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behind-the-gloves · 7 months
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Research help?
Is there anyone out there with access to the Babylon 5 scriptbook from 2005 who would be willing to help me with some research? Apparently there are notes included with the scripts about unfilmed material, and I'd like to see those notes to better improve my own project (on AO3). Anyone who has read my project knows I'm obsessive about canon citations. But the "scriptbook" is fifteen volumes and hard to find! I don't need all of it, just notes for specific episodes.
Thank you in advance!
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behind-the-gloves · 8 months
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Fate of Lennier?
Hi everyone,
I heard somewhere that the canon story was supposed to be that Lennier died in the Telepath War. Does anyone know the source for this, or what may have happened? I don't understand how he could have gotten mixed up in a war that had absolutely nothing to do with him or his people, let alone gotten killed in that conflict. Did he get involved because he became an Anla'Shok? Because if so, how were THEY involved in the war? This wasn't their war either!
Is this story correct? Does anyone know what JMS was planning here? Thanks!
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behind-the-gloves · 8 months
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Hi! I've been following your stuff on A03 as well as watching B5 for the first time. All of this sprawling storyline is tremendously confusing and I'm wondering how you know so much extra stuff about it. I hope you don't mind my asking... .were you part of the production or script writing team, or do you know JMS in real life?
Hi! No, I was not part of the production of the show. I was in middle school and high school when it aired. I also have not ever met JMS in real life, or ever interacted him with in any way. I've done a lot of research, however, and a lot of people in fandom who I've interacted with over the years have also done research or are old enough to remember the Usenet/fanzine days and know where to find interviews, posts and other material, and/or taught me about the "behind the scenes" casting issues (and drama). Stuff has come out when actors go to cons or give interviews and tell their tales.
"and I'm wondering how you know so much extra stuff about it"
/wink/
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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The Shadows Awaken
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38432971/chapters/96049897
The second half of Deadly Relations told you part of the story. The Shadow Within told you part of the story. The Passing of the Technomages told you part of the story. Phoenix Rising told you part of the story. And part of the story was missing entirely.
Here  is the ENTIRE story about what Bester, Byron, Donne and even Morden  were doing in 2256, about a year before the show began - everything in  one place and explained, with nothing omitted.
* What Bester did in the Earth-Minbari War * Donne's backstory * What Morden was up to before the Shadows got him * Captain Hidalgo's backstory * What really happened  between Bester and Byron
JMS definitely does not want you to read this book.
This  work is rated M for mature/dark themes, grittiness, language, and  because lots of characters die (but given the subject matter you  probably knew that). No canon characters die in this work unless they also die here in canon (e.g. on the Icarus).
This  work contains no smut or sexual interactions between characters, and  the depictions of violence are no more graphic than in canon. There is  mild nudity.
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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The Trap is Set
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39285978/chapters/98308062
In Deadly Relations (the canon book), adolescent Bester runs away from school (on a whim) and almost winds up dead - twice. This is the story of how Bey rescues him, except I'm telling it from Bey's point of view. Unlike (clueless) adolescent Bester in the book, Bey actually knows what is going on and why.
This is the missing story and context.
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Courage Under Fire
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40626372/chapters/101788431
Canon says, of Bester's Psi Cop internship (the year after he graduated from the Academy/high school):
"Interned with Olivia Vong, where you showed outstanding courage under fire."
But then we don't see anything else about that year, because canon jumps from the Liz story to the Stephen Walters|Black Fox story, fourteen years later.
This is the missing story of that year.
Rated M for violence, language and trauma.
Updated almost every day.
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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New work (AO3): The Shadows Awaken
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38432971/chapters/96049897
The second half of Deadly Relations told you part of the story. The Shadow Within told you part of the story. The Passing of the Technomages told you part of the story. Phoenix Rising told you part of the story. And part of the story was missing entirely.
Here is the ENTIRE story about what Bester, Byron, Donne and even Morden were doing in 2256, about a year before the show began - everything in one place and explained, with nothing omitted.
* What Bester did in the Earth-Minbari War * Donne's backstory * What Morden was up to before the Shadows got him * Captain Hidalgo's backstory * What really happened  between Bester and Byron
JMS definitely does not want you to read this book.
This work is rated M for mature/dark themes, grittiness, language, and because lots of characters die (but given the subject matter you probably knew that). No canon characters die in this work unless they also die here in canon (e.g. on the Icarus).
This work contains no smut or sexual interactions between characters, and the depictions of violence are no more graphic than in canon. There is mild nudity.
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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New work (AO3): The Shadows Awaken
The second half of Deadly Relations told you part of the story. The Shadow Within told you part of the story. The Passing of the Technomages told you part of the story. Phoenix Rising told you part of the story. And part of the story was missing entirely.
Here is the ENTIRE story about what Bester, Byron, Donne and even Morden were doing in 2256, about a year before the show began - everything in one place and explained, with nothing omitted.
This work is rated M for mature/dark themes, grittiness, language, and because lots of characters die (but given the subject matter you probably knew that).
This work contains no smut or sexual interactions between characters, and the depictions of violence are no more graphic than in canon. There is mild nudity.
This work will update three times a week (Saturday/Tuesday/Thursday).
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38432971/chapters/96049897
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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On the Drakh.
