A day late, yes, but hopefully the content of this one will make up for the tardiness. I sobbed through writing most of it, for various reasons. But I enjoyed it, too, which is of course the point. :D

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Cottle, Adama
Word Count: 4,126
Spoilers: Through S2's "Black Market", loosely
Rating: PG
Summary: It was a special occasion.
Author's Notes: The back end of the delivery sequence. :) I wrote the end scene of this chapter to "A Good Lighter" from the BSG S1 soundtrack. (Now you will finally find out why I needed that particular piece on the playlist. Heh heh.) Said scene constitutes one of the rare moments of absolutely pure fluff in this fic. Please stop and pick up a box of kleenex before you read.

Read it here @ jedionpaper

So ... looks like you'll be getting an overnight cliffie after all. *sighs* Sorry, guys. >.> I tried, I really did! Next chapter will be up SOON.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Helo, mentions of Helo/Sharon and prior Kara/Zak
Word Count: 4,816
Spoilers: Up to S2's "Black Market"
Rating: Hard PG-13 for some suggestive themes and language
Summary: “Get Cottle.” Kara breathed again, her tone brooking no argument. “And get ready to meet this kid.”
Author's Notes: I tried to do the delivery scene all in one chapter. I really, really did. But unfortunately it didn't quite work out that way - well, I could've posted it, but it was about 8,000 words long, and to me that's just far too long. So you'll be getting it in a couple installments: the first one tonight, and the second one very, VERY soon. Promise. *holds up two fingers* Writer's honour.

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Yes, I am in fact alive. Heh heh. ;) I've sort of been AWOL from LJ for the last week or so, aside from regular fandom activities and fic updates, for various reasons. One of those reasons happens to be a little fic project known colloquially as Insanity Underrated, about which more in a moment. The back end of this week also saw me come down with a rather nasty flu bug, and I'm only just getting back to feeling somewhat normal (or whatever passes for "normal" for me and my FUBARed body) today. I lost about three or so days in there - got sick on Wednesday night, went to work Thursday even though I felt like CRAP, slept through most of the Sens/Penguins game Thursday night, and spent Friday in bed. Yes, I actually took a day off work on Friday, and leaving aside this past summer and various other collections of personal catastrophes, I can pretty much count on the fingers of one hand the number of sick days I've taken since starting at the paper. Which I suppose I should be thankful for since it basically means I haven't been sick for a while, but that's tough to remember when you're flat on your back in bed wishing you could die. ;)

Anyway. Better today, and had fun watching Hockey Day In Canada yesterday. :D Especially the Ottawa game, which, while it resulted in Andrew and I nearly having simultaneous heart attacks, was entertaining nonetheless. Nine games and counting, baby! *grins* It's funny because when we went to the Chicago game (the one where they'd won five consecutive games), I had teased Andrew because he'd made a remark during the losing streak that they should follow it up by winning five straight games, which of course they then did, but after the Chicago game he said, "No, I've changed my mind, I want them to make it ten!" I laughed at the time, but now, somehow it's not so funny or far-fetched anymore!

I've started to schedule my evenings around television again, which makes me happy because I haven't needed to do that since BSG ended. Picked up 24 again because my Girlfriend's in it, obviously. (KATEE! ON MY TV!!!!!!!!) Well. She's not playing Girlfriend, but honestly, I can't be arsed to care even though I spend fully 95% of every episode going, "Starbuck would punch him in the face!" or "Kara would shoot first and ask questions later!" Heh. But, 'tis fun.

