Amatara

After much agonizing, my h/c fic and I have finally come to an agreement. *hoots and does victory dance*
There are terms to be adhered to, however:

(i) The Fic has decided it's ready, and Wants Out, meaning I'll not be getting a beta. Which is fine, as I need some practice anyway in posting stories without having them beta'd and not feeling guilty or self-conscious about it. (Inevitably, though, I shall feel self-conscious anyway.) Plus, this whole reasoning about h/c being an emotional kink and therefore not requiring justification is very, very appealing. :)

(ii) The Fic admits it's cliché, but refuses to be judged by that criterion, especially since the whole cliche_bingo thing this past summer has proven there is clichéfic that does not cause readers to spork their eyes out. Take this Star Trek: Reboot one, for instance.
Furthermore, The Fic prefers not to be accused of not having a plot, since it does have (sort of, a teensy-tiny) one, and said plot is not any less likely than the canon plot that got Londo and G'Kar stuck in a lift together, or in a cell on Centauri Prime - and a cell with only one cot, at that! It's obviously a law of physics that Londo and G'Kar are drawn to tiny spaces in which the universe then proceeds to try to get them killed.

(iii) The Fic hereby calls for snarkfic to be made into an official category, on the grounds that any h/c involving Londo and G'Kar will inevitably have snark as a major ingredient. Oddly, this fic (or at least part of it) is also the closest I've come to anything remotely resembling comedy, which makes it, um, atypical h/c in any case.

And now I'll stop babbling to myself and just post the darn thing! Hope you enjoy it: it's got Londo and G'Kar and snark and angst, so what else could one wish for? (Ah. I see. sorry - it is a gen fic, I'm afraid. *g*) Incidentally, now that I've found the courage to post this: if anyone does feel like polishing it up with a beta job, just wave and I'll let you have your way with it. :) And of course, you know you can critique right here, too.

On a not quite related note, two questions to y'all:

• What is the correct past tense of "to beta", really?
• Do any of you think angst qualifies as a cliché? And what is angst, anyway? vjs2259 brought it up, and now I can't keep wondering about it.
  

Title: One foot across
Rating: G
Summary: Written for maspalio, who requested Londo and G'Kar h/c, set during that first visit to Centauri Prime in season 5.
The exact request was: what if that nasty business with minister Vole (Remember? The grey-haired fellow who tried to pierce Londo with a dagger and ended up, through some spoilery interference, getting pierced himself?) was not the last attempt on Londo's life?
Disclaimer: Owned by JMS and Babylonian Productions

Ahh... I made it! Took me half a century to get this right, and it wasn't even the '/' (my first! though nothing explicit, so alas, no tentacle pr0n) in 'Londo/G'Kar' that necked me. For a man who talks so much, Londo sure took his sweet ol' time to start talking to me! But at last, I can present to you:

Title: Small mercies
Summary: Sometimes, a brief respite from solitude is all that one can hope for. For Londo, it might even be enough.
Timeline: Set post-s5, some years after the events of "Fall of Centauri Prime".
Characters: Londo/G'Kar
Rating: Uh... PG-13? It all stays within the realm of the suggestive.
Disclaimer: Owned by JMS and Babylonian Productions.
Thanks to: My wonderful betas, selenakand kangeiko. (k, here's your birthday present - officially now. Without those tons of edits of yours, I would never have worked as hard on this, so you've earned it!)


( Small mercies )

And here's a picspam to go with the fic (Changes of heart) I just posted.

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