#babylon 5 update

[alexcat45]

#universe today #babylon 5 news #babylon 5 fanart #babylon 5 update #babylon 5 fan comic #babylon 5 fanfiction

[queer-geordie-nerd]

While browsing and feeding my fixation, I found this very endearing site from way back in the day - the character analysis essays are really rather excellent.

#babylon 5 #john x delenn #it hasn’t been updated in 25 years #a real slice of contemporary fandom

[swaps55]

I lost my friend to cancer yesterday.

I’d really like to tell you about her.

We meet people throughout our lives who change it, in big ways and small ways, and ways we will never forget. Sara/ @dearophelia was one of those people for me.

I met her here, on tumblr, about 10 years ago. I wish I could remember what piece of writing I stumbled onto first, but she was such a gifted writer that I immediately wanted to see more. I somehow wound up following her live blog of a road trip, which was full of uproariously snarky jokes about Ohio. I had the courage to reach out and tell her how funny I thought she was, and how great her username was to this fellow Mass Effect fan who lived right down the road in Kentucky and got all the Ohio jokes.

We talked. We chatted. I introduced her to a group of people I played Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer with. She grew from a level one first-timer to a total badass who could carry a team and taught other people how to do the same thing.

And then my life fell apart.

Everything fell apart for me. Turning to my family wound up being a catastrophe, and I didn’t have local “real world” friends I could turn to.

So I texted Sara. Told her I needed somewhere to go, and asked if I could stay with her that weekend.

She texted back, “Yes.” Sent me her address, and said to ping me when I got there. She didn’t hesitate. She didn’t ask why. She just gave me shelter. So I showed up on her doorstep, and she listened while I told her everything. She didn’t judge me. She didn’t think I was insane. She had every right to think both things. Instead, she gave me safe harbor at a time when I had no control over my life and didn’t know what was going to happen to me.

For the next several months, I made frequent trips up I-75 to Ohio. She kept an air mattress out for me. We played multiplayer. We talked about Mass Effect. We talked about life. We bitched about all the people who hated on one of our favorite characters. She introduced me to Babylon 5. I have so many memories of sitting on the couch in her apartment, with her cat Odo crawling around behind my head. When I eventually pieced myself together enough to leave Kentucky and start the work of starting over, it meant leaving behind that sanctuary with her in her apartment, and it was something I had to grieve along with everything else.

And now I am grieving it again, and so much more. I am so lucky I was able to fly back to Ohio a few weeks ago while I had the chance. Hugging someone goodbye, knowing it’s the last hug you’re going to get….well, it sucks.

But I got that hug.

Sara was so many things. She was a gifted storyteller with entire worlds in her head. One of the weekends I stayed with her, she had recreated the Mass Effect galaxy map on her wall with notecards and string to help her tell a story. She could create a character and make you fall in love with them in a matter of sentences. Because of her stories, I binge watched all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1.

She was also not afraid to unapologetically be herself. I had a lot of things to learn and unlearn about the world, feminism, gender, and sexuality, especially in those days. Listening to her fight for her space in the world and refuse to be told she was anything less than who she wanted to be helped me learn some of the things I needed to learn, and embrace the things I discovered about myself.   

She loved music. She made the best fucking playlists. She taped inspirational notes around her condo. She sent me a set of coasters that say, “Fuck It,” and “Nah,” and I use them every single day. Her smile was gorgeous. She lit up a room.  

And now she’s gone. I won’t see her in my tumblr notes anymore. I won’t see her on my dash. I won’t get pinged with new Odo photos. She won’t get to hear the new music I listen to that shows up in our Spotify blend. I won’t get to talk about the next Mass Effect game with her. I won’t get any more Ao3 updates in my inbox.

I wanted you to know about her – this pocket friend of mine who impacted my life in ways that I won’t ever forget.

I hope you will read her stories. Listen to her playlists. She was a brilliant human being. She should still be here. She isn’t.

And I miss her.  

#dearophelia #write your way out #cancer tw #death tw

[hoonieswhore]

Heavenly

(Figure skater!Hoon x Vocalist!fem reader)

Summary: Being the leader of a band was pretty easy, working on new songs and making covers with your friends was the best. The only challenge in your life was living with a "stranger" and your best friend.

Warnings: SMAU with written parts. This story will contain smut at some point. Kys jokes. Sexual jokes. LOTS of curses. Comedy. Fluff. Reader and Hoon are low-key enemies. Minors/ageless/blank blogs DO NOT INTERACT or you'll be immediately blocked. If you wanna be tagged, just send an ask (read my rules before you follow though)

This is my first smau so please be patient with me. I'll try to update every day but that depends on how busy I am. I hope you all like it and please keep in mind that English isn't my first language so there might be typos or any kind of errors.

