#rabid tbb

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I got really busy but here he finally is... angry boy

[darth-kote]

Actually can't believe they'll give us an episode like Rookies and show us rishi outpost and not tell us every single detail of each clone on the damned moon like-

[the-senates-one-fear]

OOP FAVOURITE CLONES WE NEVER SEE ALERT WOLFPACKS BACK

[martianbugsbunny]

as requested by my sis, who does not have a Tumblr but would find me instantly if she ever got one bc of these very edits

[thrawns-babygirl]

I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT BE JEALOUS OF PHEE I WILL NOT-

[toomanyteefs]

TBB SEASN 3 FINALE SPOILERS BELOW!!!

So with that out of the way!! Due to a combination of my rabid need to have Tech survive and the brainworms given to me by my friend @amberskyyking with the fic she wrote at inhuman speeds after the finale dropped, I've decided to write yet another TBB fix it, this time a Tech lives fix it of the finale and some time afterwards. Winter Soldier style. (In which it will be obvious why that's the only Marvel movie I like.)

Depending on how long the fic turns out to be, I'll either write the whole thing before I start posting, just so I can give regular weekly updates, or I'll start posting after I write the first ten chapters, so I have a buffer. We'll see how it works out. I'll announce here and on Snapback when I start posting it!

Just you wait Tech girlies, TECH LIVES!!!

[clonehub]

"it's not your fault. you can't help it" what does this meeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaannn

[mwolf0epsilon]

What are your top 10 favourite clones and why? (If you don't have 10 favourite clones just list the ones you like and why)

My top 10 list of favourite clones (1 being the one highest on the list, 10 being the lowest):

Gregor - As a whole, Gregor's storyline is one that I find vastly intriguing and compelling. Here's a clone that forgot he was a clone, lived a civilian life for a while, reclaimed his identity and capabilities in one single day, and went down fighting only to spring back onto his feet unexpectedly years later. Out of thousands of clones, Gregor was one of the very few that made it to old age and that's a sign of pure resilience and ingenuity on his part, and I absolutely adore him.

Rex - There's no bigger tragedy than seeing a loyal and devoted clone like Rex go through so much and getting so little in return. He feels like that one childhood friend you grew up with that you'd be glad to have your back, because you know he'd never turn you away even if you were at your lowest. He deserves so much better than what he got in the end, and I'm happy he at least got to grow old and have two brothers with him to keep him company.

Dogma - Where do I begin with Dogma... He's Slick done right. He's a loyal dogmatic clone that did everything by the book, followed orders like he was conditioned to do since decanting, and was even said to be exactly like Rex was when he first joined the 501st. And what did that get him? His trust abused by someone he was basically brainwashed to think was infallible and trustworthy, anger from his brothers who likely scorned him to the very end, and likely either a decommissioning or reconditioning for executing a Jedi. Dogma is a difficult topic overall, because he was wrong in turning his back on his kin but he did it for logical and understandable reason. The Jedi could do no wrong by clone standards, and Dogma followed this blind trust to the end until he was proven wrong... And even sparing Rex from taking the shot was a painful affair to behold, because you could see his world crumbling around him afterwards.

Tup - My heart aches for Tup. He went through a lot and, like Rex, got very little in return. And then his chip malfunctioned and he wasn't even treated with dignity for the remainder of his incredibly short life. His last moments were spent bound like a rabid animal, thrown around by both the Separatists and Kaminoans, and then when salvation was in sight he still died because by that point he'd deteriorated too much and had been essentially tortured rather than treated with care. I'm just glad he had Fives there so he didn't march on alone and surrounded by careless people.

Echo - There's so much wrong with what happened to Echo. He was ridiculed for repeating orders and liking to read the reg manuals for fun, he had to watch his older unarmed and armourless brother get shot down in cold blood, got blown up and basically left for dead, put through unethical experiments, treated with mild distrust by the brothers who did rescue him, and on top of that he lost Fives and likely never learned the true story behind it. I highly doubt he's had time to process anything, and his disgruntled moodiness in TBB makes me really worry for him sometimes... I just want to wrap him in a blanket and tell him it'll be ok one day. Just, let this man rest, grieve and regain his health...

