Babylon 5 Fandom Update for 7 - 18 - 2021
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alexcatI update once every 2 weeks (or so) with fiction, challenges etc. Please feel free to contact me if I 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.
It’s hot and steamy here in the southern US, fairly typical for July. Hope y’all are staying cool!
John addressing the troops in Moments of Transition -
Fanfic:
A Pound of Mercy by tlcroft (Matthew Gideon/John Matheson, Mature).
Eurydice by Elsodex (Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, Mature).
Lights, Camera, Action, No Private Life at All by AlexandriteSerpent and SagasEldr (Crossover with British actors, Mature).
First Impressions by ddagent (Delenn/John Sheridan, Teen and up).
Never tease me, you hear? by signsandportents (Michael Garibaldi/Jeffrey Sinclairs, Explicit).
just a trim by spacebubble (G’kar & Londo, General).
Favourite by Euphemia313 (Londo Mollari/OFC, Mature).
The Despair of the First Ones by the stargate time traveller (K).
UPDATED:
Rebirth by Euphemia313 (Delenn.John, Marcus/Susan, Teen and up).
Episode I: Birth of the Phoenix by proton104 (Crossover w/ Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars. Mature).
Telepath Wolf (Season 2) by OriginalHealer (Susan/Talia, Teen and up).
right place, wrong reality by Staal_22 (stahl_021801) (Crossover w/Stargate: SG-1, Daniel Jackson/Jack O’Neill, Delenn/John Sheridan, Explicit)
Fan comic:
Babylon 6 Episode 4: Driving Forces by Jameson9101322 (Various, Gen). Check it out! It’s a good story.
Fanart:
I am changing up the fanart selections since I use Deviantart for most of my art posts. For the foreseeable future I will feature one artist a week and maybe include a small sample of their work with a link.
IOV’s blog with Susan Ivanova art. There are some gorgeous works there.
Bio of the week:
Our bio is that of Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. Zimbalist played millionaire Williams Edgars on Babylon 5, husband of the love of Garibaldi’s life and the man responsible for developing a virus that would kill telepaths. Zimbalist was born in 1918 and was quite accomplished. He was a decorated soldier in WWII and acted on both television and in the movies. He came up in the era of contract players and he was one of Warner Brothers stable. Even though his family was a Russian Jewish family, his parents converted to Christianity and he never considered himself Jewish. Mr. Zimbalist died in 2014 at the age of 95. My DH met him once and said he was a tiny man.
News and articles:
*Imagine a World with Millions of Telepaths, J. Michael Straczynski Did and Wrote a Comic about it - How’s that for a long article title?
*Did DS9 Plagiarize B5?.
*Cancelled Before it Began – Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
*Is Babylon 5 the Most Influential TV Show of the Past 25 Years?.
*Jessica Walter Dead at 80 Jessica Walter played senator Elise Voudreau on Season 2, Episode 6 - Spider in the Web
*Babylon 5 – The Extravaganza is a fan event on March 20, 2021.
*Babylon 5: Why the Sci-fi Series Ended with Season 5
Communities and members:
***![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
b5_revisited is watching Season 4 now. If you’d like to write the summary/lead the discussion for an episode – go here and sign up: at Dreamwidth OR at Livejournal.
***Episode 14 – Moments of Transition and the Mirror is Here.
***Episode 15 – No Surrender, No Retreat and the Mirror is Here.
***medusa cascade is watching and commenting on Season 1 of Babylon 5. It’s her first watch.
*B5 Prompts on Tumblr is a good place to find story ideas.
*There is a Babylon 5 Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NAK4ywU with lots of chat about B5 and such.
*Babylon 5 Facebook Page: Come join us and start a conversation.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643505239288376/
Here is a list our communities at Dreamwidth - all posts are mirrored at from LJ to DW:
Babylon 5 Revisited
Babylon 5 Love
Universe Today
*NOTE* All announcements are posted at the mirror Livejournal communities as well.
Books:
**JMS’s novel will be available Tuesday July 6th - Together We Will Go.
*JMS ‘s new writing book has come out and is available in print and ebook: Becomong a Writer, Staying a Writer.
* Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek.
*Lost (and Found) In Space by Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright – A pictorial memoir
*Have You Seen My Country Lately?: America’s Wake-up Call by Jerry Doyle – similar in style to his radio show.
*Diplomatic Act by Peter Jurasik and William H. Keith, Jr. A novel about an actor playing an alien.
*Pleasure Thresholds by Patricia Tallman. She has updated this one and it is available for Here: https://www.questretreats.com/pleasure-thresholds-order/
*Frontier Earth by Bruce Boxleitner is a fiction aliens and cowboys tale.
*Claudia Christian’s Snack Hacks at Amazon.
*Becoming Superman: Get it at Amazon.
You can also buy the Audible version there OR the Cd version with Peter Jurasik reading it.
Fun things:
***Claudia Christian newsletter: Sign up here
If you have Facebook, ‘like’
*The Zocalo Today is a great place to read news and fun stuff from fans.***
*Babylon 5 Facebook Group is a fan group. It is quite busy, with over 17,000 members.***
*I have started a new Babylon 5 page at Facebook and we are eager to get new members.
Babylon 5 Fans and Friends is a new group. Come join us!
