#i don't know WHEN

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

I'm back I've got fic brainrot and I'm gonna dump all these ideas here because I might just explode if I keep them to myself

The Bad Batch : Pacific Rim Crossover

I'm not the first person to have the idea to cross over these two universes! The amazing @cloned-eyes has the most awesome fanart for their ideas for a crossover from 2023, where the Batch are Jaeger pilots! But I've been riffing my own ideas off of the events of Pacific Rim 2 and Pacific Rim: The Black as well as The Bad Batch Season 3 with thanks also to @theproblemwithstardust who I first started this conversation with, and of course my awesome kiddo who acts as a sounding board for me to bounce all my new ideas off of.

Okay look instead of rewriting all this I'm just gonna copy-paste the texts I sent the kiddo, so you're going to get the full bombardment-with-my-overactive-imagination experience I hope it's not too much 😅😅 Here goes:-

Bad Batch Pacific Rim AU Tantiss is where they're making the jaeger/kaiju hybrids Newt is Hemlock?? Also experimenting to make human/kaiju hybrids (like Boy in The Black) and that is Omega because her blood allows for full bonding of the human and alien DNA strands??

OHHHHHHHH ALTERNATE IDEA JUST DROPPED Tech and Cross used to be pilots until Crosshair left (joined the empire) he tried to drift with Cody and couldn't (Desix mission) thought he'd never find someone he trusted enough to drift with again until he met Mayday AND THEN IT'S MAYDAY WHO DIES WHILST THEY ARE DRIFT LINKED and Cross is taken to Tantiss, he assumes the only other person he'd ever get in a Jaeger with is Tech his original drift partner but Tech had since died trying to rescue him THEN he has to learn to drift with Omega

*insert Kronk meme* "Oh yeah. It's all coming together"

OR the thing that makes the Batch so special/sets them apart as an elite squad is that they can ALL drift with each other? Side note the other batallions are like Shatterdome bases so a number of jaeger pilots plus support staff eg/ the 501st obviously Fives/Echo were a pilot team (til Echo was captured and force-drift-interrogated for 18 months abd Fives died trying to pilot a jaeger solo without him???) (are the chips something to do with the human/kaiju hybrid program OH GOD the ideas won't stop)

OKAY BECAUSE IT MAKES EVEN MORE SENSE THAT THE CLONES ARE EMBEDDED WITH KAIJU TISSUE WHICH COULD BE ACTIVATED TO TAKE OVER THEIR BODIES LIKE THE DRONES because it parallels the control chips being used to secretly turn the Republic's army against the Jedi anyway it means Crosshair has had minimal kaiju activation (Tup went full drone and that's when Fives found out about the chips) so makes it even more fitting that he and Omega learn to drift together? And usually the kaiju material destroys the host but the difference with Omega is that it's a symbiotic relationship, not parasitic, does that make sense??

The Zillo beast is a captive kaiju XD

The Batch are other experiments in kaiju-human hybridisation. They believe their enhancements are due to being injected with kaiju cells, they don't know about the chips/parasites but for them instead of remaining dormant til activation the parasite achieved a partial but not full hybridisation (unlike Omega who is a full hybrid)

Cid is Hannibal Chau, Ord Mantell is the bone slums, after they flee the Empire the Batch work as kaiju exterminators/stealing decommissioned jaeger parts (Trace and Rafa and the droid factory)

BECAUSE THE KAIJU ARE ALL CLONES ANYWAY CREATED BY THE PRECURSORS and maybe the Batch 'looking different' should be slightly kaijuish features on their human bodies?? As opposed to the normal clones who look human and only become kaiju-drones after the chips activate like the drones in PR2? Although I need to think that through because what happens when they encounter clones like Rex and Howzer and Mayday.... hmm okay that idea needs more thought...

oh wait I had another idea ECHO WAS CAPTURED AND FORCED TO REMOTELY GHOST-DRIFT A KAIJU JAEGER VERSUS HIS OLD JAEGER TEAMS AS THE PARALLEL FOR HIM BEING THE ALGORITHM

UPDATE Echo was captured and using their own technology against them the Kaiju/Precursors drifted with Echo to learn the human defence secrets??? (Fives and Echo carried the payload through the rift, Fives ejected in time but Echo didn't!!) Then on his rescue/return Echo can use the 2-way pathway with the kaiju to inform his allies/interect with/sense kaiju differently (like using his scomp into computers!)

Okay so the Kaminoans are behind the human/kaiju hybrid program and Hemlock and Tantiss etc is the kaiju-jaeger hybrids and to allow more kaiju into the world? And the reason he needs Omega is because she is the only fully successful hybrid so far?