Fives - This poor man has seen some shit, lived through some shit, and then got done dirty when he was trying to save his brothers and the Jedi from a horrifically malicious plot. Not to mention I doubt he had time to process any of the losses he suffered. Specifically of the brothers that were closest to him like Echo, Hardcase and Tup. Where Echo's life is unfair, Fives's demise is just awful...

Wolffe - Sassy, grumpy, slightly paranoid but still got cool uncle that you'd die for vibes? Wolffe is the full package. Also in rebels he lives up to his name and he's goddamn feral on the battle at Seelos. You go grandpa! Go off king! Violence!!!!

Fox - I wish we'd gotten more of him so that people could have gotten to know him better (and maybe grow attached), because I'm tired of all the Fox bashing that goes on in this fandom. Yes he wasn't very kind to Ahsoka, and yes he shot Fives. His sole job is to defend the people of Coruscant, and then suddenly there's a terrorist attack which has evidence that points to Ahsoka, and then there was a call that Fives tried to assassinate the chancellor. He's not omnipotent and I can guarantee that life as a guardsman was not great, so we have no idea what set of circumstances have led to Fox's gruff and abrasive tactics being his go to for any given disastrous situation like this...

Crosshair - It's all about the potential. Either this aggressive tooka of a man will get a pretty good redemption arc like Kallus, or he'll turn out to be that one antagonist that we grow to love/hate in all the best ways. I personally hope for a redemption arc that progresses seasonally rather than quickly, but that's not up to me.

Peel - So there's this one 212th background character that got turned into a vampire monster once...

That's it. That's my sole reason for liking him.

[arlothia]

*walks up in my clown shoes* @heyclickadee was THIS the post you were looking for? I hadn't realized just how many details were similar!!! And looking at Mando as well, S2 (while not NEARLY as dark as TBB S2 or ESB) ended with Din and Grogu being separated, which was a downer for the fans, especially since we knew that this school Luke wanted to take Grogu to is destined to fail, so this could possibly spell the death of a beloved character. And just look how Mando S3 ended!! So yes, TBB S3 ending will be overall happy, though I wouldn't discount maybe something bittersweet about it...

And because I can't add to your posts without pulling out things to talk about:

1) "it’s a little too much like real life grief" - OH IT WAS SO VERY DIFFINITEY REAL GRIEF FOR ME!!!!!! I couldn't sleep, my heart physically hurt, my stomach was in knots, I sobbed by myself AND onto my poor, sweet, wonderful, longsuffering mother's shoulder!! But let me tell you (....again, because I'm pretty sure I've commented something like this on one of your posts somewhere/sometime), more than ANYTHING else I've seen on any number of sites, your #TechLives posts have given me the greatest hope and assurance that Tech really is alive!! I'm just getting to these last couple of episodes in my large Star Wars re-watch before 'Ahsoka' and while it still hurts to watch, it doesn't hurt anywhere NEAR as bad because of the posts you've made and the insights/reasonings/tin foil hat ideas you've shared. So THANK YOU!!! *hugshugshugshugs*

2) I totally agree with you about the final shots of S1 and S2! S1 should have ended with Crosshair standing there alone on Kamino while the others flew off and S2 should have ended with Hunter's vow to get Omega back. The final shots (both funnily enough on Mount Tantiss) would have made perfect post-credit stingers! Like, you, I don't mind those scenes at all, I think they're great, but their placement almost diminishes the weight of the Crosshair and Hunter scenes that directly preceded them.

3) I just love your tags!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#I hope she finds all her brothers#and then gets to light hemlock on fire - I say she let's the Zillo Beast loose and it gets to eat him!!

#these notes don’t really have anything to do with the post except#to serve as proof that I was cursed to like Star Wars from birth - and what a beautiful curse to have!! I love that at least your mom is also a Star Wars fan and she sounds as rabid as the rest of us when dealing with the dreaded hiatus!! You come from good, honest stock hahaha!

But how was the Luke reaching out to Leia retconned? I haven't watched the OT in YEARS, but they're on my re-watch!!! Just gotta re-watch Rebels first! Woot!!!

