Babylon 5 Update for 1 - 15 - 2016

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I update once every 2 weeks (or so) with fiction, challenges etc. Please feel free to contact me if you have news or anything you think needs to be featured here. Just send me a PM at alexcat or post it to the update and I’ll include it the next time.

Here is to hoping your new year is off to a good start! Be sure to check out the rewatch info at b5_revisited and babylon5_love month signups. We need more signups for B5 Love Month, which is coming up in February!


Fanfic
Suspicion by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Sinclair, Garibaldi, Teen and up).
The Price of Power by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Vir, Teen and up).
Who Are You? by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Delenn, Sinclair, Teen and up).
Dream Lover by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Talia, Teen and up).
Faith Manages by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Ivanova, Teen and up).
That’s All, Folks! by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Delenn, Teen and up).
Thinking of Killing… by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Na’toth, G’kar, Mature).
Love in the time of Psi Corps by Persephones_Keeper (Gen, Susan/Talia).
Delenn by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Sinclair, Teen and up).
The One Constant by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Talia, Garabaldi, Teen and up).
Breen for the Lady by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, G’kar, Na’toth, Teen and up).
Merry Christmas, Londo! by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Londo, Teen and up).
Calming the Chaos by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Delenn, Lennier, Teen and up).
Phantom Pet by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, OC, Teen and up).
The Teflon Narn by alexcat (Drabble, Gen, Ivanova, Teen and up).
A Narn, a Centauri and a Minbari Walk into a Bar by baja_king (Gen, Various, teen and up).
Consequence by Ibenholt (Gen, Londo, Durla, Throk Milifia, Teen and up).
All Love(is Unrequited) by ilien (Various combos of Susan, Marcus and Talia, Teen and up).
Zen and the Art of Hair Maintenance by Muccamukk (Gen, Susan, Delenn, Gen).
For Worse or for better by DoreyG (Marcus/Stephen, Gen).
Of Ducks and dukes by AkinoAme (Susan, Londo, Gen).
The Beginning in the End> by FaerieBreath (John/Delenn, T)


Fanart:
I only display a sampling of the latest from the artists. Please check out their pages at Deviant Art.
Dius Vintari by natoth.
Soft Babylon 5 by Lady Yate-xel.


News:
Get all the B 5 and related news at ISN News: The Zocalo Today!.

--The Complete “Lost in Space: 50th Anniversary Edition” finds a home on HD and the photos are wonderful!
--Outer Places names Babylon 5 as one of the Scifi television shows with the best endings ever.
--SENSE8 - All 12 episodes of the first season by JMS and the Wachowskis became available on Netflix on June 5. The series has also been renewed for a 2nd season.
--Here is the Facebook FreeBabylon5 community.
The word said goodbye to two greats this week in David Bowie and Alan Rickman and we would like to send their families our deepest sympathies. I’d like to leave you with this quote: Thinking about how we mourn artists we've never met. We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves. No idea the source.


Communities and members:
jedi_of_urth writes about Babylon Squared this time.
selenak discusses Plot Twists with B5 being one of the shows here.
selenak discusses Characters who anchor shows with a large ensemble cast here.
**Babylon 5 Love Month Sign Ups are open. They will be open until January 31. Please promote this if you would. Banners can be found HERE.
*Recap and Discussion for Deathwalker – 1 x 09 at b5_revisited.
*Fanworks for Deathwalker – 1 x 09 at b5_revisited.
*Recap and Discussion for Believers – 1 x 10 at b5_revisited.
**b5_revisited will begin a rewatch of Season 1 on November 2. This post has info and sign up info for leading discussions for each episode. We need more people to sign up and we hope you’ll all join us in the rewatch! We welcome all watchers and commenters too!


Fun things:
If you have Facebook, ‘like’
Bruce Boxleitner for updates on Bruce and some nice convention photos.
Claudia Christian for some Ivanova fun and photos.
Patricia Tallman does a few fun things at her FB page and she has a newsletter you can subscribe to while you're there.
Jason Carter for some of Jason’s zaniness. He does post some as well as a mod.
Fans of J. Michael Straczynski for updates from the man himself and mods.

***The Zocalo Today is a great place to read news and fun stuff from fans. I think you have to ask to join. There is lots of discussion and fanning going on at this Fb community right now. B5 is alive and well there.***

**January Birthdays! **
January 3 - Danica McKellar (Centauri noble Aria Tensus in the "The War Prayer.")
January 9 - David Allen Brooks
January 13 - Richard Moll (Max, a lurker criminal, in "Hunter, Prey" (Season 2).
January 24 - Peter Woodward
January 27 - Julie Caitlin Brown
January 27 - Tamilyn Tomita

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Special Notice: Babylon 5 Love Month is approaching!

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We still have lots of open days!