#babylong

[audible-smiles]

there's an editing error in the Babylon 5 episode Sic Transit Vir that results in a line being left out...a line which clarifies that a Narn man who was abducted and threatened with a knife by a genocidal maniac is now recovering in sickbay. it's wildly distracting because they just...hard cut away from that scene, and so you spend the remaining 10 minutes going "so is he dead??? are they going to tell us what happened?" and then they DON'T.

...but I actually think the mistake is pretty apt, because for the whole episode, they're just using "whether or not a character is sympathetic towards the Narns" as a marker of whether the audience should like them. Vir and Ivanova are Good because they want to save people, while Londo and Lyndisty are Bad because they love doing murders. the actual lives and stories of the Narns themselves are not important. please note that G'kar is not in this episode at all, and they don't bother naming the Narn man whose entire village was destroyed. it wouldn't even matter if that man had died as long as Vir was sad about it afterwards, because the episode is about Vir.

terrible fucking episode, no stars

[cha-lii]

it is 5.17 in the morning and i am slightly drunk, but i simply must say this to any and all that are reading - babylon is a severely underrated film. it was put down by people afraid of profanity and vulgarity, and those who misunderstood its message sadly have a larger platform than they deserve. please please please watch babylon and form your own opinions - it is a fucking sensation and, one day, will be recognised as such

[randomthefox]

We got MORE TRASH this year!

First of all why did Sonic went to their House? How does he even Know were they Life? Why are the chaotix so SURPRISED to see him?

Not only that they proceed to interrogante him like he was a criminal which if they were in character this WON'T have happened because they have faith in Sonic like his other friends.

Tangle was okey with Sonic begin the PR. Whisper was okey with It and the babylong rouges WERE OKEY WITH IT WHY THE CHAOTIX AREN'T OKEY WITH IT?!!!

Yeah like they're trying to pretend the Chaotix would care at all, after literally every single other character basically shrugged and said "well he must have had a good reason" when they found out.

It's insane how bad that storyline was and yet Stanley is doubling down on it as if anybody gives a shit. I know these comics are written well off in advance, but it still goes to show how high on her own supply she is.

[alchemisland]

Indecisive Patriarchs (Yesah Noah)

Standing at the gates, a Lamassu

Second rate your llama zoo

Te llamo who?

The ark the ark upon the waves, below the graveless dead unsaved and unsavoury

Doubt is a slavery, that God didn’t make me, doubt daily rapes me

The voice guiding this vessel perilous, this violent earth; the sons of Pelias

Dripping, Noah upon the deck whose nakedness is as a gorgon’s mock

Waves knock her clinkered sides, withershins the many miles out here are noughts

The troubled lineage is severed from the healthy seed as if by glaive heaven wielded and welded

The saved, he says, will erect a shrine where the lance of the first new sun shines

Below deck the children of nations, the nations of children, the notions of children, casting coloured stones to divine

The Will of one who is this Will in mind, this Will of mine, will mine

Amount to anything or sink like the rest, bubbles at other end despite trying level best.

First frost the glass loud grass of term’s final class, stripped trees crass 

First frost no sign of Nixon; Nick busy with nixers, his son’s new Nikon acquired

Footfalls the Christmas Father’s arrival; sliding slates that Nick’s on

Tinsel from a Cornish mine guarding branches like an aggravated serpent

Money lent is money spent, bidden guided arghoslent

All lights and dazzle and illusion of overeffulgence, angel topped the baubles on

Babylong ting the cold cuts still years away from serving time

My vengeance a henge’s patience strengthening below the lights 

How he makes bank – growsmaryJ and grime, alchemy infinite dimes

The drank distilled the field is tilled the low stone chair where Corn Kings are killed

Brine in great store the abating storm the form of land from denseclouds born

Hark hark the height of land, hard by here the Isle of Sharks.

