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hey i dont see a pinned post D: im new to the fandom so i may be missing some stuff... is this an annual event/when is it?
hi anon! our first ever event that just passed was from august-january - we plan to make it an annual event, but currently most of our mod team is helping with @apothybang and thus jrwibang is on the backburner for the time being. feel free to check back in later this year when we’ll hopefully be starting back up again :-)
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Do you have a calendar for when any deadlines, check ins, etc will be happening? I'd love to take part but life will be life-ing so I need to make sure I have the time before I sign up
timeline is here!
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St. Joan of Arc, Pray for Us
#my chemical romance#mcr#gerard way#my chem#mychemicalromanceedit#mcredit#chappell roan#st joan of arc#vma 2024#vmas 2024#irl#mod post
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tried the blind color palette challenge a few times with some suggested characters :))
#blind color palette challenge#blind color palette#star wars#the clone wars#commander wolffe#ahsoka tano#ahsoka#arc trooper echo#arc trooper fives#tcw#tcw wolffe#tcw fives#tcw echo#sw tcw#star wars the clone wars#i had so much fun with these!!!#might make more i’m not sure yet#ive gotten a few more fun suggestions#and i think i’m gonna make the wolffe one a print!#i really fell in love with it while making it#anywhooooo#bye thank u#mods art#mods draws#my art
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happy aurora borealis weekend everybody
#mcyt#grian#joel smallishbeans#smallishbeans#hermitcraft#grian fanart#daily-grian#mod owl#i need to catch up on episodes but this is how the permit office arc sounds out of context to me
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Tag your OC's
#tag your oc#character development#oc questions#original character creation#mod oc lore: Isaac and August your inter-dimensional enemies to friends to lovers arc will always be famous
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Can I have a drawing of sharp note? The punk pony from issue #95 of the comics?
She's really neat :)
This horse is EVERYTHING
#Sharp Note#MLP#MLP:FIM#My Little Pony#Mod Fiesta#Man did you guys miss me I've gone through like 7 character arcs#heres a horse for you ily guys#background pony#mlp comics
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“ERM. OKAY. I shoulda phrased it better hermmm…… let me try again..”
“Do you. Steven’s son, wish to know why Steven acts like he does? Yeah, coding but thats half bullshit. There’s more.. uhm.”
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“Basically do you wanna know why your dad is a fucking greedy, manipulative egotistical asshole.”
[Falls flat on my face with a loud CRUNCH. Don’t worry! No bones broke!! Glass did crack, but meh. Easy fix ┐(´ー`)┌
“Eyyy. How funny would it be if I made your dad open up about his past? (’ω’) me? Personally? Think it would be silly. Then again. I.. sorta do dictate what.. he does- BUT STILL!”
@ask-steven-stevenson
WHUHUH. HES. HES GONNA WHAT?????
HELP. he looks. sO confused. this poor kid💔💔💔💔
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how pyrrha could've lived
(alt serious version + cartoon close up below cut)
#rwby#pyrrha nikos#jaune arc#rwby fanart#pyrrha lived au#been missing drawing rwby so i picked something from the rwbysketches idea bin#ive been trying to get more into drawing lighting 🥰#mod suffering
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Part 2 to this comic I made
#krauss ushiromiya#lion ushiromiya#umineko#umineko spoilers#krauss accidental allyship arc GO#mod vex#vex art#very much based on that one mp 100 post btw
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Stardew valley mod concept art from aaaaaages ago... set sometime after apollo justice... cruelly abandoned due to uni stress.... featuring phoenix (jodi) pre and post the return of edgeworth (kent)...
#we had graphs for who's replacinng who#and im not talking in terms of 1 to 1 au#i mean we were mapping out paths for a real mod#we had character arcs and started writing dialogue and everything until life got in the way#good times#aa#ace attorney#prosecutor godot#maya fey#franziska von karma#apollo justice#klavier gavin#ema skye#vera misham#athena cykes#phoenix wright
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Thoughts on Echo as amputee/disability representation
First and foremost, I am not disabled or an amputee and I don’t claim to speak for those communities (and if I was I couldn't speak for everyone). What little I do know mostly comes from this youtube channel (@oakwyrm), this post, and other research I’ve done for my writing (and like one amputee I kinda knew in passing). By all means correct me and add to the conversation, I just have some thoughts I want to share because I haven’t really seen this discussed anywhere
Overview
So Echo is interesting. He is a triple amputee which is pretty rare in media. His disabilities come from extremely traumatic circumstances: injured in a near-death experience, imprisoned and dehumanized as an experiment with no autonomy over what happened to his body.
There are a few moments in the shows where Echo is treated… questionably. Like this bit where Rex uses him as an example of the Separatists' evils to convince the locals to fight back:
To be fair, yeah Echo’s treatment does prove that the Techno Union is not neutral like they claim. The modifications that everyone is gasping in horror at here obviously weren’t made with comfort and accessibility in mind, nor with Echo’s consent. But you still just want to be sure that “They took away his freedom, his humanity, they tried to turn him into a machine” is about using him as a living computer, not the fact that he is missing limbs.
