#otp: spaceparents

[caitylove]

22, 23, 24, 25: bsg for fandom, laura for character ☺

Thank you so much for asking! <3

22: Give us a headcanon for [Laura]? You know how Laura has the slip of paper for the Olympic Carrier? I think she carries around one with Billy's name too, cause she probably blames herself in some ways.

Wow... my headcanons today are devastating...

23: Has your favourite character/ship changed over time? In the BSG fandom? No. Its been steady for over a decade. But I will say, I used to say my all time OTP was Mulder/Scully, but after the revival series, my love for that fandom faded a bit, so Spaceparents, which was just a close second, kinda eclipsed them.

24: What's your favourite thing about Laura? Her mental strength in the face of devastation, I think. She's inspiring in so many ways.

25: What's your least favourite thing Laura said or did? The damn abortion ban storyline... X.x Especially now that Roe Vs. Wade was overturned. Hits too close to home.

[thevulcanbobdylan]

your "otp: looking through glass" tag is a wonderful spaceparents rabbit hole to get lost in <3

I'm glad you enjoyed browsing it! I just ravenously reblog every spaceparents post 🥺 I love them

[a-tardis-at-downton]

I wonder if RDM intended for Bill and Laura to end up together all along or if it was a natural conclusion given Eddie and Mary's acting choices, chemistry, and mutual respect for one another that made that choice inevitable?

Hmmm... even if it wasn't intended, it was a very natural progression for the two characters.

[splodge04]

I've now migrated to the bedroom for the night so here's what I've got: pyjamas, a tube of hand cream and earplugs. Have fun 😂

It's almost as if the items in your line of site were there to set me up for a world of smut. Ha, not today. NOT TODAY.

It's rough as helllllllll, but whatever.

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Most of the time, sharing a bed with someone you love is one of the best feelings in the world. There was something about climbing into bed with them at the end of a challenging day and feeling them wrap their arms around you that could turn away any sadness and frustration. Not only that, but there was also the comfort of being close, pillow talk, the spooning, the laughter, the kisses, and of course, the sex, which were all wonderful.

With benefits came the downsides, and sharing a bed with Bill Adama had an abundance of them. If they had a double bed, a large portion of their problems would evaporate into the air. Most evenings, she had to deal with tangled limbs, stolen covers, cold feet, draughts, murmuring, and of course, the snoring.

Bill would always argue that he didn't snore, even if he did so loudly that it sounded like someone had bought in a chainsaw to fell a row of trees. Laura's preferred position at night was lying on his chest. When he started snoring, she could usually feel the vibrating on her cheek and the rattling in her ear. There was nowhere to roll to, no escape, and so most of the time, it was easier to deal with by giving him a prod or a shake. Once he stopped, she would usually drop right back off to sleep, but the snoring in her ear currently had no relent. It was the loudest she'd heard from him in a while.

Earlier in the day, he'd complained about feeling a little under the weather, and she could hear it in his voice that he sounded a little bunged-up. The volume of his snoring at that moment made her wonder if they were going to pick it up in CIC as interference, and she knew she shouldn't moan and should let him get his rest so he could feel a little better, but every time he took in a breath she felt her nerves split and her irritation rise.

"Bill," she called out softly, giving him a gentle shake with her arm, lifting her bare chest from his. "BILL!"

It didn't stop. Instead, she was sure that the volume went up another handful of decibels. A part of her wanted to clamber out of bed and sleep on the sofa. The other part of her enjoyed being close to him too. Distance from him made her heart ache, and they had spent far too much time dispelling their feelings for the sake of the fleet. Time was against her, and with every passing day, she didn't know how many more she had left. It was time to live a little.

Laura pulled the cover off and gently eased herself off of his chest, being careful not to wake him. When she stepped away, she couldn't help but smile at him. He was pale, his mouth wide open, and he looked exhausted, but to her, he was still the greatest thing in the universe. She often found herself smiling at him these days because he was one of the things in her life that gave her an element of joy. Even though she was going to climb back into that bed, she still leant forward to give him a swift kiss on his forehead, careful not to disturb him. Snoring, even as irritating as it was, would never stop her from loving him. Nothing would.

Walking into the head, she reached for the toilet paper, or what they used as such, and ripped off two segments. Taking a piece in each hand, she bunched it up and shoved them into her ears as make-shift earplugs and hummed. It would help a little.

