sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
I wrote this for [community profile] fan_flashworks "Underwater" challenge back in early May and finally got around to editing it (the first version was pretty rough; this has been cleaned up a lot, tweaked for word choice and clarity).

One thing rolling around in the back of my head when I wrote this is something I've noticed reading fic for this show - there's not really a lot of typical tropey h/c for these characters. It's understandable, because canon is so tightly plotted, and so much of the fic is just fixing and/or dealing with their various canon disasters and tragedies. But sometimes you just want to put someone into a classic h/c situation and make them deal with it, you know?

The Drowning Deep (5500 words, gen)
Takes place between 5x09 and 5x10. An attempt on Londo's life in the palace gardens.
Also posted on AO3.

The Drowning Deep )
sholio: (B5-station)
The Mismatched Tropes Flash exchange had author reveals while I was traveling, and I wrote:

Last Minute Save (Vir & Londo, 1600 words)
In which Vir gets drugged and almost kidnapped/intergalactically trafficked, and Londo gets to be a Big Damn Hero.

p.s. Incredibly random Tumblr poll on whether Centauri or Narns have a higher body temperature FOR SCIENCE. (And fic.) If you do not have a Tumblr account, feel free to provide opinions in a comment.
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
Currently traveling, but I finished a thing!

I got a prompt on Tumblr earlier this month for a roleswap AU with Londo & G'Kar. I wrote a short ficlet for it a few days ago, then was promptly seized by the urge to write the entire story that goes with it.

Gift on AO3 (2,953 words, Babylon 5, gen)
Mid season four. Narns deliver a gift to G'Kar. He does not appreciate it in the slightest.
(A roleswap AU of sorts, set around the same general time frame as "No Surrender, No Retreat" in canon, in which reconciliation occurs from a completely different and even more fraught direction.)


3000-ish words of chains and reluctant h/c )
sholio: (B5-station)
The Bodyguard Protocol, my post-canon Babylon 5 fixit (for one particular story thread), is now complete at 17K. (There may be a sequel in the works with further aftercare/comfort for everything I put them through.) This is not only the longest thing I've written for these characters, but apparently the longest thing I've written since 2022.

As per my AO3 stats, I've already posted almost as many words in 2025 as I did in all of 2024.

And I'm doing exchanges again! [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange revealed yesterday, and I received this lovely MASH fic (a follow-up to Sons & Bowlers) that I really enjoyed. Somewhere in the exchange collection, of course, is a very surprising, not at all predictable story written by me.
sholio: (B5-station)
The current [community profile] fan_flashworks prompt is "Underwater", and I took one look at that and uh apparently wrote 5300 words of B5 fanfic for it.

Posted on fan-flashworks: The Drowning Deep (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar, set between 5x09 & 5x10). This will be crossposted in the usual places when their exclusive period runs out.
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
So you know how I said I can be extremely prolific when I'm inspired ...

This one probably can't really claim to be inspired by the "floriography" prompt at the recent promptfest, but it is very loosely inspired by a fic in a different fandom for that prompt, which immediately made me think, "You know who would absolutely LOVE finding out that it's possible to insult someone using flowers ..."

Wish You Were(n't) Here (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar with Vir & Sinclair, 2700 words)
"This conversation is beginning to concern me," Sinclair remarked. "And if it doesn't stop immediately, I am going to ask for an explanation, which I suspect no one is going to want to provide, so let's pretend we've already done that and move on to the day's agenda."

(Londo and G'Kar discover that it is possible to insult someone with flowers. Goes from early season one to late season five.)

2700 words of floral terrorism under the cut )
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
In Flight Movie (gen, "A Tragedy of Telepaths" tag, Londo & G'Kar)
Missing scene for 5x10 "A Tragedy of Telepaths," after Na'Toth leaves the ship. Getting back to normal, whatever normal is for them.

In Flight Movie - 1500 wds )
sholio: trio of brightly dressed aliens (B5-Londo G'Kar Delenn)
Stripped Bare (2533 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Delenn & G'Kar (Babylon 5), G'Kar & Londo Mollari
Characters: G'Kar (Babylon 5), Delenn (Babylon 5), Londo Mollari
Additional Tags: Developing Friendships, Alien Biology
Summary: Narns have to molt occasionally. This isn't a problem for G'Kar until Cartagia. (From a prompt at Tumblr.)

Well, I can honestly say that in 25 years of writing fanfic, I had never written a character molting before, prior to this.

