#David W. Martin

[deadpresidents]

You used to list the books you've been reading every few weeks but I haven't seen a post like that in a minute. Anything good that you've been reading?

It has been a long time since I last posted one of those lists of recent reads -- probably about six months, so I'm not going to list everything I've read since then. And I don't remember exactly what I included last time, so hopefully I don't double-dip.

•Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician [2024] by James M. Bradley (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) If you want to make me happy, just publish a new book about one of America's more obscure Presidents. And in December 2024, we got a new biography of Martin Van Buren with fresh research from sources not previously available to earlier biographers, resulting in an updated, comprehensive book about Van Buren that now becomes one of the definitive biographies of our eighth President.

•Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents [2024] by Nigel Hamilton (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) I'm also an easy mark for books about Jefferson Davis -- not out of any sort of affinity for him or the Confederacy, of course -- but just because of his unique place in history as an American President who also wasn't really an American President (although, technically, he was.) Throw Lincoln into the mix and you don't have to sell me very hard on this book.

•Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East [2024] by Robert Fisk (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) I wish Fisk had lived to write about the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but it doesn't require much imagination to know what he would have thought about it: he wrote honestly, critically, and with deep understanding about the subject for 40+ years while reporting from the heart of the struggle in the Middle East.

•The Garfield Orbit [1978] by Margaret Leech and Harry J. Brown (BOOK)

•The World and Richard Nixon [1987] by C.L. Sulzberger (BOOK)

•John Lewis: A Life [2024] by David Greenberg [2024] (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq [2024] by Bartle Bull (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare On How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall [2023] by Eliot A. Cohen (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•A Very Personal Presidency: Lyndon Johnson in the White House [1968] by Hugh Sidey (BOOK)

•The Jesuit Disruptor: A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis [2024] by Michael W. Higgins (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The President: A Minute-by-Minute Account of a Week in the Life of Gerald Ford [1975] by John Hersey (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally [1989] by James Reston Jr. (BOOK)

•The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky [2024] by Simon Shuster (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great [2024] by Rachel Kousser (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family -- Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth [1992] by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE)

•Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire [2002] by Tom Chaffin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps [2024] by Jonn Elledge (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•Eisenhower For Our Time [2024] by Steven Wagner (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

•The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy [1996] by Robert D. Kaplan (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [1983] by Ryszard Kapuściński [Translated by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand] (BOOK)

•A Heartbeat Away: The Investigation and Resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew [1974] by Richard M. Cohen and Jules Witcover (BOOK)

•American Roulette: The History and Dilemma of the Vice Presidency [Revised & Updated, 1972] by Donald Young (BOOK)

•Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States [2024] by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The Formation of the UAE: State-Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East [2024] by Kristi Barnwell (BOOK | KINDLE)

•Iranian-Saudi Rivalry Since 1979: In the Words of Kings and Clerics [2023] by Talal Mohammad (BOOK | KINDLE)

•The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned [2024] by John Strausbaugh (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

[rockpaperscissuhs]

Band of Brothers Birthdays

January

1 John S. Zielinski Jr. (b. 1925)

21 Richard D. “Dick” Winters (b. 1918)

26 Herbert M. Sobel (b. 1912)

30 Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (b. 1920)

31 Warren H. “Skip” Muck (b. 1922) & Robert B. Brewer (b. 1924)

February

8 Clarence R. Hester (b. 1916)

18 Thomas A. Peacock (b. 1920)

23 Lester A. “Les” Hashey (b. 1925)

March

1 Charles E. “Chuck” Grant (b. 1922)

2 Colonel Robert L. “Bob” Strayer (b. 1910)

4 Wayne “Skinny” Sisk (b. 1922)

10 Frank J. Perconte (b. 1917)

13 Darrell C. “Shifty” Powers (b. 1923)

14 Joseph J. “Joe” Toye (b. 1919)

24 John D. “Cowboy” Halls (b. 1922)

26 George Lavenson (b. 1917) & George H. Smith Jr. (1922)

27 Gerald J. Loraine (b. 1913)

April

3 Colonel Robert F. “Bob” Sink (b. 1905) & Patrick S. “Patty” O’Keefe (b. 1926)

5 John T. “Johnny” Julian (b. 1924)

10 Renée B. E. Lemaire (b. 1914)

11 James W. Miller (b. 1924)

15 Walter S. “Smokey” Gordon Jr. (b. 1920)

20 Ronald C. “Sparky” Speirs (b. 1920)

23 Alton M. More (b. 1920)

27 Earl E. “One Lung” McClung (b. 1923) & Henry S. “Hank” Jones Jr. (b. 1924)

28 William J. “Wild Bill” Guarnere (b. 1923)

May

12 John W. “Johnny” Martin (b. 1922)

16 Edward J. “Babe” Heffron (b. 1923)

17 Joseph D. “Joe” Liebgott (b. 1915)

19 Norman S. Dike Jr. (b. 1918) & Cleveland O. Petty (b. 1924)

25 Albert L. "Al" Mampre (b. 1922)

June

2 David K. "Web" Webster (b. 1922)

6 Augusta M. Chiwy ("Anna") (b. 1921)

13 Edward D. Shames (b. 1922)

17 George Luz (b. 1921)

18 Roy W. Cobb (b. 1914)

23 Frederick T. “Moose” Heyliger (b. 1916)

25 Albert Blithe (b. 1923)

28 Donald B. "Hoob" Hoobler (b. 1922)

July

2 Gen. Anthony C. "Nuts" McAuliffe (b. 1898)

7 Francis J. “Frank” Mellet (b. 1920)

8 Thomas Meehan III (b. 1921)

9 John A. Janovec (b. 1925)

10 Robert E. “Popeye” Wynn (b. 1921)

16 William S. Evans (b. 1910)

20 James H. “Moe” Alley Jr. (b. 1922)

23 Burton P. “Pat” Christenson (b. 1922)

29 Eugene E. Jackson (b. 1922)

31 Donald G. "Don" Malarkey (b. 1921)

August

3 Edward J. “Ed” Tipper (b. 1921)

10 Allen E. Vest (b. 1924)

15 Kenneth J. Webb (b. 1920)

18 Jack E. Foley (b. 1922)

26 Floyd M. “Tab” Talbert (b. 1923) & General Maxwell D. Taylor (b. 1901)

29 Joseph A. Lesniewski (b. 1920)

31 Alex M. Penkala Jr. (b. 1924)

September

3 William H. Dukeman Jr. (b. 1921)

11 Harold D. Webb (b. 1925)

12 Major Oliver M. Horton (b. 1912)

27 Harry F. Welsh (b. 1918)

30 Lewis “Nix” Nixon III (b. 1918)

October

5 Joseph “Joe” Ramirez (b. 1921) & Ralph F. “Doc” Spina (b. 1919) & Terrence C. "Salty" Harris (b. 1920)

6 Leo D. Boyle (b. 1913)

10 William F. “Bill” Kiehn (b. 1921)

15 Antonio C. “Tony” Garcia (b. 1924)

17 Eugene G. "Doc" Roe (b. 1922)

21 Lt. Cl. David T. Dobie (b. 1912)

28 Herbert J. Suerth Jr. (b. 1924)

31 Robert "Bob" van Klinken (b. 1919)

November

11 Myron N. “Mike” Ranney (b. 1922)

20 Denver “Bull” Randleman (b. 1920)

December

12 John “Jack” McGrath (b. 1919)

31 Lynn D. “Buck” Compton (b. 1921)

Unknown Date

Joseph P. Domingus

Richard J. Hughes (b. 1925)

Maj. Louis Kent

Father John Mahoney

George C. Rice

SOURCES

Military History Fandom Wiki

Band of Brothers Fandom Wiki

Traces of War

Find a Grave

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John not meaning what he says

You know, we all say a lot of things when we don’t know what we’re talking about. I’m probably doing it now, I don’t know what I say. You see, everybody takes you up on the words you said, and I’m just a guy that people ask all about things, and I blab off and some of it makes sense and some of it is bullshit and some of it’s lies and some of it is — God knows what I’m saying. I don’t know what I said about Maharishi, all I know is what we said about Apple, which was worse.

