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TBB Incorrect Quotes, Part 12

Omega: Why are Hunter and Crosshair sitting with their backs to each other? Tech: They had a fight. Omega: Then why are they holding hands? Tech: They get sad when they fight.

Omega: Hey besties- Crosshair: Die. Omega: What did I do to you-

Hunter to Crosshair: Turn that frown upside-down!  *a little while later* Hunter: What are you doing?  Crosshair, trying to do a handstand: You told me to “turn that frown upside-down” but it’s not working. Hunter: I taught Gonky a new trick. *throws ball* Fetch! Gonky: *just stands there* Tech: He didn’t do it. Hunter: I taught him to ignore social conventions and think for himself.

Crosshair: Hold the fuck up.  Wrecker: Excuse me?  Crosshair: I said hold the fuck up.  Wrecker: Crosshair: I’m the fuck up, hold me.

Wrecker: But that place is haunted. Omega: Ghosts prey on fear. Just be confident! Wrecker, marching into the haunted house: I AM NOT SCARED! I AM NOT A PUSSY!

Echo: I’ve come to a point in my life where I need a stronger word than fuck.

Echo: What’s your greatest weakness? Tech: Interpreting the semantics of a question, but ignoring the pragmatics. Echo: Could you give an example? Tech: Yes, I could.

Tech: Are you this rude to everyone?!  Crosshair: Yup.  Crosshair: Don't think you're special.

Wrecker: There was a motor close to where I am right now.  Echo: A motor- a motorcycle?  Wrecker: Oh sorry, a murder.  Crosshair: That escalated quickly.

Echo: Okay, can we all stop saying stupid shit for a moment, please?!  Tech: Alright. Crosshair: Hey, I-  Echo: SHUT UP!  Crosshair: I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED MY SENTENCE!!  Tech: It was bound to be stupid. 

Echo: I’m so tired. Wrecker: Did you get to bed late? Echo: No. Wrecker: Did you do something strenuous? Echo: No. Wrecker: Then why are you tired? Echo: I’m alive. Wrecker: Sounds exhausting.

Crosshair: You know what they say. No pain, no gain. Hunter: What exactly do you have to gain from BLEEDING OUT?!

Crosshair: *mixing different alcoholic beverages together* Wrecker: What are you making? Crosshair: A mistake.

Crosshair: How does that even work?  Wrecker, mocking him: hOw dO yOu UsE a cOmPUteR aNd KnOw wHaTS GoiNg oN iT DoEsNt mAke SeNSe?!  Crosshair: Your face doesn’t make sense.

Wrecker, taping a knife onto a Roomba: Be free, my child.  Tech, entering the room with a small cut on his ankle: Who the f-

Wrecker: You’re overthinking this.  Echo: You don’t know the appropriate level of thinking, Wrecker. What if I’m underthinking?

Hunter: Where’s Omega? Crosshair: Around. Hunter: Around? Hunter: You don’t have any idea, do you? Omega, dropping down from above: Did you know there’s a space above the ceiling?

Tech: So you're looking for information on this thing, huh? Well, I feel like it must be from far away.  Omega: What makes you say that?  Tech: If it's something even I don't know about, then I'm sure nobody else must have a clue. So it's gotta be from some faraway place. Impeccable reasoning, isn't it?  Omega: Tech... You don't have a clue about this thing, do you?  Tech: *screams in anger* 

Hunter: Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?  Tech: If you can ask the questions without the usual level of stupid.

Wrecker: How many vampires do you think have been hit by a car backing up in a parking lot because the driver couldn’t see their reflection?  Tech: I’ve never considered it but you’re really shining light on what’s probably a very serious issue.

Crosshair: Shut up, you’re messing with my train of thought!  Echo: I thought you didn’t have a brain and now you say you have thoughts?

Crosshair: I love saying 'fuck me' because it can either be sexual or self-loathing and those are two things that describe me perfectly.

Tech: Do you know that we are made out of atoms?  Tech: And atoms never touch each other.  Tech: So in my defense, officer, I did not punch Admiral Tarkin.

Crosshair, texting Echo: Roses are red, Tony Hawk is a skater…  Echo′s phone, auto-replying: I’m driving right now–I’ll get back to you later.  *Later*  Echo, texting back: Fuck you.

