#halfbad

[will80sbyers]

[weclassybouquetfun]

It's always hard when a ship never gets to fully thrive.

I guess it's for the best. I mean, we don't have to fret over anyone turning into a tree or summat.

[sleepyjo000]

Imagine if Ao3 being down for ten hours made some people want what they can't have, and publish some more Bastard Son fic.

[captain-cold-approved]

currently writing a coffee shop au and a slightly more angsty 5 + 1 fic (which is a format I've never done before) in an elaborate way to avoid doing homework.

[whosralf]

"What would happen if all your favorite characters found themselves in the same room?"

Just try to imagine Magnus(TMI),Gabriel(HALFBAD),Crowley(GO) and the Cat King(DBD) in the same fucking room.

TRY.

[wolf-among-mechs]

MW5: Clans

Having messed around with Mechwarrior 5 Clans for a bit I think I can throw out a pretty strong recommendation for it for anyone still uncertain. The TLDR: I enjoy it plenty, lore and gameplay. The cutscenes and characters are pretty good.

I apparently made a review of it because I felt like talking about it into the void. With largely positive things to say about it. Bunch of stuff I honestly want to hear other people's opinions on too.

It is quite back to the old days in Mechwarrior 4 with characters and opinions and how it flows with the fights. While I enjoyed MW5 Mercs, it is kindof lacking in that department though as the DLCs pile on you get a lot more of it or at least attempts that aren't halfbad. Good effort has gone into making the people sound right, with accents and affects. Like yes, the clanners talk as they're supposed to. When one of your team uses a contraction every clanner outside your star immediatly lose their shit. Not in the meme sense but it they might as well have said c*nt next to a bunch of americans in terms of foulness spoken out loud.

The story following the smoke jaguars during Operation Revival is interesting considering they commit the worst war crime during the invasion and also kindof continually fumble the ball against the Combine. Your star, five lone mechs against the inner sphere, are part of the proceedings and the different characters in the star interact, sometimes disagree or just give each other shit. Got a nice team atmosphere. It introduces stuff and concepts among the clans quite nicely so even if you're not familiar with them you'll pick up what they're on about.

I think it does a pretty nice job of showing things from the Clans perspective of Operation Revival and how they are completely unprepared for the Inner Sphere and continually frustrated with it and things just going increasingly awry. There's a few beats that I think could've been done better certainly but I think it's good drama and a fun time in that regard. I could go more into what I think of the depictions of the clans in the game but that's basically some nerding out about the larger battletech universe and stuff. After turtle bay I kinda had that feeling that I've had in the past when a game makes you a culprit of a war crime or something terrible. A special kind of disgust made all the more visceral as you see the people, the resistance, in Turtle bay reacting to the bombing. Then everything blowing up.

Another thing that I quite like of this depiction is that the inner sphere does put up some serious resistance. Stuff doesn't roll over. They put up some serious fights. More often than not this is called dishonourable because the inner sphere descends into trickery and lies even though aforementioned trickery and lies are often extremely basic ambushes or "send more mechs to the fight." It is funny to contrast with Mercs where this just is how the Inner sphere fights. That said the clanners do eventually learn that they will set traps and ambush and attempt to fight unfair. Very often sending tons of mechs and people into the meat grinder in so doing. Some of the fights do get pretty intense and hard. You also get to see Comstar be Comstar. Wearing their space wizard garbs and being a manipulative force that will never tell you the truth.

The maps while feeling a bit more lived in than most of what Mercs managed to do, are kindof cramped and not great half the time for the kindof long range shooting matches more than half your equipment is good for, not helped that even with the added control to your lance or star mates you still have to be the one to step into the breach. Luckily there's many things you can do to fit that problem. I kindof wish that the star command screen had a pause function so that you could assign targets or at least go into bullet time. Because by the time the enemies show up. They're usually ontop of you so that's not really time to get your map out and play mechcommander. The fact it doesn't pause or slow down so you can set attacks or even give things preferences such as "maybe don't waste all your ammo on the fricking Locust when it will fall over from a stiff breeze" is honestly kindof baffling. Especialy how exciting it otherwise looks and how much detailing you can do with the Star mates XP and omnipods for their mechs. Which is not quite like tabletop omnipod but makes more sense than those omnipods.

