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plusultraetc · 2 months

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fiiiiiic reeeeecs? 👻

Thank you for being so sweet & patient with this, HERE ARE SOME!!! (also I know this is a long post but I didn't want to put any of them under a keep reading😭):

Nine Lives by machiroads | You may have been wondering if I was going to start by recommending Nine Lives again and yes I'm going to recommend Nine Lives again, who do you think I am. This fic was my Book Of The Year 2023. I'm also going to recommend its Shinsou-centric spinoff, Naruhata Noir, bc I love Shinsou and NN is so fun despite the literal actual cannibalism (mind the tags, but I didn't find anything in this fic overly graphic!)

Actually, I am going to blanket recommend everything by machiroads, you literally can't go wrong. Special shoutout to 1966 Ford Nutstang GT350 Shelby for Present Mic's quarter-life crisis and Aizawa at his Most Gremlin Ever, I love this fic sm.

let's make some noise (time goes fast when you're having fun) by carolinaa | The first time I read this fic, I actually scrolled right back up to the top and read it again. It's so good. I don't even know where to start. First of all, my favorite Hizashi POV I have literally ever read. The way the author handled everything from his hearing loss to the inherent horror of trying to navigate your 20s. How much he and Aizawa love each other. So much about this fic feels so whole? in a way? I don't know? 1000/10, no notes.

Cry Me A River is another favorite by carolinaa. I literally am wrapping this fic around my shoulders like a weighted blanket.

Passaggio by kashinoha | If you would Like To Cry, this fic is a very recent read for me. Another really good Present Mic POV, but also I curled up into a weepy little ball on the ground upon reading it. I just want the boys to take care of themselves for once is that too much to ask.

nothing as undoing by HalloweenClown | 'Fics that land somewhere between soft and stabbing me in the heart,' which is where a lot of Aizawa & Eri fics land for me. This fic does such an excellent job of capturing the very early stages of building trust™ between them.

acid reflux by lcthe | Vigilante Midoriya AU with a twist(?) The vibes are surreal, the vibes are I'm confused, the vibes are I'm having a great time, and the writing is excellent. It's incomplete and being revised, but I read up to Chapter 3 fairly recently and the erasermic in that chapter,, so painful but so good. Fair warning, this one does get a little dark!

the river walked me home by Thealmostrhetoricalquestion | Writing this post actually reminded me that I want to reread this one. It was the first Todoroki-centric fic I ever read in this fandom (something like a year ago? or close to it?) and I can vividly remember shedding tears over Animal Crossing. I have never played Animal Crossing.

My Brother, My Brother, and Me and Breaking the Ice by seventh_time_lucky | SPEAKING of fics I want to reread, we are going back to 'Liza's pre-ao3 era' (as in, the fics are on ao3, but I was not) These two follow Natsuo as he tries to get to know Shouto after growing up as virtual strangers. There are sentences in the first fic that genuinely haunt me, and the entire coffee conversation (motif?) in the second fic is just. So good? I'm so glad I was able to find them again.

komorebi by Calamitatum | If you're interested in a waaay canon divergent fic, this one reads like a gut punch (in a good way!!) komorebi is one of those fics that I started reading thinking 'oh, that's an interesting premise' and then ended up thinking 'oh god wait what oh no.' I don't want to spoil anything but it definitely went in a direction I wasn't expecting, and honestly it feels like a masterclass in building tension, tackling multiple POVs, and callbacks, my beloved. This author is soo good at unpacking exposition, backstory, and motivation through conversations as well, which I appreciate greatly bc I struggle so hard with that in my own writing. The fic is incomplete with one chapter remaining, so I'm currently rereading it while waiting for the final update!

#i know for a fact i am missing some really good ones which is really frustrating #so i may come back to add to this later #but these were some of the first to come to mind!!#fic rec #ask #anon

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shuttershocky · 2 years

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Any 4* star guard you'd recommend E28ng for IS? I'm looking at them, and they don't stand out as much like the 4 stars of other classes

I'm going to introduce you to the surprise MVP of many of my IS runs

Motherfuckin' Cutter

She has a Nuker tag for a good reason. Each knife she throws (it's got a decently long range too) at S1M3 does 340% of her ATK as damage. Now imagine if there's only one enemy who eats that burst 4 times, and Cutter is using Spinach / Pasta so she gets a bonus ATK buff for 1 second upon skill activation.

That's right, the enemy explodes.

It hits drones too for some reason. Let's say you don't have many ranged units, that's fine. Cutter's knives can take down drones from several tiles away with S1, or nuke them from full HP in an AOE around her with S2's double damage vs aerial enemies (and yes, this includes enemies levitated by Irene or Qanipalaat) which ALSO combos well with Spinach/Pasta.

Her SP costs are also quite low for the burst damage they do, and her talent gives her a 20% chance of gaining +1 SP from attacks in case you somehow needed her to charge faster. If you grab SP-recharge collectibles, she can throw so many knives so fast it should be physically impossible to stuff that much kitchenware in a sleeveless shirt.

Fun fact, activating her S1 from maximum possible range on a slow or stationary enemy will make her final knife land on the enemy after her skill already finishes and makes her throwing knife a candidate for her talent, allowing Cutter to charge her knives with her knives.

What's that? You're not happy? You need more? Well Cutter's also a Swordmaster which means you keep an eye on this shit right here:

The Hand of Shredder. All Instructor, Dreadnought, and Swordmaster Guards ignore 70% of the enemy's DEF, in case you thought Lucian's theater kids needed even harder wedgies.

BUT WAIT, WE'RE NOT DONE YET. YOUR DEF-PIERCING DREAMS CAN GO EVEN FURTHER BEYOND

Cutter's module makes her ignore 70 DEF. A mild upgrade (not much difference between an enemy with 1000 DEF or an enemy with 930 vs most Swordmasters) until you stack it with Hand of Shredder and 1000 DEF becomes 300 becomes 230 and ooh baby her Swordmaster attacks hit twice, that Defense Crusher is FEELING it.