Echo: I’m having salad for dinner!  Tech: Echo: Well, fruit salad.  Echo: Actually, it’s mostly grapes.  Tech: Echo: Okay, it’s all grapes.  Echo: Fermented grapes.  Tech: Echo: Tech: Echo: It’s wine.  Echo: I’m having wine for dinner.

Hunter: But seriously, what is the real plan here that has to do with not fucking around?  Tech: There is no plan that does not involve fucking around. But we will make sure all of our fucking around will be applied in a constructive direction.

Echo, Entering Wrecker's room: Crosshair did it again.  Wrecker: Peace disturbance?  Echo: What no-  Wrecker: Arson..?  Echo: NO, JESUS CHRIST, HOW MANY-  Wrecker: uh....Attempted murder?  Echo: NO, HE ATE ALL THE FOOD IN THE FRIDGE, BUT WHAT THE FU-

Tech: Phee and I are no longer dating. Phee: Tech, that’s a horrible way of telling people we’re married.

Hunter: You know what bothers me? Bats. Why can bats fly?  Tech: Not again!  Hunter: No. Seriously, who gave them the right? They're mammals! Mammals walk on land, no exceptions.  Echo: Just wait until you hear about whales.  Hunter: What now?

Crosshair: So what, now I’m just supposed to do everything that Tech does? What if he jumps off a cliff?  Wrecker: If Tech were to jump off a cliff, he would have done his due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry. So yes, if you see Tech jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff.  Crosshair: You jump off a cliff! Wrecker: Gladly, provided Tech did first. 

*Crosshair rushes by with an armful of water bottles*  Omega: What's going on?  Hunter: Crosshair wouldn't drink water.  Omega: ...And?  Hunter: And I asked him how fast he could chug an entire bottle.  Crosshair, loudly: 16 OUNCES IN TEN SECONDS, BITCHES!

Hunter: Y’know, maybe things aren’t so bad. I’m here. I got the nice ocean breeze. Just alone with my thoughts. Wrecker: Hey, Hunter.  Hunter: GODDAMNIT!

Tech: Underestimate me. That'll be fun.

Hunter: What does “take out” mean?  Omega: Food.  Wrecker: Dating.  Echo: Murder.  Crosshair: It can be all three if you’re brave enough. 

Crosshair: Stop asking me if I’m straight, gay, bi, whatever. I identify as a FUCKING THREAT.

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MORE PAINTING SHENANIGANS!!!

This time featuring Fairy Ring! It’s been ages since I drew her last, so please forgive any weird anatomy.

(Also please nobody get on my case about the horn gradient and sparkles. I know it’s not show/movie accurate. But I want glitter. If it bugs you, just pretend it’s makeup <3)

Summer pfp time!!!

Also, there is NOTHING wrong about hyping yourself up, especially on a website that thrives on sharing content. There’s a reason self-recs are HIGHLY encouraged for Fandom Friday.

Hell yeah, show me your pencil drawings on a post-it that you doodles during a boring meeting. Send me your headcanon about an obscure moment, even if you’re the only one that thinks that. Stand on a soapbox and read aloud every sentence you write. I WANT IT ALL.

This fandom thrives on encouragement and creativity, and there is SO MUCH of it on here. Some folks are new and still learning, and some have been here for years, and everyone is just as valuable to the community.

So take your toxic shit back to the Fandom Menace comment section or get onboard, because around these parts, we’re respectful of one another and get excited about every scrap of art and writing that gets put out there.

@fives-girlfriend I don’t know who would say this or why. Your art is fantastic and I love watching you and cloned-eyes go at it! It makes me grin like an idiot! Me and my discord buddies look forward to every post! Please keep it up. We love seeing it so much!

And anon, stop trying to ruin everyone’s fun! Block the poster if you don’t wanna see their content like an adult human person instead of tearing somebody else down. You’re better than that.

Okay I get the joke but seriously you can't keep hyping your art up like this, it's selfish of you at best and demeaning to the other involved artists at worst to put yourself on par with them. The poll is just a poll, save your energy and stop clogging people's dashboards.