Couch of cudchew NPCs, clapping festive idents on BBC

Could you fill an empty seat with all the things they do not see

With plastic guns I BB see but the Old Bill seek APB

John Lewis advert is your year’s emotional highpoint

Stand the one named Spartacus but only I point

Mystical blood thrilling from a wound, the legionnaire’s enchanted spearpoint

Waves at seapoint inviting gooseflesh on Christmas morning, homefires warming

Cold bird in cooling vat, eating bird in nearby flat, bold cloud hues warning

Unmask wolves before counting sheep, wolf wakes when farmer sleeps.

[soroyachenx]

Name: Soroya Chen

Age: 36

Birthday/Zodiac: July 12th, 1988 — Cancer

Face Claim: Melissa O'Neil

Occupation: Bartender @ Babylon

Gender & Preferred Pronouns: Cis female & she/her

Brief Bio

Soroya Chen was born an only child in Boston, Mass.

Her mother and father had been decently well off, having been involved in the Real Estate business for some time.

They tried to get Soroya to follow in their footsteps, entrepreneurship and everything like it.

That's not what she had in the cards, as her discipoline record in school started to soar higher and higher as she got older.

Soroya loved to fight, got an adrenaline rush off of it actually, so any chance she got to pick one or end one—she took, and she always won.

Her parents weren't sure what else to do with her other than get her put into boxing classes, cage fighting, etc.

Cage fighting is where she had the most fun, making someone bleed, tap out, beg for mercy....yeah she might have been a little twisted.

It worked in her favor though, as she climbed the ranks for young girls in Boston and eventually would go on to compete statewide, her parents paying for her to have a manager so their hands were clean from all of the grime.

It was then she started to notice more and more girls her age starting to lose on purpose, managers cutting deals with whomever so that they could scrape by with more on the back end and not have to really try.

That didn't sit well with her, and she vowed to never go that route, it was dirty and well...she looked at girls who did that as straight pussies. What was the whole point of doing this, traning for this, if you were just going to wimp out, fall for a price.

The day came when her manager finally tried it on her, seeing if she wanted to make more money and throw a fight, to which she declined repeatedly. Unbeknownst to her, he had already set her opponent up to lose, either way he'd make a profit.

Whennthe girl dropped within the first few seconds and Soroya understood what was going on, she went crazy. Blacking out in a fit of rage she repeatedly beat her opponent's face in, fracturing her orbital socket among many other things as she had to be dragged off of her.

That was the last fight she fought in, deciding she needed to figure something else to do or keep it as a hobby to stay away from the ciorruption of it all. That led her into finally following her parent's footsteps and getting into real estate, she left the fighting behind and tried to live a different life, one she never felt comfortable in.

About six years back she moved to New York, settling into the area easily it seemed, and after selling only a few houses here and there Soroya decided she didn't want to do it anymore.

Keeping the money she made for savings purposes only, she started to bartend at Babylong, enjoying the atmosphere it brought along with its patrons. They were different, some she could tell were up to no good, but she knew when and when not to keep her mouth shut.

Soroya has been there since, minding her business for the most part and keeping some secrets she learns hidden in her backpocket.

[autisticshadowthehedgehog]

ok but if we have to consider "copyright-free costumes"

eggman: dressing up is for losers until sage asks him to take her "trick of treating" and then he's just dressed as a basic robot. sage is a ghost for obvs reasons

amy: fairy princess. or a witch. or her fortune teller outfit

blaze: smth she can enhance with her fire powers, like a phoenix or dragon. or she dresses as a knight and gives sonic a heart attack

silver: he doesn't know what halloween is so he has a mishmash of anything he could find at spirit halloween that "looked cool" and he's having the time of his life

marine: pirate. or a ghost as exposure therapy

babylon rogues: jet claims that halloween is stupid but goes all out every year anyway. it'd be funny if they dressed up as that babylong guardian they helped beat the shit outta

sticks: legitimately still believes that halloween is the night where demons come to take people's souls and the only way to throw them off is to dress up as a creature of the night so she is always like. indecipherable. girl's got movie-prop-level costumes every goddamn year and then she buries them in the woods to avoid association