A rambling thought about “Plan 99” and Omega

Here’s the thing about “Plan 99” that kind of wigs me out—besides all the other things, anyway. I actually really like it as an episode. I think it’s good. It’s painful, but it succeeds at exactly what it was trying to do. It just so happens, however, that what it was trying to do—as far as I can tell, anyway—was put us, the audience in the same emotional headspace as a thirteen-ish year old kid who’s lost everything over the space of a few hours(1). Not even a few hours; Omega was unconscious for a good chunk of the real time that passed after the cable car crash, so aside from her trip and arrival at Mount Tantiss, Omega loses pretty much everything over the course of what probably feels like twenty minutes.

And that means we’re right there with her as she goes from finally maybe having a place to call home, having people to rely on outside the batch, having a friend her own age, having these great established relationships with her brothers and a place for them to be safe, and thinking that finally—finally!—they’re going to get Crosshair back and they’re all going to be a family again, having everything looking up for once, to where “Plan 99” takes us. To the Omega and the team losing their one lead on Crosshair, to losing Tech, to losing Wrecker, Echo, and Hunter, too—the last time Omega saw them, Hemlock had Hunter and Wrecker and was going to get Echo, and then send them all back to Eriadu to be questioned by Tarkin, and Omega knows what that means—to having her fear of ending up an experiment in a tube go from being a distant nightmare to a very real, very immediate possibility. She’s not even allowed to see Nala Se, who’s at least a familiar face(2).

The only consolation Omega gets is being reunited with Crosshair, with whom Omega doesn’t really have a relationship, but who’s still her brother despite everything and who would definitely understand what Omega’s going through better than anyone else. Except he’s unconscious and strapped to a table, and Omega doesn’t know what was done to him but she knows it was bad, and there’s a fear of losing him, too. And the only real consolation we get as viewers is seeing Hunter and Wrecker escape, and knowing that they and Echo weren’t taken to Eriadu and are coming for Omega instead—but they’re all gutted and bereft and they have no clue where to even start. So we’re right there with Omega, and right there with Hunter, too, as their worlds fall even further apart.

I’ve said before that I think The Bad Batch is, at heart, the story of a family of veterans trying to find a way to live and a way home, wherever home is, in a galaxy that’s fallen apart and turned into something monstrous around them. And I still think that’s true, but it’s also the story of a little girl finding her family, and who wants to protect her baby brothers. Because, yes, they’re her dads/big brothers/uncles all at once, but there’s a part of Omega that never stopped seeing them as those babies in their tubes. And so, yes, I think we’re going to see Hunter, Wrecker, and Echo enter their John Wick eras trying to get Omega back, but if Omega thinks there’s a chance they’re lost? If she thinks there’s a chance Crosshair might be the only one left? She’s going to be extra protective of him(3), and she gets the slightest hope the others are out there, she’s going to go ham trying to get the rest of them back.

1. And without the additional context of whatever season three brings, it maybe succeeds too well. Not maybe—until we get that additional context, it does succeed too well. So I get why there are people who hate it, or who can never watch it again.

2. Sidebar, but I’m admittedly ambivalent about the timing of the Emerie reveal. I actually don’t mind it, but I feel like it would have been stronger to have left it at “You might know me better than you think,” without the “sisters” line. I don’t dislike it, but I do feel about the same way about it as I did about the Nala Se scene at the very end of “Kamino Lost.” It’s fine on its own, but the imagery of the previous scene—Crosshair watching the marauder fly away, leaving him again, the last clone, the last being left alive on Kamino, that I would have preferred leaving it there and putting the Nala Se scene (and that specific Emerie line) as an after credits scene or something.

3. I will be seated for Crossdad, but I’ll be extra seated for overprotective older sister Omega.

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behold my masterpiece of the week, he's absolutely rabid

[glass-rose-paperweight]

The Mysterious Case of Queerbaiting

BBC Sherlock

There’s one thing about BBC Sherlock that has never made sense to me. As I’m sure many of you are aware (and something I’ve talked about before), BBC Sherlock has been accused of Queerbaiting, of intentionally setting up John and Sherlock as being attracted to each other but never following through with that or even intending to do it. And it’s one of those things that has just always baffled me; I can’t make it make sense. A lot has already been said about the way things are portrayed in the show and what the subtext behind a million different things could mean (seriously, I love that I am part of a fandom with so many perceptive and intelligent people; watching the show is only half the fun) and how none of it makes sense. Today, I would like to use my powers of deduction get to the bottom of this mystery.

