#FOXHOLE BUDDIES.

[peninkwrites]

(you would take a hit for him in a heartbeat. are you even friends?)

Cabinetduo in the Mafia AU– what kind of relationship remains after the thing you both had to survive lies dead?

M. A. Thomson / Steve Davie / astralcorbozo & quadpen8 / Jonny Bolduc / Clementine von Radics / mirror traps - hera lindsay bird

#dsmp web weaving #i'm thinking about them so much #rotating them in my brain #my web weaving #mafia au #they're foxhole buddies. #also. #schlatt is the oyster. #ARE THEY FRIENDS OR JUST FELLOW VICTIMS. #THEY KNOW EACH OTHER ONLY FROM THEIR WORST MOST BROKEN PLACES. #ARE THEY FRIENDS. #HOW CAN THEY BE. #YOU WOULD TAKE A HIT FOR HIM IN A HEARTBEAT. #YOU DON'T KNOW IF HE WOULD LEAVE YOU. IF HE WOULD GO BEHIND YOUR BACK. #YOU DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS WHEN HE ISN'T TRYING TO PROTECT HIMSELF. #FOXHOLE BUDDIES. #UTTER LOYALTY. #UNTIL THEY FINALLY DIG THEMSELVES OUT. #WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? TO GO BACK INTO THE FOXHOLE? #cabinetduo

[perfecteggpartyland]

Your opinion but aftg is not really bad written characters are absolutely realistic human being with flaws and trauma a lot of people can relate too; the story is so chaotic it's absolutely crazy in a good way; not to mention aftg is written in a really realistic way again and we're into Neil's mind and see his pov; it's straight to the point; you have genius lines such as is your learning curve a horizontal line and absolute Shakespeare level masterpiece such as doesn't mean I wouldn't blow you like ? Hello? For me it's not badly written it's simple straight to point engaging ;stakes and not to mention hilarious and DEFINITION of the word ✨Chaos✨;the characters are once again realistically portrayed for me;I will die on that hill and you'll have to take that away from my cold dead hands . Like 18 year old traumatized Neil is literally trying to survive there's a made up sport what do you expect? But seriously It has one of the healthiest romantic relationship not to mention demi represetion ever; characters have flaws; are human and their found family dynamic is amazing; not to mention the whole underline about consent and that it's not about winning; it's about getting one chance then people wanted to give you and thought you deserved; how to fight cause you don't know how to die quietly ;, and so much more.

#AFTG #all for the game #andreil #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #neil josten #psu foxes #palmetto state foxes #Like did we read the same book #Neil's a traumatized 18 year old buddy what do want more?

[medeaaasworld]

I find these two scenes endearingly similar

#andrew does learn from the best #they are best buddies with wymack now #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #david wymack #the foxhole court #tfc #the kings men #tkm #the raven king #trk #wymack meets the monsters #nora sakavic #andreil

[littlespoonevan]

i only need the working of my hands

Pairing: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard Rating: Teen and up Word Count: 20673 Summary: “Are you planning on telling me any time today who the fuck Neil is or am I just supposed to figure it out for myself?” He opens his eyes to see Nicky gaping at him before he starts spluttering over an answer. It’s Kevin who responds first though. “He’s our other starting striker. You came with me when we went to sign him. Do you remember?” Andrew remembers the file, remembers Kevin’s conviction that there was potential there and Wymack’s relief that Kevin actually liked one of his recruit suggestions for once. Andrew could’ve sworn he had dark hair though. “I remember Wymack booking our flights to Arizona. Now derail your one track mind from Exy for five minutes and tell me who he actually is.” Kevin glares at him and Andrew matches his stare. “He knows I don’t like to be touched, he’s here with my family, he smiled when he realised I was awake, who the fuck is he, Kevin?” “He’s your boyfriend.” * Andrew gets injured during an Exy game and loses almost two years' worth of memories. It leaves him with a nasty pain in the head and far too many questions. Namely, who the fuck is Neil Josten?

read here on ao3

#andreil #andrew x neil #all for the game #aftg #the foxhole court #my fics #so so aware 95% do not give a shit about this askdjfhsa i sWEAR will keep going with buddie wips for the rest of the week #but this fic consumed me for the last few weeks xo #to any aftg followers i still have: love u 😘

[owlarchimedes]

This really, REALLY implies to me Kevin and Jean have had IN DEPTH discussions about how hot and amazing Jeremy Knox is like WHAT ELSE could "some of them you like" "don't you dare" even mean!? Jean won't even THINK about it, this moments so quick I completely missed it on my first (albeit feral) read

#so kevin and jean are gossip buddies confirmed #like we already been knew but still #the two most dramatic exy players to exist #all for the game #aftg #tsc #jean moreau #kevin day #jeremy knox #the foxhole court #the sunshine court spoilers #the sunshine court #tsc spoilers #jerejean #kevin day and jeremy knox

[detectivebambam]

Kevi and Andrew watch Jeopardy every night and Kevin gets very heated because Andrew's memory "helps him cheat" and he just knows shit

"This is the name of the metal or plastic piece at the end of a shoelace"

"Aglet"

"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT"

#they never miss an episode #they make sure to record when they know they'll be out for a game #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #kevin day #andrew and kevin being buddies #i love them both #the foxhole court #nora sakavic #jeopardy

[victorialovesstiles]

Niche/multi-fandom post but…

Y’all… the Sunshine Court just came out, FirstKhao new show announcement next week, new 911 episode with Hangover™ Buddie the week after?!?