The Batch is also pretty insensitive toward him and his trauma imo, which is weird considering they've supposedly also faced discrimination for their mutations
Disabled people do have to deal with stuff like this in this day and age so I guess it can speak to those experiences. I think especially him being mistaken as a droid (and Hunter going along with it (bruh)) might resonate with some people.
Aside from that stuff, Echo isn't really treated any differently as a character/person which is really good (as low of a bar as that is).
We get this moment in CW where Echo contemplates that yeah things are gonna be different now
While also (imo at least) showing that he is still the same person regardless, evidenced by the fact that he just echoed Rex :,) I also think it's significant that he joins the Bad Batch on his own terms and we're given a really emotional scene to specifically show that he's not just like 'lumped in with the other misfits' but that it is his choice to go where he feels his place is.
A lot of people, myself included, are disappointed that TBB didn't have more time to explore Echo's PTSD, but I think the one panic attack scene we did get is really good. Even thought it's minor it at least is an appropriate reaction from a guy who was medically tortured (which is more than I've come to expect from Star Wars shows lol)
And it's really sweet to see Omega showing Echo some empathy and consideration.
It would have been nice to see more of his adjustment period, and other side effects like chronic pain and maintenance, but there’s a lot of daily life stuff the show never had time for (i.e. we don’t know if he removed his prosthetics to sleep, but we also never saw him sleep anyway). His disabilities might take on a background role (much like the character himself sadly) but for the most part they aren’t invisible or erased, nor do they define his character and arc.
Physical Appearance
Okay this one is bit dicey, bc on the one hand, yes complaints that Echo’s paleness (most likely caused by burns from the explosion or chemical burns from the cryo-chamber) is whitewashing are totally valid. But I also think you can draw comparisons to real life conditions that affect pigmentation/complexion (like you know burns). So while I understand why a lot of fanart will depict him with his original skin tone and with hair, consider that there are real people who have to live with temporary or permanent changes to their appearance, and the idea of “fixing" him by making him look more like his old self can be problematic.
It's also interesting to note that Echo could act as a reversal of the 'disabled/disfigured = evil' trope. He's pale and bald and wears black and red, which is so often visually associated with villains, but we all know Echo is the bestest boy™
The Headpiece
Echo’s headpiece is interesting because within the show we don’t actually ever learn much about it (idk if there is more info in books or whatever bc i don’t have them so?). He didn’t have it in CW so we know it didn’t come from the Techno Union and therefore Echo probably had more choice with it. We don’t know its exact purpose but it’s most likely related to his scomping abilities. When he is hacking with his scomp in CW, before he has his headpiece, it’s clearly very mentally straining:
We don’t see him struggling like this in TBB once he does have it (though that could be bc he got more used to it over time). There doesn't seem to be much of an impact when he removes his headpiece in s3 ep14-15, except that he gets stuck in the ports every time he uses his scomp which is not something we’ve seen before:
There might not be an exact real-world equivalent, but the headpiece is some kind of accessibility aid. It means that someone specifically designed a device to help him adapt to the changes the Techno Union made, as well as a helmet that integrates it. It’s removable and visually very present, much like a cochlear implant would be. (A lot of people actually headcanon it to act partially as a hearing aid, since it makes sense that Echo’s hearing would have been damaged in the explosion, but there isn't really any indication of this in canon.) The headpiece is never really acknowledged in the show, but I think that's a good thing. It's something he needs/wants and it just exists, completely normalized, and that's pretty cool 👍
Legs
Sigh... So from the very first episode of TBB I was really disappointed that the animation team or whoever completely visually erased Echo’s prosthetic legs (I think we all were, honestly, if fanart is anything to go by). It’s one thing when he’s in armor because he would probably want to protect his prosthetics, but we literally see him in his blacks and there is no indication whatsoever that he lost his legs even though it was not left up for debate at all in CW:
Like ??????!?
This is just really strange to me! Idk what went on behind the scenes with this decision but I don’t really see why it would be that much harder to animate or anything since it’s 3D and they've done it before. We do see some pretty sophisticated cybernetic technology in Star Wars canon that mimics real limbs:
But Luke’s fancy hand is technically 20ish years from now, so Anakin and Maul are more of a representation of what level we could expect here
So yeah, for no apparent reason, his leg amputation is effectively, visually and narratively nonexistent. Which is not great 👎
Arm!
The scomp on the other hand (uh lol!) is the complete opposite and I kinda love it!
At first I, like many others, thought it was a bit odd that they didn’t give Echo a prosthetic arm. Losing hands is basically a Star Wars tradition at this point, so robotic arms/hands are well established within the worldbuilding:
We aren’t necessarily given a canon reason for why Echo doesn't get a cybernetic arm (again unless it's in some lore book I haven’t read, sorry). General fanon explanations I’ve seen are that he either couldn’t because the Techno Union wired the scomp too far into his nervous system, and/or the resources to give him one were deemed too expensive for a clone (what about his legs tho?), or that he chose not to, usually because he thought the scomping was useful.
