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the thickness of his thighs????? they did that for me and me alone

#the bad batch

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"That's okay. I like a challenge."

I've been wanting to draw adult Omega for a while now and today the idea finally came!

#the bad batch

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Don't ask me where they found a bed with this much space.

Alt version under the cut

I like the atmosphere of the first one way more, but also it covers up some details that I'm pleased with so I wanted to include one with less intense shadows

#cloneshipping #the clone wars

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Chronicles of Batch Mom Echo

AKA four examples of Echo being the batch’s last straw tying them to reality <3

Sources and a side note ⬇️

This post was suggested by someone on my Instagram (you can follow me there if you want; there's a bit of content overlap, but I do try to upload different stuff there when I can)

Omega & Crosshair quote source

Wrecker quote source

Hunter quote source

Tech quote source

#the bad batch

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I'm in maycross hell

#the bad batch #cloneshipping

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✨🙂🤝🙂✨

#💕💕💕 so cute #the clone wars

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Wrecker is fine btw after last episode :)

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers

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and let’s start the year with them ☺️

#the mandalorian #let these damn cousins meet and hang out they're all part of house vizsla (probably) #(well sabine and pre definitely are. din maybe is.)

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✨️ calling all Star Wars fans ✨️

Hello there tumblr!

While we Star Wars fans are anxiously waiting for the bad batch finale, I could use your help! In fact...

I am currently in the process of writing my master's thesis. My research is about age & Star Wars characters. The research is trying to investigate whether there is a difference in fans of different ages liking or disliking certain characters that appear throughout Episodes 1-9. The survey takes about 5-10 minutes to complete, is completely anonymous, and you must be 18+ to participate.

It would be ✨️ wizard ✨️ if you could share it with your friends, parents, siblings, or any other Star Wars fans you might know! Or even just reblogging this post for others to discover here on Tumblr 😊

It would mean the world (or galaxy hehe) if you would fill it out. If you did THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS! ✨️✨️✨️

#I would be curious to know what they're doing with this!

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My n' my friend were being silly thinking about what these two would get up to in a reluctant temporary wild space alliance.

(I have not read the Thrawn books yet, everything i know about him beyond rebels is through @gherkinlizard )

#rebels

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baby Crosshair hours ✨

#the bad batch #the fact he was called a glue eater is still publicly available and passed around. love that for him. #what a twerp i love him sm! he looks so cute!

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as someone who got 2 concussions this year and inhaled toxic substances at the workplace i can confidently inform you all that all characters in the star wars prequels are absolved of stupidity. they're all dumb as a box of rocks but its not their fault that no one made them wear helmets in wartime. the introduction of SPOSHA (space OSHA) would reduce incidences of darth vader creation by at least one i just know it

#the clone wars

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Fucking hate ai bitches this shit is poisoning my search results just like that tumblr baby crow post fuck y'all for real

#ai in the top #fuck ai

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There's a post i saw going around like "oh yeah ai can help give fic writers and fan artists ideas." it's called being creative and having ideas and thinking for your damn self. I am not linking that post because I don't want to harass the OP but jesusfucking christ on a bike. Without even touching the idea of it being plagiarism, which it is , openAI is being sued by the new york times for generating copyrighted articles literally word for word at times—

I will take a million insane ideas cooked up by earnest people enjoying themselves over any SEO generated piece of slop short cut to the end. "oh it'll give me titles or ideas!" Engage with poems or songs. Be true to your own experiences. Yeah some of those things might be cringey but it's fucking art. I don't want to know what a machine scrapped off the internet, I want to know the person on the other side of the screen. We do not hide our hearts in these things.

Never mind the biases implicit in things like generating lists of items that include fucking names or experiences. AI is always going to experience bias, and enhance them. That is what the machine does, it detects patterns and recreates them.

I don't want to see what a machine thinks about mourning or loss or war. That will never be as interesting or engaging or true to yourself as just coming up with an idea and baring yourself for your fellow fans to see.

Then there's the fucking horror of asking it to tell you factual information. Generative AI cannot reliably do that and you should not believe it can do that. AI Hallucinates, it doesn't know what a fact is, it knows what facts look like and recreates them. This is a very well known problem. Do not ask it questions to get real and reliable information, it may produce that incidentally but you are opening yourself up to a huge fucking problem which is "I am very likely actively contributing to misinformation."

and how'd the ai know about those things in the first place. tell me. how did the machine find out about things like tropes in star wars fan fiction. Tell Me. Tell me 100% with a straight face that the machine happened to know those things completely ethically and not without scraping the hard work of other people.

The post in question ends with a "Oh AI may steal work from artists and authors," And no, that's not actually my core issue with it and it never will be, labor is stolen under capitalism all the time and there are already ways of cutting out artists and authors from their labor without computer generated slop. That's the world of business and I have my issues there. My issue with it in fan spaces is that I don't read or write fan fiction or look at or make art to engage with machines. I do it to engage with you, the person reading this. To say I'm not alone and neither are you, I am here and I see you.

To offload that effort, those emotions to machines? What a way of saying that you don't care about this, and if you don't care, why should anyone else care about it either?

#I am anti-generative AI and I always will be. #Keep that stuff off my dashboard #I think using it for fan works; works that are definitionally about the experience of loving something is a fucking moral crime #nightfall chats

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Rampart is not having a good time

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #mutual revenge from crosshair and hunter tbh #and good! for ! them!

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nature / nurture

Summary: "It is his nature. You cannot change it. He cannot change it."

Crosshair reflects on when he'd first been taught to resist torture at two key points in his life; and what it means for his nature to be unyielding and unable to be changed, now that he has decided to try to change anyway.

Minor spoilers for S3 Episode 14 Flash Strike.

Rating: T Relationships: Clone Force 99, Crosshair & Tech Warnings: references to torture / aftermath of torture, cadet training on kamino, some canon typical violence

Notes: i am still coping so hard re: cx-2 being tech that it's definitely there but. not a sure fire thing, so it's more like...suspicion. schrödingers Cx-2, I suppose.

Read it here:

#my fics #the bad batch

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I'd love to know how much it eats at Crosshair that one of the last things Tech ever said to him was that he was severe, unyielding, and he'd never change his mind (about working for the empire), that he couldn't change it anymore than any of the other members could help him change it. That it was his nature. How much it kills him inside that as far as he's concerned, that is the last conversation he'll ever have with Tech, since it was in Tech's nature to go help Crosshair at the first sign of his distress anyway, and he died in the attempt.

And I'd also love to know how the words I've changed felt like ash in his mouth.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #hm what a nice parallel too I wonder if thats gonna mean anything. #<- Delusional thought there at this point but man i hope