Kara Thrace fic recs

[shah_of_blah]

Yes, it is time to celebrate our girl!  (Well, it's always time to celebrate her in my book)

I have gathered, um, a few of my favorite Kara fics.  This is by no means all of the great Kara fic out there.  It's mostly the great Kara fic that I have bookmarked, hence easy access to the links.  Feel free to comment with any Kara fic you think should also be on this list!  But first, I shall point you in the direction of this list by daybreak777 from 2007.  Now, here are a few of my favorite fics that aren’t on this list.  I’m trying for gen, or fics that are at least more about Kara than a ship.  Also preferably from Kara's perspective.  That said, you all know my tendency towards Kara/Lee, so I couldn’t keep him out of here. 

Icarus by wisteria_  (5/5, R)
Summary: If it was all just her insanity, then at least she was the one calling the shots. And if was right – that she was Aurora – then she'd live again.

Thea Soteira, Thea Apollousa (1/1, PG-13) by having_written 
Summary: Ten moments in the life of Kara Thrace (set pre-mini).

Fast Friends (1/1, G) by becisvolatile 
Summary: She didn’t like Karl C. Agathon. Not at first.

Intra (1/1, Adults Only) by svilleficrecs 
Summary: Her body is more complicated when she's near him.

The Art of Making Friends (1/1, PG) by suffolkgirl 
Summary: Kara makes some new friends at Fleet Academy...which involves triad games, drinking, pyramid and vandalism to pencils.

Wet Hot Caprican Summer by lint138 
Summary: She's fifteen, has a bad attitude, and a mouthful of metal.

Soft Spot (1/1, PG) by em_meredith 
Summary: "Now that you're going to have a kid, will you be...?" K/L.

Eleusis (1/1, PG-13) by mercurial_wit 
Summary: Persephone never stayed still.

Happy Hour (1/1, not rated but I’ll call it PG) by taragel 
Summary: Set on New Caprica, between seasons 2 and 3. Kara and Laura get drunk on a bottle of ambrosia and get nostalgic and regretful and angsty.

Note: This is from Laura's POV, but good fic involving Kara and the other women on this show is so rare that I have to include it.

Hellfire (1/1, PG-13) by resolute 
Summary: Kara Thrace is a child on Caprica, and finds a comic book in the library.

Note: This is Kara as a child fic, so if you don’t want to read about child abuse, you should look away.  But it is beautiful and sad and really fits with what we see of Socrata in Maelstrom.  It also involves X-Men, in that Kara is reading the comics.  But you don’t need to be familiar with that fandom to read this.

Five Seasons in Caprica City (1/1, T/PG-13) by KNS
Summary: Thrace has seen Caprica City in every season.

Note: I’m linking to ffn because I’ve never seen this on lj—if I’m wrong, do let me know!

And in the “really frakked up” (Occupation/Precipice) category we have...
Tesselation (1/1, R) by mercurial_wit 
Summary: We are the two sides of God’s coin, subject to the laws of probability.

Alone (1/1, T/PG-13) by tracyj23 /stardust_20 
Summary: What might have been running through Kara's mind upon her return to Galactica during the reunion scene in 'Exodus Part 2.

ETA: daybreak777  has beat me to it with some of these.  Consider them doubly-recced.  Also, I am having rich text issues.

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Ooh, lovely! I think I've read some of these but good to reread! There can not be too many Kara fic recs!

(Oh and Rich Text is a bitch with recs lists. My friend turned me on to Semagic and it's the bomb, seriously. )

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

I may have to look into this Semagic...

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Wow... you've just given me a lot of procrastination methods! Sweet! <3 The greatest gift of all.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service!

[taragel.livejournal.com]

Aw you recced my happy hour! What a nice surprise! I'm trying to work on a Kara picspam and a Kara fic but muses are being difficult. Sigh.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope those muses cooperate. More Kara stuff! I thought about doing a picspam, but I'm too lazy. I do have fic forthcoming though...

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely, lovely!!! Thanks for the rec because there are some of them I haven't read!

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's so much fun to be spreading the Kara-fic-love.

[tracyj23.livejournal.com]

I have another one you might be willing to add to your list but the problem is it seems to have disappeared. I wrote a Kara Thrace character introspective drabble (about 300 words) several years ago, set just after her return from New Caprica. It was on my tracyj23 journal but LJ says the page isn't there anymore. I know it's posted at ff.net though. If you like it and want to add it to your list, feel free. If not, that's okay too.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely! What's it called? You know, when I was making this list, I was trying to remember if you had any gen Kara fics, but I was looking on lj, so I didn't see any.

[tracyj23.livejournal.com]

Well that's the problem. On my LJ it's called "Kara Thrace, a character introspective" (at least that's what the link says, but I'm a little frustrated that LJ lost that page), but I don't know what I titled it at ff.net. Probably something similar. I'd find it for you but my ancient browser won't work at ff.net and I can't get in there anymore. If you look up my profile (under tracyj23) you should be able to find it, although there are about 100+ stories ... there are summaries though so hopefully it won't take too long.

I've got a couple of songfics that I wrote a few years ago centering around Kara but since they're locked at tracyj23 I figured I'd repost them at stardust this week. My own little celebration of sorts. :)

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Ah, I found it! It's called "Alone" on ff.net. Reposting sounds like a good idea, especially since you've written so much and some of it is hidden away.

[tracyj23.livejournal.com]

Do you want to link to it at ff.net for your post or should I repost it in my journal? If the latter, then could you copy and paste it into an email for me? I dont' have backups for any of my old fics. My old laptop died and I lost everything.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

I just linked to it at ff.net, but if you can't view it, I can send you the text anyway. I know I'd hate to lose any of my stories.

[tracyj23.livejournal.com]

I can read it thanks to the link, I just can't access my own (or anyone else's) profile page to make a link for myself. It's very odd since ff.net says my browser is allowed, even though it's an old version.

but I'd love a copy for myself, thank you. :)

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice list. I won't be getting any work done today. Some them I haven't read and look really good.

Great list.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Ha, thanks. I hope you like them!

[webook.livejournal.com]

Wow; you definitely put a lot of effort into this. Thanks!

A little off-topic, but I just created WEbook LJ community for WEbook members and was wondering if you'd be interested in joining.

http://community.livejournal.com/webookcommunity/

Hope to see your work there!

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

That sounds cool. I don't post my original fiction online very often, just because I've never found a really good arena for it. Maybe this comm will be just the thing!

[webook.livejournal.com]

I hope we can help.

What do you do with your writing? Is it for personal satisfaction/use/creative outlet? That's what my writing used to be for me

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Well, at this point I'm mostly looking for serious feedback.