Masterlist!

Profiles

I. ...Ready for it? - Taylor Swift.

II. Here comes trouble - Neoni.

III. Ignorance - Paramore.

IV. I hate you - WOODZ.

V. Best friend - Conan Gray

VI. One of the Drunks - Panic! At The Disco

VII. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - Elley Duhé

VIII. It's nice to have a friend - Taylor Swift

IX. Want you back - 5 Seconds of Summer

X. Complete Mess - 5 Seconds of Summer

XI. High Hopes - Panic! At The Disco

XII. Kill My Time - 5 Seconds of Summer

XIII. About love - MARINA

XIV. Delicate - Taylor Swift

XV. Rock with you - SEVENTEEN

XVI. Death Of A Bachelor - Panic! At The Disco

XVII. Everything Has Changed - Taylor Swift

XVIII. One Day - Imagine Dragons

XIX. Valentine - 5 Seconds of Summer

XX. Falling In Love - Cigarettes After Sex

XXI. Wildflower - 5 Seconds of Summer

XXII. Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex

XXIII. Lover - Taylor Swift

XXIV. Maniac - Conan Gray

XXV. Babylon - 5 Seconds of Summer

XXVI. Sex, Drugs, Etc. - Beach Weather

XXVII. Sarah Smiles - Panic! At The Disco

XXVIII. Dress - Taylor Swift

XXIX. Puzzle Piece - NCT Dream

XXX. Karma - Taylor Swift

XXXI. Criminal Love - Enhypen

XXXII. Die For You - The Weeknd

XXXIII. seven - Taylor Swift

XXXIV. Not In The Same Way - 5 Seconds of Summer

XXXV. Style - Taylor Swift

XXXVI. I Think He Knows - Taylor Swift

XXXVII. jealousy, jealousy - Olivia Rodrigo

XXXVIII. Afterglow - Taylor Swift

XXXIX. Love Me Now - NCT 127

XL. Love Me Harder - WOODZ

XLI. Paper Rings - Taylor Swift

XLII. Sweet - Cigarettes After Sex

XLIII. Animal - Troye Sivan

XLIV. Adore you - Harry Styles

XLV. Crush - Cigarettes After Sex

XLVI. DON'T WANNA SLEEP - Måneskin

XLVII. King Of My Heart - Taylor Swift

XLVIII. The Shining - The Neighbourhood

XLIX. Don't Stop - 5 Seconds of Summer

L. Timezone - Måneskin

LI. Boyfriend - Dove Cameron

LII. Don't Blame Me - Taylor Swift

LIII. Lover Of Mine - 5 Seconds of Summer

LIV. Wherever You Are - Kodaline

LV. I Like Me Better - Lauv

LVI. Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco

LVII. Mine (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

LVIII. The Only Exception - Paramore

LIX. About You - The 1975

LX. Heavenly - Cigarettes After Sex

#sunghoon smau #park sunghoon smau #enhypen sunghoon smau #sunghoon x reader #sunghoon fanfic #park sunghoon au #park sunghoon fanfic #sunghoon au

[chewbokachoi]

My Writing

-confetti and fanfare-

At the moment, it's all Mortal Kombat. UPDATE: There's, like, one Babylon 5 in there now!

Song Challenges - As the link explains, I write to a song and that's that.

Completed Works:

Friday Nights - A weekly ritual between the two, Johnny finds tonight's session is bringing up something he's tried to not think about. AO3 Rating: E Chapters: 4/4 Notes: Johnny/Kenshi piece and the piece that dislodged me from my writer's block and I more or less haven't stopped since (aside from a few hurdles but ya get me)

Good Dog - Shang Tsung has gathered far more enemies than allies. Realizing that he needs somebody to keep an eye out for him, he decides to hire a bodyguard. By chance, Shang Tsung arrives just in time to hire Bi-Han, a down on his luck man-for-hire. What Shang Tsung didn't expect was for this man of ice to be immune to all his usual tricks and charm. He doesn't want to admit this draws him to his guard. And on the flip side, Bi-Han didn't think he'd ever break his no-attachments rule with the likes of such a fragile mad scientist. Inspired by the amazing art of @eo03o AO3 Rating: E Chapters: 5/5 Notes: I liked their dynamic too much and am too proud of all the random Easter eggs.