John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part One

“It’s sort of complicated but sometimes you say things, but it’s not really what you meant to say. If I say something to you and you hear it different from what I’ve said it, and you answer back and we’re not really getting down to it. I’m really talking like that you know. Like somebody says ‘do you want ice cream?’ and I’ll say no, and actually I meant yes. You find yourself saying the opposite of what you mean. This happens to me quite a lot. I speak a lot, but what I say is not always what I mean.“

John Lennon, 1973.

‘I was told recently by Yoko that one of the things that hurt John over the years was me going off and doing The Family Way,’ Paul says. The filmmaking Boulting brothers had approached him via George Martin. ‘I thought this was a great opportunity. We were all free to do stuff outside the Beatles and we’d each done various little things.’ When he mentioned it to John, Paul said, ‘He would have had his suit of armour on and said: “No, I don’t mind.”

Paul McCartney, c/o Ray Coleman, McCartney: Yesterday and Today. (1995)

But by the time I arrived, an agitated John was deeply involved indeed. More specifically, he was having a row with Paul and George Martin. “We’ve already done the concept album,” he argued, presumably referring to Pepper. “Why do we need to do another one?” “Look, John, we’re just trying to think symphonically,” George replied. “We’re trying to create a complete work out of song fragments.” John was derisive at first, saying, “You’re taking yourselves too seriously,” but when Paul invited him to contribute some compositions of his own to the medley, he seemed to capitulate. “Well, I might have one or two that could fit,” he said sheepishly. I exchanged glances with Paul. I’m sure we were both thinking the same thing: He’s just been waiting to be asked.

Here, There and Everywhere - Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey

SHEFF: But you didn’t compose your stuff separately, as other accounts have said? JOHN: No, no, no. I said that, but I was lying. [Laughs.] By the time I said that, we were so sick of this idea of writing and singing together, especially me, that I started this thing about, “We never wrote together, we were never in the same room.” Which wasn’t true. We wrote a lot of stuff together, one-on-one, eyeball to eyeball.

John Lennon, interview w/ David Sheff for Playboy. (September, 1980)

PLAYBOY: "When you talk about working together on a single lyric like "We Can Work It Out,' it suggests that you and Paul worked a lot more closely than you've admitted in the past. Haven't you said that you wrote most of your songs separately, despite putting both of your names on them?" LENNON: "Yeah, I was lying. (laughs) It was when I felt resentful, so I felt that we did everything apart. But, actually, a lot of the songs we did eyeball to eyeball."

John Lennon, 1980

“No, no, no,” he answered and he meant it. “I’m going to be an ex-Beatle for the rest of my life so I might as well enjoy it, and I’m just getting around to being able to stand back and see what happened. A couple of years ago I might have given everybody the impression I hate it all, but that was then. I was talking when I was straight out of therapy and I’d been mentally stripped bare and I just wanted to shoot my mouth off to clear it all away. Now it’s different. “When I slagged off the Beatle thing in the papers, it was like divorce pangs, and me being me it was blast this and fuck that, and it was just like the old days in the Melody Maker, you know, ‘Lennon Blasts Hollies’ on the back page. You know, I’ve always had a bit of a mouth and I’ve got to live up to it. Daily Mirror: ‘Lennon beats up local DJ at Paul’s 21st birthday party’. Then we had that fight Paul and me had through the Melody Maker, but it was a period I had to go through.

John Lennon, interview w/ Ray Coleman for Melody Maker: Lennon – a night in the life. (September 14th, 1974)

GEORGE: I remember the day when John did an interview with a certain magazine and said certain things, and then I remember the day when he disagreed with what he’d said, but the man who interviewed him denied him the right to change his mind and, even though it was two and a half years, later still went ahead and published something which John said he no longer agreed with himself on. Which means the dream was over, yet certain people wouldn’t allow him to have his dream... over. Nudge nudge wink wink, say no more. [inaudible] JOHN: In other words, imagine if somebody or if you accidentally bang your head and you shout, “Ow!” – that’s the end of it. [self-conscious; laughs] Right? GEORGE: And he said that too. JOHN: I mean, it doesn’t go on for the next five years, right? And we all did that.

December 21st, 1974 (New York)

INT: It seem that you did minimize a little bit, what the, what the effect was on the, value and lifestyle and all that. You said that there was almost nothing left of Beatles. JOHN: Well I get bitter too, you know. And uh, also it was always the insistence that the Beatles led something, you know. And if anything they were figureheads, you know. And, I put it more succinctly later on when I thought about it. When I said those statements A) I was bitter and upset; emotionally upset cause we just split up, you know. I call it a divorce right. But when I think about it, obviously…you know, I can change my mind.

John interviewed by Jean-François Vallée in April 1975.

Underground journalist Felix Dennis watched the session. ‘I remember Ringo getting more and more upset by this… I have a clear memory of him saying, “That’s enough, John.”’ Lennon and Ono competed to come up with the most insulting lines, Dennis said. ‘Some of it was absolutely puerile. Thank God a lot of it never actually got recorded because it was highly, highly personal, like a bunch of schoolboys standing in the lavatory making scatological jokes.’ ‘John would forgive himself, and expect Paul to forgive him,’ Derek Taylor recalled.

Peter Doggett, You Never Give Me Your Money: The Battle for the Soul of the Beatles. (2009)

I went through a period of trying to encourage Paul by writing and saying things that I thought would spur him on. But I think they were misunderstood. That's how "How Do You Sleep?" (on the "Imagine" album) was intended. Although I suppose it was a bit hard on him.

John Lennon Talks To Ray Connolly May 18th 1972 Radio Times

“At the moment he is cut off from the three of us. The last time I saw him was in December.” Asked whether he thought John Lennon’s recent unkind references to Paul on his “Imagine” album, had deepened the rift, George replied: “Maybe John felt like that about Paul at the time he was writing the song, but he doesn’t feel like that all the time. The song doesn’t represent what he really feels. It’s just John – people don’t really understand. “I think John’s record is great – though that track about Paul is a bit hard. But it’s only something felt at the time . . . ”

George Harrison, interviewed by Mike Hennessey for Record Mirror (October 16, 1971)

JOHN: (smiles) You know, I wasn’t really feeling that vicious at the time. But I was using my resentment toward Paul to create a song, let’s put it that way. He saw that it pointedly refers to him, and people kept hounding him about it. But, you know, there were a few digs on his album before mine. He’s so obscure other people didn’t notice them, but I heard them. I thought, Well, I’m not obscure, I just get right down to the nitty-gritty. So he’d done it his way and I did it mine. But as to the line you quoted, yeah, I think Paul died creatively, in a way.