The way I see it, there are 3 possible explanations.

1. The Producers of the Show Queerbaited

I have to admit, this seems unlikely given that one of them is literally a gay man. Why would a gay man knowingly and intentionally engage in something like this? Why would a gay man write a script that constantly pokes at Watson’s sexuality if the only point was to make it into a joke? To say ‘oh, no, the poor straight guy is constantly mistaken as gay. Look at how defensive he is getting, hahaha, what a funny joke’. That just makes no sense. It makes no sense for Mark Gatiss to have gone to the lengths he has gone to within the show, from whatever direction he gave the actors so that they portray an obvious chemistry between Sherlock and John to having a jealousy trope at John and Mary’s wedding except it’s Sherlock getting Jealous over John’s ex commander to this interesting thing about the best man speech to Mary saying ‘neither one of us were his first’ or ‘the man we both love’ or ‘I know what the two of you could become’ to Sherlock putting John Watson face on The Ideal Man to all the gay artwork in TBB (I could not for the life of me find this meta even though I know I saved it, and I am so distressed) to a thousand other things that the fandom has discussed over and over and over again. Who puts that much effort into queerbaiting? Especially when you would have a vested interest representation? So, it just doesn’t make sense for those directly involved with the show the be the reason.

2. Higher Ups at BBC Told Them No

This seems much more plausible to me, however I still doubt it. I can’t say I know just a whole lot about BBC, but I do know they have tended to be on the more progressive side of things, and I just really can’t see any of the higher ups just flat out refusing to allow the writers to make Johnlock canon. The first season gets a pass because I’m pretty sure that openly same sex couples weren’t allowed in media at the time (I think it was allowed in 2011, but I’m honestly not sure. I’m in the US, not the UK, so if I’ve gotten this detail wrong, please correct me). But they had 3 other seasons and another 7 years to make it happen, and I just don’t think that the higher ups at BBC would have just flatly said ‘no’. So, that leaves the last explanation.

3. Someone Other Than Those Involved With The Show Stopped Them

The majority of the Sherlock Holmes stories are in public domain. Copyright expired in 1980 in Canada and in 2000 for the UK (X). This would seem to make it a pretty cut and dry case: in the UK, you can do pretty much whatever you want with the Sherlock Holmes stories. But it’s no quite so simple. The US works a little different because copywrite law isn’t the same (isn’t he US just great?). As it stands, there are still 6 stories today that the Conan Doyle Estate still has the exclusive rights to in the US. If I understand how the copywrite law works correctly, that would have been 14 stories back in 2010. But, that shouldn’t have affected anything going on in the UK, right? Theoretically, no. The Conan Doyle Estate wouldn’t have had any legal rights to coveting the characters and the stories in the UK. However, that doesn’t mean that those involved with the show wouldn’t have been extremely apprehensive of the power that the Estate wielded, especially considering the previous decade of legal battles. Only 3 cases are listed here, but the Conan Doyle Estate is very protective of its copyright of the work (as evident by the fact that they are literally trying to sue Netflix, among others, for portraying characters in a way they supposedly weren’t portrayed until later books). There were other court cases after 2010, however. A decisive court case in 2013 declared once and for all that the stories written prior to 1923 were completely in public domain and that a license wasn’t needed to create things based on any of the stories prior to those dates (something the Estate had convinced BBC of when they first created BBC Sherlock). However, an appeal by the Estate was later made, stating “Sherlock Holmes is a ‘complex’ character, that his background and attributes had been created over time, and that to deny copyright on the whole Sherlock Holmes character would be tantamount to giving the famous detective ‘multiple personalities.’” The appeal was, thankfully, thrown out. But it’s the attempt that matters. 

