OMFG, I cannot believe there is another BSG figure skating fanfic!!!! How did I not know this? HOW DID SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? I'm going to faint and laugh and cry all at the same time!

Thank you for both the fic recs (obviously, I am still totally freaking out) and the icons, which are beautiful! I especially love the first one. murphy987 is so super talented.

And it's you! You are totally forgiven for being late because it's you. I was actually in the process of re-reading all of your stuff for the like 8th time when this post cropped up and I about cried. So don't worry. I will wait forever for the rest of that fic if I have to.

Thank you so much :)

I followed the pingback on this post and share your amazement that there is ANOTHER BSG FIGURE SKATING FIC (besides mine)! Is it A/R? Whose is it? I must read. Lol.

Anyway thank you for the rec, zaleti. It started out as a crazy cracky crossover (because a friend noticed that Michael Hogan plays a cameo as the doctor at the beginning of the movie and we started spitballing how a crossover would work) and then got all crazy serious and long on me. Hee.

It's mine, actually, which is why she rec'd yours! Yes, it's fully A/R. The first 3 chapters are up and I'm working on the 5th/6th right now. You can find the two posts with the first three chapters here: http://about-time.livejournal.com/tag/by%20michiruwater

I've been this gigantic figure skating fan since 2006 when I saw Sasha skate at the Olympics and fell head-over-heels. Right now I'm busy freaking out over Ashley Wagner though.

How awesome! I'll have to check it out! :)

I've always liked skating (and The Cutting Edge is still a fave 80s movie (even though as I wrote my fic, I kinda realized that Doug and Kate go from enemies to so-in-love without any actual friendship in between!). But as for real life skating, I came to really love/ship Virtue & Moir, the Canadian ice dance champs. Right after they won the last Olympics, a flister linked to a fanvid and wow, they knocked me out. (I'd never been into ice dance before because I thought it was boring/no jumps.) They influenced my story quite a bit. Hee.

I LOVE Virtue/Moir, have ever since their Umbrellas of Cherbourg freedance at Worlds in 2008, if I remember correctly. But I don't ship them, lol, because I know they're not dating in RL ;) (though they do do love very well in their programs, don't they?)

I'm from Michigan, so in 2010 everyone around me was like, DAVIS/WHITE, DAVIS/WHITE, DAVIS/WHITE, and I was like... V/M are going to win the Olympics, guys. Obviously. And then they did and everyone hated me, lol.

I really hate the awkard vagina lift in their Carmen freedance this year though.

They most definitely do!

Ugh I can't with Davis/White. I think they are so unbelievably overrated (maybe that's unpatriotic of me but I don't care!) I'm bummed because it seems like a given they're going to beat V/M at Worlds despite their program being so less sophisticated and interesting. Oh skating politics. Sigh.

Hee. I think if they can do the vagina lift fast enough it might look better and they're working on it. I'm not so fond of the sideways split eagle thing Tess does though. That looks awkward to me. The new changes they made to their SD at Canada nationals are awesome though!

I don't think Davis/White are overrated, but I do think that they are less polished than V/M and that Meryl's basic skating skills will forever hold them back, as much as I adore her as a person. Charlie's gorgeous though so I may be a little biased there. Well, he and Scott both are in totally different ways, lol. I can't remember which of the two I voted for PSOTY at FSU but it was a hard choice.

It always sees that D/W with the GPF and then V/M win Worlds. I don't think it matters, because I think V/M are going to win the Olys again.

I was honestly too busy freaking out over how awesome Kaetlyn Osmond is to notice anything else at Canadian Nationals. I'm so super stoked for the Ladies competition at Worlds this year I might hyperventilate and die.

I didn't see Kaetlyn's performance but I heard she did great!

I'm really excited to see what they (& Marina) come up with for V/M's routines next year! Their willingness to push the envelope is very exciting.

She rocked it. it wasn't perfect but it was really, really good.

I really hope they pick some fantastic music for next year. I seriously don't know why no one has ever skated to Roslin & Adama. Maybe not in ice dancing, with that stupid OD/CD combination they now have to skate, but it's the perfect length for a singles short program.

Gah! I'm going to be combing YouTube again. Unless by some miracle they stick the Worlds or any of it on ESPN. At least the YouTube way I only watch the good stuff... :)

Roslin & Adama IS a good length, and very cuttable, too. I did kind of smirk when I worked that out. :D But when I've tried to choreograph to it (admittedly not very hard, LOL), it's been awkward. Footwork does not flow naturally from it, especially the first 2/3, which turns out to be way slower than you'd expect. The Downton Abbey score, on the other hand? Just moves my feet and hands for me. That may say more about my choreo skills/style than anything else, haha. I'm sure a pro could nail it. Maybe I'll have another go on Monday - it's a while since I last used BSG for warm-up!