Sublimation - Five years since Bi-Han's betrayal and nothing has gotten easier. Earthrealm continues to need its defenders and everyone's starting to feel the strain. But Tomas is feeling another type of strain--he's been treated like a child more than the second in command of the Shirai Ryu as of late. When Liu Kang tasks Tomas and Hanzo to return to the Lin Kuei library, destroyed during the schism, they are ambushed by Bi-Han and Shang Tsung, who offer Tomas up to an Enenra with hopes to control it.

Things, of course, do not go according to plan. Tomas is saved by Hanzo, but Tomas is once again thrown into a life altering experience he never had a say in. Now he and his friends must learn to live with this new version of their friend. AO3 Rating: M Chapters: 5/5 Notes: Part of a series (that'll get renamed). Part 2 already in the works for it. Commentary

Works in Progress:

But a Patient Wolf - Sequel to Good Dog Shang Tsung gifts "Sai" a chance to exact revenge on Quan Chi, the ringmaster of the traveling circus he once belonged to. With that done, the two flee to Chicago. But their time in the city is cut short when Shang Tsung finally figures out where the strange and mysterious island in the East China Sea is. Bi-Han, the ever-loyal bodyguard, follows his beloved mad scientist to their new destination. There, the two discover a suspiciously preserved library full of secrets and wonders that will push the two and their relationship to the limit. AO3 Rating: M Chapters: 1/5(?) Notes: I fell in love with their dynamic. They're too hard to resist. This story will likely have a different tone than Part One/Good Dog itself, but I hope it's still enjoyable!

The Great Duo: Shang Tsung is woken up one morning to find an ex and six-year-old at his doorstep. She leaves Shang Tsung with a girl who is no doubt his daughter. Initially, he takes her in, knowing it to be wiser to have somebody as smart as him on his side. Soon enough, Shang Tsung finds he not only enjoys having the kid around, but he enjoys teaching her and training her to be just like him. AO3 Rating: T Chapters: 1/3(?) Notes: This one is very much a 'I'll update as the ideas come to me' kind of thing

To Be Haunted: Johnny and Kenshi's relationship has gotten more serious with marriage in sight. Johnny's showing his commitment by welcoming Takeda, while Kenshi still struggles to feel like a good enough parent to Cassie. What should be the next step for the growing family is hamstrung by a strange entity that has made their home its own. Their lives are quickly thrown off balance as Cassie and Takeda grow ill from the creature's presence. Johnny, Kenshi, and their friends scramble to solve the mystery of the entity before it's too late. AO3 Rating: M Chapters: 13/? Notes: I am trying to update it :(

#mk1 2023 #johnshi #bishang #coldsoul #tomas vrbada #mk smoke #shang tsung #bi-han #johnny cage #kenshi takahashi #don't get your hopes up for those E ratings my smut writing skills are sad i tried #fanfiction #fic: submlimation #fic: friday nights #fic: good dog #fic: to be haunted #fic: the great duo #fic: but a patient wolf

[specialagentartemis]

Having listened to the Graphic Audio full-cast audobook for All Systems Red, it was fun but I have some thoughts about the voice acting and direction. So now I’m just daydreaming about “if I had Billionaire Money I would buy the audio rights to TMBD and direct and produce another full cast audio version with voice actors handpicked and paid lavishly by Me.”

The cast being:

All Systems Red:

Murderbot: Kevin R. Free is the voice of Murderbot to a lot of people. I would think very hard about this but it would be a foundational return to form. However I feel like I want to reach out and find a non-binary VA because it's a niche that's been tragically underrepresented in Murderbot VAs. I joked before about Vico Ortiz playing live-action Murderbot but do they want to try their hand at voice acting?

Mensah: Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs. Voices Captain Lovelace on Wolf 359. Has incredible talent and range and does the Intrepid Galactic Explorer so well.

Pin-Lee: Emily Woo Zeller. An audiobook narrator I've consistently liked.

Ratthi: Stephen Dookie. He plays the part of Polites in Epic: The Musical and he's excellent in a very sweet, upbeat, friendly way.

Gurathin: Sungwon "ProZD" Cho. I'm picturing somewhere in the range of his Miles Edgeworth voice for this.

Arada: Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey. She's a singer not a VA but her voice sounds so nice.

Overse: Tanja Milojevic. Her range is incredible.

Bharadwaj: Rukhmani Desai (Captain Tripathi, The Strange Case of Starship Iris. She has that calm, reasonable, rational, desperately kind character voice she plays well in Starship Iris that I think would go well for Bharadwaj)

Volescu: Zach Valenti. The vibes are right.

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti. Yes all of them.

