*happily reading one of my favorite tropes, fully immersed in the fluff*

*reads the last line.*

Originally posted by tomlewismusic

Eheheheeheee DJ!!! 🤣 (I am Ernie there 😂)

I didn’t know how to end it and my mind had the horrible idea to throw that in. But who knows? Maybe things go different and there’s no tragic ending 😇

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I’m grateful for this show, these characters, and this fandom. I’ve met so many amazing people over the last few years bc of TBB. I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone’s analyses, fanart, and fics. We may not be the biggest fandom, but are a very talented one. I love interacting with y’all so much and it’s what makes watching this show that much better.

I’m grateful for these characters, especially Crosshair. I’ll probably post something about him tomorrow because I just love him so much. Anyways, I’ve learned a lot from the Batch and they are definitely my favorite found family in SW. Their dynamic is both fun and wholesome. I’m really going to miss just watching them go on adventures.

I’m also just grateful for TBB in general. It followed me through college. It helped me survive all those exams and the chaos of finally adulting. It was my comfort in some dark places and it also drove me up a wall during other times. But through it all, I stuck with it bc I loved the Batch and Omega so much.

It’s been a wild ride, but I’ll never forget TBB and the impact they’ve had on me. I’m so thankful for it all.

Tagging: @lightwise @lifblogs @ladysw01 @ladykagewaki

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@clownery-and-fuckery @marvel-starwarsfangirl thank you for the tag! It's always a joy to see your posts and thoughts on this wonderful show!

I don't know if I can fully articulate what The Bad Batch means to me. We'd be here for hours, that's for sure. I had been a Star Wars fan for awhile but had put off watching TBB until right before season 2 aired, when I decided to finally catch up. And this little family of clone troopers and their sister captured my heart like no other show or set of characters has before.

I read constantly as a kid and loved immersing myself in fantasy worlds and making up my own stories based on them, but had no access to or exposure to communities where other people were doing the same. When I got back into Star Wars, discovered fan fiction, and began making friends in the fandom, I felt like a piece of me that my childhood self had never quite realized was missing was being fulfilled.

Being in this fandom has brought me incredible friendships, encouraged me to explore my long, rambling thoughts about characters' personalities and metaphorical connections within the show, to write fiction just for the fun of it both for myself and in collaboration with other people (hi @freesia-writes!), and has brought me so many laughs, heartfelt conversations, and incredible memories.

When I think of this show I think of people.

• The Batch themselves, this different, "defective" found family who have always found hope and purpose in each other, who have helped me understand and accept parts of myself and others in my life, who never give up even when everything is stacked against them.
• The creators of this show and what an incredible piece of media they have woven together--Jen and Brad taking George Lucas' characters and turning them into profoundly layered, realistic, and compelling personalities, Joel Aron and the entire animation team pulling off ground-breaking technical feats in lighting and animation, to the point where I sometimes think I'm looking at a photograph when I watch this show, to Dee Bradley Baker and Michelle Ang's utter mastery of their craft in bringing these characters to life, to the Kiners mindblowing soundtrack, to everyone engaging with (and trolling us) on social media because they really do love this show that much.
• YOU ALL. Experiencing this show alongside you has been an honor and a joy and I wouldn't have gotten half the enjoyment out of it as I have seeing everyone's headcanons, fics, art, hilarious memes, getting into roleplay, having long conversations, bonding over our favorite characters, and getting to just play together in a sandbox that we all love. The last few years have been one long slog in my personal life and I couldn't have gotten through them without some of the people I've met here.

The show may be ending but my love for these characters and this fandom will always live on in my heart. Plus I have so many WIPs that need to see the light of day that I'll be here for years just for that alone 😂  Thank you all for this wonderful ride.

NPT to just a few of the people who have made these last few years such a joy: @freesia-writes @drafthorsemath @ladyzirkonia @jedizhi @dystopicjumpsuit @heyclickadee @eriexplosion @photogirl894 @im-no-jedi @the-little-moment @eclec-tech @sunshinesdaydream @clonethirstingisreal @nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius

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Thanks for tagging me @lightwise! I've seen this post circulating, and it's taken me a few days to organize my chaotic thoughts into some semblance of order, and I've now rewritten this post three times.

