#18/12/1944

[scotianostra]

As you would expect February 29th is a bit bereft of anniversaries, but did you know..........

Anyone born on this day is said to be unlucky in Scottish culture, and referred to as “Leaplings.” True, they don’t get to celebrate many birthdays, but to make things worse, Scottish tradition adds on another layer by saying that leaplings are doomed to a lifetime of “untold suffering.” They also consider leap years as doomed for farmers, as the saying goes: “Leap year was never a good sheep year.”

Ithink we all know that it is the day of the year a lady can traditionally propose toher man, but in Scotland women intending to propose are advised to wear a red petticoat visible to their love – perhaps to give them fair warning! ;) Tradition also stated that any man who refused a Leap Day proposal should be issued with a fine, which could range from money to silk gowns.

If you are trying to work out the math on what you're exact age would be if you were born on February 29th, then you are in luck.

1920: 104 years old or 26.

1924: 100 years old or 25.

1928: 96 years old or 24.

1932: 92 years old or 23.

1936: 88 years old or 22.

1940: 84 years old or 21.

1944: 80 years old or 20.

1948: 76 years old or 19.

1952: 72 years old or 18.

1956: 68 years old or 17.

1960: 64 years old or 16.

1964: 60 years old or 15.

1968: 56 years old or 14.

1972: 52 years old or 13.

1976: 48 years old or 12.

1980: 44 years old or 11.

1984: 40 years old or 10.

1988: 36 years old or 9.

1992: 32 years old or 8.

1996: 28 years old or 7.

2000: 24 years old or 6.

2004: 20 years old or 5.

2008: 16 years old or 4.

2012: 12 years old or 3.

2016: 8 years old or 2.

2020: 4 years old or 1.

The next leap year will take place in 2028.

[planesawesome]

LOCKHEED EVOLUTION.

1. Lockheed Vega (1927)

2. Lockheed Model 10 Electra (1934)

3. Lockheed Lightning (1939)

4. Lockheed Hudson (1938)

5. Lockheed Constellation (1943)

6. Lockheed Shooting Star (1944)

7. Lockheed T-33 (1948)

8. Lockheed Starfire (1948)

9. Lockheed U-2 (1955)

10. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (1964)

11. Lockheed S-3 Viking (1972)

12. Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (1981)

13. Lockheed C-5 Galaxy (1968)

14. Lockheed C-130 Hercules (1954)

15. Lockheed P-2 Neptune (1945)

16. Lockheed L-188 Electra (1957)

17. Lockheed P-3 Orion (1959)

18. Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (1970)

19. Lockheed C-141 Starlifter (1963)

20. Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (2005)

21. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (2006)

22. Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon (1974)

23. Lockheed Martin A/F-117X Nighthawk (1981)

[majorhortonisonleaveinlondon]

If you’re wanting to watch Band of Brothers/The Pacific/Masters of the Air in chronological order with BoB 1st Currahee episode split up in the dates on screen I made a list

(Updated: April 12, 2024 7:58pm pst)

July, 10 1942 Easy Company Trains in Camp Tocca (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee 2001) August 7, 1942, Allied forces land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 1 Guadalcanal/Leckie 2010) September 18, 1942, 7th Marines Land on Guadalcanal (The Pacific Ep. 2 Basilone 2010) December 1942 The 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal is relieved (The Pacific Ep. 3 Melbourne 2010) *June 23, 1943, Easy Company Trains in Camp Mackall N.C. (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee) * June 25, 1943, 100th Bomb Group flew its first 8th Air Force combat mission (Master of the Air Ep. 1 2024)

July 16, 1943 the 100th Bomb Group bombed U-Boats in Tronbhdim (Masters of the Air Ep.2 2024) August 17, 1943 the 4th Bomb Wing of the 100th Bomb Group bombed Regenberg (Masters of the Air Ep. 3 2024) *September 6, 1943, Easy Company Boards transport ship in Brooklyn Naval Yard (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* September 16, 1943, William Quinn and Charles Bailey leave Belgium (Masters of the Air Ep.4 2024) September 18, 1943 -*East Company trains in Aldbourne, England (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* -John 'Bucky' Egan returns from leave to join the mission to bomb Munster (Master of the Air Ep.5 2024) October 14, 1943, John ‘Bucky’ Egan interrogated at Dulag Lut, Frankfurt Germany (Masters of the Air Ep. 6 2024) December 26, 1943, 1st Marine Division lands on Cape Gloucester (The Pacific Ep. 4 Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika 2010) March 7, 1944, Stalag Luft III Sagan, Germany, Germans find the concealed radio Bucky was using to learn news of the War (Master of the Air Ep.7 2024) *June 4, 1944, D-Day Invasion postponed (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* *June 5, 1944 Easy Company Boards air transport planes bound for Normandy (Band of Brothers Ep. 1 Currahee)* June 6, 1944, 00:48 & 01:40 First airborne troops begin to land on Normandy (Band of Brothers Ep. 2 Day of Days 2001)

June, 7 1944 Easy Company Takes Carentan (Band of Brothers 3x10 Carentan)

August 12, 1944, The 332nd Fighter Group attack Radar stations in Southern France (Masters of the Air Ep.8 2024)

September 15, 1944 U.S. Marines landed on Peleliu at 08:32, on September 15, 1944 (the Pacific Part Five: Peleliu Landing)

September 16, 1944 Marines take Peleliu airfield (the Pacific Part Six: Airfield)

September, 17 1944 Operation Market Garden -(Band of Brothers 4x10 Replacements)

October 22/23, 1944, 2100 – 0200 Operation Pegasus (Band of Brothers 5x10 Crossroads)

October, 1944 Battle of Peleliu continues (the Pacific Part Seven: Peleliu Hills)

December 16, 1944 Battle of the Bulge (Band of Brothers 6x10 Bastogne)


January, 1945 Battle of Foy (Band of Brothers 7x10 The Breaking Point)


February 14, 1945 David Webb rejoins the 506th in Haguenau (Band of Brothers 8x10 The Last Patrol)

April 5, 1945 506th Finds abandoned Concentration Camp
(Band of Brothers 9x10 Why We Fight 2001)

April 1-June 22, 1945 Battle of Okinawa (The Pacific Part Nine: Okinawa)


May 7, 1945, Germany Surrenders V-E Day - (Master of the Air Ep. 9 2024) - (Band of Brothers 10x10 Points 2001)

August 15 The Empire of Japan surrenders end of the War (The Pacific Part Ten: Home)

[eamour]

1 ⋮ neville goddard booklist

hello, babes! for all the people that want to read the original source of the law of assumption, i have prepared two lists that, together, contain all 15 books of neville goddard from 1939 to 1966. this is list one, starting with 8 books from 1939 to 1949.

at your command ⋮ 1939

1 ⋮ chapter

2 ⋮ chapter

3 ⋮ chapter

4 ⋮ chapter

your faith is your fortune ⋮ 1941

1 ⋮ before abraham was

2 ⋮ you shall decree

3 ⋮ the principle of truth

4 ⋮ whom seek ye?

5 ⋮ who am i?

6 ⋮ i am he

7 ⋮ thy will be done

8 ⋮ no other god

9 ⋮ the foundation stone

10 ⋮ to him that hath

11 ⋮ christmas

12 ⋮ crucifixion and resurrection

13 ⋮ the i'm-pressions

14 ⋮ circumcision

15 ⋮ interval of time

16 ⋮ the triune god

17 ⋮ prayer

18 ⋮ the twelve principles

19 ⋮ liquid light

20 ⋮ the breath of life

21 ⋮ daniel in the lions' den

22 ⋮ fishing

23 ⋮ be ears that hear

24 ⋮ clairvoyance

25 ⋮ 23rd psalm

26 ⋮ gethsemane

27 ⋮ a formula for victory

freedom for all ⋮ 1942

1 ⋮ the oneness of god

2 ⋮ the name of god

3 ⋮ the law of creation

4 ⋮ the secret of feeling

5 ⋮ the sabbath

6 ⋮ healing

7 ⋮ desire, the word of god

8 ⋮ faith

9 ⋮ the annunciation

feeling is the secret ⋮ 1944

1 ⋮ the law and its operation

2 ⋮ sleep

3 ⋮ prayer

4 ⋮ feeling

prayer · the art of believing ⋮ 1945

1 ⋮ law of reversibility

2 ⋮ dual nature of consciousness

3 ⋮ imagination and faith

4 ⋮ controlled reverie

5 ⋮ law of thought transmission

6 ⋮ good tidings

7 ⋮ the greatest prayer

the search ⋮ 1946

1 ⋮ chapter

master class · five lessons ⋮ 1948

1 ⋮ consciousness is the only reality

2 ⋮ assumptions harden into fact

3 ⋮ thinking fourth-dimensionally

4 ⋮ no one to change but self

5 ⋮ remain faithful to your idea

out of this world ⋮ 1949

1 ⋮ thinking fourth-dimensionally

2 ⋮ assumptions become facts

3 ⋮ power of imagination

4 ⋮ no one to change but self

with love, ella.

[todaysdocument]

Translation of the Diary of Japanese Serviceman Taroa Kawaguchi Detailing Combat Activity on Saipan

Record Group 407: Records of the Adjutant General's OfficeSeries: World War II Operations ReportsFile Unit: 327-INF(165)-.020 27th INF DIV Misc Hist'l Saipan 165th INF RGT, 11 Jun - 7 Jul '44

The following diary translation is forwarded for your information. It furnishes an interesting insight on the character of the Jap soldier.

Diary belonged to Tarao Kawaguchi, of the Mekahara Unit which in turn belongs to the Homare Unit 11945 (43rd Div. Hosp. Unit). Diary was found 19 July at TA 260 G.

June 11, 1944:---

Second air raid since landing on Saipan Island. Same as before. The enemy bombing was carried out in large pattern bombing and received terrific bombardment right after noon and toward the evening. The raid occurred while we NCO's were cooking and didn't have a chance to take cover in the air raid shelters. Altho our AA put up a terrific barrage and our planes intercepted them, it seems that the damage was considerable. Cheran-Kanoa and Tinian area was burning terrifically.

JUNE 12, 1944:---

Same as yesterday, the enemy bombers appeared. Spent the whole day in the air raid shelter and it seems that I have Dengue fever.

JUNE 13, 1944:---

Also today the enemy bombarded. Each squad dug air raid shelters by order of commander. In the afternoon enemy fleets appeared off shore and commenced furious naval bombardment. Seems as if the bombardment was concentrated around Charen-Kanoa and Garapan. The hospital was hit and burning. During the night our second company supplied material to the hospital. Lt. Chura and 2nd Lt. Yamaguchi of the hospital units are high spirits. We carried the patients and the supplies to the air raid shelters.

JUNE 14, 1944:---

Toward the latter part of the day naval bombardment and bombing was prevalent. Today we teansferred to the air raid shelters on the left side of the valley. In the evening, prepared to move medical supplies and tents. Commenced moving at twelve O'clock. However, it was very far so it took us till dawn. On this day the enemy landed and the time has come at last.

June 15, 1944:---

During the evening the Unit Commander and a large part of the NCO's departed for the Saipan Shrine for the treatment of patients, 1st Lt. Kruieda performed bravely and courageously treating the patients under terriffic naval barrage, and he should be considered as the ideal model for the medics section. We administered medical aid to one patient and it was the first time we carried out medical aid since landing on Saipan Island. Under terrific naval bombardment, so impressive ceremony for our country was carried out at the Saipan Shrine. During the night transferred the patients to the 3rd company on top of the hill. Upon returning departed immediately for the ricks.

JUNE 16, 1944:---

Due to the movement of the previous day I was tired so rested in the air raid shelter.

JUNE 17, 1944:---

I and the other NCO's plus five men were ordered by the commander to secure medical supplies. Today the enemy planes are in their glory (strafing and bombing at will).

JUNE 18, 1944:---

The patients are coming in ever increasing numbers. During the evening, transported some medical supplies to the pharmicists section. Today, the strafing by enemy planes was terrific.

JUNE 19, 1944:---

Today the order was given for the distribution of duty. I was placed in the pharmicists section commanded by 2nd Lt. Yamaguchi. [full document and transcription at link]

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

I'm Your Man - Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal x OFC - Chapter 14

Masterlist | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 |-| Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19

AO3

Summary: Time passes...

Warnings: None I think???

Word Count: 4.4k

Tags: @mads-weasley @xxluckystrike @curaheehee @footprintsinthesxnd @dcyllom @storysimp @latibvles @love-studying58 @justheretoreadthxxs

August, 1944

Amber sparks floated through the breezeless air, the flickering flames that stretched upwards from the hardstand tarmac turning the dark sky brown with its orange glow. The stench of burning oil was almost suffocating, exacerbated by the sweltering summer heat until the atmosphere itself felt as if it were pressing down against the earth.

Skin sticky with sweat, droplets running down her forehead, Frankie stood back and watched the flames. She had unbuttoned her coveralls, shrugging off the top half and tying her sleeves around her waist to stop her trousers from falling down, nothing underneath but a sweat-soaked vest as she waited for a single, cool breeze to soothe her. Ken lay flat on his back beside her, hands folded behind his head, eyes closed against the firelight. It may have been the middle of the night now, but the sun's rays had been steadily baking the tarmac all day long, and the dark patch spreading across his back became visible whenever he sat up.

"I hate the summer," Frankie groaned, head upturned towards the heavens as if venting her frustration to God himself.

"I miss my wife," Ken complained, cross-legged on the ground as he frowned at the flames.

"Ooh, look at you, all bloody married," She teased, nudging him with the toe of her book, and wobbling off-balance as he grabbed her by the ankle.

"You would be too - whose fault is that?" He raised a knowing brow, only releasing her leg once it became apparent she was about to fall over. Frankie stumbled for a second as she caught her balance, folding her arms across her chest.

"Shut up," She muttered, ruffling his hair, cringing at its sweat-soaked dampness. "It's not the time for it - you get married before the war, like you, or you wait for after. Besides, we've only been together for - what, eight months? That's not that long."

"But he's it for you, ain't he? Rosie?" Lemmons asked. Frankie had been about to tease him for his romanticism, but hell - the guy had gotten married at nineteen. It shouldn't have surprised her. But before she could respond, a shout of greeting sounded from the darkness at the end of the runway, an involuntary smile spreading across her cheeks at the familiar voice.

"Evening!" Rosie called, half jogging towards them, his grin growing visible as he neared the blaze. He'd unbuttoned his shirt below the collar, tie long discarded, sleeves rolled up past his elbows. The humidity had unstuck his curls, the gel he religiously applied each morning all but useless - although, she'd always preferred it this way.

