#echo heartbreak

[xserpx]

"You've gotta let it go. For everybody's sake."

ENDEAVOUR 9.3 Exeunt

[tangents-within-tangents]

Thinking about the song "Ship in Port" by Radical Face and clones

Thinking about the line "Farewell to the chains we were born into" and what that can mean for the clones

Thinking about how "But I have always stayed in place/Under that old illusion that it's safe" could equally describe Hunter, Echo, and (s1+2) Crosshair's complete opposite approaches to the Empire and post-war life.

The way Crosshair clings to his identity as a soldier of the Empire

And Echo as a soldier of the Republic

But Hunter puts his identity as a soldier behind him

Crosshair fights for the Empire to gain purpose

Echo fights against the Empire to save his brothers

And Hunter decides the Empire is too strong to even try to oppose

"A ship in port is a safer one"

"but it's not the reason it was made"

"So forgive me if I wander off"

"And forgive me more if I just stay"

Thinking about what The Bad Batch could have been if it had more fully explored the differences between those ideologies

(Thinking about what The Bad Batch could have been if it had dedicated more screen time to the 'reg' clones within the Empire and the underground network's fight to free them , instead of just sidelining Echo and Rex for a hypothetical clone rebellion show we might never get)

[k20spock]

the narrator revealing that he did not intentionally make the princess a princess makes all of his anti-monarchist dialogue at the beginning really funny because we have no idea if he genuinely believed any of that or if he was just like well whatever gets this bitch killed gets her killed. vive la révolution i guess

[neverbesokind]

Oh my god it's The Alchemy day I have SO many thoughts about this song so I'm gonna try and condense them.

First of all, the song starts and ends with "This happens once every few lifetimes," which is a statement filled to the BRIM with irony, in my view. The entire album up to this point has been concerned with two romances, both of which Taylor states she felt were destined and fated and "storybook" in their own ways. The entirety of TTPD is exploring how these fated, destined, storybook romances could actually crumble, and with it, her faith and belief in the existence of fate and destiny and storybook love.

But THEN... almost at the end of the standard run of the album, Taylor states that she's getting back from recovering from this tragedy - "I'm back / The hospital was a drag / Worst sleep that I ever had". She gets back from the messy process of healing from the events described on the album, and despite everything finds herself falling in love again.

This is why the title is significant, too. Alchemy is the pseudoscience of making a material into something more valuable. And this reflects the emotional process of Taylor falling in love again - she felt like the past two tragedies took the shine off of everything, killed her belief that love could ever work. But then, despite everything, she falls in love again and the normal, even tragic world she lived in before is transformed into something golden.

And then the first line repeats again, to reflect the cyclical nature of what she has experienced. Obviously, "this" doesn't happen once every few lifetimes, it's happened twice before on the album and is happening again in this song. She's falling in love, she's finding something beautiful and fated, and she can't help but find it gorgeous and meaningful, even if she's been shown again and again that she might be proven wrong in the end. And it feels so special that even if it's obvious that it isn't a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it feels that rare and that precious.

In this song, love is the alchemy, the process of turning normalcy into meaning and beauty, and she can't help it.

[good-beanswrites]

My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:

(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.

It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.

(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)

In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.

The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.

The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.

The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)

Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.

Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.

The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)

Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.

It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.

[saturnsfallen]

ARCANE S2 SPOILERS!

Ok, so I just finished the last three episodes of Arcane and OMG. I haven't stopped crying. I was on the craziest rollercoaster when Echo and Heimerdinger were in the other universe. Like, so many mixed emotions?!? I didn't want any romantical stuff but GUESS WHAT!? I was shocked. But you know what, just like any other sane person, I obviously started cheering along Echo and Powder. I was crying HARD when they kissed. Emotions were flying everywhere, like my tears. IF ONLY EVERYTHING TURNED OUT LIKE THAT. (plus with Vi alive ofc) And don't even get me started on the Jayce and Viktor thing. I WAS SCREAMING. And honestly in my heart of hearts, I did know that tall guy was Viktor, just a realllllly big hunch. AND THAT PLOT TWIST. OMG. I was not expecting that red head to turn like that. I was literally that painting "The Scream" And JINX!!! I was crying so hard. frfr... Anyways, I really liked it. It was damn incredible. I seriously can't believe that's the last season:( so... so sad. Have a good day guys. After that traumatising, beautiful show.

[fangdoesstuff]

Because I really don’t want to stop seeing tbb content, I think I’m gonna try and post tbb art every wednesday! No matter if it’s just a little sketch or something else

Anyways have some concepts for the HTTYD Au and my attempt at drawing Crosshair (i cannot draw people for the life of me)

Here’s their dragons:

Wrecker- Crimson Goregutter named Lula

Obviously a huge dragon, and boulder class fits him so well. Also considered gentle giants.

Tech- Stormcutter named Havoc

Stormcutters look like Tech, and can do the “Tech Turn”.

Hunter- Rumblehorn named Marauder

Tracker class dragon perfect for Hunter.

Crosshair- Triple Strike named Razor

I was trying to pick between a Deathgripper and a Triple Strike but I think I just like Triple Strikes better.

Echo- Dramillion named Arc

Super stealthy! And Arc bc of Arc troopers.

Omega-Chimeragon named Batcher

So Chimeragons are a hybrid of Sentinals and Bewilderbeasts apparently? It’s from one of the games. I wanted to give Omega a rarer dragon for lore reasons. Also the look like Batcher so it fits!

