#incorrect babylon 5 quote

[therighthandofvengeance]

[sheridansunrise]

[nimthirielrinon]

incorrect B5 quote

G’Kar: I have this headache that just keeps coming and going…

Mollari: Ah! Ambassador G’Kar!

G’Kar: There it is again…

[woodsfae]

Garibaldi: I think you should do less legal speed and sleep more. Dr Franklin: I'm going to do more legal speed and sleep less.

[firestorm-fox]

Eclipse: Do you ever think about how your skeleton is wet? Rouge: I never have, but thanks for ruining my life. Eclipse: Don't worry, there will come a time where it won't be. Rouge: Thanks! Even worse!

[the-gateway-to-madness]

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

-Douxie, probably

[whatmathgodwrought]

Londo: My sequined disco shirt is too tight. But it does not matter, for I have forgotten how to PARTY!

Vir: Ah, then shall I cancel the gala which doubles as a covert assassination attempt on Ambassador G'Kar?

Londo: No! The event is still on. Call my tailor. Do I have to spell it out for you?

[flilisskywalker]

Avengers 5 - The Last Hope

Russo Brothers: Will we be bailing you out?

Feige: No, it's not like...

Russo Brothers: Let's call it for what it is. It's a piece of shit, isn't?

Feige: Yeah.

Russo Brothers: And we'd be bailing you out, wouldn't we?

Feige: Yeah.

Russo Brothers: We'll do it.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, March 2nd - Monday, March 3rd

DAWN: Hey, I've been reading this old Turkish spell book. There's an old conjuration that the ancient Turks used to communicate with the dying. WILLOW: Oh, yeah. I think I've read a translation of that. DAWN: (exasperated) There's a translation of it? (deep breath) I'm over it.

~~Touched~~

The Sunnydale Herald is looking for a new editor. Contributing to the Herald is a great way to get your Buffy on! Find out more.

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Three currently anonymous BtVS works posted in the High Adrenaline Exchange 2025 (Buffy/Spike & Dawn, Buffy/Faith, rated T and E)

Incorrect quotes: Buffy gave me a “get better soon” card by desicat-writer (Buffy, Spike, Tara, worksafe)

I was lost 'til I heard the sound of your coffee machine by simmony (Buffy/Spike, collection rated R)

Without me there to hold you back by simmony (Buffy/Spike, collection rated R)

Hammocks and Pirates by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Each Night I Dream of Home - Chapter 9 (COMPLETE!) by storiwr (Buffy/Faith, Willow/Tara, Spike, Giles, M)

Persephone the Wanderer - Chapter 12 (COMPLETE!) by Kirinin (Buffy/Spike, Willow/Tara, Xander/Anya, Dawn, Giles, T )

The Scholar, the Spirit, and the Witchqueen: Chapter 2 by perfectlyGoodInk (Willow/OC, T)

This Is How We Say Goodbye (It's How We Say Goodnight) Ch. 8 by bunniesarebad (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Soft Whispers, Ch. 10 by Baseketcase (Buffy/Spike, R)

Sending My Love from The Other Side of the Apocalypse, Ch. 10 by cawthraven (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Rude Awakenings, Ch. 12 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Restructuring Reality [Series Part 3] Ch. 8 by Ragini (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Just a Taste, Ch. 2 by The Danish Bird (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Her Happy Day, Ch. 6 by Kanita (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Guitar Villain, Ch. 11 by RavenLove12 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Choice To Stay, Ch. 11 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Through The Keyhole, Ch. 12 by Geliot99, cd85 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Ties to the World, Ch. 40 by The Danish Bird (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Try Not to Think About What Might Have Been, Ch. 4 by Willow25 (Buffy/Spike, R)

Two's Company, Ch. 5 by Serenitey (Buffy/Spike, R)

Where We Went From There, Ch. 3 by Pyewacket (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Animal I Have Become, Ch. 16 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Fanged Up, Ch. 1-2 by thehuntress (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Glimpses of the Key's Guardians, Ch. 1-2 by Maldorana (Buffy/Spike, G)

Picture You, Ch. 2-3 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Neverending Story, Ch. 2-3 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Why Me? Ch. 19 by JoeB (Lilo and Stitch crossover, FR7)

Ship of The Line: Between the Steel and the Stars, Ch. 9 by KnifeHand (Crossover with Starship Troopers, SAAB and Babylon 5, FR18)

The color of Love, Ch. 2-3 by Lilacsandorangeblossoms (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Forgotten but Not Gone, Ch. 1-2 by Rea (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Gone With the Wheel, Ch. 2-3 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Key Point of View, Ch. 1 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Les petits-amis de ma sur, Ch. 1 by Miss Kitty (Buffy/Spike & Dawn, in French, PG)

A Match Made by Science, Ch. 1 by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike/Angel, Maggie Walsh, R)

Ocean Eyes, Ch. 2-3 by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Rebooted, Ch. 2-3 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Reply Hazy, Try Again, Ch. 1-2 by Alyot (Buffy/Spike, R)