"It's midnight, honey," Frankie pointed out, squinting in the light of the fire as she grinned, digging the toe of her boot into the ground.

"Yeah - 's why I brought water instead of coffee," He nodded, raising his canteen, its contents so fresh and cold that a layer of condensation had begun forming around the outside. She let out a gasp, bounding the last couple of steps to close the gap between them as she snatched the bottle from him, letting out a groan of relief as the cool liquid poured down her throat.

The moment she stopped for breath, Ken had ripped the canteen from her grip, downing a huge gulp for himself. Frankie let out a pant, wiping a stray droplet from her chin. "I swear to god, if we were near a church right now, I'd marry you," She shook her head slightly in earnest, mopping the sweat from her brow with the back of her hand.

"Well, if I'd known it was that easy," Rosie chuckled, wrapping an arm around her neck and pulling her sideways towards him, pressing a kiss to her cheek. The salty taste of sweat lined his lips, and he let out a laugh as Frankie squirmed out of grip, yelling at Ken as she tried to wrestle the canteen from his hands before he could drink all of the water, their shadows ever-flickering in the changing light of the fire.

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October, 1944

A bubble of chatter filled the pub, jolly patrons talking and laughing over their pints as someone banged out a tune on the piano in the corner. Frankie slipped through the crowd, the wall of customers thinner than usual as she reached the bar, leaning against it with both elbows as she craned forward to catch the bartender's attention.

"Pint o' Guinness, please? Thanks, love," She grinned, nodding to the man behind the bar as he grabbed a glass, practically knowing her order before she'd even had to ask.

"Her drink's on me," An unfamiliar voice spoke up, and Frankie turned her head as one of the replacements sidled in beside her, a confident smirk creasing his cheek. She fought the urge to roll her eyes.

"Her drink's on her. Thanks, though," She chuckled, flashing the bartender a grateful grin as he passed her pint over. Raising it to her lips, she took a sip, waiting for the awkward silence to send him off. It didn't.

"Aw, c'mon. Pretty gal like you shouldn't be buyin' her own beer - whaddya say?"

"No, no. I just said it," Frankie shook her head, still frankly amused at such a clumsy attempt at flirting. "Besides, I'm on my husband's dime... You have met the Major, right?"

A spark of panic flashed behind the pilot's eyes, and he was gone as quickly as he'd appeared, retreating back through the crowds. She let out a snort of amusement, lifting her glass slightly in a mini-toast to herself before turning back towards her table. Rosie was patiently awaiting her return, brow furrowed, frown tugging at his features as he craned his neck, watching the spot in the crowd where her unwanted admirer had disappeared.

"You alright?" He asked looking up at her as she sat down. "That guy wasn't bothering you, was he?"

Frankie let out a huff of laughter, nodding slightly. "Oh, god no. Only if you count the most embarrassing attempt at a pick-up I've ever seen as 'bothering'."

"Seriously?" Rosie's frown deepened, shifting uncomfortably in his seat as if about to stand, still peering in search of the pilot.

"Oh, sit down," She scoffed, batting at his arm with the back of her hand. "Thank you for the concern, but I'm really not bothered."

He did as she asked, but still seemed unsettled, brow pinched above his nose as he lifted his glass to his lips, sitting in silence. Frankie stared sideways at him, taking in his appearance. His jaw was clenched, and even beneath his jacket, she could tell his shoulders had gone stiff. Rosie sat quietly in an awkward state of tension, attention seemingly caught by any man who seemed to stray too close to their table on their way past. He was... oh.

"Oh my God," She breathed, wide-eyed and smiling.

"...What?"

"You're jealous!" Frankie grinned, noting the sudden flush that coloured his cheeks at this observation.

"What?! No! No," Rosie shook his head firmly, lifting his glass to his lips as he took a long sip. She wasn't sure she'd ever seen him jealous before - all flustered and defensive. It was certainly amusing.

"Oh, sweetheart," She tutted, patting a hand on his thigh. "I mean, I get it - I'm one-hundred-per-cent a catch, you probably should be worried," She teased, nodding along until he began to smile.

"Stop it," He chuckled.

"Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I invoked your rank and pretended you were my husband to scare him off," Frankie shrugged. Something flickered in Rosie's expression - something she couldn't quite interpret, but definitely enjoyed.

"... You did?"

"Mhm."

It was silent for a long moment. She took a calm sip of her beer, wiping the residual foam from her lip, feeling his eyes on her the whole time. Resisting the urge to smirk, she spoke. "... Hey honey, d'you wanna step outside for a sec-"

"Yep," Rosie was on his feet before she'd even finished her sentence and she let out a guffaw, abandoning her not-even-half-empty beer upon the table as she got up to follow, trailing behind him as they made their way towards the door.

They rounded the side of the building, stepping into the side alley where no one would walk past, and the moment they reached it his hands were on her, cupping her face as he brought their lips together, their teeth grazing against each other's as they tried not to laugh. She had a hand on his chest, then her arms were wrapping around the back of his neck, holding him as close as she could as she kissed him back, the smell of beer thick on their breath. His hands moved to her waist, squeezing slightly as she stepped back against the side wall, feeling his moustache tickly against her lip slightly as he let out a long sigh, the tension melting from his shoulders. She'd lost count of how many times they'd stood here, doing this, and yet every time it felt exciting - like they were teenagers trying not to get caught, as if anything they had between them remained even remotely secret. It had been a tiresome facade to keep up - even more so when it became apparent how bad of a job they'd been doing of it - so it felt wonderful to simply exist together out in the open.

Rosie's breath fanned her cheek as he broke the kiss for a moment, eyes still closed. "I love you."

Frankie's smile widened into a grin, tapping the tip of her nose against his. "I love you too. But not jealous, yeah?"

He lifted his hand back to her face, looking down at her with warm eyes as his thumb skimmed back and forth across her cheek. "Well, not anymore," He shrugged, beaming as she laughed.

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December, 1944

"Wa-hey!" Frankie cheered as she waddled sideways in through the front door of her father's house, a bag full of boxes held up in each hand as Rosie shuffled in behind her, reaching out to pluck a few stray snowflakes from her hair. "Presents, presents, presents! We're working with a Major's salary this year, people, so get ready."

Her father stood to the side, taking the suitcases from Rosie's hands and piling them at the bottom of the stairs as the couple weaved their way further inside, hurrying to shut the door behind them before the snow could blow in too. Alice and Jill waited grinning the the doorway to the kitchen, wrangling the dog between them to stop it from darting beneath anyone's feet. Frankie had received several letters from her father about the new canine, and they'd already taken to jokingly calling it her replacement. Tugging against its collar, Jill let out a faint shriek as the dog escaped her grip, scrambling down the hall and darting beneath Rosie's feet, almost tripping him.

"Oh, hey!" He smiled, crouching down to scratch beneath its chin. "What's this guy's name, huh?"

Frankie had already disappeared to unload the presents, but a guffaw of laughter emerged from the living room as she returned, leaning against the doorway. "Yeah, go on girls. Tell 'im what the dog's called."

Alice's face turned red with embarrassment, but Jill simply bounced on the balls of her feet, practically giddy with excitement at the prospect of breaking the news. "He's called Rosie!"

Clamping a hand over her mouth, Rosie could tell Frankie was fighting the urge to laugh again, her cheeks growing pinker by the second with the effort. The dog was a scrappy little terrier, with wiry, brow fur poking out at every angle and a rather prominent under-bite. "... Wowww," He nodded, smiling back at Jill. "Yeah, I... I see it!" Frankie ducked into the kitchen, and he heard her let out a snort, earning her a glare from the younger of the two girls.

"Alright girls, leave Rosie - and... Rosie - alone," Mr Bevan boomed, face reddened with amusement as he herded the children into the kitchen. Standing up to follow, Rosie stepped cautiously around the dog, whose stare remained fixed on him as he passed, claws skittering against the floor as he followed him into the next room.

Sitting down to their Christmas dinner, it was as if he had been transported back in time to the year before, crowded around the tiny kitchen table, the clinks of silverware and glasses echoing incessantly as they passed plates of food and refilled cups of wine. He had spent the last year carefully curating a slew of flying stories for just this occasion, and the girls spent the meal on the edge of their seats, listening with pricked ears to everything he had to say. Frankie's father had never appeared to take much interest in his job - nor the war in general - and Frankie was well-versed enough in his escapades to tune them out, the pair communicating with mouthed words and vague gestures across the table, which seemed to serve them just fine.

"I'm gonna be a pilot," Jill declared, passing her plate across the table so that Frankie could cut her ham into bite-sized pieces.

"Your feet won't reach the pedals," Alice teased, rather pleased with herself. Jill looked absolutely outraged, and the pair appeared poised to fight until Frankie's voice came from the other end of the table.

"Girls," She warned, firm tone working like a sedative as they immediately shrank back into their seats. "Alice, if you've finished eating go take the vegetable scraps out to the compost, yeah?"

"But I wanted to do that," Jill whined.

"Then go help, and come finish your dinner when you're done."

Both satisfied with the compromise, the girls clambered out of their seats, arguing beneath their breaths as they fought to decide who got to carry the potato peelings, voices never raising above a mutter to avoid another scolding. Frankie let out a huff of amusement, turning back to her dinner as she poked at her pile of carrots with her fork.

"You're good with 'em," Her father pointed out. "They listen to you - I swear they bicker constantly otherwise, don't listen to a word I say."

"Think that's par for the course when there's two of 'em," Rosie smiled.

"You got siblings, Rosie?"

He hummed, nodding as he raised a hand to his mouth. "Two sisters. But I'm the youngest, so growing up it was mostly just me watching them argue."

Once dinner was over and everything had been tidied away, they hurried into the living room to let the children open the presents they'd brought, watching from the sofa as they tore at the paper with ruthless precision. Jill received a toy biplane, fashioned from tin and painted bright red, as well as the view-master she'd spent the last year begging for, and for Alice, they'd supplied a hefty stack of mystery novels. Frankie watched with a smile, a fresh glass of wine in hand as she sat sideways, legs stretched out across Rosie's lap.

And as he sat there, hand resting on her knee, he struggled to fathom how any Christmas had ever felt adequate before he'd met her. With the children at their feet, stuffing their faces with mince pies, and the blinking lights across the street casting the room in various shades of green and red, it was hard not to imagine the scene as the rest of their lives. It was hard not to wish it - so dearly that something ached within his chest.

As afternoon gave way to evening, daylight slowly dissipating, a calm fell over the house, descending into quiet. Alice had sat curled up in an armchair with one of her books until she could scarcely keep her eyes open, wandering off to bed, and after a tiring afternoon of playing fighter planes with Rosie, Jill was almost comatose, curled up at one end of the sofa as she struggled to remain conscious.

"Alright, sweetheart," Frankie cooed, crouching down to the child's level as she stroked a soft hand through her hair, gently rousing her. "Time for bed, I think."

She had expected an excuse - some poor demonstration of how she was definitely still awake and definitely didn't need to go to bed. What she was met with was a wide-eyed smile as Jill clambered down from the sofa, already padding towards the stairs on tiny feet. As she passed Rosie, she caught the cuff of his sleeve between her fingers, tugging at him until he followed. He grinned at this, turning his head back to face Frankie. "I'll be back in a bit."

"Mhm," Frankie nodded, mirroring his smile as she pressed a quick peck to his lips. "Goodnight, honey," She called after Jill, who barely seemed to notice as she hiked up the stairs.

"I've been practising the Winnie the Pooh voices," Rosie whispered quickly, stepping out of the room to follow. Frankie laughed.

"I bet you have."

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January, 1945

The officers' club was heaving with crowds, conversing in tense anticipation as the clock ticked steadily towards midnight, mere minutes left until the dawn of 1945. George's brow furrowed, a drink in each hand as she looked around, one almost finished, the other entirely untouched. It seemed almost all of Thorpe Abbotts was here somewhere, from the commanding officers to the local Land Army girls, and yet Frankie did not appear to be among them, the sound of her voice suspiciously absent.

"Where is she?" She demanded firmly, cornering Lemmons and interrupting him mid-story as his fellow mechanics backed off.

"She's not here?" He frowned, immediately catching on without even having to ask who they were talking about.

George let out a groan, rolling her eyes as she turned to walk away. If Frankie wasn't going to make it on time, she wasn't saving her drink. "Here you go, free beer - Happy New Year," She drawled, passing it off to the first stranger she passed as she shouldered her way back through the crowds.

Rosie was standing at the other end of the bar with his crew, and their gazes met, exchanging a look of resignation as they attempted to gesticulate that neither knew where Frankie had gotten to. Throwing up her hands in irritation, George downed the last of her drink, weaving her way towards the door and out into the night, a saddening departure from a party she'd otherwise been very much enjoying. Really, she just hoped she wasn't gone long enough for Blakely to notice - he'd been looking forward to a midnight kiss all week.

She made it most of the way back to the huts before noticing the light was still on inside her own. Clenching her jaw, George resisted the urge to groan aloud once more as she marched towards the door, practically throwing it open. Frankie poked her head around the doorway to the bathroom, a streak of grease still staining her cheek.

"Oh!" She smiled. "I was wondering where everyone had got to."

"Frankie," George spoke through gritted teeth. "Get your ass in the officers' club right now."

There was a pause, Frankie's brow furrowing slightly. "...Why?"

"It's fucking New Years!"

Her eyes widened. "I thought that was tomorrow!"

"It is literally the thirty-first of December - when else was it going to be?"

"I don't really look at the calendar, I just-"

"Get out here!" George yelled, voice echoing against the curved, metal roof.

"Jesus Christ, I'm coming," Frankie's brow raised as she hurried across the hut to the door. "I'm still covered in oil, though, so-"

"I really don't care," Shaking her head, George seized her by the wrist, practically dragging her back towards the club. She could almost hear the clock ticking in her mind, a constant reminder that they were running out of time, her pace quickening by the second until they were almost jogging. Frankie had begun to smile, holding back a laugh at her panicked state so as not to rile her further.

The pair were barely ten metres away from the door to the club when an uproarious cheer blared from inside, the sound of champagne corks popping a clear sign that they'd just managed to narrowly miss it. Stopping dead in their tracks, Frankie's eyes widened, turning slowly to look at George, who was already glaring daggers into the side of her head.

"George, I'm really sor-"

She was cut off as George seized her by the cheeks, leaning forward to plant a firm kiss on her forehead. Frankie frowned in confusion as the blonde pulled away, shrugging despairingly. "Right. There you go. Happy New Year, Frank, love you." Turning on her heel, she made a beeline for the door, utterly focused on whatever her remaining mission was.