So in conclusion:

Versatile

Low hope cost

Burst damage

Good collectible combos

Good range on skills

Low SP costs

Hand of Shredder DEF pierce memes

The only reason Cutter isn't the best Swordmaster in the roguelike mode is due to UNLIMITED BIBEAK WORKS still being possible, a build so broken HG made all the final bosses immune to stun

#Arknights

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ao3feed-jonmartin · 4 months

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Love is Blind

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/U7GkEWV by b33viemm Inspired by the writing prompt "Due to a curse placed upon your bloodline, you’re invisible. You’ve been married to your blind wife for 25 years and she’s just gotten surgery to recover her vision." It's quite changed to fit TMA and Jonmartin, but the core is still there: one of them is blind and gets surgery to fix it. Words: 1000, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Martin Blackwood, Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan "Jon" Sims | The Archivist Additional Tags: Character Study, Poetry, Location: Somewhere Else (The Magnus Archives), nebulous circumstances, after the finale? did the main story ever happen? who knows, Blind Character, yes this isnt how cataract surgery works but please, Suspension Of Disbelief, Nature, Self-Doubt, Self-Discovery, Reflection, Love read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/U7GkEWV

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #tma #jonmartin #jmart #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin fanfic

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cookii-moon · 11 months

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Fic rec week catch up because I’m lateee

I’m sorrryefngfnegjef it was hard to think of fics because. I’m really bad at bookmarking. BUT!!! I went back. Through my entire history. And picked out all the fics I like. So now I can make a list !,, and also late by like 2 days sooo time to catch up!!!

Day 1 / July 16th: Canon and/or Lloyd

Pleasantly surprised by the amount of Lloyd content I have ready to go. Most of it is team focused with a Lloyd POV, so hope you don’t mind. I also have a few Lloyd fics I haven’t gotten to reading at all but do have bookmarked. So.

Guys. Guys you know this one. Come on guys. It’s like. An iconic movie verse fic series.

Buuuut if you by some miracle have not heard of it - Essentially, Garmadon, upon wishing on the mega weapon during season 2, ends up isekaing Show Lloyd to the movieverse and Movie Lloyd to the show verse. The respective ninja now have to work to return them to their home worlds, and maybe make some new friends and have a bit of an adventure in the process.

I’m not done with it but I am halfway through and the series is long, but a very fun read! Completed (though the series is still ongoing I believe?) and Canon divergent.

..can I rec a series? Yes? Ok.

A work in progress trilogy where Harumi is a ninja instead and Lloyd is a 1000 year old being causing quite a lot of trouble for the ninja, but finds himself cooperating when the Oni come for ninjago.

Very good and long read. Definitely a rec. Might make you cry. The first part is complete but the entire thing is incomplete. Canon divergent.

Lloyd centric platonic soulmates AU with a twist. Soul bonds can hear eachothers thoughts when completed. They’re so sure Lloyd is their missing link. Untiiiill his birthday rolls around. As Lloyd continued to go without a soul bond, he starts feeling more and more left out. It’s basically good old angst with a happy ending hehe. Incomplete and canon divergent.

a shortie but a goodie. Lloyd learns of all the ways his friends have control over their powers, and also the ways they don’t, and maybe gets something out of it. Complete. Canon compliant.

A two chapter short fic about some of the nifty little tricks Lloyd’s picked up from his childhood. A very cool premise and a fun little read!! Complete (I believe?) canon compliant.

A fun little fic where after the tornado of creation Lloyd is blasted into the past and now has to serve under his younger evil self to try and stop him from releasing the serpentine. Incomplete. Canon divergent.

I do have a feeew more but. This list is already long. So. Sorry that there’s not many canon based fics it’s just that the first prompts usually encompass fics that. Focus on the ninja. So it’s easier for me to order them based on ninja. Because unfortunately I mostly just read any fic tagged as Cole honestly.

Day 2 / July 17th: AU and/or Movieverse and/or Jay

Jay unfortunately falls under the what I like to call “I-have-lots-of-stuff-about-him-bookmarked-but-I-never-got-to-reading-them” effect. Aka the IHLOSAHBBINGTRT effect. BUT!! I have a precious few…

Without further ado!

first FFN fic rec! A story about Jay and Cole’s friendship over the years through Jays POV. It’s been a while since I read it but when I did I loved it so much.. you gotta read it for yourself… it’s beautiful and you will probably cry. Maybe. Happy cry or sad cry. Either or. Complete and Canon compliant.

Short fic about all the ways the ninja have adapted to being homeless from before being found by Wu, while Jay is trying desperately to understand why his friends are so strange sometimes. Complete and canon compliant.

Jay is horrible at Communicating: the fic. Misunderstandings spiral into other misunderstandings which results in Jay going rogue and on the run while the city needs him. If you don’t like screaming at characters through the screen over miscommunication, this fic might not be for you, but hey, it’s a good fic for what I remember. Incomplete.

Day 3 / July 18th: Angst and/or Kai

finally we’re in the present,,, oh my god… ok so. Uh. Unfortunately I do not have many Kai centric fics. Sadly.

so for the angst prompt, take this.

Multi chap unfinished lava fic. Most of it is alternating POVs but Kai is definitely there and it’s definitely angsty. Go. Cry. Be in pain. /j.

That’s all for today sadly,.. tomorrow is Cole… expect me to be there screaming :).

#ninjago #jay walker #ninjago jay #ninjago kai #ninjago lloyd #kai jiang #ninjago au #kai smith #kai ninjago #jay ninjago #lloyd ninjago #lloyd montgomery garmadon #lloyd garmadon #ninjago fics #lego ninjago #ninjago fic rec week #ninjago fanfiction

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pumpkinspicepirates · 5 months

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Just stumbled upon an ofmd hate post, and I've never blocked 1000+ people so fast in my life. Oof.

Who are these people? Why are they so bitter?

Why do they believe everything they read on the internet?

"There's people dying..." Ok so that justifies the literal death threats you're sending everyone in the ofmd fandom? Like, some of these comments are so vile I am shocked that such hatred exists over a silly lil TV show. Jesus Christ. It's a fictional story. There is some A Grade hypocrisy going on in the tags.