Lol, I just spent like 4 hours watching all of Sasha Cohen's performances and crying from the combination of these conversations with the US Championships/European Championships.

I always picture a pro, yeah, of course (well, I picture Sasha, but what else is new...). Everytime the guitar comes in and then the music crescendos I picture a gorgeous circular step sequence similar to the one Sasha did in her 2006 Olympics LP. I feel like so few of the top skaters these days have Sasha's elegance though, and that music demands elegance. Alissa, but she might never be on the ice again after the latest injury. Yu Na, maybe, but David Wilson's choreography for her always seems to be variations on the same thing (which should be a CRIME, when you have a skater with that amount of unGodly talent, geez).

Um. Not that I've ever given serious thought to any of this for extended periods of time.

ESPN never shows skating these days. NBC has a contract but I'm not sure for which portions of the competition, normally they just show a few of the top skaters doing their long programs, and maybe the top 2 or 3 short programs (while chacking like all the European skaters) during warm-up groups. Ice Network normally shows the short programs and the LPs on demand later, but it's expensive and the way they've run the business the past few years has made me super irritated with them. Universal Sports also shows skating (they're NBC-affiliated) but they also cost money.

For the WCs I will likely find a live feed from Russia or Korea or something, honestly. I am not missing the Wagner/Kim/Asada/Kostner/Osmond showdown. Hell no.

That step sequence is indeed rather awesome. I think she had some little choctaws on the back of it, too, and I've always been a sucker for those. Simple but effective. Also awesome: the last third of the music (R&A). It's so easy to chuck stuff in there - footwork, jumps, you name it. But for the first part you're kind of strolling, and maybe that's the key, but it feels unbalanced. Could put a big COE spiral through the middle or something. Especially if you were Sasha (damn her for that amazing spiral).

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH GIVING EXTENDED THOUGHT TO THESE MATTERS.

ESPN gave up, eh? That explains a few things. I might try this feed business... paid ones will definitely be region-blocked. I'll probably end up sticking with YouTube since timezones are not often on my side. Good thing I'm not a spoilerphobe, heh. But at least there are options, right? :D Used to get nothing at all! (Which I do not get because every time the Olympics come around, they're all, "Next up, figure skating! Everyone's favorite!" and then show us, as you say, about 3 programs. Meanwhile, we get HOURS of cross-country skiing and every single hockey game in the pool. *sigh*)

Dramaz will be good. It's no fun when it's obvious. :D :D

Heee! YW. When I discovered it (while it was not finished) I remember being all, "OMG, no way, skating AND BSG together?!" Because at the time they were the two biggest things in my life. And then there was a big gap because I fail at keeping track, LOL, until a while ago someone told me the story was finished! :D But I so need to go back and re-read it all together as one thing.

Ha, there was also a big gap because I am a terrible procrastinator! But yes, definitely finished it last year some time. Thanks again! Hope you enjoy the whole thing!

LOL, you are very welcome. And being me is no excuse for being late, though it is, all too disturbingly often, the reason. ;D I am however flattered that all those other words of mine bear rereading. It kinda makes my day to hear that, for many reasons.

That icon of Murphy's - heh, many people around here can watch that on loop, a fact she cleverly harnessed in producing the thing. You may or may not know that it comes from an entire post of "Sexy Mary Icons". :O

YES. There is another BSG/skating crossover! In truth, I am simply overjoyed to have come up with a story you haven't read, LOLOL, but when I saw your own skating fic pop up on the wireless the other week, I had to include it. I read the first bit of your one, too, and might have got just a bit sucked in (because, well, skating!). ;)

Hmm... I used to have an icon of Shizuka Arakawa in a beautiful spiral, but LJ stole it, so plain skates it is. *goes to reupload*

I HAVE seen that post, now that you link it, but back in the very, very early days of my obsessions when I had seen not one of those Mary movies. Now, of course, I have seen all of them, many of them more than once. Jesus. For All Time and Evidence of Blood icons. I need so much more icon space. I have a gigantic collection of Sasha Cohen icons but I need room for BSG these days. Divakawa spirals are always a good idea, too ;)

In the tradition of the lovely flamingo55, it's Robbie Burns Day, a holiday in Scotland, so it totally counts as a holiday post :D

I love the icons and I'm looking forward to the rest of the fic!

Not sure I read the figure skating epic *tucks it away for later*

Hey, awesome, a holiday I didn't know about! :D

Those icons, oh my. I went back and looked at Murphy's whole post - had forgotten how epic it was.

As for the skating fic, I fail terribly at keeping track of things and didn't know it was finished until someone told me! I definitely need to go back and read it again in one hit. #skatingfix :D

As for the rest of mine... you know how it works, LOL. Like a glacier with roadblocks! =_=