"... Where are you going?"

George looked back one last time, wide-eyed and slightly crazed. "I am going to snog my fucking boyfriend!" She all but shrieked, and Frankie chuckled as she disappeared inside. Suddenly, the image of Rosie standing alone at the bar came to mind, a jolt of panic filling her with energy as she burst into motion.

"Oh, shit - wait for me!"

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February, 1945

A layer of frost coated the tarmac, dozens of tyre tracks marking imperfect black streaks in the white blanket of ice as trucks rolled back and forth, crews waiting to board beside their forts as the final checks were carried out. Frankie's breath formed a frozen cloud in front of her face with each exhale, clouding her vision slightly as she stomped along the runway, fists shoved into the pockets of Egan's old sheepskin. It was a bitter morning, and she'd put on one of George's turtlenecks underneath her coveralls for the warmth, scarf wrapped tightly beneath her chin. As she approached the Riveters' fort, noticing Rosie waiting on the tarmac for her, she let her frozen scowl give way to a smile, a puff of breath materialising as he noticed her arrival.

"There she is," Rosie grinned, turning to face her as she closed the gap between them, pushing herself up on the balls of her feet in a small jump as she threw her arms around his shoulders. A laugh vibrated from his chest as he enveloped her in an embrace, rubbing his hands back and forth across her back, the action equal parts affectionate and an attempt to warm her up.

"Fifty-second mission. Jesus Christ," Frankie huffed, a distinct note of admiration in her voice.

"Let's make it a round sixty, then I'll retire," He chuckled, pressing his cheek against the side of her head.

"... You're joking though, right?"

Her question gave him pause. Was he? He supposed he had never given it much thought. But how long could he really keep pushing it before his luck ran out - before it was cruel to make her wait?

"I don't... I don't think so."

Frankie's sleeves brushed against his neck as she pulled back, just far enough to look him in the eye, a faint expression of disbelief holding back the hint of a smile at the corners of her mouth. The cold had mottled her cheeks, a red flush colouring the tip of her nose, and he wasn't sure he'd ever wanted to kiss her so badly.

"Are you serious?" She asked, tilting her head to look at him from an angle, as if assessing him for cracks in his facade.

"Yeah," Rosie breathed. "Yeah. We hit sixty, n' I'm done. I'll go back to America, or I'll find somewhere to stay here - I don't care, I just-" He was cut off as her lips collided with his, eyes screwed tightly shut, her face cold against his as she pulled her arms back to hold his face in her hands, gloved palms warming his cheeks. Smiling against her lips, he brought one hand to her waist, the other to the back of her head, and dipped her backwards as if they were dancing. The sudden movement made her laugh, the kiss broken for only a second before he pulled her back in.

They stayed like that for a moment, until Frankie came up for air, their clouds of breath mingling into one as they stood with their foreheads pressed together, gazes fixed on one another. "In that case," She spoke, barely more than a whisper, something glinting in her eye. "I have an idea, too."

"Oh yeah?" He grinned, arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders, not quite catching on. "What's that, then?"

"Robert Rosenthal," Frankie began, hands on either side of his face once more. "When you get back, I'm gonna marry you."

Rosie swore his heart stopped beating in his chest for a moment, gaping slightly, utterly unable to form a thought let alone a coherent word. His entire face must have flushed bright red, for she had started to laugh, and he wasn't sure he'd ever heard anything more wonderful. Except, perhaps, for the words she'd just uttered.

"... Yeah?" He asked, expression suddenly distorted by a lopsided grin that made him look like an overexcited puppy. Frankie nodded, beaming back up at him.

"Mhm."

Before he could stop it, a burst of ecstatic laughter escaped his throat, and he stumbled slightly, passing his weight from one foot to the other as he fought to regain his balance, Frankie's grip on him perhaps the only thing keeping him upright. "Well... In that case, maybe we'll make it fifty-five, huh?"

It had seemed impossible for her to smile wider, and yet she did, tears welling in her eyes as she fought to blink them away. But before she could reply, there came the creak of the plane hatch being wrenched open, and Pappy's voice sounded, yelling from the Riveter's belly.

"Hey, Rosie! Should I let Hitler know we're gonna be late, or what?!" He called, impatience thick in his tone. Frankie snorted, covering her face with her hands to stop herself from laughing.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm comin'!" Rosie exclaimed, rolling his eyes exaggeratedly as he stepped backwards out of their embrace, the flush in his cheeks still yet to dispel itself. He shot Frankie a wink, and she mirrored it in return, shoving her hands back into her pockets.

"Guess I'll see ya round," He shrugged.

She grinned, and for a split second, he would have given anything for just five more minutes out on the freezing tarmac.

"Not if I see you first."

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Of All The Stars in The Sky | 17 | Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw

Summary | War looks different from high above in the sky. But when Bradley finds himself on the ground, far behind enemy lines, it becomes a race against the clock to get out. And try not to look back at what he’s leaving behind.

Pairing | Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw x fem!reader / Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw x fem!oc (no use of y/n)

Warnings |Mature content | 18+ only[WWII AU] swearing, war, violence, death, explicit smut

Words | 7.9k

Index | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18

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Chapter 17 - Dream a Little Dream of Me

He doesn’t sleep anymore. Not really. When his body finally gives in to the exhaustion, and he lets his guard down, his mind catches a second wind, serving up the worst visions from the war. Bradley refuses to call them dreams, but he would hesitate to call them nightmares. He doesn’t wake up bathing in a cold sweat, heart beating, desperately trying to catch his breath anymore. It’s a never-ending reel that starts playing the moment he closes his eyes like it’s been seared into his eyelids, and all he can do is watch.

On that misty gray morning in June, he followed Mav over the channel. Flanked by countless squadrons, passing over the largest armada assembled, they were prepared for everything. Anything. Flying low, the sight of the shallows on the Atlantic in Normandy colored blood-red knocks the wind out of him.

Bradley has seen plenty of battles in his years in the war. He’s seen friend and foe disappear in balls of fire in midair, watched them plummet to the earth, spinning out of control. He’s seen cities go up in flames under him. He was the one helping ignite them. In a certain regard, he was lucky — he never had to see the resulting carnage firsthand. He never had to look another pilot in the face before they died. He couldn’t see the people running to hide in air raid shelters as the bombers he was escorting flew over. 

High in the sky, war often seems quite far away.

Bradley is quite aware of his own mortality — after his own crash, how could he not be? But he also knows it is either them or him. It’s the simple equation of a dogfight. But the sight of a blood-red sea — how much blood must there be in order to dilute the seawater? — simply won’t leave him.

How many seas of blood has he caused?

If the battle for Europe was a raw lesson in the mass casualty of war, Bradley kept holding out hope that his wing would stay assigned to the theater. Holding out hope that if he could follow the advance, it could get him closer to you again. However, in the early fall of 1944, most Naval aviators get re-assigned to the Pacific theater as the European front moves inland, and the USAF and RAF take the lead in establishing air superiority. Bradley is a Luitenant Commander now, the rows of ribbons on his chest gradually growing, weighing him down.

He doesn’t sleep anymore. At night, he wanders the halls of the carrier, unable to rest. The belly of the ship is claustrophobic, noisy and overcrowded at best, and Bradley cannot stand it anymore. After those endless days in that small room, you being his only reprieve, the walls keep closing in on him everywhere. In England, he could go for walks, but now he is resigned to the tight metal corridors, walking the same route, over, and over, and over.

Before he takes off from the carrier, his hand automatically moves to his left chest pocket. Your handkerchief still sits there, carefully folded, lovingly kept. Bradley never goes anywhere without it anymore. It’s his only comfort through the sleepless nights, his good luck charm for every sortie, his promise to you.

If Operation Overlord was a raw wake-up call for the mass massacre up close, the Pacific Theater comes bearing horrors from the darkest nightmares. He is on deck one sunny day when two Japanese planes bore themselves, deliberately, into the cruiser just off the starboard—the desperate screams from the sea of fire echo. Just moments later, two planes hit the carrier. The enemy has resorted to the most desperate strategy of taking everyone down with them.

He appears to be lucky, again, all things considered. Bradley manages to make it with just a few scrapes. In the months of island hopping, he manages to make it through with nothing more than a few bullet holes.  Bob jokes Bradley has an angel on his shoulder. Mav praises him for finally learning to trust his instincts instead of overthinking. The praise feels hollow. Many others don’t make it back. It’s not an issue of skill. Bob is right — it’s all luck. 

And luck runs out.

It’s been over a year — fourteen grueling months, since Bradley was assigned to the USS Intrepid, and with the island-hopping campaign has now made it all the way to Okinawa. It’s March 1945.

When Bradley thinks back about those days, he has trouble remembering what happened. The chaos and carnage bleed into each other; the constant pressure and the heat boil everything into a large, horrifying mass in his head. 

He can’t sleep. He just sees the endless reel of horrors devoid of time and meaning. Bradley reaches for his chest pocket, fingers tracing over the soft outline of your handkerchief. It’s still there. When he closes his eyes, he wishes he could see you. Hear you.

In the few moments of calm that he manages to find, he tries to grasp at the memory of you, but every time it eludes him more. It’s like he can only remember the individual notes of you: a flash of your smile, the wrinkle between your eyebrows, the sparkle in your eye. Your teasing tone as you said his name, the bubble of your laugh, your soft kiss. Like that broken melody, he can’t put the notes together again. And it scares him.

What if he forgets completely?

What if you will always dance just out of his reach, always on the periphery of his mind — never enough for him to truly remember?

And then his luck truly runs out. 

In a desperate dog fight, trying to keep the Kamikaze pilots from torpedoing the Allied ships aiming for Okinawa. A hail of bullets perforates the port side of Bradley’s jet, cracking the canopy and busting the fuselage. One bullet pierces his left shoulder. The pain is so intense it’s making him see double. 

Bradley always loved flying over the ocean. The sea and the sky become one on the horizon in and endless expanse of heavenly blue. Like a world with no end.

Now, he has trouble telling what is up and what is down. He can hear Mav screaming at him over the radio.

Eject! Eject! Eject!

No. He can make it. If he ejects now, he’ll be a sitting duck in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of a battle. Bradley knows that if he stays calm, he can make it back to the USS Intrepid. Nothing is on fire. Yet. He’s losing pressure, and his fuel is getting practically dumped into the ocean. 

Slow and steady. Turn off auxiliary instruments to preserve power — flicking the switch of the radio, he cuts off Mav mid-command. Bradley blinks heavily against the pain as he tries to focus on the gyroscope. The plane is level, descending. He turns his head, straining audibly: no one is following him. His squadron seems to be distracting the enemy well, so Bradley can get away.

Slow and steady. Throttle back, keep level, keep above the water. At this rate, he will be flying on fumes by the time he reaches the carrier. Bradley’s left side feels sticky, but he needs all his energy to focus on flying right now — he knows he’s bleeding, but he can’t take his hand off the steering to apply pressure to his shoulder. His left hand is shaking now.

On the horizon, the silhouette of the USS Intrepid looms. The batteries are firing, billowing smoke. 

He can make it.

Bradley switches his radio back on.

“Tower, tower -” He gasps for breath. “Tower, tower, permission to land, over”

The reply comes out garbled. Or maybe it’s just the loud rushing in his ears from blood loss. Carefully, Bradley taps the fuel gauge. He’s never seen it so low. He must have called his status because, finally, something legible comes through the radio.

“Affirmative — deck is ready, Rooster,” 

He’s going to get one shot at this. Get enough speed to generate just enough lift to get him to the right altitude so he can make it onto the flight deck. 

There’s not going to be a do-over for this.

Bradley loses consciousness the moment his landing gear hits the deck. The angle of his descent is too steep; he has too little strength to course correct. On impact, the front wheel snaps off, grinding the nose of the plane into the deck in a rain of sparks, knocking his head into the canopy.

When he comes by, Bradley is still on the landing deck, splayed out, while a medic is putting a painful amount of pressure on his shoulder. Bradley grunts in agony. His whole left side is soaked.

“Good, you’re awake,” The medic deadpans. “Rooster, stay awake now.”

“My pocket-” He chokes out, trying to get his right arm up. “My left pocket.”

“Take it easy now, Rooster,” The medic admonishes him. “You’re bleeding out here.”

“But I need, I need -” Bradley lifts his head from the tarmac, vision still blurry. “Left pocket.”

“Stay down!” 

“Jesus Christ, son,” Bradley recognizes Beau Simpson's voice. If the admiral is on deck, that landing isn’t going to win him any prizes, he thinks idly. “What do you need from your pocket?”

Bradley answers the question clearly in his head, but in reality, the words come out half-mumbled. It’s enough, however. Someone, maybe Simpson, presses a square of soft fabric into Bradley’s right palm. His fingers close over it, crumpling it in the process. But Bradley needs something to hold onto right now, something to remind him that there’s more beyond this hell, beyond all this pain.

***

Laying in a hospital bed, Bradley feels like a caged animal. The white walls, ceiling, and small window remind him of that room. He can’t get up; he’s not allowed to leave. Bradley’s fingers itch, his heart beating in a panic, cold sweat trickling down his spine.

“Everything okay here?” Soft curls pinned into a pristine white hat with a red cross, bright smile, and rosy cheeks. Nurse Jenny. She’s playfully peeking around the privacy curtain. Bradley doesn’t miss how her eyes wander over him.

“Yeah, yeah, everything is fine,” Bradley replies, forcing himself to keep his voice level, meeting the nurse’s gaze shortly. The sweat is prickling on his forehead, but at least he can pretend that the sweltering Manila heat is causing it. His heart rate is slowly returning to normal — flexing his fingers a few times, the strange tension leaves his nerves.

“Let me get you something to cool you down, Lieutenant Commander,” Her soft hand brushes over his clammy forehead. “Just to make sure you don’t start running a fever.”

Her voice is soft and pleasant. She is soft and pleasant. 

Bradley feels a twinge of guilt in his stomach.

Jenny is just a nurse, and Bradley is just a patient.

She doesn’t look like you, not even if Bradley squinted. She doesn’t carry herself in the same way that you do — Jenny isn’t as much of an enigma but rather wears her heart on her sleeve. But in the short two weeks, when he thinks of you and tries to conjure up the memory of you, he isn’t sure if he’s seeing Jenny. Did your smile always look like that? Did your voice always have that same timbre?

It’s been two years since he left you on that platform. Two long and lonely years. Now, stuck in a hospital bed, stuck with his own thoughts again, the walls close in. Except when Jenny comes in. Just like you did.