Short n' Spuffy: A Look into Liv's Playlist, Ch. 2-3 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Spike's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month, Ch. 2-3 by Harlow Turner (Buffy/Spike, R)

Strong Anthropic Principles, Ch. 1-3 by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, R)

Unauthorized, Ch. 1-2 by Girlytek (Buffy/Spike, R)

Redefine the Words, Ch. 9 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, R)

Picture You, Ch. 3 by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The battle of the rhymes, Ch. 2 by JSBirsa (Buffy/Spike, R)

[Images, Audio & Video]

🎨 Banner Art #24 by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Multifandom: Icons made for challenges by pinkstars (includes Buffy and Willow, worksafe)

Color sketches: butch trans lesbian spike by uss-genderprise (worksafe)

Buffy Summers • Lineart [ WIP ] by bertolts (worksafe)

Drawing: Dawnie 🗝️💚 by maloops (Dawn, canon-typical Buffy/Riley-bashing by Dawn)

Meme: When the btvs discussion turns to the topic of shadow selves by hersterical (Dawn, worksafe)

Captioned screenshots: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as tumblr text posts 29/? by layer-of-slayers (some NSFW text)

Captioned screenshots: SPIKE: being the most emotionally unstable guy in the room is a tough job but somebody has got to do it by tenderjock (worksafe)

Gifset: ✦ Favorite Outfits Meme ✦ Buffy Summers by lovebvffys (worksafe)

A tribute to Michelle Trachtenberg by mydailyvintagephotos (worksafe)

Michelle Trachtenberg vidlet by oberynnn (flashing lights)

Drawing: a portrait of Michelle Trachtenberg by kuleachi (worksafe)

Buffy s3 pt.1 icons by comeontaylorspeaknow (Buffy, worksafe)

Drawing: 🌑 Dark Willow 🌑 by skirm-the-terrible (worksafe)

Meme: Just walk out (real winners quit) by snake-eggs (Faith, worksafe)

Digital drawing: Silence of the Lambs by x66r9u (Drusilla, worksafe)

Beaded bracelet: I may be dirt... by thebeadedcrow (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Video (featuring action figures): It Takes Four to Stalker's Tango by Hope You Enjoyed (Buffy, Spike, Angel, Faith, worksafe )

Photos: Buffy series finale candle invite via trb0grl (worksafe)

Buffy/Faith vidlet by thczmins (flashing lights)

[Reviews & Recaps]

the show is really racist by kpchrs

Ranking Buffy Summers finale outfits by primal_slayer and others

Anyone else like the original 1992 film? by Emotional-Chipmunk12

I'm watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time. Here are my thoughts on Season 1 Episode 1 by genZcommentary

Holy s**t can this man act 😳 (I meant David Boreanaz) [AtS scene with Wesley in the hospital] by Passion211089

Seven 'Buffy' Episodes That Showcase Michelle Trachtenberg's Best Performances by Nat Brehmer, Bloody Disgusting

Orpheus Angel Crossover (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) - Lisa Lilly

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Wildest Swing Would've Failed Without Michelle Trachtenberg's Incredible Range by Miranda Adama, collider.com

Comfort Episodes: Something Blue by veronyxk84

[Recs & In Search Of]

haceleyes seeks a partner for 18+ Buffy/Spike roleplay

klarkkomskaikru seeks a BtVS roleplay partner

[Fandom Discussions]

i think if harmony kendall got a soul... by xaeyrnofnbe

Spike is my baby girl, he's my butch lesbian... by spellcasting-jester

thinking about buffy choosing to forgive faith at almost every turn by btvs3x21

post unionization slayers workplace mockumentary sitcom... by btvs3x21

Fred and Spike (cont'd) by hoponlilmama and others

Favorite love scenes by FallenAngel00, war and peaches, Priceless

The Beast would've made a great Buffy villain for S7 by primal_slayer

An updated Xander card (Magic: the Gathering) by Senior-Leave779

[What colors do you think Buffy, Faith, and Kendra would be in Magic: the Gathering?] by Senior-Leave779

I have asked about favorite outfits on the characters, but are there any you didn't like so much? by Big-Restaurant-2766

Anything big you missed on your first watch? by Sunnydale-Go

Images and discussion: Buffy characters as animals by superiot

Question about Wesley learning to fight in mid-season 2 by GRS_89

Did Season 2 have to end like it did? by Creative-Bobcat-7159

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Instagram post dedicated to Michelle Trachtenberg by Sarah Michelle Gellar

Instagram post dedicated to Michelle Trachtenberg by Amber Benson

Ken Lerner (Principal Flutie) & Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder) will be at HellmouthCon, Torrance High on June 14th-15th, 2025

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[sheridansunrise]

[wmb-salticidae]

Let's Read "Teachings of the Book of Mormon" by Hugh Nibley (and consider Mormon Xianxia) #5

Introduction + Master Post <== Last Post: 1:4 Setting the Stage, 600 B.C. || Introduction

1:5 Insights from Lehi's Contemporaries || Jeremiah

Nibley brings up Thales, Solon, etc. because we are still living in the house that the Axial Age philosophers built. He praises the students of Thales as "the first physicists," for saying that "you don't need God for your calculations." There is a materialist bent in Mormonism — spirits are composed of matter, God is unable to create anything ex nihilo — that was mostly abandoned in the 20th century.

