#how could you NOT like Rex

[swan2swan]

Not that I've ever thought the live-action Netflix Avatar show was going to be good, but...

I do think people are blowing a lot of this out of proportion. Again, this is an adaptation, not a 1:1 translation. There's going to be a lot of differences. There's a whole lot of "Oh, they RUINED IT!" going around, and the show's not dropping for another three weeks.

It's all just a question of how effectively they're going to streamline it, and whether the character arcs and actions are going to make sense.

#at the same time I once again REALLY wanna see how Jurassic Park Book Fans reacted to Grant's opening speech in the movie #''You think his vision's based on movement like T Rex'' ''HOW WOULD HE KNOW THAT???'' #now are they probably going to miss some big character traits? #probably #but it could be all right #ALSO REMEMBER: BE NICE TO THE KIDS #atla #avatar the last airbender #the last netflix

[u5an5]

Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.

((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))

Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...

Fox.

Now let me explain.

Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?

Fox.

Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?

Fox.

Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?

He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?

Good soldiers follow orders, after all.

#clone assassin #commander fox #star wars tbb #i know that hes got killed really early after Order in comics but i would honestly prefer him to die this way #the bad batch spoilers #commander cody #arc trooper fives #tcw slick #cc 1010 #star wars #sw tbb #sw the bad batch #the bad batch season 3 #tbb theory #we dont even know for sure how he looks like cause in one moment we see corries without helmets all of them have standard paintjob #idk if its just animation error but because of it we cant be 100% sure fox ever regreted it without him being shown grieving with rest #hes just taking a breath when fives is dying and personaly i see it more as him rolling his eyes that rex is being mushy with traitor #but there are 3 clones behind fox when hes shown and then the one taking off his helmet stands beside 2 others so it may actualy be it??? #and if he DOES regret it imo is more in 'shame i had to do it' rather than 'shame i did it' way if you know what i mean #hes just doing his job and hes GOOD at it. not his fault that him being competent is bad for the good guys #my point is: outside of one page incomic that can be at any point made noncanon or recontextualized theres no evidence that it cant be him #they already retconed more important things. why not this? #i think its likely that in case im right we can assume that all named corries were made into CloneX #none of them appeared yet despite how much of action happens on coruscant #and only thorn died on screen; in a way preventing him from being viable option nonetheless #three hits point blank months before Order seem unlikely but theyve done weirder things so him returning wouldnt be THAT weird so uhh idk #but yeah cx-02 is tech #winter soldiering doesnt stop #i mean THIS could be fox/other corrie but it being tech is way too cliche oportunity to waste it on them (derogatory towards disney) #pls disney let corries hunt down traitors like they used to pls

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im sorry im rewatching Dominion and its so fucking funny. they really brought dimetrodon & lystrosaurus' Permian Asses into it

#cmonnnnnnnn #i fondly remember struggling not to burst out laughing in the theater bc CMONNNNNN #and then the whole GiGA iS tHe biGgESt LaNd cARniVoRe eVeR #SHUT UPPPPP does spinosaurus mean nothing to you? have you forgotten her? #theyre out here acting like giga is some bad bitch #please they were only a smidge bigger than t.rex #and rexes could still body them not even a question #if. yk. they existed at the same time Which They Did Not #yk i love how the movies are like 't-rex vs [insert dino here] who would win' #and??? rex??? like every time??? she was The bad bitch. there's a reason she's called the King!! #the only loss i accept as fully realistic is prehistoric planet's rex vs quetz scenario #cause yeah. i dont think anyone would willingly fuck with a quetz #but still... if they Had to fight... yeah rex would still win #ANYWAY YEAH DOMINION BRINGING PERMIAN ANIMALS INTO IT #AND NOT EVEN SAUROPSIDS LIKE????? #DIMETRODON AND LYSTROSAURUS ARE SYNAPSIDS. LITERALLY THE START OF THE MAMMAL BRANCH OF EVOLUTION #the rest of the jurassic bullfuckery i can accept but That? too funny. too absurd #fuckin... permian animals.... in a jurassic park movie #i thought we were cooking with mesozoic Dinosaurs here... #absolutely unprompted #at least the movie gave us an on-screen theri some Gorgeous parasaurs a 'Feathered' Quetz... finally some good fucking food #still not as good as prehistoric planet's top tier beautiful amazing showstopping Up To Date dinosaurs #oh theyre so beautiful.... i cant wait for s.3 if we're getting a s.3 #im still waiting for some parasaurolophus action please!! #so that i can have something better than watching Crisp Rat live my dream!!!