Bradley closes his eyes as the nurse places a cool cloth over his forehead. Didn’t you do the same? Did your eyes wander in the same way?

“There, much better,” Jenny concludes. “How’s the shoulder today?”

“Getting better, Nurse, thank you,” Bradley replies, smiling automatically. “Any chance I’m getting off bed rest anytime soon?” He asks, tone jovial, trying to mask his discomfort of the hospital room.

Jenny titters as she wipes her hands on her apron. “Trust me, the sooner you’re up and about, the better.”

“Am I such a bad patient?” The words come completely automatically to Bradley, a cocky grin settling on his face. Jenny flushes lightly. For a moment, he feels great — fun, teasing, catching every eye. Just like he always did. As comes naturally to him.

The next moment, his smile falters. Why would he want to catch Jenny’s eye? 

“No, no-,” She replies bashfully. “You just seem eager to get out of here.”

“Aren’t you?”

Jenny blinks at him before a broad smile appears on her face. Her cheeks are still adorably flushed. It’s just satisfying his ego, nothing more. It’s just a bit of fun. Just something to make the crushing boredom and oppressive heat in the hospital more bearable.

“I’ll check up on you again later, Lieutenant Commander,” She chirps happily before she hurriedly disappears behind the curtain with a girlish giggle.

Bradley carefully opens the small drawer on his bedside stand when he's sure she's left. A few personal possessions lay scattered; among them, quite unceremoniously, a Purple Heart. He has no need for more medals.

Carefully, Bradley takes out your handkerchief. His heart sinks every time he looks at it now. The side that was against his chest has been soaked through with blood, the once pristine white now a dirty, rusty color. It doesn’t smell like you anymore. The neat folding has been crumpled, leaving the square disheveled. 

Bradley knows he should get it washed, but he has an irrational fear that if he does, he will wash away whatever is left of you, his lucky charm, in the fabric. It will just be an ordinary handkerchief after that. He traces his thumb over the stitching of your initials. 

Sokolova. After some careful prodding, Bradley found out it meant falcon. From Hangman, no less, who in turn hounded him for why he wanted to know. Bradley never even hinted at as to why, causing Hangman to stop speaking to him completely. As if that was supposed to be a form of punishment.

But, how fitting. 

Rooster and Falcon.

Bradley hasn’t forgotten his promise to you. It’s been two years, but he has every intention to find you again, and make good on all the words he filled your head with. 

Guilt twists in his gut. He’s lonely. Bradley has never done well by himself. Even now, he’s back with Mav, Bob is around  — he’s seen Fanboy several times. Harvard is in the Pacific, too. It’s not that kind of loneliness he is grappling with. It’s the lack of intimacy, however fleeting. The kind he never had trouble finding, the kind that stopped all the wayward pain of his life and loss that he never wanted to confront.

Six days with you were not enough. It was never going to be enough. 

***

“So, can I call you Rooster?”

Jenny is sitting across from Bradley in the noisy bar, chin leaning on her hand, with that fantastic smile on her face. “Or do you prefer Commander?” She adds coyly, taking a sip of her colorful cocktail.

“Rooster is fine,” He replies with a small smile, averting his gaze to the ice melting in his Old Fashioned. Bradley was promoted to Commander today. The whole ceremony, if you can call it that, was over in less than three minutes. Bradley did not even have to get up from bed. An Admiral Bradley had never met before handed him his new pins after a few short words, flanked by a petty officer and some doctors. A firm handshake, followed by a quick salute, and the man and his entourage were sauntering out of the room again. Without much thought, Bradley dunked the pins into the drawer of his bedside table. 

Better news came from the doctor on the next round: he was finally well enough to leave the hospital. A few rounds of physical therapy to regain full mobility of his shoulder would be needed, but Bradley wasn’t planning on hanging around for that. He could do some stretches on the carrier, too. The war isn’t over yet.

As he got dressed and stuffed all his meager belongings into a small bag, Jenny appeared, looking somewhat hesitant.

The silver oak leaf Commander pin still feels foreign on the collar of his khaki uniform.

“Looking to get out of here?” She ventured. “For a drink first, maybe?”

Bradley should have said no. But was there really any harm in getting a drink and some conversation? That’s normal, he reasons. It’s what people do. It’s just a drink to celebrate his promotion — no matter how much he doesn’t really care for his new rank — it’s a normal and polite thing to do. And Jenny is nice enough.

“So, Rooster it is,” Jenny smiles brightly. “Are you really leaving today?”

“Yeah,” Bradley shrugs. “I’m catching the first ride out of here and back to my ship.”

“Well, then, don’t be a stranger,” She ventures carefully. “I was wondering if I could write you?”

Bradley doesn’t reply immediately, taking a sip of his drink instead. “I’m not sure that’s a good idea, Jenny.” He finally replies.

“Oh.” She looks a little crestfallen. “You’re not married, are you?” Jenny looks mildly alarmed at the notion. “Because I’m not like that, you know?”

Bradley chuckles. “No, I’m not married. And I know you’re a good girl, don’t worry.”

The words flow from his mouth easily, words that he said a million times, honed to the greatest effect. Jenny, predictably, seems to relax at his words. Bradley pulls back in his chair as if to create additional distance between himself and Jenny at the small table. The conversation idles on, and a new round of drinks appears on the table.

“So Rooster,” Jenny looks up at him through her lashes, scooting her chair a little bit closer to the table. “What are your plans for after the war?”

“First thing is probably just to return home,” Bradley smiles fondly at the thought.

“Where is home?”

“In Virginia Beach,” He supplies easily. God, he misses home.

“Oh, really?” Jenny’s eyes light up. “I’m from Baltimore!”

Bradley doesn’t respond verbally, more just nodding his head in understanding.

“I’ll be returning stateside after the war, too.” She continues, almost shyly. “Maybe I could come down to Virginia Beach, and you could show me around?”

“Let’s see,” Bradley replies evasively, not meeting her gaze. An icy feeling sinks in his stomach. He should just say no. Why can’t he just say no?

Because he enjoys the feeling of having a pretty nurse fawning over him, trying to sweet talk him. 

Because it makes him feel less horribly lonely for a moment. 

Because he’s not doing anything wrong.

He downs the rest of his drink.

“It’s been a pleasure, Jenny,” He says warmly as he gets up, pulling out his wallet and leaving a few bills on the table. Jenny shoots up out of her chair.

“I’ll write you,” She tries again, eyes large with hope.

“Sure,” Bradley replies, nodding in her direction in a hurried goodbye, guilt twisting in his gut before he legs it out of the bar. He never wants to return here again. And he should never see Jenny again. It’s a fun distraction, a band-aid for his loneliness and pain, but he wants nothing to come of it. 

Right?

***

The streets around the Manila harbor are packed. Every sailor, officer, marine, and aviator who is lucky enough to have made port this night has poured out of the docked ships and barracks onto the street. There’s a cacophony of music and singing, ship horns being blown, glasses clinking — bodies are pushing past each other in dancing, drunk and deliriously happy. 

It’s V.E. Day.

Clutching a half-drunk bottle of whiskey, Bradley stumbles past the dancing crowd. He lost Mav, who was at least as drunk as he is, somewhere in the throng of people. God knows where Bob, who mostly doesn’t drink, disappeared to.

Someone grabs him by the elbow, dragging him into a group — Bradley vaguely recognizes a few fellow aviators. The atmosphere is jubilant: the Nazis capitulated, Europe has been liberated. The Pacific Theater cannot be far behind. They might all be going home soon.

He might be able to go look for you soon.

Bradley accepts a bottle of clear liquid, taking a swig without registering what he was handed. In exchange, he offers up his bottle of whiskey. After months, years of hell, it feels like all the pressure is finally finding release. Harvard suddenly pops up, greeting Bradley with a jovial hug. Strange, normally, they were cordial at best, but it feels completely natural under the circumstances. 

“How have you been, Harvard?” Bradley asks, offering him some of the quickly dwindling whiskey.

“Oh man,” Harvard blinks forcefully, trying to steady himself while he gathers his thoughts. “I’ve seen some shit, Rooster.” 

He takes the bottle, nearly pitching backward as he tries to drink from it. Bradley grabs him by arm, pulling Harvard back upright.

“Yeah,” Bradley agrees, too drunk to say anything of meaning back. “Where’s — where’s… Yale?

“I dunno man,” Harvard shrugs. “I just want to go home, man — hey, give me another shot, Rooster.” He slurs.

“You’re still holding the bottle, you ass,” Bradley laughs. “Have another shot, c’mon.” He starts taunting Harvard, deciding in his drunken haze that it would be hilarious to watch him fall off his Ivy League pedestal and on his ass. 

Distracted, Bradley is nearly bowled over himself as two slim arms lock around his neck. He stumbles backward, ears full of girlish giggles. He grabs Jenny by the waist to steady himself. Her cheeks are flushed from alcohol — his own face feels pretty hot now, too.

Carefully, he tries to put Jenny down, bending over somewhat awkwardly. She doesn’t let go, however.

“You never wrote me back, Rooster,” She pouts playfully.

Did he ever receive any mail from Jenny? Maybe it was still stuck somewhere in transit, or did he purposefully ignore it?

“Busy times at sea,” He replies jokingly instead.

“Hey, Rooster?” Harvard is calling somewhere from behind Jenny. “Imma — I’m going to keep this, ok?”

Bradley looks up, just in time to see Harvard making off with the practically empty bottle. Jenny puts a hand on his cheek, directing his gaze back to her. 

“You are not too busy for me now, right, Rooster?” She asks, almost bashfully, large eyes pleading at him.

Bradley wishes that he could pretend that she looked like you, that it triggered something in him because the alcohol blurred his vision. But Jenny looks nothing like you, not even close. The way she carries herself, the way she speaks, all down to the way her skin feels, is nothing like you. Jenny is not what Bradley wants; it’s not what he is looking for. Rationally, he knows all this. 

But he is just lonely, selfish, and she is here.

His lips are on hers, the fabric of her dress crumpling under his grasp. Jenny gasps into his mouth, granting him deeper access. He half expects her to stop him, and push him off. But Jenny seems to have her mind made up and is pulling him deeper, hands clutching the collar of his uniform. 

Time is passing in a blur. Somewhere between kisses and giggles, Bradley drinks more. It’s like he is trying to disinfect his mind from reality — every time the voice in the back of his head becomes too strong, the wrench of guilt in his stomach too painful, a dousing of alcohol stills it. 

They dance. Jenny often steps on his toe, and his back hurts from the awkward angle he’s holding her.

You fit so nicely in his arms; you always moved so in sync with him.

With the next drink, the thought drowns in the background noise.

He has Jenny pushed up against a wall between barrack buildings. She is pulling his shirt up from his pants, drunkenly fumbling with buttons. Her legs are around his waist, and her dress bunched up at her hips. Bradley’s hands are feverishly working their way up Jenny’s thighs, pushing up her slip dress, unclasping the garters holding up her stockings. 

“I thought you were a good girl, Jenny?” He groans as she dips her hands up his undershirt.

“I am,” She gasps, rolling her hips into his. “You just bring out the worst in me, Rooster.”

Bradley chuckles as his fingers ghost over Jenny’s panties. She whimpers, her hips stuttering against his fingers, looking for more friction. Her hands travel down to his belt, pulling it open unceremoniously and unzipping Bradley’s slacks. Jenny’s small, warm hands start rubbing his shaft over his underwear. Bradley is so drunk, he didn’t even realize he could still get hard.

“I’ve thought about this so much,” Jenny whispers in his ear, sending shivers down his spine. “I’ve been dreaming about you, Rooster.” 

“F-fuck,” Bradley swears. Jenny’s words make him so good. And so bad.

“I need you,” Jenny pleads. “Do you need me? Do you want me, Bradley?”

It’s like a bucket of ice-cold water is dumped over him. Bradley pulls back from Jenny like he’s been burned. The haze is melting off him rapidly. The sounds of the street — the music, the signing  — are suddenly deafeningly loud. 

He lets go of Jenny, unceremoniously plopping her back on the ground as he stumbles back.

“Bradley?” She is blinking up at him, dress crumpled, hair messy, stocking rolled down her leg. Jenny looks like she is about to cry. As fast as his drunk fingers will allow him, Bradley zips his slacks back up.

“Don’t -” He swallows a breath. “Don’t call me that.”

“Wait!” Jenny is straightening out her dress as she makes her way to follow him. “Rooster!”

“Leave me alone, Jenny,” He bites out hurriedly, rubbing his eyes. Bradley has disappeared into the crowd before Jenny can bring out another word. 

It feels like his legs are filled with lead, every step is sobering, slow, and painful. Bradley doesn’t remember how he gets back to the ship. He feels like a black hole is eating him from the inside now the haze of the alcohol has lifted, the dam of his guilt has broken through. Collapsing face first onto his bunk, his head is spinning.

He meant every word he said to you.

Didn’t he?

He just voided every promise he made to you. Just like he’s done so many times before, to so many girls before you. You were different. But Bradley was, unfortunately, still the same.

***

You can hear the wind as it picks up through the crowns of the trees—leaves rustling, birds taking flight. Everything feels soft and warm; you know you are in a familiar and safe place. Stretched out on a blanket, your eyes are closed, but you can tell it’s a bright sunny day; the rays feel warm on your skin. Wiggling your toes, you expect to feel cool grass, twigs and dirt, but instead, there is…sand?

You don’t want to open your eyes yet, afraid you will lose how comfortable you feel. So you listen closer. 

It’s not the wind and rustle of leaves around you. It’s the gentle wash of waves, grains of sand dancing over a wide plain, carried on a breeze. You can hear the birds now—seagulls, clearly. The salty sea air tickles your nose.  Somewhere in the distance, there are voices, happily chatting and laughing.

Blinking heavily against the summer sun, you sit up, leaning on your elbows, looking around. A white and yellow striped parasol stuck in the sand casts a pleasant shadow over you. The sea is merrily reflecting the sun in many shades of blue, while the pale yellow sand around you stretches far past the horizon. Behind you, jagged cliffs loom, with tufts of green helm grass peeking from between the cracks and crevasses of the towering stone wall. You can’t see anyone but still hear chatter and laughter— like a movie being played in a different room.

You’re wearing a bathing suit, white with blue dots—precisely like the one you had been admiring in that store window for so long. 

It’s strange. Familiar. And everything feels so real. You feel light, like a feather on a breeze.

You are flying.

And nothing hurts.

Turning onto your side, head leaning on your head, you take a moment to observe Bradley. He’s lying on his back, one arm behind his head, the other casually draped over his stomach, breathing steady, like he is asleep. Somewhere, you knew he was here the whole time, but your heart still leaps from joy as you take in his form. 