Oh, and here’s a fun little tidbit, the 2 stories that have, perhaps, the strongest evidence of there being more than just friendship (this quote, this quote, and this quote (which was said after Holmes stated that, if he had hypothetically loved someone, he would kill the person that killed the person he loved)) come from the stories The Problem of Thor Bridge (the first quote) and The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (the last 2), which both belonged to the Estate in the US until after the final season of the show.

So, let’s get into the minds of BBC, for a moment. Someone has decided they want to reimage Sherlock in a new and unique way: modern day. The Holmes Estate has been fighting legal battles in America for the past decade and has won all of them, and has also issued the verdict that to make stories, you need a license. You say ‘okay’ and go along with it because you’re a big corporation that can afford to do such a thing. When the first season of the show airs, it isn’t legal to have openly gay characters, so everything has to be regulated to subtext. You outright state that being gay is okay because you want to let people know you are in full support of homosexuality, even if it isn’t legal yet. The writers and producers of the show are huge ACD fanboys and BIG fans of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, so, yeah, there’s some gay subtext. By the second season, hey! Homosexuality is legal! Except the 2 stories with the biggest indication of Sherlock and John’s attraction towards each other are still very much in the hands of the Estate, who has spent the past decade fighting legal battles. You may be able to pay for a license, but a lawsuit really isn’t something you’d like to go through. Whether the Estate has any legal standing to do such a thing or not, a lawsuit would be a long, messy battle. By the third season, a court case in America has decided that anything written prior to 1923 doesn’t need a license (damn, that’s 2 seasons of being successfully intimidated into a license). However, the two stories with greatest evidence still belong to the Estate, and the Estate tried to weasel their way into owning more of Sherlock than they should by arguing about his character. They probably wouldn’t take well to an openly gay Sherlock, would they? By season 4, the same problem still exists. Cut to 2020. Both of the stories with those quotes have entered public domain. But, uh oh, a month, a month before the 10th anniversary of your show, the news breaks that the Estate is filing yet another lawsuit, this time against multiple different parties, one of them being the mega corporation of Netflix (god, that’s some balls right there) that what they did broke copyright law because it portrayed characters in a way they supposedly weren’t portrayed until later stories, stories the Estate still owns (that is some balls right there). So you might feel the need to cover your ass a bit. Despite the past decade of saying that they characters you have portrayed are nothing but platonic, the fans don’t seem to buy it, and, in hindsight, there’s a lot of reasons not to. Maybe something needs to be created that subtly tells fans that they really are just looking too far into it. And, what great luck, a YouTube channel is asking you to make something for the 10th anniversary. 

Is this what happened? I don’t really know. I have nothing more than circumstantial evidence and guesswork here to go off of. I’m not privy to the private thoughts of Mark Gatiss or Steven Moffat or any of the head honchos at BBC. I don’t know what kind of executive decisions are made in the best interest of the company. All I know is that the Conan Doyle Estate is hanging on to whatever copyrights they can possibly manage, that they are willing to level lawsuits on, quite frankly, ridiculous terms, and that having a lawsuit put against you is no laughing matter and that those whose work revolves around Sherlock Holmes and creating stories about him would want to tread carefully. This explanation is, admittedly, far fetched. But it’s the only one that really makes sense. It’s the only one that would explain why a gay man and a generally progressive company would have a show that has layer upon layer upon layer saying that there is more between John and Sherlock than just friendship, as well as a rabid fanbase that they know ship it, and still not deliver, even attempt to squash such mindsets. 

There is, however, one final note I would like to end this on. I have talked before about how I think there will be another season, if the stars align and schedules allow such a thing. The best estimates of when another season might come out is 2022 or 2023, and I’m inclined to think the later year (god, that seems so far away). The year that the last story will become completely open to the public and the entirety of Sherlock Holmes will be public domain is 2023. So, maybe there is hope. 

[martianbugsbunny]

@ Crosshair after he divorced Hunter joined the Empire

[cacodaemonia]

Okay, so I've decided that, to try and make the fandom a slightly nicer place, anyone who has been harassed by the pack of rabid antis in TCW fandom is welcome to send me an ask with a clone ship (doesn't have to be just 2 people; no TBB character please) and a prompt/theme, and I'll try to do as many tiny sketches as possible.