John’s Playboy interview as published in the magazine’s January 1981 issue

He turned to me and told me that he had been equally vicious about Paul during the same period and that Paul had got it right when he had declared that the only person John was hurting with his vitriolic behavior was himself. It was not exactly an apology, more like an explanation.

Glyn Johns, Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces… (2014)

“I have to ask you, what was all that stuff in the telegraph about?... And he’s gone oh yeah, look, speak to Paul about that, I wasn’t in a good place mentally at the time. Just speak to Paul about it…. I thought it was a real cop out because he had hurt me, he’d said something unfair, and rather than just apologise, what he basically said was I’ve apologised to Paul, and Paul’s accepted my apology for for my behaviour in that period, the immediate aftermath of the Beatles, and therefore speak to him and he will explain to you why you should forgive me”.

I am the EggPod guest Sam Delaney talking about a Get Back screening Q&A with Glynn Johns

“I’m trying to be mad at you, but you’re so nice, it isn’t easy,” Glyn replied. Then he explained that he had been upset by John’s comments about him in the “Lennon Remembers” interviews. John had said that Let It Be, which had been re-mixed by Glyn, had wound up sounding awful, and Glyn, a true professional, had been very offended by John’s comments. John did not remember saying it at all and he was very embarrassed. He explained, “I had just done primal therapy. I was just lettin’ off steam. That interview was just a lot of anger.” Glyn stared at John. John’s words had hurt him, and he had never expected that John would not remember what he had said, nor had he perceived that the comments would be dismissed as “just lettin’ off steam.” Like everyone else, he believed everything the public John said and took him very seriously. John repeatedly apologised to Glyn, and eventually the matter was dropped.

Loving John

“John’s most influential interviews, interviews which people took as gospel truth, were for John occasions to blow off steam and then to forget what he had said.”

May Pang, The Lost Weekend

At the time, we at Apple weren’t feeling good anyway, because Apple had failed; and here was one of our friends telling everyone who reads Rolling Stone that we were bastards. In the end we had to say, ‘Well, we’re not.’ John later retracted some of it, and we became friends again. And I forgave him. He would forget he’d said it, and expect to be forgiven, as he always was.

Derek Taylor, interview w/ Peter Doggett for Record Collector. (August, 1988)

John had gone through a tremendous upheaval in his private life, and he was a very odd person at times; he wasn’t at all himself. There was the famous interview he did for Rolling Stone, which has been reprinted many times, in which he says many unfair and untrue things, slagged everybody off, including me. I took him to task over it later on, asking him, “Why did you say all those things? It wasn’t very nice.” He said, “Oh, I was just stoned out of my head.” That was his only apology, really. Unfortunately, that has become history now; it’s accepted as the Bible.”

George Martin, interview w/ Howard Massey for Musician. (February, 1999)

“If you look at interviews and stuff with John, from around about that time he was in Imagine [documentary] he kind of admits that he’s having problems with himself. So, well, the first thing you do when you’re having problems with yourself is you bitch about someone else. And the closest person was me…He had a real go at me. I personally think it was ‘cause he was trying to clear the decks for Yoko. He’s got a new love, he’s trying to say to her, “Look, baby, I love you. I hate those guys.” And I think—you also have to remember John was going through a lot of problems. And you know, as they say, people, when they’re going through problems, come out with that kind of stuff. You know that, we all know that. When you’re in a bad mood, the first thing you do is badmouth somebody else. You don’t want to badmouth yourself…Some of the times, he was having other sorts of problems…So—like most of what John said, I take it with a pinch of salt. I love him still. I don’t care what he said, you know. Even if he badmouths me, I still know that he was a great guy, and that he loved me.”

Paul McCartney

PLAYBOY: In his Playboy Interview, John said that was a song he didn't like and never could have written.

PAUL: Who knows what John liked? You know, John would say he didn't like one thing one minute and the next he might like it. I don't really know what he liked or didn't like, you know! It would depend on what mood he was in on a given day, really, what he would like.... I don't care; I liked it!

Paul McCartney: The Complete Playboy Interview, 1984 (thanks @tavolgisvist for the quote!)

[insanityclause]

National Geographic is freshening up its programming slate.

The network has ordered four new series including The Real Finding Nemo and Surviving Pompeii with Tom Hiddleston.

It is the first slate of programming since it emerged that a large number of Nat Geo titles including Life Below Zero and Wicked Tuna were coming to an end.

Surviving Pompeii with Tom Hiddleston is a historical exploration about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the preserved Roman city it left behind. Hiddleston, who studied Classics at Cambridge University, exec produces alongside his Loki executive producer Kevin R. Wright.

It comes from Plimsoll Productions, which is behind Nat Geo series including A Real Bug’s Life and The Devil’s Climb. Grant Mansfield, Alan Eyres, Helen Flint and Tom Barbor-Might exec produce for Plimsoll and Carolyn Payne exec produces for Nat Geo.

Hiddleston is the latest celebrity to front a Nat Geo series after Chris Hemsworth, who hosted Limitless and Will Smith with Welcome To Earth.

The Real Finding Nemo (w/t) comes on the back of A Real Bug’s Life. It will explore dynamics of life on the reef and beyond via a clown fish.

The series comes from Our Great National Parks producer Freeborne Media, whose James Honeyborne exec produces alongside Tracy Rudolph Jackson for Nat Geo.

Elsewhere, Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort and BBC Studios Science Unit have teamed on Meet The Planets (w/t), an astronomy series that brings the galaxy’s most famous family to life, with the sun as the matriarch, surrounded by her unruly planetary children. It will feature comedy and animation.

Andrew Cohen exec produces for BBC Studios Science Unit alongside Betsy Forhan for Nat Geo.

Finally, the network is expanding its One Day In strand with Diana: One Day In Paris. The three-part series will explore the tragic death of Princess Diana on the 30th anniversary of that paparazzi car chase through a Parisian motorway tunnel.

It follows 9/11: One Day in America and JFK: One Day in America and comes from 72 Films.

It will feature rare archives and interviews with witnesses who have never spoken publicly as it looks at the 24 hours before and after Diana’s death and follow the story through to her funeral one week later.

David Glover and Mark Raphael exec produce for 72 Films alongside Carolyn Payne for Nat Geo and TJ Martin and Dan Lindsay.

All of this comes after Nat Geo axed Wicked Tuna earlier this summer. The Pilgrim Media Group-produced series, which follows a group of fisherman from Gloucester, Masschusetts as they rod and reel fish bluefin tuna, had been airing on the network since 2012 and 13 seasons.

