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The everywoman mods have revealed the authors, so I can share that I wrote "Conjunction" (BSG78) (Cassiopeia & Serina, w/Paye, Dietra, Salik, Rigel) (G, gen, ~2K words) for senmut's prompt: “sisterhood,” “friendship,” “making a life out of tragedy,” and “true caring between characters.”

If you feel inclined, please read. If you have constructive criticism and don't want to put it in public, DM me.

Yep, it was one of those double-match exchange situations. I wrote for the author who wrote for me, and we both wrote BSG78 (rec). I appreciate having more BSG78 around! Did you know that it has only 244 works by 92 authors on the AO3? Check it out. I've been told that people just didn't write fanfiction back then, completely aside from whether it could have been preserved and propagated, and that I shouldn't expect more, but... only 244? For BSG78? I understand that I'm biased in favor of a story I love so much, but how could they all have resisted the urge to fill in those blanks? With the abrupt cancellation and the despised sequel? Humans have been fanficcing -- I mean, intertextualizing, yeah -- at least since Homer. We have 3 separate versions of what happened to Iphigenia, and those are just the works that survived millennia. Heck, I personally wrote fanfic before I had a clue what it was! I feel it's much more likely that some people did write BSG78 stories, if only for themselves, and those diaries and spiral notebooks and letters just never made it to us here and now.

I bet some of those diaries and spiral notebooks and letters were awesome.

retrotvexchange de-anonymized its stories over the weekend. Some familiar contributors include malinaldarose (ST:TOS "Diplomacy"), greerwatson (MASH "Crabapple Cove"), and senmut (Doctor Who "Invasion of Feelings").

The story that I wrote is:

"The Field Trip"
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
G, gen; 4,639 words
Apollo, Athena, Starbuck, Cassiopeia; cameos for Boxy and Rigel

My recipient requested action/adventure/plot and a look into Apollo and Athena's sibling relationship. The idea arrived as two episodes' worth, but it arrived late, and became thirty minutes' worth. I feel that was a blessing in disguise. If I'd had more time to work on the story, the way to go should have been deeper, not wider, and I might not have realized that.

This is the story I wrote for rarewomen 2012.  It's the first time I've written Battlestar Galactica (1978), though I've loved the series since I was small.

My recipient, penknife, requested “any Cassiopeia story,” preferably “Cassiopeia and Athena bonding,” “Cassiopeia/Starbuck,” “characters drinking together, characters solving problems together,” and “relatively happy endings,” with Cassiopeia “not ashamed” of her past; I found it very challenging, but eventually a canon window opened to all the components.  I'm curious how the piece may appear to someone properly in BSG'78 fandom (as I drift on the farthest fringes).  If I write BSG again, what should I keep in mind?

My thanks to malinaldarose, wiliqueen, hearts_blood and skieswideopen for encouragement!  Special thanks to Malinaldarose and Hearts-blood for beta-reading on a tight deadline!

Available:	On the AO3
Length:	~3,800 words
Date:	Rarewomen 04/31/12
Rating:	PG
Characters:	Cassiopeia, Athena, Starbuck; tiny cameos by Rigel, Omega
Summary:	When a call to duty interrupts Cassiopeia's date with Starbuck, she unexpectedly finds herself counseling Athena.
Quotation:	“How did you feel when the computer first assigned you to be a med tech?”