"What a waste of money when there's a genocide happening..." Ok, tell that to the next fashion influencer who buys a Hermes bag. Or don't. Because people can do whatever the fuck they want with their money. And yes, horrible things are happening on this planet. But guess what? Horrible things (like genocides) will continue to happen again and again and again. It's the human condition. History will repeat itself like it always has. It fucking sucks. And it's an easy spiral into anger and depression if that's all you surround yourself with. Do as much as you have the capacity for - physically, mentally, emotionally. SJW Olympics only exist on social media. Go outside.

I just don't understand how people can take something that's literally made out of love and creativity, and warp it into an entire ideology built on hatred... for essentially no reason (??)

#i genuinely feel bad for these people #i see something i don't like... i scroll past it #i dont tell people to kill themselves #geez #morals? respect? maturity?#ANYWAY #rant over.

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revelisms · 11 months

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Book Recs

Thank you @ravenkinnie for the tag! :-)

This list is a bit all over the place, since I've never been a consistent reader (which I'm trying to be better about...slowly lmao). I tend to find things I really like and keep them as referentials for when I need to feel inspired.

Sometimes A Wild God — This poem put breath back into my soul after a huge creative slump years ago. I adore Tom Hirons's prose. It captures such a mystical flavor of dark, ancient, old-magick beauty. Absolute stylistic bookmark for me; I always come back to this when I want to evoke something otherwordly.

Residence on Earth — Favorite poet, favorite poetry collection (Spanish/English version). Neruda's been a staple on my shelf for years. Everything in here connects back to the elements in some way, and how the human experience coalesces in them all.

On Fairy Stories — I have to include Tolkien somewhere on here (The Hobbit and The Silmarillion are close runner-ups), but I'm opting for his essay on what defines fantasy as a genre. I've been inspired by his writing forever, and this piece is just a treat. Plenty of etymology breakdowns, as you'd expect, and analyses of historical fae-stories and myths.

On Trails — Getting into the nonfiction scientific prose side of things, this was my first real introduction into the genre. It's part-memoir and part-research study on the behavioral evolution of trail-making and its connection from ants to cities.

Voices of Chernobyl — Anthropology major coming back to bite me, but I love oral histories. I fell into a big rabbit hole with global nuclear disasters a while ago, largely thanks to HBO's podcast for Chernobyl, which was significantly based on this book.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena — One of my favorites, for plenty of reasons: falls in the vein of historical fiction (set around the events of the Chechen Wars), multi-character POVs, protector-dad and rebel-daughter found family, and overall just a haunting, beautiful novel.

Cloud Atlas – In the same vein, this is also one of my favorites, for a similar set of reasons and more: multi-POV historical fiction plus time travel (jumps everywhere from 1800s to dystopian future), set around a murder mystery. Tons of humanistic themes in here on what it means to find purpose and connection through time.

The Return of the Native — Hardy's my Victorian-era author of choice, and this book is so damned broody, I love it. Basically just 1000 ways to describe how the English countryside will pick her teeth with generation upon generation of lonely souls in woe with their lovers—and I eat it up every time.

Red Dragon — Hannibal as a whole is just a solid top-of-the-list for favorite series—books, movies, show, everything. But there's something about how this book introduces it all that is just captivating. Something I always think about is how Harris writes in past-tense 90% of the time, but will switch to present-tense when talking about certain characters. It's downright eerie, and creates this sense of infinite presence you can't escape from. AGH. I just love his writing a lot.

I tag @bucky-yes @zkyfall @karnaca78 @the-blue-quetzalcoatl @cherryblossomssoda and anyone else who'd like to join!

#tagging game #book reqs

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runefactorysecretsanta · 2 years

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~*~Rune Factory Secret Santa 2022 sign-ups have now begun!!!~*~

Hello again everyone! I’m Merry, and I hope we can all come together to once again spread holiday happiness and cheer!

Please read all of the guidelines carefully!

This event has a PG-13 and below rating, meaning absolutely no nsfw. If you think what you made is questionable, it’s probably best not to post it.

Please make sure you are able to finish your gift! If you sign up and cannot complete it for any reason, contact me asap so that I can find a backup Santa. If you did not receive your gift last year, please message me immediately upon signing up to let me know.

Have your submit box or IMs open, please! This is the best way for me to send you all of the information you need to know once you are assigned someone. If I cannot contact you, you may be disqualified. (if you signed up last year and dropped out with no warning, I may not accept your application, so please message me first!)

If you sign up and then change your username and do not notify me, I will try to track you down once. If I cannot find you, then you may be disqualified from the event. Please be sure to keep me updated on any username changes!

Please, do your very best to give your giftee what their heart desires! Do your best to make their wish come true!

This shouldn’t need to be said, but if I find out you’ve used stolen art in your gift or put anything nsfw in the tag, you will be banned from participating in the future. Please make original gifts!

Sign-ups will remain open until November 15th at 11:59 PM EST. You will receive your match-up shortly after.

Once you receive your match-up, you will have about a month to get your gift completed! You are allowed to post your gift any time between December 20th and New Year’s Eve. I will message everyone throughout the month (especially as it gets closer to the deadline) with reminders to get their gifts done.

All of that being said, the best way to give your giftee their gift is to post it publicly, and tag it “RFSS2022″. I will reblog it here. If you do not wish for your gift to be public, then please submit it to me so that I may send it to them privately. It’s preferred that you do not send it to them directly, mainly so I will know that you completed your gift and don’t assign a back-up, but if you MUST send it to them directly, please let me know once you do so.

~*~FAQ~*~

Are crossovers allowed? What about OCs? Crossovers within the Rune Factory and/or the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons universe are allowed as well as Rune Factory-based OCs.