Nat Geo’s Emmy-winning series Life Below Zero is also ending after its 23rd season, per star Chip Hailstone. Spinoffs including Next Generation, First Alaskans and Northern Territories are also ending.

Other titles not returning to Nat Geo include The Incredible Dr Pol, after 24 seasons, and Dr. Oakley Yukon Vet, after 12 seasons.

“These new unscripted series epitomize everything National Geographic stands for — bold, captivating storytelling rooted in world-class research and expertise,” said Tom McDonald, EVP of Global Unscripted and Factual Content. “National Geographic is building on its reputation as the home of the most distinctive factual series from the very best storytellers in the world.”

[habsfic]

there's only one you 2025 - habs fills

for a total of 36 works (/236 men's hockey works for 15%!!)

shout out to the mods & everyone who's participated! @theresonly1u

carey price/nick suzuki

give your heart to me (200 w, heart)

nothing left now except connections failing (1,227 w, shave)

cole caufield/nick suzuki

it feels better biting down (1,018 w, manhandle)

in a place that can make you change (graphic, celebration)

spray  (200 w, watersports)

by my side (200 w, golf)

body language (1,998 w, cat)

paws down cole (1,636 w, cat)

Her Place By the River (1,989 w, snow)

pineapple passionfruit (1,983 w, pussy)

push my hair back, i look hot (when i’m bumpin’ that) (1,303 w, snow)

cole caufield/juraj slafkovsky/nick suzuki

playoff push (lock in) (1,284 w, cock-cage)

cole caufield/kirby dach

presto! (1,460 w, watersports)

david savard/martin st. louis

j’aime ta barbe (455 w, beard)

jake evans/alex newhook

deal me in (807 w, cards)

jayden struble/nick suzuki

i love arm (200 w, gym)

jean beliveau/lane hutson

when the world is cold (1,083 w, wind)

joel armia/patrik laine

catch you on the rebound (350 w, suomi)

joel armia/nick suzuki

cherry pair (1,924 w, cherry)

juraj slafkovsky/nick suzuki/arber xhekaj

restraint (300 w, fiber)

juraj slafkovsky/nick suzuki

always be my baby (1,617 w, jealous)

juraj slafkovsky/arber xhekaj

come on over, sucker, why don’t you ask me? (1,984 w, wrestling)

Kiss With A Fist (826 w, wrestling)

kirby dach/nick suzuki

so what, we're all haunted (1,961 w, pussy)

lane hutson/patrik laine

collar gap (391 w, collar)

lane hutson/david reinbacher

stolen heart (290 w, cupid)

lane hutson/juraj slafkovsky

minuit à peine passé (poem, star)

lane hutson/arber xhekaj

something odd about you (330 w, shy)

nick suzuki & juraj slafkovsky

a simple prophecy (poem, ghosts)

nick suzuki

the city shivers with you (200 w, fated)

nick suzuki/arber xhekaj

can't take the heat (1,831 w, crying)

nick suzuki/shea weber

Call (390 w, call)

owen beck/lane hutson/david reinbacher

dream about me (150 w, enough)

rafaël harvey-pinard/samuel montembeault

j'attendais ton appel (1,993 w, laughter)

sidney crosby/vincent lecavalier/martin st. louis

you've got everything I want (200 w, stud)

william nylander/arber xhekaj

chase the feeling (1,277 w, hand)

[stfrancisprayer]

01.31.1966 ; HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEXTER FLETCHER!! 🧡👓

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: RECIEVING A STANDING OVATION AT CANNES FOR HIS WORK ON "ROCKETMAN", (2019) as BYTE'S BOY - THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980), dir. DAVID LYNCH as YOUNG CARAVAGGIO - CARAVAGGIO (1986), dir. DEREK JARMAN as STAFF SARGEANT JOHN W. MARTIN - BAND OF BROTHERS (2001), dir. TOM HANKS, STEVEN SPIELBERG as CHARLES HIGHWAY - THE RACHEL PAPERS (1989), dir. DAMIAN HARRIS as SPIKE THOMSON - PRESS GANG (1989 - 1993), c. BILL MOFFAT as SOAP - LOCK, STOCK, AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (1998) - dir. GUY RITCHIE as TONY CASEMORE - HOTEL BABYLON (2006 - 2009), c. IMOGEN EDWARDS-JONES as CODY - KICK ASS (2010), dir. MATTHEW VAUGHN as PAUL MCVEIGH - SMOKING GUNS (2016), dir. SAVVAS D. MICHAEL

[todaysdocument]

Letter and Summary Report of Incidents of Intimidation of Teachers during the Desegregation of South Boston High School and the Abrahams School

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Tallulah Morgan et al v. James W. Hennigan et al Civil Action Case File # 72-0911

Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle & Wanger

Counsellors at Law

Sidney S. Grant (1905-1957) 44 School Street

Samuel E. Angoff Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Albert L. Goldman 723-5500

Robert D. Manning

Warren H. Pyle

E. David Wanger

John F. McMahon

Joseph G. Sandulli

September 6, 1974

Stephen A. Moyhahan, Jr., Esq.

Clerk, U.S. District Court

1525, Post Office Court House

Boston, Massachusetts, 02109

[stamp] DOCKETED

[stamp] FILED [illegible] OFFICE Sep 6 9 23 AM '74 U.S. DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASS

Dear Mr. Moynahan:

There is enclosed a summary report of serious incidents of intimidation of teachers by members of the community, which the Boston Teachers Union requests be transmitted to Judge Garrity prior to the start of today's hearings.

I regret my inability to provide it earlier.

The Martin and Garret incidents have been reported to Ms. Silke Hansen and I anticipate that the Community Relations Service will report on these developments to the Court.

The Boston Teachers Union will request an in-chambers conference to discuss the contents of the report with the Court and parties.

Very truly yours,

John F. McMahon

/lt

Enclosure

cc John Mirick, Esq.

John Leubsdorf, Esq.

Sandra Lynch, Esq.

K. Maloney

338 [green ink]

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[usafphantom2]

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

The Blackbird

The SR-71, unofficially known as the “Blackbird,” was a long-range, Mach 3+, strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed from the Lockheed A-12 and YF-12A aircraft.

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CLICK HERE to see The Aviation Geek Club contributor Linda Sheffield’s T-shirt designs! Linda has a personal relationship with the SR-71 because her father Butch Sheffield flew the Blackbird from test flight in 1965 until 1973. Butch’s Granddaughter’s Lisa Burroughs and Susan Miller are graphic designers. They designed most of the merchandise that is for sale on Threadless. A percentage of the profits go to Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base. This nonprofit charity is personal to the Sheffield family because they are raising money to house SR-71, #955. This was the first Blackbird that Butch Sheffield flew on Oct. 4, 1965.

The first flight of an SR-71 took place on Dec. 22, 1964, and the first SR-71 to enter service was delivered to the 4200th (later 9th) Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., in January 1966.

The Blackbird was in a different category from anything that had come before. “Everything had to be invented. Everything,” Skunk Works legendary aircraft designer Kelly Johnson recalled in an interesting article appeared on Lockheed Martin website.