I had never been active in a fandom before last year. I was a professional lurker, but always too intimidated to jump in. After the season 2 finale, I dealt with the end of season 2 by starting to write fanfiction. Copious amounts of fanfiction. Yea, even a plethora of fanfiction. Between March 21 and December 31 of last year, I wrote over 200,000 words of fanfiction.

For context, I had never written fiction of any kind before; all of my writing had been scientific publications and grant proposals. I had always wanted to write fiction, but somehow the stakes seemed too high. But with fanfiction, there were no stakes. What was the worst that could happen? Nobody read my story? That didn't sound so bad.

So I wrote Martyrs and Kings.

"But DJ!" you might say. "Martyrs and Kings has nothing to do with The Bad Batch!"

AND THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG. Because M&K is about a clone FINALLY getting closure and a chance at happiness and peace. Yes, Kix is the main character. But in my mind as I was writing, Kix was a stand-in for every clone who deserved better than what he got in canon, including the Bad Batch, and especially Tech.

I published the first chapter on Star Wars Day, May 4 of last year. I had no Tumblr followers, and I'd never published any other fanfiction. I had no idea what I was doing. Unsurprisingly, nobody read it. I made a couple of memes for Star Wars day and dropped them on Tumblr. Hardly anybody interacted. Shocking, I know. It felt lonely as hell. So I started trying to interact with the blogs I'd followed when I first joined, and quickly ran into some unpleasantness that made me seriously consider dumping the rest of M&K on AO3 and disappearing from the face of the earth.

And then @freesia-writes came along.

And then @deejadabbles. Then @sev-on-kamino, and @anxiouspineapple99, and @523rdrebel, and @wings-and-beskar,

and @sunshinesdaydream, and @starrylothcat, and @littlemissmanga, and @nika6q, and @sinfulsalutations,

and @enigmaticexplorer, and @arcsimper5, and @moonlightwarriorqueen, and @clonethirstingisreal, and @goblininawig, and on and on, and suddenly, it didn't feel so lonely, because for the first time in my life, I could talk to people who get it.

And that was just the first wave. I'm STILL making new friends every single day because of TBB and TCW fandoms. I am absolutely blown away by how many wonderful, lovely, kind folks I've met through this fandom, and now that I've realized it's all happened in less than a year, it's even more incredible to me. Because one year ago, I didn't have a single Star Wars friend. And now I have all of you. And that is the thing I'm most grateful for.

There are so many more people that I should have tagged, many of whom have already responded to this post (@frostycatblr-fandom-files I see you, my friend). Because I'm just as overwhelmingly grateful for my newer friends like @smw-on-kamino, @eternal-transcience, @ladyzirkonia, @littlefeatherr,

@vrycurious, @coffeeandbatboys, @starstofillmydream, @griffedeloup and OF COURSE @/lightwise! And there are more. So many more. And if I haven't tagged you, please know I wasn't intentionally excluding you.

So there you go. As much as I love the series, the thing I'm most grateful for is you. 🩵🩵🩵

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@dystopicjumpsuit I’m gonna cry 😂 it’s been a lot of fun being friends with y’all (And I look forward to many more years of abnormal screaming about the clones)!

@moonlightwarriorqueen and @masterjedilenawrites were the two that got me into the clones x reader fic scene (and now they’re my mutuals I kid you not I cried what that happened)

I’ll have to admit, I was an only TCW fan before I got into the tumblr fandom side of things. I hadn’t seen the 7th season when TBB came out, so I was really confused about Echo being alive and looking like he did, and I thought omega was a boy 💀, etc etc.

But oh my god, this show has given me so many emotional breakdowns in the best way possible. My heart has melted, been healed, broken and restored. I’ve been watching and something will happen where my feet are literally kicking back and forth in excitement. I’ve cried, laughed and smiled like an idiot because of our boys (and girls) and I would t trade it for anything else.

Do I disagree with some of the production choices? Yes. Is there anything I can do about it? Probably not much. I’m just happy to be here.

I’m grateful for everyone who has interacted with me on this app and elsewhere. You have no idea how happy it makes me to have people to gush about the clones and beyond with.

Dammit DJ you tagged all of my friends

Except for @saggitary and @techs-stitches and @trixie2023 and @snarkyfina and @masterjedilenaaa