[alicepao13]

Charlie: I'm going undercover as a prison inmate.

Joe: Have I told you today that this is the most harebrained thing you've ever thought of?

#hudson and rex #charlie my dude #how #how are you going to make it out alive #how will no one recognize you #I mean st. john's should be practically a village in terms of criminal activity #although maybe in this fantastical universe it has like five million people I don't know #this is the latest in a long line of decisions which I call hero decisions because they're usually made by a character written as the hero #savior complex? eh probably #sarah could knock some sense into him maybe #I have the perfect song for these two if only they could acknowledge charlie's propensity of getting himself in danger #and if the show could allow them a slight amount of angst

[sa1808fi]

Here we go

Okay, Rex relating/sympathising with the raptors from the first Jurassic park movie because he went through a similar experience they did.

Like if you think about it, those raptors were left trapped in an enclosure that was way too small for them, and raised in isolation with nothing to interact with to keep them stimulated. This treatment by their 'caretakers' essentially was what raised them to be psychos and kill the humans. Does that sound familiar?

Yeah, Rex was also trapped in isolation, with nothing but his thoughts, much like the raptors. And because of this, his personality and way of thinking did a 180 flip, resulting to him becoming a psychopath bent on revenge and destroying the universe to get back at his 'friends'.

Both of these cases have that 'not born a villain, but raised to be one' to them. And I think that's one of the reasons Rex loves raptors so much.

#rex dangervest #the radtors #the lego movie #the lego movie 2 #I mean if you want to go down the JW route #Blue and the rest of the raptor squad were used by the people that 'made' them for war #(not including owen) #Emmet could also have been used for his positivity by his friends #and Rex feels that he was discarded when they became friends with Systar #Like how hoskins easily discarded the raptors because more could be made #the parallels people #saffi's rambles #lego movie #lego movie 2 #lego movie au

[passerinethehallway]

the dichotomy of the whole six amnesia thing is that on the one hand it's a fantastic case of Permanent Consequences On A Main Character, something that I don't think we see a lot in kids' animation, which means that it's an excellent way to poke at the unique variety of grief that situation allows for.

and on the other hand, the idea of six getting his memories back and recognizing how much of a dick he was the past several months is *exceedingly* fucking funny.

#generator rex #six minus six #unfortunately i don't think we got to see how much something like that affected the interactions between all of the characters long term ): #we got Some Stuff but like. holy fuck there are so many interesting things that could be done with it #rex explaining to six what the whole vibe of the team is: you are my daaaad- you're my dad! boogie woogie woogie

[magpigment]

william wisp

aka i tried a new shading style for the hair and also draw the other prime defenders eyes cuz why not lmao

#my art #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi vyncent #jrwi william #jrwi dakota #jrwi fanart #prime defenders fanart #william is my favorite character so far #i am incapable of imagining him without those big autism eyes i’m not even joking #he gives me vibes of like. he could be looking right at you and be right in front of you and feel a thousand miles away yknow #it doesn’t help that he whispers #i also can’t not imagine him walking with his arms doing the t. rex thing #idk if that makes sense but yeah #i tried to make him look as foggy and distant and tired as possible w how i draw his eyes #wide wide eyes that stare right through you #this is my third time drawing him also ^^

[rexcaliburechoes]

diamant, the horrors chamber, and why he’s just so fun to mess with // the diamant-sertation series

i’d talked a little about this before on twitter about diamant angst and if i’m doing alright (i’m fine just biochemistry major go brrrr) and i just remembered this:

and i wanted to think about this for a little bit. i’m going to try and not retread old ground, but that’s kind of impossible if i want to break him in a realistic way.

but i was mostly thinking about how easy it is to destabilise him. i might be woobifying him too much, but i swear, i’ve been through this rigamarole before with a variety of characters. i’ve hurt characters over and over and over again, testing their limits, watching them bend and potentially break, and diamant has keeled over the fastest. it’s kind of funny in a bit of a twisted way.

but i mean it: why does he bend to easily compared to others?

i think it’s because he Refuses to experience The Horrors, and so when something encroaches on that tenuously stretched self control, he simply cannot deal with anything new, so he shuts down. you’d think he’d have a fight response to new stressors (he is of brodia; if you can’t fight, then what kind of brodian are you?) but i think he’s gone past that point. he’s dealing with enough already as it is, just One More Thing just will set him off. he’s tired, overwhelmed, and bottles everything up because He Should Be Able To Deal With It.

there’s definitely an allegory of being undiagnosed neurodivergent in here somewhere but we don’t have time to unpack all that.

but since diamant is so easily burnt out (which, haha, funny fire trauma go brr), he’s just an easy target to picking at all of his weaknesses and flaws. diamonds have very predictable cutting planes, and if manage to hit one just right, the entire crystal will shatter.

