#y'all its so much fun and i know the clones would love it

[the-bad-batch-baroness]

I need y'all to see my vision:

Clones + french fries + fast food parking lot + seagulls

[originalcollectionartistry]

Guess I Waited Too Long

So this is my first Bad Batch fic, criticism is welcome as long as its kind and constructive. All my work will be for 18+ but when has that stopped anyone?

Y'all are gonna hate me cause its reader x tech but make it angsty . Phee and Tech are blossoming into somewhat of a relationship and reader is hurt and does the only thing she knows how: she walks away. Reader is fem presenting and has female anatomy but its not explicit. Just my vision. Can be read as GN.

No warnings I can think of other than maybe talk of sex?

Word count is around 2k

Anyway, have fun!!!

You had worked at Cid’s long before the Batch came along. You didn’t mind the work. It was steady and something you could handle. It was a plus to see 4 handsome men every other day. However it did sadden you greatly to know Echo had left to join his brother in his quest to help other clones. You made sure to give Omega extra love and attention as you could see she was struggling with the departure of her brother. You saw her as a little sister and often times would tease her as you would but she always knew you never meant it and loved her dearly.

What you didn’t like however, was Phee’s constant flirting. Whenever that pirate came in you were always irritated until she left. Something Hunter had picked up on. Tech thought it was just a matter of annoyance as Phee could embellish her stories instead of telling the truth, but Hunter picked up on the real reason: You liked Tech, and you got jealous anytime someone else flirted with him. Even Wrecker could see you went out of your way to spend time with the intelligent clone, so it was no secret to anyone except Tech that you were in love. You had yet to make a move as you didn’t think Tech would want you in that way. But it would stand to show that you should’ve way sooner.

You were standing the behind the bar as the batch walked in from their last adventure, much to your displeasure, with Phee. Your annoyance soon turned into your heart dropping when you saw Tech and Phee standing closer and him flirting back. Hunter noticed your heart had sped up and looked at you with concern only to see your eyes landing on Tech and your smile fall. Hunter knew you had a thing for his brother and was a bit sad you never made a move. Maker knows Tech would never catch onto the fact he himself had feelings so it had fallen to you.

"You okay?

You looked over to see a handsome man in a bandana starely at you expectantly. "Hmm hm," you nodded. "I'm fine. Just surprised to see Phee and Tech so close." You continued washing the last couple of glasses you had been working on to avoid letting your emotions overcome you.

Hunter raised an eyebrow, obviously unconvinced. You knew that look and turned to Cid who came out of her office. "Hey Cid? Do you mind if Hunter walks me home? And if I clock out a bit early?"

The Trandoshan waved her claw dismissively. "Yeah yeah, it's not busy. Go on home. Keep her safe Bandana!"

You bid Wrecker and Omega goodnight and sent Phee and Tech a smile before leaving with Hunter. The pirate returned it but Tech frowned. You had always asked him to walk you home. What changed? Had he been rude? Since Echo's departure he had been a bit callous but he didn't think he had treated you that way. What had he done to upset you?

"Don't you worry about her Brown Eyes," Phee nudged. "She's in safe hands. Plus she can hold her own no problem."

Tech looked over at Phee, seeing the truth in her eyes. She was right of course, Hunter would keep you safe. And he had seen you defend yourself against numerous drunkards. Still, he had felt a little hurt you hadn't asked him. Still deep in thought, he allowed Phee to drag him over to the bar for drinks where they continued their debrief of the mission.

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Hunter came inside your apartment, knowing you needed someone with you. You pulled a bottle of Corellian whiskey from your cupboard and took a swig.

"What the fuck have I done Hunter?" you whispered. "I just let the man I love slip away because I was too much of a coward to let him know I had feelings."

Taking the bottle away, Hunter enveloped you in a hug, knowing his short would soon be stained with tears. He knew Tech had some sort of feeling for you but now that he and Phee were getting close he didn't think anything would happen with you now.

"You did what you thought was the best course of action. You didn't think Tech would return your feelings so you didn't risk the friendship. That's is a solid decision. A stupid one, but a solid one." Hunter pulled away so he could raised your head to face him. "So what's the plan now mesh'la? Tell him or no?"

You looked at Hunter's chest and grimaced. "No." You pulled away to sit on your couch. "He's happy Hunter. As happy as one can be with your lifestyle of running around and hiding from the Empire. He found that with Phee. I'm not gonna take that away from him."

No you weren't. You were going to walk away. Let the man you love be happy, even if it wasn't with you.

Hunter could tell you had cooked something up in your mind but didn't push. He made sure you were okay before heading back to Cid's; mainly to make sure Omega was still there and settling down.

You on the other hand: You had messaged Cid, asking her to cut your hours. When she asked why, you replied 'I'll explain tomorrow before my shift"

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"No way! Nuh uh! I am not cutting your hours. You're my best girl here toots! I'm not losing revenue because you don't wanna work here."

"Cid, you send the boys away every other day! I'll work whenever they're not here. To up the ante, I'll show more cleavage when I'm here. Pigtails, heels, short skirts. Whatever you want, just please. I can't be around them right now."

Cid smiled, obviously liking the offer. "No bra unless it's for the outfit, short skirts and crops. I'll call you whenever they leave for extended periods of time. You'll be raking in the dough."

Omega overheard you and Cid and immediately went to find Hunter, who just happened to be with Tech, talking about ship upgrades.

"I think something's wrong with her," she concluded after repeating what she had heard. "She'd never do that."

This was rather distressing for Tech to hear. While you had never lowered yourself to debauchery, it was easy to see why Cid would agree. Tech couldn't help but notice your curves, your eyes, breasts, hair... everything about you was captivating. You had self respect though, you once told Tech you would never lower yourself to show yourself off just to make some extra money.

Hunter, as disappointed as he was, wasn't really surprised. This was a step in trying to forget about Tech and he knew that. He knew you needed distraction and male attention was a fair idea. He noticed how attractive you were. It was a good way to make extra.

Phee approached you, sitting at the bar, pouring herself a beer. You raised a brow. "Can I help you Phee?"

Throwing her hands in surrender, she went into defense. "Now hold on there sweet thing. I come in peace." Leaning forward, she spoke like she was offering the secret to the universe. "I actually wanted to ask you something."

You scowled. "Spit it out Phee. I do have a job to do."

Smirking, Phee elaborated. "It's about our goggled friend over there with the kid," gesturing to Tech and Omega. "I understand you have a thing for him."

"At one time... yes," you said cautiously. "What's it to you Phee?"

Softly she smiled, letting her sarcastic demeanor fall. "I like him girly. I was hoping I'd have your blessing to... continue seeing him."

You looked over at Tech, knowing he'd be happy with Phee. He never belonged to you. Just because you liked him didn't mean he was yours. He never was...

"He's a free man Phee. He can make his own choices. He doesn't need me interfering."

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What Hunter wasn't prepared for was you telling them that you had found a second job and weren't going to be around very much. After you made that announcement he pulled you aside.

"What the actual kriff do you think you're doing? First the new outfits but now a second job?"

Your face darkened and Hunter saw every emotion under the sun from anger to resignation to sadness.

"You know karking well Hunter that it hurts to be around him. Around them! I'll work here when you're off world and then at the store when you are. The less I see Phee and Tech bring all couple-y cute the happier I'll be."

Hunter could sense Tech was around the corner but didn't stop you. He could feel Tech getting closer but didn't stop you, hoping for kriff's sake, Tech would hear your words

"It's been four months Hunter. I love him. I want what's best for him. If he's happy with Phee and she's who he wants to be with, fine. As long as he's happy. But I cannot risk letting my jealousy and anger get the best of me. So I'm walking away. Completely."

And with that, you left. You never knew if Tech had heard you or not and you didn't care. Not anymore.

You threw yourself into work, making bank and drowning in credits. The Batch visited you at your new job, grateful to see you fully dressed. You limited your interaction with Tech which caused him distress. While yes, he was happy with Phee and enjoyed her company, he missed you.

Tech tried many times to see you by yourself but you always had an excuse to leave him alone. Whether it was a customer, client, or you simply had 'other things to do'.

Phee had noticed Tech was upset at you not being around. She wasn't helping the situation much by going off on adventures. She had asked Tech if he wanted to pursue you instead of her. He assured her, he was happy. Just sad to have lost a friend. He had no plans on ending the relationship that had blossomed. Just upset you had so carelessly walked away without thinking about how it would hurt him.

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Omega and Wrecker had entered the store, a poor Tooka cat curled in Omega's arms. It wasn't the first time they'd entered with an injured animal. You had a feeling it wouldn't be the last.

"Leave him with me darlings. I'll take care of him." You dropped the Tooka off at the vet, hoping someone would claim the little cat. You closed the store and locked up, sweeping what dirt came in from the day.

You heard the door swoosh open, annoying you.

"We're closed! Come back tomorrow" you yelled out.

Looking up from your task, you saw the last person you ever wanted to interact with.

Tech. Of course he could bypass the security and enter the store.

You sighed and turned back to sweeping. "I'm busy Tech. What do you want?" You hoped it was a question about your products cause you had a shift at Cid's pretty soon. You had already removed your underclothes and changed into a shorter skirt and crop. You needed out of this store. Away from him.

"Have I done something to upset you?"

What??

"Tech, you ship out in 2 hours. Do you really want to spend that time with me and not your girlfriend??

"Answer the question. Have I offended you in some way?"

You put the broom away and continued closing procedures as you felt Tech's eyes on you. "No. You haven't. You good now?" Never looking at him.

It wasn't often you saw Tech angry. More protective but he did scare a bit by forcibly pulling you away from your till. He pushed you into your cashier chair and stood in front of you.

"Phee is away on a treasure hunt. I don't ship out for another three hours. And that is not the answer I was wanting."

"Tech, for kriff's sake, I have to close the store! Now let me- "

"You are going to stay there until you explain why you left us. Left me."

Your eyes darkened to the point they looked black. Tech suddenly felt nervous, like he'd gone to far. But he needed an answer. Why would you suddenly walk away?

You pushed him away, storming over to the till and finished closing procedures. He followed you out the door and waited until you had set the alarm and locked up.

You paused before looking at the clone. You contemplated telling the truth but it was too late. He wouldn't accept it anyway.

"Tech, I have not left. I am just busy. Money is tight and I -"

"That's a karking lie! I know you've been making good money. You are avoiding me. You pay close attention to Hunter and Wrecker. You dote on Omega and I get a cold shoulder."

Gods, you hated how intelligent and calm he sounded, even when angry. It was titillating and and sexy. You loved him but hated how sexiness came so easy to him.

With a resigned sigh, you walked past him, shaking his hand off. "Go home Tech. You don't need me. You never have. You have your squad and Phee. Forget about me"

Tech stood there, angry and hurt. He let you walk away. He wanted you in his life. He missed the friendship, the camaraderie. He missed you visiting him while he worked on the ship. He missed your laugh and smile. He missed you.

With a comm from Hunter, he left to join the squad on another mission, missing the good luck hug and peck on the cheek you'd often give him.

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Haha so that was that. Let me know if y'all want a part 2. Particularly you Tech simps like me!

Mesh'la: beautiful in Mando'a

Enjoy!!

part 2

[yelldeadcellvrremix]

I've been thinking about Clone High again since I can't escape that show.

There is no serious analysis or thesis statement. I just need to vent.

THIS SHOW COULD'VE BEEN SO FUCKING GOOD. THIS SHOW HAD SUCH A GOOD PREMISE, IT HAS AN AMAZING FIRST SEASON. AND IT'S ALL FUCKING WASTED.

This fandom is mostly made up of teenagers, so lemme just tell y'all this: When I was your age, I had to watch this show split into two parts on YouTube, at 360p resolution AT HIGHEST. I witnessed the fandom back when it was 10 people maximum, sitting around in a little makeshift DeviantArt group and maybe a forum if you were lucky, and half of them were every -phobic and -ist imaginable. And I couldn't even join them because I wasn't allowed to have social media until 14 years old, and even then, the state of social media back then was so dookie that I wouldn't have even known how to have used it.

