#malarked

[magnoliasforyourmedic]

Several nights later, I was lying in my bunk and broke out into a deep sweat, followed by chills. Back and forth. Finally, our medic, Eugene Roe, came and took my temperature.

"We're gettin' you the hell out of here, Malark."

"No, no, no. I'll be OK."

Nobody in Easy had spent more consecutive days in combat than me. I didn't want the streak to end because I had a piddly case of the flu.

"I'm getting Speirs," Roe said.

"Roe, I’m—"

"Shut up, Malark. You're sick."

He got Captain Speirs, who did a quick assessment and ordered me to a hospital. "We're pulling out in the morning, Malark. You're not fit to come. Get well and rejoin us for the victory celebration in Hitler's place in the mountains." An ambulance took me to a field hospital, where I hazily recall several doctors standing over me, bright lights in my face, and hearing talk about some strain of Rhine River malaria.

— Excerpt from Don Malarkey in his book, Easy Company Soldier: the Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"

[neptunes-blue]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE today I woke up jet lagged and half dead but I hope everyone is doing well 🙏

This is my secret Santa entry for @educationalporpoises! I hope you have a wonderful day and I hope this drawing lives up to your expectations!! This is the first band art I’ve made since my previous secret Santa drawing of Winters last year… fingers crossed I actually caught their likeness 😭

[atomicradiogirl]

quotes from easy company soldier by don malarkey

[kafka-ohdear]

i feel like. the gesture of giving someone you deeply love and care for an object that is important to you like your lucky charm when they're away somewhere you can't reach out to, is like giving them a small part of you that they can carry with them on their journey, to know that you care about them, and you want them to always be safe.

[loafwins]

Ideal D&D party dynamic 👍

[dork-industries-art]

HEY SO APPARENTLY I NEVER POSTED THIS THING I MADE BACK IN 2023 TO TUMBLR

IM VERY SORRY BUT IM TOO HAPPY WITH THIS TO NOT POST IT

alt under the cut btw

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

Band of Brothers as Hozier songs - Part 2

Part 1 is here

Tags: @xxluckystrike @dcyllom @lewis-winters @hellofanidea

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

David Webster - Almost (Sweet Music)

The very thought of you, and am I blue? / A love supreme, seems far removed / I get along without you very well / Some other nights

Babe Heffron - Nobody

I'd be appalled if I saw you ever try to be a saint / I couldn't fall for someone I thought couldn't misbehave / But I want you to know that / I've had no love like your love

George Luz - Damage Gets Done

You and I had nothing to show / But the best of the world in the palm of our hands, and darling / I haven't felt it since then / I don't know how the feeling ended / But I know being reckless and young / Is not how the damage gets done

Donald Malarkey - I, Carrion (Icarian)

I do not have wings, love, I never will / Soaring over the world you are carrying / If these heights should bring my fall / Let me be your own / Icarian carrion / If the wind turns, if I hit a squall / Allow the ground to find its brutal way to me

Joseph Liebgott - No Plan

There's no plan, there's no race to be run / The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun / There's no plan, there's no kingdom to come / But I'll be your man if you've got love to get done

Bill Guarnere - First Light

Your eyes open, at first a thousand miles away / But turning, shoot a silver bullet point-blank range / And I can scarce believe what I'm believing in / Could this be how every day begins?

Floyd Talbert - Someone New

Would things be easier if there was a right way? / Honey there is no right way / So I fall in love just a little ol' little bit / Every day with someone new

Shifty Powers - Wasteland, Baby!

All the things yet to come are the things that have passed / Like the holding of hands, like the breaking of glass / Like the bonfire that burns / At all worth, in the fight fell too / Wasteland, baby / I'm in love, I'm in love with you

Renee Lemaire - Would That I

With each love I cut loose, I was never the same / Watching still living roots be consumed by the flame / I was fixed on your hand of gold / Laying waste to my loving long ago

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

I definitely should not keep the first few lines of my senior thesis introduction. But I really really want to

[the-poppy-outie-effect]

Watched the first Hunger Games movie this weekend, and had this jumble of thoughts relative to Katniss & Peeta-

• She is everything. He is Just Ken.

• They're like if Reagan Ridley and Brett Hands grew up in hell. Yes, autistic Katniss. Yes, himbo Peeta. I want to see them work for a shadow government together

• Katniss could have, and should have, been weirder. I support Katniss Rights and Katniss Wrongs

• Shipping them is... fine... but platonic soulmates Katniss & Peeta would've been everything. Real to me.

• Why is there no good ship name for them? Surely somebody found SOMETHING better than Peeniss or Peetniss. I'm not calling them Peeniss.

• I guess 'Kata' would've been okay, but like... eh.