-What forms of media are accepted for this event? Because I had some issues in the past with a few people, I have no choice but to narrow down the criteria to fanart and fanfiction. HOWEVER, that does not mean edits and videos are no longer allowed! You can still submit them so long as they have some sort of original aspect (like a video of a fan-made in-game scene, incorrect quote-styled edits, etc.), I will accept those into the “fanfiction” category. All that being said, if you’ve participated in the past with different forms of media than listed above, please contact me and we can work something out!(please message me if you have any questions about this)

Please put as much effort into this as possible. Your giftee would probably be disappointed with a blurry drawing on notebook paper taken with a camera, so I will not be accepting something like that as a final gift.

-I’m a fanfic writer, how long should my story be? I would recommend 1000 words minimum. There’s no word cap, but please keep it reasonable.

-Can I send my giftee an anonymous ask if I need more details about their gift? Yes, absolutely! If they do not have anonymous enabled, feel free to send me a message and I’ll ask for you.

-I want to participate but I don’t have a tumblr. Thankfully you don’t need one to participate, all you need to provide is a form of contact!

-I got assigned the same person as I have before! This is a small fandom, so that may happen with an event with many of the same people signing up year after year. I’m only one person, and I cannot remember who has been assigned to who before, so if this happens and you’d like someone else, please feel free to let me know!

-I got assigned something that I’m not familiar with! I use a random number generator to assign match-ups and I do try to fix match-ups that are incompatible, but sometimes I may miss something. If you are an artist, I may have to end up assigning you something RF1 based when you have only played RF4 based on how many signups there are, but when it comes to writers, I try my hardest to make sure they are familiar with the source material. Still, if you are assigned something or someone you are not comfortable with, please let me know ASAP and I will work on getting you switched.

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#rune factory #rune factory 5 #rune factory 4 #rune factory 3 #rune factory 2 #rf5 #rf4 #rf3 #rf2 #rune factory frontiers #rune factory tides of destiny #rune factory oceans #rfss2022

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welcometothejianghu · 10 months

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Small Fandom Summer Update

I felt like running the numbers on Small Fandom Summer, the thing where I'm trying to write a fic every 1-2 weeks, schedule permitting, for a fandom that has fewer than 1000 English-language works in it on AO3. Bonus points for rarepairs!

It's been going pretty well! Here's what I got so far:

The Rightful Ruler (少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth - 106 total works, 50 English) - Lei Wujie/Xiao Se (25 total, 4 English - and of those four, this is the only one that actually contains content for this pairing)

The Doctor is In (心宅猎人 | Psych-Hunter - 25 total works, all in English) - I tagged it as Jiang Shuo/Qin Yiheng (22 total), but it's really just Qin Yiheng/Original Male Character (the only one!) with extra Jiang Shuo voyeurism

A Single Explosion (终极笔记 | Ultimate Note - 652 total works, 509 English) - Pangzi & Xiao Ge (64 total) or Pangzi/Xiao Ge (68 total), depending on how you read it

Dog (伪装者 | The Disguiser - 1,382 total works; 128 English) - Ah Cheng/Ming Lou (517 total, 39 English)

And I am green, and you are wood (沙海 | Tomb of the Sea - 1,303 total works, 519 English; 老九门 | Old Nine Gates - 650 total works, 270 English) - Qi Tie Zui/Zhang Rishan (167 total, 98 English), Liang Wan/Zhang Rishan (44 total, 38 English), Liang Wan/Qi Tie Zui/Zhang Rishan (4 total, all English)

Stay (괴물 | Beyond Evil - 1,165 total works, 877 English) - Oh Jihwa/Yu Jaeyi (8 total, 6 English, and so far as I can tell, mine's the only one where they bone)

Little Spear (少年歌行 | The Blood of Youth) - Sikong Qianluo/Xiao Se (11 total, all English, and mine's the only one rated above Teen)

动须相应 (棋魂 | Hikaru no Go - 653 total works, 129 English) - Shi Guang/Yu Liang (233 total, 77 English)

One Quiet Night (킹덤 | Kingdom - 218 total works, 191 English) - Lee Chang/Yeongshin (105 total, 89 English) and Lee Chang/Seobi/Yeongshin (6 total, all English)

Not that I usually play around in huge fandoms or anything, but it's been kind of startling to get in there and realize just how much of a ghost town some of these places are.

Then again, this has been good for me, in a way. I hate the sensation of feeling like I'm screaming into the void, so it's been a worthwhile lesson in accepting from the start that I'm basically going to be screaming into the void, and then doing it anyway. Like, maybe someday, some weary future traveler will stumble upon these leavings and be grateful that there are twenty-five total stories for them to read instead of twenty-four. But for right now, if I want validation, man, I should not be expecting to find it here.

Anyway, we'll see what else I can get up to. Besides repeats of the above, fandoms that might get swept up in this project, depending on my mood, include 七爷 | Qi Ye (408 total works, 308 English), 손 The Guest (230 total works, 132 English), 君子盟 | A League of Nobleman (84 total works, 35 English), 风起陇西 | The Wind Blows from Longxi (26 total works, and if you exclude crossovers, it brings the number down to 8 total, none of which are in English).

Here's to making someone, somewhere out there obscurely happy.

#small fandom summer #i made this #my fic

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bnuuywol · 10 months

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I'll tell you when you get your soft, italicized, "Oh."

Tagged by @arinaxiv and @otherworldseekers Thanks both of ya!! <3

Did it for both the boys

Phoenyx:

the late-night talk

Oh. you figure it out when you realize just how vulnerable they are willing to be with you. it isn't everybody who could or would stay up talking into the night with you, not with such affection or easy familiarity. it isn't everybody who is so understanding of you. it isn't everybody who could bare their soul to you in return. that kind of intimacy... it means deep foundations. it means comfort. it means trust. maybe it's a secret, maybe it's a story, maybe it's something you just never thought of before -- but they say something, late at night, and you realize all at once how remarkable they are, and how special it is to exist in the same time and space as them. "oh" indeed.

Pretty accurate honestly. Phoenyx falls for him upon their first meeting, but I don't think he realizes just how deep he's fallen until a moment like this. Probably late at night in the Waking Sands. I need to write this now.