You wanted to talk about the long wait of time you had to wait for season 2 to drop, and 3 afterwards? Y'all only had two years maximum.

IMAGINE BEING ME, WHO HAD TO WAIT A WHOLE TEN YEARS FOR ANYTHING TO COME OUT. ANYTHING.

AND WHEN SEASON 2 FINALLY DROPPED.... i mean it was aight, I guess. The sleepover episode and For Your Consideration are easily the best of the season. Nothing can ever beat Raisin' The Stakes, but at least it wasn't boring like the rest of the season.

AND THEN SEASON 3 DROPS AND IT WAS TOTAL

DOOKIE

I could've accepted the fact that Clone High wouldn't be as good as it used to. I may not have liked season 2, but I was willing to acknowledge that it had some alright stuff. But season 3? I watched in real time as the show I loved was eviscerated right in front of my eyes.

and then it took an entire year to confirm that the show was cancelled and i felt part of my soul die. I didn't even like the show anymore around this time, but there was a slight part of me that hoped for even a crumb of a chance that Clone High could've redeemed itself with a fourth season.

But you know the worst part?

The premise had no right being as good as it was, but it was all used for a show that basically forgot about it.

Clones of historical figures navigating their identities during their teenage years, an age range where everyone questions what their future will be and where they're just getting their first taste of independence. IS THAT NOT A PREMISE RIPE WITH SO MUCH POTENTIAL? Even if you don't wanna explore the existentialism of such a story, imagine all of the fun you can have by showing how historical figures would act in a modern setting, and the jokes and facts you can throw in along the way.

Meanwhile Clone High did just that for its first season (even though MTV actually told them to keep them minimal because they thought their audience was too stupid to understand history jokes)... and then completely forgot about its own premise moving onwards, save for the season premieres and finales.

Yeah I don't know how to end this post, I'm just really mad that this show had to end up this way. Anyways I'm gonna rip this show's premise off for a future project, k bye.

[freesia-writes]

Saturday Update

It's a gorgeous, cozy, rainy day here in California and I figured I'd share a few things with y'all that most of you probably know. ;)

First of all, the full-length Hunter fic is coming along nicely and I think we should be good to start releasing it soon after the TBB finale. It's at 91k words right now and is probably around 4/5 done.

I keep a wish list of fanart for that fic, comprised of certain scenes or moments that would be fun to see, if you ever need drawing inspiration and would like to take any of them on. I love highlighting all the amazing artists we have!! :D

I'm not taking requests here, but requests are open over on @spicy-clones, with the stipulation that they'll probably take a while to get to and if there's a similar fic written by one of my fellow authors with a similar style as mine, I'm gonna point you that way cause there is some Grade A Smut on this helliste. ;)

Finally, I'm moving as much of my tag list as possible to a Discord server -- its sole function will be for me to share links to the tumblr posts of Hunter fic chapters, extras, and the regular one-shots I write. No chatting or other fun, LOL, so your notifications will only be for new work posted by me. <3

If the link expires, feel free to message me!

I hope you all are having the most lovely weekend so far! Happy to be a part of this corner of the internet. <3

[canonicallysoulmates]

I watched the last two episodes of the season, and I have thoughts on them and on the season as a whole. I'm putting it all in one post so this is going to be long, it's also not going to be nice to the show.

I don't really care about ep 7 I mostly found it boring with the exception of Din being captured and Paz's death. Moff Gideon is a fun villain but I saw someone refer to him as a Darth Vader wannabe and now I can't unsee it so from the moment he showed up on the screen all I could think was bitch you'll never be him, you can dress like him, try to walk like him, do the whole red and black thing like him but you'll never be him. It also kinda made me want to re-watch Obi-Wan Kenobi to see the Vader scenes again.

The whole thing with IG-11. *sigh* I feel like if I had seen the episode prior to the finale airing maybe I would have found the comedy in it but since the finale has him getting fixed and basically coming back to life and it acknowledges (in a small way) that he is a sentient being I don't find it funny, I find it pointless, disrespectful to the character whose death was painted as an honorable sacrifice, and insulting to me as a viewer because it was clearly done for cheap laughs and to sell toys.

The character of Bo-Katan has grown on me this season, probably not as much as the writers wish she would though, but as I mentioned in a separate post I have not seen the show from which she comes, which I believe is The Clone Wars, but I have read enough posts from those who have to be looking at her scenes in this episode and thinking what absolute bullshit. I can't imagine how frustrating those scenes were for those of y'all who watch that show and know her history cause if I was annoyed y'all must have been foaming at the mouth.

The whole thing with Din pledging himself to her- who was in charge of that? Come here I just wanna talk. That scene had me judging my own mother because she liked it, so just know that if you liked that scene I will judge you. I won't hold it against you but I will judge you. It is hilarious though that he was all "I serve you, Lady Kryze. Your song is not yet written. I will serve you until it is." then in the very next episode when she's once again giving her song a spin and could arguably really use his support because she no longer has the Darksaber which was the only reason some of these people followed her in the first place he completely forgot about it, I love that for him.

Din about the Darksaber: "I only know of this weapon what you taught me. To be honest, it means nothing to me or my people."

Paz, and TBOBF: 👁️👄👁️ am I a fucking joke to you?

Wtf is he talking about??? Did Favroni not watch TBOBF? Do they not know what happened on that show? Because at a difference from them, I remember that show, the Armorer is the one who told Din the legend of the Darksaber. She even asked him before she did what he knew of it and if he understood its significance and he told her he was told it was Darksaber and that who wielded it could lead all of Mandalore. Even Gideon, in the s2 finale, provided him with info about the Darksaber because he's the one who pointed out to him that Bo-Katan had to win the thing in combat otherwise she'd be a pretender to the throne. So, "I only know of this weapon what you taught me." is a lie.

And clearly, it meant something to him otherwise he wouldn't have fought Paz over it, tried to learn how to wield it, and would have just handed it over to Bo-Katan after she saved him from the thing, and to say it means nothing to his people is the biggest lie of all because it meant something to Paz. It was a weapon that belonged to his ancestors, he wanted it back in his clan, it was important to him, it meant something to him and he is one of Din's people so to say the Darksaber doesn't mean anything to his people is disrespectful to the character of Paz Vizsla.

The attempted gaslighting and retconning going on this season is outstanding.

And it continues with the whole "He didn't learn that from me." YES HE DID WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I get they no longer want him to be the main character but are they allergic to letting him take even a little bit of credit.

Honestly, my main emotion during this episode was probably annoyance, it's so badly written. Some of the bad writing though like I have to laugh at it like Bo-Katan's very unenthusiastic hit on the glass when Din gets captured go girl give us nothing, you could have used the Darksaber and at least tried to help him.

Paz's death feels so unfair, and so pointless, and so unnecessary. He did not have to die, he deserved better than a death done just to make an episode feel big and force the viewer into some emotion. And he certainly deserved better than to have his sacrifice and death be so completely ignored in the very next episode as if it hadn't meant anything.

Continuing on to the season, possibly series, finale there is an improvement. I did like this more than ep 7, if I look at it by itself I think it was a decent ep, and if I turn my brain off I can even bump it up to good but it's still not good enough to make up for this crappy season or to make it worth it, and if I look at it within the context of the season it does feel like some of the moments are unearned and if anything it actually makes the season feel pointless. If this is the conclusion that was going to be reached and nothing that was set up was actually going to be properly explored then they should have skipped this season and gone straight to the movie. Also, because this season was so bad I do have to ask myself whether this episode was actually good or if it just seems that way because the bar was so low. If I'm gonna be honest with myself it is in part because the bar was so low.

I will give it to this episode it gave me my favorite scenes from this season and that is every scene where Din fought. I'm so glad the writers remembered that he is a badass, I greatly enjoyed those scenes, they're my favorite from the episode, they're my favorite from the season- I was cheering him on enjoying every second. I had missed this character so fucking much, I don't know who that guy was the previous 7 episodes but this is the Din Djarin I know and love. That being said has his cape always been flame resistant?

I also liked that little moment of Grogu (yes, I'm still gonna refer to him as Grogu deal with it) staying back to save him, that was sweet, as well as him creating a force shield to protect him, and Bo-Katan, from the fire. I'll admit that was a decent callback to the first season, and I'm glad that the writers remembered he has the Force because my main thought in that scene of him "fighting" the Praetorian Guards was USE THE FORCE (and I know we saw him use it a bit once Din jumped into the fight) I can only assume the special effects budget for this season was cut or they didn't have time so all they could do was throw the puppet around.

I can understand why some fans are happy about the Darksaber being destroyed, yes ownership of it shouldn't decide who leads Mandalore but this was still a historical artifact with deep cultural meaning to Mandalore, its people, and its history. If it was to be destroyed it should have been done by the Mandalorians, and it really should not have been that easy to do. Personally, I would have preferred it to not have been destroyed. Also, add the Darksaber to the tally of things that were rendered pointless.

Y'all need to stop joking around about Moff Gideon coming back to life in s4, you're gonna give them ideas

I fail to see why Ragnar had a second ceremony when the first one worked well enough that he was already wearing the helmet. I can only guess that the writers thought this would be a clever callback to the season premiere, it wasn't, or that they needed some ceremony to be happening there so they could do the whole adoption thing but if that's what they wanted that would have been a perfect opportunity to do something in Paz's honor or at the very least mentioned him. Yes, I will forever be angry that they killed this character off and his death was not acknowledged, that we never got to see Din's reaction to finding out he has lost one of the last people of his covert, somebody who was his brother, or Ragnar's reaction to losing another parent at such a young age. It's like the characters this season are not allowed to feel, there's always a point they have to hit, a line to deliver and there's no room for natural emotion like there was in the previous two.

I'm about to get myself canceled with the next thing I'm about to say, I felt nothing during the adoption scene. That was already his son, and I get this is "making it official" but it doesn't feel earned, it doesn't have genuine emotion or feel like a natural conclusion it just....happened. And I think it feels that way, not just because as others have pointed out Din and Grogu were reunited in another show, but because this season we haven't seen that father-son bond or the exploration of that relationship and how they feel being reunited. We started to in the first two episodes and then like everything else the writers ignored it. This scene would have had a lot more weight and impact if Din and Grogu hadn't reunited before the season but also if the season had shown us the bond that exists between them and explored Din's feelings at having his child back in his life- we never even got to see his reaction at Grogu getting his second piece of Mandalorian armor.

The name thing, like I said in a separate post I think Din Grogu sounds dumb and silly but the way I choose to interpret it is as Grogu being given his dad's first name and Grogu becoming his second or last name. And if I think of it that way, I still don't like the sound of it but it does make it nicer, it gives it a nice meaning. So, that's how I'm looking at it, Din is still his first name and now it's also Grogu's! He's named after his dad.

The Mythosaur was truly the MVP of this season. He slept, unbothered, through all of it I'm so jealous, I wish I could have done the same.

Ultimately, my feelings at the end of this season is that I'm glad it's over. This felt very much like a series finale, I like the way that Din and Grogu's story ended I think it's very nice which is why, as I've said, I don't want a 4th season. I'm good with things ending here because- I know fans have the hope that the way things ended are a sign that a fourth season would go back to focusing on Din and Grogu but to me this season has shown that these writers don't care, they don't care about the things they set up and they don't care about Din as a main character anymore, so I don't have a reason to believe another season wouldn't ruin things unless it comes with new showrunners.

If there is another season, depending on what it's about I'll probably watch it but not like I did with this one, I'm not prioritizing it, I'm not watching it week to week or waking up early for it. I'll wait for the whole season to drop, read all the spoilers, and then watch it. Because when it comes to this show I'm remembering the saying, fool me one shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

I learned my lesson. If this gets another season I'm not holding any hopes, or expectations for it to be any good.

