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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-04-10 12:54 am
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Current state of Babylon 5 fic: hilarious

WIPs crashing and burning right and left. I'm having a great time.

Typical state of most fandoms: I watch/read enough of it to feel confident enough to write canon-compatible fic, I get inspired, I write fic, I post it. Normal.

Current extant B5 fic include:

• A fixit that I wrote about 7K of in seasons 1-2 based on vaguely osmosed Bad End spoilers, just because I had been thinking about it a lot and decided to write it down, then found out the actual (considerably different) details of the aforementioned Bad End and went "hmmm" and also "well, that still works, but I have to change that" and I currently have vaguely planned out like 50K of a fixit for a show which, I cannot overstate the importance of this critical fact, I do not know how it ends.

• Two different season 5 missing scenes - please note I have not seen season 5 yet - also based on very vaguely osmosed spoilers, which were attempts to write Londo/G'Kar porn in which, it turns out, no actual porn happens. (I inflicted them on [personal profile] sovay, who was very kind about not revealing any of the probably 1000 ways in which these will not work when I actually get there.) I should point out that I never write canon-blind fic and I rarely write porn and I don't know what is happening here.

• A vaguely noodled-on AU in which young fighter pilot Londo crashes on the continent formerly occupied by the Shadows on Narn and meets/is captured by/almost is killed by young freedom fighter G'Kar and Stuff Happens and then they meet again years later on B5. At the very least, canon is unlikely to completely joss that one. Probably.
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[personal profile] philomytha 2025-04-10 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Love it! I don't remember anything about B5 either but these all sound great, especially the third one <333
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[personal profile] sovay 2025-04-10 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
I feel that it is undeniably My Brand, at the very least.

I am here any time for young fighter pilot Londo and adding young freedom fighter G'Kar does not decrease my interest.
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[personal profile] sovay 2025-04-10 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
WIPs crashing and burning right and left. I'm having a great time.

I support all of these projects. All of them.
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[personal profile] lunabee34 2025-04-10 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you're having fun!
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[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2025-04-10 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
All these sound splendid.
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[personal profile] sgatazmy 2025-04-10 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I was hoping you were going to write B5!
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[personal profile] hamsterwoman 2025-04-10 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
• A vaguely noodled-on AU in which young fighter pilot Londo crashes on the continent formerly occupied by the Shadows on Narn and meets/is captured by/almost is killed by young freedom fighter G'Ka

Ooh!
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[personal profile] silverflight8 2025-04-10 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
🤭

🎊🎊🎊
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[personal profile] schneefink 2025-04-10 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I currently have vaguely planned out like 50K of a fixit for a show which, I cannot overstate the importance of this critical fact, I do not know how it ends. xD

All of these sound great :D
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[personal profile] heavenscalyx 2025-04-10 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
B5 fic has a tendency to snowball. *side-eyes the fic I wrote years ago that was supposed to be a drabble and turned into *peers at AO3* 10K words*
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[personal profile] sheron 2025-04-11 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I love the existence of all these WIPs
If canon josses them you can still post them on DW! It'll be fun :D
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[personal profile] starwatcher 2025-04-11 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
*chuckles softly but happily*

It's been so many years since I watched B5 that my memories are dim indeed. But I celebrate that you're inspired to write fic for the show; more fic is always a good thing. If #3 is ever posted, I think I'll glom onto it -- early Londo & G'Kar will be separate enough from canon that my spotty memory won't matter.

Happy writing!