Day 3 (Team July)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the post to update with any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have for today.

Keep the fires burning!

(Considering the temperatures we're currently having over here, I expect spontaneous self-combusting on my part. *sighs*)

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I couldn't face any of the stories I'm supposed to be working on today, so I tidied up and posted a Babylon 5 ficlet I wrote earlier this year (and posted to my journal then).
(link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/450473 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/450473))
But as it is very short, I though I'd post it here as my snippet as well.

Talia's arrival to Psi Corps from the pov of her mentor (Abby)
Abby glanced at herself in the mirror, adjusting her Psi Corp badge. She carefully brushed her hair, resisting the urge to run straight to the child she could hear crying in her mind. Wait at least fifteen minutes, they said, that allows the newcomer to feel that they need the comfort you offer and accept it, and thus they will be open to your mind. She shivered at that - was everything here so manipulative? But her mentor had been wonderful, would she really have wanted things any different? Wasn't all education manipulative on some level?

She looked across at the clock - time.

She turned and opened the door, five steps along the corridor, opened the next door. She sat down and took the crying girl into her arms, letting down her shields to feel her pain and sooth it away. She slowly reached out, the girl's mind was so open that even bit of comfort allowed Abby deeper, until it seemed that she could see every detail of Talia's life. Abby forced her doubts away and slowly pulled the girl closer, dampening the memories of her family to allow her to settle well into Psi Corps.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I love your B5 stuff!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[saki101.livejournal.com]

This is fascinating!

Wasn't all education manipulative on some level?

And that is an important matter to ponder.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The whole way that Psi Corps controls and shapes its members is really interesting and scary

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I guess there's a reason it's Psi Corps. A very effective introduction to this relationship!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. Thank you!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I don't know B5 but this reminds me of Counselor Troi and the manipulative nature of her power. Interesting to see Abby's ambivalence about it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *nods* Given that Talia is around 5 (irrc) at this point it is *very* manipulative...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Excellent snippet there.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[muninnhuginn]

Ooh, lovely. (I always enjoyed B5 more when the Psi Corp were around.)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you (it is a great show - and Psi Corps are really interesting)

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's very good. And I like your strategy of working on something else when you can't face the current project.
I tend to say screw it, I'll skip writing, but there's always something else to write, of course there is.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

I often get stuck and if I don't work on something else I often get so stuck that I don't write anything for ages... but here I have motivation to work on things :D