[foggypeacestrawberry]

The 10-Things-Challange

(Sims 3 only)

Hi y'all !,

a few days ago I startet a little "Challange" for myself:

To Create a room in Sims 3, by combining random things I find within the Sims-Community. So I will download the first 10 things that I see on this day, if I like them, or at least don´t dislike them, and put them together with 5 other things that I can choose freely.

The goal is, to create with just 15 objects a room that makes some kind of sense. For example it can represent a certain style, or a theme, or an idea, or even tell a little story, whatever comes to my mind.

Turns out, this is so much FUN!, to put stuff together that I normaly never would consider to combine :-) !

So I don´t know if someone had this idea before already, it happened while I was sorting CC-files, and this element of coincidence was so appealing to me, that I decided to give it a try.

Now I want to show you my first outcoming, and how I decided which objects to choose, or how the objects chose me; and what rules could be useful or not.

First I visited TSR, to see what's new there. The newest entry was:

1) Emporia Livinigroom-Set, from ArtVitalex

So that are 7 objects already - meaning I have to leave this site now (?) .

--> Working on the rules:

Would be much to easy if most ot the 10 objects would come from the same set, but I think 3-4 objects from one set will be OK.

And I wonder if I should leave a source after finding the first "thing", or if its OK to stay on the site, and just go back in the timeline to the next entry of another creator? I guess it depends on how often I will do this challange - 3 times a week, 3 times a month...

BACK TO THE CC -

Then I went to tumblr and chose the first of my sims3-tags that are CC-related, it was #s3ccfinds (some of the first entrys were reblogs from wandering sim).

I skip all CAS-Stuff, just looking for objects to put in a room.

I counted until I had "10 things" = single objects:

2) My Wedding Stories Trees, Set with 5 objects, from @bioniczombie

3) Venyl-Collection, 1 object, from @johziii

4) Tombstones, 2 objects, from @lolabellesims

5) Some Weird Posters, 1 object, from @wanderingsimsfinds

6) Out In The Yard, Set with 4 objects, from @Itssimplythesims

So this time the 10 objects will be from 6 diferent creators.

Plus the 5 "wild objects" I can chose freely.

--> Some more specifics about the rules:

For example them posters from wanderingsim, thats 1 object, but its a huge collection of 33 posters = items. In a case like that, I might use 3-4 different looking items, I treat this object like a set.

The Screenshots I put in a new blogpost.

During this first challenge, I changed some stuff I a bit, that shows in the pics: added windows; changed styles; changed postition of the poster + sofa.

I will lead you through the scenery pic-by-pic, counting the objects up to 15.

[zozophoenixxx]

Serotonin Booster :D 🐉

How to train your dragon edition

Here are some things I had forgotten or little details I just noticed on my rewatch, maybe even Unpopular Opinions 🤭👀

✨Race to the Edge✨

SEASON 6

I love how the twins were basically the reason Hiccup figured out that Johan was the spy

NOOO THE WAY GOTHI WENT TO TRY AND STOP STOICK FROM THROWING AWAY HER MEDICINE AND THEN GOT THROWN OFF THE CLIFF WAS SO FUNNY [ep2]

Omg that fight between Hiccup and Stoick in ep2 was crazy whenever Stoick said "I'm talking to the expert in getting duped by Trader Johan" and THEN HICCUP WAS LIKE "but I was only duped for half as long as you were. So what does that make you?"

Awww the way both Toothless and Skull-crusher were trying to get them to talk

And also Astrid being the only one that wasn't caught by the Hunters right away, she's just superior bro

I love how both of them were right - Stoick was right to not trust the merchants and Hiccup was right about Johan's plan

Toothless is actually so strong like he's not only agile and clever, I mean he just flew up to the ballista and crashed against it and destroyed it without using his Plasma Blast 😎🤩

Mala and Dagur fighting over where the Dragon Eye lenses are gonna be hidden is hilarious. Mala is so calm I love it

I got chills when Atali was like "no, Hiccup, this is my island I will defend it"

I really want to know the origin of the Wingmaidens, like where did all these women come from? How come they're still there?

I love Minden and Snotlout's relationship, the way he tried to convince her to not give up AND SHE KISSED HIM!!!

Krogan's Singetail actually cares about him

Never gonna get over Adelaide Kane voicing Mala

Also Snotlout running when the dude had the razorwhip on him LIKE HE WAS LITERALLY FLYING AND HE WAS STILL RUNNING Y'ALL HAVE TO WATCH THAT SCENE I JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO DESCRIBE IT ITS IN EP3

Generations ago Fishlegs's ancestors were dragon hunters

The Loyal Order of Ingerman - decimated the Dramillion dragons, pushing them to the brink of extinction

Grump is amazing I love him

Dramillions - have both a lava blast and a magnesium blast. Omnivores. Still being hunted.

The Hunters were founded by Ingar Ingerman

The Dramillion trying to take the manacle off his tail🥺

And when Fishlegs threw his helmet and THEN THE HAND THING 😭🥺

I love the Dramillions they're so smart they learned how to get rid of the manacles by just looking at what Meatlug and Stormfly were doing 🥺

I just realized that the twins are 19 AND I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY CRAZY HOW CAN THEY BE THAT OLD

I really wish we knew each of their birthdays like I wanna know which one's older and which one's younger

I feel like for some reason the twins would be the oldest ones then Fishlegs then Astrid then Snotlout and lastly Hiccup. Idk I'm still iffy on this

Most Thorstons don't make it to 19

I love the twins' relationship, they love each other so much that they would rather be alone and not form part of a clan than leave each other alone and the fact that other people know this too? Plsss like the only reason Gruffnut got them back into the fake induction trials was by telling them how bad it'd be for each other to not be part of a clan.

Titanwing Zippleback HOW DO THEY KNOW ITS A TITANWING IT LOOKS THE SAME AS THE OTHER ZIPPLEBACKS

"Ughh, what's the point of winning alone? Being a Thorston means nothing without him. We are one Thorston."

I love them and also technically Ruffnut won the induction trials.

THE LAST LENSE GOSH

Love how Fishlegs cares about global warming

I'm all Snotlout, Toothless and the Triple Stryke reacting to Mala and Dagur- I'm also Mala whenever someone tickles me I'LL KILL U

UGHHH I HATE HOW SNOTLOUT MADE HICCSTRID UNCOMFY FOR HAVING A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP

Astrid overthinking 🥺😭

"How would you like your yak cooked?" JSHDHHA

bro I love how both Tuff and Toothless noticed the betrothal necklace

"So want to deliver some scrap metal?" Hiccup baby? Why are you so oblivious?

At least he asked her if she was alright in the armorwing's island 😩

No but if I was Astrid I'd be pissed too, the dude saw a dragon eye lens from far way and didn't notice her betrothal necklace? 🙂😤

No I can't that scene was too harsh to watch, I mean I loved to see Hiccup noticing something was wrong with Astrid but then the way Astrid compared their relationship to Mala and Dagur's and then threw him the betrothal necklace... And the way he caught it too I can't- 😭😞😖😭😓🤧

Seeing the twins trying to capture Mala was hilarious JAHDHDHHSHA

I love how when they're fighting Astrid's still there for him whenever he's expected to have all the answers. She ignored her anger and went over to him and grabbed his hand and that single thing was what gave him confidence in a moment of panic 🥺

"I'm with you"

"I know"

That final Hiccstrid scene in Mi Amore Wing was just too perfect, we have Hiccup grabbing Astrid's hand to bring her outside and talk to her, the sunset in the background, every little thing Hiccup told her about being there for her and loving her with everything he had and that he should've noticed the necklace right away AND THEN THAT KISS WAS JUST AMAZING❗️❗️❗️ it was passionate and sweet and Astrid was blushing and then Fishlegs was all uncomfortable and Mala was like "okaaayyyyy😏" and Dagur like "alrighhtttt👌🏼" ig the only thing I didn't like is that Astrid didn't say I love you back 😭 but it's ok cause yk she does I just wished she had said it.

Baby razorwhips love the water

Tuffnut named the baby razorwhip that bonded with Ruffnut, Wingnutt

Top scenes of Ruff Transition ep7

Tuffnut throwing up in Ruffnut's mouth and Ruffnut throwing up in Wingnutt's mouth just do that he could be fed- seeing the windmaiden's reactions is the best lmao

Hiccup trying to teach Ruffnut how to fly (with his dragon flight suit) and then Ruffnut losing balance but Hiccup helping her regain it BUT we still get overprotective Tuffnut jumping off of Toothless to try and help but all he did was make things worse HIS SCREAM WAS HILARIOUS nonono and the way Toothless tried to help BUT AGAIN MADE THINGS WORSE 😩😮‍💨😂

Ruffnut finally figuring out how to connect with Wingnutt and fighting the dragon hunters and saving Atali was so badass and then Atali riding Barf 😭🤩

Hiccstrid kiss count (approximately) : 6😘

The way he slightly and carefully touches her face to reassure her that he'll be fine

The Singetail's only predator is the Skrill

The Berserkers used to use metal daggers to lure Skrills into traps. The dragon is drawn to it due to its electrical properties

VIGGO JUST DID THE HAND THING THING WITH THE SKRILL WTF

If I could have any dragon it'd be in this order

Skrill - it's so badass and powerful

Nightfury - it's badass, powerful, pretty, strong and fast

Deadly Nadder - it's extremely fast and agile, has multiple attacks and the spikes

Dramillion - has multiple attacks and is very smart

Just realized that ep8 is called Triple Cross because 1st Johan crossed Viggo 2nd Viggo fake crossed Hiccup and 3rd Viggo and Hiccup crossed Johan and Kogan

That episode was basically jusr to show Viggo's arc and the way he changed for the better and learned to respect dragons

That's why the Singetails wouldn't leave in ep9 whenever they were trying tp free the Deathsong- their eggs! They're in that island.

I can't with Hiccup and Astrid sitting together just chilling but with Astrid feeling guilty and Hiccup assuring her that he was also at fault 😭

I love Narrator/Author Snotlout! The titles of the chapters of his book remind me of the ones from Pjo

Stoick and Skullcrusher acting as 1 and being worried about each other 🥺 I love their relationship

Also the way Stoick bats off the shots from the Singetails with his axe just like Astrid. They're both truly warriors

No but Toothless asking for a head scratch from Gobber bc he's worried abt both Hiccup and Stoick🥺

The way Toothless tried to make Hiccup feel better- I mean the man blamed himself for putting Stoick in "his deathbed" it was just so awful seeing Hiccup in that state and the way everyone was trying to make him feel better but it was ultimately Astrid who managed to get through to him😭

I love it when they put scenes of the movies

I love how Astrid always knows what to say without lying

Looks like it's you and me, then.

Always... was that corny or-

Probably. Nice, though.

The way Astrid is so natural at being a leader and putting everyone on their places 🤩

That lil moment they had in ep12 where he holds her face and thanks her for everything and I just love them too much 😭

I love how Spitelout is so happy when he's beating ass, this dude literally goes "I'm sure I've had more fun than this. But at the moment, I can't remember when"

Have I mentioned I love the Dramillions before? I love them way too much they're amazing and the sound they make is so 😩 I love it

The Dramillion is a distant cousin of the Changewing which means the Titanwing Dramillion shares the de-cloaking ability with its subspecies.

Stormfly's spine clone was literally so badass, my girl was surrounded and she finished every single dragon flyer with it. Badass move. Wish we had seen it more throughout the series

It really pissed me off that Hiccup had to choose between getting Tuff, Ruff and Snotlout out of that sinking ship when he could've been following Krogan. Like ofc it was the right decision but that wouldn't have happened if the twins and Snotlout didn't follow Gruff into the ship :/

I love how strong Barf and Belch are! They literally carried the a Titanwing Dramillion on their own.