Gonna do more on this au soon too hehehehe >:D I’m also really practicing drawing humans more LMAO I PROMISE I CAN DO GOOD PEOPLE ART TODAY WAS JUST NOT MY DAY FOR THAT

Anyways yeah I think Bad Batch Wednesdays should live on by way of artists and writers and whoever else just posting content on Wednesdays :D

[flebdoodle]

World's End

I still can't get over this fic AKA, Echoes back at it again Quote and close-ups under the cut :]

"...And we… we had stars. Sort of. A billion Overworld servers, so far away they might as well have been stars. And then, at the end of the year, they would fall behind the edge of the universe. World’s End.” A long moment passes. “Okay,” Skizz says. “You can’t just say things like that and not explain. Fall behind the edge of the universe?” “Sort of like an eclipse,” you say. “Bigger than any server or star or planet, though. It would blot out the whole sky, and we’d light every candle and lantern, string them from every surface until it looked like the islands themselves were the stars.” You have to stop and try to clear the lump from your throat, though it seems the ability to swallow has suddenly escaped you. “I could see Helleath all the way from Lioneth on World’s End.”

^This building, the one I'm pointing directly at, is what I was thinking to be Helleath :D

[echoblaze5]

Happy 10 year anniversary to the Predacons Rising movie!

Humanformer TFP Optimus at the end of Predacons Rising if he got to live. I just want him to be happy dammit.

[midnight-142]

Yes Crosshair we missed you! We need you to come baaaack!

You’re making us TBB fans cry! 😭😭😭

[asoftepiloguemylove]

hello! could you do one on wrong timings / people almost getting it right but they don’t?

Sue Zhao / Khaled Hosseini And the Mountains Echoed / Vanessa Angélica Villarreal A Field of Onions: Brown Study / Sue Zhao / pinterest / unknown / Marina Tsvetaeva Poem of the End; The Selected Poems of M. T. / Sue Zhao

[dearth-in-serendipity]

Shells hold the echoes of the sea like memories, just as we do. Even after being washed onto the shores and pulled back in by those monstrous waves, they hold strong to the sand, satisfying themselves that they will never return to that hell again.

ds.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.4.2

kalajun[12] IK'/IQ' [wind] - joj [5] MUWAN

galactic tone: understanding/ complex stability

sun sign: WIND| hummingbird/white/north

send communications of all kinds - MAYA

mahtlactli-omome[12] - EHECATL [wind]

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli | Quetzalcoatl

quetzaltotolin

lord of the night: Tlazolteotl

trecena[12]: Patecatl

x: caxtolli-nahui - hueitozoztli - NAHUA

in a vain attempt to get others into the calendars of my ancestors as well as music they may have never heard, I began doing these song lists. But, this is probably going to be it for me as step away from social media yet again. These are songs and bands that speak of the LAST:

Elliott Smith: Last Call & The Last Hour

The Last Dinner Party: On Your Side

Wham!: Last Christmas

Donna Summer: Last Dance

PJ Harvey: The Last Living Rose

The Motels: Suddenly Last Summer

Taylor Swift ft Gary Lightbody: The Last Time

Jeff Buckley: Last Goodbye

P!nk: Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

Chris Isaak: This Love Will Last

Natalie Merchant: Just Can't Last

Gorillaz: Last Living Souls

Evanescence: My Last Breath

Britney Spears: Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know

Morrissey: Happy Lovers at Last United

The Smiths: Last Night I Dreamt Someone Loved Me

Ariana Grande: One Last Time

George Strait: Famous Last Words of a Fool

Katy Perry: Last Friday Night

Indeep: Last night A DJ Saved My Life

Kris Kristofferson: Casey's Last Ride

Vanessa Williams: Save the Best for Last

Electric Light Orchestra: Last Train to London

ABBA: Our Last Summer

Bruce Springsteen: Last to Die

Joni Mitchell: Last Time I Saw Richard

Pearl Jam: Last Kiss & Last Exit

Mitski: Last Words of a Shooting Star

Crosby and Nash: To the Last Whale

Eurythmics: Last Night I Dreamt That Someone Saved My Life & The Last Time

The Band: Last Waltz

Dolly Parton: Save the Last Dance for Me

U2: Last Night on Earth

Judy Collins: Nothing Lasts Forever

Green Day: Last Night on Earth & Nice Guys Finish Last

Barbra Streisand: I Won't Last A Day Without You

Pet Shop Boys: Last to Die

Paramore: Last Hope

Misfits: Last Caress

Simon & Garfunkel: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

Duran Duran: Last Chance on the Stairwell

The Cure:Last Dance

Johnny Cash: The Last of the Drifters

Sinead O'Connor: Last Day of Our Acquaintance

The Rolling Stones: The Last Time

Diana Ross: Last Time I Saw Him

Eagles: The Last Resort

Nine Inch Nails: The Collector

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Mary Jane's Lat Dance & The Last DJ

Paul McCartney & Wings: Picasso's Last Words

Led Zeppelin: Achilles Last Stand

The Kinks: Last of the Steam Powered Trains

Etta James: At Last

Echo and the Bunnymen: Nothing Lasts Forever

Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Depeche Mode: No More (This is the Last Time)

[chaotic-kitty]

Well, now it’s time for a complete (😭) bad batch rewatch. It’ll take..*looks at calculator*….25 hours!?

[imminent-danger-came]

Gimme shadowpeach shipping bingo my man pretty please

God. These two monkeys. Sometimes with a ship you have to ask "where's the drama"—that is not even a little bit of a problem with these two. They are. Oh boy. "Fine, just leave! Like you always do!" "No that's you! You're the one always running off, chasing for more power or more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead! Not the great Sage, he has to drag everyone else into his mess!"

Like YES. YEAAASSSSSSS.

[commoninfected]

shit i drawn recently. hedgehog furry, and some Echoes. ft. Zeth and Hailey, who belong to @shesthenew