He looks tanner, blonder even, than you remember him. Like sunshine poured into human form. His deliciously broad shoulders are relaxed, but you can clearly see the definition of the muscles on his stomach, contracting with every breath. Bradley’s dark sunglasses sit a little crooked on his face, lips slightly parted, and his soft sun-kissed curls are mussed up—it’s adorable.

You can’t help yourself. Bradley looks so at peace, but you are starving for him. So you reach out, gently grazing the palm of your hand over his jaw, fingers lightly dancing over his throat and collarbone—you delight in seeing him tense under your touch. Boldly, you caress his bare chest, leaving goosebumps in your wake despite the warm weather. Finally, your fingers dance over Bradley’s stomach, your nails playfully scratching through the trail of light hair from his belly button to the waistband of his shorts. Bradley’s abs twitch, and you lick your lips.

“Anya…” Bradley’s voice is deep, something primal seeping through.

“Yes, my love?” You reply with a giggle, resting your palm on his lower stomach. 

“Don’t tease like that, sweetheart,” He murmurs lowly, doing very little to actually discourage you. You are pretty sure Bradley’s eyes are still closed—he hasn’t even moved his head. It just won’t do. 

You are starved for him; the way he looks at you so sweetly, the way the corners of his eyes crinkle when he smiles, that roguish grin as he teases you. The weight of his body against yours, his strong arms wrapped around you, his fingers digging into your skin.

“Tease like what, Bradley?” You reply innocently as your fingers dance over his lower stomach. Playfully, he grabs your adventuring hand, lacing his fingers through yours and resting it on his stomach again. A moment passes as you pout, considering your next move, when Bradley suddenly sits up, leaning on his elbow. He lets go of your hand again and clumsily pushes his sunglasses up. He looks so surprised to see you, it makes you laugh. 

But of course he is surprised. The last thing he remembers is falling asleep, drunk, angry and burning with shame and guilt. So long he had been fighting to remember your face and voice, just the way you are, extricated from every contamination it picked up over the years. But he couldn’t; it was like his memory of you was endlessly diluted.

And now you are here. That mischievous smile on your face, laughing at him, as beautiful as the day he left you. It has to be you; Bradley couldn’t dream you up as perfect as you are now. 

You lean into him, gently cradling his face between your hands. His large brown eyes follow your every move. Up close, you can see the specks of green and gold in his irises. The scars on Bradley’s face are faded—but you can still feel the subtle raised ridges.

“I’ve missed you,” You tell him earnestly. Not bothering to wait for his reply, you press your mouth onto his. To his credit, Bradley reacts immediately, pulling you into him as he lays back down, opening his mouth and granting you full control. You are half draped over him now, scandalously so.

But it doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t take you that long to put two and two together. You are dead, right? This is either your punishment or your reward—one more moment with your lover. Maybe Bradley is dead too, and now you can take back the time that was stolen from you. One final moment where you get to live out the promise he made you — together, as you should have been. 

It’s not something you’re choosing to dwell on. When it comes to Bradley, you’ve made the same decision over and over, and you’re not planning on changing that now. You will gladly suffer for eternity if it means you get to live your time with him to the fullest.

Without consequence. 

“I’ve missed you so much,” you breathe between kisses, running your hands through his hair, tugging him closer to you. “I needed you, Bradley.”

“Anya,” Bradley groans, his grip tightening on your waist. “Jesus Chri-”

“I love you.” You almost cut him off in your urge to make sure he knows—he needs to know. This might be your only chance to tell him, and it’s burning a hole in your heart. “I should have told you the day you left, but I didn’t understand yet. Not a day has gone by that I didn’t think about you.” 

Bradley feels the guilt cropping up in the pit of his stomach again, but he quickly pushes it away. He hoped for so long that you would say those words to him—that he could really tell you how he felt without scaring you away.

“I love you too,” He tells you, tucking your head under his chin, kissing your temple. Your lips immediately latch onto his neck. Bradley hisses in pleasure, caressing your spine, trying to keep his thoughts in order. “I knew—Anya, I knew since… too long.” He admits between heavy breaths. “I should have taken you with me; I hate myself for leaving you behind.” 

“But now I’m here,” Your voice is soft, lips caressing the shell of his ear.

“You’re here,” He echoes with a smile. “Thank god you’re here.”

Bradley never wants to wake up. Rationally, he knows he is asleep in his bunk in Manila, but it all feels so far away now. He could stay here with you, on this beach, and never want for anything else. Everything feels so real, like it’s pulled from all his deepest, most precious wish—your lips on his, the small sighs, even the way your skin feels. How could this only be a dream?

You always kept some parts of yourself so skillfully hidden—most things you did were carefully calculated. There were snapshots of moments where Bradley was sure he found the real you: the stubborn, mischievous, infuriating, adorable, eager-to-please you. He saw it in your smile, the sparkle in your eye, he felt it in your kiss. His little spitfire.

But now—now you are unencumbered, freer than ever before. Nothing is waiting for you outside this bubble: there is no war, no ticking clock. There’s just him. And you. 

Not a single of his fragmented memories would ever do you justice. Bradley can’t stop himself from touching you to assure himself that he hasn’t truly forgotten, to feel the familiarity of your skin and curves, the smell of your soap — even the way your hair tickles his face as you kiss him. 

He doesn’t want to question why he is seeing you now, why you have appeared in front of him so completely, so closely and ever so lovely when he was hitting rock bottom. A heart so worn down, so broken, it will make him suffer the most perfect vision of you. 

“Don’t frown like that, Bradley,” Your teasing tone breaks him out of his reverie, the tip of your index finger pressing between his eyebrows. The sun casts a halo around your form.  “It makes you look old.”

“I’m not old,” He defends himself, chuckling. 

“Didn’t say you were, my love,” You retort, pressing your lips against his forehead. Bradley laughs, squeezing your thigh playfully, serenity finally setting in. If this is a hell of his own making, he will take it over the hell on earth he has seen. Because in this hell, at least he is still together with you, even for a moment. And then he will wake up alone.

Bradley easily flips you over onto your back, leaning on his forearm as your body molds against his. Your surprised giggle turns into a soft moan.

If you could have everything you wished for, just for a moment, knowing you would lose it all — would you still do it? 

The question is playing over and over in Bradley’s mind as he pulls your leg over his hip, nipping at your collarbone. You squeal in delight as you feel his familiar weight against you, pressing down in all the right places.

Would you?

Gently, your hands envelop Bradley’s face, bringing him up to face you. You can see it play out in his expression, in flashes and shadows. You can hear the question that pains him so much.

“Yes,” You say simply, smiling. Bradley blinks, confused. “I would do it all again, Bradley,” You continue, sincerely. A shiver runs up his spine as you say his name.

“Even if…” He starts carefully.

“Even then,” You reiterate determinedly, not needing him to finish the sentence. The look on your face is serene — you’ve come to accept this dream. Your fate. You might never get another chance to say these things to him. And at the end of the line, the conclusion is clear as day: “I don’t regret anything.”

Bradley sighs, pulling you impossibly closer, his lips crashing against yours. He doesn’t need to say anything else — it’s all in his kiss, his touch. He knows you understand. 

Bradley could never regret you.

Time passes in an impossible loop. Hours pass in seconds, and minutes stretch for an eternity. Your lips find Bradley’s a million times; his hands map every inch of your skin over and over. Your body still fits so perfectly against his; nothing, no one, could ever compare to how your arms drape against his neck, how you arch into him, and how every thrill in your voice is like music to his ears.

“The sun is going down,” Bradley remarks. The once blue sky is now dappled in warm colors, the sun slowly disappearing behind the horizon. You are leaning with your back against his chest, snugly tucked between his strong thighs. Bradley is playing with the shoulder strap of your bathing suit. You know the dream is ending, but you are not worried.

You will just fall asleep in Bradley’s arms. And if you never wake up again, that is okay. You will spend your final moments in the peace you have longed for. You will spend your final moments with Bradley in his embrace, giving you more than you could ever wish for.

Bradley’s arms tighten around you. You sigh contentedly, closing your eyes and leaning your head back. He watches the sea gradually darken, taking on an almost ominous dark hue. The ruby red reflects on the waves in what should look romantic, but he can only see one thing. 

Blood.

So much blood it’s turning the whole sea red. He can smell the sickening metallic odor mixing with the salt air now. It feels oppressive, corrosive. 

Bradley buries his nose in your hair, closing his eyes. This is just a dream, and he gets to dream about what he wants. He smells your soap, just for a moment — burned hair, jet fuel and smoke suddenly fill the air. When he opens his eyes, Bradley almost screams out.

You are limp in his arms, blood pouring from the side of your head, smoke billowing strangely from your form. You are so impossibly hot in his hands suddenly; it’s like you are on fire. Your mouth is agape and eyes are closed, like you are asleep.

You look dead.

The realization hit Bradley so hard, the dream shatters around him. He wakes up with a bang, pitching from his bunk onto the unforgiving metal floor of his cabin.

Everything hurts: from the searing headache to the alarming pain in his shoulder — Bradley’s adrenaline is through the roof.

He needs to get out of here.

He needs to find you.

He needs to…

Scrambling up, Bradley only just makes it to the small trashcan in the room, desperately heaving, before emptying the contents of his stomach.

***

“Rooster, someone is here to see you.” Bob is looking at Bradley inquisitively. Bradley barely responds as he’s pushing around the powdered scrambled eggs on his plate listlessly. He’s not even sure why he came to breakfast in the chow hall in the first place — he spent the last few hours oscillating between throwing up and staring into the darkness of his room, trying to understand what he just saw. Trying to convince himself it was just a drunken dream, fuelled by guilt. Nothing more than that. 

But then why did it feel so real? Why is he so sure something has happened to you?

Tiredly, he looks up at Bob, who looks annoyingly refreshed. 

“Thanks Bob,” He manages, voice rough from all the acid. “Where?”

“Outside, off the ramp.” 

Bradley groans in annoyance as he gets up. 

“Uhm- Rooster,” Voice quiet, Bob stops Bradley. “It’s a girl, a nurse.” 

Bradley appreciates that Bob is courteous enough to be discreet about this. Had it been anyone else, it would probably be announced loudly to draw a crowd. Plenty of sailors and aviators are subject to lover spats in every port they call — it’s almost a rite of passage. Bradley has had plenty of situations, but he never really cared. It wasn’t of any real consequence. 

Putting his dark aviator sunglasses on, and fitting his cover on his head, he trudges down to the side ramp of the carrier. The sun is painfully bright.

At the bottom of the ramp, Jenny waits for him in her nurse’s uniform. Her face is drawn. Several sailors are leaning on the railing, smoking, waiting for the show to start. Instead, Bradley grabs Jenny by the elbow and gently but urgently leads her away from prying eyes.

They turn a corner between warehouses on the dock, and Bradley lets go off her. Putting his hands in his pockets, he waits for Jenny to start speaking. She is nervously wringing her hands, like she’s trying to summon the courage to speak.

A minute goes by.

“So, why did you come to see me?” Bradley’s voice is flat, hiding the true level of his annoyance. He is not even really mad at Jenny — he doesn’t think he could ever be so angry at anyone as he is at himself. She flinches at his tone.

“What happened last night?” She ventures carefully. “Did I do something wrong?”

Bradley hesitates. Will he come full circle on this and tell her “It’s not you but me”?

“I think it’s best we don’t see each other anymore, Jenny,” He replies, fully aware he’s not answering her question, and offering no reassurance. 

“Yeah, I figured,” She replies softly. “I came to say goodbye, I guess.”

Bradley doesn’t respond. It would be the least he could do. He would owe Jenny that much, but if he’s burning all his bridges, he might as well be thorough about it. He’s acutely aware that he is an awful person, so at least Jenny would have no doubt about that anymore.

So he waits for her to turn away, but instead, she frowns, looking up at him. “I just wished you hadn’t lied to me about your wife. I really thought you were different.”

Bradley looks back impassively, thankful for how his sunglasses and cover shield his expression.

“And now you know I’m not,” Bradley shrugs, not even bothering to correct her on the

“Really?” Jenny is indignant. “I told you I wasn’t like that, Bradley -” 

“Keep my name out of your mouth,” Bradley cuts her off coldly. Jenny blanches. He doesn’t want to hear her say it when he’ll never hear you say it again. He wants to preserve every bit of the dream, every bit of you. “And you’re exactly like that, if I hadn’t stopped, you would have let me fuck you in that alleyway,” He continues, voice steely. “You’re exactly like all the girls that hang around port.”

He shouldn’t be taking out his grief on her, but for a moment, it makes Bradley feel better. Just like kissing her made him feel better for a brief time. It won’t change that he is stuck in the Pacific, dodging suicidal enemies, that he hasn’t been home in years, that he left you behind and that you are now dead. It won’t bring you back.

“You would have fucked me in that alleyway, so that makes you just as bad as me.” Jenny bristles. “At least I didn’t lie.”

“Like that’s what matters,” Bradley grumbles under his breath.

“Anyway,” Jenny clears her throat, blinking heavily. “You dropped this yesterday.”

She extends her hand, holding a small square of white. Bradley snatches it out of her hand. Fuck. His heart is suddenly beating loudly.

Your handkerchief, pristine white as the day you handed it to him, neatly folded. Gone every trace of his blood, gone every trace there was of you.

Bradley thinks he’s going to be sick again.

“It fell on the ground, so I washed it for you.” Jenny’s voice sounds distant in his head. “But yeah, I figured it belonged to your wife or sweetheart… and it’s not her fault, so, there.” She trails off.

“You need to stay out of my life,” Bradley hisses out.

Bradley’s hand is shaking — whether from anger or overwhelming grief, he cannot begin to understand what he is feeling. He needs to leave. Slipping your handkerchief, which feels foreign and contaminated in his hand, into his chest pocket, Bradley starts to turn away.

“You know, I figured she’d want to know.” 

Bradley’s head snaps back at Jenny so quickly it makes his vision blurry for a moment. Jenny looks livid.

“What?” He bites back, acerbically. 

“This won’t be the last deployment you go on,” Jenny has tears in her eyes as she forces out the words. “Really, how hard will it be to find a Mrs. A. Bradshaw in Virginia Beach? Can’t imagine there are many.” She swallows heavily before continuing with a stronger voice. “Don’t you think she’ll be curious to hear what you get up to while she waits for you?”

Jenny pauses a moment to gauge Bradley’s reaction. His mouth is pressed into a thin line, his fist balled by his side. Good. 

“Maybe I’ll drop by, and fill her in over some coffee.” She concludes cattily. 