That scene when they figured out that the Titanwing Dramillion is not the King of Dragons but instead the last piece of the puzzle to get to the King of Dragons

When the Wingmaidens got to the battle it was amazing

Also the way Dagur was so proud that the King of Dragons was a Berserker and how Ruff was so excited to see Wingnutt and Snotlout to see Minden🥺

THEY REALIZED THAT BBYS AREN'T AFFECTED BY THE KING OF DRAGONS BC OF THE BABY RAZORWHIPS

that last Hiccstrid Scene where Hiccup is worried about Astrid's safety- I mean his face 🥺🥺🥺 and she told him that his dad would be proud and that she's proud too and when she was about to leave he held her back and kissed her 😭😭

Ik I said this before but I simp for Astrid as a leader, she's just so natural at it

Also I love how the King of Dragons has ice powers instead of fire

WAIT SO IS THE EGG THAT HICCUP FINDS IN THE FINALE THAT THEY GIVE TO VALKA IS THAT THE KING OF DRAGONS THAT VALKA CARES FOR IN HTTYD2?!!

Valka being friends with the Wingmaidens sits absoluteky right with me

no but the way Toothless hesitated when Hiccup told him to leave him and get the egg

I love how all the dragons arrived to fight the dragon flyers, it was just so poetical to me, the dragons finally getting to fight the people that hurt them 🤩

I FINISHED IT AND NOW I'M SAD!!! I loved the end tho and I'm glad we got to see Shattermaster at Dagur's wedding, also Astrid's outfit change- we love that. And them leaving the edge is just so sad bro 😭but I love how we got to see some "insight" ig u could call it on HTTYD2 😭 also seeing Snotlout and Fishlegs's love for Ruffnut start forming was hilarious

[cancermoonclown]

Signs as Songs off of Taylor Swift's Folklore

i love taylor swift so much and this album was a fucking masterpiece.

some of these might be controversial, but i go by vibes and vibes only

Aries: my tears ricochet, looking at the lyrics, there is so much outright anger and an Aries doesn't hide their anger. they're outright when they've been burned. "i didn't have it in myself to go with grace, cause when i'd fight you used to tell me i was brave". Aries, fighting, you see the correlation.

Taurus: the lakes, honestly, the references to flowers and nature. it's very Taurus. the way that the narrator just wants to be alone with their lover, away from "these cynical clones, these hunters with cell phones". also i can feel a Taurus after being hurt standing up for themselves and saying "I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze, tell me what are my words worth" because it's not too rude, it's about themselves and their growth.

Gemini: hoax, emotion shrouded in metaphors and references. i feel like this song could be a Gemini in immense, shocking heartbreak. because it doesn't really focus on the emotional 'i feel this' aspect, but more intellectualizing the other person's betrayal.

Cancer: illicit affairs, the heavy, choking emotion of this song, along with the doomed romance. that's basically a recipe for a Cancer. i love this song, "look at this god forsaken mess that you made me, you showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else" i can see a Cancer really getting hurt with that line.

Leo: seven, the carefree energy of this song, the childhood memories, also i feel like Leo's are worriers when it comes to the people they love and care about "your dad is always mad and that must be why, and i think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates, and you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet". a child Leo would totally offer anything to help, despite maybe not understanding the severity of a situation.

Virgo: this is me trying, Virgo's try. i know that that seems obvious but they do. they try everyday, in the little tasks that no one notices much, the little tasks that don't get awards and recognition. even if they feel like shit, like the song says, "at least im trying"

Libra: mirrorball, kinda obvious but Libra's are just social creatures, they are diplomatic and charming but of course they feel this pressure to be someone everyone likes. "i can change everything about me to fit in" and it gets to them! that's okay, loves, just reflect and take some self-care days :)

Scorpio: mad woman, oooh the vengeance in this song. the way i can totally picture some angsty Scorpio messily scribbling this song out on a piece of aged paper. taylor's Scorpio mars popped tf off! "what did you think i'd say to that" felt so contained yet aggressive too. just like a Scorpio's anger

Sagittarius: the 1, the blasé nature of this song is very reminiscent of a Sagittarius. the oh well, we could've been something but its okay that we're not, it was fun either way. also the subtle nods to the speaker's intelligence like "you know the greatest films of all time were never made" or "roaring twenties passing pennies in the pool"

Capricorn: invisible string, the bridge is very Capricorn. i can totally see a Capricorn holding a grudge to the people who broke their heart, but when softened up by time and love, they'll let go of that hurt and be happy. the maturity of this song and the nostalgia gives me Saturn vibes.

Aquarius: betty, i feel like an Aquarius man would 10 out of 10 act like this. like they don't get other people's feelings?? like they would be like 'why are you mad? yeah, i slept with her but i love you, babe'. i dunno, is it just me? "im only 17, i don't know anything but i know i miss you" is something an aquarius man would say after he screwed you over. i know some of y'all may not like me for this one but it must be said.\

Pisces: august, ahhh this song is sooo dreamy and lovely and it just has the air of rose-tinted memories. the 'lemme put this person on a pedestal and then be hurt when they are someone else' theme of the song is very Pisces (no offense because i love y'all)

lemme know what you think and lemme know what album you want me to do next!

[misteria247]

The meeting room was crowded with gods and goddesses of all sorts, their voices booming over one another as they fought to speak to one another. Among them sat the Trickster God himself Loki, who watched them all with a hint of annoyance as he sucked on a sucker. The meeting had been a last minute idea and every god and goddess was to attend it, leaving the poor trickster stuck with his less than friendly acquaintances. Sitting next to him was the Goddess of destruction, Kali. The young woman was glaring at her fellow immortals, looking ready to snap at them should they not get the meeting started. With only a moment to spare the meeting had finally been called to order, the room falling silent.

"I know that this meeting has been called together on short notice but I've been informed by a.....contact of mine of a situation that has occurred."

The God known as Odin spoke, his voice loud and demanding the uttermost attention. The Trickster bit back the urge to sigh while Kali scoffed a bit.

"Well pray tell what is the situation Odin? I have places to be and offerings to collect."

Another God spoke out irritated by the abrupt summons. Odin shot the god a look and was about to retort when the doors to the meeting room burst open, a fierce wind accompanying it. The room went into a dead silence as a familiar figure strolled into the room. The Trickster stiffened as his golden hues landed on the figure and he couldn't help but bite back the curse that wanted to come out. There among the immortals was none other than Death. Loki swallowed hard and the other gods and goddesses began to whisper in slight panic or fear.

"What's he doing here?"

"Has he come to slaughter us all??"

"How could Odin involve him?!?"

Voices echoed in the room. Death paid no attention to them, instead calmly making his way to Odin's side to take the stage. Death's blank stare flickered over to Loki and narrowed, his eyes holding a knowing look in them. The Trickster shivered slightly.

'He knows....oh dear Father he knows.'

The thought whispered in his mind making him sweat. To his relief the reaper didn't say anything about him but rather looked away to stare at the rest of the room.

"The situation he was addressing is one of uttermost importance. One that should it not be fixed will be disastrous to us all."

Death said his voice a raspy rattle. The room seemed to be holding its breath waiting for the reaper to continue.

"The Goddess Life has been taken from her post.....by a Winchester."

Death finished. The room erupted into chaos within moments, the voices now even louder than they were previously. The Trickster sat in his seat stunned and feeling sick to his stomach. He knew who Life was, he knew about her role from the moment of her creation. He knew about the Winchesters and what they were to bring in the future. The thought of Life being with a Winchester......

'We're so screwed.'

He thought as he realized just how bad this could get should Life continue to remain running around with one of the starters of the apocalypse.

"So what does this have to do with us??"

Kali asked knocking Loki from his thoughts to pay more attention to what was happening.

"I'm asking for your assistance. Bring me the Goddess Life, and you shall be spared from my scythe."

Death stated simply, not bothering to sugarcoat what would happen should they refuse to help him. The gods and goddesses went quiet as the threat hung in the air. After a beat of silence Odin finally spoke up.

"We will help retrieve her."

He said his voice grave and slightly rocky. At this point Loki had heard enough and with a flick of his hand he replaced himself with a clone and disappeared from the meeting. Once out of sight he snapped out his wings, the golden feathers glistening slightly before taking off into the night. He had to get to Life and the Winchester first before his fellow immortals got to them first.

