The Bad Batch has the most realistic romantic plot because when a gorgeous, independent woman was presented with several equally handsome men, she chooses the smartass.
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The Bad Batch has the most realistic romantic plot because when a gorgeous, independent woman was presented with several equally handsome men, she chooses the smartass.
It’s never too late
I don't need to explain myself
nanami taking care of you when you're drunk.
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nanami laid you down gently on the mattress, his familiar scent crowded you almost immediately as you buried half your face deeper into his pillows, filling your nose with a propinquity that felt like home.
nanami stood close by the bed, gazing at you in a state of unreadiness. his usual slicked back hair was now down and unruly, navy shirt fit him snugly making his arm looked extra delicious, loose pants hanging on his torso. it had been a little late when you called him drunkenly to pick you up, he knew you were on a night out with shoko.
“ugh, it’s so hot,” you mumbled, reaching out to grab the hem of his shirt; nanami played along with a quiet smile on his face, moving a step closer just so your hand could reach. you pulled, beckoning him to sit on the side of the bed, he obliged easily, brushing away the hair that’s sticking on your face. “it’s warm, take off your shirt,” you blinked at him, as he chuckled softly.
“why should i take off my clothes when you’re the one feeling warm, hm?” he asked with a soothing voice, stroking your hair over and over.
“global warming, and stuff,” you rambled, giving up in putting sense on your sentence. nanami looked at you with wonder, curious to hear what amusing things will come out of your mouth next.
“i wonder what’s going on inside this head right now,” he said, rubbing his thumb gently at the side of your forehead. you sighed deeply, enjoying his touch.
“i want a kiss,” you claimed suddenly, proving his point. nanami shot a defeated smile, his eyed narrowed in adoration as he caved, planting a short kiss on your lips; his hair tickling your skin as he leaned down. nanami pulled away before you could savor the feel of his mouth thoroughly.
bf!nanami asks you to stay the night
dating nanami was still new. new enough that you still got butterflies whenever he reached for your hand. new enough that every kiss made you feel unreal.
new enough that you were standing by his front door at eleven thirty at night, wondering whether it was too soon to ask if he wanted you to stay.
so you didn't.
"i should probably get going" you say instead.
nanami looked up from where he had been cleaning the dishes from earlier dinner. "already?" he says quickly, sounding.. disappointed?
you both froze. you weren't exactly expecting that.
"i mean," he clears his throat. "it's late."
"it is." you say, frowning.
and as if he could read your thoughts, he asks.
"do you.. wanna stay the night? i don't want you to go."
he sounded vulnerable, unlike him. while you were all up in your mind, he had walked over to you. "hm?" he hums, his hand reaching for your cheek.
you were getting so red, his words alone made you so giddy, and his touch? oh god.
you finally let out a breath and smile, like you were hoping he says that for weeks. "yes, okay. i'll stay."
he smiles, tucking your hair behind your ear. "thank you, love." he leans down and kisses you. it's slow. gentle. the kind of kiss that makes your chest ache in the best way possible.
divider cr pixopix. im sorry im still bad at writing stuff but ughh i tryyy. also thank u sosososos much for 35 followers i gen love you all
nanami loves it when you ride
there’s just something about you seeing you on top of him that turns his insides into a syrupy mess, knees weak. maybe it’s because kento nanami is a man who strives on order and control, and you’ve found a way to slither your way through his system.
it’s probably because when you murmur his name in that honeyed voice of yours, he knows he’s a total goner.
“mm, my beautiful wife,” he rumbles, hands smoothing over your waist, eyes lidded as he watches your hips rise and fall in that slow, tantalizing rhythm that drives him mad. “doing such a good job, sweetheart.”
all you can manage is a series of little moans in return, too caught up in how his cock feels inside you, so perfectly nudged in your walls, filling you just right. how his tip bumps against that gooey spot that makes you clench around him tighter, or how he groans your name with a low, rough sound.
there’s your tits, too — nanami’s always been rather partial to them — that he loves to capture between his lips, biting down gently on the stiffened peaks. he loves how you squeal his name, mouth curving into a cute little smile, and he loves how you manage to look so adorable and utterly debauched at the same time.
if his lips aren’t on you he’s cupping your chest with such devoted reverence, so softly. the contrast from how he pistons his cock into you, sharp and quick, makes your mind blank.
nanami’s favourite part of it all, perhaps, is that he can look up at your pretty face when you finish. he loves seeing your features twist in pleasure, your kiss-swollen lips part, brows furrowing just slightly. your eyes rolling back as you climax, gushing a mess around his cock, hands digging into his shoulders hard enough to leave little crescents.
and after he’s made you cum at least four times (he’s a man, after all), you droop down onto his chest, burying your face in his neck, clinging onto his biceps. he coos your name gently, strokes your hair, and smiles to himself when you whine about being too sore to walk tomorrow.
Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
I think I know how this works.
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
What’s the solution then? Or if there’s no solution, should we make things even queerer and more diverse?
The solution is societal change, not giving into this shit wherever you have any say, and knowing how the effect works so you can push back against it most effectively. And that's frankly been effective, though we could be doing much better.
Also thank you @infamousbrad, for the framing of bigots still being pissed off by the next time they get pissed off. That's really helpful for understanding exactly how the mindset works.
that’s nice but who’s gonna be the tech to my crosshair :(
so i started rewatching the bad batch a few months ago, and rn i'm about halfway through season 2. I just finished the clone conspiracy arc, which in case u haven't seen the show in a while, is the two-episode arc when riyo chuchi testifies against admiral rampart and exposes him for destroying the cloning facilities on kamino. there's two things that have come to mind immediately after watching these eps, altho really i've been having these thoughts since i started my rewatch of season 2. these episodes just brought that train of thought back around for me lol. and since i don't have anyone to talk to about it, i'm just gonna ramble on here >:)
first things first, let's talk about echo. i fell out of love with star wars for a little over a year and only got back into it at the beginning of this year. that being said, i honestly forgot why i always used to say echo was my favorite clone, but now i'm starting to remember after watching his character evolve through the first season and a half of the show. one moment from this story arc that i specifically wanna talk about is when he and the batch meet up with riyo and rex to discuss everything that's unfolded on coruscant. the assasin clone, slip's death, riyo's plan to put together a testimony and expose rampart to the senate, etc etc. and when rex and riyo show the batch the assasin clone's body and inform them that he is responsible for killing slip, who was riyo's only witness on kamino, echo immediately steps in and offers to testify instead. like without zero hesitation. and although it gets shut down by hunter and rex, who point out that the senate probably wouldn't believe a bunch of deserter clones that are responsible for blowing up SEVERAL imperial operations across the galaxy, it's the fact that echo stepped up and offered to help in whatever way he could, without giving it a second thought. and THATS the arc trooper i wanna see more of. (lowk feel like the bad batch writers forgot he was one...at least that's how it seems from where i'm standing). he has always cared so deeply about his brothers since his first apperance in the rishi moon episode and has been wanting to do more for the other clones since the beginning of the show. while hunter and the others are completely fine with looking out for themselves and keeping omega safe from the imperials, echo sees the bigger picture. he and the batch actually butt heads a lot in season 1, more so than i remember from my initial watch when the show was released. and to me, it seems like echo is lowkey miserable with them. he's willing to do the selfless thing and put his life on the line to save his fellow clones from a fate he can't well imagine. meanwhile, the rest of the batch, while they are willing to help, have always had some kind of disdain for regular clones (hence the whole "regs" nickname and their beef w jesse, rex, and kix in clone wars) and it seems like helping the others aren't really a top priority for them, nor will it ever be. i also get the vibe that they hold echo being a reg against him. sure, he's gone through a lot of shit that changed him physically, and as tech says in the first episode of the series, "you are more machine than man, percentage-wise, at least," they still never fully accept echo as one of their own. he wasn't apart of the original bad batch squad, and it seems like they never let him forget it. when the batch leave without him, they're not even torn up about it. they pretty much say "see u on the flip side don't die lmao" and walk off without looking back. except omega, of course, but that's because she's always known echo as a bad batcher. she never knew him from before, when he was an arc trooper in the 501st, and one of the best, at that. other than his desire to help the rest of the regs leave the empire, i think this lack of a brotherly bond between him and the batch is one of the main reasons he ultimately decided to join up with rex again. granted, he tells omega earlier in the episode that he joined the batch because "that's where he was needed," but i honestly feel like his place was always with rex. i think the only reason the showrunners put him with the batch in the first place was so he wouldn't be around for the siege of mandalore and the venator crash during order 66, which is fair enough. but i do think he was always going to end back up with rex, and it was just a matter of time before he reunited with his old captain.