Artificial Condition:

ART: Janelle Monáe and I mean it

Tapan: ItMe of InCo Podcast

The ComfortUnit: also ItMe because an important part of listening to faer acting is realizing in awe how fae voices so many characters at once and make them all sound distinct.

Tlacey: kinda thinking Ariela Rotenberg. she does smugly confidently evil very well. However we cannot discount casting ItMe for this role also

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti.

Rogue Protocol:

Don Abene: Emma Sherr-Ziarko. She also deserves to be an intrepid space leader again.

Miki: ItMe again in InCo Season 2 Updated SAWA mode

Wilken: me. I want a part. I could totally be a badass evil space assassin

Gerth: does Gerth even have any lines.

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti.

Exit Strategy:

Serrat: Zach Libresco. this casting + Janelle Monáe as ART were what drove me to make this post in the first place.

The Combat SecUnit: Ellen McLain in GLaDOS mode. All 2 lines it has.

Network Effect:

Amena: Ishani Kanetkar (The Strange Case of Starship Iris, The Godshead Incidental, excellent VA for a proud and curious but scared young person)

Iris: Jordan Cobb (Janus Descending, Primordial Deep, excellent VA for a gritted-teeth calm scientist in a strange and dangerous place)

Seth: Avery Brooks (I know it is not the 90s anymore. but. Captain Sisko. I can imagine <3 )

Martyn: Alexander Siddig / Siddig El-Fadil (Dr. Bashir). They're TV actors but! I want them as the Ship Captain Husbands

The rest of ART's crew: other podcast VAs I love who I haven't come up with a role for yet. Kristen DiMercurio, Beth Eyre, James Oliva.

Supervisor Leonide: Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova on Babylon 5 <333 )

Eletra: Michaela Swee who is very busy working at An Actual Hospital but I have a billion dollars in this dream scenario so I can pay her to take a day and record like 4 lines

Ras: Zach Valenti. This is very important.

Three: Jackie Andrews who plays R. J. McCabe on Starship Iris and Elinor Lopez on The Pasithea Powder has the right Vibes For This

Zach Valenti as the Additional Voice of every goon and target who gets the shit scared out of them and/or dies.

Fugitive Telemetry:

Indah: Molly Olguin maybe. she could Be Indah. Absolutely means we need Jackie Hedeman to have a role in FT too.

Tifany: Michelle Agresti (Wolf 359, Arden)

Aylen: Tracey Sayed (also Arden)

Jollybaby, Tellus, Balin: I would open the floor to the delightful Murderbot fandom. Who wants to voice a Preservation bot

Additional voices by--well you know the drill.

#The Murderbot Diaries #fancast #ItMe InCo Creator I hope you're okay with me tagging you. I don't know your name #this is a sign for everyone to listen to Wolf 359; The Strange Case of Starship Iris; InCo; Arden; The Pasithea Powder; and Janus Descendin #whoof I put way too much time and effort into this

[magswrite]

titles tag:

ty for tagging me @static-radio-ao3

rules — 1. list the titles of your top five priorities for WIP updates 2. an upcoming scene, event, or detail in each fic that you're looking forward to writing 3. make a poll for your followers to vote on which top 5 WIPs they're most excited to see an update on 4. tag writer friends

titles — 1. where your teeth sink in - vampire university au. first chapter is up here 2. ascendant - sequel to ecliptic; canon-divergent wolfstar and jegulus 3. mythology au - a fest fic i'm working on 4. the gardens of babylon - another fest fic! 5. excommunicado - john wick au

scenes — 1. where your teeth sink in - a record player and a realization 2. ascendant - "it changes everything"; a quote from the finale 3. mythology au - draco gets diagnosed with something a little bit different 4. the gardens of babylon - a deck of cards 5. excommunicado - narcissa runs the continental hotel in paris

tagging: @rweoutofthewoods, @ecstarry, @regscupid, @buttfaceingtons, @otrtbs, and anyone else who would like 2 join!

#tag games #mil tag xoxo #fic: wytsi #fic: ascendant

[creature-wizard]

So kind of New Age anons to send me updates on whatever BS is they think's going on right now in my inbox. Saves me the trouble of combing through their videos and sites.

Highights from the latest include:

The Annu-Elohim, Drakonian and Elite Anunnaki Races that began to digress from their original “Christos” blueprint set forth in dominion conquest of the stellar system the Star Gates of our Time Matrix.

This is essentially fancied-up whining about Jews not accepting Jesus. It all goes with David Icke's conspiracy theory that Judaism was created in Babylon by reptilian entities.

