"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live." Haruki Murakami.


I can't.

( SPOILERS for BSG episode 4.08, 'Sine Qua Non' )

Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 348 (not including quotes from "Sine Qua Non" and "Faith")

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" Marcel Marceau.


"Lee's alive."

It was a good thing Saul had already said those two words to me, otherwise I would've thought I'd slipped it completely, walking through the hatch to my quarters to see my son standing there. Ever since our sensors reported Colonial One destroyed by a nuke and Lee with her, I'd walked around feeling like I had a knife lodged between my ribs. But there he was, breathing and looking in better shape than I did ... and I relearned the fact that a knife hurts just as much getting pulled out as it does going in.

( Not that I was complaining ... set during the miniseries )

Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 533

Headlines


Deep in one of Galactica's holds, a storage box sits. Deep in that box sits a thick, dusty scrapbook with William Adama's name on the inside cover. All of the similar books holding family pictures reside in his quarters, but this one contains dozens of newspaper articles spanning three-score years ...

( A NEW GOVERNMENT FOR ALL ... no spoilers. )

Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 497

Um. Pardon my blush.

Some of you are already aware that the_bigtammys is running a special event called The Best of The Best. Unlike the regular Tammys, which are only open to comm members, the mods opened nominations for these awards up to any muse that has ever existed since the inception of theatrical_muse. All of them. Whether currently active or not.

Given the vast number of wonderful characters and the huge amount of excellent writing to be found in that wide a field, you may understand how deeply honored I am that Bill Adama made the first of the final voting lists for both Outstanding Writing of a Male Heroic Character and Outstanding Writing of a Male Canon Muse.

This ... well, it kinda knocks my socks off. *looks down at bare feet*

ETA the First: Okay, the third and last voting post is up, and I just lost a toenail or two as well. Not only did Bill make the list for Outstanding Emotional Post and get a nomination nod for Outstanding Comedy/Humor post ... but my new boy Ruairí (sonofgranite) made the list for Outstanding Sexual Themes Post. WOW people. Just ... WOW.

Bill and I would also like to take a moment to salute the other BSG characters and folks from my various characters' f-lists who are up for awards on the first two lists, namely k_thrace, laura_roslin, model_numbersix, worsttraitorevr, alan_shore, antigone_grace, artiejackson, heythereslugger, iamdoom, ilookgreat, im_a_pc, isabel_giovanni, john_h_holliday, ki2k, onewingbloody, queenemma, robot_friends, shaman_x, smecker, spartan_queen, will_porter and ynez_castillo.

ETA the Second: Hokey smokes! Not only did alan_shore, antigone_grace, iamdoom, ilookgreat, isabel_giovanni, onewingbloody, queenemma and smecker gain another passel of noms, but canhasprompts, ifwebefriends and lt_wes_janson also join the list! *SQUEE!!!* Go read these people, folks! ^_^

"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it." -- E.M. Forster, A Room With A View.


[Locked to muse knowledge]


"But humans invented it anyway."

"They invented us."

"Sorrow in the form of Cylons."

"And for that they have paid."

( Spoilers for 3.19, Crossroads pt. 1; plus utterly cracktastic, non-spoiler-based speculation for season 4 )

Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 1083

If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about any one thing you wished ~ concerning yourself, your life, the future, or anything else ~ what would you want to know?


*soft snort* Another impossible hypothetical question, hm? All right, I'll play along.

Ultimately?

The only question I would ask has no useful answer.

Will we survive?

Will the human race find some way to evade destruction at the hands of the Cylons? Will we find a home where we can rebuild at least some of what we've lost? Does humanity have a future, or are we doomed to vanish into might-have-beens?

Even if the answer is yes, the human race does survive, I'm just not a fatalist. Free will exists, and I don't believe that any future is so cast in stone that humanity can't change it through our choices, actions .. or inaction. No matter what fate that hypothetical crystal would show me, we'll still have to find our own way to it. If we make mistakes, get complacent, fail to see what's in front of us because we're focused on what might happen, that hopeful future would pop like a soap bubble.

All right, I can hear you saying, then change your question. Try asking How does humanity survive?

What if the answer is, you don't?


Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 189

What do you live for?


Family. Humanity.

With only about 40,000 of us left, the two aren't very far removed from each other.

I live so that my son may one day have the life he chooses instead of the one that was forced on him.

I live for the day that children born to us will know open spaces without stark metal walls and an atmosphere of fear enclosing them.

I live for those evenings when Laura and I can share a drink on my couch and know that we brought them all through safely.

I live to lead. I live to defend. I live to serve.

On the good days, that's enough. When I go to bed knowing that the number on Laura's white board didn't go down that day, when maybe it even increased with a birth or two, that knowledge alone is enough to get me out of bed the next morning.

On the bad days, I reach for whatever I can. A few minutes of peace, a clasped hand, a smile ... a stolen moment. Whatever I can find to carry me that one day further.

Because the alternative ... is unacceptable.


Muse: Admiral William Adama
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica '03
Word count: 190

INSTRUCTIONS
01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I'll respond by asking you five questions, light, personal or totally random .
03. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

And now for the questions I was asked ...

( From John Holliday: )

( From Paul Smecker: )

And if anyone thinks of any other questions they'd like to ask me, fire away.

He (and his mun and kia_holtz) are off to the SoCal Land of the Mouse for a few days. Should be interesting. ;) At any rate, we'll all be back sometime Sunday, and will do our best to catch up from there. Stay frosty!