• Unpopular opinion- Gale and Peeta are both fine. I don't hate either of them. Gale might be a stale piece of bread, but that's okay, because so am I. Peeta is like a princess to me.

[peculiarplatyps]

Two rogues in love, who've been on my mind the last few weeks. 

Fanart of the rogues from High Hopes Low Rolls, who belong to ABDIllustrates and Philip Lee. Poses by the Pose Archives.

[hawkpoppy-n-nonsense]

2023 vs 2013

Art redraw from over ten years! One of my earliest pieces of my OC Scott as a lad

Not fond of that flag design but the composition felt empty without it so it is what it is

[emmythespacecowgirl]

Saw this question on another BoB blog, found it really interesting, and wondered what your answer might be :)

“What BoB character do you relate to most?”

For me, personally, totally Lewis Nixon; kinda laid-back, with bottled up issues, into coping mechanisms, straight-talking, comfortable.. What would your answer be? Interesting question 🤗

Hey there nonnie 🤠

Oh heck I’m I would probably say that I’m most like Malarkey. We’re both what I would describe as warm people, we love to have fun and go on adventures, but we can also be sensitive people.

Thanks for sending this☺️💕

[terresdebrume]

Tbh I feel like Malarkey is the human embodiment of everything Jones doesn't know about war, and Jones can sense it even if he doesn't fully get it (and, per his quick promotion, likely never will)

The contrast between them works really well, imo, to show the difference between the theory of the army (the image of the honorable soldier, perhaps rugged and with a few lightly bloodied bandages but overall still an ordinary person, vs someone exhausted beyond possible understanding for those who haven't been there, and whom nobody *wants* to understand because of the tragedy required to gain this understanding)

Obviously, BOB is still romanticized like any war media, but within the context of the show, Malarkey is very much the Real soldier, and the rest of Easy is too, while Jones is an interloper who's only playing at war.

(It also shows in the way Web and Jones are groupes together at first but then separated by the end, because beyond the historical and realism factors, Web is a real soldier, (albeit not a great one) who saw the war before it started winding, and Jones didn't)

Anyway, going back to Malark/Jones: I think you're right to say Don isn't in a state of mind to make new friends. I also think he wouldn't trust Jones even if he were because Jones doesn't know how shit really works

And also: imo Jones is way too aware of his lack of standing with the men (perhaps especially Malarkey) both as the officer who wasn't allowed in the big boys' club and, more importantly, as the guy who doesn't know anything about war, to presume he'd be allowed close to any of them (and he's correct about it imo)

I am sorry for that you are stressful now bc of your job, hope it will finish as fast as possible. Could you please share your headcanons about Malarkey/Jones? I just saw a artwork about this couple so I am excited to get something about them. Thank you!

I have never had to think about these two before-- mostly because I don't think it would work, considering how utterly destroyed Don is when they first meet. He's just lost nearly everyone he was close to, so I don't think he's open to letting anybody in at this point.

Henry might be intrigued by Don, that's for sure. Just like he's intrigued with everybody else. Some of these men are his age but they seem leagues older and more tired than a bunch of 21 to 25 year olds should be. Malarkey especially. He would like to know why, except he's very aware that he is in no place to ask. He's more considerate than most give him credit for, I think, but ultimately he is an outsider.

[easy-bravo]

i love watching the background every time i rewatch bob because there’s so much to see lmao ramirez calling evans “pendejo”, the way tipper was trying to contain his laughter when luz was pranking sobel, lieb fucking spitting everywhere (and i mean everywhere all the time!!), malark skip and alex goofing around just being the best trio in the show aaaaa i love them all

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

I heard the crunch of feet in the snow and turned to see Roe coming my way. I could tell by the look on his face that this wasn’t a social visit. “Malark, I’m sorry, but it’s Skip,” he said. “He’s dead. Penkala, too.” I simply sat on the edge of a slit trench like a man who’d been out in the cold too long. Numb. My brain told my mouth to speak but it was like the words were frozen in place. “How’d … it… happen?” I asked, my voice but a whisper. “‘Bout a hundred yards down the line. A major shelling. Muck and Penkala were caught out in the open, then finally found a hole. George Luz had been scurrying around during the blitz, too. Muck and Penkala yelled for him to get in their foxhole.” Roe paused. I kind of nodded, rocked forward and backward a bit. Put my hands over my face, fingers as numb from the cold as my brain from the news. “Luz is down on the snow, snaking his way toward them, and—boom—direct hit on the foxhole. Shell found them as if it had eyes.” I looked away, toward nothing.

~ Don Malarkey

[loafwins]

As a DM I love all my NPCs equally (lying)… but these are the main cast <3

💚💜🧡💛

The Characters are, in order: Malark (half-orc “cleric”), Tasha White (drow druid), Ace Finch (wood elf ranger-bard), and Starling (half elf bard)!