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.

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I am feeling rather accomplished these days. I'm sure you can figure out why. ;)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee primarily, with mentions of Helo/Sharon
Word Count: 3,156
Spoilers: Through S2's "Home, Part 1"
Rating: PG
Summary: “Kara,” he whispered, while his heart sang with relief.
Author's Notes: THE REUNION!!!! *squee!* Ahem. Yes. I have been looking forward to that for quite some time, as you may be able to tell. ;) It was so much fun to write, as upcoming chapters will also be. :D

Read it here @ jedionpaper

I have once again committed fic! Whee! Basically, I have done nothing but write since I posted my last f-locked entry, and it has helped. A lot. I am so grateful to Insanity Underrated for pulling me out of this latest funk. It sounds so silly to be dependent on a FIC like this, but that's the way it is. Anyway, I have not one but TWO chapters for you guys today. Enjoy!

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Kara/Lee, some Kara/Sam (both chapters are mainly Kara and the Cylons)
Word Count: 1,838 and 3,030 respectively
Spoilers: Through S2's "The Farm"
Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing themes
Summary: After getting shot in a skirmish, Kara lands in an old hospital where the doctors are not what they appear to be ... and learns something shocking about herself.
Author's Notes: In the second chapter, I introduce what will come to be a major plot point in this fic, and I have to say I'm quite nervous about it! It's been in the outline from the beginning, though, and I don't see any other way of saying what I want to say in this fic without it. I just hope you guys will trust me with it, to take the characters where they have to go while still keeping them in-character. :) Enjoy!

Read Chapter 8 here @ jedionpaper

Read Chapter 9 here @ jedionpaper

Yep, finally. Meant to have this posted way earlier, but I spent the evening ... otherwise engaged. Bleh. Anyway ... will crosspost to communities tomorrow during lunch hour when I'm not falling face-first into my computer keyboard from physical/emotional exhaustion. Heh.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Mostly Kara/Sam this chapter, with many mentions of Kara/Lee
Word Count: 2,529
Spoilers: Through S2's "The Farm"
Rating: Hard R
Summary: The trouble was, she had chosen.
Author's Notes: I'm doing a sort of unofficial NaNoWriMo thing this month, wherein I attempt to write a specific number of words per day of one of my fic projects, and right now the benefactor happens to be Insanity Underrated. :D Which means you guys will probably (HOPEFULLY) be rewarded with more frequent updates. I'm really getting anxious to write more of S2's arc, and so I will be aiming to push through that this week. Crossing fingers that I succeed! This chapter is quite heavy on the Kara/Sam interaction but with tons of Kara/Lee mentions tossed in there (which is why I'm crossposting it to the K/L comms, same as always). K/L fans, don't fret: your turn is coming. And in a big, BIG way. Promise!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

A couple of days ago, the BSG muse tiptoed up to me, grabbed me by the collar and yelled in my ear, "SURPRISE BSG INSPIRATION IS SURPRISING!" So ... I went with it. And here is a brand-new Insanity Underrated chapter for your reading pleasure. :)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Characters/Pairings: Kara, Lee, Helo, Kara/Lee and Helo/Athena mentioned
Word Count: 3,045
Spoilers: Through S2's "Valley of Darkness"
Rating: PG
Summary: “You think any situation can be fixed by running. But have you thought that maybe sooner or later, somebody’s gonna run fast enough to catch up with you?”
Author's Notes: So, believe it or not, I'm still around, I'm still working on this fic, and I'm still just as into pilots as I was before. July and the first half of August have been rough months for me personally and my writing has really suffered. I've been hard-pressed to be online, and when I have logged on, I've had to focus on the various and sundry communities I moderate, which are priorities. So my writing schedule has been shot to hell. Over the past week I've been rereading Insanity Underrated - plus another longfic project in a different fandom - to try and get back into the swing of things, and I have finally churned out a chapter that I deem acceptable. I will also reply to all your awesome reviews as soon as I can, promise! We're into Season 2, as you can tell by the "Spoilers" section of the header, and I'm equal parts excited and equal parts nervous about what's to come. Hope you guys enjoy!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

This is partly for jeebs83 and partly for xkatie_kittenx, since both have requested at various points over the last few days to see the Insanity Underrated playlist ever since I mentioned that I was making one. I did something similar for TIS, as readers of that longfic will know, and I'm beginning to think that a barometer of how serious I am about a fic is whether I make a playlist for it. Heh.

Basically, I as a writer cannot seem to produce anything worth reading unless I listen to music while I am doing it - preferably music that has a lot to do (in my own mind) with whichever characters I happen to be writing about and their story. It's another of my idiosyncratic kinks, just like the fact that I need to have an outline before I start writing any longfic. Since I do make those outlines in advance of a single word getting written, the task of putting together a playlist is made a lot easier.

