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was rewatching on the wings of keeradaks for some cute tech moments and i completely forgot this scene happened. why aren’t we taking about this always. this might be the most anime-esque gag in all of star wars.. all that’s missing is hunter, rex, echo and anakin doing moe chibi screaming faces. i’m obsessed

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They're sleepy and smol 💛

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oh no

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whole squad got nerfed

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Just a daily reminder that Crosshair is, and always will be, a little shit.

And I love him for it.

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Words cannot describe how much I love this helmet

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Happy Tumblrversary!!!! You are such a light in this fandom and truly one of my favorite people on earth. I can't even begin to say how grateful I am to this silly show for allowing me to meet you.

Everyone go follow Carol now if you haven't already because she's the best!!

Time for some old lady rambles.

July 20th was the 2nd anniversary of this blog. I forgot to celebrate it that day. So I'm celebrating now.

And it is a celebration. I've had more fun with this blog than I have with any other online experience.

Here's how it came to be:

I've been on Tumblr since September 3, 2010, and I started out with a blog dedicated to my favorite hockey (NHL) player. It was called Fuck Yeah Jose Theodore, because of course it was, because it was 2010. Tumblr was a different world back then. And I dedicated about 10 years to faithfully blogging for that hockey player (super nice guy by the way, I've met him a couple of times and he knew about the blog...I'm still not clear how he found it...and would visit it periodically.) I kept blogging even after he retired in 2013 and went on to be a broadcaster.

But then he stopped that to spend more time with his family, and his public appearances were fewer and fewer. So there wasn't much new stuff to blog about, so I started focusing on other interests. Along the way I changed the name to Save By Theodore, so that's why if I like something or follow, it's with that username. And that archive is still there for him and his fans, I don't plan to ever remove it.

Along the way I focused on a few other things, but I wasn't really in a fandom. I still have an Autumn/Fall/Halloween blog that has over 13,000 followers, and there's one for hockey goalies, and one for garden gnomes. I was mostly using a side blog called SaveByTheodoresNonJoseStuff, posting A LOT of Timothy Olyphant, Pedro Pascal, The Mandalorian, and The Last of US, when I happened upon The Bad Batch.

My husband had watched The Clone Wars over the years, but usually when I was at work, so I barely saw any of it. Not enough to get interested. And I was only a casual Star Wars fan at the time.

Then one of the people I was following because of hockey was also blogging about TBB. And specifically about Tech and what happened to him. And I was pretty sure my husband was watching the show. I remember asking him, "Hey, that show you watch, the Star Wars show. Is there a guy who died, but maybe he didn't really die?" He said yeah, that's what some people think. And I told him I was following someone who was posting about it a lot (I'm pretty sure she's not around here anymore.)

But I saw more and more of her posts, and I started taking an interest. And around the same time I'd decided to get a late start on watching The Mandalorian. After watching the first 2 seasons, I was interested in learning more about the Mandalorians. Plus I knew the Ashoka show was going to happen, so my husband suggested I watch TCW for background on her, and to see more about Mandalorians.

If only he knew what a can of worms he was opening up. First time around I did not focus on the clones enough, because I didn't realize there were going to be so many actual individuals with different personalities and such. I thought it was just one big army of the same guy. So I focused on Ahsoka, the Mandalorians, and Savage Opress...I loved him. (In fact, Savage fanfiction is the first fanfiction I read in the Star Wars fandom.)

So a lot was happening at one time. I was watching multiple seasons of The Mandalorian. I was watching the whole run of TCW. I was seeing a lot of TBB posts on Tumblr.

And then in Season 7, I saw the Batch appear on the show, and I was hooked, smitten, in love, whatever you want to call it. So then I definitely knew I wanted to watch The Bad Batch.

After I finished TCW, I went on to Rebels, and I'm not sure why. I don't know why I didn't start the TBB.

My first clones post on my other blog was June 23, 2023 and was a drawing of Old Man Rex saying to R2D2, "Hello, old friend."

On June 25, 2023, I made a post that said "When I die I want to come back as Din Djarin's cape."

A little later on June 25, 2023, I reblogged a gifset of Hunter. My 2nd clones post overall, my first Bad Batch post.

And on June 26, 2023, I started watching TBB. I made a post that said:

I’ve just started watching The Bad Batch, and saw the mess hall scene with Omega. And already I would die for her and Hunter.

Then I commenced reblogging over 200 TBB posts over the next month. And I decided I should create a blog just for my clones stuff, to spare my mutuals not in that fandom.

So that's how CloneThirstingIsReal came to be.

And it has been the best fandom experience I've ever had. I never really belonged to such a large fandom before, but so many wonderful people have been so kind.

I still remember how nice the people running the RP blogs were and how they helped me feel included and welcome, and helped me overcome my anxiety and shyness to be able to talk to them. It really helped me in those early days. I had never really interacted that much on Tumblr. So, thank you to everyone who helped me along the way. Who listened to me complain and whine and cry. And who have been so supportive after I decided to take the plunge and start writing fanfiction. I appreciate you all more than I could ever say.

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They look out for each other.

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@crosshairs-dumb-pimp-gf said dilated eye Hunter when he’s tracking. Imagine him going feral over a trailed scent

@lonewolflupe @eobe @vimse @v4r-jpg @cyaretra @returnofthepineapple

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: CT-9901 | Hunter, CT-9902 | Tech, CT-9903 | Wrecker, CT-9904 | Crosshair, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch) Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Humor, CT-9901 | Hunter is So Done, how do I tag something that isn't angst, CT-9902 | Tech Lives, non serious ongoing considerations of fratricide, Siblings Summary:

This was easier when he could pull rank or threaten them with temporary duty with regs.

Hey look I got a @summer-of-bad-batch​ fic done sorta on time! 

Prompts:

“It’s too early for this”

“Don’t even think about it”

The Datapad Incident

Brothers

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dave filoni was so real for going. hey. here are these clone twins (is that redundant? i do not care one single ounce). they're both brave and noble and kind but one of them is stubborn and independent and just generally hot-blooded and the other one is sort of quiet and bookish and a kind of a hardcore rule-follower. now guess which one is the clear-headed voice of reason and which one is absolutely batcrap insane

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Been a while but I did some Bad Batch sketches today

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You're gonna send me on the run Send me out on the run You're gonna shoot me like a gun in the shadows (x)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CT-9904 | Crosshair/CT-9901 | Hunter Characters: CT-9904 | Crosshair, CT-9901 | Hunter Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene, in which the boys have like five percent of a conversation, Love Confessions, Angst with a Happy Ending Series: Part 2 of trying to find a starting line Summary:

They head back to Pabu. All of them.

Finally wrote the sequel to this fic. 

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That trailer didn’t have enough Echo so take this offering, a piece of next month’s patreons print. I love him.

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Can he do that?