I have also, to my very great surprise, gotten way into Caprica! I bought and watched the pilot on DVD but was kind of "meh" about it, especially because at the time I was still extremely bitter about the way BSG had ended. A lot of the turnaround in my attitude has to do with Insanity Underrated, actually, to the point where I've felt ready to continue with my BSG rewatch - which I have to do anyway for IU, but I won't be doing it grudgingly like I was at first. But the first episode of Caprica really drew me in, so that I'm ready now for it to be next Friday so I can find out what happens next! I'm not as interested in Daniel/Amanda's plot as much as I think you are supposed to be, but that's mainly because my BSG fangirl side keeps going, "MORE ADAMA FAMILY DRAMA! WANT!!!!" Hehe. ;)

The daddy issues are evidently an inherited trait, which I can't say surprises me. There was a brilliant quote from this week's episode that I wish I could remember in its entirety but went something like, "Whenever someone makes you feel guilty, figure out what they're feeling guilty about and use it." I sat there like O.O at the TV and then just cracked the fuck up, because it has SO much bearing on everything I've been doing with Insanity Underrated over the last few chapters and Lee's wider arc in that fic. Guilt, indeed. It explains so much about the way Bill and Lee relate to each other, I don't even. :D

( Looooooooooooong rambly post about Insanity Underrated, how I came up with the idea, where it goes from here, and yes - how it helped me to stop worrying and love the finale! )

Now, I think I'd better wind up this post, because I've been working on it for most of today and it is probably far too long. Heh. So to wind up, I will simply say this: my major focus right now, fic-wise, is Insanity Underrated. I will carry it through until it is done, no matter what.

And I will enjoy every second of that ride. Thank you, Insanity Underrated, for helping me to rediscover my BSG squee.

One of these days, I will post something here other than fic updates. Yep. One of these days.

In the meantime:

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Adama, others
Word Count: 3,911
Spoilers: Through S2's "Black Market"
Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing themes
Summary: This, as much as anything he’d said to Kara, was about family.
Author's Notes: Shorter chapter this time, phew! I was actually afraid it might end up being too short, but thankfully I did have enough material remaining in the Black Market arc to end the chapter the way I wanted to. Might not necessarily be the way you want it to end, but ... mwahahahahaha. That's all I'll say. ;)

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Seems like I'm always posting these before I dash off to hockey games ... anyway ... here's another chapter, and I'm going again to the Sens game tonight!

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, mentions of previous Zak/Kara
Word Count: 5,340
Spoilers: Through S2's "Black Market"
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Lee softly kissed her hand. “We’ve gotta get what we can. Right now.”
Author's Notes: Okay, I apologize in advance for the length of the novella you are about to read. *facepalm* There just wasn't any logical place to break this one, unfortunately. The smut scene wasn't exactly planned, but I kept it in because it did seem realistic for them. (Heck, when is it ever not? ;)) Once again not a whole lot happens in terms of action, though there is still a lot to move the plot forward.

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Putting this up quick before I dash off to the hockey game ... will crosspost to comms and such when I get home, but I wanted to get Chapter 24 up asap for those (impatiently?) waiting. ;)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, mentions of prior Kara/Sam, Adama, Zarek
Word Count: 4,000 even - how about that!
Spoilers: Through S2's "Black Market"
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “Lee, I hope she’s worth it.”
Author's Notes: Yeah, not too sure where all this creativity is coming from, but I'm going with it! We continue through "Black Market", and while I know that isn't exactly a favourite episode for a lot of people - including myself! - I felt that the context was important here, so I decided to include some of the canonical material. Also, there's a scene in here which in canon took place aboard Cloud Nine, but in this fic is shifted to the Rising Star, mainly because Lee's circumstances are a little different in the IU 'verse. :)

Read it here @ jedionpaper

When I'm upset or have shitty things going on in real life, I write. And a lot of shitty stuff has gone down lately, soooooo ... here's another chapter of Insanity Underrated. Heh.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, mentions of Kara/Sam and one-sided Lee/Dee
Word Count: 4,008
Spoilers: Through S2's "Black Market"
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “It’s really interesting how you pretend like you’re the only one who ever had shitty parents, like you’re the only one in the entire frakking universe who ever had to cope with that!”
Author's Notes: Another early chapter posting. :) I'm finally getting to write from Lee's perspective again, which was an interesting change! Things are moving along, folks ...