Are the Drakh “telepathic”?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36787219
Musings on the nature and origin of the Drakh (agents of the Shadows).
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Novella completed!
The Orphans (28.8k words)
How did the Corps become "Mother and Father"?
The year is 2156. Violence against telepaths surges across Earth. Kevin Vacit, now director of Psi Corps - and himself an orphan - pulls telepath orphans together from around the world and brings them to "Teeptown" in Geneva, forming the first "cadres" of telepath children.
But first, he must first face down the man who kidnapped him as a child... and pay a terrible price.
(Dark Genesis covers the first half of 2156 in pages 115-123: in a single chapter! (Part 2, chapter 6) It's also one of the most action-packed and eventful periods in canon, so you deserve the full version. Here's what the book didn't show.)
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Novella updated!
I’ve updated my canon backstory novella, The Orphans, at AO3.
How did the Corps become "Mother and Father"?
The year is 2156. Violence against telepaths surges across Earth. Kevin Vacit, now director of Psi Corps - and himself an orphan - pulls telepath orphans together from around the world and brings them to "Teeptown" in Geneva, forming the first "cadres" of telepath children.
But first, he must first face down the man who kidnapped him as a child... and pay a terrible price.
This novella covers (among other things):
* The "missing story" of the relationship between Kevin Vacit and Monkey * The "missing story" of the Centauri first contact (drunk Centauri!)
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Who in the world nuked San Diego? (Fanfic)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36376165
In Babylon 5 canon, someone destroyed San Diego with a nuclear weapon, some time after 2148, but long before the show.
Who did it? They don't say. When? They don't say. Why? They don't say, other than it was a "sneak attack" to kill lots of people. The city is ruins generations later.
However, it appears this Major Catastrophe! only exists in the backstory of canon as a narrative pretext for the show's "good guys" to help kill lots of telepaths in the upcoming Telepath War - and telepaths were never even accused of the original attack!
(Babylon 5 plays fast and loose with history - both its own history, and this-world history such as World War II. They really like to make stuff up about WWII!)
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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The Raskov Story - The Fix-It!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36334129/chapters/90582148
“My name is Ivan Serge’evich Raskov, and I work for Interplanetary Expeditions at the headquarters in San Diego. They are trying to hire me to cover up an enormous crime and I am in terrible danger. It began a few months ago when they dug something up on Mars. Alien artifacts. I have not slept since I scanned the objects. My mind is filled with insects – I see them every time I close my eyes. I am haunted! These alien objects are very, very dangerous. But it is worse! They brought me back again the next day to monitor a transaction. The whole meeting was a lie! IPX has dangerous alien technology and they are selling it secretly to the Russians! I told them they were violating my contract with the Metasensory Regulatory Authority – that the transaction was illegal and I would not do it. They were outraged, but I left. And now I am in terrible danger.
"Please, whoever gets this message, do something quickly – they want to kill me. I cannot leave my apartment or they will kill me for sure. You must help me!”
The video went black. Kevin looked to Brenna. “Well? Did we contact Mr. Raskov?”
“We tried to… but he’s dead."
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Do people read this blog?
I’m genuinely curious because when I posted the novella, and signal boosted it here, I got far fewer hits than I usually get on my works, and I don’t know if this is because I posted it over winter break and people are away (and so they haven’t seen it yet), or if people don’t read this blog so no one even saw the signal boost here.
Again, the work is here. Thanks!
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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It’s time to repost the medal!
This is what my friend made me for my valiant, tireless efforts to fix Dark Genesis (and actually, the whole Psi Corps Trilogy, though Dark Genesis is the worst).
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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The first missing novella of Dark Genesis (Psi Corps backstory).
And here it is, everyone!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36066163/chapters/89909407
After many years of hard work, I finally present to fandom the first part of “what you should have read (but didn’t) when you picked up Dark Genesis twenty years ago.”
I've taken all the disjointed fragments of the canon story and reassembled them, adding new material to connect the pieces into a coherent story, with consistent characters and plot. I did have to make a few guesses as to details along the way, because there is so much missing in the canon book (such as the entire story between Kevin Vacit and Monkey), but I am very confident of the "big picture" of this story narratively - how the arcs of these characters' lives intersect, what motivates them, and how the events and themes in this time period set up for later canon events.
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behind-the-gloves · 2 years
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Finally solved.
After many years, I have finally solved the PUZZLE of how to reconstruct the first part of Dark Genesis (from Blood joining the MRA till her death fifteen years later), and make this into a coherent story. The narrative arcs work, the character development works, I’ve accounted for the interactions between all the characters, the suspense is in the right place, and it lands narratively in the correct place to set up for future events, both near and far.
I can’t promise this will be Amazing Prose, but it will hold together as a story, and hit all the right notes for the characters and the plot. I can tell you What Happened and Why.
This also sets up for the rest of my Dark Genesis fix-it. The next sections will be easier to fix now that this part is done. And I’ve already done a huge amount of fixing for the later parts of the book, so now I can just connect this to that and say “look folks, a story!“
I can’t tell you what a relief it is to be done with this. I can finally get on with the rest of the project!
You should have this soon. I’m just typing it up and editing it. The hard part is completed. (You know how it goes, six years to figure out what to write, six days to write it.)
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