Because of the tight maps the AI will more often than not walk in front of you when you're trying to hose something down way more often than they did in mercs. And they will complain about it when you invariably remove all thier back armor by mistake. You get used to it.

The fights feel pretty good honestly. Good challenging combat maps. They got a lot more field repair bays around compared to MW5:mercs. Which... I think I only remember 2? And were introduced like they were going to be more common in the campaign. Which holy shit, you're going to need those repair bays. You get to visit some really varied battlefields, a Star League depot, a cave system, cities and country side. Lots of mountain passes. Deserts and even do battle on a space port.

There's boss battles now. With various levels of canonicity. I don't know if we needed those but I see the point of them. They are usually there to give some variety to shooting stuff after waves of mechs and vehicles and vtols. You can also shoot down shilones now. I'd say aerospace fighters but it's all shilones.

All in all. If you enjoy mechwarrior, if you enjoy battletech. Chances are Mechwarrior 5 clans will have you eating well.

[olderthannetfic]

When you in a fandom, and there's a corner of that fandom where people raceflip random characters, but it's like almost impossible to figure out because they just looks like OCs. Art isn't halfbad, but man, your raceflip is a your raceflip, you can't get angry when random people don't know who that is anymore, pls don't expect people to act or treat it like its canon, because man, some of you guys have now written more rants about people not getting that "It's blorbo, how can you not see that?" Than just moving on and making the art. Can raceflips be fun? Idk guess so from the looks of, it but you are kinda choosing to also make it less accessible for folks to know who that is unless they do research, and that's just how it be. Nothing wrong with it, and nothing wrong with preferring the original designs either.

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[thiskryptonite]

If you click HERE you’ll find 500+ gifs of Emilien Vekemans from his role in Halfbad: the bastardson and the devil himself. He is white, so please cast accordingly. I’ll continue to update this pack week to week as episodes are released. All gifs were made by me and are 268 x 160. You are welcome to resize these/edit for personal use, but do not redistribute or claim them as your own. Content warning: blood and kissing

[savehalfbad]

Watch Party – Episode 7

Today (9th of September) at 20:00 (8PM) GMT join us, while we'll be watching the next (7th) episode. Let's meet on Twitter, share your thoughts and comments. Remember to use the #HalfBad & #SaveHalfBad hashtags.

[will80sbyers]

Byler & parallels masterpost:

Halfbad + byler and the love triangle framing | gifs

Jon & Steve and their roles in the parallels

Heartstopper + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3

I am not okay with this + foreshadowing? (ST has the same producer): 1 | 2

Benverly + Byler (The Duffers love the IT saga): 1 | 2

All the couples holding hands in ST: 1 | 2

Rovickie + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

M*leven + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

Jancy + Byler: 1

Jopper + Byler: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Lumax + Byler: 1

M*leven break up posts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Endgame couples

Not endgame couples

7 = endgame ?

People changing themselves to make someone like them

The posters in their rooms mean something

masterpost with the GIFs

[dear-indies]

Hi hello! I hope you’re having a good day. I was wondering if you could help me with finding a male fc in their 20s that would work for a trickster god type of character? I apologize if that’s too vague and can try elaborating if it would be helpful! Thank you!

Assad Zaman (1990) Bangladeshi.

Richard Harmon (1991) English, French-Canadian, Italian, Mi’kmaq.

John Boyega (1992) Yoruba Nigerian.

Barry Keoghan (1992)

Avan Jogia (1992) Gujarati Indian / English, Welsh, some German, Irish, French-Canadian/French.

Emilien Vekemans (1992) - in Halfbad.

Freddy Carter (1992)

Ncuti Gatwa (1992) Rwandan.