A few moments of silence pass. Jenny is getting nervous. She expected Rooster to start shouting and explode in anger. But he’s just standing there, expression unreadable, until the corner of his mouth quirks up.

Bradley starts laughing — his laughter sounds empty in cruel to his own ears. He doesn’t even think it’s funny. He feels no joy. It’s absurd. Jenny looks terrified. This is worse than any shouting could be.

“Good luck with that one,” He laughs. “Do let me know if you find her.” 

He turns fully back to her. Involuntarily, Jenny takes a step back.

“Stay the fuck away from me.” 

note | damn bro

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MY FNAF VERSION/AU MASTERPOST!

Little disclaimer my version of FNAF is VERY VERY CLOSE TO CANON.

Everything from lifespans of the businesses to characters to the main plot is under the cut.

Fredbear's Family Diner 1964-1983

Sister Location (Circus Baby’s Funland) 1984

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza 1984-1993

Fazbear’s Frights 2023-2023

Faux Fazbears 2024

Pizzaplex 2030

The order of the games is such: 5 - 4 - 2 -1 - 3 - 6 - UCN - SB

Characters

William Afton (October 14 1938 - ???)

Henry Emily (June 10th 1939 - September 15 2024)

Michael Afton (February 13 1969 - April 16 2031)

Elizabeth Afton (May 4 1976 - May 6 1984)

Evan Afton (July 6 1977 - July 8 1983)

Charlie Emily ( December 6 1971 - 1983)

Elanor Afton-Schmidt (February 15 1943 - March 6 1978)

Ruth Emily-Davis (November 26 1941- October 1 2026)

Jenny Smith (March 25 1970 - )

Evan Jr. Smith ( October 13 1987 - April 5 2030 )

Vanessa Williams ( September 29 1999 - )

  William was born to James and Helen Afton in Essex, England. James died in WW2 in 1944 when William was 6. Helen remarried in 1946 to a man by the name of George. George resented and was highly abusive to William, their relationship was strained at best. Once William turned 18 he moved to America to pursue a college education. He never regained contact with his mother and step-father. William went to college for a degree in engineering in 1956. There he met Henry and they quickly became friends. One year later he met Elanor and they married in 1959. They had three children together.

  Henry was born to Edward and Dorothy Emily in Hurricane Utah. He had a normal childhood growing up and went to college in 1957 where he met William. He ended up marrying his highschool sweetheart Ruth in 1961. They had their only child Charlie in 1971. They then divorced in 1981.

  Michael is the oldest son of William and Elanor, he was born and raised in Hurricane, Utah. After his mother dying when he was 9 his father started to abuse him, it subsequently got worse as his brother and sister passed. He met his girlfriend Jenny when he was 18 and they quickly had a child, Evan Jr. He worked as a security guard for multiple Fazbear Ent. Inc. locations.

  Elizabeth and Evan are the two younger children of William and Elanor. They were born only a year apart and were favorited by William, their mother died when they were too young to remember her and became highly attached to William. Both died very young. Elizabeth possessed Circus baby and Evan possessed Golden Freddy.

 Charlie Emily was the only child of Henry and Ruth. She grew up very close to her “cousins” Michael, Elizabeth, and Evan. She had a good relationship with her “uncle” William. She was murdered by William at 12 years old and possessed the puppet.

 Elanor Schmidt was the wife of William and mother of Michael Elizabeth and Evan. She was a proficient ballet dancer and ended up being a stay at home mother to her three children, she had a loving relationship with her husband but it ended up tense at the end of it, she was murdered by her husband in 1978.

 Ruth Davis was the wife of Henry and mother of Charlie. She met Henry in highschool and they had a decent relationship until they drifted apart and ended up divorcing. She gave up parental rights to Henry. 

  Jenny Smith is the girlfriend of Michael Afton and the mother of Evan Jr. She met Michael when she was a teenager and supported him through his teenage years, which lead them to fall in love with each other. She got back together with Michael after his accident and they raised Evan together. 

  Evan Jr. Smith is the son of Michael and Jenny. He had a normal childhood and early adulthood. He ended up being possessed by his grandfather William and lost his sense of self in 2030 and essentially died. 

  Vannessa Williams is a security guard at the Pizzaplex. She resurrected William and helped him possess his grandson. They are in a strenuous relationship. 

Main timeline of events       

Henry and William start Fredbear’s Family Diner in 1964

William suffers a springlock accident, permanently scarring him.

Michael Afton is born in 1969

Charlie Emily is born in 1971

Fredbear’s Family Diner opens more locations.

Elizabeth Afton is born in 1976

Evan Afton is born in 1977

In 1978, Elanor Afton is killed by her husband William with a sledgehammer. He takes her body and disposes of it in the Utah desert. Due to marital conflicts being known, he is interrogated but the case is quickly dropped.

Evan Afton’s 6th birthday takes place in Fredbear’s in 1983. His older brother and his friends put his head into the Fredbear animatronic and Evan’s head is quickly crushed. He is rushed to the hospital and put into a medically induced coma. The events of FNAF 4 take place in his head over a week when he is pronounced brain dead and dies. He possesses the Fredbear animatronic.

Over the next year, William’s mental health rapidly deteriorates and he becomes obsessed with the idea of possession. He theorizes that his son is in the fredbear animatronic and starts to design animatronics to test his theory by giving them the capability to capture and kill children inconspicuously. 

A sister location known as Circus Baby’s Funland is opened with William’s new animatronics. Elizabeth becomes infatuated with one of the robots, Baby, based off of her. William commands her to stay away but she defies his orders and is killed by Baby.

William’s sanity decreases once again.

Henry, noticing the problems in his business partner's life and mental state, and proximity to horrific accidents, forces him to leave the company for his own good. He also secretly fears for his own daughter's safety. Henry designs an animatronic puppet to act as a watchguard for her.

One night Charlie is locked outside of Fredbear’s Family Diner and William murders her in the alley next to the building. The puppet follows Charlie outside and she possesses her. William is dropped as a potential assailant due to lack of evidence.

After this death, the restaurant chain is renamed to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in 1984

New animatronics are designed (toys) and new locations are opened up subsequently.

Michael and Jenny have Evan Jr.

William disguises himself as a security guard, uses his springbonnie suit, and murders five children in 1987. 

Due to the murders, the restaurant is about to be shut down, but one more party takes place, during this time, a security guard by the name of Jeremy Fitzgerald gets bitten in the head by Mangle, this is the bite of ‘87

The location is shut down and William is apprehended due to previous speculation, he is let go due to the police being unable to find the bodies.

In 1993 a new location is opened up with refurbished animatronics, Michael is hired as a nightguard but ends up being fired.

One night, William enters the building in an attempt to dismantle the animatronics. He is confronted by the ghosts of the murder victims. In an attempt to scare them off, William dons the springbonnie suit, but the suit malfunctions.

William dies in 1993 in the backroom of a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. He possesses springbonnie. 

Learning of William’s disappearance, Henry closes off every backroom in every location under the guise of “budget cuts’

In 1995, Michael travels to the underground bunker holding Baby and the other Circus Baby’s Funland animatronics to rectify his mistakes and find out more about his father. Baby and the rest manipulate Michael into helping them escape, and they end up leading him into the scooping room, scooping out his organs and killing him. Baby and the others congeal into one animatronic and enter Michael’s body. They use his body as an attempt to  conform to civilian life but it starts to rot and it expels them.. Michael’s soul possesses his own body, essentially becoming undead.

After being expelled, infighting causes Baby to be removed from Ennard due to her being Afton's daughter and refusing to kill Michael. She rebuilds herself and Ennard becomes Molten Freddy.

Michael, being undead, finds Jenny, who accepts him, and they begin to raise Evan together.

30 years pass.

The children’s murders essentially become urban legend at this point.

In another attempt to dispel the urban legend, Fazbear Ent. Inc. opens a horror attraction known as Fazbear Frights in California. Michael starts to work there to continue his hunt for his father. 

Springtrap is transported to the location as a prop, as workers found his body. 

Michael and Springtrap fight and Michael sets the building on fire. Springtrap survives as well as Michael, and Michael captures him and drives him to Utah so Henry can deal with him. 

Springtrap escapes Michael’s capture.

In a desperate attempt to end everything once and for all, Henry opens up a fake pizzeria in 2024 to lure all the still roaming souls.

In a miracle, it works, and Springtrap, Baby, Molten Freddy, Golden Freddy, and the Puppet (in Lefty) all arrive.

Michael works at the building to help Henry during this.

Henry locks down the building and sets it ablaze, killing everyone and himself in the building. Michael survives.

William is sent to Hell, to be tormented by Cassidy for eternity, she traps all of the other souls alongside her to torment William as well. Henry eventually convinces her to release the souls and pass on herself to leave William to burn in hell. 

Six years pass.

Fazbear Ent. Inc. opens up the Pizzaplex, with all new animatronics and redesigns.

Vanessa works at the Pizzaplex as a security guard.

Evan Jr. Works at the Pizzaplex as an animatronic engineer.

Due to her obsession with the murders and William, she attempts to bring him back to life, and it works. 

He ends up possessing her, and appears in her head as Glitchtrap.

Vanessa finds Williams old body (springtrap) under the pizzaplex and slowly starts to rebuild it so william can possess it. 

William possesses his body again.

After the battle with Gregory and Glamrock Freddy, his body gets destroyed and he possesses his grandson, Evan Jr. Him and Vanessa escape.

William and Vanessa work together over a year to start murdering children again, as William wants remnant due to it extending life and he does not want to return to Hell.

Michael goes to the pizzaplex and attempts to stop Vanessa and William.

He ends up getting murdered by William.

Michael possesses Glamrock Freddy.

The future of this is up to debate :)

[jartita-me-teneis]

18 hechos sobre París:

1. El Metro de París tiene varias "estaciones fantasmas" que ya no están en uso. Uno de los más famosos es el Arsenal, que fue cerrado en 1939.

2. El apartamento de Gustave Eiffel en la parte superior de la Torre Eiffel todavía existe. Ahora es un museo, mostrando cómo se veía cuando vivía allí.

3. Montmartre, conocido por su historia artística, tiene un viñedo oculto llamado Clos Montmartre que todavía produce vino.

4. La Ópera del Palais Garnier tiene un apartamento oculto diseñado para el arquitecto del edificio, Charles Garnier.

5. La casa más antigua de París se encuentra en la calle de Montmorency 51 y data de 1407. Perteneció al alquimista Nicolas Flamel.

6. La calle más corta de París, Rue des Degrés, tiene sólo 5,75 metros de largo y consiste únicamente en una escalera.

7. La Opera Garnier tiene un lago subterráneo, originalmente una fuente de agua natural que se convirtió en parte de su infraestructura.

8. Durante la liberación de París en 1944, la contraseña secreta era "Tante Sally. "

9. La Rue des Morts en el 5.o distrito fue una vez una calle donde personas con rostros desfigurados debido a lesiones de la Primera Guerra Mundial vivían y recibieron tratamiento.

10. La Campagne à París en el distrito 20 es un pequeño pueblo escondido dentro de la ciudad, con casas y jardines pintorescos.

11. El Tour Jean-sans-Peur, una torre medieval construida a principios del siglo XV, está escondida en el 2.o distrito.

12. Candelaria, un bar estilo bar clandestino, está escondido detrás de una tienda de tacos en Le Marais.

13. Le Procope, fundado en 1686, es el café más antiguo de París y fue frecuentado por Voltaire, Rousseau y Benjamin Franklin.

14. El Canal Saint-Martin estaba cubierto parcialmente a mediados del siglo XIX, y hoy en día, partes del mismo corren bajo tierra.

15. En el Arco del Triunfo hay un ascensor escondido dentro de uno de los pilares para los que no pueden o no quieren subir las escaleras.

16. El Pont des Arts fue usado una vez como un puente de peaje, donde los artistas montaban sus caballetes y pintaban las vistas del río.

17. Place de la Concorde, ahora una famosa plaza, fue una vez el lugar de muchas ejecuciones públicas durante la Revolución Francesa.

18. El río Bièvre, una vez una vía fluvial prominente en París, ahora fluye completamente bajo tierra a través de la ciudad.

[queerasfact]

Queer Calendar 2023

We put together a calendar of key (mostly queer) dates at the start of the year to help us with scheduling - so I thought I’d share it around! Including pride and visibility days, some queer birthdays and anniversaries, and a few other bits and bobs. Click the links for more info - I dream one day of having a queer story for every day of the year!

This is obviously not an exhaustive list - if I’ve overlooked something important to you, feel free to add it in the reblogs!