The prompt
was this:Prompt: G'Kar's first molt after Cartagia is made more difficult by some of the deeper scars. Hurt/comfort, scene partner any?


Fic is cross-posted under the cut.

Stripped Bare - 2500 wds )
sholio: (B5-station)
Posted Chapter 2 of The Bodyguard Protocol, my post-canon B5 fixit (for one particular thing, anyway). The second chapter is about 6K, like the first one. Chapter three-and-last is being thrashed out for posting in the next few days.

Also in B5, my Tumblr musings on the various season openings (and a poll).
sholio: (B5-station)
A wild WIP appears! (Technically this is already written - it's around 16K - but it will be posted in parts as I edit, add to, and expand the rough-drafted chapters, which are around 5-6K each.)

The Bodyguard Protocol (6355 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: G'Kar & Londo Mollari
Characters: G'Kar (Babylon 5), Londo Mollari, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Loyalty, Bodyguard, Self-Sacrifice, Post-Canon Fix-It
Summary:

It was the first time G'Kar had spoken to Londo face to face in four years, and it happened within weeks of his return to Babylon 5.

(Or: G'Kar ends up on Narn for a temporary Centauri goodwill tour as Londo's bodyguard. Everything is canon-compliant until it's not.)

sholio: (B5-station)
A couple of bite-sized bits of tumblr promptfic written over the last week or so. (I plan to take more prompts soooon, in fact I'm thinking of running a general first-of-May promptfest here on DW as a reward for getting a draft done of the novel I'm currently working on - which is also why I've been slow about replying to comments lately ...)

1. Ivanova & Sheridan
Prompt: "This is not what I signed up for." Honestly, this could be any of the command crew. Originally posted here.

270 words )

2. Marcus & Stephen
Prompt: Marcus and Dr. Franklin gen story prompt request? Could be one of them getting hurt, or even just bickering back and forth (like they did in S4E9). Originally posted here.

370 wds )
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
From the Whumpril prompts list

Day 24: Sensory Overload

Londo & Delenn, post-main-canon, fixit kinda

500 words )
sholio: trio of brightly dressed aliens (B5-Londo G'Kar Delenn)
I wrote this for a prompt over at Tumblr:

Maybe post-canon, Londo reads G'kar's book, and is comforted or amused by something about its descriptions of him?

I'll probably post this on AO3 eventually, but that would mean having to come up with a title. Now also posted on AO3!

About 1000 words with all the warnings that go along with end-of-season-5 Londo )
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
In the middle of working on book release stuff today, I was overwhelmed by the need to write a missing scene for a particular bit of canon in B5 5x16 (And All My Dreams Torn Asunder) that the show cruelly decided not to show us.

I've read another really lovely take on this piece of missing canon, softer and more bantery than my own: Unsundered by [archiveofourown.org profile] TerokNope, highly recommended!

Meanwhile I took a swim in the angst pool.

even if the world stops spinning (gen, 2000 wds)
Missing scene for 5x16. A meeting on the docks as Londo leaves Babylon 5.
Also on AO3.

even if the world stops spinning )
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
After the cavalcade of pain in recent episodes, I had a need for some comfort.

Safeguard - 1200 wds, light hurt/comfort, slight AU of the hallway fight in 5x09.
Also posted on AO3.

Safeguard )
sholio: Londo from Babylon 5 smiling (B5-Londo)
The Face of My Enemy (3618 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Na'Toth (Babylon 5), G'Kar (Babylon 5), Londo Mollari
Additional Tags: Episode Tag, Episode: s5e10 A Tragedy of Telepaths, Friendship, Uneasy Allies
Summary: Post-ep for 5x10 A Tragedy of Telepaths. Missing scenes from the flight from Centauri Prime, or, Na'Toth gets offworld.
sholio: (B5-station)
Well, it has happened, with its usual inevitability - I watched 5x02 on Friday night, and 6K of fic fell into my head over the weekend. *sighs deeply, adds a new fanfic tag*

Four Medlab Visits (and one visitor who waited until after) (6048 words) by Sholio
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Delenn & Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto & Londo Mollari, Michael Garibaldi & Londo Mollari, G'Kar & Londo Mollari
Characters: Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto, Stephen Franklin, Delenn (Babylon 5), G'Kar (Babylon 5), Michael Garibaldi, John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley
Additional Tags: Episode: s05e02 The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari, Missing Scene, Friendship, Bonding
Summary: Tag/missing scenes for "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari." What it says on the tin.

Or read it here!

Four Medlab Visits (and one visitor who waited until after) )

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