eponymous_rose

Title: Dusk
Word Count: 5,800
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence (mostly non-graphic), references canon character death.
Spoilers: Set post-"Sleeping in Light".
Characters: Susan Ivanova, Delenn, David Sheridan, OCs
Author's Note: Many thanks to rivendellrose for the beta!

Summary: The vocabulary of loss is sparse; Susan comes home.

( Dusk )

Because I had one of those days that ended in unexpected awesome, I figured I'd try to return the favour. What follows is a bunch of random stuff, grabbed from tumblr (not hotlinked, of course, and with credit, of course, so you can trace it to its awesome, awesome source!). Basically, think of it as a massive reblog. It should be noted that my approach to tumblr, until recently, has been to (a) look at it in abject confusion and (b) be too embarrassed to ask someone how to make the pretty pictures appear on my computer screen. My dramatic discovery of the search box will doubtless make all the history books.

Since there are approximately twenty quadrizillion amazing Doctor Who images on tumblr, I thought I'd stick to some of my smaller fandoms (weighted a little more heavily on the DS9/B5 side of things), give 'em a bit of love. The images are whatever happens to catch my eye in the next hour or so. There may be spoilers. There will definitely be awesome.

(gifs under the cut - dial-up users beware!)

( Random fannish picspam, awaaaay! )

Okay, that's probably enough silliness for now. Back to your regularly-scheduled Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or, if you're a time-traveller, October.

Since power is back, I've been watching a bunch of early Babylon 5 episodes, so now you get subjected to my random thoughts:

( Spoilers for the first bunch of episodes, and probably some other stuff later on, too. )

I've been a bit out of commission lately due to endless deadlines and uncooperative code (ds9_rewatch, I won't miss watching this week's episode with you folks for anything!), but somewhere along my B5 rewatch, something clicked fannishly, all at once. Now I am at that stage where I just want to flail happily at random passersby. Since actual random passersby tend to look at me funny when I start talking space stations, you're it.

So! Babylon 5. Season three. How awesome is season three? It is like an awesome sundae with lots of whipped awesome and a maraschino awesome on top. Of awesome. That is pretty much all I have to say, but I will be repeating that statement in the form of a picspam of the mid-season arc ("Severed Dreams" is still my favourite thing ever) and other assorted gleefulness. This show is considerably better the second time around, especially knowing that all five seasons were plotted out from the beginning. I don't know, it's a different mindset, right? When you know plots aren't going to be dropped, and little throwaway lines are going to come back to haunt you, it's kind of addictive watching how it all comes together. I still haven't quite managed to wrap my head around the whole "War Without End" episode, because whoa, most ridiculously amazing continuity. So shiny.

Also, be forewarned: I got unexpectedly shippy this time around and kept wanting to draw little hearts around Sheridan and Delenn every time they were on screen together.


How so cute?

( Anyway. Random mid-season three pic/quotespammery. )

Also! Fanvids. I love fanvids. Have some fanvid recs.

People Help the People by RuthIsHiding - I would have completely missed this one because I don't usually go through YouTube looking for fanvids, but I happened across it by accident and am very glad I did. It's desperate and angry, much like the show at its darkest. Very, very sleek in terms of editing, which is always a treat in older fandoms. You might want a more cheerful chaser afterwards.

Apocalypse Lullaby by icepixie - this is just an awesome fanvid that came out comparatively recently and sparked a lot of B5 nostalgia among people who hadn't seen the show in ages. It's lovely and has a lot going on beneath the surface. It's also indirectly responsible for my finally watching the show, so I love it for that alone.

Dancing in the Light by Barkley - because it's hard not to sound incredibly depressing while summing up this show (I mean, "There's a war, and another war, and then so-and-so has a tragic fate, and oh, look, another war"), but it still has knock-knock jokes and teddy bears in space and Londo action figures and singing and lots of hugs and a wonderful undercurrent of hope. ♥ This is an awesomely upbeat vid, and it's a lot of fun.

By Your Side by Barkley - because I started shipping Delenn/Sheridan a ridiculous amount this time around, and this is an excellent Vienna Teng fanvid devoted to them that doubles as a bit of a Delenn character study. Bam, done. This does an awesome job of conveying the epicness of the whole show - I mean, all things considered, we see a substantial portion of a 35-year period (flashbacks ten years, flashforwards twenty years, five years in between), and that's a lot of history to cover. This conveys that epic feeling so, so well.

Once again, totally new to the fandom, so any and all fic/vid/whatever recs would be amazing. In case it wasn't obvious from the above, I am a Delenn fangirl, and also adore Ivanova, but I will read any characters or pairings, and also no longer fear spoilers. ♥