B5: Chatter, Recs, Ships (of both kinds!)
May. 27th, 2009 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI know you are all getting tired of my endless, endless B5-related chatter, so I am cutting for your reading convenience!
- Apparently this was the original five-year plan for B5. I...woooow. I'm really glad that never made it to the screen. WOW.
- Further things I'm glad never made it to the screen: apparently if Claudia Christian had stayed for S5, Ivanova was going to get involved with Byron. EW. There merest thought of that makes me nauseated.
- Poking around at the Lurker's Guide, I found that JMS is the same Meyers-Briggs type as I am (INTJ). This...doesn't surprise me in the least. If ever there were a textbook case of conceiving an idea and translating it to the real world, that would be it. (I often feel like a fraud of an INTJ, because I tend to fail at the "translating to the real world" part. I mean, I like to think about how my ideas would translate, but I'm too lazy to do it.)
- An unexpected consequence of watching "Sleeping in Light" is that I now ship Ivanova/Delenn like burning. And not necessarily just post-SiL, either, although it's certainly much easier at that point in the story. I...don't know? But if you know of (more) fic, I want to read it.
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Fic Recs:
Elements of Consolation by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eye_of_a_cat - Delenn/Lennier, post-"Comes the Inquisitor." This beautiful piece is so perfectly Lennier, and utterly Delenn. If it ever happened, this is how.
What Seems Still byvoleuse - A day in the life of Marcus Cole, who plans his days around Susan Ivanova. I've discovered that many Ivanova/Marcus fics are melodramatic and ridiculous; this is neither. It is instead a perfect representation of Marcus--devoted, patient, maybe a bit annoying, and sweet without being cloying.
Skuka, Holod i Granit by notjenny - This is the only way I can conceive of Ivanova/Marcus actually happening. Depressing--oh, yes, depressing, but Susan is Russian and she knows that Anna Karenina is as true a tale of love as exists in the world. (Her daydream is absolutely hilarious, too, in a darkly comic way.)
and finally a love poem, also by notjenny - Susan/Talia (S2) and Susan/Delenn (post-SiL). I love the contrasts between the two relationships presented here. Both are so real; both are so different.
Tangles by Aris Merquoni - Susan/Delenn friendship fic, set soon after SiL. Susan starts over. Delenn is there for her.
And finally, a vid rec: this video is a fan-made animation pitting ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, and (old) BSG together in a big ol' firefight. Awesome.
- Apparently this was the original five-year plan for B5. I...woooow. I'm really glad that never made it to the screen. WOW.
- Further things I'm glad never made it to the screen: apparently if Claudia Christian had stayed for S5, Ivanova was going to get involved with Byron. EW. There merest thought of that makes me nauseated.
- Poking around at the Lurker's Guide, I found that JMS is the same Meyers-Briggs type as I am (INTJ). This...doesn't surprise me in the least. If ever there were a textbook case of conceiving an idea and translating it to the real world, that would be it. (I often feel like a fraud of an INTJ, because I tend to fail at the "translating to the real world" part. I mean, I like to think about how my ideas would translate, but I'm too lazy to do it.)
- An unexpected consequence of watching "Sleeping in Light" is that I now ship Ivanova/Delenn like burning. And not necessarily just post-SiL, either, although it's certainly much easier at that point in the story. I...don't know? But if you know of (more) fic, I want to read it.
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Fic Recs:
Elements of Consolation by
eye_of_a_cat - Delenn/Lennier, post-"Comes the Inquisitor." This beautiful piece is so perfectly Lennier, and utterly Delenn. If it ever happened, this is how.What Seems Still by
voleuse - A day in the life of Marcus Cole, who plans his days around Susan Ivanova. I've discovered that many Ivanova/Marcus fics are melodramatic and ridiculous; this is neither. It is instead a perfect representation of Marcus--devoted, patient, maybe a bit annoying, and sweet without being cloying.Skuka, Holod i Granit by notjenny - This is the only way I can conceive of Ivanova/Marcus actually happening. Depressing--oh, yes, depressing, but Susan is Russian and she knows that Anna Karenina is as true a tale of love as exists in the world. (Her daydream is absolutely hilarious, too, in a darkly comic way.)
and finally a love poem, also by notjenny - Susan/Talia (S2) and Susan/Delenn (post-SiL). I love the contrasts between the two relationships presented here. Both are so real; both are so different.
Tangles by Aris Merquoni - Susan/Delenn friendship fic, set soon after SiL. Susan starts over. Delenn is there for her.
And finally, a vid rec: this video is a fan-made animation pitting ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, and (old) BSG together in a big ol' firefight. Awesome.
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Date: 2009-05-27 08:14 pm (UTC)Oh, it DOES. Apparently he moved on to cribbing from LOTR in the revision. And yeah, that section was where my eyebrows tried to crawl off my forehead. Dear LORD. It's almost fanficcy. BAD fanficcy.
Do I wanna continue reading?
There's some fairly entertaining crack later. Apparently Sinclair and Delenn's kid MAGICALLY AGES! to be an adult in three years or something, and they go on the run with all the other main characters, and then the show ends. The spinoff he was planning would basically do the Shadow War.
Yuck. The thought is plain gross.
I know. Ick, ick, ick.