January

3 - Bisexual American jazz-age heiress Henrietta Bingham born 1901

8 - Queer Australian bushranger Captain Moonlite born 1845; gay American art collector Ned Warren born 1860

11 - Pennsylvania celebrates Rosetta Tharpe Day in honour of bisexual musician Rosetta Tharpe

12 - Japanese lesbian author Nobuko Yoshiya born 1896

22 - Lunar New Year (Year of the Rabbit)

24 - Roman emperor Hadrian, famous for his relationship with Antinous, born 76CE; gay Prussian King Frederick the Great born 1712

27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February

LGBT+ History Month (UK, Hungary)

Black History Month (USA and Canada)

1 - Feast of St Brigid, a saint especially important to Irish queer women

5 - Operation Soap, a police raid on gay bathhouses in Toronto, Canada, spurs massive protests, 1981

7 - National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

18 - US Black lesbian writer and activist Audre Lorde born 1934

12 - National Freedom to Marry Day (USA)

19-25 - Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

March

Women’s History Month

1 - Black Women in Jazz and the Arts Day

8 - International Women’s Day

9 - Bi British writer David Garnett born 1892

12 - Bi Polish-Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky born 1889 or 1890

13 March-15 April - Deaf History Month

14 - American lesbian bookseller and publisher Sylvia Beach born 1887

16 - French lesbian artist Rosa Bonheur born 1822

20 - Bi US musician Rosetta Tharpe born 1915

21 - World Poetry Day

24 - The Wachowski sisters’ cyberpunk trans allegory The Matrix premiers 1999

April

Jazz Appreciation Month

Black Women’s History Month

National Poetry Month (USA)

3 - British lesbian diarist Anne Lister born 1791

8 - Trans British racing driver and fighter pilot Roberta Cowell born 1918

9 -  Bi Australia poet Lesbia Harford born 1891; Easter Sunday

10 - National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (USA)

14 - Day of Silence

15 - Queer Norwegian photographer and suffragist Marie Høeg born 1866

17 - Costa-Rican-Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas born 1919

21-22 - Eid al-Fitr

25 - Gay English King Edward II born 1284

26 - Lesbian Day of Visibility; bi American blues singer Ma Rainey born 1886

29 - International Dance Day

30 - International Jazz Day

May

1 - Trans British doctor and Buddhist monk Michael Dillon born 1915

7 - International Family Equality Day

7 - Gay Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky born 1840

15 - Australian drag road-trip comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert premiers in 1994

 17 - IDAHOBIT (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia)

18 - International Museum Day

19 - Agender Pride Day

22 - US lesbian tailor and poet Charity Bryant born 1777

22 - Harvey Milk Day marks the birth of gay US politician Harvey Milk 1930

23 - Premier of Pride, telling the story of the 1980s British activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

24 - Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day; Queer Chinese-Japanese spy Kawashima Yoshiko born 1907

26 - queer American astronaut Sally Ride born 1951

29 - Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin born 1969

June

Pride Month

Indigenous History Month (Canada)

3 - Bisexual American-French performer, activist and WWII spy Josephine Baker born 1906

5 - Queer Spanish playwright and poet Federico García Lorca born 1898; bi English economic John Maynard Keynes born 1883

8 - Mechanic and founder of Australia’s first all-female garage, Alice Anderson, born 1897

10 - Bisexual Israeli poet Yona Wallach born 1944

12 - Pulse Night of Remembrance, commemorating the 2012 shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Orlando

14 - Australian activists found the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands in 2004

18 - Sally Ride becomes the first know queer woman in space

24 - The first Sydney Mardi Gras 1978

25 - The rainbow flag first flown as a queer symbol in 1978

28 - Stonewall Riots, 1969

28 June-2 July - Eid al-Adha

30 - Gay German-Israeli activist, WWII resistance member and Holocaust survivor Gad Beck born 1923

July

1 - Gay Dutch WWII resistance fighter Willem Arondeus killed - his last words were “Tell the people homosexuals are no cowards”

2-9 - NAIDOC Week (Australia) celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

6 - Bi Mexican artist Frida Kahlo born 1907

12 or 13 - Roman emperor Julius Caesar born c.100BCE

14 - International Non-Binary People’s Day

23 - Shelly Bauman, owner of Seattle gay club Shelly’s Leg, born 1947; American lesbian cetenarian Ruth Ellis born 1899; gay American professor, tattooist and sex researcher Sam Steward born 1909

25 - Italian-Australian trans man Harry Crawford born 1875

August

8 - International Cat Day

9 - Queer Finnish artist, author and creator of Moomins Tove Jansson born 1914

9 - International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

11 - Russian lesbian poet Sofya Parnok born 1885

12 - Queer American blues musician Gladys Bentley born 1907

13 - International Left-Handers Day

22 - Gay WWII Dutch resistance fight Willem Arondeus born 1894

24 - Trans American drag queen and activist Marsha P Johnson born 1945

26 - National Dog Day

30 - Bi British author Mary Shelley 1797

31 - Wear it Purple Day (Australia - queer youth awareness)

September

5 - Frontman of Queen Freddie Mercury born 1946

6 - Trans Scottish doctor and farmer Ewan Forbes born 1912

13 - 1990 documentary on New York’s ball culture Paris is Burning premiers

15-17 - Rosh Hashanah

16-23 - Bisexual Awareness Week

17 - Gay Prussian-American Inspector General of the US Army Baron von Steuben born 1730

23 - Celebrate Bisexuality Day

24 - Gay Australian artist William Dobell born 1889

30 - International Podcast Day

October

Black History Month (Europe)

4 - World Animal Day

5 - National Poetry Day (UK)

5 - Queer French diplomat and spy the Chevalière d’Éon born 1728

8 - International Lesbian Day

9 - Indigenous Peoples’ Day (USA)

11 - National Coming Out Day

16 - Irish writer Oscar Wilde born 1854

18 - International Pronouns Day

22-28 - Asexual Awareness Week

26 - Intersex Awareness Day

31 - American lesbian tailor Sylvia Drake born 1784

November

8 - Intersex Day of Remembrance

12 - Diwali; Queer Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz born c.1648

13-19 - Transgender Awareness Week

20 - Trans American writer, lawyer, activist and priest Pauli Murray born 1910; Transgender Day of Remembrance

27 - Antinous, lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian, born c.111; German lesbian drama Mädchen in Uniform premiers, 1931

29 - Queer American writer Louisa May Alcott born 1832

December

AIDS Awareness Month

1 - World AIDS Day

2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities

8 - Pansexual Pride Day; queer Swedish monarch Christina of Sweden born 1626

10 - Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners host Pits and Perverts concern to raise mining for striking Welsh miners, 1984

14 - World Monkey Day

15 - Roman emperor Nero born 37CE

24 - American drag king and bouncer Stormé DeLarverie born 1920

25 - Christmas

29 - Trans American jazz musician Billy Tipton born 1914

[judgemark45]

MURDERERS' ROW

Third Fleet aircraft carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 8 December 1944, during a break from operations in the Philippines area. The carriers are (from front to back): USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Wasp, Yorktown and Ticonderoga are all painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a.

Photographed from a USS Ticonderoga plane. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Catalog #: 80-G-294131

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

𝟭𝟴 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀:

1. The Paris Metro has several "ghost stations" that are no longer in use. One of the most famous is Arsenal, which was closed in 1939.

2. Gustave Eiffel's apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower still exists. It's now a museum, showcasing how it looked when he lived there.

3. Montmartre, known for its artistic history, has a hidden vineyard called Clos Montmartre, which still produces wine.

4. The Palais Garnier Opera House has a hidden apartment designed for the building's architect, Charles Garnier.

5. The oldest house in Paris is located at 51 Rue de Montmorency and dates back to 1407. It belonged to the alchemist Nicolas Flamel.

6. The shortest street in Paris, Rue des Degrés, is just 5.75 meters long and consists solely of a staircase.

7. The Opera Garnier has an underground lake, originally a natural water source that became part of its infrastructure.

8. During the liberation of Paris in 1944, the secret password was "Tante Sally."

9. Rue des Morts in the 5th arrondissement was once a street where people with disfigured faces due to World War I injuries lived and received treatment.

10. La Campagne à Paris in the 20th arrondissement is a small, hidden village within the city, complete with quaint houses and gardens.

11. The Tour Jean-sans-Peur, a medieval tower built in the early 15th century, is tucked away in the 2nd arrondissement.

12. Candelaria, a speakeasy-style bar, is hidden behind a taco shop in Le Marais.

13. Le Procope, founded in 1686, is the oldest café in Paris and was frequented by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Benjamin Franklin.

14. The Canal Saint-Martin was partly covered in the mid-19th century, and today, parts of it run underground.

15. At the Arc de Triomphe, there's an elevator hidden within one of the pillars for those who can't or don't want to climb the stairs.

16. The Pont des Arts was once used as a toll bridge, where artists would set up their easels and paint the river views.

17. Place de la Concorde, now a famous square, was once the site of many public executions during the French Revolution.

18. The Bièvre River, once a prominent waterway in Paris, now flows entirely underground through the city.

[mindofsombre]

Roza Shanina ᡣ𐭩 ´ˎ˗

Roza Georgiyevna Shanina was born April 3rd, 1924, to parents Anna Alexeyevna Shanina and Georgiy Mikhailovich Shanin. Not much is known about her early life, only that her father was once a logger and at the age of fourteen, she walked 200 kilometres across the taiga to the rail station and travelled to Arkhangelsk to study at college. She excelled quite well with her studies, but due to her family's financial struggles, she had to move out on her own to support herself. Shanina left home with little money and almost no possessions, and before moving to the college dormitory, she lived with her oldest brother, Fyodor. In 1938, Shanina became a member of the Soviet youth movement. Shanina received little financial support from home and in 1941, she took a job in kindergarten. She studied in the evenings and worked in the kindergarten during the daytime. The children liked Shanina and their parents appreciated her. Shanina graduated from college in the 1941–42 academic year, when the Soviet Union was in the grip of World War II.

She received a death notification in December of 1941 for her 19-year-old brother, who had passed in the siege of leningrad, Leading to her going to the military commissariat to ask for permission to serve. that time, the Soviet Union had begun deploying female snipers because they had flexible limbs, and it was believed that they were patient, careful, and attentive, Meaning roza was accepted as a contributer to the red army. She started her training at the 'central Women’s Sniper Training School' where she then met 2 friends (Kaleriya Petrova and Aleksandra "Sasha" Yekimova) who soon became her closest friends. Roza scored highly during her training and graduated with honors. On 2 April 1944, Roza joined the 184th rifile division where she was appointed as commander of that platoon.

"I've killed a man." Concerned, the other women ran up saying, "That was a fascist you finished off!"

She received the award for killing 13 enemy soldiers while subjected to artillery and machine gun fire between april 6th-11th, 1944, her sniper tally increased to 17 confirmed enemy kills. Roza was awarded her first military decoration, the Order of Glory 3rd Class, on 18 April 1944. She became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive that order. She crawled through a muddy trenches each day at dawn to a specially camouflaged pit which overlooked German-controlled territory and often used counter-sniper tactics to take out german troops.

August 31st of that year, Shanina's Battle count reached 42 kills and by September, she reached 51. Roza was awarded her second military distinction, the Order of Glory 2nd Class for intrepidity and bravery displayed in various battles against the Germans in that year. On 12 December 1944, an enemy sniper shot Shanina in her right shoulder, She wrote in her diary that she had not felt the pain, "the shoulder was just scalded with something hot." Although the injury, which Shanina described as "two small holes", seemed minor to her, she needed an operation and was incapacitated for several days.

JANUARY 28TH, 1945.

Shanina was severely wounded by a nearby grenade attack and was later found by two soldiers disemboweled, with her chest torn open by a shell fragment. There we multiple attempts made to revive her but she died the next day in northwest of an east Prussian village.

[margotfonteyns]

At The Christmas Ball: A Vintage Xmas Anthology

01 - At The Christmas Ball - Bessie Smith (1925) 02 - Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back To Me - Ozie Ware (1928) 03 - Papa Ain't No Santa Claus - Butterbeans & Susie (1930) 04 - It's Winter Again - Isham Jones & His Orchestra (1932) 05 - Jingle Bells - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (1935) 06 - There's Frost On The Moon - Artie Shaw & His Strings (1936) 07 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Mildred Bailey (1937) 08 - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning - Lord Beginner (1939) 09 - Winter Weather - Fats Waller & His Rhythm (1941) 10 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1943) 11 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland (1944) 12 - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Connee Boswell (1945) 13 - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Mabel Scott (1948) 14 - Baby, It's Cold Outside - Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page (1949) 15 - All I Want For Christmas - Nat King Cole Trio (1949) 16 - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - The Orioles (1949) 17 - Midnight Sleighride - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (1952) 18 - Silent Night - Dinah Washington (1953) 19 - White Christmas - The Drifters (1954) 20 - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Cadillacs (1956) 21 - Warm December - Julie London (1956) 22 - Love Turns Winter To Spring - June Christy (1957) 23 - The Secret Of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald (1959) 24 - The Christmas Song - Carmen McRae (1961) 25 - A Christmas Surprise - Lena Horne (1965) 26 - Santa Was Here - Lorez Alexandria (1968)

Download: flac / mp3

[punster-2319]

Ranking the Classic MGM Tom and Jerry Cartoons (Favorite to Least Favorite)

1. Solid Serenade (1946)

2. Trap Happy (1946)

3. Tee for Two (1945)

4. The Cat Concerto (1947)

5. Mouse Trouble (1944)

6. Jerry’s Cousin (1951)

7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse (1947)

8. Texas Tom (1950)

9. Heavenly Puss (1949)

10. The Zoot Cat (1944)

11. Cat Fishin’ (1947)

12. Flirty Birdy (1945)

13. The Mouse Comes to Dinner (1945)

14. Springtime for Thomas (1946)

15. Baby Puss (1943)

16. Kitty Foiled (1948)

17. Little Quacker (1950)

18. Mouse in Manhattan (1945)

19. Jerry and the Lion (1950)

20. The Million Dollar Cat (1944)

21. The Truce Hurts (1950)

22. Fit to Be Tied (1952)

23. Quiet Please! (1945)

24. Pecos Pest (1955)

25. Puttin’ on the Dog (1944)

26. The Bodyguard (1944)

27. The Dog House (1952)

28. Safety Second (1950)

29. Part Time Pal (1947)

30. Saturday Evening Puss (1950)

31. Down Beat Bear (1956)

32. The Missing Mouse (1953)

33. Little Runaway (1952)

34. Professor Tom (1948)

35. Cue Ball Cat (1950)

36. Jerry’s Diary (1949)

37. Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl (1950)

38. Jerry and the Goldfish (1951)

39. The Flying Cat (1952)

40. The Duck Doctor (1952)

41. Sufferin’ Cats (1943)

42. Love That Pup (1949)

43. The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943)

44. The Invisible Mouse (1947)

45. The Little Orphan (1949)

46. Nit-Witty Kitty (1952)

47. Jerry and Jumbo (1953)

48. Timid Tabby (1957)

49. The Bowling Alley-Cat (1942)

50. Puss Gets the Boot (1940)

51. Hatch Up Your Troubles (1949)

52. Sleepy-Time Tom (1951)

53. Fine Feathered Friend (1942)

54. Two Little Indians (1953)

55. Pet Peeve (1954)

56. Muscle Beach Tom (1956)

57. Smarty Cat (1955)

58. Puss n’ Toots (1942)

59. The Night Before Christmas (1941)

60. The Lonesome Mouse (1943)

61. The Milky Waif (1946)

62. Mouse Cleaning (1948)

63. Mouse for Sale (1955)

64. Posse Cat (1954)

65. The Two Mouseketeers (1952)

66. Touché, Pussy Cat! (1954)

67. Tom and Chérie (1955)

68. Tennis Chumps (1949)

69. Salt Water Tabby (1947)

70. A Mouse in the House (1947)

71. Fraidy Cat (1942)

72. The Midnight Snack (1941)

73. Barbecue Brawl (1956)

74. Royal Cat Nap (1958)

75. Hic-cup Pup (1954)

76. Old Rockin’ Chair Tom (1948)

77. Push-Button Kitten (1952)

78. Slicked-up Pup (1951)

79. Puppy Tale (1954)

80. Triplet Trouble (1952)

81. The Cat and the Mermouse (1949)

82. Casanova Cat (1951)

83. The Framed Cat (1951)

84. Cat Napping (1951)

85. Cruise Cat (1952)

86. That’s My Pup! (1954)

87. Dog Trouble (1942)

88. Little School Mouse (1954)

89. Pup on a Picnic (1955)

90. Robin Hoodwinked (1958)

90. The Vanishing Duck (1958)

92. Just Ducky (1953)

93. Downhearted Duckling (1954)

94. Southbound Duckling (1955)

95. That’s My Mommy (1955)

96. Happy Go Ducky (1958)

97. Tot Watchers (1958)

98. Busy Buddies (1956)

99. Tom’s Photo Finish (1957)

100. Polka-Dot Puss (1949)

101. Smitten Kitten (1952)

102. Life with Tom (1953)

103. His Mouse Friday (1951)

104. Mucho Mouse (1957)

105. Blue Cat Blues (1956)

106. Designs for Jerry (1954)

107. Neapolitan Mouse (1954)

108. Mice Follies (1954)

109. Johann Mouse (1953)

110. Baby Butch (1954)

111. The Flying Sorceress (1956)

112. The Egg and Jerry (1956)

113. Tops and Pops (1957)

114. Feedin’ the Kiddie (1957)

There’s all 114 classic MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons ranked (I’m not ranking the later Gene Deitch or Chuck Jones shorts).

