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Kinktober 2025 - Accepting Prompts

I'm challenging myself this fall and opening up prompt requests for Kinktober. Send me a ship and a kink or brief prompt and I'll write a couple hundred words for you <3

I'm open to:

Any TBB character, clone or otherwise. If they appeared on screen in TBB or in the TBB TCW arc, they're fair game

Any ship, including but not limited to clone x clone stuff

Any kinks - send your filthiest! Anon is on if you're shy :)

I will ask please no OC requests - I won't be able to do them the justice they deserve. Other than that, really anything goes, including reader requests.

You are more than welcome to send multiple requests if you'd like. I'm opening this early to make sure I have plenty of time to finish as many as possible so bring it on!

I of course reserve the right to decline requests for any or no reason. If you're not sure if something's okay to send as a prompt, feel free to ask or just send it. I'll probably write it but I won't be upset with you even if it's something I decide to pass on.

Prompts will stay open through the end of September and I'll post the fills throughout October.

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I need a post, so have some Fennter art I did cuz I’m obsessed with this ship

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bruh every time i open tumblr at work your art pops up and while i love seeing it i’m just like. PUT SOME CLOTHES ON

Better?

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Crosshair and Tech have slight disagreement on Tech's sleep schedule.

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frequently secretly fond of each other

@codywanweek day 2– western AU

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Hunter: Fuck it. Let’s go back to Kamino and adopt that kid.

Wrecker, Tech, and Echo: Adopt—? Yeah okay, we’ve done weirder shit.

Crosshair: With all due respect, which is none at this point, what the fuck is wrong with you

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…how is he going to explain all that to rampart 

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I hate AI.

I did a search for "tech bad batch quotes" to get the exact wording of a Tech quote (ashamed I didn't know it word for word), and up pops the AI garbage.

Wait. Toothbrush? Tech never said the word toothbrush.

"According to Tumblr"? Is this doing what I think it is?

Yep! When you click on the "according to Tumblr" link, it brings you to @thebaddestofbatches' blog, where a quick scroll leads to the post mentioned (a total crackup, btw) which has no less than NINE tags saying it's an incorrect quote.

AI for information retrieval is as dumb as a gummy bear taking a standardized test. I hate it.

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Please enjoy this stunning commission by @rackcty of Kat & Oddball!! 💜🥹

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More TBB Yapping

I rewatched 1x2 and 1x3 and so the only logical thing is to do is to go on a tangent about something that has nothing to do with the second episode and is only fractionally linked to the third episode :D [Look, there is no consistency or logic to my yapping okay. It's just whatever comes to my brain]

"I'm angry at myself. We don't leave our own behind."

Did this line send me down a rabbit hole? Yes. Yes it did. And honestly, the more I think about what happens later on in the show, the more depressing it gets. Hunter already feels a lot of guilt about leaving Crosshair behind because, at the end of the day, loyalty is incredibly important to the clones and it feels, to Hunter, like he's broken some form of oath. They never leave their brothers and yet they left one of their own on Kamino. Now, admittedly, it was the right thing to do in the moment: Crosshair was trying to kill them and it would not have been safe to try and take him with them. That doesn't mean that anything that happened was Cross' fault, but it simply wasn't a scenario where the Batch would have been able to take him too. And this likely makes things worse for Hunter. At this point in time, they believe that Cross is under the influence of the chip (with a little scepticism from Tech) and, therefore, they left a vulnerable brother behind because of something he was unable to control. Hunter would be beating himself up over this.

It gets even worse when we get to the S1 finale and Crosshair chooses to stay with the Empire with no influence of the chip. Cross has felt betrayed by what the squad did and while it was no-ones fault (and a shitty set of circumstances), Cross can't help but feel like his place is with the Empire and not with his brothers (there are other layers to this as well that I'll likely get to when I get to those episodes). Hunter is left in a position where, realistically, they can't take Crosshair with them. Disrespecting his choices is the last thing they should be doing, but that means leaving him behind again. Part of Hunter is going to wonder how things would have been different if they had never left Crosshair on Kamino in the first place. And on top of all that, it would get worse again when they find out what Cross went through at the hands of the Empire. Hunter feels like he has consistently abandoned his brother and that what has happened to him is his own fault. He left Cross on Kamino and Crosshair decided that staying with the Empire was better than coming back to his squad, so Hunter left him behind again and Cross was subsequently tortured. Hunter isn't just the squad's brother, he's their leader, and it has been his responsibility to look after them. He's going to feel fucking dreadful.

