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Bonus Prompt: Adoption

That's his name: Smoothie!

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Wrecker on Pabu with a big fish: Traditional ink and color in Krita.

From that short video -> Hawaii gunfish guy

Feel free to use that video as a template for your own version if you feel inspired!

More Wrecker fanart is more!! 😤

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when I comment on a fellow writer's fic and they, in turn, comment on one of mine

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Week 5: In retrospect, this was a bad idea.

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++ Comanndo Wolffe for Predator 1987 AU (aka Jungle Moved) ++ his camo paint is from Commando 1985 (x)

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my Phee Genoa commission by Reese Jannigan!!! can't wait to frame her 😭

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Raise your hand if you're ready to ship TechPhee even harder when this book comes out

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We’ve reached over 100 works in the Summer of Bad Batch 2025 Ao3 collection!!

And 250 reblogs on @summer-of-bad-batch-reblogs!!!

Can I just say that y’all are pretty, kriffing AMAZING????!!!!

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Excellent bit of commentary. Hunter being judged by a droid over his culinary skills and hating every bit of this mission while everyone else has a nice pleasant time is so funny.

Some quick thoughts on the excerpts and those first two chapters of Sanctuary that got posted under the cut:

1. Mr. Giles, I would like to bake you cookies or something, because so far this is delightful. The POV voices are incredibly strong and the personalities shine through in a fantastic way.

2. I can’t believe we’re actually getting Tech and Phee in a fake married scenario. Laying it on thick, huh? (So anyway, when Tech and Phee get married for real sometime after Tech comes back—)

3. Something about Hunter that I thought came through pretty clearly in the show, but which is also being echoed clearly here in the way he thinks about the war, is that Hunter never actually liked being a soldier. He never wanted that. Not that any clone ever had a choice in what kind of life they wanted to live, but clones largely weren’t looking for a way out because they’re brought up with the expectation that they’re only purpose is to fight (though I suspect many clones are now). Hunter, I think, was the whole time. This is honestly one of the reasons why I think the only subplot in the bad batch mix that’s been fully resolved so far is the Hunter-Omega relationship/Omega’s Childhood subplot that’s introduced in “Cut and Run.” They’re each other’s way out. I think the other clones will find their way out by and large—even Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo, and, yes, Tech, who are all “out” but not settled on a new purpose yet and therefore only halfway there—but that it’ll happen later.

4. Speaking of Wrecker—listen, I’m not in the camp that Wrecker never talks about his feelings or anything because the thing about Wrecker is that he’s the most emotionally articulate character in the show besides Omega, even if his character development gets put on the backburner during season three—it’s interesting to see him talking about how he doesn’t necessarily want Pabu to be forever. Pabu is Hunter’s happy ending; it’s not necessarily anyone else’s. Wrecker’s arc doesn’t really resolve by the end of the series, and we see reflected here something that’s also evident in the show, which is that Wrecker really does kind of enjoy his job. Pabu is a nice break, but I’ve kind of been thinking that without the hunt for Omega to distract him Wrecker is going to start crashing hard between chafing at the bit for something to do and having no way to avoid thinking about losing Tech.

Frankly I think there’s two major reason we don’t see anyone but Hunter, Omega, and Batcher in the epilogue—one of which is that having Wrecker, Echo, and Crosshair there makes it harder to avoid the idea that he never came back, which you don’t want to do if you are bringing him back in the gap—but the other one is that Hunter and Omega are the only one who are fully cooked. We can’t see the others because they’re not settled and that except supports that idea.

5. I like that Phee is a bit of a skeptic. It really hammers home the idea that Phee is a bit of a Han. (There’s just a little Han/Leia in TechPhee in my opinion, where Phee is the Han (with a bit of Leia) and Tech is the Leia (with a bit of Han).)

6. Speaking of TechPhee…gosh this is so cute.

7. Tech likes Phee. He enjoys her company. He respects her and her intelligence. He read up on the artifacts so he could prepare hours worth of conversation and small talk for Phee. I’m sorry, that is adorable and such an autistic way of showing affection.

