#THEY’RE TRYING

[bearotonin-international]

Why do sun bear cubs look as if they've seen something shocking or traumatizing? The eyes never fail to disappoint me.

Listen.

They’re

Trying

Their

Best

[chocolatebassrecipe]

average Valentine’s day enjoyers

[thewallsaretalking-again]

They don’t really understand, but their hearts in the right place :)

[commbowman]

“You know, it wasn’t too long ago when me wearing a sexy outfit would get an immediate response from you.”

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Frank is being stupid and flirting with Halman. Bro, it’s been 1000 years. Give the guy a minute.

Realized I forgot to tag before oops @frankpooleunofficial

Halman stood there stupidly in the center of Frank’s apartment. It wasn’t clear if he had heard him or not. He just stared with an almost confused expression as if they weren’t sure what they were feeling. The being provided no indication of intelligence.

It’s lips part.

Thousand year old feelings stir up inside of them, strange and new. It was hard to control. Forgotten desire lingered on the back of his tongue.

“You… it…looks good.”

It seemed to have forgotten what it meant to tease.

They glided across the room to him, wide eyed — enough as they could make themselves. It could only hope that its reaction back then was held with a bit more grace than now.

[blaithnne]

Lauren’s not present in canon bc she and her Dad left to get milk ten years ago and they still can’t find any

[dragonrider9905]

In Defense of Hunter and Echo’s Disagreement

So I was doing some thinking…I really like how just like last season, this season has some complications and no simple answer to some things. I know lots of us like taking a side and we defend it passionately, such as the Hunter vs. Crosshair conflict from last season (I have lots of thoughts about that too but I’ll refrain from that for now) but I noticed a pattern happening again this season with Hunter Vs. Echo.

Before we get further, let’s take a Tech step and try to see why the characters are taking their positions. Personally I like that they’re making us think rather than always being like “oh so and so is so right”. Both are right and both are wrong in a way.

Hunter wants to give Omega a peaceful future. He wants her to have a good childhood. One that isn’t constantly in danger. Crosshair LIED and said they were dead….they were off the Empire’s radar. If they could lay low out of harms way, because he’s tired of living day by day not knowing if he or his family will get hurt or killed. He’s a leader so everything weighs on him. Also….as much as I would love to see in the show that the Batch knew 99….it’s not canon. At least not yet. Here’s hoping. Anyway….if they didn’t know 99… then that would mean the Batch has never known loss. Think about this for a moment. No bad missions. 100% success rate. No brother lost in the field. Losing Crosshair in Season 1 would have been their first tragedy. I imagine that would have scared Hunter. He’d realize they are breakable, they aren’t invincible, they can shatter and just think, he would do anything to keep them all safe.

Echo on the other hand….he wants a future for Omega too but he’s looking past the present moment. He’s an Arc and he and Tech are probably paying more attention to what is going on in the galaxy so he knows there is no way they can’t fight. He doesn’t want a temporary peace. He wants one that lasts. And he’s alway been one to do the right thing. The Empire is bad? Then by heaven he’ll bring it down. Echo’s been through hell and back. He lost his batch mates one by one…..not to mention his twin. Fives. His other half. He’s worked through grief. He’s familiar with it. He knows there is a cost to anything good but its worth it. He’s come out stronger because he didn’t let it conquer him. He’s ok questioning Hunter because again he’s an Arc. He was taught to question. Plus his comfortability with Rex (ie helping plan strategies etc.) shows he’s comfortable challenging people. He isn’t picking on Hunter. He’s just speaking his mind.

The Batch also have a brother centric ideology. I will have to talk about Crosshair in a different post because this theory is very consistent with him as well in a different way. They fought for the Republic …. They never were like the refs in their enthusiasm for the Republic. Brothers was their cause. Not the Republic. Sure they struggled with helping the Separatist Senator from S1, but Hunter and Tech put that away rather quickly. Echo was the one who was so strongly adamant against him. Crosshair makes a comment about what difference does it make if it is the Republic or Empire. They even were going to give the Empire a shot by going on the Onderon mission. When it became clear that it was wrong, they left. Their mottos were all brother centric. They were loyal to each other not anyone or anything else really.

Then you have Echo. He was a Reg. He fought for the Republic. A cause. (I’m not saying he’s not brother centric at all. What I’m saying is he shares the Batches sentiments but there’s more). He knows what it’s like to fight for a cause bigger than himself. To be willing to die or weep for his brothers who fall because they believe in a cause. He’s willing do devote himself to an ideal.

I guess all I’m asking is please before bashing one side or the other to be considerate of where they both come from. They have their own struggles, differences. But at the end of the day they love each other and would die for each other. At the end of the day the Empire is the main evil for setting two people with good intentions against each other because they are trying to find the best path in a confusing time. We have the gift of retrospect. This is new to them. Please be generous to both the characters as they go. They both will be right at times and both be wrong. It got heated between Hunter and Crosshair fans because people forgot that the Empire is forcing them into difficult situations and decisions. There isn’t always a clear answer in the time.

The Bad Batch is giving us some grey space and I love it because I love the complexity of it. But it can be frustrating especially when we want it to be simple so we can just take a side. But the conflict is good and healthy. It is good to have a challenge. Sometimes things come out stronger after being tested and I hope that’s the case for these two. The conflict is healthy to see because Echo and Hunter aren’t disrespectful to each other. They get frustrated, sure, but they don’t want to hurt each other. They want to be heard and valued. Watching them work through these difficulties should be good. But this really shows how our experiences shape us. The best of people may make wrong choices. The hero isn’t always right. And when heroes don’t agree? Makes things sticky. But intriguing. Even they have room to grow because they are only human.

Anyway, thank you to those who took the time to read my rambling thoughts. Happy Bad Batch Eve!

[chryblossomjjk]

i’m curious was seol’s passing the main thing that made jungkook and seulgi’s relationship turn out how it is now ? or were they having issues even before that and the incident was what put even more distance between them ?

oh hi love! i imagine that they were a college relationship that got extended because of seol! like when jk mentioned that they both had to sacrifice a lot for their family, that’s what he was sort of hinting to. they were bound together by circumstance, if that makes sense! however, seol’s passing drove the wedge to an irreversible point! and then they had yul to fill that gap (more so jk’s decision) but obvi it didn’t work :’((

[askyin]

ccan you tthrow me into a cactus I need to feel some sort of stimulation otherwise I'm going to go completely mental

accrue

I cant actually throw you into a cactus since your on the internet, but this is the best I can do!!

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was young my dad offhandedly told me he thought people treated fish with so much casual cruelty because fish can’t scream.

The words branded themselves across my soul.

As an adult I think he may have been joking. He payed no especial attention to any indignities fish suffered in our household but I could never forget. I saw fish in a different light after that.

Fish kept in tiny bowls, breathing their own poisons, dying by inches. Fish kept in cold tanks, casually disposed of. Fish touted as being short lived when they could outlive the better loved family dog if only they could breathe. Fish casually won and discarded in cheap plastic bags, thrown away a week later.

How they would scream, if they could.

[wind-rider]

HNGHNHGH YEAH YOU’RE RIGHT

unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

[auriidae]

Ethubs Adventure

[mangozic]

michael shelley I would die for you

[the-flower32]

It’s in words!!!!

[kendyroy]

THEY’RE MARRIED

[bellwethers]

Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

[mo-mode]

The Biblically Accurate Trio in TLT