...you've. Got a point, I guess. I know it's not fair of me to promote myself like this but honestly I thought it was all just in good fun and you guys would get free art out of it

If you guys want I'll take down the Howzer competition posts. I'm really sorry.

Crowdsourcing funding at its finest, ladies and jellyspoons

We all should help him...

Working hard on Mer Hunter ;)

@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 😕

Could encircle this silly little dorito waist

Compromise: KICK THEIR CANS ECHO!!!

In my heart I just know Echo has used the "I'll take my leg off and beat you with it" threat at least 3 times.

To be honest, I voted before I saw your bribe, but I’m watching this go down with great amusement

zzz i think the worst part of this campaign is the rex girlies are not even replying in the tags of the post like there is no counter campaign theyre just quietly crushing us I WANNA TALK SHIT CMONNNN COME AT ME

Wrecker being obsessed with fishing is just hilarious. I cannot wait to read the whole thing!!!

Finals are NEXT WEEK but I needed a break, so voila, have some Pabu shenanigans:

Crosshair leans down, scooping up a handful of water to splash the back of Wrecker’s head. “We get it, Wreck. Shut up about the fish.” 

The mischievous glint in Wrecker’s eyes alerts Omega to what he’s about to do even before he moves. Crosshair sees it too, but he can’t move fast enough through the water to get out of the way. With a grin that spreads almost from ear to ear, Wrecker shoves his youngest brother squarely in the chest, sending him toppling backwards into the water with a startled yelp.  

Omega clamps her hands over her mouth, desperately trying - and failing - to stifle her laughter. Lyanna has no such self-restraint, and practically folds herself in half from giggling. 

She half-prepares herself for Crosshair to fly off the handle, but he comes up smirking, wiping the seawater from his eyes. There’s a hint of playfulness, actual playfulness, in his voice that she can’t remember ever hearing before. “You’re dead.” 

That’s all it takes to set everyone off, and by the time Tech finally wanders over to let them know that the others are calling it a night, Omega has lost count of the amount of soakings she’s received.

Can anyone help me?

I am looking for a Bad Batch fic I read on AO3 which focuses on Crosshair, Tech and Omega while they are captured on Mt. Tantiss. The fic opens with Hemlock breaking Crosshair’s and the Omega’s pinky fingers as a show of his power and cruelty to discourage either from rebelling. It later goes on to show Hemlock forcing Omega to operate on Tech in order to save his life, and Omega willingly subjecting herself to experimentation to ensure that the three are kept together.

I believe I got to this fic through a tumblr post, as I recall that I read it as a guest. If anybody knows what I’m talking about, I’d appreciate it if you could provide a link. It’s a really good fic and I wanted to go back and leave some comments!

EDIT: I found the fic!!! It’s called Through Darkness Unknown by StardustAndAsh on AO3. It was just a bit further back in my history than I thought XD it is a completed work, for those of you who only like reading finished products, and it’s so freaking well-written! Seriously. Go check it out!!

And what if, later, they adapt their signs to be mostly one-handed so that Echo can use their secret language too!! Maybe that’s why Wrecker can’t understand them in the show. Echo’s only been with them a couple months. They’re all probably still learning the updated version

It was Tech’s idea that the Batch should learn sign language. Partly as a way for them to communicate mid-combat if they couldn't use comms, partly so they could talk to each other on Kamino without other people overhearing.

Wrecker learnt bits of it, but he never got as fluent as the other three. Crosshair and Tech used to try and motivate him to memorise all the signs by having pointedly long conversations in sign and laughing to themselves like they're talking about something really interesting when in reality they're just arguing about cheese or something.

It's a mix of the standard galactic sign and their own signs that they came up with. It's useful in the field, for sure, but mostly so when Crosshair's arguing with the Kaminoans and Hunter's standing behind them frantically signing SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP before he gets himself decommissioned

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some of my personal faves, taken from a longer twitter thread by jenny yang. learn more about the strike here.

I had wanted to give him extra fingers that faded into fin rays that run down his arm, but I couldn’t get them to look right, sadly

your discord pfp and your tumblr pfp are locked in a room together. what happens?