8. This is how I’ve been interpreting it anyway, but I’m thinking that the most likely explanation for Tech acting the way he does during the conversation in “The Summit” is because he does work out the “calculus of him and her” before the end of the book and he completely freezes up about what to do about it. Because how would he know what to do? Even if Tech has caught feelings or had one night stands or whatever with people before, which is entirely possible, Phee would be the first person with whom he could have an actual relationship. He could have a life with Phee. That was never an option before!

9. Slight sidebar, but since I am still in the CX-Tech (either impalement helped because it “killed” CX-2 but not Tech, or there’s something weird like operator theory happening) camp, one slightly funny explanation for why CX-2 keeps stopping and staring at Phee in that one scene is that he hears the words, “Do you require a briefing?” in his head and doesn’t know why, but feels a sudden intense rush of, “Why did I say that?” without fully remembering that he did say it.

10. I, too, hate weird clothes.

11. The chef droid handing Hunter a safety peeler was so damn funny.

12. Wrecker seems to be having an okay time even if he’d rather be in the kitchen, Omega is being herself with her Gosalyn Mallard energy, Tech is leaning into the fake married thing with Phee and, despite hating the outfit, isn’t exactly having a bad time. Hunter is hating life. Gosh he’s so fun to bully with his big sad eyes.

13. Reading this, and reading reviews about how close it sticks to the space between “Pabu” and “Tipping Point,” I think I get why a lot of reviewers are saying that it makes “Plan 99” hurt worse. It’s because Tech’s POV is really well written, the budding (but not official) relationship between Phee and Tech is fleshed out more with both of their feelings made more explicit even if they don’t talk about it with each other, and the team in general probably gets closer to wanting to stay on Pabu. If you’re going into the book thinking that Tech is dead for real for good, yeah that’s going to make it hurt worse because it makes the reader want to see the whole group together and Tech alive more (which is interesting because if he were actually dead, this would be yet another opportunity to add some closure, not to poke at the wound, but they’re once again sidestepping it). If you go into it thinking he’s being set up to come back, then it…kinda feels like more set up. It’s more intriguing than painful. I might change my mind on this when I read the whole book! But I doubt it.

14. I love that Tech is beefing with Mel. It’s so funny.

15. I’m glad we’re getting Omega POVs. I was a little worried we weren’t going to. Also I love that she is, as usual, running off and not doing what she’s told. Love her for that.

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A quick little something in preparation for Sanctuary next week! I'm so exited!

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Wrecker

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MILD SANCTUARY SPOILER UNDER THE CUT (from the chapter previews they released early)

TECH FLIRTING TECH FLIRTING THIS IS NOT A DRILL

complimenting her intelligence and telling her that he supports her plan is absolutely how Tech would flirt (and it's working)

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Heyo @archivewriter1ont I've got a couple of your boys in here :3

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art ᯓᡣ𐭩 echo on pabu

I was inspired by @thattoothpick 's BEAUTIFUL art of Echo with a lil garden. Please look at it, it's GORGEOUS. [HERE!!!]

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Idk if you already answered this but what do you think the rest of the rebellion (mostly Mon Mothma and Padme other friends) reacted to luke and leia being Anakin and padme’s kids? Any bets won about their not so secret marriage?

omg I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT WITH MON and yess there were DEFINITELY bets abt anidala

(tip jar! // comms status)

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Week 9: bonus prompt: bedtime story

Tech is reading a horror novel to his brothers. Crosshair and Wrecker are absolutely terrified.

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Silly mental image, but: Tech makes his way back from wherever he is a few months after Tantiss. He lost both eyes in the fall, and he’s had both replaced by cybernetics. And, being Tech, he likes to pop them out and tinker with them from time to time (one at a time, of course). And in the course of his tinkering

he adds

a recording function

with a red indicator light.

So Hunter or whoever will just be minding their own business and will walk up to Tech and ask him for something, and then Tech will be like

“Yes? What is it?”

It takes some getting used to and Tech doesn’t see the problem (Tech does, in fact, see the problem, he just finds the problem hilarious).