The Gold Order Seraphei-Seraphin reptilian Omicron Race from D-10 Lyra-Vega began to digress and became known as the “Fallen Seraphim”, the forefathers of the contemporary D-10 Orion-Drakonian Fallen Angelic Legion.

Fancy way of saying "Jews are demonic." Old antisemitic bullshit with a space-age paint job.

The fallen ones began their quest for universal dominion with the intention of destroying all races but their own and claim dominion of out Time Matrices.

Fancy way of saying "Jews want take over the world." Typical Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion bullshit.

Through removing the 12th DNA Strand Template form their genetic blueprint, the Annu-Elohim successfully blocked the Density-5 Breneau Founders races from incarnating into their race line, so they were freed to create a legion of self-contained Fallen Angelic dominion forces within or Time Matrix.

Spiritual eugenics BS. New Agers often assert that their ideological opponents have defective genes.

The Fallen Angelics’ Legion Galactic Federation (not the Galactic Federation of 'free/light' Planets) intention was, and continues to be today, oppressive, exploiting dominion of our Time Matrix and its life-fields, and the operational control over the 12 Primary Star Gates of the Universal Templar Complex in our Time Matrices.

Fancied-up way of saying "Jews are oppressing and exploiting the world!" Standard Protocols BS.

In their misguided contemporary quest for dominion, "take over of Earth’s Star Gates the Hall of Amenti", the Anunnaki Fallen Angelic Legions hope to infiltrate, highjack and rob earth humans of their dormant Diamond “Christed living light Human Race” potentially ascension process through governments bureaucracy, narrative information, PSYOPS, altering articles and factual information, television and internet misinformation, show distraction, rewritten transcription, distraction away from the facts in covert genetic manipulation via distorted teachings of DNA, bio-energetic field and Soul/Spirit (Merkaba) activation and hybridization programs.

Fancy way of claiming Jews are manipulating the media and spreading false religion. Also sourced from that old Czarist hoax, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

The Elite Anunnaki are attempting to perpetrate this deception of humans right now in order to prevent Earth humans from actualizing the dormant DNA - 12 Strand potential, through which humans can reclaim the Original true light Human heritage to serve as conscious guardians of the Hall of AMENTI 12 Star Gates.

More spiritual eugenics - "the worthy believers have superior genes."

Portions of the earth human populations carry the 9, 10 and 11-Strand DNA Template mutations resulting from ancient race hybridization with Anunnaki and Drakonian Fallen Angelic Legions.

Spiritual eugenics again - claiming that some people (read: their ideological opponents) are innately evil because they carry inferior DNA.

"All humans and the Fallen Angelic who chose to do so can reverse mutate DNA Template distortions and bring dormant DNA template potentials into activation through self-generated DNA BIO REGENESIS technologies, naturally, through which the 12-Strand DNA Living Light Human potential can be progressively restored and reactivated within the current operational DNA".

Conversion rhetoric - you can "fix" your "bad" DNA by accepting New Age doctrine.

And YOU, earthling humans are distracted by the Anti-Christ (power trigger elites, governments), by a sequence low frequency wave of the American 2024 election movement/show involves modern DNA highjacking program.

New Age to normal person translation: "Biden is part of the Jewish agenda!" More Protocols-derived nonsense.

All in all, things haven't really changed much; they're still spouting the same antisemitic conspiracy bullshit they've been spouting for years.

#new age #new agers #shit new agers say #conspiracy theories #conspiracy theory #conspiracism #antisemitism #spiritual eugenics #reptilian #reptilian aliens #reptilians #dracoreptilians #annunaki #angels #angelics #fallen angels #ascension #dna activation #new age spirituality is just right wing conspiracy theory #spirituality

[theseformerthings]

It’s been a while, but 1) season 5 is still happening, bbs; 2) it will be the FINAL season.

In a new interview with Deadline set to run tomorrow, the show’s lead actress Liv Lisa Fries confirmed that the plan is to shoot the “last” series of the show later this year:

“At the end of this year we’re going to shoot the last season of Babylon Berlin. It’s still in financial process but they’re writing. Money is a question mark but my schedule is to shoot it later this year.”

