imhilien

Challenge: In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.


Well, it's the 30th anniversary (eep!) of sci-fi TV series Babylon 5, which I'm a fan of. It's been called 'Lord of the Rings in Space' about a space station built in neutral territory so different alien races can work out their differences without things developing into galactic war (again). It's the show I always measure others against and sometimes they get there (The Expanse).

Many characters are flawed but try and do the right thing anyway. Even when I rewatch the show, some episodes will still have me on the edge of my seat. I'm on Tumblr and the #babylon 5 section has been more active in recent years, probably due to the show being on HBO Max, although I hear that's going to cease soon on that TV network.

I live in New Zealand and in ancient days of old we had to wait a year to catch up with America's episode screenings. My friends group got around this by having an American friend tape episodes on VHS and send them to us by actual mail. Then we had binge-watching sessions (and once annoyed the neighbours, but in our defense, we were watching Season 4).

That's certainly how much the show meant to us.

July means winter Down Under and recently it has been cold. Last week I think it was, it dropped down to 2 c / 34 F one night and that was a bit horrible for me despite all the layers on my bed. I couldn't cope with colder temperatures than that. If it snows, don't go has been my life long motto.

My work has been busy as it's school holidays. In the gift shop they have I've got one of my landscape paintings up for sale. I also have some greeting cards with my art on for sale as well; I've sold two cards so far so that's great.

I feel sorry for Australia at the moment; New South Wales is having trouble with a bad Covid outbreak and Sydney has been in lockdown.

I've got book club on Sunday; the subject is books or authors beginning with 'C'. I might bring along 'Cold Comfort Farm' which is always good for a chuckle, as well as 'Chalice' by Robin McKinley which is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast; the heroine has honey-based magic.

My laptop's hard drive broke down a little while ago and it needed a complete replacement. I lost some files unfortunately because I hadn't backed them up, urgh. Of course this happened just before season 5b (5b!) of 'Lucifer' came out on Netflix so I had to wait a week before my laptop came back before I could watch the episodes. It started off a bit slow and then really got going. When he's not going through angst and anguish, Lucifer gives the impression he's actually a golden retriever in disguise who loves his Detective. Aww. I wrote some fanfic after the season final which is up on A03.




There is an English woman on YouTube doing vlogs of Babylon 5 and is getting quite excited as she's working her way through season 2. Heh heh.

Babylon 5: Season 2 - YouTube


There is a cold south-wester outside at the moment so am staying indoors as much as possible.