When she climbed back beneath the sheets, giving him another quick kiss as she did, she nuzzled herself into the crook of his neck and sighed. The addition of her make-shift earplugs had helped, but not by much. Laura ran her hand over his chest, circling patterns into his chest hairs, and intertwined her legs with his. It was amazing how far they'd come since their first meeting, and now, after everything, she couldn't imagine a day without him in it. That was what love was, really, right? The complete inability to see a life without him in it. The feeling of home when he was around. No, no snoring would make that go away. Ever.

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"Laura?" Bill sniffed, stretching himself out as his alarm went off. "Laura?"

"Hmm?" she grumbled through the thick haze of sleep.

"Why have you got tissue sticking out of your ears?" he smirked, gently rubbing his hand up her arm and kissing her on top of the head.

"Hmmm," she replied again, taking her hand up to pull the rogue pieces of tissue out of her ears. "Because I love you, Bill. So let's just leave it at that."

[cassiopeiasara]

Top 5 ships or tv shows

Ships:

(These last two are new but hey hyperfixations are legit).

TV Shows:

A Different World

Living Single

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Parks and Rec

Who’s the Boss?

[hooryayy]

MM and EJO are gonna be in a movie together!!!!!!!

[theawkwardkat]

For my “geeky” fandom stuff, go to: @inlovewithbats

DC || Marvel || Harry Potter || Voltron || LotR || Lunar Chronicles || Star Wars || Doctor Who

For my OTP obsessions, go to: @spaceparenting

dickbabs || staron || shallura || hinny

Otherwise, this page is a random mess of the crazy world that is tumblr

[ofhouseadama]

so if bill and laura are spaceparents and will and mac are newsparents does that mean ed and lorraine can be spookyparents? (also i hope you feel better!!!)

oh ed and lorraine are DEFINITELY spookyparents (kane and abby were skyparents, as well), i just changed the way i tag for otps a few years back but i definitely thought of going back to that naming model for them lmao

[pagets]

top 10 otps (as voted by my followers) → #10. Laura Roslin & Bill Adama

[caitylove]

Question 5 for each: Fandom: BSG Ship: Adama/Roslin Character: Ellen Tigh (just to mix things up!)

So I totally forgot to answer this earlier this week cause I fell asleep directly after I posted it. Ooops! sorry friend! These two are my favorites!

the scene from it that lives in my head rent free: For me, I have always kind of obsessed over the scene from Unfinished Business, where they are lying under the stars high as kites. Seeing them so uninhibited and relaxed is such a refreshing change, and I wish we had gotten more of that. (And yes, I've written this day at least once lol )

the three most perfect OTP tags that I can come up with for them: OTP: Sine Qua Non, OTP: You Made Me Believe. OTP:Borrow Time, and of course just... SPACEPARENTS.

...if I feel like the writers mistreat them or if the story would be better if they were taken down a peg: Honestly, I kinda LOVE Ellen Tigh. She's a great mayhem inducing character. Great for drama. If anything, I feel they didn't utilize her enough.

[this-geek]

Getting to Know You Tag

I was tagged by the lovely @tyrsenian thank you so much 😊

Relationship Status: 

Forever Alone

Favourite Colour:

Purple

Top 3 OTPs:

Janeway x Chakotay, Voyager (I once took a quiz that asked which Voyager 'ship' NEVER happened and it didn't occur to me that these guys aren't actually canon 😂) 

Shandy (Major Crimes) I love them and they are still happily married no matter what Duff does! I am in no way still bitter about the end of that damn show

Spaceparents (Battlestar Galactica) So precious

Last Song: 

What Did I miss - Hamilton Cast. (A great song and one of my favourites from the show)

Last Movie:

Passionfish (1992) Starring Mary McDonnell, Absolutely great movie and I highly recommend it, although there is a lot of swearing

I tag @phantomgecko @catherineehalsey @meanwhile-in-other-worlds

[a-tardis-at-downton]

So, I put together a playlist for spaceparents and I wanted to share my pain feelings with others.

[splodge04]

#5 😬

5- things you didn’t say at all

Knowing someone, being around someone, and learning about a person creates something unique and individual between two people. Words don’t mean anything, really, not unless you understand the context and the behaviour of the person speaking them. It’s about familiarity, reading the undertones and subtext created in every syllable. I’ve learnt a lot about you, Laura Roslin, and I can read what you're saying without you even saying it. What's even better, and I am thankful for it quite often, is that I can tell what it is you're thinking without you even opening your mouth. 