#babylon berlin #charlotte ritter #gereon rath #liv lisa fries #volker bruch #babylonberlin

[alexcat45]

#universe today #babylon 5 fandom update #b5 fanart #b5 fanfiction #b5 fan comics #b5 news

[woodsfae]

Babylon 5 S03: Table of Contents Season 1 • Season 2

Episode 1: Matters of Honor Episode 2: Convictions Episode 3: A Day In The Strife Episode 4: Passing Through Gethsemane Episode 5: Voices of Authority Episode 6: Dust to Dust Episode 7: Exogenesis Episode 8: Messages From Earth Episode 9: Point of No Return Episode 10: Severed Dreams Episode 11: Ceremonies of Light and Fire Episode 12: Sic Transit Vir Episode 13: A Late Delivery From Avalon Episode 14: Ship of Tears Episode 15: Interludes and Examinations Episode 16: War Without End: Part One Interlude: Predictions of Sinclair's Destiny Interlude: Predictions: Other Characters Episode 17: War Without End: Part Two Episode 18: Walkabout Episode 19: Grey 17 Is Missing E. 20: And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place Episode 21: Shadow Dancing Episode 22: Z'Ha'Dum

last updated April 18, 2024

#the liveblog continues! #if y'all are new here: hi! I have never seen b5 before and I'm liveblogging as I watch it! #I have also never done a liveblog before and am really enjoying the social aspect to watching b5 #reblogs/raves in the tags/getting an ask makes my day every time! #this is the Nerds Nerding Out website and feel free to Nerd Out with me! #babylon 5 #b5 #woodsfae b5 #<- that's what I tag all my b5 posts with!

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

A Prophecy Against Tyre

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned to me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes his waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea: for I have spoken it, said the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring on Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against you, and cast a mount against you, and lift up the buckler against you. 9 And he shall set engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets: he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise: and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses: and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the middle of the water. 13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place to spread nets on; you shall be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, said the Lord GOD.

15 Thus said the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the middle of you? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at you.

17 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How are you destroyed, that were inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which were strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

19 For thus said the Lord GOD; When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and great waters shall cover you; 20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more: though you be sought for, yet shall you never be found again, said the Lord GOD. — Ezekiel 26 | American King James Version (KJVUS) The American King James Version is Produced by Stone Engelbrite. It is a simple word for modern word update from the King James English. Cross References: Leviticus 14:41; Deuteronomy 13:16; 2 Samuel 5:11; 2 Chronicles 32:27; Ezra 7:12; Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 5:30; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 14:12; Isaiah 23:5; Isaiah 41:5; Jeremiah 4:13; Jeremiah 20:4; Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 25:17; Matthew 11:23; Luke 19:43; 1 Peter 5:5; Revelation 18:21-22

#Lord #prophecy #Tyre #Ezekiel 26 #Book of Ezekiel #Old Testament #KJVUS #American King James Version Bible #Stone Engelbrite

[terrible-titles]

A Hodepodge of Older Shows to Watch During the Strike

We support the writer’s strike here, and in a Culture of New, TV execs are going to use the “impact” to currently running shows in order to try to shift your support to them. But here in Tumblr we have revived century-old novels and put them firmly in the mainstream by having a Tumblr-wide bookclub, so I think we can do the same to older shows--not only to keep ourselves entertained, but to remind us all why writers are so important to begin with. Now that AI is coming dangerously close to replacing writers’ work (and is indeed one of the issues the writers are striking over), I think it’s important to remember that our favorite lines (one of mine is “Everything is confetti” from Haunting of Hill House) couldn’t have happened without a writer creating and then fighting for it. Writers deserve healthy workplaces, fair compensation, and recognition for their talent.

Disclaimers: 1. As with all shows, but especially older ones, there will be problematic content. 2. I will try to avoid obvious recs that still have an active fanbase like Star Trek or Buffy, but I don’t have my finger on the pulse of pop culture so maybe I rec something that’s still pretty popular and I don’t realize it. I’m also not necessarily going for “obscure” or “you’ve never heard of this,” but just shows people might have overlooked. Yes, I’m from the US (sorry!) and yes, I would love to hear from non-US people about the best shows from your country that I’m missing out on! Please feel free to reblog and add your favorites to this!   3. Maybe my taste doesn’t align with yours and you disagree. Maybe I missed something because I didn’t want this to be 500 pages long. That’s fine! Again, reblog with your own recs. The more, the better! 4. Genres are weird. I tried. 5. I chose not to add where you could find these series because it can vary country to country, but if all else fails, check your local library’s media collection! (And if that fails, you might sail the seas...) 6. Please be cool... please. 

Comedies

Better Off Ted (2009, 2 seasons) A workplace comedy in an evil corporation. Perfect for fans of The Office or Arrested Development. Happy Endings (2011, 3 seasons) It’s like if Friends was just every so slightly more diverse. Takes place in Chicago, which is cool.

M*A*S*H (1972, 11 seasons) You’ve probably heard of this comedy/drama that stars cultural icon Alan Alda as a cynical army medic just trying to survive the Korean War, but have you watched it yet? You should.

