Closet Idealism AU Timeline/Master list

Here's a handy-dandy timeline for my Ivanova/Garibaldi AU, which also serves as a master list for everything in it. As I write more in the series (and oh, believe me, I have many bits and pieces littering my hard drive), I'll come back and update this post. You can also read everything in order at the series's page on the AO3.

This AU is a mix of standalones and fics contingent on ones which came before. "Little Dreams" follows directly from "Closet Idealism," and "How We Were Transfigured" follows right after. "Backstreets of Heaven" can follow either "Dreams" or "Transfigured." The others require no background, but they benefit from it.

Jan-Dec. 2260
Closet Idealism [PG-13]
Susan is not as much of a realist as she thought she was. Angst. (1175)

Jan. 2261-May 2262
The Little Dreams We Dream (Are All We Can Really Do) [PG-13]
Susan hasn't been as careful with her heart as she should've been. Angsty, but I do promise the epigraph is pertinent. (9100)

June 2262
How We Were Transfigured [G]
The sharp edge of memory begins to dull. Mostly Ivanova-centric. (425)

August 2262
The Backstreets of Heaven [R]
Bester comes to the station, and things go rapidly downhill. It's not quite a revenge tragedy, but it's definitely not fluffy and light. (2600)

March 2263
With Paper Wings [G]
Michael and Susan are pressed into babysitting duty and as a result, while ostensibly talking about the past and present, wind up having a conversation about the future. Fluff. (Though of course with them, there's always angst lurking in the corners...) (1900)

May 2263
A Heart for a Compass (or, A Proposal, the Modesty of Which Is Irrelevant) [PG]
Michael asks a question. Fluff. Well, okay, it's them, so there's a little angst mixed in, but it's mostly fluff. (550)

December 2263
Epithalamion [G]
On the day of Susan's wedding, she and Delenn have a chat. Susan & Delenn friendship more than anything. (1200)

Autumn 2266
Biological Inefficiencies [G]
"All of your biological inefficiencies are made up for by the fact that your friends can babysit this early in the child's life." - G'Kar. (625)

Spring 2268
We'll Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open [G]
Susan, Michael, and Sofie move to Minbar. It's a new beginning, but not in the old way. (1750)

Autumn/Winter 2268
Language Lessons [G]
Susan and Michael discover what their friends have been teaching their daughter. (225)

Autumn 2269
Iter Durum [PG]
November is hard for Susan Ivanova, and Michael has learned to give her space on this particular anniversary. It might go on like this forever, but the universe has other plans. (1850)

Fic: "The Backstreets of Heaven" [Closet Idealism AU, R]

Title: The Backstreets of Heaven
Author: icepixie
Rating: PG-13, edging toward R
Pairing: Ivanova/Garibaldi (with a brief implication of past Ivanova/Talia)
Word Count: 2,621
Summary: Bester comes to the station, and things go rapidly downhill. It's not quite a revenge tragedy, but it's definitely not fluffy and light.

Notes: Set a couple months after "How We Were Transfigured." (See my handy-dandy timeline.) It combines events from "Strange Relations" and "Phoenix Rising," and there's a reference to "Dust to Dust" in here as well. At this point, I've pretty much given up on trying to work in the whole Byron thing with any accuracy, because I refuse to subject myself to the telepath arc again. Expect a considerable amount of deviation from canon in that regard. (You know, more than this AU already deviates.)

Dedication: To bessemerprocess, who tickled my fancy with the idea of Susan and Michael teaming up to take down Bester.

( Bester walks into the maintenance bay to find her pointing her PPG at him. )

Music Recs Round I Have No Idea

Ingrid Michaelson
Pandora tossed her up on the Imogen Heap station I have, and I ended up liking a lot of her stuff. The songs I like tend to reside at the corner of pop/rock, singer/songwriter, and a melancholy piano style of music.
Corner of Your Heart (more of the melancholy piano)
Starting Now (on the rockier end of the singer/songwriter spectrum)
You and I (as above)
Keep Breathing (I think this was played on Grey's Anatomy at one point...? Anyway, it's by far the most radio-friendly of these.)

Kate Havnevik
So:Lo - This was another one that popped up on my Imogen Heap station. It's a bit less poppy and acoustic than the Michaelson songs.

Eddi Reader
Reader has a lovely, sweet-but-not-sacchrine voice. She does traditional Scottish songs/poems set to her own music, and also original pieces with a more contemporary singer/songwriter feel. Here's one of each:
Aye Waukin-O - From a poem by Robert Burns. It's extremely reminiscent of Kate Rusby's oeuvre.
Bell, Book, and Candle - I hear this was played on Charmed back in the day. Anyway, it's soothing and lovely, despite some rather depressing subject matter.

Happy Rhodes
Today I (re)discovered The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music, and while I was browsing through, I suddenly went, "...Oh." Because apparently my taste matches up really, really closely with these people's--I looked for at least fifteen of my favorite bands and artists, and every single one of them were on there. I am definitely going to be perusing their "contemporary folk" listing in the near future.

That said, I actually don't like Happy Rhodes all that much. It is not for lack of trying; she's basically a folkier Kate Bush, which should appeal to me like nothing else, and yet...eh. However, I quite enjoy Ra Is a Busy God, because yes, it is kind of weird, but it's also very listenable.

October Project
On that note, since they're one of of the main examples of "ectophilic" music on that site, have four of my favorite OP songs. They are dreamy and pretty but still have a beat, a little like a darker version of the Cocteau Twins singing in English. The first two are from their first, quieter, album, and the second two from their second, final-with-Mary Faehl, album, which was more assertive.
Return to Me
Now I Lay Me Down
Adam & Eve
Deep as You Go