Regardless, I actually really love this choice (and it's the whole reason I made this post), because here's the thing: There’s a lot of problematic tropes out there that either erase/cure disabilities or compensate them with perks (like how pretty much any blind character is actually not blind by some sort of magic power). With amputees that is done with robotic arms. The character is still an amputee or course, and there is still value in that representation, if this story from Mark Hamill that makes me tear up is anything to go by:
but for the most part these characters function like anyone else, just with a limb that looks a little different. It’s no more than a video game skin, an able-bodied actor with a green screen glove. It “cures” the disability, or it actually makes the character even stronger than usual:
It usually makes sense within the world of the story, but the reason it’s not so great in my opinion is that in the real world we just do not have technology anywhere close to that yet. Prosthetics can more or less replace any mobility from lost legs, but not for all the complexities of a hand (and even if they could the average person wouldn’t be able to afford it).
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I think it's actually really super cool that Echo’s scomp bypasses the canonically-established amputee erasure and functions much like a stump would irl. He integrates it into his movements and everyday life and it’s (as far as I know) a lot closer to an everyday amputee’s experience.
It doesn’t define his character, it doesn’t hold him back, he lives a full life, the other’s don’t treat him any differently, and he’s still a total karking badass
The only additional thing is that he sometimes uses it as a weapon (which given his story, I think it’s cool to see him taking back autonomy in a way, and we only see that like twice)
And also the scomping, which could be seen as the 'added/compensating superpower' trope. But narratively it's no different than if he was plugging in with a hacking gadget of some kind (he didn't necessarily "need" to lose his arm for it) and it’s not like Echo is completely defined by this skill. Personally, I think it's well worth the positives of him actually having a visible and realistically impactful amputation.
I see a lot of posts or comments out there that say stuff like “how come Echo doesn’t get a hand?” or fanworks that do give him one and I just think it’s a bit of a shame. If he did get a robotic hand, it just would have disappeared the same way his legs and Anakin’s arm did (aside from that one time he got yoinked by a magnet). When Echo did “get a hand” in the last two episodes there were comments like “yay he finally got a hand! but it doesn’t even work” but I was actually so relieved that it didn’t! Bc for one thing that wouldn’t make any sense, he grabbed it off a droid, it wasn’t designed to implement with his scomp, that would be really complicated. But more importantly because it again refused to erase/cure his disability! It functioned like a real-world cosmetic prosthetic (useless beyond appearance) which is exactly what he needed it for, so that he could blend in better with his disguise.
And he continually took it off throughout the episode and ditched it at the end. He only used it for the necessity of a stealth mission, he doesn’t feel the need to visually “fit in” in his daily life.
And, last but very much not least, he made a dad joke and from my intel that is very accurate representation!
TLDR: Echo’s scomp is actually really cool from an amputee representation perspective, especially within Star Wars, and I think that deserves some appreciation
#man i just love him so much!#this post ended up ten times longer than i was expecting lol#its so strange to me that the same team that completely noped his prosthetic legs also gave us such good arm amputee represention#like whats up with that?#echo's scomp appreciation#also so glad those weird mod arm attachment things from the action figures never happened#representation matters#disabled lives are worth living#disability representation#amputee#disability tropes#robotic limbs#ableism#star wars#clone wars#the bad batch#sw tcw#arc trooper echo#tbb echo#tbb season 3#unwhitewashtbb#long post#accidental essay#analysis#thoughts#imo#rant#character analysis#writing disabled characters#writing
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if they arcaneify viktors prototype skin in yhe rework im blowign all of us up btw
#mod post#assuming he is the rework#huffing copium that hes not#PROTOTYPE IS A CLASSIC HES A SILLY GUY#anyways hi sorry 4 radio silence its been busy but arc/ne made me feel spiteful and want to work on this again#ive just been categorizing untagged posts and playing witj the theme as of late... sifting through the tags makes me sad#will hopefully be able to do more embedposts from twt that ive saved but its a little more effort#arcane mentioned
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#mods are still asleep. post spiky hair gifs#drowned rat typa guy#see the thing is that i actually enjoyed the vast majority of this ep#just not so much the last scene and the arc that followed#strange aint it#anyway#s02e05#duane barry#x files#the x files#the scientist speaks#my gifs#david duchovny#fox mulder
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Oh elder custard is dead
yipee
im sure this won't have any effect on a certain consul's mental health
#i love the republic arc so much#mod canid#canid's art#dragon curse au#cookie run#cookie run kingdom#crk#pure vanilla cookie#custard cookie#clotted cream cookie#dark cacao cookie#eternal sugar cookie#silent salt cookie
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aaaand scene! great acting everyone, hit the showers! happy april fools. heh. fool. object f -💥
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