NewsRadio (1995, 5 seasons) A workplace comedy in a news radio station starring Phil Hartman. A less cringy Office and a less sophisticated Frasier. Vicar of Dibley (1994, 3 series + specials) Dawn French plays the first-ever female vicar in a small English village. Watch out for an utterly amazing Spice Girls reference and Richard Armitage. Keeping Up Appearances (1990, 5 series) A British woman from a lower class family attempts to social climb to predictably hilarious results. Was apparently one of the Queen Mother’s favorite shows though I can’t for the life of me figure out what she got from it.

You’re the Worst (2014, 5 seasons) Just two really toxic people in a relationship trying to make it work. Definitely has dramatic undertones in addition to being pretty funny.

Side note: If you like comedy, get a subscription to Dropout TV. I’m not a shill. Nobody’s paying me to say this. I just really love it and they’re a great company to support.  Science Fiction/Supernatural

Babylon 5 (1994, 5 seasons) Was Deep Space Nine your favorite Star Trek series? Watch this. (Watch it even if it wasn’t.)

Sliders (1995, 5 seasons) An updated Quantum Leap. Jerry O’Connell and John Rhys-Davies star. A couple of scientists and their unfortunate friends are stuck sliding between alternate universes trying to find their way home.

Wynonna Earp (2016, 4 seasons) The great-great granddaughter of Wyatt Earp is tasked with sending reincarnated outlaws back to Hell. Often called the spiritual successor to Buffy, this is a real campy adventure in the Wild West and everything Supernatural wished it could be. 

Lost Girl (2010, 5 seasons) This show is about a bisexual succubus named Bo. I don’t know what else you need to watch this.

Drama

The Darling Buds of May (1991, 3 series) The British Little House on the Prairie if Pa were a con man you like to root for. An early Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as the oldest daughter who kidnaps and marries a tax inspector in order to avoid paying taxes. Incredible. Icon.  

Midsomer Murders (1997, 24+ series) Technically, this one is still going (and I’m sure everyone’s heard of it), but there’s so many back episodes to get through, I still feel okay recommending it because it’s great for binge-watching when you’re sick. You’ll never run out of episodes. Cozy murder mysteries that take place in England’s most deadly village. Joyce deserves better.

In the Heat of the Night (1988, 7 seasons + films) A crime procedural in the Deep South in the US, a big city Black detective is hired as the head detective in a small town in rural Mississippi. Progressive (for its time), this show dealt with racial issues, police corruption, poverty, and more.

Six Feet Under (2001, 5 seasons) Two brothers work together to run the family business, a funeral home, in the wake of their father’s death. The show’s finale is considered one of the greatest of all time, so you can go in having confidence in a satisfying conclusion.

Historical Fiction/Fantasy

Rome (2005, 2 seasons) A collaboration between HBO and BBC, one of the most expensive series of its time. Has so many incredible character actors. You will constantly be on your phone asking where you recognize That Guy from. Polly Walker was instrumental in my discovering my sexuality. 

Xena: Warrior Princess (1995, 6 seasons) Okay, I know this is another popular one, but it also feels like a show people have heard of and never watched, so this is your reminder to do so. Brideshead Revisited (1981, 1 series) British schoolboys doing what schoolboys do best (falling in love with each other). Adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel by the same name. Galavant (2015, 2 seasons) Hilarious musical comedy about a downtrodden knight trying to rescue his girlfriend from King Richard, even though she is actually pretty happy being Queen. Catchiest theme ever. SUPPORT WRITERS.

#wga strike #writers strike #tv recommendations #what to watch #long post

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Návštěva Liberce ve mně vzbudila touhu seznamu krajských měst, které jsem navštívil od nejlepšího po nejhorší:

1. Pardubice - dobré centrum a kavárny, není mnoho turistů, ale zároveň poměrně žije

2. Praha - jakožto Pražák musím dát Prahu před Brno, hezké a velké centrum, metro je nejlepší prostředek. Turisti, turisti všude!

