Bits and Pieces of B5

Bits of things that I’ve been accumulating for years and never posted or finished posting.

On this front, I’ve been doing most work on being able to put up the rest of ‘Portraits,’ which is the one where we didn’t have the worst possible ending and Na'Toth fills in as a temp for bodyguard duties for G'Kar and she spends 2 or 3 months like 'what the actual Fuck has been going on over here with these two’ on Centauri Prime.

So everything exists in that world, really! This is already too much detail for a “do you want to read WIP chunks” post so let’s go look at BITS AND PIECES

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Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

@xenobotanist tagged me! I’m gonna do things I’m working on or haven’t been seen. So it’s like ‘first lines of chunks of things in progress.’ Things I’ve already put out there doesn’t sound super thrilling for anyone to look at, haha I’m afraid 'recent’ is like, 'things I did to keep sane during 2020’ and everything else is 'I worked on this yesterday’ or 'now it’s been too long and it feels awkward to do anything with it’. Friendly tagger, I hope you were not hoping to see anything revolutionary in this collection!

1. No one died when Johnny sang. Crucially, this included Johnny. (I’m Still Here [Remix] - JtHM Two lines, technically, but they are the actual first lines of the whole thing since none of it is published yet!)
2. It’s possible Mollari doesn’t recognize the signs, even after all this. (Sleep - Babylon 5 I never shared this.)
3. An entire room full of dead pharaohs.  (Chapter 3 of Strange Shapes - YuGiOh)
4. They’d arrived at the doors to the conference hall a little overdressed in G’Kar’s opinion, but no number of years on Centauri Prime would reset his barometer for ‘too much.’ (Paperwork - Babylon 5 Also never shared this one. Londo and G'Kar were pandemic panic subjects, I guess.)
5. Julian stands in front of his television holding two DVDs while Garak attempts to find the one rumored comfortable spot on Julian’s secondhand sofa. (Unnamed near-end part of Deep Dish Nine called “The Peanut Butter One” by those who know of it - Deep Dish Nine DS9 AU It’s been a decade I should just let it go, this is hilariously non-recent.)
6. In her defense, she didn’t always know what she was doing. (Original opening line for reISH - JtHM, which might live by itself as something called Meanwhile.)
7. “Are you sure this is wise?  Going out like this with just one guard?” (A final part of Portraits - Babylon 5 which a random forum of people embarrassed and hurt me too much for me to put up!)
8. It could probably have gone better. (JtHM fic of the same name which is not SWAN-verse. Was written for an event that went awry and just kind of chills on my harddrive now.)
9. “Will you get out of my fucking house?!” (Chapter 3 of Blood and Cherry Syrup aka 'Vampire Edgar’ - JtHM which was never posted along with two or three more chapters worth for Various Reasons.)
10. “What are you doing here?!” (Unnamed scraps of ideas of Ai/Yusaku from YuGiOh VRAINS. This is the first line in the document that isn’t a scrawled note.)

This looks like something @tinsnip and @anthropwashere would enjoy doing! I have spent so much time looking all this up that everyone interested in such things should consider themselves among the remaining 8.

Hey, I put up more of Strange Shapes! More conversation, phone numbers, the oddest and yet only relatable person you know, and a brief motorcyle ride.

After the Pharaoh leaves for the next world, Malik Ishtar attempts to find his place in this one. His apology to - and then subsequent surprise bonding with - the very strange Ryou Bakura over a long weekend of conversation leads to Malik ensuring they can keep talking even with half the world between them. Discussions of pain, loneliness, destiny, identity, and trauma in between painting miniatures and the pressure of a world interested in your academic and entertainment value.

Set in manga canon.

The first piece of this is finally out in the wild. Making my obsession with Malik/Ryou that much more public. Please enjoy it!

Strange Shapes Snippets Volume 2

Here is more of my incredibly long Malik/Ryou problem!

Today’s Adventure: having long distance feelings with Monster World

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This bit from the Unfinished Slices of Deep Dish Nine is called “Valentine” and it’s one of my favorite pieces that’s been sitting in the file all these years.

A very small blip of Julian and Garak seeing a Trill movie they thought would be something else. Unfished tatters, like everything else, though this one perhaps the most so.

As continued offering of gratitude for you all enabling me to exist.

I’m putting my offerings to your benevolence in a chaptered collection of things on AO3, so we will all be able to find them later.

This one links right to the fourth Deep Dish Nine sacrifice, “Stars.” It’s the third ‘chapter’ in this collection of things, but obviously these aren’t a forming a chaptered narrative together.

Others will just be tacked on as chapters in an unfinished set as I release them into the wild.

Such lofty ideals for this one once upon a 2014!

(Other offering flavors coming soon, they are not as well organized!)

Third Sacrificial Offering of more Deep Dish Nine I held back from 2014. More before this one and more to come after.

I’m genuinely confused this one was not put up on AO3, but I guess it just didn’t get long enough. This is the whole document, as I found it.

Thanks for keeping me alive through January.

DD9 Offering #3: Library - Julian reads Cardassian manga.

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Continuing in my offerings of ~secret~ old fandom works as my dues for being helped by so many of you.

I hardly remember making this. The file tells me it was 2014-ish. I read it with nearly zero recognition. But I do know the scenario.

@tinsnip and I got so carried away with this, and I imagine she is the only one who has seen it. We envisioned a future of long distance engagement in which one of them returns home and the other completes some residential doctor business in a cold remote place.

It’s small, like little bits of stuff in someone’s pocket. But I think it’s ono of the most finished things I have up for tribute and I think you’ll like it if you were big invested in the Deep Dish Nine situation.

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