Thancred:

the emergency

something goes wrong. there's urgency. everything gets turned upside down, and you have to grab for the things that matter most-- Oh. suddenly, there's perspective, and at the worst possible moment, the moment when there is so much else going on, you realize that you have been breathless with want for so, so long. you want everyone to be safe, but please, please, you want them to be safe. you want everything to be okay so that you can have another chance to get things right. a chance to start over. and everything will be okay, of course, because you've made it through bad moments before, and that foundation of trust is there, even if you've never quite acknowledged it to its full potential. you trust them. you need them. Oh.

Yes. Yes. 1000% yes. I think this is what happens during their escape from Ul'dah after the Bloody Banquet. He's been completely oblivious to his own feelings for Phoenyx for so long, and then suddenly keeping him safe and getting him out becomes the most important thing in the world.

Tagging @fatewalker-phoenix , @sae-mian , @akirakirxaa , @sasslett , @ainyan , and whoever else wants to!!

#ffxiv #phoenyx eldritch #thancred waters #wolcred

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savrenim · 2 years

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okay so the writing prompts You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. and subsequent story reply passed my dash again and my problem is I have some Real Answers that are living rent-free in my head but I did not want to write several hundred words in tags of clog up the post so guess I’m doing the tumblr thing of ‘make your own post’

but here we go, answers to this question that my brain has thought up and their rankings:

1. ‘Immolated standing right here right now in this timeline and universe by a 12km planet-killer class asteroid traveling at 30km/s as it vaporizes upon contact with the planet, alongside everything else in a ~200km impact crater’ : 3.5/10

So this one gets points for being the classic ‘Taking You Down With Me Syndrome’ in as far as I can come up with in a minute with my fictional life on the line. Also points for: as unavoidable as I think possible to come up? I have specified here and now, so they can’t teleport me to a different planet or time, or similarly to a different multiverse, which really makes no easy escape for anyone else around me. Furthermore, the specification of being a part of the impact crater makes it less likely that it’ll just happen to me in a magical bubble that is killed without it affecting everyone around me; even if it transports everyone else outside of the crater and just kills me in the impact, enough of the planet’s crust will be ejected into the atmosphere from the ‘crater’ part of the request to heat it up upon friction of re-entry enough to bake everything on the planet’s surface, not to mention the superheated rock around that is basically acting like a nuke causing thermal radiation to destroy everything within 1000km, massive shockwave winds, a magnitude 11 earthquake, etc. Explosions like that happen so fast that 1000% this just flat-out Would Not Hurt, I’d be dead before I realized I was dead. All in all, nice generally spiteful way to go, fun wording to deliver, satisfying thing to stare someone in the eyes at their growing horror and describe.

Points taken away for the facts that (a) I do still die, (b) it is possible that the reason that other people have not done this or something like this already is because it’s built into the death curse that it won’t kill other people for you too and I did not word this carefully enough to allow for killing everyone else in the aftermath in which case I’ve just wasted the wish, (c.) this does kill the entire planet and end possible almost every living species and probably every intelligent living species in I’m guessing the known universe unless there are stuff like fae realms that might be safe but destruction on that scale is kind of petty and I’m not totally sure I would want to do it, I do kind of like humanity and all that jazz. seems like a bit of a waste to take everyone down with me in my grand revenge, unfortunately, I’m too flashy to ask for an asteroid just big enough to take out the village, if I’m going to go down it’s going to be in planet-destroying style.

specs for this description are taken from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs on Earth, which has the advantage that depending on what angle the thing actually hits at, potentially leaving the planet habitable in a couple of hundred thousand years again.

2. ‘By our sun going supernova (at the end of its lifespan)’ : 2.5-6.5/10

So this one gets potentially slightly more points than 1. because it’s just....... interesting. in that there are a lot of options and any of the options are really cool? but also less points bc there are so many options that are SO much more unpleasant. (and yes this is somewhat inspired by Dr Who that was a fucking Iconic episode, moisturize me). but so far as I see it, there are four ways this can go:

(a) The sun just magically goes supernova right now, guess it’s the end of its lifespan because a death curse said so. Takes about eight minutes to hit us, everyone gets killed just like the planet-killing asteroid but tbh in a 10000x cooler manner, all of the advantages and disadvantages of 1 working.

(b) I get teleported into the future to watch the sun go supernova, die very quickly because the sun kills me not the vacuum of space or atmosphere being unbreathable again etc etc, but mostly this begets the question of: assuming that the fantasy planet that I’m on is fairly similar to our own, we are around a G-type main sequence star! Those things don’t go supernova! they don’t have enough mass! which means that I get to watch as a magical death curse attempts to somehow figure out how to make the entire fucking sun go supernova at the end of its lifetime think about what cool science that is!!!!!!! I might die but think of how much data future astromagiphysicists are going to get from this!!!!!

(c.) The Magical Death Curse Does Not Have Enough Energy To Make The Sun Go Supernova And Fizzles Out In Trying, which while it sounds good actually is pretty boring bc they’re likely to just, like, stab me with their swords if it happens. rip me.

(d) answer (b), but instead of teleporting me to the future, I am made immortal until the sun reaches the end of its lifespan and proceeds to go supernova which means that I (6.5) get functional immortality for at least a couple of billion years which is more than long enough to do some interesting shit and probably get tired of being alive and then die in the coolest fireworks display the planet will ever see. points taken away tho (2.5) for not specifying that, like, if I’m surviving until then it’s in a fine preserved manner rather than a fate-worse-than-death manner (rotting like a zombie, frozen in time unable to move but watching everything happen around me, etc).

general points for no matter what happens it’ll be REALLY FUCKING COOL to watch, general points taken away for the lack of control and real range of how shitty the possible outcome might be and that I still die in every scenario here no matter what.

3. ‘In a lich-creation ceremony that turns me into an undead immortal lich’ 6.8-8.2/10

Nice, simple, to the point. Points for: surviving the encounter, it being very difficult for the magic to misinterpret it. Points range for: depending on the rules governing liches in this magical world, it might not actually be that fun to be a lich. Points taken away for: if liches are an established element of this world, they probably know how to kill them, so I’m not out of hot water yet. And also there might be elements of lichhood that are not a completely optimal existence that obviously I would experiment to improve over the course of my new immortality but who knows how easy that would be to do.

4. ‘In a super-special custom lich-creation ceremony powered by my soul and my death that will create a whirlpool of necrotic energy gathering up the life force and magic of everything in its path to power the creation of an indestructible magical object that houses a magical projection of my consciousness that contains continuity of consciousness, memory, personality, the ability to grow and change, allows it to project itself outside of its container as a simulacrum to affect the world, and the ability to gather magic around itself and use said magic, that can sustain itself through any form of energy manipulation either with respect to mundane or magical thermodynamics-slash-entropy-theory, and--’ 10/10

This is the supervillain origin story shit that I’m talking about. Survive the encounter? check. Using a word that the magic recognizes so you have a base for what you’re turned into but customizing for what you actually want? check. Revenge on everyone? check. Easy ability to murder everyone who knows what happened so that it’s that much harder to hunt you down and kill you? check. Avoiding the potential of there being a built-in rule about no directly stating that your death will kill other people here too? check, I never state the whirlpool of magic kills everyone I just make it I can use it to kill them after and tie up all the loose ends to further my own power growth immediately. Ability to watch the sun go supernova? also check; I’m an immortal magical lich now babey I 1000% will use the several billion years that I have to develop our planet’s magical spaceprogram, colonize some other exoplanets, set up a galactic civilization, and then when our sun is dying yeet it into another star so that I get to enjoy the cool fireworks show.

5. ‘By giving up my mortal form and ascending to godhood, bitches’ 115/10

I’m torn bc on the one hand 3-4 are basically just doing this in a more and more specific manner, but on the other hand, oh my god the STYLE, the SNAPPINESS, -100pts for being So Much More Likely To Kill Me but +216 for Okay But Imagine If If It Doesn’t It’s Way Less Stupidly Nerdy Than Very Carefully Describing My Brand New Phylactery As I Try To Come Up With All Of My Ideal Circumstances Of Lichhood

like. I’d probably go for 4. bc I’m careful and want to survive this thing. but I think in my supervillain origin story I will tell everyone that I said 5. better to not give away my weaknesses that way too.

6. ‘By teleporting me 1ft to the left in a completely standard teleportation, retroactively establishing that teleportation in this setting does not in fact move you but actually kills you via disassembling your atoms and creates a perfect copy of you with continuity of consciousness where you ‘appear’’ 7.5/10

Points for: I basically survive the at least implementation of the spell, and I enact abso-fucking-lutely hilarious revenge on everyone but especially all the wizards who have ever teleported by establishing the Existential Beam Me Up Crisis as canon, and probably cause immense socioeconomic damage as suddenly teleportation can no longer be used for people as a quick means of transportation and there are probably a lot of stuffy rich people who will no longer want it used on their goods. Points off for: I am 1 ft to the left and there are soldiers with swords here, while I will get to see the looks on everyone’s faces as this sinks in I will probably still be stabbed and die.

7. ‘By teleporting me to an unknown untrackable safe friendly location outside of the country in a completely standard teleportation, retroactively establishing that teleportation in this setting does not in fact move you but actually kills you via disassembling your atoms and creates a perfect copy of you with continuity of consciousness where you ‘appear’’ 9.5/10

Points for doing everything 6 does while actually saving my life. Points off for not getting to see their faces. Also points off for not giving me free immortal lichhood from it, but not too many points off as I am now free to research and do a lichhood ceremony myself without worrying about a death curse misinterpreting what I want.

bonus: my mutual-slash-housemate’s answer: ‘in the same time, place, and manner that you do’ 6.3/10

sorry it’s good and snappy and points for: combination of either revenge or actually surviving the thing at least for a while, and sheer delivery impact, but points off for not turning a death curse into immortality, zero destruction of planets or stars involved, zero rewriting of the rules of magic, possible body count for your revenge is only one other person, forces you to encounter this person again and die with them which really is something quite intimate for a random imperial sorcerer that you ought to hate the guts of, potentially traps you into an enemy-to-lovers fanfic in which rip now this sorcerer insists on keeping you alive so that they can achieve immortality but that might just be unpleasant locking you in a pocket dimension and not fun tragic star-crossed lovers narrative that you deserve out of it but will lock you in tragic star-crossed lovers narrative otherwise, gives you zero control over time, place, and painfulness of death, and all in all not nearly as flashy or evil as it could have been. and did I mention no immortal lichhood. like come on, if you’re not getting immortal lichhood out of this what are you even doing it for.

#long post #writing #I guess #sorry this was just living rent-free in my head and I needed to vent #I'm pretty sure that in this scenario I am a mad wizard scientist who is being sentenced to death either for my research #into blowing up the sun or into immortal lichhood necromancy

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Hi! I've been wondering this Buck was the one mentoring Ravi right? But why didn't he mentor Eddie, if the latest teaches the probie, when Eddie was the probie and why isn't Eddie the one mentoring Ravi since he was the latest addition?

Hi Nonnie! Thank you for the ask.

So, from what I remember about everyone's start, no one had a "mentor" officially designated to them. Neither did Ravi. If you look at this gifset, you can see Bobby's words when he assigns Buck to Ravi. There's no mention of mentoring, and the explanation offered is more about how Eddie has to team up with Hen (since Chim has gone after Maddie). Buck was just supposed to work with Ravi in 505, not mentor him. Buck made the choice to take on the mantle of a mentor 'coz he already decided that he was leaving the 118. He wanted to make sure the latest addition to the team got a "speed up" of his training so that their fire station won't suffer once Buck leaves. Again, you can see it’s not a required part of joining the 118 since none of the other teammates, including Buck himself were assigned a mentor upon arrival, nor did they have to mentor someone before leaving. When Eddie says he’s quitting in 510 (yes, Buck talking about this idea in 505 was def a red herring to distract us from guessing Eddie would actually do it), Bobby doesn’t say, “okay, this is who you have to mentor before you leave so they can take your place.” This was 1000% Buck not being able to even entertain the thought of quitting without finding a way to take care of the teammates he meant to leave behind.

I hope that helps? Have a great day! And as always, here is my ask tag. xoxox

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renee561 · 8 months

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"44", grazie.

44. Mrs. Brandon's Sister, Mrs. Ferrars.

Unlike the last time i tagged her this is 1000% @random-emerald-thoughts fault. We were discussing the 1995 movie with one another and she made the comment I think Edward and Marianne are cute together here, she is of course talking about the cute scene where Marianne brightens up when Edward comes to visit.

So I was like I got you fam, adds a fic where the endgame couples are switched.

And I'm not at all sorry about it, it's going to be fun!

Yes my friend you hit upon another S&S fic and no they are not grouped together that is the sad part about all of this (not really just very chaotic).

#renee talks wips #yes it is yet another S&S au #zetaaa

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Love vs. Hate - Part 5 // Joe Liebgott x OC

Previous Summary: Technical Sergeant Olivia Stark knows the military. Raised in a military family, a graduate of military school and OCS herself, she is transferring from the 82nd Airborne Division to the 101st. Between new friends and what appear to be foes, she becomes a part of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR.

Warnings: Language, Drinking

A/N: Numba 5... In my notes this chapter was called "We finally found our wings"... it kinda reminds me of the song "Between us" by Little Mix :)

Here is my Masterlist

Tag List: @brassknucklespeirs

23rd December 1942 - Fort Benning, GA "Are we ready to be army paratroopers?" the sergeant in front of us calls out. "Yes, Sergeant," we reply. We now have three weeks of intensive parachute training behind us. Primarily in theory, of course. We don't count the jumps from the high towers now. And today is the day. We jump out of an airplane for the first time. I'm nervous, but I guess everyone is. "I hope so," the soldier continues, looking at all of us. "This will be the first of five exits from a C47 aircraft set for today. Upon successful completion of your fifth and final jump, you'll be certified Army Paratroopers. There'll be a lot of men jumping from the sky today, hopefully, under-deployed canopies. Jumping from 1000 feet AGL, in sticks of 12 jumpers per aircraft. All you have to do is remember what you were taught, and I guarantee gravity will take care of the rest. And gentlemen, ma'am, rest assured, any refusals in the aircraft or at the door, and I guarantee you will be out of the Airborne," the sergeant says sternly, and we nod. "Well, let's go."

We stand up and walk to our assigned planes. I'm assigned to Lt. Winters' plane. I keep looking into the eyes of my friends, who also seem slightly nervous. I knead my fingers and then look up at Don sitting across from me. He winks at me, and I have to laugh. It feels so good to have him with me. "Okay, stand up," the sergeant calls up front, and we do as instructed. "Hook up." I hook up and look ahead. "Check equipment," he calls out, and we do just that. After checking my equipment, I check that of the soldier in front of me. "Sound off for an equipment check." When we have all given our OK, the light turns green. "Okay, go, go, go," the sergeant calls out, and we jump one at a time.

Without much thought, I jump out of the plane. The adrenaline pumps through me, but it also quickly clears. As we learned, I pull on the lines to steer a little, then land. As I gather my parachute, I see Don next to me. I raise a hand in the air. "Whoo!" I shout, and he shakes his head. "You're really disturbed," he laughs, and we gather at the assembly point. "How can you enjoy something like this?" asks Skip as we walk toward him. "How can you not enjoy it? God, this feeling is incredible. You're just... Free." My friends look at me and just shake their heads.

26th December 1942 - Fort Benning, GA After completing our five jumps over the next few days, today is the day we received our wings. I'm in the bathroom, getting ready and putting on my makeup. "Do you really think this is still going to help?" I hear a voice and turn around. It's Liebgott, leaning in the doorway, watching me. I snort out and continue. "You know what, Liebgott, even you can't ruin my day!" When I'm done painting my lips, I rub them together and give them a quick dab with a bit of tissue.

Then I turn to Joe, who is still looking at me. As I walk toward him, he makes no move to give me room to get through. "Do you mind?" I ask, looking him in the eye. His typical sneer is evident in his eyes, and the dimple on his cheek also appears. His dark eyes scrutinize mine before he steps aside after what feels like an eternity. "Thanks," I say sarcastically and push past him, his aftershave wafting up my nose. A shiver flits down my spine, and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Jesus Christ, why does this man have to smell so good, too?

As I enter the barracks, Don is already grinning at me. "Wow, Sweetheart, you really made an effort today." "What do you mean, Don? That I don't usually make an effort?" I ask, bracing my hands on my hips. Don looks at me, slightly shocked. "Uh, that's not what I meant..." "Oh, come on, I'm just kidding, Malarkey. You should know me well enough by now." "You nasty little..." I laugh, and then Don holds out his arm for me to hook. "If I might escort you to the Mess Hall, my lady?" he says exaggeratedly, and I laugh before hooking on. "Certainly, milord."

As we enter, the party is already in full swing. Many guys already have beer glasses in front of them and are partying boisterously. I spot Skip, with a few others, cheering Bill on as he downs his glass. Then I see George standing behind some bar. "Hold on, I'll get us something to drink," I say to Don, making my way over to George. "Hey, Georgie... How's it looking? Can your favorite Sergeant get a drink?" I ask him with a grin, and he looks around. "Ah, I think Lip already has one," he returns, and I give him a playfully offended look. "Sure thing, Sweetheart," he then says, grinning. "Make one for Don, too, please." George nods and starts filling the beers.

"Excuse me, Miss, but are you lost?" I hear a voice behind me and turn around, grinning. "Wow, that one was really, really bad," I laugh. "Oh, come on, Liv, you're dragging down my ego," Joe Toye retorts indignantly. "I think your ego might be able to handle it, Joe." "Here, Sweetheart," George says as he pushes my two beers into my hand. "Thanks, George. See you later."

I make my way over to Don, sitting at a table with Penk, Skinny, Bull, and Tipper. I set the two glasses down and drop into the vacant chair. "Well, angel, did you finally find your wings?", Tipper asks me, and I look at him, laughing. "Really? Is today the day of bad 'pick-up lines'?" The guys around me laugh. "Maybe it's just because you're the only woman here, and when alcohol is involved, the desire for female companionship becomes..." says Don, but I immediately interrupt him. "Don't finish that sentence, Don. Jesus," I say, shaking myself. "Come on, guys... Knock it off." "It's not our fault you had to get all pretty," Skinny quips, and I look at him with narrowed eyes. "Watch it, Skinny, or someone will get jealous if you compliment Liv too much," Tip now interjects, and I look at him questioningly. "Well, we wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Joseph Liebgott, now would we?" I groan in annoyance. "Oh, come on, not you too, Tip!" "Yes, another one on my side," Don cheers, but I look at him angrily.

Just as they are about to say something else, one of the officers' shouts, "Ten-Hutt!" We all quickly stand up and are at attention. Colonel Sink, followed by Major Strayer, enter the room and stand in front. "Well, at ease, Paratroopers," Sink calls out, and we all relax a little. "Good evening, Easy Company." "Evening, sir," we reply, and I look briefly at Don. "Now, Parachute Infantry is a brand new concept in American military history. But, by God, the 506 is going to forge that brand new concept into victory." "Yes, sir." "I want you to know that I'm damn proud of each and every one of you. Now, you deserve this party," he says, and Chuck brings him a beer of his own. "Thank you, Sergeant Grant," Sink replies, and my eyes Chuck, but then he lands on Liebgott. Damn, he looks good today. You've got to be kidding me.

Standing there with his hair slicked back, watching what's going on upfront. "Liv?" I hear Don next to me, nudging me slightly. "What?" I ask, and he follows my gaze for a moment. "You were staring." "Not true!" I try to defend myself. "Yes, true. And I know exactly what you were staring at, Sweetheart." "Shut up, Malarkey!" Once again, my gaze wanders very briefly to Liebgott before I turn away ultimately.

"Very well, come on, Sweetheart. Let's shake a leg," Don says, wanting to take me by the hand. "Oh yeah, and how do I know you won't trap me again?" "You'll just have to trust me."

A few hours, dances and drinks later, I'm at the bar with George. "Holy fuck, I think I'm done," I slur to myself, which makes George grin. "Was that one too many, dear Olivia?" "Shut up, Luz," I grumble back. "Oh, you're a mean drunk, Liv." I look around for a moment but have to hold onto the bar to keep from falling over. I can't spot Don anywhere. "Can you tell George... uh, Don, that I've gone to bed?" I ask, and George nods in amusement.

I stagger out of the Mess Hall and out into the cold. I rub my arms and try to get one step in front of the other, but somehow I don't want to succeed like that. "You shouldn't be wandering around out here alone, Stark. Haven't you learned anything from the last few times?"I hear a voice and turn around, but I fall into the person's arms with too much momentum. I don't have to look up to see who it is. I'd recognize that cologne anywhere, drunk or not. Liebgott puts me back on my feet, and I briefly try to sharpen my vision.

"Oh wow," I hear Liebgott say, but I say nothing back. I try to squirm out of his arms and want to take a step, but my balance has other plans, so Liebgott has to grab me by the arm to keep me somewhat steady on my feet. "Jesus Stark, how much have you had to drink?" "Why do you care? You hate me anyway," I slur. "I don't hate you," is all Liebgott says, "Yeah, right... That's why you're always so nice to me." We take a few more steps toward our barracks. "At that, I might even like you. And I don't mean like, I mean like like," I continue slurring, which gives Liebgott pause.

"But you're not supposed to like someone who hates you, are you? That only ends in pain." My eyes keep falling shut, and I stumble. "Jesus Christ," Joe curses as I almost end up in his arms again. "You know what," he grumbles then, lifting me. "Otherwise, we won't be back tomorrow." Liebgott carries me a few feet. "I like you, Joe," I say, patting his chest. "But shhh, don't tell yourself!" I grumble with my eyes closed as he carries me along. I can't see him looking at me, smiling and shaking his head. He takes me to my cot and then carefully sets me down, removing my jacket, shoes, and tie before spreading the blanket over me and disappearing back out of the barracks.

The following day I wake up with a big headache. I rub my eyes and then slowly sit up. "Good morning sunshine, awake already?" Don calls to me from across the room, and I grumble. "Not so loud, okay?" I say and slowly open one eye before looking around. Most of the beds are already empty, and the men are somewhere. Scattered ones are lying in their beds reading, like Liebgott, Penk, and Webster.

"Fucking hell," I grumble again. "Why did you just leave yesterday?" asks Don, sitting down on the bed with me. "What do you mean?" I ask back, looking at him now. Don holds out a glass of water to me and a pill. "Thanks." "You just disappeared. George did say you were in bed at one point, but I had to see for myself. That you even made it that far is amazing, given your state." I think for a moment. How on earth did I get into bed? "Honestly? I have no idea."

"Oh, might your drunken little head not remember?" I squeeze my eyes shut. "Not really. I remember us playing that game, but after that... All gone." "Well, let's hope you didn't do anything stupid, Sweetheart," Don says, and my gaze shifts as if automatically to Liebgott, who is looking at me. Something is stirring in his expression, but I don't know what. "Is something wrong, Liebgott?" I ask him, but he shakes his head. "No," he says, folds up his comic, stands up, throws the comic on the bed, and then storms out of the barracks. "What's his problem?" I ask, and Don shrugs.

"Well, never mind. Come on. We'll get you some coffee first... And maybe something to wipe away that black smear on your face." "I think a shower would be best," I say, and Don nods. "Want me to stand guard?" I just nod and then slowly try to stand up. As I brush the blanket off my body, I quickly realize I didn't change yesterday. "Wow, I guess that didn't work either. What?" asks Don laughing and pointing at me. "Seems like it." I shake my head and dig in my trunk for my shower supplies and fresh OD's before Don, and I make our way to the showers.

#Band of Brothers #bob #Joe Liebgott #Joe Liebgott x OC #Joseph Liebgott #bobedit #hbowar #ww2 #fanfiction #hbo series

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