I have no explanation for this. There is no one I can blame it on. My brain simply decided G'Kar + babysitting = awesome, and I had to write it or go crazy. And then, obviously, inflict it on you all.

I think I'll ascribe it to my thesis making me crazy.

I promise, one day I will write the slew of fics that bridge the end of "Little Dreams" with these vignettes I keep getting hit with. It will probably be after graduation.

Title: Biological Inefficiencies
Author: icepixie
Series: Closet Idealism 'verse. Since I am apparently incapable of writing anything else non-academic right now.
Timeline: Roughly a year and a half before "Language Lessons." Actually, you know, I might as well start putting dates on these things, since I made a timeline for this AU and currently have no fewer than eight unfinished fics set at various points along said timeline littering my hard drive; God knows what order they'll all be written in. Let's say near the end of 2265.
Summary: "All of your biological inefficiencies are made up for by the fact that your friends can babysit this early in the child's life." Ivanova/Garibaldi, G'Kar.
Wordcount: 672

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Title: Language Lessons
Summary: Susan and Michael discover what their friends have been teaching their daughter. Mentally, I'm setting it a few years on in the Closet Idealism 'verse, but it stands alone. No spoilers for the show.
Notes: bessemerprocess is entirely to blame for this. I accept no responsibility.

( I have committed kidfic. I am so ashamed. )

I somehow have started imagining a whole alternative timeline set in the universe from Closet Idealism/The Little Dreams We Dream. First, people *glances at bessemerprocess* were suggesting a sequel in which Ivanova and Garibaldi send Bester to a very bad end, which is certainly fun to contemplate. Okay, I can deal with that; it could basically continue on from the last fic, and I can cope with linearity.

Then suddenly this plotty thing that involves political intrigue and a visit to Russia showed up in my head and refused to vacate. (I have a really cute scene involving Susan being all, "Snow! I missed snow so much in space!" and running around catching snowflakes on her tongue in my head. It's so cute it might give me diabetes. Although, dude, PLOT? WTH is happening to me?) And there's a comedy ficlet involving G'Kar and a baby. (A baby! I hate kids! I don't even like kidfic very much! Argh!) And then an AU version of the finale, of course, because this timeline just goes on forever. Thankfully, I have not managed to drag it out to the material covered in "Deconstruction of Falling Stars," because that would break my brain. Although now I have the line, "And Ivanova the Strong and Garibaldi the Cunning, who destroyed the diabolical Bester with holy explosives" running through my head, and dammit, I did just extend it into DoFS. The kid is definitely still there in AU!SiL, BTW, so I guess she's a permanent feature of this universe I'm building in my head.

So, yeah. That's been my night, in between reading The Mill on the Floss.* How have you all been?


* Maggie found religion and decided to become an ascetic. Oy. But there are hints that she's not fully committed to denying herself everything she possibly can, so maybe she'll come back from the brink! Although she's also apparently heading for a Romeo and Juliet-style relationship with a young man from another family, so this could be bad. But only if she figures out he's totally in love with her, which she might not! George Eliot is tricksy like that. I think that's why I like her.

So, uh, I was not planning on a sequel to "Closet Idealism," and then one day a couple of scenes appeared in my head, and the people in them told me in no uncertain terms that actually, I was going to be writing a sequel, thank you very much. Susan is kind of scary when she doesn't get her way, you know?

Title: The Little Dreams We Dream (Are All We Can Really Do)
Author: icepixie
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 9,089
Summary: Susan hasn't been as careful with her heart as she should've been. AU. Ivanova/Garibaldi. Angsty, but I do promise that the epigraph is pertinent. Sequel to "Closet Idealism."
Timeline/Spoilers: This is significantly less canon-adherent than its predecessor--I compressed and reordered a few events to suit my needs, and completely changed others--but still spoils all of season four and one or two things about the first few episodes of season five.
Note: One scene in particular, as well as a few scattered lines of narration, owes a debt of gratitude to mylittleredgirl's "Dead Souls," which you should totally go read, because it's amazing.

( It has been seventeen days since her life took the express transport to hell. )

Title: Five Things That Never Happened to Susan Ivanova
Author: icepixie
Rating: PG
Timeline/Spoilers: These take place over the same five years as the series, with (very) roughly one for each season. Spoilers through season four in numbers three and four; number five is meant to be read with the events of S4 in mind, even if they aren't directly referenced.
Wordcount: 1243
Summary: Scenes from five lives Susan Ivanova never lived. Contains angst, romance, action, UST, gen, Ivanova/Marcus, Ivanova/Garibaldi, and Ivanova/Talia in various combinations.

( Five Things )

YOU GUYS. mylittleredgirl wrote me twisted AU S5 Ivanova/Garibaldi fic, and it is incredible.

READ, I COMMAND THEE.

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS! I was poking around in old B5 communities, and found that SOMEONE WROTE REALLY GOOD IVANOVA/GARIBALDI FIC!

LOOK!

AHHHHH!!!

In fact, that whole comm has all kinds of season one fanficcy goodness! WOOOOO!

It occurs to me that this might be the dark twin of my last fic for this show. Hmm. I promise I am working on different things.

Title: Closet Idealism
Author: icepixie
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1172
Summary: Susan is not as much of a realist as she thought she was. Ivanova/Garibaldi. Angsty. Spoilers through "Z'ha'dum."
Timeline note: The first section takes place near the beginning of season three. The penultimate section occurs about midway through "And the Rock Cried Out..."

( Scratch a pessimist, find a closet idealist )

This...was not the B5 fic I thought I would write, or at least finish before some of the others on my hard drive. I'm not completely satisfied with it, but I've also been staring at it for three days and I'm tired of looking at it, so...here.

Title: Morning in Three Movements
Author: icepixie
Rating: There's nothing you wouldn't see on TV.
Summary: "When he wakes up next to Susan Ivanova for the third morning in a row, Michael Garibaldi realizes that they have a thing." This is fluffy like a marshmallow. I basically wrote it in order to give my poor Susan some happiness, and because there is so little fic out there for this pairing. It departs from canon somewhere in season two.
Note: The dates at the top of each section aren't meant to refer to particular events in canon; they merely indicate the passage of time.

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