something that 'actually' happened."Still Life by
having_written (aka munditia): If she’d been more like Starbuck, she could have been loud and angry and looking for a fight; but she was a follower of Hestia and Hebe, a quiet onlooker trying to keep the home-fires burning. Latter Days by
pellucid: another written for the galpalficathon, prompt "Laura Roslin and Anastasia Dualla / intersections."Feet of Clay, by
swatkat24: Gods have this habit of having feet of clay. Touched by the Sun, by me: written for the prompt "Kara and Dee, the two are forced to join forces for a common good. Season four spec. would be great."
Logic Dictates, by
lyssie: Anastasia Dualla was raised to put others before herself, and to believe that things would work out right in the end. The cylons, however, had other ideas. Five Times Dee Didn't Play Cards and One Time She Did, by
kappamaki33: Dee and Gaeta's friendship, though there's a lot more going on as well.Tory Foster
Light at the End by
frolicndetour: "Whatever happened to Tory Foster?"What did every happen to Tory? She got written in stories that were mostly about Laura Roslin, that's what happened here, at any rate. (I wrote Tory once! But she was having Leoben's baby; it was very much crack-filled and not particularly gen.)
multiple women
River to the Sea by
grav_ity: Everywhere he goes, Leoben starts a religion. (And all those religions are based on women from the show.)Where Bullets Can No Longer Wound Us, by
falafel_musings: A three-part hauntings fic. Dee receives a visit from Billy before her suicide. Felix recieves a visit from Dee before his mutiny. Boomer recieves a visit from Felix while she is locked in the Brig. They reach out towards their respective ghosts. They reach for a place where bullets can no longer wound them. (Dee, Billy, Felix, Boomer)In Limbo, by
arenotvalid (aka smercy): Written for the galpalficathon, prompt "Racetrack, Seelix, and Cally / baby-sit." "After surviving an apocalypse, moral ambiguity is a luxury."All the Poise of a Cannonball by
nicole_anell: "You can't declare love on war." (Seelix, Barolay, other members of the Resistance after the alliance with the Cylons)Echoes Knocking, by
lyssie. I, uh, can't think of a summary.Lost in Space on a Desert Island, by
ivanolix: Kara ends up stuck on a Raptor repair flight that has a lot more trouble than the brochure indicated, and she has to work with a new team if she's going to get them out of the trouble in one piece. (Kara, Boomer, Dee, Cally--set pre-series)When There Were No More Graveyards, by
kappamaki33: prompt "Dee friendship with anyone *but* Gaeta. Bonus points if it's a woman."There are lots of shorter stories out there, too. I know I have some ficlets/comment-fics that would be too tiring to link to individually, for example.
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forgottenwomen to read! I love some of these. I read almost everythingI really like Lost in Space on a Desert Island by
You didn't rec your Jean Barolay story? I love that one!
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Someday someone needs to write what went down with her and PTSD!Six. For reals. Natalie tried to work that out with PTSD!Six and it didn't work. :-( I don't think it's in me to write it but maybe if I put it out into the universe . . .
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And look I've encouraged more Jean. Love it. :-)
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*laughs* You got more Jean fic! I'm amused, because in my backstory, Felix does know who Jean is (as a C-Buc). (Yes, I already have ideas for your story for beta-reading my remix fic. Weirdly enough, no one has guessed right yet! I thought it was glaringly obvious. Hm.)
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Great list!
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*bookmarks*
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I have an additions to your Seelix recs. Ensign (http://archiveofourown.org/works/14990?view_adult=true) by Rayruz
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Huh, I thought I'd commented on that Seelix fic. Apparently I didn't. I appreciate the link; already added it to the list.
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(Also, thank you for recommending one of my own fics!)
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Fun ways to celebrate the ladies
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I wrote a Tory-centric mostly-gen fic, Confusion in the Body Politic; or, How to Lose Your Humanity in Ten Easy Steps
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