#mollari

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Londo Mollari…

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[thecraftywriter]

If tumblr had been around when Babylon 5 first aired, I swear this website would have been obsessed with Londo and G'Kar.

Listen. LISTEN. They are bound by fate. They circle each other like binary stars. When they're around each other, they flare like comets that get to close to the sun. They may well be destined to crush all life between them with the intensity of their will.

Tumblr would not have been normal about them, and I would have been HERE for it.

[koroa]

"Can you remember how it used to be? We were so proud, so free Strong and mighty powerful and true Can you remember? Now all around us, pestilence and greed Famine, hate and war It surrounds us like a black disease Just take a look around us" Fall of the Empire by Accept

[woodsfae]

while I was trying to fall asleep this vision intruded behind my eyelids and gave me no rest till I took off my eyemask and brought it onto this plane

[greenscircus]

Minvember prompt 2 - Shame

[therighthandofvengeance]

How I think the Babylon 5 ambassadorial staff would react to a Roomba:

Delenn: picks it up and brings it to a member of the command staff for explanation

Lennier: takes it apart piece by piece and re-engineers it to function at a higher level

Londo: calls security to remove the offensive device from his quarters

Vir: keeps a respectable distance until someone explains its purpose/intended use

G'Kar: programs said Roomba to follow Londo around his quarters in the first place

Na'Toth: dropkicks the Roomba 5 whole miles

[thethirdromana]

Babylon 5 characters as cheeses

OK, I love this question.

Let's start with Delenn. She's halfway between one thing and another. She's strong, powerful, unifying. She may look superficially weak and squishy, but she can dominate a room (/cheeseboard). Delenn is Cambozola, a delicious hybrid of gorgonzola and camembert. I see the Minbari as more of a camembert and the humans as more of a gorgonzola, but you know, I'm open to dissenting opinions on that.

For Londo I needed a cheese that would look stunning in purple. He's all about tradition, so it needed to be a cheese with a solid history, under a DOP. My suggestion is Époisses, a cheese that dates back to the early 16th century. It's a rich, soft, stinky cheese with a rind that is washed in brandy. This just feels so profoundly like Londo in cheese form that I'm not actually sure I can justify the choice sufficiently. I'm just going to have to trust that you see my vision.

One of the many things that I utterly love about G'Kar is the way we see his character evolve. When we first meet him, he seems a bit silly and a bit petty; not the kind of person to take seriously. But under pressure, it turns out, he rises to the occasion and proves to be unbreakable. G'Kar, therefore, is a squeaky cheese that can handle a lot of heat. G'Kar is halloumi.

To me the core of Sheridan's character is that he doesn't really fit in the position he's been placed in. He's a hotshot military commander who has had diplomacy forced upon him. He's not a cheese that's a natural fit alongside all the other cheeses. But when he's in his element, Sheridan is unbeatable. Sheridan is mozzarella.

For Sinclair, I wanted something smooth and subtle. There's a pyramid-shaped goat's cheese called Pouligny Saint Pierre that's has flavours of nuts, hay and herbs, which has exactly the combination of strength and subtlety that I associate with Sinclair. Also, it only comes in 250g servings, so - just like Sinclair - you never get quite enough of it.

Marcus is the most English Englishman to ever be several generations removed from England, so he could only be a cheddar. Specifically, Wookey Hole cheddar, which is matured underground in the Wookey Hole caves in the Mendip Hills near Glastonbury. Also buried under Glastonbury - allegedly - is King Arthur. Marcus would love to be associated with this specific cheese and you can't tell me otherwise.

I would love to provide a Russian cheese for Ivanova but Russia is just not really a notable cheesemaking country. So instead I suggest a Lancashire bomb, a strong, creamy ball-shaped cheese that's wrapped in black wax so it literally looks like a bomb. Put a Lancashire bomb on your cheeseboard and no one is going to be looking at anything else. It also has a tanginess that feels very much like the cheese expression of Ivanova's dry humour.

One of the trickier people on this list was Garibaldi. He's fast-talking, divisive, a man of the people. He beats up criminals and he loves cartoons. None of this says cheese to you? Well, my suggestion is Wensleydale, a distinctive crumbly Yorkshire cheese that was saved from near-extinction after it was featured in Wallace and Gromit. (This is the weakest of my suggestions, but sometimes I fear we have to accept that a sci-fi character is not a cheese. Alternative ideas welcomed.)

When I first started watching Babylon 5, I called Franklin Dr Handsome, and despite all that he goes through - the wars, the stim addiction - it still feels like being a handsome, charming and generally good guy is at the core of his character. He's been through a lot but he's come through it, if not unchanged, then none the worse for it. I suggest smoked applewood, a cheese that's sweet, smoky, and always popular.

And finally, Lennier spent most of his life before Babylon 5 in a monastery, so we need a monastic cheese. My choice here is Tête de Moine - which translates literally as "monk's head" - a Swiss cheese that dates back eight centuries. It's not supposed to be cut but pared with a girolle, or cheese curler. I don't know that there's anything more Minbari than a cheese that comes with a ritual for how you're supposed to eat it.

[emperorcartagia]

[tenderspaces]

starring in your bad dreams

[babischlong-six]

[alienprohibition]

babylon 5 x internethippo part 2

[extantodyssey]

“Your heart is empty, Mollari, did you know that?”

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alternate version + the hearts in the background below the cut

[koroa]

so I started rewatching B5 after the last commission D;

[all-absurdities-in-the-world]

Why haven't I discovered Babylon 5 earlier? Like omg what even is this show??!

[greenscircus]

old set of sketches i hadn't gotten around to posting

[therighthandofvengeance]

Londo and G’Kar walked so that Deadpool and Wolverine could run