And I want to go on a separate tangent for a moment about Crosshair and his view on the loyalty of clones because it got me thinking about Echo's rescue in TCW S7.

"I would have left him for dead too. Besides, he's just another reg."

Crosshair is saying this because he's being a dick, but I think it's interesting to look at this line in the context of The Bad Batch. Cross chooses these words because he knows how much it will hurt Rex. He knows how strongly clones feel about loyalty, because he feels that same loyalty to his own batchmates. Clones never leave their own behind, and so he knows how painful it would be to be accused of willingly leaving a brother. He's not saying it because he means it, he's saying it because he wants to specifically strike Rex where it is going to hurt. So knowing how painful that would be, it would tear Crosshair apart to be left on Kamino by his brothers. He felt like they had abandoned them, and that was one of the most hurtful acts of betrayal they could have done (once again, they had no choice, but it doesn't make it any easier on Cross in the moment). "I would have left him for dead." And Crosshair felt like they had.

Side tangent over, I want to go back to Hunter because if the guilt of leaving Crosshair behind wasn't bad enough, they then lose Tech. While Tech sacrificed himself, they never went back to look for his body because they couldn't. While they didn't have a choice, Hunter has to carry on knowing that they, once again, left a brother behind. Knowing that his brother's body was at the bottom of a mountain somewhere, he likely felt the same as Fives and Rex did after The Citadel: his brother would never get a proper goodbye because they never went back for him. It gives him another layer of understanding as to why Rex fought so desperately to get Echo back. And the thing is, in some ways, never seeing the body is worse because that still leaves room for denial that maybe there is a chance that they are still alive. Especially, since the squad has Echo. I always wondered if Hunter looked and Echo and thought that maybe, maybe, there was a chance that Tech made it out, that if Echo could survive what he went through, then Tech could too. (I guess there is also another thing to explore about whether there may have been a subtle, underlying anger, not necessarily targeted at Echo specifically, but just about the fact that he was able to survive and Tech wasn't. Hmmm, I might have to think about that).

Hunter likely blames himself for a lot of what happened to his brothers, and resents himself for making the decision to leave them behind. But the thing is, in none of these scenarios is it ever his fault, and that arguably makes it worse. He couldn't take Crosshair off Kamino because it was a safety risk, he couldn't take him after the collapse of Tipoca City because going against Crosshair's choice would damage their relationship even further, and it was Tech that sacrificed himself on Eriadu. Hunter never had an option and yet feels like it was his fault that it all happened. His job as a brother and as a team leader was to protect his family, and he failed.

[Okay yap over. Love how this is technically a ramble for 1x2 and 1x3 but covers one line of dialogue from 1x3 and a bunch of waffle about any episode apart from those two. And of course it's angsty :D]

Tags for the peeps: @saturn-sends-hugs @inkstainedhandswithrings @the-bi-space-ace @eriexplosion

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Hera Syndulla | illustrated by Colin Searle

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On my knees begging for anything trans!Obi-Wan :') love your work btw

your wish is my comand lovely anon, here's obi-wan having a nice peaceful moment training

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Near the end of Star Wars: A New Hope, Darth Vader is in his little fancy Tie-fighter shooting at Luke Skywalker.

He doesn't realize it at the time, but what he's doing here is attempted Laser Heir Removal.

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Sisters 🏳️‍⚧️

The humidity on Pabu makes Sister’s hair a hassle to wear loose so she’s often seen in two braids. Omega wants to match, but she’s never braided hair before.

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setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

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I engage with fiction in a normal way. don’t look at my blog

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HIS NEW DESIGN HAS ME.

ITS MY BOY. MY SON