For #Pride Month, I'd like to mention #Babylon5. The show ran from 1993 to 1998, and made a point of not making a point of gay relationships. Susan Ivanova (serving military officer) had a lesbian affair with Talia Winters, and no other character even blinked.
Later on two straight men on a secret mission found themselves using "newlyweds" as a cover story, because two men on their honeymoon would fit right in.
The message was clear: in the future being gay is 100% unremarkable. In the 90s!
Attempted #Introduction. Interests and things I post:
I’m the world’s most boring archaeologist. I boost #archaeology stuff but rarely post my own.
Immigrant and dual citizen :US:/ 🇧🇪.
TV obsessions: #TheExpanse, #Babylon5, #TwinPeaks. Have a lot to say about #StarTrek also.
Video #games: wide variety, but biggest obsessions have been rpgs and city builders.
Food pics, flower pics, selfies.
Love custom emoji. I am :bisexual_flag:, kinda :aromantic_flag:, kinda :ace:, and :autism:.
I am searching for a user here in the fediverse. I have lost their handle. They wrote me a DM a while back on my old firefish.social account. The topic was #Babylon5.
I was in the process of writing a reply when a big server update came and nothing was working for me anymore at all. So I could not reply. I just went back to that account to see how things are now, only to find that all my notifications were gone and I can't find that DM anymore.
I hope to find this person again. I want to tell them that I did not want to ignore them. I wanted to reply. Though I also have to admit I have not watched B5 in a long while and am stuck in season 2. However, I will get back to it eventually. Only now is not its time. (That kind of stuff is very normal for me. Just because I haven't finished something doesn't mean I never will. Its time will come again. It always does.)
There was a Twitter campaign last year to support the #Babylon5 remake. I tweeted 100 reasons I love Babylon 5. I will repost all 100 here, to count down to #TheRoadHome release next month. (There are more than 100 reasons I love Babylon 5; that's just where I stopped the tweets :P )
It's on a printed backdrop behind a cafe. Normally it doesn't get seen from this angle (because the vista requires a forced perspective to work) but in "The Fall of the Night" the camera is awkwardly placed and this checkerboard ball is visible. It looks a lot like the boing ball to me!
Babylon 5 famously used Amiga products to make the cgi... so I want to believe...
I accomplished one thing in 2023. It took all year but I finally finished my second-ever fan art :GrinLotje: To no one's surprise, it's more #Babylon5 and as is now traditional, I forced myself to finish on New Year's Eve :GrinLotje: