Okay, But Hear Me Out…

hope everyone is ready for me to be super obnoxious enjoying abt Bi'sha and Alpha bc that's what im gonna be!

Tech bought Omega some puzzles for long hyperspace trips! They’ve got the boarder done and are now working on a tree together.

Omega: picks up a piece and wanders thoughtfully around the table

Hmmm… I think this piece goes… right here! puts the puzzle piece in its spot as she slides into Tech’s lap

Tech: surprised, but puts his arms around her and tickles her a little

Oh does it, now?

Omega: giggles

“Crosshair wasn’t expecting that. He doesn’t know what it is she’s proud of, he’s just the same as he’s always been: ornery, cruel, fearful. He is not a good man. But if this little girl says she’s found something to love in him, maybe… maybe there is hope for him after all.”

A friend of mine and I were messing around, and this idea struck me

moosh

:D

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

THANK YOU FOR THE SUPER BOOP!!

Inktober day 7: Peggy might need more than her passport to make it to her new home… she might need a stepping stool too

Translation for the German: “Oma! I think I might’ve lost her in the airport! What do I do??” (Again, I used google translate. I’m sorry of it’s terrible!)

Working on something sad. Some recent… experiences have informed Peggy and König’s story

may 4th, 2025. five years later.

celebrating the five-year anniversary of the clone wars, comes TALES OF THE CLONE WARS: A STAR WARS ZINE. interest check opens AUGUST 17th.

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