I'm going to bed now and I have a couple sketches to do for friends, so I probably won't get to these right away.

Anyway, just know that there are lots of great people in the fandom, and if more of us speak up and stop abiding by the antis' arbitrary and hypocritical "rules", the less power they will have over others, and the less harm they can cause. <3

EDIT: Also, because I'm the kind of person who spends 3 hours on a '30 minute sketch' I'm keeping these very small so I don't go ham with details. Here's the size -

It really does boggle the mind that some people can't come up with anything better to do with their lives than try to make others miserable

[thrawns-babygirl]

I absolutely have a type and its whatever the fuck you classify these two shitheads as

[junker-town]

THIS WEEK IN SCHADENFREUDE, UGA fans think program ‘collapsing’

Let’s check in with Georgia, Washington, Penn State, and Miami fans after their devastating losses.

Welcome back to THIS WEEK IN SCHADENFREUDE, your weekly tractor ride through the most livid hayfields of the college football internet. We’ll begin our journey with the SEC’s highest-profile loser of Week 7 and then make a few stops elsewhere.

Georgia

The Bulldogs got spanked at LSU, 36-16.

Dawgs fans were a confident bunch beforehand.

This fan at the team’s’ 247Sports message board was really confident that UGA would be fine, just hours beforehand. Responding to the notion it might be a hard game:

This is South Carolina 2.0. Media hype all over the place. Can Georgia do this, Can Georgia do that. Same story different team.

Next week’s narrative. Georgia made a lot of mistakes and LSU still has a long way to go before it can hang with Bama.

Week after the bye. Same story line but replace LSU with FLORIDA.

NOTE: When I say media I am referring to ESPN. Our boys here keep it real.

So was this poster at Dawg Nation, who warned that Georgia had held back intentionally — not yet “released the Kracken” — so it could spring a surprise on LSU:

We are going to destroy LSU

LSU is a mess. No offense and an average defense. We are going to blow them out. I’m thinking like 45-10 with Prather Hudson playing in the 4th. I saw nothing to be afraid of out of them or fla. After today, I think we are holding back. I think the coaches are strategically not releasing the Kracken just yet.

Roughly 15,000 UGA fans piled into Death Valley, ready to watch their Dawgs win.

It didn’t shake out that way, prompting widespread despair.

Afterward, this fan thought Kirby Smart bore striking resemblance to another SEC coach who lost Saturday:

Kirby=Gus 2.0

Yesterday proved that Kirby is a mediocre coach at best and 100% liar. This may turn out worse than Gus. He does not play the best players, when a RB get hot he pulls him. He is effing clueless. He showed who he was yesterday which is a younger,polished version of Gus that will stay with a loser at QB regardless of the score or how shitty he has performed.

The majority of the board didn’t agree, but this person think’s that post’s onto something:

Agreed. Hes lost the team and the fanbase isnt far behind

<phone rings>

That’s literally every Auburn fan in the world, asking if the Dawgs wanna trade.

Here’s a commentary on Georgia’s starting QB that starts one way ...

I’ve sobered up.

... and then continues an entirely different way:

Jake Fromm is still garbage.

No reason for him to take a meaningful snap for UGA again

This commentary by GoDawgs2477 is, uh, something:

Its done

You could really look at today and see it as the day this program fell apart. Possibly lost emory today, the whole race/political aspect thats coming up with the QB’s and how poorly they were managed today. The team looks lost and disinterested in actually playing.There are some deadweight coordinators and position coaches on this staff right now(Scott and Chaney).Kirby is letting his program collapse before he ever even really got it running. I hope he wises up for his own sake because he is digging his own grave.

Reigning SEC and Rose Bowl champion Georgia just had the No. 1 recruiting class and is currently 6-1.

On the bright side, maybe Smart’s just playing QB chess while everyone else thinks he’s playing checkers and his passing offense is sputtering:

This is all Tua 2.0

Over in Athens. Last year players & fans were wondering why this guy didn’t play in games but was fine at practice. Saban was just to stubborn for change and almost lost the kid. It’s a known fact that the Tua family was about to transfer if he didn’t play in that national championship game last year. Fast forward, the kid has a championship and the leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy.