Read it here @ jedionpaper

GAH, this one took for-frakking-ever. Again. *pokes brain* Anyway, here we go. :)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee
Word Count: 4,545
Spoilers: Through S2's "Resurrection Ship, Part 2" and a tiny one for S2's "Black Market"
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The thought pushed its way into Kara’s mind, demanding to be heard. What would it be like to wake up to him every morning, to do this before getting up, even just to sleep in his embrace?
Author's Notes: This one turned out WAY longer than it was supposed to be, and does a little less than I was hoping in terms of advancing the immediate action. But there's some important set-up for future chapters, so I decided to basically keep it as-is. I've had to muck around with timelines a bit as well - even though it's stated in canon that not very much time passes between "Resurrection Ship" and "Black Market", for plot purposes there needed to be a gap, so this takes place about three months after the events of "Resurrection Ship." Oh, there is smut, too. Unexpected smut at that. Yay? :D

Read it here @ jedionpaper

So. This was supposed to be up yesterday but I unfortunately just ran out of time, heh. Trying to recalibrate my schedule so I can fit everything in/get everything re-started in a way that I'll be motivated and have time to continue, which is no easy task. I'm also going to offload at least one thing, and I have made some fairly important decisions about fic and writing and what I'm going to focus on, but that's for another post. Also also, I haven't been getting comment notifications recently - or, more precisely, I get some of them but not others, for some bizarre reason. So if there's something important you've said to me in the last several days and I haven't responded, odds are I'm probably not ignoring you - I just didn't get the notification. *glares at LJ* Will try to get caught up on responding to comments as well. *watches as that particular resolution starts swirling down the drain*

Now, to the main point of this post. I last talked about the Insanity Underrated playlist on July 2nd of last year, and as you might imagine, it has evolved quite a bit since then! I haven't taken any songs off, but I have added numerous tracks, meaning that the playlist now contains 112 songs and is 7.2 hours long. Yeah ... I need help. *facepalm* ;) I never thought that any playlist of mine could be bigger than the To Ignite the Stars playlist, but all that proves is I should never say never. Le sigh.

Anyway: here are the new songs added to the IU playlist, for the viewing pleasure of canceron_jedi, jeebs83, amaliak and anyone else who happens to be interested. :) Original playlist post is HERE, and as with that post I will be including only partial lyrics, and sometimes an explanation as to why the song is there - but sometimes not, because of spoilers. These also aren't in any particular order; those darn spoilers again. Links to full lyrics are in the title of each song. Enjoy!

( Princes kept the view ... )

Virtual cookies if you got through all that! Hehe. ;)

Posting this up quick before I dash off to the hockey game, hehe. Blame jeebs83 and amaliak, my resident enablers. ;)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Cain, Adama
Word Count: 3,647
Spoilers: Through S2's "Resurrection Ship, Part 2"
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “Has Galactica — is there any word about the stealth ship? The Blackbird? I heard over speakers in the ready room that Lee — that Lieutenant Adama had to eject.”
Author's Notes: I actually finished this on Sunday, way ahead of schedule from when I typically put these chapters up, so you guys may even be spoiled with two this week instead of the usual one. ;) We shall see. Meantime, this completes the Resurrection Ship arc, and while some aspects are necessarily different than in canon, you'll also find many plot points with which you are familiar. :)

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Writing this one was ... interesting, to say the very least. As I say in the notes, it went totally off the rails about halfway through, but since what happened fit, I decided to leave it. Poor Lee. Poor everybody, really. >.>

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Cain, Adama, mentions of one-sided Lee/Dee and prior Kara/Sam
Word Count: 3,297
Spoilers: Through S2's "Resurrection Ship, Part 2"
Rating: PG-13
Summary: “You won’t make the same mistakes I did with an attitude like that. You’ll make new ones. But they will be just as damaging as those you perceive me to have made.”
Author's Notes: We now return to your regularly-scheduled Friday updates! I am so behind on answering reviews it's not even funny, so I will endeavour to get to those as soon as I can. :) In the meantime, this chapter went in a completely different (and non-outlined!) direction than I expected it to, but the ensuing conversation between one character and another really needed to happen, so I kept it in and shifted some other material to the next chapter. Enjoy!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

This one was a struggle, and I had to fight with it for a good couple of days before it was ready to post. Wanted to get it up on Thursday, in advance of Christmas, but obviously that didn't happen. Sigh. >.> In any case, I'll try to get back on the horse this week!

