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I know they can’t hug but they deserve it

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watched band of brothers recently and really liked that roe guy

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Currahee rewatch

A year later I'm mumbling about the historical inaccuracy of all these guys not running around in just shorts? How did Hanks look at Winter's Files and have everyone wearing so many clothes? Dick Winters didn't heal the blind so you could wuss out of the historically accurate portion of the RPF, sir. HBO is the one network you can get away with it on in 2001 but apparently can't get away with in 2025 without Tumblr marking as mature content.

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there's something so endlessly poetic about eva noblezada and reeve carney's relationship.

they met & fell in love while performing the central romantic characters of a retelling of a 2000+ year old tragic myth, in which the central theme of the show is how people have been retelling this story over and over again for all of those 2000+ years, every time hoping that it will 'turn out this time', only to be devestated by the inevitably tragic ending. a retelling that begs people to hope, to believe that this time, orpheus will get to take eurydice with him.

"who are you?" "the man who's gonna marry you."

"lover, tell me, when we're wed..."

on reeve's final show, they recreated the end of the show, allowing orpheus to take his eurydice up the stairs and out of 'hadestown', hand in hand with her - an ending that the mythological orpheus & eurydice never got to see.

and then they got engaged, on a bridge overlooking the theatre where they first performed together, while returning to their characters together for the first time in a year and a half.

they are the orpheus and eurydice who made it out. they are what the show begs us to believe in.

anais mitchell, you prophetess.

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sledge and snafu

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"they died. and you didn't do anything wrong to deserve it. when you tearfully whisper "why me?" you are looking for the reason. the reason you couldn't keep them. wanting your agony to have purpose. but this is not your punishment. there is nothing to learn from this besides how to breathe again... we may never know why they're taken. but we know why they were here. to love and be loved." - find me there, sara rian

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in light of steven deknight writing season 3 of sas I would like to gently remind him that eoin can and should haunt every little step paddy takes through france and beyond

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Piggybacking on this post to urge, plead, threaten and/or beseech steven knight to bring withers back for season three. You can’t introduce the most charming emotional support little guy ever and expect us to forget all about him on s3. It's not a history lesson! Give Bill Fraser his best friend during the France campaign. He's going to need him :/

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Thinking about that last post I’m sure modern Dick Winters would’ve had an insta and it would be 50% shirtless pics, 20% working out (shirt also optional) 15% motivational quotes, 10% nature pics and the rest would be Lewis Nixon. DeEtta would’ve had exactly one photo and it would be blurry as fuck.

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One of my favorite bits of Paddy lore that I've found whilst researching for my fic is a story that journalist Mary Kenny tells about Paddy being drinking buddies with her hot brother, Carlos:

"On one of their many benders together Paddy Blair Mayne – sitting at the wheel of his sports car – leaned over and tried to kiss Carlos, who was a handsome-looking fellow. In rebuff, Carlos turned around and slugged Blair Mayne. Next morning, in the throes of the usual remorseful hangover, he clapped his hand to his brow in horror: “Oh my God, I slugged Paddy Blair Mayne! How could I?” Blair Mayne could have garroted my brother with one twist of his wrist.

But no: Blair Mayne was crestfallen with apologies, and pleaded forgiveness for making such a pass. “Actually,” Carlos told me, “he was a gentleman about it. He was a gay man. He tried it on. When I decked him, he literally took it on the chin.” They resumed their boozing [...] Carlos always talked affectionately about Paddy Blair Mayne, and towards the end of his own life, nostalgically recalled their rambunctious weekends together. “You should write a biography,” I urged my brother. No, he said, he didn’t want to be “disloyal”. Blair Mayne’s sexual orientation was never accepted by his family (he was one of seven children, and had a “formidable” mother). But eventually history tells the whole story of a man’s life and times, and more than sixty years after his death it has now emerged in all its complexity."

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band of brothers e10 points / band of brothers e04 replacements / alice winn in memoriam p. 114

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two sides of the same coin

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whenever i see a hbowar edit on tiktok there’s always someone in the comments like “real people btw” and it’s like yeah that’s the fun of it

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Drawings I did around Pierrefonds castle Camelot ❤️