So what had started out as a little silly merman!wrecker one shot is probably going to be a multi parter with a murder mystery sub plot concerning crosshair

As an irl emotional support human who also suffers from severe anxiety, I can confirm that adventures are what I was built for! It’s less scary when you have to do scary things with people who know what they’re doing, and it can make you braver in the moment because secretly, somewhere deep inside you, you know that you can do the scary thing! And working alongside people who also know you can do it, and encourage and depend upon you to do it will help you overcome your fear! Now as far as the emotional supporting, I’ve only ever done it platonically, so I can’t speak to how important the more private aspect can be. But I do know that providing people with support in the form of help with household work, external opinions on their schoolwork, company during a time when they just need someone in the room with them, a play partner to solve puzzles or strategize against, an organizational aide, good and thoughtful conversation, and someone simply to share a meal with can go miles in terms of helping their mental health. And yours too! If you are a person who enjoys doing these things for your people, then this role in their lives is as beneficial to you as it is to them. So don’t discount yourself as an emotional support human just because you suffer from crippling anxiety. I’ll bet if you examined your life, you’d find yourself already doing these things in perilous situations <333

Among the Bad Batch, we see a lot of the members actually fulfilling some of this role for each other: Crosshair and Echo running interference between Tech and Wrecker, Echo caring about the cleanliness of their shared living space, Hunter quietly keeping track of the medals the Batch has won together, Wrecker helping to regulate and vent emotions at the loss of Crosshair and Tech’s accidental apathy, Tech praising Omega for small victories, Omega’s ever-ready forgiveness especially when someone lets her down, Crosshair being physically present to Echo when the battle turned bad for them on Voss. All of this is emotional support human behavior.

I do think they could absolutely benefit from having a dedicated non-combatant who is the Emotional Support Human who wears the reflective vest and whose job it is to lay their head in their laps and help them through whatever rough stuff is going on this time. They have a lot of destructive behaviors that the Batch really aren’t equipped to handle for one-another. Like Hunter’s personality-shifting confrontation anxiety (I suspect Crosshair may have actually helped him with this one), Omega’s inappropriate selflessness, and Echo’s survivors’ guilt. There’s definitely still a place for us timid, anxious beans who just wanna give our favorite fictional characters some care and attention <333

Every time i think how fun it would be to go on adventurers with the batch my real life anxeity humbles me real quick. Like gurl your hands start to tremble everytime you have to drive somewhere unknown on your own, good luck on fighting with Gulags

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Happy MerMay everyone!!

(The discord shenanigans are getting out of control)

I’ll tell you about my ocs if you tell me about yours, op!! I’d love to see what you’ve been working on!

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

Headcannon that after Omega is taken, Hunter keeps her Trooper doll close at all times. He is especially afraid of losing his sense-memories of her the longer she’s gone. Trooper smells like Omega, and so when he’s especially stressed or scared, he holds Trooper to help remind himself.

Okay okay… so what I’m gettin from this is: nematodes and fungi are mostly uninteresting, but human body facts are.

I’ll be sure to tailor to your tastes next time :)

HIII!!!

I have more horrifying biology to share, if you’re interested? Today’s fun facts involve fungi and nematodes, so if anyone is squeamish about creepy mushrooms doing creepy things, or lots of little bugs everywhere, they should look away now

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Everyone who doesn’t wanna know gone? Good!!

oKAY SO

The world is covered in woerms. Nematodes are a phylum of animals that live in the earth’s topsoil, rivers, lakes, oceans and seabeds. They’re EVERYWHERE!! They’re even in the polar regions!!! These lil suckers’ estimated biomass is about 4/5ths of all humans on earth. And these are microscopic little worms! Nematodes are a pretty important kind of critter because they’re decomposers, so they cycle nutrients back into food webs by consuming dead things. They’re also parasites and predators. They wear a lot of different hats! So cool!!

But nematodes aren’t the star of today’s show. Let me introduce you to the nematophageous fungi: fungi that actively hunt nematodes! Similar to predatory plants like the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and the sundews (Drosera genus) these fungi set traps for our wormy little friends. But these fungi take it a step further than the plants do, and here’s the part that’s disturbing: instead of luring their prey in with a sweet-smelling promise of calories, the fungi eavesdrop on the chemical communicators that nematodes use to talk to one-another and set their traps in areas of high comms traffic. The fungi are stalking their prey. HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT???? A living thing that is not an animal and has no central intelligence actively stalks prey!!!