AND ON THAT NOTE, let's talk more about rex's clone rebellion and the potential behind that. if they don't make a show or mini series that's entirely focused on rex's little resistance group, i'm actually gonna tweak out. these two episodes i've been talking about is EXACTLY the kind of stuff i wanna see in more star wars projects. high stakes, lots of good action, arcs that actually move the plot forward instead of giving us random ass episodes that build character development but don't connect to the larger story in any way whatsoever, is exactly what a show like the bad batch needed. i remember a lot of people complaining about the "filler" episodes when it was releasing a few years ago, and while i really hate using that word and think those episodes did serve a purpose in developing our relationship to the characters as an audience, i do lowk agree that they kinda took up a lot of space and time that could've been spent moving the story forward. when the bad batch show was first announced, i remember disney and star wars really played it up and marketed it as the show that explains what happened to the clones post-order 66, how the GAR transitioned into the imperial army, how the batch and other notable clones played a role in it, so on and so forth. and while the show did kind of address that...i feel like they really edged us with rex's operation and gave us absolutely nothing. and there's been no indication from lucasfilm or disney that they're going to pick it back up in a future project. 😐 WHICH PISSES ME OFF CUS THERE'S STILL SO MUCH MATERIAL TO WORK WITH !!! if they thought they ran out of stories to explore, they are sorely mistaken. for example, by season 3, rex has teamed up with a whole group of clones. howzer, gregor, and a few others whose names i honestly don't remember rn lmfao. but by the time we meet up with rex again in rebels, it's just him, wolffe, and gregor on selos. so what happened? where did all the other clones he was working with go?? did they die??? did something tragic happen that forced rex, wolffe, and gregor into exile??? or did they just go on to live seperate, domestic lives???? i still wanna see what that would look like for those clones, even if it doesn't have a lot of action. i mean, we don't even see how wolffe defects from the empire and teams up with rex. they do have an interaction in season 3, but when he allows rex and the batch to escape, he's still loyal to the empire. so what changed??? and don't even get me started on cody bro. he's still awol, and we've had zero hints as to what happened to him after he left the empire. you could do a whole fucking mini series on his story post-order 66 alone but nooooo god forbid lucasfilm wraps up any loose ends and gives the clones a satisfying ending to their story.
okok i think that's just about everything i wanted to say. did this take me an hour to write? yes. was it worth my time?? absolutely 🙂↕️ if u read this far ur a real one. i'll have more thoughts on bad batch as i continue my rewatch, so i'll be back with more of my bullshit SOOOON. ok thanks love ya so bad
"We had so little time."
bad batch: oh goodness! omega chased a puppy down this mineshaft! we'd better go get her and all learn a valuable lesson in the meaning of friendship!
crosshair sideplot:
i've just rewatched the outpost and, my god, it's so incredibly painful how long it takes crosshair to realise that mayday wants to know his name. the silence after mayday says his own speaks volumes. i loathe thinking about how long crosshair had to live through without anyone calling him by his name, only ever referring to him as ct-9904.
mayday was the first to treat him like a human being in months. he was the first one to see him, after months of being completely alone. it also makes me incredibly soft and sad how, when mayday drags the heater towards crosshair, he literally gives him light.
i will never be normal about this episode.
currently highly amused by the thought of grown up Omega doing something incredibly messy and/or chaotic and her perfect "what? I was raised by my five brothers" excuse
can we get some nsfw drunk hook up head cannons with the clones pleassssseeee!!!
gn! reader warnings: explicit content description/tags: hook ups a/n: YES GIMME MORE FREAKYY GUYS and yes… i did add slick, i’ve been rewatching the clone wars for the umpteenth time and forgot that i liked him lmao
Nice work, Commander. We will secure the perimiter.
wrecker and crosshair are definitely the “drama duo” of the bad batch. all of them are crazy motherfuckers who do insane shit, but those two are referred to even by their own brothers as “all the drama”.
wrecker because he’s boisterous and has big reactions to everything. when he’s excited, he’s super excited and is going to share his excitement with everyone. when he’s sad about something, it’s big crocodile tears. when he’s appalled, he makes sure everyone in the room knows about it.
crosshair because he is so bitchy about even the slightest inconvenience. his coffee was knocked over? someone has it out for him and did it on purpose. he tripped on a mission? it’s now the worst day ever and he’s making it everyone’s problem.
when the two of them have dramatic moments together the other brothers joke the world must be about to end