B5: Chatter, Recs, Ships (of both kinds!)

[icepixie]

I 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 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.

Comments

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the rec! I've written more B5 stuff, though, uh, can't remember if any of it is stuff you 'ship.

It's all linked from the top of aris_writing, in any case. :)

[icepixie]

Hey, thanks for the rec! I've written more B5 stuff, though, uh, can't remember if any of it is stuff you 'ship.

Heh. At this point, I think I ship Everyone/Everyone on this show, or just about, anyway. It's kind of insane.

It's all linked from the top of aris_writing, in any case. :)

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