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Oxford, May 2025

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Coffee and doughnuts, transported by Jeep and dispensed by a Red Cross girl to men of the 55th Fighter Group working near the fuel dump, 12 April 1944. Taken by Staff Sergeant Robert T Sand of the 55th Fighter Group — Roger Freeman Collection, IWM FRE 5515

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I am a month away from my birthday, so naturally it's time for me to start contemplating large purchases.

Last year I bought myself patio furniture. This year I'm thinking about a rug or a couch.

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✈️✈️✈️

😂

 “I understand pilots tend to talk a lot.”

“‘S true, Bucky, you do tend to talk a lot,” Curt said with a shrug and a smile. “She was working here, I don’t think we’d ever hear the end of it. Not that that would stop a fellow from asking,” he added with a slightly more sly smile.

“Curt, I don’t think I like you today,” Bucky replied with a sour look.

“Lieutenant Biddick, just for that I think I’ll ask you to dance,” Joan said, shooting a look at her brother that dared him to try and put his foot in the middle of it. 

“It’s only ‘cause I know how hard he hits,” Bucky said to their retreating backs, sitting back in his chair and sucking on his teeth a little. The pair of them looked more than a little mismatched in the middle of the clubroom, but that didn’t seem to be stopping them - Curt looked a little too pleased with himself and Joan looked like a princess, all crisp uniform lines and upswept hair.

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Okay but also. Mon Mothma. I adore what Andor does with Mon Mothma. I love that the main trilogy presents her as an angelic figure in a pretty pure white dress and this series gives her a shitty miserable marriage. A kid that hates her and a husband she can’t stand. Stuck in a ritzy world she is definitely a part of but despises. She’s radical and constantly putting on an act and snaps at her allies when plans don’t go the way she thinks they should.

These all seem like simple things but this is significant coming off the heels of how poorly women in Star Wars are handled. George writes women pretty strictly in the “mother/saint or whore” dichotomy. A woman may move between these roles, but she doesn’t ever get the chance to be much more than those things in his writing. You can see it starting in Return of the Jedi, when his ex-wife left the writing team. Don’t get me started on Padme.

Seeing Mon Mothma go from a personality-less angel that recites battle plans to a dynamic, interesting person is huge to me. They can never make me hate you, Andor.

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Ben Daniels as General Merrick in Rogue One (2016)

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make me write!

RULES: Send me an emoji corresponding to the wip and I’ll write three sentences per emoji and share it.

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Decided to this all on my lonesome - no tags involved!

✈️Joan and Egan sibling au

🐉HOTD Big Bang Submission

🤍Post-war Mon + Perrin meeting

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Hot Beverage really feels like the foundation of society. Thank you to China for tea, Ethiopia for coffee, and Central America for chocolate.

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so there’s got to be academic work talking about how spiritualism was like proto-grief therapy, right? we all know that’s why it took off so much in the wake of the American Civil War.

I need to dig into this.

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JOSH HARTNETT as DR. ERNEST LAWRENCE

OPPENHEIMER (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

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Tagged by the always lovely @jomiddlemarch, whose numbers in these are prodigious and a source of amazement to me. May we all strive to write as much.

Rules: Go to your ao3 works page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for additional tags. What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

I went for the top 6 because two of them sort of repeat and...yeah, that...that tracks. (And may also prove that I don't know how to tag things, tbh.)

Tagging @shoshiwrites, @basilone, @emilykaldwen, @selfproclaimedunicorn, @derry-rain, @almost-a-class-act, @arethosedustyjumpwings @softguarnere and anyone else who wants to play!

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Name a better feeling than getting the first comment on a fic you were uncertain about and knowing that at least one person liked the tiny piece of your brain that you put on the internet

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Shout out to the mutuals who try, so valiantly, to help me plot things for fandoms they're not in, even when I appear to be speaking in tongues.