3. Brno - podivně hezké ulice, dá se tam něco dělat

4. Hradec Králové - klidné město, v něčem až moc

5. Jihlava - už si moc nepamatuju, ale hezké centrum

6. Karlovy Vary - hezké a originální centrum, klidné město v horách, možná moc ruské...

7. České Budějovice - opět hezké centrum, ale celkově tam nic není

8. Liberec - nic tu není. Zoo je polofunkční, jejich vyhlášený Babylon je polofunkční a nic jiného tu není!

Update: dá se tu dostat tramvají do Jablonce a na sjezdovku na Ještěd, takže ačkoliv si u mě Liberec polepšil, stále zůstává na posledním místě

#čumblr #česky #oponujte mi jestli se odvážíte #omluvil bych se liberečákům (nebo jak se jmenujete) ale omluvil bych se jen za to že tu bydlíte (v angličtině to zní líp) #ani přímý vlak z prahy k vám nevede #I have no respect for liberec

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IT’S ABOUT TIME

That we have a CLAMP series showdown. Pick your favorite! Pick what you think is the best series! Pick what hitsuzen and Clow Reed are forcing compelling encouraging you to choose!

Ok, here’s the gameplan:

Round 1: 2/20-2/27

Gate 7 vs Man of Many Faces

RG Veda vs Legal Drug/Drug and Drop

Mikyuki-Chan vs Shirahime-Syo

The One I Love vs CLAMP School Defenders Duklyon

Kobato vs Suki: a Like Story

CLAMP School Detectives vs The Legend of Chun Hyang

Round 2: 2/28-3/7

Man of Many Faces vs Tokyo Babylon

Angelic Layer vs Wish

RG Veda vs Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (and World Chronicles)

Mikyuki-Chan vs Cardcaptor Sakura

Duklyon vs X/1999

Kobato vs Clover

Magic Knight Rayearth vs Chobits

CLAMP School Detectives vs xxxHolic

Round 3 Quarterfinals: 3/8-3/15

Tokyo Babylon vs Wish

TRC/TWC vs CCS

X vs Clover

Chobits vs xxxHolic

Bonus Losers Bracket round because I cannot math: 3/16-3/23

TRC/TWC vs Chobits

CLAMP School Defenders Duklyon vs Magic Knight Rayearth

Round 5 Semi-Finals: 3/24-3/31

Tokyo Babylon vs CCS

X vs xxxHolic

Round 6 Finals - One day, and one day only. April 1st

Cardcaptor Sakura vs xxxHolic

More about info under the cut!

Yes the bracket is seeded, mostly in order of what I’ve perceived in terms of popularity over the years and my personal views on the quality of certain series. But hey, sometimes it’s about how much we love something and not how good it is. This is just a poll for fun! If you don’t like it I would love for you to make your own because the more the merrier. Also I left off some little one-shots and famous fanworks for the sake condensing but I’d be happy to make a side-poll redemption round if there’s enough call for it.

3/7 Update

So I uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh can’t math well? And miscounted a week somehow. So! We are doing a bonus losers bracket week to fill in the gap. The final for this will be April 1st, along with the vote for the main winner.

Also thanks to everyone for voting! I’m planing on running this again and some other themed polls but will probably start a side-blog to make the updates easier.

3/15 Update

The Losers I mean the Redemption Bracket has been chosen! Choices coordinated for maximum drama ^w^

#ok here we go #clamp #clamp love #april 1st #clamp day #tumblr polls #gate 7 #tokyo babylon #ccs #trc #xxxholic #rg veda #mkr #chobits #kobato #oh god i'm going to have to tag all these every time #poll #god i hope there's no typos here

[kangaracha]

may wips! some things have actually made movements this month! i also updated my skz masterlist this month

things we completed in april!

as it ends

catskin

felix + focus

skz + losing 3racha

chan + tremble (unreleased because i don't want to give zom mom the nevermore spoiler)

changbin + eclipse

HEAD ABOVE WATER

things i'm actually working on!

nevermore (155/300k, miroh arc finale has begun)

queenmaker (22 chapters written)

what the water brought (30/50k, this is an original novel now)

boxer!minho daybreak (2 chapters written. i'm not releasing it yet. calm down.)

sickfic head above water (3 chapters written)

the hymn of babylon (6k, minho prompt fill that got out of hand)

Neglected™ 

FNF (8/10k)

leave part 2

the gone and the gathered ch 3&4

valleys (complete rewrite)

tgbyb ch 5

tsotl end part 1

darling don't wake up x4

goldmine goldmine (landmine) (6/40k)

soul is yours to keep/zelda fic

draculas

#wip list #roo writes #i'm gonna have to start formatting the wip list #this is becoming a Thing now #anyway i am off to write now #i just stopped by to do this while i was thinking about it #queenmaker desperately needs my attention so that another chapter can drop #fnf is actually working its way back up too #keeps we should do fnf on that new site #edit and write and post #man usually i'm chatty in the tags on these but i've got nothing today #all my current wips are just long projects i've been on all year #we all know about em #oh i was going to make a nevermore powerpoint #maybe i'll go do that