#rex rambles #fire emblem #diamant #diamant fire emblem #fire emblem diamant #fe engage #fire emblem engage #story abt the breaking in realistic way: i'd once met a writer in a different fandom who tortured the charas as a sign of love as one does #she at least tagged her shit so i could avoid it but what most struck me and drove me insane was how all the characters were consistent... #consistently same-y that is. all of them filled the same basic tropes of weak and abused + abuser which doesn't work for some characters #also she wrote one of my favourite characters as an abuser to a character he would never abuse and though he can be neglectful he's not... #he's not like an outright abuser like that. unfortunately a lot of ppl keep stepping on his goddamn trauma so he's very testy #but he's loyal to a fault been burned before scared and angry and he just needs a friend that won't hurt him like he's been hurt before #i have a mild headache and biochem to work on so this is as far as i can go rn so i'm sorry if this one is a less polished than my usual #i just find it interesting that he will bend sooner and requires much more time to. ah. rehydrate him. so to speak #if you want him to be healthier and less stretched thin #bc that's what burnout does: it messes with your ability to Exist and work and the more chronic stress that piles up #something will inevitably snap and usually it ain't pretty

[verysaxyberry]

Filoni is really trying to have his cake and eat to in regards to the inhibitor chip

#its not even working like you prrsentrd in the final season of clone war #im sorry but it does not make sense in your own story that cody is questioning the order #it doesnt make sense that any of the clones eith chips are questioning the order #you SHOWED rex viscerally trying to resist the chip and he FAILED until it was REMOVED #now all these guys with their chips are like 'hmm maybe this whole order 66 thing was bs' #you know how you could have still done this plot? #no chips these guys are estavlished in CANON to be indoctrinated from BIRTH/DECANTATION to follow orders #so they get the order and folloe it #and then you can have clones like cody question it afterwards and have ot MAKE SENSE

[heartburstings]

do u ever see comments on posts and artwork full of effort and thought and passion etc and like. think about that post that talks about how people have the darndest time interacting with art without trying to crack a joke about it. is it really so boring to take someone's art seriously? is it necessary to demean someone's efforts, however unintended, for a 'joke' that consists of you being like "ooOOoOh how weird lol!!" like i don't want or mean to be a killjoy. but i think about that post a lot. like y do u need to add a punchline to something that doesn't need one. who asked u. why does it need to be funny. and u don't even have the decency to acknowledge its merit ;/

#wynn speaks #don't get me wrong i love being silly it's 1 of my most valued traits #but like. idk. #imagine seeing a genuinely cool animation of how a feathered dinosaur might look in a jurassic park-esque movie #and you comment that it looks like a big bird creepypasta. like rlly u couldn't keep that to urself? #sorry it's probably not that serious. i'm just extremely petty and that comment annoyed me and now i am in my petty mode #i went to check the artist out (they're on twitter @wobblyworks) and turns out dinosaurs is their Whole Thing #tbh the feathered dino animation reminds me of like #so i went to this science museum to chaperone my little sister n her classmates and they had this fun li'l thing #where a guy was in basically a full-body puppet which was a feathered t-rex #and they treated it like a 'real' t-rex while talking abt dino facts #they let kids throw a light ball at it to 'play' w it it was very cute #and like you could See the puppetteer u could see their legs and shoes and stuff #but even middle schoolers were able to look past that and see how genuinely fucking cool that was! #like yes they made jokes abt the sneakers and how a human crawled out the rex when the show was over and they had to put the suit away #but they were in so much genuine aw it was rlly cute. and it makes sense bc the suit was really well made! it had a moving mouth/jaw #and i wouldn't be surprised if it had a mechanism to blink its eyes #but i digress #i'm not saying that u can Only interact with art with complete seriousness. like jokes r fine #but idk. becomes a problem when that is the only way u interact with art. and also if you're unfunny and personally annoy me #and i'm not saying that person is the kind of person to do that. bc idk them. i'm just like #kind of annoyed with seeing repeat instances of comments that r like 'hmm this art... what if i made it about how funny i am!'' #i say kind of but then i look up and there is an entire wall of tags that r just me griping about it and a detour about a dino puppet suit #sorry besties i just needed to get that out of my system ily <3 #btw the dude's part of a project/kickstarter called 'forgotten bloodlines' #and it seems to be an animated documentary about prehistoric creatures #i recommend u check out the trailer it looks soo cool