AUGH I just can’t get over it!!!

So anyway, the fungi build three different kinds of nematode trap: your classic tree-spring noose, a glue trap, and an even scarier glue trap. Hyphal rings are a kind of hyphae (essentially the fungus’ body: think plant roots but if the plant is the roots) that end in a loop. When a nematode wriggles on through, the fungus pushes water into the hyphal ring, causing it to swell shut around the worm. Then the fungus pierces the nematode’s cuticle (it’s skin, but woerm skin) with its hyphae and eats the worm from the inside. Yum!!

Adhesive hyphae are exactly what they sound like: sticky mushroom fingers!!! These hyphae grow nodes or form nets that secrete a glue when they sense a tasty treat. The nematode gets stuck and the fungus can pierce it’s cuticle and eat the worm at its leisure.

The last kind of trap is exactly the same as the sticky fingers, but it adds a nematotoxic chemical to the glue, which poisons the unfortunate wormie so it doesn’t struggle and damage the fungus when it’s caught. It’s the same concept as venomous predators which envenomate prey so they don’t have to hold onto an animal fighting for its life.

I hope you’re having a lovely day, and I hope this knowledge brings a smile to your face the same way it does for me!! Actually… I squealed and wiggled with excitement when I first learned about these guys, so maybe don’t. That might be a bit embarrassing, since we all know Echo is Always Watching.

You can learn more about nematophageous fungi here and here!!

It appears that @imperial-strategist infiltrated my personal communication channel and took it upon himself, alongside his "assistant," to discuss these items with you whilst I was busy with my research.

Since they are such experts on the subject matter, I will leave this in their capable hands. Far be it from me to interrupt.

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OH MY GOSH ITS SO TINY

It looks like a gumdrop. I wanna smoosh it so bad but it wouldn’t recover so I won’t.

Here’s the paper that describes this species holotype!! Mycena subcyanocephala from Latin, literally “little blue-head” (don’t quote me on that, it’s been a few years since I reviewed my Latin). It’s a new species, so we don’t know much about it yet. BUT they belong to the Mycena genus, which is potentially one of the coolest fungi clades around!! It’s one of the most prolific genera of fungi, and is native to nearly every continent! They’re also some of the smallest mushrooms in the world. They tend to be no bigger than a few centimeters in cap diameter, so many species have cute common names like “pixie’s parasol”!

And if you thought being a common sort of mushroom made them boring, you’d be sorely mistaken because they’re one of the genera that contains bioluminescent species!!! Of the 500 known species, around 58 glow with this absolutely ethereal, chemically-generated glow called foxfire. They do this by introducing oxygen to luciferin, a protein that produces light when this reaction occurs using the enzyme luciferase as a reaction site. Absolutely magical!! I wonder if our littol gumdrop friend is one of the 58!!

I don’t wanna bore y’all with a lecture on bioluminescence, even though it’s one of THE COOLEST things in nature (and that’s saying a lot), so have some pictures of foxfire instead <3333

(pssssssstt thanks for sharing your shroom pics with me @blithe-imperial-underling and @imperial-strategist )

You can learn more about Mycena here (sorry it’s just Wikipedia, it was kinda hard to find an overview article quickly) and you can learn more about bioluminescence in fungi here!

You are correct, @theartgremlin​. I am always watching, and I found your biology lesson very interesting. My aide has a particular interest in mycology, and she was intrigued when I forwarded the information I intercepted about the microscopic predators from your planet. She shared an interesting bit of fungi with me as a result. This is one she thought I would appreciate due to its coloring resembling those of my old GAR legion.

But I should have known by the look on her face that Lieutenant Blithe had more to show me than just that one holopic. The next image she showed me was even better. Just like your microscopic worms, it was the size of this organism that was the most interesting.

The orginal post containing these extraordinary images can be found here.

Hunter: I'm going to cut the ships' board cables so we can-

Tech: Ah! So we are going cavemen style.*gets up from the pilot's seat dramatically* I'll go fetch my loincloth.*gestures wildly* Omega! Paint a bantha on the walls!

Omega: *beams* REALLY?!

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