'Father help me this is going to be a pain in the ass.'

~~~~~

Sam Winchester looked over towards the passenger seat an amused smile on his face while he drove through the countryside. His partner Olidia was singing to the radio, her window rolled down as she took in the fresh air. The sun shore brightly, adding a nice touch to the peaceful atmosphere in the car. The duo were heading towards a new destination, the open road stretched out in front of them.

'I've got that old time Rock and Roll~!'

Olidia sang her heart out bringing a small chuckle out of Sam. It was amusing to the witch to see the Goddess have fun. Ever since the two of them were forced to run from hunters and other creatures Olidia had been trying to experience everything she'd never got to when she'd been living in her forest. One of those experiences had been listening to music from different time periods and she'd taken quite a liking to them. The young man watched as his friend enjoyed herself, a fondness warming him. Seeing the young woman having a great time made him happy. Feeling his eyes on her Olidia flickered her dark brown eyes towards him and gave him a bright smile.

"What's up?"

She asked her voice chipper. Sam quickly shook his head a slight blush coming onto his cheeks from embarrassment at having been caught staring.

"Nothing just got lost in thought."

He responded with a smile. Olidia just gave a small nod of understanding before going back to singing her song. The hunter took a moment to spare one last look at her, noting the way the sun made her long curls glow auburn, and the freckles that decorated her pale cheeks. Her outfit which had once consisted of outdated togas and plants weaved into her hair was now nothing more but a plain t-shirt and a pair of well worn jeans and cowboy boots. Yet even with the simple new look he couldn't deny that she was beautiful. And seeing her being so bubbly and cheery made him want to protect her. Olidia was his family at this point just like Dean was and the witch would be damned if he allowed anything to happen to her and her chipper smile.

'I'll keep you safe Oli. That's a promise, even if it kills me you'll be safe.'

He'd keep her safe, just as she'd done for him. She was his family after all, and he loved her just as much as she loved him. As Sam's eyes flickered back to the road he failed to notice that Olidia looked back at him, taking him in. The goddess noticed how messy his long brown hair was from the wind and the way the sun made his eyes light up in their hazel glory. Sam looked like the perfect picture of happiness and it made her heart soar in joy. Just like Sam, seeing the hunter looking at peace made Olidia just as happy if not even more so. It wasn't often that the witch was so at peace. Between trying to get John off of their trail and the hunts he still went on with her assistance, the young man had barely anytime to truly relax and enjoy the world around him. Which was why Olidia had made it her personal mission to give Sam as many happy moments as he'd given her.

From the moment Olidia had met the kind hearted Winchester, he'd made her happy. Sam had opened up a doorway to a whole new world of possibilities that she never dreamed of having. All of her life she'd known nothing but her forest and Death who came to visit occasionally. She never knew anything else other than the sheltered life she'd lived. Up until she'd met Sam and started to teach him in the ways of nature and magic, Olidia had never realized how truly alone she'd felt. The isolation of being in her home, the longing to be apart of the world that she helped keep alive. It was unbearable, the emotions she'd buried for so long coming back to the surface. Then Sam appeared, in all of his awkward tall glory. A man who just like her felt isolated and longed for something more than what he had. For the first time in her long life Olidia felt like she belonged somewhere. No longer was she the only one who didn't belong, but rather she'd found her place and it was at the side of Sam Winchester.

'I wonder if you truly realize how much you changed my life. How much you made my long existence finally feel like it's worth it.'

She thought quietly as she turned her gaze back outside to watch the world pass her by. Olidia would do anything to help Sam and keep him happy. He was her best friend and her family. Smiling softly to herself she began to sing to the next song, only this time Sam's voice joined hers making her small smile bloom.

'I'll do everything I can to keep that smile on your face Sam. I'll have your back and keep you safe just as you've done for me, I swear it.'

With that promise locked away into her heart as well as the promise locked away in Sam's own, the two continued onwards towards their destination, unaware of the plans that was in store for them.

*I honestly don't even know. Okay so I've grown to really like this concept and I've been dying to do some writing practice because I've got literally things mentally planned out somewhat for my two Azul x Reader series and my two Malleus x Reader series however I've been having trouble figuring out how to make it make sense if you catch my drift. So I decided to just go with this and get some practice in so I can actually get my brain cell to cooperate with me shdhdhfhh. Anyways y'all probably know who the lovely gentleman in the beginning was lmfao. Anyways if any y'all read this I hope you enjoyed it!*

[countessofbiscuit]

For the ask thing: N, T, W for tcw :)

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N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom.

An appreciation for how massive the GAR really is — even if you subscribe to the ridiculously low-balled canonical size of the army, Fives has no reason to be chummy with everyone, ffs. If Anakin and Obi-Wan weren’t attached at the hip, Rex and Cody would hardly ever lay eyes on each other because there is such a disparity in rank (which should indicate a wildly different brief, but lol, this is TCW, where a marshal commander leads from the trenches and a mere captain has a seat at the strategy table). Obviously, this is just a personal gripe: I don’t actually care how people choose to approach the GAR in their stories, this is all about having fun … *I* just have more fun reading fics that are somewhat grounded in realities.

Mating cycles/heats — idk it just seems to me that this fandom with a plethora of alien species to play with doesn’t explore reproductive diversity and weirdness enough. 

Tolerance of clonecest (or whatever the hell you wanna call it, I use that term as shorthand; whether or not clone-on-clone maps onto IRL incest taboos is an essay for another day) — it’s just … it’s interesting to me that folks are more squicked by the possibility that two identical walking war crimes may frot because they have no one else and find some small measure of comfort in each other than, idk, the brutal realities of their lives where death, mutilation, and maiming are omnipresent — and this pervasive idea that clones are the Goodest Bois just out there wearing flower crowns and frying only droids all day makes me : \ This isn’t an exhortation for people to just ‘get over’ their squicks, but I do believe in examining them. 

T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

Headcanon: Cody is not a born-again Mando nor does he have any time for whatever watered-down Mandalorian bullshit filtered down from the Spec Ops wing. 

Question this headcanon first sought to answer: Why doesn’t Cody wear a kama? 

Id-scratching Justification: He loves this thighs.

Plausible Justification: He likes his legs to be unencumbered for roundhouse kicks. 

Solid Justification I’ve adopted from kaasknot: He earned his advanced-recon stripes in ARF not ARC school. 

My Meta Justification: The line clones do not adopt Mandalorian culture or language wholesale. 

I can’t even qualify this with “call me a RepComm snob, but …” because there’s even LESS foundation for the clones-are-vode idea in the new canon. From where would they have imbibed it? Outside the brief nod to Fenn Rau’s pilot instructor days on Kamino, new canon has not given us any reason to believe the line clones had Mandalorian trainers. And even if you discount new canon’s Jango-is-not-a-Mandalorian heresy, Kamino would not be at pains to emphasize their products’ connection to a culture so perennially at odds with their client (the Jedi/Republic). 

Upon deployment, really almost anything goes; but to say that clone culture wouldn’t hold up pretty firm in the face of other galactic cultures is a little demeaning, and however much people absorb in their search for identity, why would the clones have immediately glomped onto Mandalorian concepts? Why not Corellian? Or Kuatian? Or Chandrillan? Or hells, even Force traditions? Someone may have pointed out to the odd clone, “hey, y’all were made in the image of a notorious Mandalorian!” and set some wheels turning, and sure, Boil was resourceful enough to do his own homework and decide that he quite liked the precepts of a certain group of Mandalorian paramilitary extremists and wanted to slap their sigil on his helmet, but there’d be such a diversity of osmotic experiences in an army of millions/billions spread out across a galaxy that I simply cannot buy the idea that the clones all woke up one fine day thinking of themselves as Mando or Mando-adjacent. 

Setting aside new canon, which I find deathly dull, I prefer RepComm, with its assertion that many of the RCs are born-again Mandos after their sergeants (indeed, the Republic almost has a fifth-columnist problem in Spec Ops with the True Mando influence of the Nulls and certain Alpha ARCs), but the average line trooper view of that mentality is “y'all are a fucking cult.” 

The line troops would identify firstly as brothers and soldiers of the Republic, and they would’ve had close to 0 touchpoints with the Prime Clone. In fact, many might resent the connection, especially deeper into deployment (“What has Mandalore ever done for me? They're a bunch of loose cannons — if they aren't refusing to lend a hand, they're actively leading Sep militias for pay. Fuck the lot of them,” etc. etc.). It would have required a shitton of cultural and linguistic leakage from the Spec Ops wing for the bulk of the line troopers to know even more than a handful of words in Mando’a at the time of Geonosis. (I can believe swear words would’ve been adopted hella fast, if only to fill a vacuum.)

But again, the army is not a monolith, and I am fully on board with the idea that some Alpha ARCs made it their mission to teach Vode An to every unit they came across and the sheer epicness made it wildly popular, and that they spread certain words and concepts (vod, shebs, di’kut, Manda, oya, kara, kandosii, etc.) like a rash. Or a company or two got teamed with a Mando sergeant and two squads of RCs for a month and were belting out “Coruscant'a aden mhi” by the end of it. Or a division found itself with an Alpha-ARC XO when their Jedi General's CC got popped two weeks after Geonosis and Alpha-89 wouldn’t rest until every trooper knew Dha Werda Verda by heart and backwards. Just … show me the work — why should I accept that Bly speaks fluent Mando’a in the bedroom? WHY? Invest me in your clone-culture worldbuilding!

ANYWAY, to bring this back round to my die-on-this-hill headcanon about Cody … he doesn’t like kamas or feel compelled to wear one. Setting aside fun Cody-was-an-Alpha-trained-spec-ops-intern-for-a-month-and-hated-it backstories aside, I just don’t think the dude had the time of day for all that the Manda are watching us warrior brethren, hold your buy’ce high vode, one tribe one dream osik. His identity is wrapped up in overseeing the Third Army and serving as General Kenobi’s right-hand man; on balance (if we’re trying to be realistic, see: above), Cody interacts more with natborn officers and Jedi and fellow CCs than your average ground pounder trooper, and Obi-Wan and Republic officers certainly aren’t going to wax lyrical about Mandalore anytime soon. Obviously, Marshal Fucking Commander Cody is well within his rights to read whatever he wants and talk to whomever he wants and adopt whatever beliefs and language he wants. He has all the resources at this fingertips and clearance that would probably make a lot of natborn admins in REPINT weep. But I don’t personally see him going Mando, though it amuses him to watch Rex try :p The minute Cody earnestly starts using Mando’a in a fic, I’m usually out.

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

Hmm. I spent a good hour’s walk thinking about this and came up blank. Hate is a strong word anyway, and if it’s well-written, I can be sold on anything. But, I can almost guarantee I will never click on ABO unless it’s been recc’d or written by a friend. Not because I have any moral objection, just that it doesn’t interest me and good characterization is often lost to the mandatory ABO dynamics.

… on the flip side, I will ALWAYS click on Fuck-or-Die :D

[its-captain-sir]

Did someone say clone wars music rant? No? Well guess what, y'all are getting one anyways! Specifically about this piece here:

Fun fact about this song: the first part is what plays on the Republic ship in the lego clone wars game! (And I have an incredibly hard time seeing it as anything but because of how much time I have spent playing that game!)

Anyways, my lego star wars brain aside, I love the beginning for a lot of reasons. With the use of the horns and the beat of the drums, you definitely get those "marching into battle" vibes, but what I find really interesting is that it's a little bit slower than most battlefield music I've heard (which admittedly isn't much so maybe take this with a grain of salt). Even if it's not actually slower tempo-wise, the longer notes of the horns seem to create that effect anyways. Overall it still has a more inspirational feel, which I'm thinking has something to do with the key, but there's also this slight somber undertone to it. You have to listen really closely but there's some low chords played on the piano and a few bells thrown into the mix and I think that plays a major role in creating that tone. And really, I think it fits the clones really well because they are soldiers and they are proud (at least in the beginning) to fight for the Republic, but that other part is there to remind you of what being a soldier fighting in a war actually means, of everything they've gone through and will go through.