The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55

Today there are many rumors about just how fast the SR-71 could go. The J58 engine temperature limited the top speed. The speed limit for the airplane ironically had nothing to do with the airframe; it had to do with the engines. Right in front of the engine compressor was a temperature probe that reported the temperature to the pilot; when the temperature was around 427C, 800 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s as fast as they were allowed to go.

However, a cold blast from frigid weather could make a difference in reducing the temperature. This would enable the airframe to go faster without harming the engines.

David Peters, former SR-71 Blackbird pilot, explained to me;

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

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‘A little clarification on the speed thing. You are absolutely correct on the 427C. The issue is that I have been limited to less than Mach 3 on a few occasions because the outside air temperature was quite above standard and 427C came up at about 2.95. On other occasions like the Murmansk deal I got above 3.4 (3.49 on the one occasion) and wasn’t close to 427C. The actual limiting airspeed is around 3.55 that is where the spike being at full retraction loses the intercept on the shock wave and can no longer position it correctly in the inlet. ‘Also the overflow of the shock starts to go over the wing and interfere with the flight controls. So the limiting speed as configured would be about 3.55 so long as you don’t exceed 427C.’

Mike Relja, who worked on in with the SR-71‘s for over 30 years, added;

‘I don’t know of any warranty that P&W had or any other parts manufacturer for that matter.

Don’t exceed 427C

‘On the March 6th [Mar. 6, 1990] speed run Ed Yeilding stated that Don Emmons gave them permission to fly the max limit of 3.3 M, they asked Lockheed if they could exceed that number and Lockheed said no if the aircraft had an unstart above 3.3 it may go out of control and come apart hard to keep the pointy end forward. Also, no fuel flow limits established above 3.3 M were ever tested.

‘P&W did give them clearance to exceed 427 CIT for 30 minutes to a limit of 450 CIT but that wasn’t needed they stayed at the book limit of 427 CIT.’*

The engines maker Pratt & Whitney would not warrant or guarantee anything beyond 427; after that, all bets are off the engine could come unglued or you could shed turbine blades. The SR-71 crewmembers were too responsible to risk and exceeded the temperature limit. They wanted to keep the warranty on the engines, the J58’s.

*SR-71 pilot Ed Yeilding (who along with JT Vida as RSO flew the Blackbird during the speed run of Mar. 6, 1990) told me that another reason they didn’t exceed 3.2 is that they were afraid they’d run out of gas before they got to Dullas airport.

Be sure to check out Linda Sheffield Miller (Col Richard (Butch) Sheffield’s daughter, Col. Sheffield was an SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer) Twitter X Page Habubrats SR-71, Instagram Page SR71Habubrats and Facebook Page Born into the Wilde Blue Yonder Habubrats for awesome Blackbird’s photos and stories.

Blackbird pilot tells why the SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.55 so long as 427C weren’t exceeded

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[medium-observation]

NOVEMBER RELEASE

Hadestown - Second US National Tour (Non-Equity)

October 21, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Bryan Munar (Orpheus), Megan Colton (Eurydice), Nickolaus Colón (Hades), Namisa Mdlalose Bizana (Persephone), Jaylon Crump (Hermes), Julia Schick (u/s Fate), Miriam Navarrete (Fate), Katelyn Crall (Fate), Randy Cain (Worker), Miracle Myles (Worker), Kaitlyn O’Leary (Worker), Mikaela Rada (Worker), Joe Rumi (Worker)

Notes:

Perfect capture of this incredible new tour! Lots of nice closeups and lots of wideshots to show the new staging and lighting! Sometimes the right side of the stage gets covered with lights and can obstruct faces but its always minuscule. Some washout, shakiness and readjusting throughout.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBPi2G

Video is $20

Hadestown - Second US National Tour (Non-Equity)

October 22, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Bryan Munar (Orpheus), Julia Schick (u/s Eurydice), Randy Cain (u/s Hades), Namisa Mdlalose Bizana (Persephone), Jaylon Crump (Hermes), Miriam Navarrete (Fate), Katelyn Crall (Fate), Michelle E. Carter (u/s Fate), Jamir Brown (s/w Worker), Miracle Myles (Worker), Kaitlyn O’Leary (Worker), Mikaela Rada (Worker), Joe Rumi (Worker)

Notes:

Fantastic capture of Julia, Randy and Michelles Debut's as Eurydice, Hades and Fate respectively. Due to how far away i was the video is slightly grainy at max zoom. Wideshot to show new tour differences and zooms to highlight the debuts. Some washout, shakiness and readjusting throughout.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBPiVg

Video is $20

Hamilton - First US National Tour (Angelica)

October 8, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Tyler Fauntleroy (Alexander Hamilton), Lauren Mariasoosay (Eliza Hamilton), Jimmie JJ Jeter (Aaron Burr), Marja Harmon (Angelica Schuyler), A.D. Weaver (George Washington), Hosea Mundi (s/b Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Colby Lewis (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Nathan Haydel (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Lily Soto (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Justin Matthew Sargent (King George III), Devin Tyler Hatch (s/w James Reynolds/Philip Schuyler/Doctor), Alex Dorf (Samuel Seabury), Alex Larson (Charles Lee), Nathanael Hirst (George Eacker), Sabrina Harrison (Ensemble)

Notes:

Incredible capture of this insanely good cast! i think this was hosea's debut? or it was one of his firsts! Some washout, shakiness and readjusting throughout.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBMYMG

Video is $20

Les Misérables - Sixth US National Tour

October 13, 2024 (Matinée) - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Nick Cartell (Jean Valjean), Nick Rehberger (Javert), Lindsay Heather Pearce (Fantine), Eden Mau (u/s Cosette), Jake David Smith (Marius), Mya Rena Hunter (Éponine), Matt Crowle (Thénardier), Christian Mark Gibbs (Enjolras), Victoria Huston-Elem (Madame Thénardier), Milo Maharlika (Gavroche), Emerson Mae Chan (Little Cosette), Kyle Adams (Grantaire), Daniel Gerard Bittner (Feuilly), Danny Martin (Courfeyrac), Andrew Marks Maughan (Combeferre), J.T. Wood (Joly), Steve Czarnecki (Factory Foreman/Brujon), David Andino (Bamatabois/Babet), Jonathan Young (Jean Prouvaire), Jeremiah Alsop (Montparnasse), David T. Walker (Claquesous), Randy Jeter (Lesgles/The Bishop of Digne), Greta Schaefer (Young Éponine), Paige McNamara (Factory Girl), Ashley Alexandra (Old Woman), Emily Fink (Wigmaker), Mikako Martin (u/s Innkeeper's Wife), Ashley Dawn Mortensen (u/s Ensemble)

Notes:

Fantastic capture of this tour's new cast along with Eden as Cosette! due to how dark les mis can be at times it can look a little grainy. Some washout, shakiness and readjusting throughout.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNuD1

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Some Like it Hot (Shaiman and Wittman) - First US National Tour

October 13, 2024 - Medium Observation

Video

Cast:

Tavis Kordell Cunningham (Jerry | Daphne), Matt Loehr (Joe | Josephine), Leandra Ellis-Gaston (Sugar Kane), Tarra Conner Jones (Sweet Sue), Edward Juvier (Osgood Fielding III), Jamie LaVerdiere (Agent Mulligan), Devon Goffman (Spats Colombo), Devon Hadsell (Minnie), Ashley Marie Arnold (Ensemble), Kelly Berman (Ensemble), Darien Crago (Ensemble), Drew Franklin (Ensemble), Devin Holloway (Ensemble), Emily Kelly (Ensemble), Brianna Kim (Ensemble), Stephen Michael Langton (Ensemble), Jay Owens (Ensemble), Ranease Ryann (Ensemble), Nissi Shalome (Ensemble), Michael Skrzek (Ensemble), Tommy Sutter (Ensemble)

Notes:

First known video of this new tour! Incredible capture that has a lot of wideshots to show the incredible choreography of this show! Some washout, shakiness and readjusting throughout.

