amathela: ([bsg] helo/sharon)
Be cool, Gail. Be cool. ([personal profile] amathela) wrote2009-07-20 09:55 am

Fuck you, she's awesome

Happy birthday, [personal profile] squaringkarma! This is probably late, but I hope you have (or had) and awesome day (and if you'd like a birthday ficlet of some sort, just let me know).

[livejournal.com profile] remixredux09 is open! I'm really looking forward to reading through the archive later, but in the meantime, I have to rec the remix that was written for me:

Past The Red Line (We Are All Ghosts Remix) (Battlestar Galactica/Firefly - Cally, Kaylee - PG-13) You like old planes. Spoilers for Serenity (movie) and through Season 2 of BSG.

Cally is one of those characters (unfortunately, not the only one) who I think was unfairly short-changed by fandom, and even more badly so by canon. She was never one of my favourite characters, but she did win an immeasurable amount of goodwill from me in Bastille Day, and that never really went away. (And besides, if I started hating female characters just because their storylines were badly handled in canon, I'd barely love anyone.)

But, this! This is such an awesome portrait of her, and I love it fiercely. Cally is awesome in it, as are all the Firefly crew. This is such a better story than she ever got in canon, and I love her more here than at any point in canon after Bastille Day. Seriously, if you like Cally at all - or even if you don't hate her - you should really, really read this.