That goes until about 0:46 and then the music starts building up and up until it finally reaches its high point at 1:07. This part reminds me more of the fanfares that can be heard at the end of most clone wars episodes (and most things star wars really) and it makes the tonal shift of the next part even more surprising then it already is.

The drum beat picks up and gets louder, starts making you feel tense, and then the horns come in at 1:13 with a crescendo that ends up getting finished by the flutes and it's a perfect clash of notes to give you the feeling that something is wrong. They also put the strings in there at 1:15 and for me, my first thought when hearing it was "if anxiety had a sound, this is what it'd be." For what is supposed to represent the "battle" part of the song, this high tension feel works perfectly. It goes softer for a moment at 1:20 and then it switches to something new at about 1:24, less anxiousness and more wariness, with a little hint of determination you get from having a steadier drum beat once again.

And HERE'S the part that I find REALLY cool: at 1:28, if you listen to the notes the horns are playing, you can pick out the imperial march! (though it is in a different key than the original version we're all used to) The thing is, before it was the "imperial march", it was the song of the Republic, and if the clones are the army of the Republic, then it makes total sense to have this little bit included in there.

At 1:43 it switches back to the more anxious part from before but this time it has more woodwinds featured and it swells in strange ways, like there's no one predictable pattern to it and that to me is a great representation of the war. It's unpredictable, no one really knows what could happen or what the next day will bring. There's almost this edge of hopelessness that you can feel in the music and I can definitely see how that would become prevalent in the later months of the war.

And then all of a sudden it gets SUPER loud again at 2:00, lots of minor notes are being playing on the horns, the drums are more powerful, the strings have this repeating and eerie line, it's just a culmination of every feeling that's been touched on throughout the piece and it still hits hard even after multiple listen-throughs. Then at 2:19 that all fades away really quick and you're left with a few haunting low tones before it ends. There are so many things that can symbolize but continuing with the whole battle metaphor of this section: you get a sense that the battle is finished, but is it really over? The final note is not a satisfying one; it leaves you hanging and still waiting for the "more" that needs to come next. Much like how a battle might be over, but in the grand scheme of things, the war is still going strong and finishing one fight only means you move onto the next. This song just perfectly captures the fundamental aspects of the clones and their existence.

[palukoo]

so a couple months ago i relistened to w359 and made a 18000 word document while doing so containing iconic quotes, my reactions, feelings, et cetera. heres some highlights with varying amounts of context. (theres lowkey spoilers for the whole series btw)

""""i empathize too much""""

crazy how i still vividly remember walking outside [my old job] and to starbucks while listening to the spider ep... trauma

i mean i dont love it but it makes me feel things

GABRIEL THATS TOO ON THE NOSE

"let me have my badass space chick victory cocktail"

god like i AM team what wrong with handcuffs but I WOULD NOT HESITATE to kill hilbert for hera

the girlssss are fightinggg

THE SAD W359 MUSIC IS KILLING ME

like memoria who maxwell who jk jk

i love you renee minkowski marry me

local idiot's heart is in the right place

HARPOOOOOOONSSSS

lovelace lovelace lovelace loveLACE LOVELACE

"maybe she's some kind of clone thing" EIFFEL... this is day 1!!!

i hate these self sacrificial idiots

no no no not this music again ill cry

yall are so emotionally stunted it fucking hurts but damn if you dont care

literally how are they still alive

i want to hug her so much omg

alan rody shut the FUCK up im crying

rip zach valenti's throat

face the death reality via math

jacobi being a piece of shit

maxwell said lets kill hilbert rights

this is a kepler hate blog

minkowski thinking her emotions dont matter to the mission oh ho ho

"youre gonna straighten up" cutter they cant theyre not straight

maxwell and jacobi show up and blow up lads

"and you should really be more careful with your queen" KEPLER WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

wolf 359 stop making me stan these literally terrible people

FUNZO FUNZO FUNZO

i am caring about men tonight lads

theyre both awful sure go ahead have history

hilbert you interrupted their emotional moment they wouldve had a MOMENT

hera said im gay

ohhhh nooo interpersonal conflict makes me sad

hug minkowski rn

FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC jacobi and maxwell are iconic

minkowski how did you not kill him

how much do yall use the words "good enough" and "cant"

"are you an alien" GOD the Hints

"one of our... sexier jobs" vs "this is gonna said less sexy after that"

eiffel stop cockblocking them

y'all's choice of pronouns IS illuminating

PROTECT HERA AT ALL COSTS

aw eiffel... minkowski... communication is KEY

oh yeah THATS what the psi wave regulator is for.... SURE

hilbert read the room

JACOBI you can't just describe minkowski like that without giving me a heart attack

how many times have all these bitches almost died

SORRY ANYTHING THEY SAY I LOSE IT

oh minkowski finally flipped (VALID)

oh wait that fact isnt fun at all and im literally crying

LIKE sometimes you save someone's life at great personal risk only to kill her a little while later

minkowski cries to “back to before” from ragtime

i feel to many things about the gals here idk what to tell you i love them thats the problem

its gay and it hurts!

lovelace laughing at people who can and will kill her... hot

OH WERE STARTING LOVELACES SELF SACRIFICE ALREADY

they let lovelace say FUCK

OH WAIT NO I FORGOT ITS WORSE

THANKS FOR MURDERING ME WITH YOUR TEARY ANGRY VOICE

ouchie anyways gay or no but also gay

hilarious and sad at the same time?

MAXWELL dont be a bitch... i expect this from jacobi and honestly i actually expect this from maxwell too but i dont like it

NO NOT THIS MUSIC

BROTP BROTP BROTP

i cant say anything else im too busy crying

UGH I COULD WRITE ESSAYS ON MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS THE MESSAGE THE TAKEAWAY BROADLY THE PERSONAL EMOTIONAL ANGUISH THE DESIRE TO HUG HERA ITS

im mad but thank you... all of you... explain... 

stop stop stop im literally so tense gone straight from sobbing to freeze instinct

GOD I HATE ALL THESE SURVIVALS GUILT IDIOTS

OH theyre all about uncertainty... the what ifs... okay... ouch ouch ouch

give everyone awards for bolero

eris are you gay

she said gay rights and AI rights

like i know i know we been knew but goddard really is so awful

Hera stop narrating Lovelace’s ongoing existential crisis

HOW IS THIS NOT GAY (I know how it’s not gay but. Let me have this)

KEPLER stop giving Lovelace insecurities and existential crises

Team back off lovelace for the win

like not to be dramatic but her arc is beautiful

oh boy thats my girlsssss

THATS FLIRTING MINKOWSKI

god i love that concern for your gf keep it up minkowski

COMMUNICATION? WITH THIS CREW? BOLD

GOD angrey hera is great

you know hera is having the time of her life witnessing it

eiffel you just ruined their romantic moment

minkowski is gonna kill them

a much better gayer more altruistic light

WE’RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT COMMUNICATION

WAIT I WAS BEING CANON DAMN I THOUGHT I WAS BEING CREATIVE AND PERHAPS OOC BUT IM IN THE CLEAR I GUESS

god hera has needed to snap at eiffel for so long

i can already feel myself about to get hit with the tears... the emotions

that shit hits different renee

The implications that Goddard like destroyed global warming omfg

it’s the moral grayness babeyyy

when it hits you with minkowski's shaky sigh first thing you know its gonna hit different

MINKOWSKI i need you to. love yourself as much as i love you

GOD the mutual concern they always have for each other is touching whether or not you think its gay. i think its gay

HERA WOULD YOU ASK A COW TO NOT BE A COW

oh of COURSE they cut coms first

lovelace is man, butterfly is quote, it says "is this flirting"

jacobi i need you to chill

but jacobiiiii thats lovelaces schtick

oh eiffel... you fucking idiot who gets really lucky sometimes

this game of chicken where theyre both chickens and kepler doesnt know any of that and each of them only know half

minkowski said im an ethics teacher now

who taught minkowski empathy in high stress situations?

yeah so i stay hitting the nail on the head

“kepler SHUT UP” is what brings everyone together

this is, como se dice.... kinda gay

this statement does not bode well for that

“Maybe less talking to yourself” he says to himself

ugh, to be Pop Culture Man™️

RACHEL i love you even tho I also hate you

Rachel if you make one more hand joke I’ll lose my mind

HER NAME!!!! IS HERA!!!! And I love her!!

i have a vivid mental image of post-series eiffel doing stand up like chris fleming style 

"my crew has made it very clear through a series of looks and gestures that one more slip up and i am out, thats it, so im taking this job very seriously"

"minkowski is very overprotective in a weird, erratic way, like when your seat belt randomly locks and its like i appreciate what youre trying to do but im going 4mph in a drive way."

"so when something like this happens you have to at least consider going away for a long time and living on a cursed space station"

"you know how when maxwell and hera are talking ive never felt less needed, you know, like ‘cause you guys would be totally happy alone on a rock in the middle of a lake"

"this is the kind of body you look at and go he'd probably be ok in space without a space suit"

the whole "theater kids" video is actually him going off about minkowski

minkowski is too swole for her own good

jacobi im gonna need you to take the redemption arc more seriously

i love my crazy crazy bitches

this FUCKING music

GOD HOW DOES PRYCE JUST ALWAYS GET WORSE

she just like mutilated that man he is doa absolutely destroyed one hit ko

can you tone down the gay, sweetie

you did it you broke rachel and Goddard down to their bare essentials

GOSH shes so AWKWARD 

so damn jacobi was just IMMEDIATELY ride or die for maxwell

this is too much for my poor baby heart

pryce & carter literally are just like lets do eugenics, lets do genocide

when hera says ill pull a yall and sacrifice myself for minkowski and lovelace 

god like cant believe KEPLER got a redemption arc (well not arc but you know)

ah yes the most tragic scenes all take place at once :)

I HAD TO STOP LISTENING TO BRAVE NEW WORLD CAUSE IT MADE ME TOO CRAZYYYY

THE SCRIPT SAID IT NOT ME

i love space moms!

this fucking music ALAN RODY IM SUING FOR DAMAGES

like the document also does have a lot of like deep thoughts and meta and parallels and discussion of motivations but this is just fun random things i said

[all-hallows-evie]

Episode II: Attack of the Clones

I'll go back and fix typos later!! Here we GOOOOOOOOOO!!

*Blows up the space latinx during the opening scene*

Me: Lucasfilm....you've grown.

Husband: No they haven't, they keep trying to blow Mando up

Me: But they HAVENT SUCEEDED YET!!

***

*is immature and laughs because the explosion blew off Cordès shoes. *

***

Obi wan: you're sweating

Husband: It's hot in here!

Me: and he's wearing like 17 layers!

***

Anakin: grown more beautiful

Obi wan: *rolls eyes*

Husband: Gag me with your lightsaber Anakin...wait, phrasing!

***

Obi wan: there's many ways to kill a senator.

Me: WAIT WHAT?!?!?

***

Husband: that droid pooped in Padmè's room and you can't convince me otherwise.

***

Obi Wan: *jumps out of window to grab droid*

Anakin: Stay here!

Me: Nah, I'm gonna jump out the window too, that looked fun.

***

Anakin: if this chase continues that creep is going to get deep fried.

Also Anakin: *brings down Zam's ship in flames, trying to in fact...deep fry them.*

***

Heeeeere comes Daddy Fett!! *dance dance*

***

Padmè: Anakin...you've grown up.

Anakin: *proceeds to throw a hissy*

***

Anakin: Don't worry, we have R2 with us.

Me: y'all laugh but he's killed people.

***

* Screams through all of the diner scene cuz I hate it so much* F**K YOU JAWA JUICE!!!

***

Also I dont like how Dex mentions Obi wants pocketbook, makes me feel like I need an adult.

***

Jocasta Nu will and has cut a bitch, fight me.

***

*pours one out for the younglings*

***

Wait wait, so the temple doesn't have some kind of IT department that lets them see who accessed the archives?!?!? That seems sus.

***

Padmè: when the queen asked me to serve as senator, I couldn't refuse.

Me: Her coke habit was too out of control.

Husband: Space coke.....s'coke...Supreme Chancellor S'coke...

***

Tawn we: we were beginning to think you weren't coming.

Me: Obi wan is ALWAYS...no wait, you know what. Thats too easy.

***

Anakin: I dont like sand.

Me & husband: *erupt into fits of laughter*

***

Ok but that record scratch when she pulls away is just...*chefs kiss*

***

*clone looks around suspiciously*

Me: YOU! YOU MUST BE F**CKING DOGMA!

***

Anakin: *falls off creature*

Husband: I love watching him just eat it. Would be funnier if he tried to scare Padmè then she knocks his ass out cold.

***

Boba: Yup.

Me: BEST BOY CAN DO NO WRONG

***

Taun we: if you need more soldiers it will take time.

Me: they can only j*ack Jango off so much in one day.

Husband: what the F**K did YOU just SAY?!?!?!?!

Me: *cackles*

Husband: Go home Evie, you are drunk.

***

*Jango and Obi wan fight on Kamino, jetpack explodes*

Husband: Damn, those jetpacks really are death traps!

***

Jango: *holding obi wan over the edge*

Husband: its fine he can just jetpack...oh.

***

*seismic charge goes off*

Me: F**K! THATS THE BEST SOUND EEEEVEEEER!!

***

Obi wan: Blast! This is why I hate flying!

Me: why, mandos always wrecking your shit?! Get good Kenobi!!!

Husband: He should try spinning!

***

Padmè: Stay with the ship R2.

Me: Fine! He didn't want to go with you anyway!

***

Anakin: These are good people Padmè, they will take care of you.

Husband: You dont wanna see what he's about to go do!

Me: Truth!!!!

***

Husband: *Drunkenly sings duel of the fates*

***

Husband: Can I just take this moment to say HOW MUCH I HATE GEONOSIS!

***

Four words: SIR CHRISTOPHER F**KING LEE

***

If Shmi was a Mexican mom, her last words would have been: "Why you so skinny mijo?"