NFT Date: May 1st, 2025

Screenshots: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBNCNt

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[writtenmisfits]

Muse List

updated 1/27/2025

Primary Fandoms

These are the fandoms I focus on the most. They are the ones I have the most muse for and you'll find me fawning over, as well as having the most interactions for. The most active fandoms have a * next to them.

BG3

Lae'zel

The Witcher (mix of canon from books, shows, and games)*

Yennefer - Yarpen

The Originals

Elijah Mikealson - Rebekah Mikealson

True Blood (show canon, I have not read the books)

Lafayette Reynolds - Eric Northman - Pamela Swynford De Beaufort

Other Fandoms/Request Muses

These are characters I have either written in the past and occasionally have muse for, or muses I want to test out, but the fandoms are dead or they aren't my strongest and are far more sporadic and are more request muses than anything.

Criminal Minds

Dr. Spencer Reed - Derek Morgan - David Rossi

Doctor Who

The Master/Missy - Jack Harkness - John Hart - The Doctor

Kaos

Orpheus - Dionysus - Hera - Prometheus

Leverage (Original and Redemption)

Eliot Spencer - Tara Cole

The Magicians

Penny Adiyodi - Mischa Mayakovsky

MCU

Logan (D&W variant)

Prodigal Son

Malcolm Bright - Martin Whitly

Supernatural

Crowley - Gabriel

Side Blog Muses

These muses are not everyone's cup of tea and can sometimes be a hyperfocus for me, though activity is so I've decided to give them their own spaces.

Cazador @rhapsodyandwoe

Husk @helluvabartender

Blitzo @the0isfuckingsilent

Moxxie @deeplyunsettled

Ozzie @trustdesire

[straycalamities]

do yuo think swegg woudl listen to brokencyde

or what would his mysic tatse be! (in whta u think ofc! (ialso forgot if u alreadu said what entres musictasye is but if u havent plz anserness! (ornot)))

nah unfortunately i dont think thats his type of music

i can however give you the artists i know for 100% fact he likes under the cut because it's long and i'm doing it list-view for easier reading:

3OH!3 <- very important

Kesha <- also very important

Nicki Minaj

Carly Rae Jepsen

Flo Rida

David Guetta

Maroon 5

One Direction

Miley Cyrus

Owl City

LMFAO

Katy Perry (duh)

Pitbull

Lady Gaga

Justin Bieber

Taio Cruz

Black Eyed Peas

Jonas Brothers

DNCE

Bruno Mars

Panic! At the Disco (Urie edition)

Lizzo

i mean obviously a very poppy early 2010s vibe because that was kinda a big part of the theme of him (yknow.. "swag" n all) plus the timeframe he was created and he's always kindofa time capsule OF that time (i know lizzo is more of a later years vibe deal but sh.)

obviously he knows MCR too but that's like...kinda like a ...unique taste thing or idk how to say it. like its special, not usual his character playlist for truffula flu has a lot of emo songs on it (old FOB, taking back sunday, sleeping with sirens, the spill canvas, LOTS of the used) but that's more because they fit his chara, not necessarily that he listens to them

entre's music taste has always been kinda hard for me to describe...like an indie-folk?? but also a bit folk-pop??? but he also likes old jazz with crooners and all that a lot. and bluegrass. and older country. he also likes some rock like some alt-rock (he gets it from me) but mainly indie-rock. he just...really likes stuff with that "indie" sound. ironic. but i feel like it also fits w his chara bc ive always thought that if the onceler just focused on the fact he can apparently play guitar and sing rly well??? none of this shit woulda happened and he probably woulda been happier

i've never made a whole playlist just for his music taste but a few notable artists are:

Jason Mraz <- his fav

Patsy Cline <- another fav

Vance Joy

Mumford & Sons

The Decemberists

Peggy Lee

Jack Johnson

Billie Holiday

Death Cab For Cutie

Weezer

Iron & Wine

The White Stripes

Frank Sinatra

I Don't Know How But They Found Me

Johnny Cash

Dean Martin

Radiohead

Dwight Yoakam

Andrew Bird

The Hives

IAMX <- a weird one for him but i cant unassociate

Florence + The Machine

Etta James

The Lumineers

Colter Wall

[cake-emu]

Coronation Street w/c 3rd Feb 2025

just needed to get some non-Swarla thoughts on the week's episodes out because they're all rattling around up there and I don't need them. i don't know how many other ppl on here actually watch the full episodes but feel free to add anything if you want

almost everything involving Logan was so laughble(/y bad) this week - all his prowling around the street (man's hiding behind Street Cars... Lisa could have literally been upstairs in the flat right at that moment loollll), his v underwhelming lil tussle with David in the funeral directors, and most egregiously when he just waltzed through the crowd (including Kit) right outside the Platts' house fire

who do you guys think started the fire? my money's still on Max. I really thought we were gonna get a just-awoken-from-a-coma confession cliffhanger at the end of Friday's episode but clearly they're dragging this whodunnit out a bit longer

Shona is such a woman of action, she just can't wait around can she. girl clambered down into the sewers to try to save Jenny and Johnny a few years back, and now she's running into a burning house

speaking of, that jumpcut when she was suddenly out of the house was so jarring on first watch omg

loved Jenny setting up a donation point at the Rovers. proper community-comes-together stuff

also Jenny being appalled at a t-shirt that had been donated, and then the reveal... 'I'm on fire!' ahahaha, great gag

you know those gendered insults that always get directed at women like "miserable cow", "face like a slapped arse" - well i am petitioning that they only ever get directed at Nick Tilsley from now on. man is the most miserable bore on the street

David literally told him he thought he had just seen Logan - somebody who is wanted for murder by the police in connection with the stabbing of a teenager - and Nick could not have cared less. BRO YOU HAVE A TEENAGED SON AT HOME, WHERE ARE YOUR PROTECTIVE INSTINCTS?? do you not want your community to be safe???

speaking of the teenagers, everything about the séance was peak camp, no notes, shame we didn't see more frankly

I've not seen a huge number of her scenes but I like Elle Mulvaney as Amy Barlow a lot. always a lovely understated performance from her

"Why'd you have to open your gob?!" "I could say the same about your legs!" RIP Leanne & Tracy's short-lived frenemies situationship