I’m a sucker for a pretty lady. I’m even more of a sucker for a pretty lady when I've been watching and learning about her for months whilst we run for our lives. I’ve been watching you rebuild yourself, stand firm in the face of adversity, swat away unnecessary drama so that you can carry on driving us to our goal. The best thing about that? Even if the planet turned out to be one of the worst decisions made by Gaius Baltar? Is that for just a moment you got to live like the woman you are beneath your title. It was refreshing to see you so natural down there, and it’s something that I’ll never forget.

New Caprica. You said we should never have settled, and even though I never did, the thought had crossed my mind on the day I saw you in that amazing red dress. It wasn’t the fabric that swayed me, it was the warm and confident way you looked at me as if the barriers we’d created alongside our roles had disintegrated as soon as the sun from that planet touched us. Your eyes sparkled like green emeralds in the depths of a shallow running stream, your smile stretched from ear to ear in a flirty and contagious way. You disarmed me that day, caught me playing in the dirt and took my breath away in three seconds flat. I could tell without you having to say a thing that you were glad to see me.

I remember looking away from you. You stood to the side of me with your gaze locked onto the side of my head. I could feel the energy between us like we were magnets pulling together. You didn’t need to say anything because the way your eyes tracked my face was enough for me to understand what was happening. I turned to you as your glass lifted so you could take a drink, and your eyes told me that you were happy. It was probably your third drink of the day because I could smell the liquor mingle with the sweetness of your breath. The softened giggles that were as natural as the cooling breeze around us, the way you shifted on your feet as your fingers tentatively touched me periodically, and your relaxed presence were as hot as if your dress was on fire. I could tell that you wanted to spend the day with me without you having to say it.

Side-by-side for hours, like there was nobody else on the planet, we took time to discover the new world. The more the hours moved, the more we filled ourselves with a haze of booze and weed, our senses and barriers disarmed by it. In those moments, my thoughts, even though I didn't show it, were completely on you. It was the way your head nestled in against me like my body was made just for you. It was the way your hand wandered over my chest, your fingertips tracing out your thoughts of a life in the future we could have. You didn’t need to say it, because I could feel it with every single beat of your heart against my body. You wanted me to find a way to stay.

You didn’t need to say anything, but I knew. I could tell you were thinking about me in the way we’d told ourselves we wouldn’t. You were wondering if we could have a life away from everything, in that cabin you spoke about, together until the end. I could hear it in your words that you were telling me that you wanted to build a life on that planet with me there too. Your words didn’t say it, but I could hear it in there like a claxon in an empty hall.

What I never said to you, even though I was thinking it, was that I would have left everything, if things had settled, to make a life with you. To wake up every morning with a nest of auburn waves settled against my chest. To hear you laugh, your voice flowing in the air like the call of a bird, and hear the stress dissipate into the nature around us. I wanted it just as much as you did.

Now our world has closed in again, hindered by the constant threat of death and pain, but I can still see that longing in your expression when our eyes meet over a mountain of paperwork and whiskey. I can still tell you want us to have a life together one day. We don't need words, and for that, I am thankful.

[cassiopeiasara]

Spaceparents for the playlist ask?

Falling Is Like This~Ani Difranco (s2 from Laura’s debate with Gaius on)

Book of Love~Peter Gabriel (I mean it speaks for itself)

Station~Lapsley ( s3 when Bill’s ship jumps away but Laura knows he’ll be back)

A Case of You~Diana Krall (another one of my fave covers. Big s4 breakdown feels)

To Build A Home~Cinematic Orchestra (don’t think of Bill looking around his cabin as his ship crumbles and Laura gets worse thinking about how it had been a home he never really shared until her then building a cabin on Earth without her)

Send me a character or ship and I’ll create a 3-5 song playlist.  

[hooryayy]

ok I love spaceparents but you gotta accept that they are still despots and my all time favorite example that intersects with their relationship comes from taking a break from all your worries while their willingness, and dare I say eagerness, for torturing baltar together is romantic, it is the intimate moment they share in adama's rack at the end that gets me every time when adama says that it is not too late for baltar to still disappear, roslin pauses, gasps "oh bill," grabs his arm, and is TOUCHED!! FRAKKING TOUCHED. he would murder the most infamous public figure, behind closed doors, just to make her happy and she loves it so much that her eyes sparkle and yall i just but then without their despotic prisons laura and bill are the kind of people that get drunk and high at a public ceremony and wander off to secretly canoodle in the sand which WE ALL KNOW is what they prefer