John Harlan Kim (1993) Korean - is gay and has bipolar disorder.

Seo Kang Joon (1993) Korean.

Omari Douglas (1994) Jamaican - is gay.

Aaron Pierre (1994) Jamaican, Curaçaoan, Sierra Leonean.

Alejandro Speitzer (1995) Mexican.

Brandon Perea (1995) Filipino and Puerto Rican.

Taz Skylar (1995) Lebanese / British.

Daniel Padilla (1995) Filipino (mostly Waray, about ¼ Iloko, Bikol) and most likely some white.

Angel Bismark Curiel (1995) Afro-Dominican - has asthma and a heart murmur.

Thomas Doherty (1995)

Luke Ishikawa Plowden (1995) Japanese, possibly other.

Cody Christian (1995) English, Penobscot and Passamaquody.

Jeff Satur (1995) Thai.

Mason Gooding (1996) African-American, Afro-Barbadian / European.

Mackenyu (1996) Japanese.

Niko Terho (1996) Bajan and Finnish.

Aria Shahghasemi (1996) Iranian - in Legacies.

Tony Revolori (1996) Guatemalan [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other].

George Sear (1997)

Herman Tømmeraas (1997)

Archie Renaux (1997) Indian and British.

Luka Sabbat (1997) Afro-Haitian / English, Irish, German.

Diego Tinoco (1997) Colombian and Mexican.

Evan Mock (1997) Bisaya Filipino / Unspecified American.

Murakami Nijiro (1997) Japanese - in Alice in Borderland.

Christopher Briney (1998)

Aramis Knight (1999) Pakistani, Indian / English, Irish, German - in Ms Marvel.

Jonathan Daviss (2000) African-American.

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (2001) Ojibwe, Cree, Chinese Guyanese, Afro Guyanese, White.

Here you go anon! Feel free to send a more specific ask if none of these work out for you.

[sleepyjo000]

Make some noise for HalfBad, fans. 'Don't give up. Please vote and share. We'll never get it back if we don't try, in great numbers.

[captain-cold-approved]

a small collection of coldflash fanfics i have written/am writing:

So Long, Scarlet Speedster - 4.6k Time travel wump. Lots of angst my loves.

Give it Time - 700 words Len kills someone who deserves it.

Ghosting Along - 700 words Len's ghost watches Barry as he visits the Rogue's Graves.

Apple Pie and Other Warm and Fuzzy Feelings - 5.6k Tooth rotting fluff of Barry meeting Mick Rory's daughter who loves the Flash. (I don't always write angst.)

The Ice Beast of Central City - 4.2k HalfBad Au! Len has magical abilities and runs the mob in Central. Barry works as a speedster for the police force bent on stopping him. Unfinished.

more to come >:^))

[angstics]

i miss nathan halfbad....... i miss him so bad....

[fl1nt-and-st33l]

Hiii

Hello everyone! I know it is rare for me to come on here and actually talk and interact but I wanted to share my Sanders Sides side blog! It is definitely not new (I haven't used it since 2019) but I'm deciding to make it active again to actually interact and post some of my writing. So if you follow me for Sanders Sides stuff and actually want to SEE Sanders Sides stuff then I recommend that blog :3 Of course I am still probably going to post some Sanders Sides stuff here but to make it a more organized chaos I am going to try to use that blog for the majority of my Sanders Sides things.

The new Sanders Sides side blog is here >>> @halfgood-halfbad-badboy

[savehalfbad]

Watch Party – Episode 1

We're starting another cycle of watch parties today! Every week at 20:00 (8 PM) GMT we watch one episode, and we share our thoughts and comments on Twitter. Come, join us, and help us trend the #HalfBad & #SaveHalfBad hashtags.

Full schedule:

29th of July: Episode 1

5th of August: Episode 2

12th of August: Episode 3

19th of August: Episode 4

26th of August: Episode 5

2nd of September: Episode 6

9th of September: Episode 7

16th of September: Episode 8