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An old soft proofing tutorial of mine that I’ve been getting requests to post again.

#save for later

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Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol

#there’s not enough animal planet love #it made me want to be a zookeeper #i mean it didn’t work out #but still #polls

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Well per usual Echo and Omega are the only ones getting shit done.

Echo: Infiltrate Tantiss and start collecting data.

Omega: Start scouting and making an escape plan.

Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair: Play hide and seek with stormtroopers and fight a cave bear.

Rampart: Screams.

Yup sounds about right.

#forgot to mention #tech chilling on a beach #sipping fruity drinks with little umbrellas #the bad batch #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb tech

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Despite my mixed feelings and sadness over Echo’s more official departure from the bad batch him being in stark white armor has made me more convinced than ever before that this is a new start for him. He’s probably not getting his bad batch armor back which leaves the door open for him to either acquire new armor or (what I think might be less likely) hang up his blaster for good and bow out of the fight after the clones are freed from Tantiss. The white armor is something we haven’t seen on him in a long time and each time he appears he ends up on a path different than what he was originally on.

The dominos were close to being tossed aside, headed away from the fight, before they changed and pulled together in the end. On Rishi he was facing an assignment with little chance of ever seeing combat only to be attacked by the separatists and thrust into the fight, joining the 501st which eventually leads him to becoming an ARC trooper. His capture and torture lands him in the Techno Union’s hands where his life is altered forever, leading him to choose a life with the batch at the end of that episode arc.

Each time Echo’s path changes he adapts, he finds where he fits and he throws himself into it. Giving him new armor is a chance to change his path yet again. Because, as Hunter said, Echo’s path is different. It always has been.

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Hear me out. What if hypothetically the parallel with the shiny armour is finishing what Fives started and what if hypothetically Echo *doesn't* die

#let’s will this into existence #please and thank you #the bad batch #tbb spoilers #tbb echo

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If Hemlock and the Empire ever got a hold of Echo for the CX program, the Batch and the Rebellion would be fucked.

The last two episodes just proves how stunningly effective Echo is at stealth and infiltration. Imagine what the Empire would have him do with his ARC skills and his ability to scomp in and retrieve data and sabotage.

This is me totally not planting ideas...

@floundrickthewayfarer @the-bi-space-ace @saturn-sends-hugs @phantom-of-the-501st

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Omega is literally living in Hemlock’s walls we are living in the best timeline truly.

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yeah yeah i know i usually post silly little anecdotes about the bad batch but how about some real analysis?

people have said it before but truly the only way for this show to have a message and meaning in the end is for it to have a happy (if not that then bittersweet) ending.

the whole point of the show is family, specifically clone force 99/the bad batch as a family. the show literally starts with them accepting omega into their family. throughout the show, this theme of family is repeated. them helping hera syndulla rescue her parents. them helping rex rescue their fellow clones because they're all brothers. phee introducing them to her family on pabu.

star wars has always had a message of love and family, but more often than not, that ends in tragedy. we're all hoping the bad batch will give us that ending where they're all reunited. they'll rescue omega/all escape tantiss in some way, tech will be revealed as cx-2 (i'm a supporter of this theory and for this post i'm going to assume he is cx-2), and they're able to all go and be TOGETHER as a family. what they do after that doesn't matter. they just need to be together.

i can see any of them sacrificing themselves in the finale, but the whole point should be that they're not ALLOWED to. not when they're this close. not when they're a family again. not when crosshair is back. not when they learn tech is alive. not when omega is safe. whoever (likely hunter or echo) tries to sacrifice themselves needs to be held back. because family is the point. because they're not letting ANYONE else pull a plan 99.

the bad batch show might be ending, but it shouldn't be the end of them as a squad. they HAVE to live. because family is the point, because they protect each other, because they're allowed that quiet life of not being soldiers and that time to heal and to join the rebellion if they want to. but if hunter, wrecker, crosshair, and echo die, and tech is either not cx-2 or they can't save him, and omega stays in tantiss forever, it destroys their whole theme that they've spent the whole show developing.

tragic endings and stories are star wars specialty (the prequels, the clone wars, rogue one, andor, hell even rebels and solo to an extent). the bad batch has potential to show us that there is that other central theme of star wars: hope. there's hope for our main characters and that they'll be the ones who show us that not every hero who fights for the rebellion/the republic just faces tragedy. there's hope that omega can grow up in peace. there's hope that hunter can have his quiet life away from being a soldier. there's hope that echo can keep fighting for what he believes in, that crosshair can heal, that tech will live, that wrecker will see all his brothers again.

basically, star wars give us a happy ending to this story of family and hope. we deserve it, the characters deserve it, and the story deserves it.

