#fire on babylon

[th3-0bjectivist]

I'd like to just take a moment to honor Sinéad O'Connor who passed away this week. I don't particularly care if Ms. O'Connor was nuttier than a squirrel turd. I always try to separate the artist from their work... and this one's work was legendary, folks. She was serious about her craft, she had an incredible vocal tool set, and she helped to change the stage for women in modern music by not only possessing an interesting look, but also a razor-sharp intelligence and a penchant for being something of an edge lady. Here's Fire on Babylon, my very favorite tune by her, from 1994's Universal Mother. Godspeed into immortality Sinéad! Hopefully you and Tina Turner are performing shows together in the ten-for-a-dollar bin we know as the afterlife!

Another lady legend down in 2023 folks! Everything about this woman was untraditional, and that was kind of the whole point. She burned many bridges in her career and was basically ostracized for BEING counterculture. Just goes to show; just because you go against the grain... it doesn't mean you'll go out anything short of iconic in the end. Image source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-26/sinead-oconnor-dead

[donnerpartyofone]

Why this wasn't the biggest hit of every person's life I will never know.

[kevindrakewriter]

Sinéad O'Connor - Fire On Babylon (Official Music Video)

[seanoreillyband]

Sinaed O'Connor - Fire on Babylon/ Nothing Compares 2 U (Sean O'Reilly L...

[sigmund-nemo]

Sinéad O'Connor - Fire On Babylon

[aytonai]

The Battle for Babel

[therighthandofvengeance]

a tale told in two parts

[diamondot]

Midnight on the Firing Line: 30 years since it first aired, time to rewatch Babylon 5, baby. it's gonna be a little weird doing this at the same time as DS9.

i don't always watch tv at 9am, but i sure do when i'm feeding a 3-week-old baby. gotta start 'em young on the 1990s science fiction tv shows.

i should really watch the pilot movie sometime. this episode always feels like being tossed into the middle of something-- which is good, because there's a lot going on-- but i always wonder if this episode lands differently after the pilot.

man, i don't really think any of the characters change so much as Londo and G'Kar do. like stuff happens to everyone else, and they certainly develop, but they don't grow quite like these two. seeing them in these early episodes is such a trip every time.

Delenn looks so odd without hair. also i love her robe in the council meeting.

this scene in the bar, man. if anyone has any recs for Talia/Ivanova fics PLEASE send them my way.

[babylon-5-lurkers]

Babylon 5 Season 1, Episode 1: Midnight On The Firing Line

And so it beings...

Open discussion thread for the episode. My spouse and I are about to start watching it in a few minutes. I'm so excited! ^_^

[lofan]

There's definitely a full analysis on the scene with Kosh somewhere but LISTEN-

I read the books and want to discuss Londo. In the episode he said that saw nothing:

But actually he saw "shapeless light". And obviously we can joke that it's bc centauri have too many gods or bc, as we know, Londo doesn't truly believe in any of them, BUT! Nothing is ever simple with this tragic old alien war criminal.

When we hear that he saw nothing, we immediately think that it's bc he is beyond saving, that he's too corrupted by the Shadows and doesn't deserve to see Vorlon. This isn't true. But the version with light? Makes a lot of sense. There was darkness around him(Shadows) and in him(including his very poor choises) and later the keeper/Drakh literally in his head. But by knowing that he saw light we find out that he isn't entirely lost yet, he still believes in something good, even if he doesn't know in what exactly. Even when his decisions get more and more blood on his hands.

Also, this moment is important, because for some time the only good thing in his behaviour was his love for Adira (like, even his friendship with Vir have been through a lot).

"your heart is empty, Mollari"

"my soul, if I even still have it"

Idk, I just think this is a very nice detail~

[opointkpoint]

-Buba 2-

[wickershells]

Carnivàle (2003-2005), Any Way the Wind Blows by Anaïs Mitchell

[oldfilmsflicker]

Marya's Favorite Fifteen Films of 2022

[ryanoftinellb]

You’re like a couple of parents, arguing […], trying to get them to take sides [i.e.: choose a gender], not for their benefit, but for yours.

But what if the right choice, is not to choose at all. What if we reject the idea that we must decide which [gender] is right? What if we simply walk away?

[mortalstrife]

high priest branmer leaves his life in the religious caste behind to become a warrior

minvember relaxed prompt 6: goodbye

[limpwristjesus]

Working on a post on why the zombie apocalypse genre is ontologically nasty and anti black as we speak 🫡