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Admiral Cain, small mention of prior Kara/Sam
Word Count: 3,878
Spoilers: Through S2's "Resurrection Ship, Part 1"
Rating: PG-13 for a bit of language
Summary: Now Cain looked up, studying her. “And do you always get what you want?”
Author's Notes: The usual Friday update unfortunately didn't happen last week, due mainly to it being Christmas and to some other personal junk I won't get into here. But, here it is now. :) We continue with the Resurrection Ship arc, and I got to write Cain, which made me grin because I've always found her to be such an interesting character. There's also some K/L fluff at the end!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Hope everybody celebrating Christmas today had a good one! I most definitely did - got some awesome loot, hehe. :D I wasn't able to do a Christmas Day ficathon like last year, as we spent much of the afternoon at my cousins' house, an environment where sitting and pounding away at your laptop writing porn isn't exactly appropriate. ;) I'm almost done editing the next chapter of Insanity Underrated, but in the meantime I thought I'd toss a bone to the long-suffering Obidala shippers on my f-list. This is a re-post, true, of the fic I wrote for jedi_mistletoe this year, and as the author reveals went up today I figured I'd post it now. Enjoy, whether for the first or the second or the tenth time! :)

Title: Felt Like Flying
Author: amidala_thrace
Characters/Pairings: Obi-Wan/Padmé, mention of Anakin
Word Count: 1,751
Rating: NC-17 for sexual scenes
Summary: When she saw him, it was like euphoria.
Author's Notes: My Star Wars muse is rusty like a rusty thing these days - though I'm sure I will return to To Ignite the Stars sooner or later! - but I did manage to crank out this offering for my giftee (niwalker) in this year's jedi_mistletoe fic exchange. Actually, that's a bit of an exaggeration, since it was shockingly easy to continue writing once I got going. The title came to me before the story, most unusual since I typically have to scratch and scrape up a title once the fic is done. Brain says this is set during the Clone Wars period taking place in TIS, but really, you're free to interpret it however you like, and you don't need to have read TIS in order to understand it. As always, I've edited a little bit for word choice and so forth, but this is basically an as-is repost.

Read it here @ jedionpaper

I will make a real post soon. Promise! In it I will address the SW-related elephant in the room, namely when To Ignite the Stars is next going to be updated amid all this BSG stuff. It's not abandoned, don't worry. :)

In the meantime, here's your weekly Insanity Underrated chapter!

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Bill Adama
Word Count: 4,628
Spoilers: Through S2's "Pegasus"
Rating: NC-17 - very, very much so!
Summary: “It’s now my duty to inform you that effective immediately, Admiral Cain has requested you both specifically to serve on Pegasus,” Adama told them.
Author's Notes: Takes place about a month after the previous chapter, after Pegasus shows up. :) Length-wise, this chapter definitely got out of hand - I usually like to keep them around 3,000 words or so - and that's because Kara decided she wasn't going to pay attention to my outline and basically jumped Lee halfway through. Oops? I let her, anyway, because she can be VERY hard to reason with. Especially while pregnant. ;) Much love to my fabulous beta reader, canceron_jedi, who particularly deserves the accolades this time around because she returned Chapter 18 to me right on time this evening despite being at Disney World on vacation! Now that's going above and beyond the call of duty. :D

Read it here @ jedionpaper

As promised, posting up the next IU chapter before I race off to D&D tonight. :D

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Adama
Word Count: 3,457
Spoilers: Through S2's "Flight of the Phoenix"
Rating: PG
Summary: “I’ve decided,” Kara whispered. “I’ve decided.”
Author's Notes: Despite the essentially serious nature of this chapter, I had a ton of fun writing the first part. :D There's just something about watching Lee squirm that is way more amusing than it should be. Hehe. ;) This chapter takes place directly after the Season 2 episode "Flight of the Phoenix."