Moochi (that was the baby rancor right??) is a baby kaiju and Wrecker human-kaiju hybrid has to go toe to toe with her in combat XD

The jaeger the Batch is piloting on Eriadu is damaged and they are left helpless to stop incoming attacks. Tech manages to get it running but "there is no time, Wrecker" for one of the others to join him in the cockpit from where they've been trying to fend off attackers with hand-weapons. So he solo-pilots it to get him out there and the neural strain of solo piloting is what kills him :')

(I've totally distracted myself from study now imagining the Batch stood on the outside of their jaeger like Chuck and Herc Hansen with Striker Eureka only Tech is in the cockpit and why can't they get back to him quickly? Maybe the elevator hatch has broken closed? and then Wrecker facing his fear of heights of abseil down the outside of the jaeger head to the broken glass visor "Tech!" "Plan 99, Wrecker" help me I'm hurting my own feelings 😂

TECH LIVES TECH IS CX-2 IDEAS JUST DROPPED okay so Tech 'dies' (in inverted commas) and what happens is that on like a base instinct level his body responds to save him by accelerating his partial kaiju hybridisation to a full hybridisation! But instead of Omega being a human-bodied full hybrid he becomes a kaiju-bodied one and his human mind is subsumed by the kaiju instincts and later he destroys the Havoc Marauder (clearly their main Jaeger) so the other CX clones in Tantiss are successful hybridisation experiments and the reason they are experimenting on the captive clones is to produce a stable state of hybridisation instead of the usual chip/parasite activation which consumes the host???? (I'm on fire these ideas are pure gold I'm sure 😁😂)

Which is why Crosshair is of interest in the experiments because he is already a partial hybrid and had a chip/parasite activation which didn't consume him but that means he's like built up a resistance to it which is why the reconditioning/hybridisation acceleration process doesn't work on him???

Pabu is a tiny island paradise which has somehow, miraculously, escaped Kaiju attack (it's just far enough from the breach in the right direction ie/ not towards any continental landmasses) until of course the Empire come to get Omega and brings kaiju-jaeger hybrids and the kaiju clone/drones :')

I just kept sending texts whenever I got a new idea throughout the day and then the poor kiddo got them all when they switched their phone back on after school and this was their response XD

[atombombskilledtheradiostar]

@legions-top-dog: *Launching missiles*

Me, stuck in Big MT because a Lobotomite stole my grandpappy's rifle in my sleep:

[brokendarkfairyempressforever]

Thanks for being alive. When you see this I want to let you know that I'm happy that you're still here. I'm happy that you're still breathing. I'm proud of you. I'm proud that you got out of bed. I'm proud that you ate something. I'm proud that you drank something. I'm proud that you cleaned. I'm proud of you for sleeping. I'm proud of you for resting. I'm proud of anything you were able to do today. Even if you think you didn't do anything I'm still proud because you're still here and haven't left yet. It's so hard to be alive when it feels like you're fighting for your life every second of your day. I'm proud. I don't know who needs to see this but you are not worthless. I promise you you're not. Right now you may feel like what's the point of being alive and you may feel like this for a long time. But as a person who suffers from a lot of mental illnesses life's worth it. I met some amazing people who make me feel life seem not that bad. I'm finding out and remembering who I am and I'm changing and I'm growing. I will have dark moments throughout my life the life I had I know there's going to be dark moments. But also I know I'm going to have moments where everything's okay not perfect but a lot better than before. I know you may think you have no one but look around there's always at least someone or maybe you have to find them but trust me when I say you're not alone in this world. I know I'm a stranger but I hope you know that I want you to be alive. I want to let you know I'm proud of you. I want to let you know I care. Please stay

[cocrante]

Italian culture is saying: "non ti sputo sennò ti profumo" when you're having a heated argument and want to end it with style

[violet-fire-cat]

I've been wondering, is the vampire/werewolf AU over ? I know you haven't uploaded it in a while probably because of other fics but yk was just curious 👀

The vampire/werewolf au is not over, no! I don't think I really have an 'ending' in place for it, since it's not really one ongoing plot but lots of smaller stories.

You're right that I haven't uploaded anything of it in a while, and yeah that's mostly because I've been working on other fics. But! I do have other vamp/wolf fics I want to write, and I love to doodle for it too. I also have an old WIP fic from a while ago that I never finished, maybe I'll go back to that and post it if I finish it.

So yeah! I'm definietly not done with the au, I've just been busy with other stuff over the past few months (or however long ago it was I posted the last vamp/wolf fic.) I have notes and plans and ideas for more stuff though, so with a bit of luck there will be new fics (and art) popping up at some point! :D

[mbrainspaz]

I can remember what it's like to lose myself in the details of a painting but I don't actually believe that I still can.