You can go too far in your materialism, though, according to Nibley, and not just leave God out of the calculations but "resent" and "preach actively against" God. This is a problem largely because blah blah, how do you explain the beginning of the universe without God, blah blah.

Like a good Mormon in the tradition of the early church, Nibley considers the underlying vice of society to be the unfettered pursuit of wealth. Cain murdered his brother in order to obtain his brother's flocks. That is the original sin, if anything is (Mormons refer to the whole apple-eating business in Eden as simply a "transgression," a thing that was "disobedient" without being sinful, and they think it was actually a net positive event, and that Adam and Eve were excellent people).

He talks about this at length, but he's mainly quoting Greek historians, the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, etc., not any specifically Mormon scriptures, so I'm going to skip over most of this.

The four things that everyone wants: wealth, power, popularity, and the lusts of the flesh (which Nibley clarifies is not just sex). All of this stuff is good in moderation, but civilizations always fall when people are willing to kill other people to get more of it than they need (and taking food from the mouth of the beggar, or contributing to the beggar's poverty, is killing them by inches).

He is very careful to say that prosperity itself is not bad. The problem is not having a full belly of good food, but gorging yourself at the expense of other people, taking what you don't need and in the process depriving other people of what they do need. You get sick, and they starve.

When all else fails, and the society around you is ripening with wickedness and fit to burst, there is the "Rechabite principle," which is "get out of it, escape it, go to the desert, be by yourself." This is what Nephi's family is going to do early in the Book of Mormon: Jerusalem is soon to fall to Babylon, so Nephi's family is getting out of Dodge.

There is no guilt without condemnation: you can be wrong-incorrect without knowing what you are supposed to do, but you cannot be wrong-bad. Nibley explains that this is why God sends prophets to people who God already knows won't accept criticism.

Nibley quickly compares the Book of Mormon's obsession with Isaiah (who is quoted all over the place; the Second Book of Nephi is practically an exegesis on Isaiah) to the Dead Sea Scrolls and their own obsession with that prophet. More parallels between the Book of Mormon and ancient scriptures that Joseph Smith didn't have access to, you know.

The Book of Mormon is a tragic book; it is a "voice from the dust." It's very sad, as you know. It begins on a note of destruction and ends on a note of destruction. It begins with lone survivors in the wilderness and ends with a lone survivor.

Morcult Corner

One of the quasi-creationist theories of Mormonism is that the Earth was formed from the matter of previously-inhabited planets. This does not quite make sense given that the Earth itself is supposed to be "celestialized" or transformed into a physical Heaven inhabited by the most righteous of the resurrected dead. It also does not explain why less complex life forms seem to be layered more or less consistently beneath more complex life forms, and the detritus of these former planets all lack the sign of sapient life, which is rather confusing because the purpose of a life-bearing world is presumably to support human (or quasi-human) life.

So, let's say that planets are formed from other planets. Archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists — they learn about other worlds, former worlds, as much as they learn about their own. This also ties into the idea of ancient records being uncovered and "voices [speaking] from the dust." The present world has probably been inhabited for less than a hundred thousand years (probably considerably less). Some "scientists" say that their planet was actually formed millions of years ago and all living organisms descended from a single simple ancestor, but that's pseudoscientific bunk that doesn't fit the evidence at hand.

It is sometimes possible to find points of similarity between strata that correspond to the older planets that were combined to create Morcult World but for exactly the same reason that you can peruse an artist's complete portfolio and see relationships between older and newer works in terms of style, theme, progression of skill, et cetera: if normal people can eventually, eventually become Gods then it stands to reason that some Gods are less knowledgeable than others and must become more proficient creators, and that any God may have particular interests that distinguish their work even from Gods of comparable skill.

(Extra wrinkle: fossil fuels may be scarce on Morcult World)

[danganronpafakes]

Monokuma: I like you, you're trouble. Kokichi: Why, thank you. That's the nicest thing anyone has said about me in days.

Source: Babylon 5 (“Voices of Authority”)

[firestorm-fox]

Shadow:  Always finding the good in every situation, aren’t you, Sonic? Sonic:  Absolutely. If I didn’t I might end up like you.

[incorrect-losers]

Bill: Audra, what a surprise

Audra: A pleasant one?

Bill: I wouldn’t go that far

[star-trek-shallot]

*Bones and Spock are forced to work together on a dangerous mission*

Spock: If you would just let me do my job, Doctor, I may be able to help you.

Bones: And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play piñata.

Spock: ...A piñata, huh? So you think of me as something bright and cheerful, full of toys and candy for young children.

Spock: Thank you. That makes me feel much better about our relationship.

Attaching a link because this is Walter Koenig's line in Babylon 5 and he is very good in this show, also his character has some amazing roasts and this is one of them (this one starts around 0:50)