tangle and whisper: tangle wants to do a cute couples' costume but whisper wants to wear her normal outfit and hang out on the rooftops to snipe any threat that comes near tangle. it's a heated point of discussion rn

tikal: ghost or angel

infinite: clown

ok so from what i can gather from the official sonic channel drawings + app skins, the "canon" halloween costumes for sonic characters that's known are:

sonic: vampire. which is wild cause he was a werewolf for a while

tails: COWBOY YEEHAW MODE

knuckles: we've seen both mummy and skeleton outfits, but i think the mummy is the more consistent one?

metal sonic: grim reaper

shadow: the same vampire outfit as sonic

rouge: witch

omega: big fuckign pumpkin

vector: frankenstein dj

espio: mummy

charmy: also a fucking vampire

cream: witch

big: guess what another fuckginv vampire

and mephiles is getting an oni costume soon

so for the other characters. what do we think they would dress as for halloween cause marine is def going in a dollar store moana dress

[xforcestore]

Coleção Coringas . . . #camiseta #xforceantifashion #antifashion #blusa #babylong #lojanerd #mangalonga #camisetapersonalizada #camisa #estampa #camiseteria #vestuario #mundonerd #errejota #riodejaneiroinstagram #021rj #tijuca #tjk #riodejaneiro #saopaulo #sp #jokerbrasil #ocoringa #coringa (em X-Force the Antifashion Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4dA8OMFrF9/?igshid=1m4x7zrr5m9us

[idwsonicshowdown]

Well, it looks like the Babylong Rogues will now be pinning all of their hopes for victory on Wave, as Jet was no match for Sonic, who spindashes to Round Two!

Round 1 - Wave 4

[audible-smiles]

minor 'Signs and Portents' frustrations: a telepath can't be on screen for five seconds without Ivanova appearing out of nowhere to talk about her dead mom again

major 'Signs and Portents' frustrations: Garibaldi can't be on screen for five seconds without taking his anger out on the people around him or talking about how he wants criminals eliminated from the gene pool, or following orders to violently break up a strike, but the show is still trying so very hard to make us think he's charming. the vibes on that man are rancid but I have to hear about his ex girlfriend and his hobbies and his battle with alcoholism constantly??? ugh

[be-abeautifullittlefool]

For those of you who don't already know, I am 10 weeks along and we are expecting a beautiful baby in April 2018! I want to thank everyone for the amazing support I have received thus far and we are all so excited to meet baby Long!!! 🤰🏼👶🏼🍼 #babyLong #april2018 (at West Knoxville, Tennessee)

[saltchurch]

"Before Chuck Shurley's so-meta-it-hurts Supernatural series came on the scene, there was Season 2's "Hollywood Babylon," which used the whole Supernatural premise to send up Hollywood and used Hollywood to send up the whole Supernatural premise. "The rules aren't really landing for me," a clueless studio exec complains early in the hour to the director, McG (a real Supernatural producer, but who is played here by Regan Burns), of the schlocky horror flick whose set Sam and Dean have come to investigate. "Like, the kids do this Latin chant and that makes the ghosts show up? See but if the ghosts are in Hell, how do they hear the chanting? What do they, have super-hearing? It's illogical, the rules don't track!" This is, of course, a dig on Supernatural’s outlandish monster fighting rules, but the audience is given barely any time to laugh about it before the exec's dumb complaint gets casually turned, verbatim, into real dialogue for the movie-within-a-show. The whole thing gets transformed into a dig on the blasphemously careless anti-process behind the show's beloved, complicated mythology.

