As John Adams sang in "1176": For I have crossed the Rubicon, Let the bridge be burned behind me, Come what may, come what may Commitment! So here I go.

Title: In the Light of Two Moons
Author: Shakatany
Series: Babylon 5
Pairing: Neroon/?
Rating: FRT
Disclaimer: These stories are not meant to infringe upon the copyrights held by J. Michael Straczynski, Kathryn M. Drennan, Babylonian Inc. or Time Warner Productions. I'm merely playing with what they've apparently abandoned, adding my own take on that universe. It's not my fault...my muse is forcing me to do it.
Summary: After "Objects at Rest" John and Delenn find that once again the dead do not stay dead.
Note: This fic is dedicated to John Vickery who has been described as having a voice that could melt the underwear off a cloistered nun at 50 paces. So very true.

Knowing how much of a perfectionist I am some chapters may be revised as the series progresses *sigh*

I was passing a Starbucks this morning and they were giving out free samples. I don't drink coffee but it had a lot of whipped cream on top so I decided to give it a try. It was like drinking warm coffee ice cream which I love. That plus my morning mug of tea has really got me going. Now that I'm in a writery-mode (my prologue will go up in my next post) I'm fascinated by how other writers write and found a compilation on how some writers work.. Margaret Atwood joked: Put your left hand on the table. Put your right hand in the air. If you stay that way long enough, you'll get a plot," Margaret Atwood says when asked where her ideas come from. When questioned about whether she's ever used that approach, she adds, "No, I don't have to. LOL. I'd really like to try out Richard Powers' method if I can get my friend's computer to do voice recognition.

In the back of my brain there was a large unruly Babylon 5 bush that had been growing wild for over a decade but now a B5 muse has landed on me with a vengeance and I've begun paying attention to that bush and pruning it. The muse is "screaming" in my ear. I'm once again living, breathing, dreaming B5. I'm channeling lines of dialog while I'm walking down the street hoping to recall it long enough to write it down. I've been organizing my story by sorting through dozens and dozens of scraps of paper with bits of dialogue and miscellanea that I've accumulated over the years. And boy does it feel good to throw away those scraps of paper once I'm through adding what's written on them to my online notes and story outline. I have begun to see the basic structure of the fic though I've known where it begins and ends for years. Despite a tremendous amount of trimming, eliminating scenes, characters and plotlines, making it half the size of what it was, it will still be a long fic, consisting of dozens of chapters and vignettes as the story spans over 50 years but I now know the basic scenes that I need and I can rearrange dialogue and various plot points with far more ease on the computer than on paper. Now, of course, comes the hard part...actually writing the story. Wish me luck.

A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car’s dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban was seen being patient with the cat, whose image was captured during a recent traffic stop, then finally gently booting the kitty away. Aww I hope the kitty has a home and people who love it.



ETA: Here is another vid with more info. I'm getting an impression that the kitty may have belonged to someone on one of those abandoned farms and is looking for someone to give it a real home and love.

I just read in the NY Times that Edward Woodward who starred in "The Equalizer" from 1985-1989 has just passed on. I had such a crush on him and the late Robert Lansing way back when. I was thinking about him the other day in a sort of whatever-happened-to way as I am immersing myself in the "Babylon 5" universe where he once guest-starred on "Crusade" with his son Peter who played Galen. My condolences to his family.

ETA: Here are two wonderful remembrances of him by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright

Went with friends to Serafina where I had the I TAGLIOLINI “DI CORTINA” (homemade noodles w/mushrooms, peas, prosciutto with a touch of cream & white wine plus freshly grated parmesan). It was divine and probably very fattening but I was careful how much I ate earlier and went for it with gusto without feeling guilty.

I have made a momentous decision. I am going to write a fanfic that I have been playing with since 1996. It will consist of 5 sections plus a prologue and epilogue with who knows how many chapters. It's basically plotted out but I have to get the zillions of little notes I've collected on the subject in some kind of order. As you may have guessed form the date it's not set in the Buffy'verse but in the universe of "Babylon 5". I have made a vow that if I actually post the first chapter I will continue to the bitter end - no permanent WIP for me. Anyone out there familiar with the B5'verse?

The weather has turned mild for a few days which I am enjoying tremendously especially as I know it will soon grow cold. Yesterday I went to what was the last major street fair of the year.  It stretched from 42nd to 57th Street on Madison Ave. I traveled along it, buying a few prezzies to tuck away, in a downtown direction, ending up on 42nd St. and headed for Grand Central where I quickly caught the uptown express subway which went to 86th St.(with a stop at 59th St.) in 4 minutes!! That's about two minutes per mile! When our subways work they really work *g* 

I came across this vid dealing with the friendship between a hound dog and an orangutan. What was really interesting to learn is that orangutans are generous and will break up candy in order to share which is more than some people ever do. They really live up to their name as "people of the forest".

Today I went down to Fulton Street to go to Century 21 for some early Xmas presents (and one wedding present) - I prefer to get my shopping over with so I can avoid the stores in December. The subway station was heavily littered and I wondered about that until I realized it was leftover from yesterday's ticker-tape parade for the Yankees. I am so not a sports fan that all the hoopla made little impression on me :(

Later I read the New York Times Book Review section. There was a review of "The Queen Mother" which revealed that inside "the family, the queen mother was known as Buffy". Reading that my mind immediately thought what if in her youth the Queen Mum had been a Slayer? Yes I still have BtVS on the brain *g*

The other day I posted a vid of some disgruntled cats who were being herded together for a holiday pic. Cats are certainly not dogs as they would never do anything remotely resembling this:


However they can amuse us just by being cats as when this kitten tries to play with the ones onscreen:

I was trawling cyberspace and found this story of Sammy, the Painting Dog. His "interview" with Al Roker turns hilarious as the dog wants to paint Al! Argh I can't get it to embed as I wanted to but you can see the vid on that page.

Came across a dozen spoilers for "True Blood" S3. Looks like Sam's backstory is really going AU from the books.

The "Star Trek" reboot is coming out on DVD on the 17th and here is the list of some of the extras. I wonder how Spock's birth scene will differ from the one in "The Final Frontier". Could this possibly be Victor Garber?

The Montclair Animal Shelter made a set of really neat rooms for their animals - I wonder if they could do a few bits of them at PAAWS.

I found Isaac Asimov's The Last Question online - it's one of my favorite sf short stories and when I have the time (and energy) I may track down other faves.

I think I'm getting my annual fall cold. So far it's simply a stuffy nose and I'm hoping it doesn't get much worse than that :(