I miss the zen-like flow state of creating art but I can't reach out and find it on a whim. I could pick up the stylus and paint right now instead of agonizing over the memory of a feeling, but I

can't

[calamitoustide]

YES YES YES YES YES DINA IS REG AND ELLIE IS JAMES BUT WHO IS JESSE I NEED TO KNOW?? I FEEL LIKE THE OBVIOUS ANSWER WOULD MAYBE BE BARTY BUT NEED TO KNOW UR THOUGHT

okay! so the character dynamics are not always the same obviously it's pretty impossible but Jesse would be Kingsley 100%

I'll go through all of the characters and the basic plot because I'm obsessed with this idea and will probably never be able to write it :/

Jackson:

Ellie = James Dina = Reg Joel = Monty Jesse = Kingsley Tommy = Sirius Maria = Remus WLFs

Abby = Evan Jerry = Pandora Owen = Barty Mel = Narcissa Nora = Bellatrix Manny = Benjy?

Okay so this one actually twists up the game plot a lot I have one with Reg as Ellie and that pretty much sticks with the game, but this one.

James isn't immune, he was never the immune one. He grew up moving around a lot, his Dad needed to, but then settled in Jackson when he was about fourteen and hasn't moved since. Everything is okay, for apocalypse standards, until a random group comes in and kills Monty in cold blood. It's the same as the game with James and Reg being together while Sirius and Monty were on patrol together.

It follows the plot from there pretty much, Sirius goes ahead to kill Monty, and James follows. Reg goes with him. They go through their three days in Seattle at the same pace. They kill whoever Jordan is I'm honestly not sure who he would be, and find Leah. From there they find Polaroids and Regulus realizes fuck he knows those people. Evan and Barty were his friends back when he was living in one of the QZs. He keeps this information until they get to the Theater and instead of the Dina pregnancy confession, it's that confession instead.

While fighting through the subway Regulus twisted his ankle and can't walk so he's out of commission and James goes alone to go find Sirius who they think is in Hillcrest. He finds Kingsley instead and takes him back to Reg. After James goes to the hospital and tortures kills Bellatrix for Evan's whereabouts. Reg is in excruciating pain and they both agree they need to take him back, but James can't leave Sirius behind so they go out to get him. They part ways as James goes after Evan and Kingsley goes after Sirius. James kills Barty and Narcissa and realizes Narcissa is pregnant after, which leads to him having a panic attack and Sirius runs in to soothe him and take him back.

Following the game that night they agree to go back but Evan comes in, knocks Sirius down and shoots Kingsley dead.

We switch to Evan's POV, and we learn Pandora was the immune one. She was taken to the hospital against Evan's word and Pandora's permission. Evan can't get to her in time to save her. Monty was the doctor. He killed Pandora and it didn't even bring him a cure.

From Evan's side of things a lot is different. Barty and Narcissa obviously aren't together, but we do have Evan meeting two siblings, but they're twins this time. And he goes through his three days. Everything is pretty much the same, expect Barty doesn't get cold feet killing an elderly "Muggle" he gets cold feet killing a young one, a girl who couldn't be older than seventeen. She looked exactly like Pandora. Also the boy twin is the one who gets compartment syndrome and the girl twin travels with Evan.

I'm rushing because I've been yapping so long not because I don't love Abby's section of the game. Evan's part is basically just him accepting Pandora's death and breaking free from his anger. It's finding another reason to fight for or the "light" if you wanna go full tlou.

The boy twin ends up dying on the island after the girl twin runs off. Evan comes back to find Barty and Narcissa dead. He goes after James.

The end of the game is the exact same minus JJ. James can't forget about Evan and Regulus just wants to move on. Sirius and Remus take some "time away from each other." Sirius comes over angry that James can have a good life and he can't. He's too hurt to go and guilts James into going instead.

At the end of the fic after going after Evan again James ends up saving him instead of killing him. He comes back home and has nothing left. Regulus is gone, and the only glimpse of happiness is gone too.

i yapped so much I apologize

[only-man-in-the-sky]

okay. now I just need to lock in

[gettingsnowedunder]

I got some really really big news about my writing and my book today while I was on the subway and I had to sit trembling the whole way home and you guys, you guys.

[lavenderblondie]

the dash has convinced me to star good omens

[executiveinspace]

Sono solo in questa vasta distesa di spazio. Non c'è nessuno in giro. Nessuno che mi ascolti, mi veda, mi tocchi.

[oldwoolhat]

Nah. I'm neurotypical and often vanish because of depression and PTSD, and I have been (and no doubt will be again) written off by neurodivergent friends. Which I understand. But neurodivergence or lack thereof isn't the sole or primary factor here.

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[some-pers0n]

I'm always entertained by people doing those "canon VS fanon" memes where both are misunderstanding characters to such a violent degree 'cause like

[mimimar]

(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[unwashedblanket]

whywhywhywhywhywhywhy have i become so mean? i promise you i love you i didnt mean it pleasepleaseplease come back im sorry don't hate me please hate me i'm bad i'm awful you shouldn't have me in your life but please stay