The long game, folks.

The most difficult phase of any crushing loss is when message board posters (who are often like-minded people, even friends) turn against each other.

That’s certainly happened here, with threads like this one:

Y’all are embarrassing as hell

Cryin like a bunch of babies. Take an ass whooping and accept it and move on.

I can’t even visit tBB because of you. People making fun of Georgia fans acting like a babies. I’m ashamed to be lumped in with you.

And this one:

What kind of weak spined fan base have we turned in to?

We lost a game to an LSU team that has plenty of talent all over the field in death valley, possibly the toughest venue in all of football to win at. It happens, and it’s not the end of the world. We have two weeks and all the motivation behind the Dawgs to get ready to get right and lay a beating on Florida in Jax. But there were a few fans on here that should hang their heads in shame. Some of the crap I have read on here makes me down right angry. ... I’m sure when Justin Fields time comes he will have bad games, and I’ll be right here defending him against the irrational clamor for the next ‘shiny new toy’ that distracts our rabid fanbase.

Or this one:

I find it hilarious

The countless posts from usernames I’ve NEVER seen before when shit hits the fan. And they have like 200 posts. Like GTFOH you pricks.

The lone reply, as of Friday evening:

Well you obviously don’t like truth or facts.

There’s nothing — nothing — more American than college football message boards.

Now, let’s take a quick whip around some other corners of the Web.

Washington

The Huskies blew several late opportunities and watched their Playoff hopes go up in a cloud of smoke when they lost to Oregon. There’s one UW message board thread called “Program full of low energy CUCKs” that just became the first thing in my two years of doing this weekly feature to be ruled “just too much for me to put on our website.” It’s basically everything you’d imagine it to be, and then some.

So I’m going to leave two things here.

1. This message board post from HardcoreHusky.com:

Petersen never learned how to coach close games while in Boise

And it doesn’t appear he’s learning now either

2. This video:

Actually, one more:

Shut the program down

Quit this nonsense about new coaches - we had our chance and we just didn’t make the cut.

We are never going to get serious so let’s quit pretending. Expand the med center to where husky stadium stands and reinvest the football budget elsewhere.

OK. Let’s move along.

Penn State

Lost to Michigan State and also got KO’d from the Playoff race. One message boarder has an idea of what allowed the 13.5-point-underdog Spartans to pull it off.

Our signals being stolen

How do we know that our signals are not being stolen. I understand that there are big and new poster board pictures every week. It would not be very difficult to see what plays follow after signals being observed. Opposing teams probably has all this video taped from past years and sees the pattern. When a particular photo is displayed and this guy does these hand gestures we do this. Try running in the plays and see how teams do.

Poster board pictures!

Miami

The Canes lost to Virginia in football. We know from previous Miami defeats that this fanbase is the most direct fanbase in college football, with moments like this aplenty:

Let’s see what was cooking during and after this loss to Virginia (in football).

At halftime:

After the third quarter:

And at the end:

Miami fans are that family member who will show you no sympathy when you make a mistake. But they’ll kill anyone from the outside who says anything bad about you, and you appreciate them for that. If anyone’s going to trash Miami, it’s going to be Miami fans.

I respect that.

Elsewhere, this poster thinks Saturday was a line of demarcation:

Mark this down as the date Rick lost the fanbase

It’s happened at some point for the last 3 shyt coaches. And this is likely the day it happened for Rick. Some of us figured he’d never be a NC coach because he had 15 years to do it at UbaGA and never came through.

But I expected more than this. I expected to pretty much dominate the Coastal. This up and down yo-yo shyt from week to week is a prime mark of an unprepared team. His insistence on running an antiquated plodding slow tempo offense is another black mark.

It’s just a middle of the road, undisciplined team with a horribly inept offense that keeps everyone in every game against us

Also, here is someone upset that Miami didn’t just re-hire Butch Davis a few years back:

My thoughts are with Canes everywhere during this challenging time.

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Alright, I wanted to make this a series but so far I've only done two. Suggestions for the last three? Anyone? I've hit a creativity block...

I got really busy but here he finally is... angry boy