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Whumptobers will continue ~~until morale improves~~ probably a ways into November, since I'm still having a good time with it, and I have a few incomplete ones.

Alt Prompt: Organ Theft
Murderbot & Tarik, 800 wds (bookverse, post-System Collapse)
Also on AO3: Grand Theft Human

( 800 wds under the cut )

sholio

And fic #1000 turned out to be .... a follow-up to the time travel Biggles fic that I wrote for Out of Order Exchange. I had threatened to write what happened between Algy and Erich in 1918, and here it is.

Out of Time (2300 wds, Algy & Erich, gen)

The first one should probably be read first, if you haven't already.

And there it is, and here's to the next 1000!

sholio

Another of the alt prompts written earlier in October.

“I hear you’re alive, how disappointing.”
Biggles & EvS, 600 wds, enemies-era

( 600 wds under the cut )

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sholio

I have reached a never-again milestone on AO3; my number of works is currently sitting at 999!

It'll increment in a few days when some currently unrevealed things are revealed, but before it does that I want to try to write a lucky 1000th fic.

(Appropriately, I'm also hitting this weird little milestone on the 25th anniversary of my time writing fanfic, which started in 2000.)

Poll #33773

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What should I doooooo?

View Answers

Write something extra special or iddy
42 (84.0%)

Use this as motivation to finish a WIP
19 (38.0%)

Actually manage to write something for spook-me this year
6 (12.0%)

Write a fandom or pairing I've never written before
3 (6.0%)

Revisit a fandom or pairing I haven't written in ages
22 (44.0%)

Write something experimental or wildly off brand for me
7 (14.0%)

Write something I, the person taking this poll, would like to see and will tell you about in comments
5 (10.0%)

Write a giant mega crossover of every fandom I've ever been in
8 (16.0%)

How very DARE you limit me to 3 options on this poll! I will express my opinions in comments
3 (6.0%)

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sholio

No. 26: “Nothing like a relapse to rehash the kid who was scared.”
Relapse | Drawn Curtains | Power Cut

[TV-verse] Murderbot & Gurathin, 800 wds
Also posted on AO3 as Power Through.

( 800 wds under the cut )

sholio

This is another one that's been sitting around in my drafts for a while now, mostly because I was trying to work out Lyta's POV chapter, and whether I was happy with the ending, but I finally decided to tidy it up and post it basically as-is. (Spoilers for everything; mostly gen despite the pairing notes.)

Where You End (And I Begin) (Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, Lyta/G'Kar [sort of], 4900 wds)
Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, and lingering vestiges of Dust telepathy. Set about a year after "Objects at Rest."

sholio

While I slog my way back from a 9-hour time difference of jet lag, I decided to make characters suffer too.

Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)

This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.

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sholio

Asteroid City - I watched this because it looked visually interesting and I couldn't tell what it was about. I can now add that after seeing the whole movie, I still don't know what it was about.

( A little more about that )

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - I've been meaning to see this anyway, and Halloween season felt right for it.

( More on that )

(I also watched the first like ... ten minutes or so of Transformers One and realized I was very much not in the mood for that, although I enjoyed the more classic designs for the characters.)

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We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

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sholio

... as one does ...

( Spoilers for 5x12-5x16 )

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Always Alone by

badly_knitted (Jack | PG)

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More B5 fic! This is one that I wrote some time ago, but haven't posted mostly because I was completely stuck for a title, until the right one fell into my lap. (I'm honestly delighted with how the titles for this little series have been working out; they're coming out so nicely multi-layered.)

Dedicated (1600 wds, gen, mostly G'Kar)

This is a follow-up to Devotional, the one I wrote a while back in which Londo reads G'Kar's book, post-canon. When I wrote that, I liked the idea that G'kar at some point gets a chance to read Londo's annotations in his book ... so that's what this is.

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Yet another instance of the Whumptober prompts basically being used for creative inspiration, but not really whump as such.

I feel this works equally well for TV-verse (future) or bookverse (probably post-System Collapse, but it could be somewhere between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect).

No. 20: "That's New."
Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

( 450 wds under the cut )

sholio

I return to Whumptober! Obviously the days are completely off at this point, but I'm doing a bit of catch-up.

No. 13: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.”
Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement

Biggles & EvS, late in canon (600 wds)
Also posted on Tumblr.

( 600 wds under the cut )

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First Look by

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Ancient Citadel

Whumptober Alt: Organ Theft (Murderbot)

My 1000th fic on AO3!

Whumptober Alt: “I hear you’re alive, how disappointing.” [Biggles]

Thursday 30th October 2025

Gratuitous poll

Tuesday, 28th October 2025

Whumptober Day 26: Relapse | Drawn Curtains [Murderbot]

B5 fic: Where You End (And I Begin)

Inflicting my problems on fictional characters

Saturday 25 October 2025

More movies courtesy of 10 hours on a trans-Atlantic flight

Database maintenance

Still thinking about Babylon 5

Thursday 23rd October 2025

Babylon 5 fic: Dedicated

Tuesday, 21st October 2025

Whumptober Day 20: Fancy Event (Murderbot)

Whumptober Day 13: Forced Retirement (Biggles)

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Saturday 18 October 2025

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