Puppy :3

Tech found a bug fren <3

EY ITS FINALS SEASON!

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR EXAMS!

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ESSAYS!

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR PRESENTATIONS!

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FINAL PROJECTS!

GOOD LUCK!!! YOU’VE MADE IT THIS FAR!!

and a gentle reminder to take breaks, and get a snack and some water. Don’t forget to take a moment to breathe.

and if you can, try to do something nice for yourself after its all over. No matter how it turns out, you struggled and you survived so you deserve something nice :)

@nahoney22 , feel absolutely free to take as much time as you need. We can wait. We’ll still be here when you’ve taken the break you need. The internet isn’t going anywhere, and those in your audience who love your work love it because you put passion, enthusiasm, joy, and real care into your work. And it shows! That takes time. That takes effort and thought and hard work, and we understand that. What’s most important is that you get the same enjoyment out of making your stuff that your audience gets out of reading it <333

As for anon, who the H E L L thinks they’re entitled to free fan content?? What idiot woke up today and thought “hmmm today feels like a good day to tell that author I really like how much they suck!”

Look, I get it. Waiting for someone to write things, or make fanart, or update the next chapter of their AO3 fic is hard. Sometimes you really, really want new material because life is overwhelming; you’re in too deep and you need a comfort and an escape. I’ve been there myself! But it is never okay to tell a person who makes art, be it writing or fanart or music or edits or any other form of art that they are moving too slow. Think before you speak. Is this something I would want my audience to say to me when I’m having trouble making my stuff? This person pours their soul into their craft and all you have to say to them is: you took too long???

Anon, you should be ashamed. Shame on you for telling an artist that they’re efforts aren’t good enough. Shame on you for hiding behind the barrier that is the internet.

sorry but did I see your newest post and see the request being made around New Year’s Day? And you have only just dne it? your a joke I don’t see how you could wait so long to do it

… yeah 😕

Nawt me having ten wildly different styles depending on what I’m making!

😩

Crowdsourcing funding at its finest, ladies and jellyspoons

We all should help him...

Alpha’s littol ducklings <3

My friends and I have decided that the lil troublemakers worked their ways into Alpha’s heart. The cadet boys are @skeltrr and @squidbrain ’s ocs Hazard and Bren. They were Omega’s first family!

A sleeby Jedi initiate for y’all’s evening <333

(Yes she did steal somebody’s robe, it is unconfirmed whose but Plo Koon was seen carrying her off to bed later)

The last few weeks at work have been rough

As it turns out, drawing Wrecker giving your character cuddles is an amazing stress reliever!

I think it’s also very important to consider the other side of this scene:

For us, as the audience, it’s very hard to extricate ourselves from the context we have of Crosshair’s actions. We know that Crosshair’s being torn between his loyalty to the Empire and his loyalty to his brothers. We know that Crosshair is having to make a choice for himself without considering how it will affect his squad. And we know that this is likely the first time in a long time that Crosshair has had to act on his own.

Hunter doesn’t know these things. What Hunter does know is that he needs to do what is best for the squad: a squad that now has a child with a high-value target painted on her head. A squad who Crosshair has very recently been doggedly hunting down. Hunter has seen Crosshair attempt to kill Jedi, civilians, and has actually seen him kill his own men when they refused his orders.

What Hunter knows is that Crosshair has no qualms killing, and has been after the squad for at least a month if not more. His and the Batch’s reaction to Crosshair raising his rifle towards Hunter is entirely understandable.

And I think that’s the part that hurts most.

Scene analysis

There's something that struck me about this scene – I’ve always had one single interpretation for it, ever since I watched it for the first time but I haven’t seen many people interpret it that way.

The thing is, I don’t think Crosshair was thinking about saving Omega here. At least I don’t think that was at the forefront of his mind. In fact, I don’t think it occurred to him that he was repaying her for saving him until she brought it up on the platform.

What I believe Crosshair was doing in that scene was protecting Hunter. Because Hunter would have jumped after Omega and Crosshair knew it and he had to stop him from doing it. We know the water is crawling with sea monsters and littered with debris, not to mention that Hunter may well drown in his frantic urge to save Omega. He can’t see into the water as well as Crosshair after all.

And I think that’s the case because throughout those two episodes we see numerous instances of Crosshair protecting or attempting to protect his brothers, from trying to convince them that the Empire is safer to killing his own squad and helping them fight the simulation droids (in that scene he sends a bolt flying above Hunter’s shoulder to dispatch the droid he’s fighting, proving that he’s not just fighting in self-defense).

That’s why I think his brothers’ rejection hurts so much afterwards. Why he huddles down in the pod looking hurt and he’s definitely hurt there. This isn’t about the Empire anymore this is about them. They’re telling him they don’t trust him anymore even after he’s repeatedly proven he won’t hurt them now that he hasn’t got his chip. Where they once let him use their shoulders as a rifle rest without a second thought (in TCW with Tech), they now turn their weapons on him just because the barrel of his gun got near Hunter.

(To be clear the angle makes it hard to tell just how close he was to aiming at him but I if you look closely you’ll see that he’s aiming over Hunter’s shoulder and Hunter only gets in the way once he turns around.)

I also think that’s the moment it starts to click - when Hunter turns to glare at him with suspicion we see Crosshair hesitate:

The camera lingers and something in his expression shifts, as if he's finally realizing what's going on.

So yeah, to me that’s what this scene is about. Hunter goes to jump and Crosshair’s knee jerk response is to stop him somehow. It’s not about Omega, it’s not about a life debt, it’s a simple response that’s been ingrained into him over the years.

Only now it's being rejected.

Oma couldn’t keep Peggy calm for her vaccinations, so they called in the big guns. Papa bear König dropped everything to come help, even though he was in the middle of war games with his squads :3

Dialogue Translation

König: shh, sweetheart, it’s alright

Nurse: You’re being such a brave girl, Peggy

Peggy: I don’t- like needles…

König: good German, Peggy

Please be gentle, I don’t actually know any German. I used google translate…