Lisa + Abi scenes were a lovely lovely surprise. I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of follow up to that at some point. Sally Carman-Duttine is so good

thank goodness the drought is finally over is all i can say. i missed our girls so much

who was Rob on the phone to at the end?? was it Mandy, the prison guard he's shagging, or a third party on the outside? (also, sort your life out, Mandy)

this is so unrelated to this week but I just went on the Corrie YouTube page and they randomly uploaded this "Most Searched Questions About Luca Toolan" video today, with Sydney Martin asking him the questions. I don't know why it just dropped this week lol but it's pretty adorable

[kellyvela]

I don't remember a report from here or anywhere else where Marin talked about how he chose the names and then one where he talked about how the names were repeated the same way because of the number of characters xd, I don't know if you can find it in advance, thank you very much

GRRM about characters names:

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BHW: How did you come up with the names for Song of Ice and Fire ? Martin: I picked names from a baby book. Actually, the names in Song of Ice and Fire were something I devoted a fair amount of thought to. I violated a fair amount of rules that they teach you when you are a young writer. When I was younger, I tried not to violate them: Never have two characters in a story whose names start with the same letter; people will get confused. Certainly never have two characters with the same name because people will get really confused. I knew the first rule wasn't going to work because after the first chapter I had more than 26 characters and you don't want a lot of X and Q names running around. I read a lot of medieval history in preparation for this series. I encountered English histories and the names are all Henrys and Edwards. In French history it is all Louies and Philips. Even the secondary families are using the same names over and over again. There were particular names associated with particular houses. I decided to do that-to hell with the rules. The readers can pay attention. I even have characters occasionally get confused about which Brandon is being talked about. I felt this gave the world more verisimilitude. Our world-even our modern world-is filled with Davids, Stevens, and Brians. How do you keep them straight? You can use the same techniques for the book. [Source]

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The names Arya and Sansa are meant to represent the polar opposites of their characters, Arya being a hard sounding name, Sansa a softer more pretty name, etc.

[Source]

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Arya, I say it ar-ya, two syllables, not three, not a-ri-a, like an operatic thing, but Arya, very sharp. I wanted something that was like a knife, that was sharp and hard sound, to be a contrast to the flowery Sansa.

[Source]

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Source [x]

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Robert W. Chambers, one of GRRM favorite authors, has a character named Sansa in his book The Slayer of Souls.

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Hope this helps!

[corrosivesaints]

Fic Masterpost!

Wanted to have links in one convenient place, and sometimes u gotta look back at your own work and be proud! Link to my ao3. Fic list w/ summaries under the cut-I've written for a variety of fandoms, namely hbo war, but also for mash and iwtv 💕.

Band of Brothers

and let slip the dogs of war Speirsroe, E, 12k

It starts out small, as they heave their way across France to Haguenau. Little things. Abandoned clothes they can strip into bandages, a half empty bottle of a clear liquor, thread and needles, and more scissors, when Gene inevitably loses his again. The occasional bit of a salvaged field kit, handed over like gold by one of the NCOs, usually Grant or Lip. Gene doesn't think about it much, at first. He’s too busy trying to make sure half the company don’t catch pneumonia, or collapse from exhaustion. But by the second or third time Lip’s ferried over a small stack of supplies, Gene’s suspicious. Gene doesn't always know what to make of Easy's new CO.

dead to rights Speirsroe, T, 2k

He was checking out one of the bedrooms when he heard it. Voices. George froze, still as a rabbit caught in a trap. His heart picked up again, his blood loud in his ears. He stayed like that for a long few minutes, long enough he just about fooled himself that he was imagining things when someone laughed. It wasn’t a big laugh, cut off quickly, but it wasn’t his ears playing tricks on him. It sounded…oddly familiar. George snoops and immediately regrets it.

the cradle Baberoe, T, 9.9k

Gene sighs and lays his head on Babe’s shoulder. His hair is soft under Babe’s fingers, dark and gleaming wetly in the light. Babe rests his cheek against the crown of his head, breathing in the scent of army soap and antiseptic and something fainter, more musky, that is all Eugene Roe. He wishes he could keep this moment forever. Preserve it in amber, warm and golden-honeyed and bittersweetly content, stretching out from here to the end of time. Quite a lot of things you don't expect can happen in a war.

rub the lipstick into my cheek and call me baby Webgott, E, 5k

“What’s the quote?” Joe muses, ignoring him while taking a long drag. “‘Eat and be merry’?”“‘Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die’.”“How the fuck are you remembering quotes this wasted?” Joe shakes his head, crushing the butt of his spent cigarette beneath the heel of his jump boot.“Party trick,” he mumbles at the ceiling. Maybe if he doesn’t stare at Joe directly he won’t be so overwhelming. David and Joe on VE Day, 1945.

Heel OMC/Talbert, E, 2k

“Sir?” He casts a wary look around. They’re alone. Talbert sighs, puts his gun to the side.

“What did they tell you in training?” he folds his arms and waits, more stern than any teacher Sam ever had.

“To support Easy company,” he says slowly.

go get your gun ready, you're the comeback kid Ongoing Series, Works:

i bet on losing dogs Liebgott/Barnes, E, 1.8k

“You’re so goddamn annoying,” Joe says, pinning Bucky up against one of the numerous supply sheds out past the barracks and the training ground. Martin had told them to go sort their shit out. Joe had walked with Bucky in furious silence until they were alone, and then he had grabbed him with startling speed, his hands roughly holding the front of Bucky’s jacket, his face blotchy with anger.

“Takes one to know one, Liebgott,” Bucky shoots back calmly.

2. i gotta crush on you/i gotta crush you now Liebgott/Barnes, E, 2.5

“Killer,” Joe says decisively, tapping one finger to the furrow in Bucky’s brow. “You scared the shit outta Alley the other day, you know.” Bucky frowns, he doesn’t remember that. He recalls the way Alley had looked after O’Brien was shot, as if he was shocked the world could keep killing his friends, and Captain Speirs’ exhaustion, and the grim expression on Doc’s face.

“Calling me a killer is like calling a knife a weapon, what’s your point?”

“You think you’re a weapon?”

3. it's just us now Shifty/Bucky, E, 3.6k

“Fine, you go home and show me a good time in Portsmouth, and I’ll show you New York.” Shifty laughs in delight, holds out a hand to steal a drag from Bucky.

“That a promise, Barnes?”

“Only for you, Shifty,” he vows solemnly, handing over the smoke. Their fingers brush, and he swears Shifty lingers for a moment before pulling away.