[howlingblaster]

got emotional about homestuck on the way to work

#not about like content but like.....the thing #how it could have been a fantastic narrative tragedy....if hussie had STOPPED and allso kept their mouth shut #anyway............lamenting #i was listening to a metal cover of Rex Duodecim Angelus #and man....the trolls did SO WELL...THEY WON!!!! THEY DID IT........ #and yet... #homestuck is a story of 5 failed attempts at creating a new world #and maybe the point is that creating life and a universe is so nearly impossible it is kin of pointless #so you cobble together broken pieces of your failed attempts and live the rest of your ending life with those you love #anyway.............................. #homestuck #whining

[rexscanonwife]

1,2,7,9, & 10 for ur star wars s/i? [self-insert ask game]

Hello!! Aaaa thank you so much for asking, I'm finally getting around to answering these sjhj

1.) what are the basics of your self insert? name, date of birth, height, etc.? my self insert's full name is Brea Callisto, height 5' 5", and the same age as Anakin so her birthdate would be 41 BBY (I don't actually really know what that means, star wars timelines are fucky and all over the place x'3)

2.) when in canon does you self insert come in? do you have a scene in mind for your entrance? My self insert has been Anakin's best friend since they were both 10 years old, but I suppose the first time she'd be seen in canon would be during the First Battle of Geonosis in Attack of The Clones! It's a pretty flashy entrance, it's the first time Ani sees her after a falling out they had and he'd be shocked to find she became a Jedi Knight before he did and she'd be all too eager to show off what she's learned since they saw each other last. x3c

7.) would any other characters (besides your f/o) have a crush on your self insert? now THIS is an interesting question...cause yes I do have crushes on clones other than Rex and I like imagining them having a crush on me too. I've mentioned my complicated feelings about Hunter before, but even MORE complicated than that would honestly probably be Fives! My self insert has always been closer to him than most, and I feel like he'd crush on her hard, but it's kind of a 'in another time' thing they have for each other.

They do like each other, and if some things had been different then maybe it'd be more, but in the end Fives respects Rex too much to act on it and Brea loves Rex more than anything or anyone else. Even if she does like Fives a lot.

9.) who are your self insert's closest friends? Anakin was her best and most trusted friend, but after...everything, the best friend position gets filled by my irl best friend's self insert hehe. Other than that, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were people she'd trust with her life!

10.) how do other characters feel about your self insert and f/o's relationship? For the ones who do know about it, they're thrilled by it! The only ones we'd trust with that knowledge would be our friends, and they know we're good for each other and are happy that we're happy!!

#brie babbles #ask meme #self insert talk #💙 oh captain my captain 💙 #hehe thanks so much for sending some in!! <33 #but sjghk yeah you guys know im a big sucker for ANGST AND CONFLICT AND PAIN #even if the conflict is more internal than anything #like i know how close rex and fives are so i dont WANNA drive a wedge between them #but i do think there'd be a slight sadness and pining on fives's part bcs he wants smth he cant have #but maybe in another life he could have had something

[10010405]

i really do hate to be that person but olivia rodrigo’s vampire is the same chord progression (and maybe even same exact key) as the first part of rex orange county’s television/so far so good and now i cannot unhear it

#i’ve like highkey ruined my life guys please help #every time i get to her chord i just hear ‘what about meeeee? what about meeeee-ee-eee?’ #it’s kinda a banger tho ngl #if anyone knows how to mix and could make this a reality i’d love you for life #music #olivia rodrigo #rex orange county

[dragon-ascent]

“Zhongli, you literally look like the Geo Archon statue. How come nobody’s suspected anything?”

“Trust me my dear, I have been questioned once.” Zhongli smiles in amusement at the memory.

He recounts to you a time when he had first taken on this form as Zhongli of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, and was wandering around the outskirts of the harbor. A young man stopped him, squinting at Zhongli’s handsome (and very ostentatiously amber -eyed) countenance. Zhongli recognised him as one of his coworkers, and greeted him.

The man, ignoring his greeting, instead told him pointedly, “You look a lot like Rex Lapis, you know. From the statues around Liyue.”

Zhongli merely tilted his head with a soft chuckle. “Rex Lapis dons a hood. How could you discern such a far-fetched thing?”