Read it here @ jedionpaper

I am LE TIRED, but here's something to tide over those of you who have been oh-so-patiently waiting. :D Next chapter goes up tomorrow.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, mentions of previous Lee/Gianne
Word Count: 3,335
Spoilers: Very minor for S2's "Final Cut" and S2's "Black Market"
Rating: PG
Summary: She couldn’t run from him, because he was Lee. She had tried, she’d run all the way to Caprica, but it hadn’t worked. Sooner or later she always wound up back here, back with him, going over the same old territory.
Author's Notes: I've had a couple of Insanity Underrated chapters sitting around gathering dust on my hard drive for a few days, but believe it or not, this is the first chance I've actually had to post them! Real life sucks sometimes, yo. ;)

Read it here @ jedionpaper

I did work on my jedi_mistletoe fic yesterday and today! I swear!!!! But, uh, I'm also posting this. Yes. *shifty look*

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, Cottle
Word Count: 3,088
Spoilers: Very minor for S2's "Final Cut"
Rating: PG-13 for some language and mature themes
Summary: Frak responsibility. It was already proving to be more trouble than it was worth.
Author's Notes: Since there aren't any precise canonical timelines in the BSG 'verse (i.e. nothing to say "three weeks passed between this episode and that episode" or "six days passed between Episode A and Episode B"), I will be somewhat stretching and compressing the timeline to suit the needs of this fic. Don't worry, though; it should still make sense at the end of the day, and I will always alert you in my author's note as to how much time has passed if it isn't mentioned in the text. This takes place about a week after the events of "Home, Part 2".

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Stroke my ego plz? :D

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME

Not gonna lie, I wouldn't mind it tonight. Last twenty-four hours have been rather abysmal, both health- and emotional-wise. Won't say much more in a public post, but ... yeah. Anyway, throwing this out there - if you guys feel like commenting, great, if not, that's okay too! And post your threads so I can return the favour, mmkay? :)

FINALLY finished the Kobol arc, phew. It took for-frakking-ever, and I had to split it into three chapters because altogether it was almost 7,000 words long, eek! I like to keep the IU chapters around 2,000-3,000 words or so - any more and it's kind of overwhelming. Anyway, looking forward as ever to continuing with this! I've figured out that if I keep writing and posting at my current pace (please, please, please, fic gods!), I may well be able to finish Insanity Underrated entirely by February 2010. We shall see!

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, mentions of Helo/Sharon
Word Count: 2,342, 1,794 and 2,706 respectively
Spoilers: Through S2's "Home, Part 2"
Rating: Chapters 12 and 13 are rated PG, while Chapter 14 is NC-17.
Summary: On the mission to Kobol's Tomb of Athena, Kara and Lee grapple with the new complications in their lives, and with their feelings for each other.
Author's Notes: Please see the individual chapters for notes.

Read Chapter 12 here @ jedionpaper

Read Chapter 13 here @ jedionpaper

Read Chapter 14 here @ jedionpaper

Yep, I've got yet another one! Shit got done tonight, I tell you what. :D

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee
Word Count: 3,151
Spoilers: Through S2's "Home, Part 1"
Rating: PG
Summary: Every time she thought of the situation she was in, the decisions she had to make, panic seized her and closed her throat.
Author's Notes: This is where the fic truly begins to deserve the AU label, as ongoing events start to intervene and deflect the characters from their canonical paths. We're still working within the framework of canon, though, so there's some familiar dialogue as well. :) There's also mention of some controversial topics, but I do hope that everyone who reads this will take those in the spirit in which they were intended, as a civil discussion rather than a condemnation either way.

Read it here @ jedionpaper