** July Birthdays**
Jerry Doyle - July 16
J. Michael Straczynski - July 17
David Warner - July 29
Send us your news~!
alexcat or post it to the update and I’ll include it the next time. It’s hot and steamy here in the southern US, fairly typical for July. Hope y’all are staying cool!
John addressing the troops in Moments of Transition -
Fanfic:
A Pound of Mercy by tlcroft (Matthew Gideon/John Matheson, Mature).
Eurydice by Elsodex (Susan Ivanova/Talia Winters, Mature).
Lights, Camera, Action, No Private Life at All by AlexandriteSerpent and SagasEldr (Crossover with British actors, Mature).
First Impressions by ddagent (Delenn/John Sheridan, Teen and up).
Never tease me, you hear? by signsandportents (Michael Garibaldi/Jeffrey Sinclairs, Explicit).
just a trim by spacebubble (G’kar & Londo, General).
Favourite by Euphemia313 (Londo Mollari/OFC, Mature).
The Despair of the First Ones by the stargate time traveller (K).
UPDATED:
Rebirth by Euphemia313 (Delenn.John, Marcus/Susan, Teen and up).
Episode I: Birth of the Phoenix by proton104 (Crossover w/ Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars. Mature).
Telepath Wolf (Season 2) by OriginalHealer (Susan/Talia, Teen and up).
right place, wrong reality by Staal_22 (stahl_021801) (Crossover w/Stargate: SG-1, Daniel Jackson/Jack O’Neill, Delenn/John Sheridan, Explicit)
Fan comic:
Babylon 6 Episode 4: Driving Forces by Jameson9101322 (Various, Gen). Check it out! It’s a good story.
Fanart:
I am changing up the fanart selections since I use Deviantart for most of my art posts. For the foreseeable future I will feature one artist a week and maybe include a small sample of their work with a link.
IOV’s blog with Susan Ivanova art. There are some gorgeous works there.
Bio of the week:
Our bio is that of Efrem Zimbalist Jr.. Zimbalist played millionaire Williams Edgars on Babylon 5, husband of the love of Garibaldi’s life and the man responsible for developing a virus that would kill telepaths. Zimbalist was born in 1918 and was quite accomplished. He was a decorated soldier in WWII and acted on both television and in the movies. He came up in the era of contract players and he was one of Warner Brothers stable. Even though his family was a Russian Jewish family, his parents converted to Christianity and he never considered himself Jewish. Mr. Zimbalist died in 2014 at the age of 95. My DH met him once and said he was a tiny man.
News and articles:
*Imagine a World with Millions of Telepaths, J. Michael Straczynski Did and Wrote a Comic about it - How’s that for a long article title?
*Did DS9 Plagiarize B5?.
*Cancelled Before it Began – Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
*Is Babylon 5 the Most Influential TV Show of the Past 25 Years?.
*Jessica Walter Dead at 80 Jessica Walter played senator Elise Voudreau on Season 2, Episode 6 - Spider in the Web
*Babylon 5 – The Extravaganza is a fan event on March 20, 2021.
*Babylon 5: Why the Sci-fi Series Ended with Season 5
Communities and members:
***
b5_revisited is watching Season 4 now. If you’d like to write the summary/lead the discussion for an episode – go here and sign up: at Dreamwidth OR at Livejournal.***Episode 14 – Moments of Transition and the Mirror is Here.
***Episode 15 – No Surrender, No Retreat and the Mirror is Here.
***medusa cascade is watching and commenting on Season 1 of Babylon 5. It’s her first watch.
*B5 Prompts on Tumblr is a good place to find story ideas.
*There is a Babylon 5 Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NAK4ywU with lots of chat about B5 and such.
*Babylon 5 Facebook Page: Come join us and start a conversation.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643505239288376/
Here is a list our communities at Dreamwidth - all posts are mirrored at from LJ to DW:
Babylon 5 Revisited
Babylon 5 Love
Universe Today
*NOTE* All announcements are posted at the mirror Livejournal communities as well.
Books:
**JMS’s novel will be available Tuesday July 6th - Together We Will Go.
*JMS ‘s new writing book has come out and is available in print and ebook: Becomong a Writer, Staying a Writer.
* Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek.
*Lost (and Found) In Space by Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright – A pictorial memoir
*Have You Seen My Country Lately?: America’s Wake-up Call by Jerry Doyle – similar in style to his radio show.
*Diplomatic Act by Peter Jurasik and William H. Keith, Jr. A novel about an actor playing an alien.
*Pleasure Thresholds by Patricia Tallman. She has updated this one and it is available for Here: https://www.questretreats.com/pleasure-thresholds-order/
*Frontier Earth by Bruce Boxleitner is a fiction aliens and cowboys tale.
*Claudia Christian’s Snack Hacks at Amazon.
*Becoming Superman: Get it at Amazon.
You can also buy the Audible version there OR the Cd version with Peter Jurasik reading it.
Fun things:
***Claudia Christian newsletter: Sign up here
If you have Facebook, ‘like’
*The Zocalo Today is a great place to read news and fun stuff from fans.***
*Babylon 5 Facebook Group is a fan group. It is quite busy, with over 17,000 members.***
*I have started a new Babylon 5 page at Facebook and we are eager to get new members.
Babylon 5 Fans and Friends is a new group. Come join us!
** July Birthdays**
Jerry Doyle - July 16
J. Michael Straczynski - July 17
David Warner - July 29
Send us your news~!