So. Here be the Insanity Underrated playlist. It is culled partly from my Kara playlist - which in turn heavily influenced my writing of The Sound of One Hand Clapping - and partly from the songs I tend to naturally listen to while I'm working on the fic. In most cases I've included only partial lyrics, but each song title is a link to the full lyrics if you want them. Some songs are further explained by my notes, but I've left others purposefully vague due to spoilers. Those of you who want to figure out their meaning or the reason they're included, put on your thinking caps! ;)

Oh, and the icon? Very, very, VERY relevant. And that's all I'll say for now.

( The Insanity Underrated Playlist )

And if you got through all that, I think you deserve a medal! Hehe. ;)

Long live the BSG muse! At least for now. ;)

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara
Word Count: 2,722
Spoilers: Through S1's "Kobol's Last Gleaming" for this chapter
Rating: PG
Summary: Was this really what severing her ties with Lee Adama was going to be like?
Author's Notes: See icon. "Love hurts" is essentially (and unfortunately) kind of the theme for this chapter, and it refers to both physical and emotional hurt. We're nearing the end of Season 1 here, folks, and while I'm rather nervous about plunging into the S2 plotline, I am nonetheless prepared to jump in with both feet. Thanks for all your lovely reviews on the last chapters! :D

Read it here @ jedionpaper

When my BSG muse decides to be productive, she gets really, REALLY productive. Heh.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara, brief one-sided Baltar/Kara
Word Count: 3,331
Spoilers: Through S1's "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I" for this chapter
Rating: NC-17 for a brief sexual scene
Summary: He took a deep breath, telling himself to just go with whatever came out of his mouth, no matter the consequences. It would be honest, and that was important.
Author's Notes: Thanks for your lovely reviews on the last few chapters! I'm taking advantage of a big burst of BSG-related inspiration to pound out as many chapters of this fic as I can, and it's going really well so far - though I would of course never abandon IU. It's something that I just have to write. This particular chapter has been sitting on my hard drive since about late March, but only half of it was written and it was an absolute MESS, so I've prettied it up significantly and added a lot of material. Parts were heavily inspired by Alanis Morrisette's song Front Row, despite the fact that this obviously isn't a songfic. Something tells me I'm going to end up making an Insanity Underrated playlist one of these days. ;) And as for the ending, please don't kill me? It's pilots, so you know things are a bit screwed up. Heh.

Read it here @ jedionpaper

As promised. *grins* Will crosspost to communities and such tomorrow when I'm not falling over with exhaustion. Heh.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara, others mentioned
Word Count: 2,908
Spoilers: Through S1's "Colonial Day" for this chapter
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Dammit, he wasn’t going to fall for this again. And yet …
Author's Notes: Yeah, I really fail at updating (and at answering reviews) on time, but I'm hoping to rectify both of those things over the next month or so. School ate my brain for awhile there, what with it being my graduating year, and my muse also went on an extended and unscheduled vacation. Heh. But, as proof that I still do plan to take this fic places, I've come back to it, and I'd like to have the S1 arc finished by the middle of next week. We'll see how good I am at actually, you know, doing that. This chapter is again mainly from Lee's perspective, and the dialogue at the end will be familiar (it's from "Colonial Day"). It might seem mostly like a bridge chapter, and it sort of is, but some important things happen which will set up events for future chapters. Enjoy!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

Surprise fic update is, uh ... surprising? :D

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Previous Chapters: Can be read here.
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara this chapter, continued mentions of Zak/Kara
Word Count: 2,038
Spoilers: Through S1's "Flesh and Bone"
Rating: R for sexual scenes
Summary: “You’re a good lay. We can’t be anything else.”
Author's Notes: So, uh, remember this fic? *cough* Yes, I've definitely let more weeks go past without an update than I would have liked, but this was mostly due to real life in the form of me finishing up my last few weeks - EVER - of university. So with a little luck, that won't happen again. ;) This chapter has actually been sitting on my hard drive since I posted Chapter 1, but was in such disarray that I couldn't even think of putting it up. Heh. But it's now gone through a good once-over from my beta and been edited to within an inch of its life, so it's ready to go. Enjoy!

Read it here @ jedionpaper

I'm writing pilots again!!! *squee* And it never felt so good, believe me.

Title: Insanity Underrated
Author: amidala_thrace
Characters/Pairings: Lee/Kara this chapter, mentions of Zak/Kara
Word Count: 4,328
Spoilers: Through Miniseries and S1's "You Can't Go Home Again."
Rating: R for sexual scenes
Summary: But he didn’t care. He had her back.
Author's Notes: So here it is, Chapter 1 of the all-new spiffy-diffy AU. I'll crosspost to communities and such when I'm not half-asleep and needing to do other stuff, probably tomorrow, and I will also endeavour to get Chapter 2 up before Friday, but for now, have a large and slightly porny tidbit of what's to come. ;) As always when I'm putting up a brand-new longfic, I am rather nervous, but whatever. This one really can't use much more editing than I've sunk into it already, heh. For full author's notes, please see this post.

Read it here @ jedionpaper