Masters of the Air

steady, baby Bradycroz, T, 4.8k

Harry knocked their shoulders together, briefly. “And then who would perform miracles for us, huh? It can’t be you pilots, your heads are big enough as it is.” “I don’t work miracles, Cros,” John said quietly. “I just fly her. You’re the one that gets us home,” he added. Harry flushed. “I’m just doing my job, Johnny.” Good luck and 10,000 feet. Harry and Johnny in 1943.

save yours, and take mine from me BradyEgan, E, 4k

“I’m not sure how to fly without Curt at my six,” Bucky whispers, resting his head to match John. “I’ll be at your six,” Johnny says immediately, a dangerous sort of promise. It has to be him, nobody else can handle the burden of it. It’s a monumental task to be a Major for all their boys, and it’s an even bigger one to be the man at his right hand. A small part of John had always known he would take on this duty if anything ever happened to Curt. Bucky and Buck work in tandem, they need that hand at their back. John Egan, John Brady, and all the promises between them.

no one's touched me there in a damn hot minute! BradyCroz, E, 6.4k

He hasn’t ever felt like this before, the ceaseless hum of want, the way his skin was too small for his bones, and God, his brain was addled to hell and back. Too many thoughts, and not in the way he was used to. Worries over death, worries over not fucking up during a mission were normal. His brain being fixated on John Brady like a fucking broken record was not. Johnny Brady sternly telling him to get a grip after accidentally directing them to France. John Brady grinning after a mission, all teeth and jittery glee. John Brady, watching him from across the room of the O Club. John Brady with his stern eyes and his flat mouth and his sure hands and his– Fuck. He’s doing it again. Harry closes his eyes, resists the urge to go sit in the sun until it bleaches his brain clean. His whole body aches, the small shrapnel wounds from the mission scabbed over and itchy, his sunburn peeling and irritated. Maybe the sand will swallow him before anyone notices he’s gone. Here lies Harry Crosby, taken before his time because he was harder than an impatient fourteen year old for his pilot. As the 100th waits, grounded in Algeria, Harry Crosby finds his attention preoccupied with a certain pilot.

steal a few breaths from the world BradyCroz, T, 1k

“It has to be me.” The conviction catches Harry off guard, he furrows his brow and blinks at him. “I promised,” he adds. And in the end it doesn’t matter if it was to Curt or to Bucky, John Brady doesn’t break a promise.

What Do You Do With A Loving Feeling? (series) BradyCroz.

your girl of the year E, 9.3k

Probably the worst thing is that he’s never met her, Jean Crosby, who’s nothing more than an ephemeral presence at best, a small photograph Harry keeps in his wallet and a stack of letters he faithfully replies to. Harry who loves her as a husband should, who had a shockingly little amount of reserve on that fateful day, taking him apart like it was nothing. Handling him like any of his instruments, confident and capable with John at his mercy.Harry had tasted like adrenaline, already so different from the nervous man that had accidentally routed them to France. It had been so easy to forget it all: the war, the missions, the dead boys starting to accumulate in their memories. All too easy to dismiss the ghost of Jean Crosby that hung around when Harry was real and alive and kissing John as fervently as a dying saint’s benediction. And John Brady was only a man, after all.

Poor, foolish Johnny Brady, giving his heart away during a war.

2. Pang T, 1.9k

And that’s the problem, he remembers. As the months pass it’s getting more and more challenging to feel remorse about any of it: wanting Harry and stealing him away from Jean, failing to admit it in confession, and the fact that it’s all a sin. God has to be cruel, to put this splinter of covetous desire in his heart and let it fester.

Even More Fic!

Hope-Drunk, Ever Asking. BJ/Hawkeye, T, 7.5k

“Sometimes,” BJ said once, as they stumbled back from the O club. “Sometimes…I think I’ve been here for five years.” “I’ve been here for fifty!” Hawkeye crowed. “Fifty lousy years!” “A hundred!” BJ added, whooping with delight as they crashed into the front door of the swamp. Time doesn't work like it should in the Mash 4077th. BJ just hopes they'll all live to see the end of the war.

DOPPELGÄNGER Interview with the Vampire (2022), Claudia/Madeleine Epavier, Claudia & Louis de Pointe du Lac, M, 2.7k

I want him bleeding and crawling for forgiveness. I want him dead, you think, staring at the back of his head as the boat leaves the dock, as the slick Atlantic ocean sprays you with salty tears. I want him regretful and begging for grace and mercy, you think. What if there were two daughters named Claudia?

SORRY, I CAN'T TAKE YOUR TOUCH. Pearl (X-Trilogy), Pearl/Mitsy, Pearl/Howard, M, 1.7k

YOU’RE THE BEST THING I’VE EVER EATEN, you say, walking out into the yard. She runs behind you and says, THAT ISN’T LOVE. A queer character study of Pearl.

WIPs

please forgive me. M, Hawkeye & Margaret, Hawkeye/Steve Newsome

It is the summer of 1955 and Hawkeye needs a change of pace. Taking up a generous offer by Margaret Houlihan, he impulsively jumps on an opportunity to see her and another old war buddy. Little does he know that a crooked town home the veterans reside in holds more than just memories... “I can’t go home,” the visitor said. He was gasping, wheezing, the sound of a patient suffocating on the fluid in his own lungs. “Nobody ever told me that you can’t return once you’ve gone.” Hawkeye held him, listening to the abused rattle of his breathing, cradling the back of his head in one hand. The shed slowly filled with water, murky and crimson-brown. The stranger was crying. Horrible sounds, a choking wail that never stopped. Hawkeye thought about ponds and boys in moldy uniforms. His throat burned with bile. “They put that filth inside us,” Hawkeye said, shocked he could speak at all, “and I think it’s going to kill me.” The stranger looked up at him and smiled. “Now you’re getting it.” A 'Haunting of Hill House' inspired story about all the ways in which we are haunted.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 72 years makes juxtaposition of Aston Martin DB2 Vantage, 1951 & Aston Martin DB12, 2023. The new generation DB is powered by a 670BHP 4.0 V8 Twin-Turbo engine sourced from Mercedes-Benz. The DB2 Vantage had a 2.6 litre DOHC Lagonda straight 6 that produced 125BHP. David Brown (the origin of the DB initials) had bought Lagonda at the same time as Aston Martin largely to get access to the 6 cylinder engine which had been designed by W. O. Bentley.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Should meditate on and write about the influence of slavery and racism on African American christian philosophy... I'm thinking specifically about my dad's african american baptist pastor (not my pastor) who is a premillennialist and also said things in the pulpit that smelled suspiciously of gnosticism (I've learned to be on the look out for that stuff)...

But also I'm learning about African American Oral Tradition and it's roots in negro spirituals. Many of the songs are about escaping from slavery and oppression, but because they were forbidden from complaining about slavery at all. So they used these songs about Moses and Daniel and Jesus as a way to criticize slavery and talk about the hope for escape, liberation, and abolition. Sometimes these songs focused on abolition and justice. Other times, they focused on going to heaven after death (i.e. you can kill my body, but not my soul).

As time would go on though, we would get the prophets of 19th century America: David Walker, Sojourner Truth, Maria H. Stewart, Martin R. Delaney (ew. I'm sorry i just do not like him. wtv), Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglas, Francis W. Harper, and many more I've yet to learn about. And these speakers were very concerned with the life hear and now. And also what could be termed the American Heresy or the American Idolatry: the religion of America was slavery, not Christianity. With this accusation brought into the forefront the great importance of social justice right here and now in the land of the living, not in the future with Jesus or Heaven.

So I think African American Christian Philosophy is split two ways: either really concerned with social justice (mostly in the north), or really concerned with spirituality/going to heaven when you die (mostly in the south). The problems is when these lead to cherry picking or gnosticism.