#livingston matthews

[tetragonia]

save me men in green dress... save me... men in green dress save me....

[midnightrosesss]

omg im watching Ron Livingston's video diary for the 1st time rn and its so funny how desperate Mattew Settle looks and then how quick he is to lie that Ron wasn't recording in customs 😭 akdjdjksdf plus Ron just does not seem to care while filming ahaha

[belovedastolove]

who else is thinking a lot of thoughts

[lupoteodoro]

Welcome to the Easy Company

[awaterfalls]

THE FIRST PICTURE?????????? WTF????????? WHY THEY HAVE TO BE SO FUCKIN SEXY AND BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT????????????? WHAT??????? Guys help 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Part 3/?

[aegondluvrs]

srry but he (and them) is everything to me oh my god

[canadaloveselenasblog]

Band of brothers! Getting the Eagles nest, from dickhead Hitler SS

[lesbiandarvey]

i know they’d rather die than work with each other again but what i wouldn’t give to watch some trashy netflix drama where damien lewis and ron livingston have some toxic failing marriage they’re both desperately trying to make work. i really wanna see Naggy Wife ron livingston is that too much to ask

[airsignss]

Spend your Saturday with us, talking to the Oracle!

Sit back, relax, and have a goss with @bitch-butter and I. Xoxo.

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

@realhunterswearplaid ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I suppose I'm not the only one in need of a hug so here's a compilation of (virtual) hugs from my gifsets for you in these trying times.

(Sources in the original tags)

[wiltedprayers]

i think the hbo war casting in general but especially the band of brothers casting is insane because think about it. they're making a tv show about you and your buddies 60 years ago, and some random people you don't actually know are choosing a 20-30 year old hollywood or even british actor to play yourself at like 21 while you were at war, and sometimes they go off your appearance at the time, sometimes not so much. like its crazy cause there's some eerie similarities (notably, ron livingston's case), but also - do you guys think real don malarkey came into that set and scratched his head after realizing scott grimes was supposed to be him. do you think real ronald speirs cheered after seeing matthew settle's full head of luscious hair aware of the fact he was already balding during the war. i think about real dick winters being upset that damian lewis was redheaded skinny and british all the time

[dano-png]

ron livingston getting asked by customs to put away his video diary camera and matthew settle going “oh he didn’t realize he was recording” even though the camera was right up in his face in front of the lady is SO nixon and speirs coded i can’t even

[sunglasses-hide-hungry-eyes]

Sandman Ocean's 11 AU

Okay, so far for this AU we have the following:

Hob Gadling as Danny Ocean

Dream as Tess Ocean

The Corinthian as Rusty Ryan

Gilbert (Fiddler's Green) as Saul

Matthew the Raven as Linus

Cain and Abel as The Mormon Twins

Roles I haven't filled yet:

Yen (contortionist)

Basher (munitions)

Reuben (Financier)

Frank (Casino worker insider)

Livingston (tech & surveillance)

Additionally, haven't quite decided who Dream has left them for. If we say he's "with" Roderick Burgess now, that implies a level of coercion that the original Ocean's Eleven didn't have, and the con turns from a "screw my wife's new boyfriend and hopefully win her back" into a "rescue my husband and absolutely devastate Burgess" mission. Which. I'm not necessarily opposed to that, but that kind of skirts too close to a bog standard "rescue Dream from the fishbowl" fic, which is not what I'm trying to write here either.

I suppose I could go back and reread the comics so that I could pick out one of Dream's other love interests, but it's been a while. :P

[she-wolf09231982]

Why does this work, though? 🥹🤣

E company offers a glass of chocolate milk, will you accept it?🥛

[mercurygray]

Merc, what kind of Historical Military Man gets the wheels turning for you? What are the markers of 'Oh, that one, that one is now mine'?

Nat, I'm going to be honest, this question provoked something of an existential crisis. so I went back through, like, 20 years of fandom favorites to see if there's a pattern.

Spoiler: there isn't, apart from a perennial need to be different. This is kind of long .

2001 (ish) - Lord of the Rings is coming out, and you are either a Legolas or Aragorn girl. I am deep in my 'not like the other girls' phase and decide Boromir is actually the superior choice here. (This leads me to watch A LOT of period dramas that are probably not appropriate for for me at this age, including Clarissa and Lady Chatterley's Lover.) It also leads me to the Sharpe books, which are great and awesome. Richard Sharpe doesn't necessarily do anything for me as a character, but that gets me into Hornblower, which gets me into the Aubreyad, which leads me to read a lot about the Napoleonic Wars in high school. Cliff-diving into a different historical period is now something I do every single summer.