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE CLASSIC TOM AND JERRY CARTOONS?

[thekingwhereitallends]

Tenchijin AU Birthday List

*Note: Some of characters may be younger or older than their canon selves.*

Kaguya Õtsutsuki:Aug.15 543 BC

Tenji:Oct.6 30 BC

Jigen:Sep.4 29 BC

Aino:May.12 20 BC

Hagoromo Õtsutsuki-⼤筒⽊ハゴロモ:Aug.6 0000

Hamura Õtsutsuki:Aug.6 0000

Haori:May.19 0001

Indra Õtsutsuki:Jan.4 0033

Sakura Ainoten:Apr.1 0034

Ashura Õtsutsuki:Jun.8 0034

Kanna:Jun.30 0035

Ichikishimahime:Sep.20 1351

First Mizukage Byakuren:Jan.20 1863

First Tsuchikage Ishikawa:May.6 1872

Ashina Uzumaki:Jun.21 1876

Butsuma Senju:Jan.16 1892

Tajima Uchiha:Mar.28 1893

Bunpuku:Feb.9 1904

First Raikage A:Dec.1 1912

Rai Uchiha:Nov.6 1913

Second Raikage A:Mar.1 1914

Hikaku Uchiha:Aug.12 1915

Naori Uchiha:Nov.14 1915

First Hokage Hashirama Senju:Oct.23 1916

Madara Uchiha:Dec.24 1916

Mito Uzumaki:May.3 1917

First Kazekage Reto:Jun.27 1917

Sasuke Sarutobi:Jul.19 1917

Izuna Uchiha:Feb.10 1918

Second Hokage Tobirama Senju:Feb.19 1918

Second Kazekage Shamon:Mar.12 1919

Tõka Senju:May.26 1919

Second Tsuchikage Mū:Jun.6 1920

Second Mizukage Gengetsu Hõzuki: Oct.26 1920

Itama Senju:Jan.17 1921

Genji:Jul.20 1922

Kawarama Senju:Jul.3 1923

Kinkaku:Mar.7 1926

Ginkaku:Apr.9 1927

Kakuzu:Aug.15 1930

Third Tsuchikage Õnoki:Oct.8 1939

Kagami Uchiha:Feb.22 1940

Third Mizukage Kenshin Mikami:Feb.2 1941

Third Kazekage Samirõ:Aug.9 1941

Hanzõ:Sep.24 1941

Chiyo:Oct.15 1942

Third Raikage A:Aug.1 1943

Ebizõ:Jan.6 1944

Danzõ Shimura:Jan.6 1945

Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi: Feb.8 1945

Homura Mitokado:May.8 1945

Biwako Sarutobi:Jun.21 1945

Koharu Utatane:Sep.1 1945

Jinin Akebino:Sep.25 1949

Ise:Mar.23 1955

Fusõ Uzumaki:Aug.5 1955

Shinku Yūhi:Aug.9 1960

Tsunade Senju:Aug.2 1964

Orochimaru:Oct.27 1964

Jiraiya:Nov.11 1964

Dan Katõ:Dec.4 1964

Sēramu:Jul.31 1965

Hiruko:Oct.23 1965

Jinpachi Munashi:Jul.4 1968

Ameyuri Ringo:Jun.7 1969

Nawaki Senju:Aug.9 1971

Sakumo Hatake:Sep.3 1971

Might Duy:Dec.10 1971

Rõshi:Jun.4 1974

Fuguki Suikazan:Feb.22 1975

Kitsuchi:Mar.22 1975

Yahiko:Feb.20 1976

Okisuke:Jul.27 1976

Ao:Aug.1 1976

Konan:Feb.20 1977

Nagato:Sep.19 1977

Kizashi Haruno:Dec.6 1978

Mebuki Haruno:Jul.26 1979

Malice Rinha:Jun.24 1980

Gari:Aug.8 1980

Mui:Nov.3 1980

Fourth Raikage A:Jun.1 1981

Hotarubi:Aug.9 1981

Kushimaru Kuriarare:Nov.18 1982

Blue B:May.31 1983

Natsuhi:Jun.28 1983

Hiashi Hyūga:Jan.8 1984

Hizashi Hyūga:Jan.8 1984

Inoichi Yamanaka:Jan.24 1984

Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze:Jan.25 1984

Nonõ Yakushi:Mar.5 1984

Fourth Kazekage Rasa:Mar.29 1984

Yagura Karatachi:Apr.3 1984

Chõza Akimichi:Apr.22 1984

Mikoto Uchiha:Jun.1 1984

Kushina Uzumaki:Jul.10 1984

Shikaku Nara:Jul.15 1984

Fugaku Uchiha:Aug.16 1984

Karura:Nov.11 1984

Yoshino Nara:Feb.24 1985

Pakura:Apr.9 1985

Kazuma:May.29 1985

Tsume Inuzuka:Aug.12 1985

Raiga Kurosuki:Sep.13 1985

Yashamaru:May.23 1986

Killer B:May.15 1987

Baki:Jul.4 1988

Kaiza:Aug.21 1988

Sazanami:Sep.15 1988

Nan:Nov.15 1988

Shiranami:Jan.28 1989

Nowaki:Mar.7 1989

Jūzõ Biwa:Apr.14 1989

Tsunami:May.4 1989

Suiren(Kiri):Jun.2 1989

Sāra:Sep.17 1989

Sasori:Nov.8 1989

Kisame Hoshigaki:Mar.18 1990

Sadai-サダイ:Jun.19 1990

Ran-乱:Apr.21 1991

Miru-美瑠:Sep.13 1991

Might Guy:Jan.1 1992

Obito Uchiha:Feb.10 1992

Ebisu:Mar.8 1992

Kurenai Yūhi:Jun.11 1992

Chiriku:Jul.1 1992

Genma Shiranui:Jul.17 1992

Zabuza Momochi:Aug.15 1992

Raidõ Namiashi:Aug.28 1992

Honoka:Sep.1 1992

Aoba Yamashiro:Sep.3 1992

Kakashi Hatake:Sep.15 1992

Asuma Sarutobi:Oct.18 1992

Rin Nohara:Nov.15 1992

Shizune Katõ:Nov.18 1992

Hanare:Dec.16 1992

Suzume:1992

Shimon Hijiri:Feb.1 1993

Fugai:Aug.6 1993

Chino Oyashiro:Nov.4 1993

Samui:Jan.7 1994

Mabui:Feb.1 1994

Emi:Nov.11 1994

Sukui:Mar.7 1995

C:Apr.3 1995

Utakata:Jun.16 1995

Maki:Aug.15 1995

Fūka:Nov.17 1995

Izumo Kamizuki:Nov.25 1995

Iruka Umino:May.26 1996

Anko Mitarashi:Oct.24 1996

Hayate Gekkõ:Nov.2 1996

Darui:Jan.6 1997

Muta Aburame:May.27 1997

Tenzõ Iburi(Yamato):Aug.10 1997

Kaori:Oct.1 1997

Shinko Inari:Nov.1 1997

Yūgao Uzuki:Nov.3 1997

Tokuma Hyūga:Feb.10 1998

Sagi:Feb.16 1998

Toki:Feb.16 1998

Yurika:Mar.21 1998

Sadoru:Apr.5 1998

Momiji:May.5 1998

Susuki:Jun.2 1998

Kirisaki:Aug.9 1998

Genshõ Ryūdõin:Sep.6 1998

Shisui Uchiha:Oct.19 1998

Yukiji:Dec.1 1998

Kotohime:Feb.9 1999

Yugito Nī:Jul.24 1999

Saya:Aug.4 1999

Shibuki:Dec.15 1999

Kabuto Yakushi:Feb.29 2000

Inaho:Mar.26 2000

Hidan:Apr.2 2000

Okyõ:May.4 2000

Koyuki Kazahana:Aug.21 2000

Nurui:Sep.10 2000

Guren:Dec.18 2000

Kohada:Oct.14 2000

Kujaku:Jan.11 2001

Mangetsu Hõzuki:Feb.15 2001

Yūto:Mar.31 2001

Hana Inuzuka:Apr.13 2001

Fifth Mizukage Mei Terumi:May.21 2001

Itachi Uchiha:Jun.9 2001

Masako:Jul.31 2001

Izumi Uchiha:Aug.28 2001

Otoha:Sep.10 2001

Kinsei:Oct.6 2001

Oyone:Nov.12 2001

Natsu Hyūga:Dec.4 2001

Haku Yuki:Jan.9 2002

Akatsuchi:Jan.11 2002

Ameno:Jan.15 2002

Ayame:Feb.14 2002

Deidara:May.5 2002

Kimimarõ Kaguya:Jun.15 2002

Kõji:Jun.27 2002

Gen'yūmaru:Jul.27 2002

Fū Yamanaka:Aug.20 2002

Shū:Sep.3 2002

Kurotsuchi:Sep.6 2002

Aoi Rokushõ:Sep.22 2002

Torune Aburame:Oct.24 2002

Gazeru:Nov.10 2002

Toneri Õtsutsuki:Dec.6 2002

Seina Shakudõ:Dec.23 2002

Hakui:Dec.10 2002

Kõ Hyūga:Jan.8 2003

Tayuya:Feb.15 2003

Princess Chiyo:Mar.9 2003

Sana:Apr.16 2003

Hõichi:Apr.30 2003

Ruka:May.28 2003

Ajisai:Jul.21 2003

Temari:Aug.23 2003

Taruho:Sep.13 2003

Jūgõ:Oct.1 2003

Chõjuro:Nov.1 2003

Sagiri:Nov.3 2003

Muku:Feb.18 2004

Shizuka Nadeshiko:Mar.29 2004

Karashi:Mar.29 2004

Ran:Apr.4 2004

Kankūrõ:May.15 2004

Kagerõ Fūma:Jun.1 2004

Dõsu Kinuta:Jun.12 2004

Kin Tsuchi:Jul.6 2004

Ryūzetsu:Jul.30 2004

Atsui:Aug.2 2004

Shin Katõ:Sep.6 2004

Zaku Abumi:Sep.14 2004

Hotaru Tsuchigumo:Oct.9 2004

Nae:Nov.29 2004

Shira:Dec.5 2004

Menma Shīn:Dec.14 2004

TenTen:Mar.9 2005

Hokuto:Mar.29 2005

Fū:Mar.31 2005

Kido Tsumiki:Apr.3 2005

Emiru:May.19 2005

Sasame Fūma:May.25 2005

Neji Hyūga:Jul.3 2005

Idate Morino:Aug.25 2005

Rock Lee:Nov.27 2005

Fifth Kazekage Gaara:Jan.19 2006

Shino Aburame:Jan.23 2006

Karui:Feb.14 2006

Suigetsu Hõzuki:Feb.18 2006

Sakura Haruno:Mar.28 2006

Chõji Akimichi:May.1 2006

Yukata:May.3 2006

Kiba Inuzuka:Jul.7 2006

Sasuke Uchiha:Jul.23 2006

Sumaru:Aug.17 2006

Shikamaru Nara:Sep.22 2006

Ino Yamanaka:Sep.23 2006

Shiho:Oct.9 2006

Seventh Hokage Naruto Uzumaki:Oct.10 2006

Matsuri:Nov.22 2006

Sai Yamanaka:Nov.25 2006

Hinata Hyūga:Dec.27 2006

Sari:Apr.14 2007

Karin Uzumaki:Jun.20 2007

Shion:Aug.4 2007

Omoi:Dec.26 2007

Mugino:Jul.26 2010

Yūkimaru:Dec.25 2010

Udon Ise:Apr.3 2011

Moegi Kazamatsuri:Jun.8 2011

Gengorõ Kamakura:Jul.4 2011

Ranmaru:Sep.21 2011

Konohamaru Sarutobi:Dec.30 2011

Hinoko:Jan.12 2012

Hanabi Hyūga:Mar.27 2012

Kaede Yoshino:Dec.20 2012

Inari:Dec.25 2012

Erimaki Sharo:Feb.18 2013

Akita Inuzuka:Apr.20 2013

Tsubasa Emiya:Sep.17 2013

Kohan Yamanaka:Dec.6 2013

Isari Funato:Jan.23 2014

Sansho:Jun.11 2014

Mibuna:Sep.8 2014

Tsukune:Feb.16 2015

Garashi Tõno:Jul.19 2016

Ichirõta Oniyuzu:Oct.11 2018

Kankitsu Akitsuki:May.25 2019

Remon Yoimura:Jul.21 2019

Hebiichigo:Jan.9 2020

Deepa:Jul.15 2020

Matsuba:Feb.19 2021

Ada:May.7 2022

Sazanka:Jan.9 2022

Code:Aug.24 2023

Kawaki:Nov.18 2024

Buntan Kurosaki:Apr.28 2024

Kagura Karatachi:Sep.27 2024

Kozuchi:Aug.30 2025

Ryõgi:Jan.31 2026

Boruto Uzumaki:Mar.27 2026

Sarada Uchiha:Mar.31 2026

Sekki:May.6 2026

Sumire Kakei:Jun.12 2026

Mitsuki:Jul.25 2026

ChõChõ Akimichi:Aug.8 2026

Shikadai Nara:Sep.23 2026

Inojin Yamanaka:Dec.5 2026

Shio:Jan.6 2028

Satõ:May.1 2028

Jin Kaminari:Sep.25 2028

Daemon:Jul.22 2029

Himawari Uzumaki:Aug.19 2029

*the list will be updated as the story progresses.*