***

It would have been funnier if Anakin returned covered in blood...like Evil Dead 2 levels of blood.

**

Anakin; the gear shift broke...

Husband: Does that mean he rode back only in first gear?!?!?

***

Anakin: I could fix her, I know I could!

Husband: unlike your hair...

***

Padmè: Anakin whats wrong?

Husband: Nothing, he didnt just go on a genocidal rampage. Let me present to you...the BIGGEST red flag.

***

Oh. The retransmit message button is just one button again?!?! Thats handy!

***

Anakin: master windu told me to stay here!

Husband: oh now he listens!

Me: Master Windu makes him do push ups when he talks back.

Husband: I said 'what' to Master Windu once and he slapped me.

***

Dooku: He was once my padawan as you were once his.

Husband: Grandpa Dooku

***

*LOTR jokes start to fly*

Husband: it doesnt help these came out right about the same time! This one has wizards...but in space!

***

Palpatine: as my first act,I will create a grand army of the republic.

Me: Okay cool but how do you feel about charter schools?

***

Husband: Just give R2 a shank and he can fix everything!

***

Anakin: oh no, Obi wan is going to kill me.

Me: But I'm ready for the trials!

Husband: He'll be fine as long as it doesn't involve taking care of your lightsaber.

***

Anakin: *to padme*: jump!

Me: Do a barrel roll!

***

Jango Fett: *twirls blasters*

Me: F**king showoff! I live!!!

***

Jango: *gets trampled*

Husband: Mandos seem to have a hard time around big creatures that look like mud horns.

***

*clones swoop in to help*

LOOKIT ALL THE SHINIES!

***

Obi wan: What would Padmè do in your position?

Me: BOOOOOY, she'd yeet you out that carrier SO FAST.

***

Obi wan: *gets tapped by Dookus saber*

Me: OOOOOOOW SUNNUVA BI*CH why didnt anyone tell me that HURTS?!?!?

***

OLD SPACE WIZARD FIIIIIGHT!!!

***

Bruh, that Imperial March at the end just...*tear rolls down cheek* Beautiful.

***

Husband: some smart ass decides to throw sand instead of rice at the wedding. Anakin loses his everloving s*it.

***

Not as many funny moments this time around. Halfway through we stopped to have turkey. We sober AF now lol!

[whimsically-ominously-auspice]

I hear two Atlanta Police Officers with missing vehicles called the Mayor and apologized to her for thinking of only themselves, admitted they were afraid that if they were in the same situation they would been fired as the other two in the Rayshard Brooks case and they couldn't allow that to happen to,themselves and the community so they wanted to show what would happen if it did because like me they all saw it as a justified homocide, a honorable weapon's discharge.

But after reading what i wrote last night. They fully regrret their decision and would like to have a meeting with her today, the entire 25 that stayed home for 3 days and they will all drive up to see her, in their personal cars of course.

Of course they got her mussing her mascara and all. Weeping she is. Don't mean she's weak. Just means she knows love. And she knows how evil attacks it and makes love so painful.

... ...

I mean I'm real surprised at Atlanta. I never had any problems with them they was always "The Next New Orleans" i called them.

Always just witchy with it. Good and a skip ahead.

So besides my anger at the situation created...

Look. I come straight outta the 90s.

Back then... Man. Our history been lost in 30 years. Our soul soul soul filled history. Its gone. It ain't there.

Back in the 90s we had about a 15 year break. From the protests from Vietnam War. Love not War Protests. We had them nice little 1950s with "Hello Technology: introduction to the TV" ONWARD to the "60s Hippies. Make love not War" taking it right onto the 70s which came back with the Civil Rights

So our 90s. Y'all they were the most beautiful. They were the combo of the 60s and 70s.

The riots and protests being taught to me and we made it big as we could with all the best parts of being a Human Rights Activist with brand new only 1990s fluorescent neon dripped could bring in.

That was all lost. Its all gone.

But the fight. The rights. THE TRUTH we went all 1950s and stayed in and raised our kids right. People wanna say shit about the Millennials. But we spoke truth. We spoke from our heart and we let them find,the truth as safe as possible and form their own opinions based on truth alone.

So now people wanna beat our kids. People i went to high school with they got high school graduates. Mine will be 17 this August. Real honest to God birthday and age.

Those are my babies. Our babies. They are our future. In 50 years they're gonna be like old man Bernie Sanders. 70 years old bent over fighting because we're gonna be near dead at 90 and more.

And people neglect and beat and ...

Man Our kids got it bad enough already. Simply because THEY KNOW THE TRUTH.

And man we got to protect them. Protect their hearts. Their minds. Their souls.

And they getting allllllll this stress. Put on them. Stress that is simply avoided.

By one dancing in the streets.

By 15 officers stating their badge numbers.

By the police owning up to who they are and why they exist.

Don't they want peace? Used to be they were called Peace Keeping Officers.

Now they called Lice Officers. Coming in on Native American Reservations claiming unwashed hair bread bugs. Let me tell you something. My daughter and I got lice a while back.. Like 8 years. The only thing that killed them was coating our hair in oil

Lice breath through holes in their exobody. So the oil makes them suffocate to death and die. Furthermore people whom smoke reject lice more frequently than those that don't. It takes me 3 months longer to get lice than a non smoker.

Peace pipe anyone?

.

So historically police aren't loved. They aren't wanted.

Being a police or military. It becomes a color of our skin. I'll post a tattoo that isn't finished being colored or lined. It's not done. I'll show you we can balance it.

Get out of your comfort zone. Step out of your skin.

We can't stop being black. We can't stop being what drives us to be police.

But we can control it.

"BURN ALL THEIR FUCKING CARS" demanded the international head of the CIA.

"No ma'am. This is what we did" they didn't tell me No before. They just did it. Because they knew it was better. They knew it would cause all 25 of y'all to have to stand up and say "my car is missing. This is how i feel. I do/don't want it back"

Where yall can't pretend what y'all did didn't matter and just get up and go to work the next day. All sneak in and get back to business.

No. You got a fucking problem. You forcing others to take on your load, Zone 5.

Were not walking away and being all its fine what ever. You got a problem. We need to tackle it in a for real state.

Foooorrrrr Reeeaaaalllll state.

You got a problem in your mind? Those become tangible. They aren't floating thoughts. They are what makes us do what we do.

Make it concrete. Take away their cars.

I ain't saying the charges will be dropped. That's all a whole other issue. I don't work in the justice system. Court. Law. I tell you how to win in court. But i ain't about telling some DA how to shove it. I just sue them. When its courts. I fight their game. With paperwork and all that shit. So like i said that's not on me to say the charges will be dropped.

When it's a basketball game you use a ball and circle to drop the ball in.

Use proper tools

Atlanta PD could and should said "alright let's picket the DA. Lets go in uniform. Leave our weapons in the car. Unbutton our shirts. Put red paint on our foreheads to show where they're hurting us. Show them the DA now made us defense less and stripped"

Half hour. 10 minutes. 2 hours. Don't matter. As long as you make that statement.

NYPD did that.

Sure i can ask Tree, tree why ain't you posted that? Taught them?

But why didn't NYPD pull out thier hands and say NBC, FOX. Where's them videos of what we use to do and so we can stop and make this shit right in the streets?

Thata all i did. That's all im doing now. Yeah I'm,the most brilliant and all

But the last since November i been telling y'all "shake them tail feathers"

How is Gary Trump's brother going into human trafficking for 24 years to be found by me. Then murdered by his brother that took his name and lied about who he was? And his brother didn't care. He said "ill go by Gary. It don't matter. Hes worked hard under my name"

How is the ACTUAL Donald Trump not allowed to be in a Black Lives Matter movement? How come no one is shaking their tail feathers to a man killed by the government for greed and white power?

The faux Donald Trump that is our impeached President is a racist.

So why isn't his brother being named? Black Lives Matter.

One person says "Let's Shake Our Tail Feathers".

Dont matter if you believe me. Its the movement. Quite literally.

Its confusing and alive and can make us all sick. It is its own plague. "Shake ya tail feathers" it's a mental plague if you refuse truth.

Regardless how i named it. I still taught it and spoke it. And led y'all to dance it.

Bye bye stress. Bye bye human trafficking.

Bye bye inequality.

Instead it's crazy

It was already planned to be crazy. Burning down buildings calling them Liberty Torches.

Civil Rights . Civil Liberties . take No Justice/Fairness and make it a sight to behold.

Is it fair to me financially to burn down my own economicially profiting legally businesses to make a Park and Garden where you can get fresh and,free vegetables and fruit for life? HELL FUCKING NO.

I got to pay security and taxes and i don't get a single domestic dime in return.

Kids go play on my slides and swings and wear them out having too much dam fun. Then i gotta spend More Money to make sure i am making sure they even get a single second to know what fun is.

I spent my whole life working. Every dam day.

One day I went out and I was 18 years old and i heard laughter. And i didn't know what it was. What made people laugh? How could people even be happy? Or want to laugh?

I was 18 years old. Didn't under stand a human thing.

And it just kept going and going and going. I wanted it to stop. I wanted to do whatever it took. And I didn't know why. Because i got my car keys out and opened my car door the second time that day. This time to make it stop. I put my car key between my fingers. Next thing i knew, I was sitting back down. And starting the car. Obviously my mom knew I was crazy with worry. And lost my mind. Shoved my ass back in the car and said "no you're just gonna leave and leave those innocent people alone"

I was so angry and bitter. And now my life is even worse.

If I couldn't attack them people. No one else can attack innocent people in public.

I don't care how fucked up you are. YOU CAN'T ATTACK SOMEONE FOR THEIR FREEDOMS.

Laughter. Black Lives Matter. Blue lives MATTER. All lives MATTER.

Some ignorant fool was arguing with a store clerk saying how her Black Lives Matter sign offended him

Watch me, #BLM #BLM ONE OF THOSE IS BLACK. ONE OF THOSE IS BLUE. TOGETHER WE ARE BRUISED BLACK AND BLUE.

Why can't y'all see and accept that?

We can't we be one. One truth.

One life to live

I can't live as Cleopatra or anyone of my past lives. I can't even live the life I led in the 90s. I can't even walk

We have one life to live and this is it.

So do we kill each other? Or do we protect each other?

Why aren't we being One?

When you're alone you can think of only you. You realize how important you are. We all need alone time.

When im with you i can only think about how important you are.

There isn't enough room in my brain to say how important we both are at the same time unless we do and think and act the same way all day long. Even for twins and clones its impossible.

So in my brain and in yours. You can only think about how much ONE life matters at a time.

ONLY ONE LIFE IN THIS WORLD MATTERS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?!

We. Our. Us. You can't stop a great combination.

Power and love = unified. Unity. United.

Watch me, #BLM #BLM ONE OF THOSE IS BLACK. ONE OF THOSE IS BLUE. TOGETHER WE ARE BRUISED BLACK AND BLUE.

Stop the pain. Hold our hands. Let the love flow. Let the Heart speak until it sings.

So yesterday old Blackfeet and Regina didn't see each other for the DUMBEST thing. She said "oh baby ill move in the nursing home with you"

He says something all "nonsense that's dumb shut up" all Grumpy Bear.

I don't even want to be with you.

So i talked to Michael about their unique situation.

He could had said "I'm well enough to move into a regular home with you. We don't need the nursing home. I moved to (US state) to be with you. To be close to you because you mean more to Me than Anything in the world. And you deserve a big ole castle. Because i love you and we gotta do all this best and right. No nursing home. We got another 50 years plus i wanna be doing you on the kitchen table and not here. All I can smell is stinky old man diapers from the neighbor"

And she could said had he continued the fight "oh idk what I'm saying I've never even seen the nursing home. Do you mind i come visit you there? Id really like that"

It would taken ONE. Only one to stop their ninny war.

And they would been holding each other. With love.

Instead of living in Hell.

So, now what happened was we put it all on old dad. Because hes the Black Beethoven who can suddenly sing a ballad of symphony in the midst of telling some real bad history truth.

Then moments later Regina said "well i could said something different, too".

It takes two to tango.

So I challenge y'all to punch inequality in the face. BLM. there is no difference between.

Black. Blue. Red. Purple. Yellow. Green. All bruises.

Challenge each other. Black and blue.

Force it. There is no difference and it must be seen.

Chant it. Turn on the "Boombox" and dance together. Dance if some won't. But do it in their face.

Laugh. Be happy. In their face.

If they're bitter like an 18 year old me and don't have a Angel Mommy to bust their ass back down into a sitting position. Someone will beat the shit out of them. Someone will stop them and i Will go after them and send you services for legal and medical. Free.

Acknowledge.

You are hurt. I am hurt.

Lets Live. Lets be happy.

Lets try. Trying makes perfect.

"MOVE BACK"

"TAKE THAT FIRST STEP"

"MOVE BACK"

"SEE WE ARE HURT SAME AS YOU" point out the ones that have fear. The ones that try to intimidate. -- The I Can See You -- let them scream in your face youre nothing but a piece of shit. And yell back they're someone inside a police uniform. And you can see it.

Beat their asses like fucking Care Bears.