The coworker, shaking his head, continued, “And your eyes are shiny and golden. Like Rex Lapis in his stories.”

“That is merely my natural brown eye colour enhanced a faint golden thanks to my Geo vision.” Despite himself, Zhongli’s heartbeat gets a tad faster.

“And you’re quite knowledgeable on things even my grandpa can’t know!” exclaims the other man, exasperated. “Obscure bits of lore even seasoned historians are confounded by! No to mention you’ve got this…old aura about you. Like you’re wayyy older than we all think. It’s like…you’re…”

Zhongli has the faintest of a frown on his face as he sees the fellow’s accusatory look. “Go on.”

“You must be…”

Zhongli thought he should remove human feelings of nervousness from his bodily constitution altogether. A single bead of sweat materialised on his forehead as he waited for the man’s answer.

“…You must be a really, really big fan of Rex Lapis!”

His lungs deflated in a huge sigh of relief. “Ah yes…yes, that may be the case. Yes, I am indeed a devout follower of Rex Lapis.”

#sini writes #zhongli #zhongli x reader #drabble #genshin impact

[perdidit-vulpes]

i hate that i can't talk about mental health things to my mental health professional out of fear confidentiality will be broken and/or i will be punished in some way for having symptoms of mental illness and/or be hospitalised.

#yes i am suicidal yes i have an active plan NO I'M NOT GOING TO KILL MYSELF OKAY. 😭 #this goes for sh too #what if i dont want to recover from that rn #like yeah i know it's Bad For Me but also i'm kinda using it to manage myself 😭 like IT COULD BE WORSE. #yes i check every box for like a dozen diagnoses other than tourettes and autism and adhd NO I DON'T WANT TO BE DIAGNOSED W THEM #dude if rex verbalised some of his thoughts we'd. we yeah grippy sock jail for us #"we think you might be an endangerment to yourself or others'' LITERALLY NO??? #it's almost happened enough times we have learned how to keep our mouth shut 👍

[omaano]

Touchy subject

"The 501st was one of the best legions during the war. I've lost a lot of good men over the years - some of them would have given even you Mandos a run for your credits. And my general... My general was a good man too, but that's enough of that, I thought you were too old for bedtime stories by now."

Din just tried to figure out what the colour of the clones' armor paint meant, and why he's never heard Rex mention his CO during all the wartime stories and lectures; whereas he's already got to meet Wolffe and his general and even heard Cody mention his every once in a blue moon. (Special thanks to @witchydom for helping with the "dialogue" :3)

The rest of my Star Wars meets Hades AU project is here

I'll take a bit of your time to give a bit of an explanation why I decided to put Rex in Skelly's spot:

During a playthrough when I was looking for screenshots to use as backgrounds the first thing that greeted me was Zagreus calling Skelly "Captain" upon entering the armoury, or whatever that chamber is called. And that really decided it, let's be honest. Rex is Captain, and that is the Captain's spot. End of story.

Reading "still got it" by qigiined even before I got into watching TCW was such a personality defining experience (seriously, this fic lives forever rent free in my brain), that I really had no other option but to put the few clones that I'm willing to work into this AU somewhere around home base (the covert) - so you can guess where Cody and Wolffe are situated. Or will be, hopefully soon enough. Rex needs to be able to hang out with Cody, that's just how it is. (Rebels and TBB canon who?)

Rex deserves to teach some uppity Mando bounty hunters and other warriors who think too much of themselves a few lessons in humility and some crafty tricks. I think it would be very good for him.

As a throwaway note since we are already under the read more section, I've been thinking about sigils and keepsakes (trinkets) and cthonic companions (I know that over a year ago I inaccurately but very self indulgently designed one for Din, Boba and Cobb, that is not the point now) and while Cody can have one shaped like Boga, and Wolffe can obviously get a stuffed loth wolf (and Bo-Katan a very squishy owl)... I have no idea what shaped companion Rex could have. If anyone has any suggestions and would love to share it with me, I'd be very grateful!

#captain rex #rex #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tcw fanart #sw tcw #my art #hades au #star wars fanart #old man rex #star wars rebels #sw rebels #I grew to love his beard so much I cannot believe it #these two gave me so much grief but in the end I think I managed to pull them together #old man rex somewhat even looks like boba too which makes me really relieved I'm not gonna lie #but also boba looks so messy in comparison to these later drawings when I actually know what I'm doing orz #also new pocket rex look at him! #but not too closely please he is a little sketchy