It's not just the dialogue that gets swapped around from reality to fiction and back again: Like in "Changing Channels," the action in "Hollywood Babylon" is also constantly moving from "real" (what the Winchesters' lives are like in normal episodes) to framed (on set, with cameras), challenging the audience to remember that everything in Hollywood, even Supernatural, is fake. But then the actors read dialogue that Sam recognizes to be "real" Latin convocations, and the fake horror flick's trailer, embedded in the middle of the episode, uses footage we in the audience have seen on previous, decidedly non-meta Supernatural episodes before. We find ourselves challenged to see even Hollywood's fakeness as fake, and with it, to believe that monsters and ghosts just might be real, after all…"

A wise prophet/horror novelist once said: "It's not really jumping the shark if you never come back down."

[alchemisland]

Indecisive Patriarchs (Yesah Noah)

Standing at the gates, a Lamassu

Second rate your llama zoo

Te llamo who?

The ark the ark upon the waves, below the graveless dead unsaved and unsavoury

Doubt is a slavery, that God didn’t make me, doubt daily rapes me

The voice guiding this vessel perilous, this violent earth; the sons of Pelias

Dripping, Noah upon the deck whose nakedness is as a gorgon’s mock

Waves knock her clinkered sides, withershins the many miles out here are noughts

The troubled lineage is severed from the healthy seed as if by glaive heaven wielded and welded

The saved, he says, will erect a shrine where the lance of the first new sun shines

Below deck the children of nations, the nations of children, the notions of children, casting coloured stones to divine

The Will of one who is this Will in mind, this Will of mine, will mine

Amount to anything or sink like the rest, bubbles at other end despite trying level best.

First frost the glass loud grass of term’s final class, stripped trees crass 

First frost no sign of Nixon; Nick busy with nixers, his son’s new Nikon acquired

Footfalls the Christmas Father’s arrival; sliding slates that Nick’s on

Tinsel from a Cornish mine guarding branches like an aggravated serpent

Money lent is money spent, bidden guided arghoslent

All lights and dazzle and illusion of overeffulgence, angel topped the baubles on

Babylong ting the cold cuts still years away from serving time

My vengeance a henge’s patience strengthening below the lights 

How he makes bank – growsmaryJ and grime, alchemy infinite dimes

The drank distilled the field is tilled the low stone chair where Corn Kings are killed

Brine in great store the abating storm the form of land from denseclouds born

Hark hark the height of land, hard by here the Isle of Sharks.

Couch of cudchew NPCs, clapping festive idents on BBC

Could you fill an empty seat with all the things they do not see

With plastic guns I BB see but the Old Bill seek APB

John Lewis advert is your year’s emotional highpoint

Stand the one named Spartacus but only I point

Mystical blood thrilling from a wound, the legionnaire’s enchanted spearpoint

Waves at seapoint inviting gooseflesh on Christmas morning, homefires warming

Cold bird in cooling vat, eating bird in nearby flat, bold cloud hues warning

Unmask wolves before counting sheep, wolf wakes when farmer sleeps.

[ificouldflytotheclouds]

I FORGOT

CALUM CONFIRMED THAT BABYLON IS GOING TO BE PERFORMED ON TOUR

WHAT EVEN

[ferreira-pepe]

Babylon Gate sentinel... #babylongate #babylon #metmuseum (em The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnKR5OHnovb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ttt2vlyrq6tb

[onemountaingoatssongaday]

Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise

This is just to say hello And to let you know I think of you from time to time I know I never really knew you But somehow I miss you And wish that you'd stayed in my life Making contact gets harder As the silence grows longer And isn't it only me Who'd like us to see each other How I would hate to be a bother The way we left it was you'd ring

I'm under no illusion As to what I meant to you But you made an impression And sometimes I still feel the bruise Sometimes I still feel the bruise

Now and then I'll stumble on What I've misplaced but never lost An ache I first felt long ago Though you've appeared and disappeared Throughout these past few years I'd be surprised if you now showed Making contact gets harder As the silence grows longer And why would you think of me When you were not the one in love When you were not the dreamer When you were just the dream

I'm under no illusion As to what I meant to you But you made an impression Sometimes I still feel the bruise Sometimes I still feel the bruise

from Babylon Springs (2006)

Kinda feeling the bruise right now...