#and I’m praying it doesn’t

[thepinkwool]

I love how the Bad Batch fandom has collectively agreed that Tech is autistic. But am I the only one who strongly feels like Crosshair is too? Like the fandom is even like Tech and Cross are twins so even more closely related to each other than any other clone brother.

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not officially diagnosed but am in the waiting process for it but my therapist tells me there is a very strong possibility of me being on the spectrum (with what was formally Asperger’s syndrome but please let’s not debate the usage of that word that’s not what this is about but I think Crosshair is on that side of it too)

I just think they’re on different areas of the spectrum. Maybe it’s just me projecting or reading too much into things. BUT. While I relate to Tech and just the way he is, I just understand Crosshair more. I don’t “get” people. I come off as cold, uncaring, my sarcastic dry humor (that’s usually just an observation but people count it as humor?) doesn’t land well sometimes. Just being more quiet, reserved almost, soft spoken, but definitely opinionated af and will get defensive about said opinions. Dude has some sensory issues for sure (light seems to be a huge one for him. He wears his helmet the most, next to Tech. And maybe it’s just his ✨enhanced sniper eyesight✨ but a lot of light genuinely seems to make him uncomfortable). He also is the least verbal of the group. Again that goes back to mentioning being “the quiet one”.

Idk I’m really bad at putting what’s in my brain into actual convey-able thoughts but. I can’t be the only one who thinks this? Just as someone who has always been the quiet one who struggles with almost everything socially I see so much of that in Crosshair. “Good soldiers follow orders” but also having an issue with authority when it seems arbitrary and stupid (the empire, especially after the end of season 1 and going into season 2). Rules and regulations exist for a reason and should be followed except when they don’t make sense is something that I function and live by and seems like Crosshair does too. He struggles to convey his emotions and feelings like tech does, but just a little different. And I get it. It clicks with my brain. He makes sense.

Crosshair being on the spectrum just. Makes sense.

Thank you for coming to my shitty unorganized TED Talk.

[xmilkwee3dx]

My ultimate fantasy is to be able to trust someone with my entire heart and being.

[wigglebox]

Newsflash: They sound ridiculous either way

[smolldust]

idea I’ve had for a while lol

fanart for @bovinewriter’s fic Your New TV Headed Roommate!

[voidcanarys]

had to make an ubers one because of the leaks

[postureofashrimp]

what am i going to do after agatha all along ends like seriously this has been like my only hyperfixation for a month now

[yougavemeyourheartyouknow]

YALL WANT MORE BABY DADDY MIGUEL!?!!*

*When I get my new phone cuz my boyfriend is letting me borrow an old phone of his, and I don’t have the courage to download google docs on this phone because he doesn’t need to know how Delulu I am.

[autumnhobbit]

y’all pray this tornado picks up before it gets to our county, hubby and i are currently safe at his grandparent’s but our apt is in the line of fire right now, and maybe eventually my parents and us

[chirpsythismorning]

When the interviewer asked when we should expect s5 to be coming out, that’s when Shawn mentioned that a little bit of an answer to that might be out there soon.

He actually mentions that this answer could be out by the time the video for this interview comes out, and since this interview was filmed mid-May and it’s now mid-June, I’m assuming we could be getting something soon or within the next couple months, potentially about a release date aka possibly a small teaser with 2025 stamped at the end…

[mcwhytubers]

Haven’t seen anyone mention this yet. But Doc apparently asked if he could be part of the Life Series.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

ya girl is down one gallbladder

[notetaeker]

October 11th, 2024 - Friday

In a half-moved state of being lol half my belongings are in one place and the other half in another place. I’m trying to live a new life while also trying to continue my old life at full force. It’s exhausting yet exciting, foreign yet familiar, terrifying yet comforting. I am a living juxtaposition. All I can do is spread my old comforter onto a new bed and make new plans in an old planner (and read sometimes to escape 📚 )

[wrathofrats]

I finally applied to go back to school today I just need to be proud of myself for 10 minutes LMAO

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[achildsfirstsorrow]

Erik with a skull, because why not? (Someone take it before he starts to recite Hamlet.)

Oddly enough this is probably my favourite POTO art I’ve done, but I’ll be back to drawing more book things soon.

[imnotnice]

i’m so worried that the actual valid reasons to be mad at izzy’s death are going to be drowned out by all the numbskulls talking about “bury your gays” and “killing disabled characters is inherently ableist.” (there are ableism problems in the writing, his death is not one of them) that’s not what’s wrong here. the issue is it’s a wild choice that was barely set up and had no payoff whatsoever.

in my opinion, izzy’s life had barely begun. he had just discovered an interest in performance and makeup, he was adjusting to life with a prosthetic leg, and he had finally started to work through past trauma. his life was tragically cut short by some guy we barely knew shooting him in an act of cowardice and desperation. this might have been effective narratively, except it wasn’t. his death was more about ed than it was about izzy. the tragedy of this moment, that izzy still had a crew that loves him and a life to look forward to, that he was dying still believing that he deserved the abuse he went through, none of that was remotely acknowledged. in that moment it was all about ed and what izzy’s life meant for ed’s character. so, this isn’t a moral problem, it’s mostly a writing problem.

and maybe they’ll make it work in s3 and bring him back as a seagull or undead sea creature or give him more consideration/mourning. but until they fix this unsatisfying mess they’ve created i’m gonna be disappointed and a little mad. i just hope everyone is mad for the right reasons. because one the worst feelings as a fan of media is seeing two fellow fans who are both wrong argue about something you care about.