Teach you a little photography. 1. Dirty lens. Dry skin. 2. Lotions the skin. Hannibal lectur. 3. Cleans the lens. 4 & 5 close up with flash. 6&7 close up without flash.

After meeting some kids in college. Native Americans from tribes near Gallup. Very very. Very Racist.

I began to question my life long believe of how I could live with being a military based person. And being an Native American.

I didn't know. I just knew i could and it wasn't fair to me to destroy the very being of me. Simply because it don't make sense without actual factual historical documents.

Remember Oregon Trail was First. That made Atlas.

Then down the coast to find gold. So NM DONT KNOW SHIT ABOUT NO FUCKING TRAIL OF TEARS SO GET OUT MY FACE.

And so my owl... Its every thing. I didn't design it normal. It has wings that are out stretched yes.

But it has a secomd pair of wings. Which are pins from the United States Coast Guard. Those wings are like hands. To do things close by to the body.

Its slightly designed after a Hindu God. She has 6 arms.

Here the wings are keeping the body warm and safe and sound.

How could myself own an owl to represent my secret past of S.Leigh if it can't have hands to represent both my heart and mind?

There figlirliee on the head. That's not for me. Its because I think about you. The mass population of Earth.

I need more simply than what the Earth can provide in the reality of which exists on Earth.

There's an hour glass of water on it's side, traveling... My baby bird is flying with an hour glass.

If you look. You'll see a woman under and between the two shields. And she has "duck lips"

For the real "Not Gary Donald Trump"

Her lips are actually a heart. But they look off..

A rose each sits above the shields. A diamond in the midst of the tail feathers.

No piece

No area.

Is just a feather. A stroke of color.

Each is an item. There's no nothing. It is all something

The military did not just beat us and we took it as Muscogee Creek Nation. We built an Atlas. Recivejed the City of Atlantis -- the Spain sent supplies to help us for years. All the way from Florida.

There was Something. It all wasn't nothing

Or for nothing. Everyone looks for the truth. Looks for the Lost City of Atlantis and i am the one who sunk it. Because I am the Goddess.

The diamond has a purple eye. Diamonds are the hardest and toughest known substance.

Well i know my mind is gonna cut you and rip you apart from what I've seen. So my eyes are like diamonds. My mind

Our tounges are diamonds. We can slash each other apart.

Or we can acknowledge the riches we have.

My Ultimate Challenge is for the police to create a barricade when necessary. No weapons in hand. Hands on the top of their heads and chant BLM Bruises are the same.

We know black bruises hurt the worst, the same level as red.

Then purple. Then blue. Green and yellow rarely do.

So please fight blindness and inequality with me.

And please post it on the national news and international news. So that we know as a world we all fight together

Whether it's in the couches or in the streets.

Thank you for trying.

[blackhatandfriends]

THIS TOWN ISN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US Black Hat x Rival Villain! Reader A/N: YES!! This! This was/is/shall always be a good idea! So much fun, thank you for this!! X)& Side note, but I thought a lot about Ventress and Obi Wan's banter from the Clone Wars while writing this. I AM TOTALLY WRITING MORE OF THESE BECAUSE THEY ARE SO FUN!! (And feel free to offer suggestions as to what crimes our Rival! Reader commits.) Also, I've started on some Hero! Reader inserts as well. Hope y'all enjoy! . You chuckled into the darkness of the large room. Yet another hero, fallen at your hands. You played with your necklace and mused over the nights events. Just thinking about it made your smile widen. You did love your job. How that fool had cried for mercy...mercy he would never receive. A low, slow clap came from behind you, along with that irresistible laugh you'd grown to know so well. "Black Hat!" You smiled without turning, "I was afraid you wouldn't show up." "And I, my dear, was hoping you'd be gone." He replied. Years of being total enemies bred a sort of familiarity between you two. You made a "tsk" noise. "Oh, come now, Black Hat, you're still not on about that whole thing are you?" The body would have to go somewhere. "This city isn't big enough for two of us." Black Hat replied, eyes on the fallen hero as you stooped down to lift your prize. Somewhere...dramatic. "Still so possessive." You smiled. He rolled his eyes, lifting a hand and pulling the dead fool from your shoulders. Finally, you turned to face him, your stunning e/c eyes staring into his, "And a gentleman as usual." "You insult me." He replied, hanging the hero from the ceiling with a few waves of his hand. He never took his eyes off of you. Pieces of the former headache were torn off of the corpse and hung around the room. You smiled at his handy work. "We would make an excellent team..." you mused, turning your attention to Black Hat once again. The faint light of the moon through the building's large stain glass window fell over his form in dim colored fragments. "You're playing Danse Macabre..." He ignored your statement entirely and looked in the direction of the sound. Defeated on the matter for now, you sighed and turned to the phonograph you had in the corner. "Music helps me work." You shrugged, surprised when in response Black Hat sat down his cane and took off his coat. He offered you his hand. "Don't tell me the great y/n has two left feet." He smirked when you didn't move at first. "Of course not..." you rolled your eyes, hesitant to take his hand. "What's the matter, my dear, don't your trust me?" "Not in the slightest." You smiled. "Now why would I hurt one of my customers?" He asked, not moving his offer of a dance. "I bought one gun one time, Black Hat." You replied finally taking his hand with caution. Years of dealing with him set you on guard. "And you still have it..." He smiled as the two of you danced delicately around the floor. His hand brushed delicately over the device in question, before going back to its position on your hip. For a while you danced to the mysterious sound of violins and cellos, violas and bassoons, horns and basses, almost like friends. Eventually the song ended, and Black Hat dipped you down low, whispering in your ear. "This town isn't big enough for both of us." Then he dropped you. And then he was gone. Happily walking out he door, coat back on and cane in hand. On his finger he spun something, something...shiny. You reached a hand up to your neck where that piece of jewelry had been moments earlier, and chuckled into the darkness. Somewhere in the distance, you could hear the sound of police sirens growing closer. "We'll see about that." You replied quietly, picking up your bag of stolen goods and making a hasty retreat. Minutes later several officers burst into burst into the building, greeted only by the faint sound of a skipping record and the severed remains of the city's latest hero....

[danafraedrich]

Writer's Life - Raven's Cry ARC Squad Spotlight!

*Squeals and runs around in the background, flailing* It's release week for Raven's Cry!!! Man, what a rollercoaster of emotions. As my fellow writers are painfully aware, any book release is accompanied by a sweet and sharp cocktail of excitement, terror, relief, and sleeplessness. You know what makes it better, though?

Your squad.

These are all the angels who support you in various ways throughout the writing and publication process. Today, however, I want to highlight my ARC squad.

ARC = Advance Reader/Review Copy

An ARC reader has several jobs. Firstly, they read the book. Pretty self explanatory, but ARC readers are also your hype men and women. They talk up the book before the release and provide reviews for it, which is a frickin' treasure. So I'm gonna go ahead and feature all these awesome peeps right now.

Alex of The Paperback Piano - Alex is an absolute dear and one of the readiest readers I've ever met. Ohmigoodness, can she tear through a book! And she takes such gorgeous pictures! 😍 Go read her book reviews! They're delightful and insightful! Site and Instagram

Author KJ Chapman - I did an interview with KJ and an ARC read/review of her book, Zombie Playlist, a while back. That was the one I had to make popcorn for because it was so much like watching an action movie! KJ writes fun, awesome books, and she's such a devoted mama and all around fantastic person. Oh! And she writes in a bunch of different genres, so you're bound to find something you'll enjoy in her catalogue. Site and Instagram

Author Faith Rivens - Faith is legit one of the kindest, most encouraging people I've ever met. You may remember my review of her book, Eléonore, and the kick-awesome-est opening line ever!

"There were demons to kill, but first I needed a cup of coffee."

Giiiiiiiiirl. Love that line! 😆  Faith has an editing service, Inky Squid, too, in case you're in the market for that sort of thing. Site and Instagram

Chandra of Where the Reader Grows - Like Alex, Chandra can chomp through a book like nobody's business! She runs one of my favorite book blogs, and I'm not even that into her primary genres: thrillers, suspense, and horror. I just love the way she talks and thinks about books, and she provides brilliant recommendations. This year for Christmas, I got everyone in my family books. My big sis likes thrillers, so I went straight to Chandra for ideas, and boy did she deliver! Site and Instagram

Author DJ Gray - I was fortunate enough to meet and then subsequently be kidnapped by DJ Gray in the autumn of last year. Across state lines even! Serious stuff. 😏 She is a wonderful, kind human being, super fun person, and excellent writer. I've only gotten to read her short stories so far, but you know I'mma get my hands on her first book toot sweet! Site and Instagram

Author James Fahy - You may have heard me gush about James' books here, or perhaps here... and here too. I'm not ashamed to admit it, okay? I'm a massive Helsing/Erlkinger (aka fangirl of James Fahy's books). He does a paranormal series (Phoebe Harkness) and a YA/MG fantasy series (The Changeling series), and I love them both! James also has a talent for awesome book videos. See below for the awesome thing he made for my book baby, Raven's Cry! Site and Instagram

Now would also probably be a good time to mention how bloody terrifying it is recruiting potential ARC readers. James was one of the last folks I reached out to because I had a mini heart attack each time I contacted one of the folks mentioned here, and I needed a break between cardiac events. Imagine me on the phone with my big sis, preparing myself for rejection by saying, "You know what. I bet none of them will say yes. They're busy. They have lives. It's fine. It's fine!" Why did I freak out? It had nothing to do with any of them (you may have noticed they're all lovely, wonderful, sweet people) and everything to do with me and my insecurities. It was because I have oodles of respect for every single one of these people as both readers and authors. They all write insightful reviews and think critically about the craft of writing, they're accomplished and talented in their own areas, and I value them all as both peers and friends. It's an enormous gift for anyone to read your books, let alone agree to take on ARC responsibilities*.

Author Beverley Lee - Beverley is another author I get quite fangirly/gushy over. Her writing is perfect! I mean that in every way. If you know me at all, you know I don't say lightly. I'm fairly certain she's the only person for whom I've ever rated all their books at 5 stars. See my reviews of her first (The Making of Gabriel Davenport) and second (A Shining in the Shadows) books to see what I mean. Beverley smashes genre-walls like she was born to do it, and I am so happy I ventured outside of my usual categories to read her books because I've never looked back. I would also be remiss if I didn't mention what a wonderful human being Beverley Lee is because I have consistently spelled her name wrong for over a year, and she has been nothing but a sweetheart about it. Site and Instagram

Author Sarina Langer - Can you guys keep a secret? I think Sarina might have a couple of clones walking around. She is hands-down the most productive person I know. Sincerely, I think Sarina does the work of five people in a single day. She writes books, works full time, runs an editing business, and she just released a guide for self-publishing your books. You can find that on her website when you sign up for her newsletter. She's also running a serial fiction story called All That I Can Be on her website too, which I have been super enjoying, so I recommend checking out that too. And she wrote a great piece for this blog too: 10 Things You Need to Know Before Hiring an Editor. See what I mean? Little Miss Productivity! Site and Instagram

Catheryn of The Book Lioness - Catheryn was another person I have been fortunate enough to meet IRL. I met her at The Southern Festival of Books last year, and we discussed her doing some reviews for me... and then I promptly forgot after the festival ended. Professional and awesome person that she is, though, Catheryn contacted me to follow up, and I am so grateful she did because you know my scattered brain might never have gotten its stuff together. Site and Instagram

I LOVE YOU ALL, MY AWESOME ARC SQUAD!!! 😄  🙌  💗

*Curious how to find great ARC readers? Well, you could just sling your hook to every Tom, Dick, and Jane. That is, ask everyone and anyone, but personally I don't think this is the best method. For one thing, some people just want free books with no intention of reviewing them. For another, no offense, but nothing turns me off of someone faster than getting a message from them asking for a book review when we have little to no relationship. I know some of y'all aren't gonna like this, but I 100% believe you have to work for it and develop relationships. I'm not saying you need to become besties, but at least offer something in return - a review of one of their books in exchange, promotion, something. You know the old adages "you scratch my back; I'll scratch yours" and "treat others the way you want to be treated"? Yeah, that's what community is about. Supporting one another and being kind, so invest in other people, and they'll likely return the favor.

As an extra treat, here are some pretty character aesthetics I made for some of my Raven's Cry crew. Enjoy!

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Thanks for reading!