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My brain is too bouncy for me to focus without external pressure at the moment so I'm going to create a word count goal based off whatever the vote percentages are and go for that. This is a very unimportant poll and there's no winner so if you just want to hit a button please do

#oh they’re all so good #i went with Hevy time travel #because I’m a sucker for time travel fics #but no one voted for jesse and I’m sad

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So with The Bad Batch ending, I'd like to offer up some ideas for some new clone shows!

Rex and Echo clone rescue spinoff.

An entire show about Rex and Cody starting from when they first meet.

Domino. A show about Domino Squad and/or the Domino Twins.

The Baby Batch. The Bad Batch but when they were younger and causing chaos on Kamino.

A show about 99.

An entire show about Wolffe babysitting different clone battalions and slowly losing his mind (Wolffe looking after Hardcase pls).

Fox being fed up with everyone and everything.

The clones doing menial things like painting their armour or getting haircuts.

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If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

Several people got the design as a tattoo.

A number liked it enough to want custom designs but didn’t know how to contact me so that’s approximately £300 I didn’t get a chance to earn.

Someone used that art in the front cover of a comic by accident and while the company fixed it after I contacted them that’s exposure that it’s far too late to capitalise on now.

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

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Damn, Not Imperial SeaWorld

#the bad batch #tbb season 3 spoilers #tbb spoilers

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I purposefully didn’t include fan hated characters like Rey or Jar Jar because this is about actual evilness not being annoying.

#Star Wars #star wars polls #character polls #swtcw #the bad batch #star wars original trilogy #star wars prequels #star wars sequel trilogy #the mandalorian

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I love Echo but that man has defo picked up the 501st nature of being a terrible liar

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We need to talk about Echo (and by talk I mean screm). S3 E13 + 14 Spoilers!

FRIENDS, I'M GOING TO EXPLODE. I need to talk about Echo for a minute. We need to talk about Echo for a minute,  because he has spent the last two episodes in the absolute thralls of complete and total danger, and I personally don't feel like there's been enough of a celebratory uproar for me to be satisfied with the level of appreciation and love that man deserves. (Remember when Hunter ran face first into a colossal exhaust pipe and we all collectively lost our minds because it was so impressive and so sexy? Remember when Tech drove a speeder really fast through a tunnel and we all fainted? I'M A TECH GIRLY. IT WAS ME! I FAINTED!!) but, Y'ALL, Echo deserves that right now!! And for all eternity!!! Because he is wholly submurged in the harrowing potential of torture and execution, and he didn't even bat an eye to put himself there. My awe of him is all-consuming, so please forgive me if this rant reads as nothing but incoherent screaming. 

Echo haters (first of all, we can't be friends....) come on this journey with me! Let's back pedal to the beginning of the last episode (13). He stole an imperial shuttle. Let me repeat, he stole an imperial shuttle. And not just an attack shuttle. Not just a lil one-pilot transport. Bro somehow stole a Rho-class medical transport, which is very large, obscenely conspicuous, and very easily tracked. And, to use his own words, it was "the best he could do on short notice." The man stole a shuttle on short notice. ON SHORT NOTICE? HELLO, HOW DID HE DO THAT. WHY AIN'T WE LOSING OUR COOL ABOUT IT. 

Next stop on this I-love-Echo journey through my mind: not only did he provide his brothers transportation in the complete void of their own (RIP havoc bb), but he also came equipped with intel and clearance codes, and, as Rampart stated, those things change DAILY. Echo somehow procured top secret imperial clearance codes, and a fkn SHIP, within hours of the Batch requesting his help. Not to mention, the ship had yet to be reported missing (which means it was only-freshly commandeered), and the clearance codes worked. Of course they did. Echo never fails. Never doubt Echo. "Echo's on it."  

Choochoo, next stop! Once they arrived on that station orbiting Coruscant, and made their way to the control room (lookin sexy as heck in his armour-au-noir), he broke imperial encryption, hacked into the Imperial database, almost instantly found them the location of a ship departing for the prison that holds their daughter Tantiss, AND THEN DIDN'T EVEN HESITATE TO CLIMB ABOARD AND STOW AWAY.  

