#Babylon’s gate

[satanicspeaks]

Babylon’s Gate spoilers

Im loving how much Holden is uncomfortable with Clarissa being on the ship. The series to me gives beautiful insight into atonement and the human rights about punishment of death vs prison. Amos doesn’t have a morality in the way that others do, notably lacks empathy due to whatever reason (imma do a post about that later). So for Amos forgiveness isn’t required. If someone steps out of line and becomes a threat then they are handled. He bonded with Clarissa and feels the need to protect/care in the way one would for another comrade.

Alex is iffy but trusts the people he’s with enough that if a situation arises he knows they’ll be able to handle it. But he’s also social conflict avoidant, his tactic is to placate and avoid issues, often using humour and accent to diffuse. As Naomi points out, he isn’t comfortable with Clarissa, but when the decision was made to not kill her he chose to stand by Naomi’s decision and now if Naomi is okay with it then he will try to be too.

Naomi has the obvious reason of being okay with it. She can see Clarissa has changed, knows that her own son has done so so much worse and feels the guilt of the things she did even when they weren’t an active choice. I don’t think she forgave Clarissa, but she did see the importance in giving Clarissa a chance to change/heal/atone. For her it’s more than just Clarissa’s own change, but hope for herself and her son.

But Holden. Ah Holden beloved, ever the angry and uncomfortable on everyone’s behalf. It kind of reminds me of an ally for LGBTQIA+ or disability things being upset on my behalf. Such an ally is uncomfortable because for them the morality is much more rigid than my own, there’s the urge to be hateful and aggressive to those that might just be ignorant or with some effort could actually change. Bringing this back to prison vs. death punishment, Holden leans towards death when someone has done things that are on the negative extreme of his morals. His threshold for ‘someone can change’ is much lower and it’s also biased as fuck. If he knows the person and feels like he actually knows the person, has that connection, then that threshold gets higher.

Of course from the readers perspective we can see how Clarissa has changed. We see her interactions with Amos and see how much she knows she did awful shit. She knows she’s the walking equivalent to a wolf in sheep’s skin, constantly underestimated and then feared when people recognise her.

The diversity of morality on the Rosci is beautiful. I’m so excited to see how Bobbie fits into it all for this book (the Rosci!!! Gets an actual gunner!! Fuck that was so cool when she got to be in the gunners chair. Story wise I see why she isn’t kept because it’s a god mod that would need to be constantly knee-capped else risk readers being like ‘well then why didn’t they just do this cause they have Bobbie’)

[thesorceresstemple]

Ishtar Gate of Babylon. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Turkey

[pluckingstarsoffmoontrees]

Well, I expected Seishirou to win, but not by that much of a margin, and Fei Wang in second place was also a surprise considering I’ve never heard anyone speak of him positively.

[houseofclamp]

[landofanimes]

CLAMP EXHIBITION (2024)

Merchadise: Arcana Card collection, 50 cards (3 per pack)

Features 17 out of 23 titles in the exhibition!

RG Veda / Man of Many Faces / Tokyo Babylon / Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders / X/1999 / CLAMP School Detectives / Magic Knight Rayearth / Miyuki-chan in Wonderland / Wish / Cardcaptor Sakura / Clover / Angelic Layer / Chobits / xxxHolic / Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- / Kobato. / Gate 7

[quark-nova]

Exact same vibes

[wgm-beautiful-world]

ISHTAR GATE - IRAQ

[wineredsea]

rip minthara she would have loved lady gaga

[memendoemori]

Karlach: Do you want me to behead them?

Babylon, an archfey warlock tiefling with -1 strength, a knife, an unsettling attachment to a vampire and a dream: :) No. I've got it. :)

[dadaonice]

The Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

[cassandrasimplex]

The world crossed juuuuuust the right wires for half a second and I finally figured out what formative event of my young adulthood made me incapable of being as into Gale as it seems like I should be.

[satanicspeaks]

Witnessing Anderson Dawes elaborately lie about Holden to all OPA representatives is beautiful as it is hilarious

[derekscorner]

They gave me the Gate of Babylon! (lite) They have no idea what power trip they've just sent me on.

[pluckingstarsoffmoontrees]

So, for those not in the know, there’s a unified CLAMP discord with channels for all their works, even really obscure ones from the eighties, and all adaptations of their works.

If you’re a fan of CLAMP, I really encourage you to join this, and the link below is set on No Ending and No Limit Usage so you can share it as many times as you want.

[houseofclamp]

[polybbiuss]

Balance - Principles of Design (1/10), digital collage

my professor assigned me ten more collages 😭😭 only had a week to do these ones instead of two so they aren't quite as good as the last batch