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ct-9904 · 6 days

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“get up loser”

#crosshair #he's so gentle with him #just nudges him with his foot rather than actually kicking him #but he never handles him very roughly #shoves him a little #but never sends him sprawling #like he easily could

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ct-9904 · 20 days

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I never gave up on you, did I?

#no she's never stopped trying to change him into something he isn't #tbb spoilers #tbb crosshair #tbb omega

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ct-9904 · 20 days

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you cant ever let yourself forget what it felt like to be 15. how adults treated you. being treated without a shred of respect because people think youre too young to have thoughts and feelings of your own. the lack of autonomy. you cant ever forget that because if you do you might become the kind of adult who treats kids like theyre not people

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ct-9904 · 21 days

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Crosshair looking at Omega

Little brother is so expressive, I love it.

#tbb spoilers #crosshair #big thinking face #not buying her bullshit for a moment

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ct-9904 · 2 months

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CR⊕SSHAIR

↳ S03E03: Shadows of Tantiss

#tbb spoilers #crosshair

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ct-9904 · 3 months

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#crosshair #the bad batch

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ct-9904 · 3 months

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Crosshair is back

Lightened, brightened, slowed down. Confirmed; Crosshair is back with his brothers.

@bad-batch-lurker

#crosshair #the bad batch #crosshair's armour returns #I wonder who's wearing it #that's not true I'm already sure I know who's wearing it #and it sure as all hell ain't crosshair #or tech

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ct-9904 · 3 months

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Starting yet another project! Lego clone minifigs! Eventually I plan on making a poster of all the most notable clones as minifigs. Will take a while but with how Crosshair came out, I think it’ll be worth it. 😁

#crosshair #the bad batch #lego minifigures

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ct-9904 · 3 months

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also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!

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ct-9904 · 5 months

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ct-9904 · 5 months

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I've always assumed that the belt design stems from the og source and was worn for the exact same reason

the physical restraint of their little byproduct science project.

It isn't stated how old the clone of Ripley is but it's strongly suggested that she's been grown to the required physical age rapidly in order to get what they want from her and is decribed as 'operating at a completely adult capacity'

even though she really shouldn't be.

You should go watch Alien Resurrection for yourself to pick up all of the details. But you only really need to watch the first 12 minutes, which is long before the Aliens start to cause havoc, although there is a surgery scene between 4.30-6.30 that the squeamish might want to avoid.

Nothing to disturb the sensitive, aside from the way they talk about Ripley 8. But, you know, she's a just clone so she doesn't really matter. She's not a proper person.

There are more details later in the movie, but you can probably get most of that from the wikipedia synopsis.

You know what has always bugged me about Omega’s outfit here

The weird belt she has. It wasn’t until today when I re-watched the first episode that I had this awful thought.

Nala Se said to the Batch in the first episode that Omega has a curious mind that causes her to wander. What if, in order to stop that, Nala say would attach chains through the loops in Omega’s belt to keep her from leaving medbay?

Maybe the belt has an actual reason for being designed like that and I missed it. Which I hope I did because my mind is a nightmare and I can’t stop thinking about how horrible the long neck assholes are.

#not crosshair #they're all a part of the experimental process #but she's mommy's special little science project

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ct-9904 · 5 months

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Movie time

What movie are we watching today that gives us thermal views through physical objects that super clearly show us where everything in the room is:

Highly recognisable imagery:

Ludicrously oversized guns:

A "No, no, don't drop all those heavy metal beams on him, not when they'll trap him in the water and put him in danger!" moment:

Rampart's probable future career (if we're lucky!):

A shootout where a bunch of cops are ordered to take down their own man, and lots of talk about this person being nothing more than a product, an owned object that their owners can do with exactly as they please.

That now they're officially listed as dead no one will know or care what they might do to them.

They have a clear set of programmed in rules to follow:

But still have safeguards put in place to make sure they don't get too uppity.

You know, just in case something should happen to trigger a memory that's supposed to have been wiped from their mind and remember who they used to be, what was done to them, and exactly who did it to them in the first place and put them on some sort of quest for vengeance against those who did this to them in the first place.

What movie is it this time that Disney have stolen large chunks of plot and a variety of scenes from for a large chunk of the plot of the Bad Batch that largely, but not solely, relates to Crosshair?

#the bad batch #crosshair #if they're not reusing sw plot they're 'borrowing' it from somewhere else #putting the 'experiment' into experimental CF 99 #don't go blaming the empire for this shit #it's already been done #that'll be tech's future career if we're un-lucky

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ct-9904 · 6 months

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Fanfic Thieves on Youtube

A collection of youtube channels have been uploading preexisting fanfictions in videos with little to no credit to the original authors. These are not podfics, these channels copy-paste the fics into text-to-speech readers then upload the unaltered audio over static or unrelated backgrounds, either art that is also stolen or mobile game footage. In addition to not naming the authors, they alter the title to make it that much harder for readers to recognize or find the original uploads. Some go so far as to pretend they themselves are creating the fics in question. Many claim that their stealing actually helps give fics "exposure" despite the intentional steps they take to conceal the origins of the fics they profit off of. However, this practice has lead many authors to discontinue fics after the frustration of having their hard work stolen. Many of these channels claim they will remove videos upon request, but will either argue with the author in order to keep it up, or simply unlist the video for a time until they think the author isn't paying attention anymore. And their solution to receiving strikes against their channels in the past has been to further obfuscate the origins of their content instead of even considering asking first.

”I got caught stealing, so instead of not stealing anymore, I’m doubling down on stealing even more so it’s harder for people to find out and prove I’m stealing. Stealing doesn't count if the specific person I stole from didn't call me out. I am the real victim.”

That, plus the incessant tag scumming in all the videos (spamming unrelated tags in order to appear in more search results) proves to me that these are lazy attention seekers who don't want to put in creative effort when they could just leech off of the passion of others.

In order to report them, go to their channel's "About" page and click the flag icon. Said icon might be behind the three dots in the top bar on mobile. Go to "Report User" at the bottom and tick the "spam and scams" button. This will allow you to list multiple videos as offenders instead of reporting them individually. Youtube's policy states that video spam constitutes:

Massively uploading content that you scraped from other creators.

Auto-generated content that computers post without regard for quality or viewer experience.

If you recognize one of your fics among the stolen, say so in the additional comments box, and perhaps call out the channel directly in the video's comments. If you recognize someone else's fic, please let the original author know so they can report the channel as well. Many have been confronted for stealing previously and refuse to admit wrongdoing.

Most of what I've found has been My Hero Academia fics since that's my fandom and those are the ones I can recognize as stolen, but there are many other channels that steal from other fandoms, so I invite anyone and everyone to reblog this with their own findings.

The reality is that this extremely low-effort content and new youtube channels are both very easy to make, so most likely they'll start new channels once the ones on this list are run through. But hopefully, if we all work together and keep whacking these moles, perhaps we can instill that same defeatism they caused so many creators who didn't deserve it, and eventually they'll give up.

My sincerest thanks to everyone who helped bring additional channels to my attention. A special thanks to ao3 user InArduisFidelis who brought the initial attention to the issue, and @owlf45 whose work was stolen.

Links under the cut.

YurikoFanfics - Not only stole content, but acted in comments as though they were the one writing these stories.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@YurikoFanfics

What-IF-Anime - Has the exact same "disclaimer" about not being the original author as the one above. Either they're the same person or the thieves are stealing from each other.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@What-IF-Anime

quirkywhatif7 - Either an alt of the above, or all these people are talking to one another because this one made a community post identical to a comment the one above made in response to being called out (the above screenshots).

https://www.youtube.com/@quirkywhatif7/about

DekuFanfic - It's the same fucking guy again.

https://www.youtube.com/@DekuFanfic/about

InfiniteParadoxfanfics - Nothing notable, same deal as the others.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteParadoxfanfics/about

WhatIfAnimeChannel - Admits in their community posts that other people write the fics they post but still doesn't give credit. Migrated to a new channel after issues with youtube, likely being flagged previously.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@WhatIfAnimeChannel/about

WhatIfAnimeAll - Alt of above.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@WhatIfAnimeAll

FWNWorld - Makes sure to tell you that the videogame footage is theirs, but can't bother to credit anyone else.

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@FWNWorld/about

WTFW - Claims to have "[A] team of talented writers, voice actors, and artists work together to create immersive fan fiction stories that are sure to captivate your imagination." Just the same test-to-speech stolen content over videogames. So straight up lying claiming that everything is theirs (and that anything they make is quality).

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@WTFW

MHA2.0Fanfics - Lots of crossover theft.

https://www.youtube.com/@MHA2.0Fanfics/about

Collerwhatiif - Pretty sure this one is the same guy as the previous 2, also has one for another fandom.

https://www.youtube.com/@Collerwhatiif/about

https://www.youtube.com/@GoJoFanfiction/videos

ko_sensei - Another that claims to have a "team" that makes the stories they steal: " passionate about creating compelling and engaging fanfiction that explores the various "what ifs" in the anime universe."

https://www.youtube.com/@ko_sensei/about

FantasticWhatIf - Multifandom stealing, uses the exact same bs disclaimer as many others.

https://www.youtube.com/@FantasticWhatIf/about

LettuceHeadFanfics - No credit, no acknowledgement of anything. Next one is an alt.

https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceHeadFanfics/about

brocollifanfics - Alt of above, once again admits to stealing with a declaration of "☆If you want to takedown any videos. You can mail us or leave a comment below the video☆"

https://www.youtube.com/@brocollifanfics/about

whatifofficial786 - Focuses on MHA/Naruto crossovers. Identical format.

https://www.youtube.com/@whatifofficial786/about

NotWhatIf - I've lost track of who's an alt of who but yet another identical format, descriptions, and bullshit claims of "enhancing the viewer experience" by putting a robot voice over bootleg fortnite footage.

https://www.youtube.com/@NotWhatIf/about

weebxds - Same again.

https://www.youtube.com/@weebxds/about

ItachiFanfics - Naruto channel, we can at least confirm that this one is run by a human given the rare different descriptions and a real voice at the beginning of videos before the robot comes back.

https://www.youtube.com/@ItachiFanfics/about

WhatIfDN - As if mockingly, a bunch of videos have a "credit" section in their descriptions that is of course blank.

https://www.youtube.com/@WhatIfDN/about

SpiceandBooks and spiceandfiction - Apparently Youtube itself has started picking up on the bullshit, because this multifandom channel is being dinged as ai spam so they started a new one.

https://www.youtube.com/@SpiceandBooks/about

https://www.youtube.com/@spiceandfiction/about

theoriginalastra - Doesn't even bother with disclaimers, the following are multiple alts/potential alts for different fandoms.

https://www.youtube.com/@theoriginalastra/about

SillySenpai12 - Highschool DXD alt.

https://www.youtube.com/@SillySenpai12/about

RosieRealms - Naruto alt.

https://www.youtube.com/@RosieRealms/about

DekuWhatIfs - Potentially another astra alt but not sure, doesn't matter because all these channels do the same thing anyway.

AnimeStark688 - No credits or disclaimers.

https://www.youtube.com/@AnimeStark688/about

Please take the time to report these channels, spread this post around, and reblog with any additional offending channels you find.