He didn't even remotely have a plan, or have time to make a plan. He didn't know who or what else would be on board that mysterious vessel. He didn't know where it was going other than the name of the fkn mountain (which has proven to be nothing but unhelpful thus far). He just ARC-troopered his way through that crowded hangar, dodging aggressive astromech's and inconsiderate loader droids, shirking from the perspective eyes of highly trained commandos, and snuck his way onto a heavily guarded, extremely unknown science vessel. Then, of course, he wasted no time, hacking into the ships control system (may I gently remind- there were at least three pilots and an officer prepping the ship for jump and closely watching all aspects of its controls), disabling the proximity sensors without being detected, and then seamlessly covered the troopers absence by pretending to be him (which we all know is what should have happened on Serenno but... hindsight is 20/20.)  

So... SO.... now we're at Episode 14. Here we at fkn terrified station because HULLO ECHO IS ALONE ON A SCIENCE DIVISION TRANSPORT; we have literally seen them carry around Zilo beasts in that shit. What the heck else could be on there that they don't know about? Literally anything. Because THEY KNEW NOTHING before attaching themselves to it. Echo knew NOTHING before sneaking onto that thing and creepin' around. Thank heck he didnt come across a fkn fresh wave of slither vines ok?  

NEXT, Echo shoots (not stuns- lol) a sassy fkn droid (they had it coming, not sorry), then another trooper. AND THEN discovered his only option for departing the ship once it enters atmosphere is going completely undercover, because (in true "we improvise everything" CF99 fashion that gives me heart burn just thinking about it), they had zero fkn plan to get off the ship. I will repeat: completely undercover. On Tantiss. COMPLETELY UNDERCOVER ON TANTISS. NO COMMS, NO BACK UP, NO RECON, NO PLAN, BARELY ANY GEAR, and I would just like to stress... no neuro brace. He left his neurobrace on that ship. Left it. LEFT IT AND TOOK A HAND INSTEAD. PLEASE FKN SEDATE ME.  

We can't leave this station yet... This I-love-Echo train needs to linger at this point for a sec because I think it's lost on some people how wild this is. Echo without his neurobrace is huge. It's a bigger deal than Echo without his armour. Armour is, in the grand scheme of things, inconsequential (one can find more- see Howzer). Echo's neurobrace is not armour, it's a computer and it's so so so crucial to how his mind processes information and events. Don't forget, the Technounion HIJACKED HIS BRAIN. They took every memory from him and manipulated it for their gain. Pruned it, tweaked it, blanched it, poached it, turned it into scrambled eggs, and then fkn ate it up and used it to defeat their enemies (Echo's family- I'm sobbing). They implanted him with an unfathomable amount of information; they changed the way the neurons in his brain fire in relation to stimuli. That neurobrace is so so critical for him. Now, we know he can operate well enough without it, we saw it in the last episode of the TBB arc in season 7 of Clone Wars, but... please.... to what extent? We don't know what an extended time without that neurobrace looks like for him... especially when all other aspects compliing his surroundings foreign, unknown, and dangerous, and that scares me.

AND NOW HE'S ABOUT TO RUN AMOK IN TANTISS with Emerie who, (I'm sorry) is wishy-washy as heck (who are you loyal to!!!!! What is your history!!! Are you trustworthy and what are you looking to gain!!!), trying to adopt a collection of Jedi children whove spent maker-knows how long playing space tetris, WHILST ALSO ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE AND ESCAPE WITH HIS BROTHERS UNDER THE EYE OF THE GALAXY'S SECOND MOST DANGEROUS MAN. 

So yes, short of d-d-d-di... can't say it... short of THE WORST CASE, Echo has made the ultimate sacrifice to save not only Omega who is literally the only person we've seen able to make him truly laugh, but all the clone brothers that he's been desperately trying to locate and rescue. His bravery and determination are literally unrivalled, and he did it while feasting on nothing but humble pie because that man wouldn't know arrogance if it danced naked under his perfect nose.  

Okay so welcome, we've finally pulled into I-Love-Echo station. Before departing the ride, please stand and do a hip hip hurray for the miracle that is Echo, including but not limited to, everything he's done, is doing, and is willing to do for other people. 

#this #all of this #they better be setting him up for another show #because if they kill him #after sleeping on him all season #i will throw hands #the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers

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love that the Kaminoans designed clones to be enhanced supersoldiers compared to natborn humans in everything except for the ability to lie

#the bad batch #tbb spoilers #clone troopers

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Favorite Follower Tag of the Week

I think that was supposed to say "Rex's privilege". Autocorrect strikes again.