I also spend about 5 years (2008-2013) writing a 225,000 word fanfic in which Boromir doesn't die.

2010-2015

Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) is really only in the army a brief while but who can say no to the blue eyes and the absolute vibe he has going with Mary?

During the Downton phase I decide to raid the library for other period dramas, again, and watch The Forsyte Saga. Soames Forsyte is not a man you love, but Damian Lewis has A Face and I know he was on Band of Brothers, which the library perennially never has a copy of.

2011

I finally watch Band of Brothers in its entirety my senior year of college and am a little disappointed I appear to be missing large parts of the story. (Future rewatches will explain that this is actually a feature of the show, not a bug.) My recollections of this are hazy, but I'm fairly certain my favorite character the first time I watched this was Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston). He's dark-haired, he's funny, he's an absolute mess with a trust fund. Dick Winters (Damian Lewis) also has one hell of a face. He's a red-head, he's in charge of everyone else, he doesn't say much, and he is tall. I know there must be fic for this show but am also very, very sure it is shippy in a direction I do not want to read, so I do not go looking for it.

TURN - 2014-2017

Ben Tallmadge (Seth Numrich) is the guy to watch on TURN: he's a lieutenant, he's tall, he struggles with rules, but the entire fandom is also crazy about him and the leading queen bee in the OC end of that fandom is a real pain about it, so I decide I will not be writing for him no matter what it costs me to hold off admitting I want to. However, in the next episode we meet his best friend, Caleb Brewster (Daniel Henshall) who is short, bearded, dark-haired and chaotic. The moment he comes onscreen I love him. Sadly, no one is reading fic for him and this project is abandoned.

In Season 3, we meet the Marquis de Lafayette. Historical Lafayette is a tall, awkward redhead in need of a father figure who makes up for war experience with boundless enthusiasm. His letters home are adorable. Show Lafayette (Ben Wiles) is tall and enthusiastic. I love him anyway and I make it everyone's problem for, like, a year.

2016-2017 - Mercy Street

Henry Hopkins (Luke Macfarlane) is a military chaplain in a hotel-turned Union hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. He's tall, he's a little tortured, and he has a knack for putting others first. Wrestling with some past choices, his romance with Emma Green, the privileged daughter of the family who owned the hotel, is sweet and full of pining. I write so much fix-it fic for them it's not even funny. (I love this show because the female characters I love come pre-installed. Please watch this.)

2016 - Dunkirk

I see this movie three times in theaters and love it more each time. Collins (Jack Lowden) is a blonde RAF flyboy with a very adorable face. (Tom Glynn Carney is also a face I like but he's on a backburner for a bit.) I write a lot of fic about it and affectionately refer to this as my first Planes Go Zoom phase.

2020

Two weeks into the pandemic I decide rewatching Band of Brothers is a good idea and buy the book and the DVD set from my local secondhand bookshop like I am doing a drug deal in a parking lot. Two weeks after that I am writing a fanfic for Dick Winters (Damian Lewis) because I am a loon who likes men in charge and painfully slow burns.

2021

Still in the middle of a pandemic I decide to watch The Pacific, because I make good decisions, apparently. Hoosier Smith (Jacob Pitts) is a taciturn, wise-cracking friend of Leckie's who is joked about as being the pretty one. He is. Andrew Haldane (Scott Gibson) is quiet, unassuming, and in charge, and played college football for Bowdoin. Very dad energy. Extremely charming. Dead in three episodes as history intended. Fix-it fic incoming.

2022 Top Gun Maverick comes out. Jake "Hangman" Seresin (played by Glen Powell, who I loved in Hidden Figures and The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society) has a jawline you could cut something with and an attitude. My friends think I am mental. Second Planes Go Zoom phase coupled with Devotion, which comes out shortly after.

SAS Rogue Heroes comes out. I have been really looking forward to seeing Tom Glynn Carney in something else and he delivers. Mike Sadler is blond, extremely good at his job, not capable of suffering fools, and far too attractive for the desert.

2024

We do not even make it out of trailer season before I realize I still have a Thing (TM) for Callum Turner's face, which I have known since he was Theseus Scamander in Fantastic Beasts. Watching The Boys in the Boat before this all starts doesn't help - he has regrettably blond hair but thighs for days and shoulders you could hang the universe on. John "Bucky" Egan, is tall, dark-haired, incredibly generous spirited and nominally in charge. I want all of it. The rest of the fandom does too. I try to make peace with that and write anyway. Third Planes Go Zoom phase.