Niko

I will be going back to answer recent comments, but first, one more stray B5 thought with spoilers through 5x18.

( Tying up a loose end )

Watch Babylon 5, she said. It will be fun, she said.

( Babylon 5 episodes 5x17-18 )

Now that the primary thoughts/screaming are done, a few more random items.

( More on 5x16 )

I have just watched through Babylon 5 5x16 and

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT JMS

I thought I was prepared but I was not prepared for the emotional roller coaster I have just been on.

I will write a post about that but first I think I need to lie down for a few minutes.

"In the Kingdom of the Blind" and "A Tragedy of Telepaths."

( Spoilers for 5x09-10 + screencaps )

(This letter is for caseficexchange - signups are open until April 27 in case anyone else is tempted to join. *tempts*)

Hello! I love casefic and I am excited about what you are going to make for me!

I love treats and have gifts enabled.

( General likes and do-not-wants )

Fandoms

( Biggles books - W.E. Johns )

( Babylon 5 )

We've slowed down a bit (busy season at husband's work), but this is a good time for it, since we're running out of show and this makes it last longer! To be fair, we've watched two entire seasons and change since the end of March.

The season four opening with the rotating voiceovers was my favorite of the various openers (well, that and the season 1 opening, because I have nice nostalgia vibes about the part of the show I originally saw - it was the dawn of the third age of mankind! Last best hope for peace! etc.). But I also like this season's, with the clips/voice clips from earlier seasons by year, in part because it's such an interesting mix of clips, especially early on. (Bester gets to be on there at last! And Londo collapsing on the table in season one.)

( Babylon 5 episodes 5x03 and 5x04 )

Will I ever stop talking about this episode? Unclear!

This was the first one that actually made me require fic on AO3 (there's a tag for the episode, so relatively easy to find missing scenes and whatnot without spoiling myself for everything else).

( A couple of small recs )

( Another stray thought )

Onwards into season five! (I've also seen 5x02 but that one is getting its whole own entire post.)

( 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars' and 'No Compromises' (with some screencaps) )

Almost done with season four! What!

( Spoilers through 'Rising Star' )

We stopped here, but tomorrow we are boldly forging onward into season five!

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 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.

But first, a word from my id.

( Screencap from 4x16 )

Moving on, brief thoughts on "The Exercise of Vital Powers" and "The Face of the Enemy."

( B5 4x16-17 )