I am… in heaven right now. The dopamine is flowing, the hyper-fixations are serving - life is good.

#the sunshine court #tsc #jerejean #tfc #the foxhole court #andreil #firstkhao #firstkhaotung #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #gmmtv part 2 #buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 abc #911 show #911 #911 season 7 #multi fandom blog #hyperfixation

[hmmm-shesucks]

I like to think, and by like I mean absolutely despise, that when Andrew choked Kevin, Kevin didn't fight back, not because he thought he deserved it, but because that wasn't the first time he'd been violently choked and he learned a long time ago that fighting back only made it worst.

#i love andrew #but this just wasn't it buddy #fuck riko moriyama btw #in case that wasn’t obvious #all for the game #aftg #andrew minyard #neil josten #kevin day #the foxhole court #foxhole court #the kings men #the raven king #my aftg

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Seeing people reacting to tsc and them getting shock over things I thought was obvious and I was getting annoyed until I realised maybe not everyone reread aftg like a million times and have read most of the analytical posts and yeah maybe I am the problem instead

#I’m so pretentious about aftg lmao #like people be like Neil is feral?! not just uwu baby?? #or be like omg Kevin and Jean friendship surprise surprise and I’m like ???? #or people shocked by jeans trauma and I was like hello the EC ?! #and people talking about not knowing the foxes or usc winning for the next match and I was like babe it was in the EC #and people talking about why Kevin was sticking to Andrew and was because the nest buddy system and not for Andrew’s benefit/deal #and I was like WASNT THAT OBVIOUS?! #then I realised I’m just crazy and obsessed and yeah hi I’m the problem it’s me #I forgot people could casually enjoy the series yk #I thought it’s either all or nothing like wdym not everyone get entirely consumed by aftg and remember and know every single thing??? #my friend literally called me the EC in a human form because any question she got she just ask me and I can answer it like it’s the most #common sense question and that’s why she said she never even bothered to read the EC because I can just tell her eveyrthing #okay maybe I have some slight issues but anyways #anyways it’s just cuz seeing the post going over things I thought everyone knew I was just like 😭??!!! #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #aftg fandom #aftg incorrect quotes #the sunshine court #tsc #aftg shitpost #aftg textpost #aftg thoughts #tfc textpost #tfc shitpost #incorrect tfc #tfc meme

[crystalmethsthings]

Andrew: *flirts with neil*

Neil: *responds in a flirty way*

[later]

Andrew: do you think he noticed that I’m into him?

Renee: have you met him?

Andrew:

Andrew: fuck

#no because Neil was BLIND #Andrew: that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t blow you #neil: okay buddy 👍 #aftg #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #the foxhole court #tfc #aftg hc #andreil #aftg headcanon #the raven king #aftg incorrect quotes

[seriemorder]

youre in a foxhole with a beautiful boy and he wont tell you hes in heat but hes in heat

#as to how do you get a man pregnant im afraid it also has to happen in a foxhole #also happened to my buddy ronald

[splishsplashyouropinionistrash]

yknow what never ceases to fuck with me?

neil josten’s motherfucking jorts.

like??? how did you??? why did you???

#andrew buddy #you could have picked ANYONE #but you chose jort boy. #hc that aaron only hates neil bc of the jorts #i wouldn’t even blame him #aftg #tfc #all for the game #the foxhole court #neil josten #aftg textpost #splishsplash originals

[someonelookingpraediti]

Currently (re-)Reading...

All for the Game - Nora Sakavic

So I did think it had been a year since I read these the first time, but I actually read them last July, so it's actually only been ten months. It's still too long.

I read these as a buddy read with a friend from work (my first ever buddy read!) and decided to annotate them at the same time. We planned to read them over a week, which should have been super easy - but it turns out annotating takes ages.

I did fall behind on day five, but I caught up, and still managed to finish on time. And we enjoyed our buddy read so much, that we planned our next one to start straight after!

I've never annotated anything before, and I feel like I did it wrong - I decided to use AFTG-specific tabs, rather than the common "plot, quotes, character development, worldbuilding" type tabs, since, well... it's AFTG, and therefore my entire world. But I've ended up with about half the book underlined or highlighted, and at least one tab on almost every single page!

But it was super fun doing, and I'll definitely do it again in the future, although hopefully in a slightly calmer and more restrained manner.

And a lot of people commented on us reading the same book in the staff dining room, with our pens out; including one guy who came up to me after and said he'd seen me annotating, and was it for a book club? I hadn't even managed to say no, it wasn't, before he was asking to join. So, uhhh, I run a book club now.

#currently reading #rereads #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #nora sakavic #the raven king #the king's men #buddy read

[balladofthe101st]

nothing gay here. just foxhole buddies being foxhole buddies sharing a foxhole and body heat in the cold winter because we're foxhole buddies

#i'm looking at you doc and babe #band of brothers #bofb #bob #hbo war

[batmanschmatman]

Book Rec: Coming Out Under Fire, by Allan Bérubé

Occasionally I see some discourse on Tumblr from folks in the HBO War fandom or different historical/history adjacent fandoms about how there weren’t that many members of the queer community involved in WWII, and I’d really like to point them and everyone else with an interest in queer history to this wonderful book. Originally published in 1990, Coming Out Under Fire gets into all the different ways queer folks DID participate in the war. It’s from an American perspective, so if you’re looking for other Allied experiences, unfortunately there won’t be much here for you, but it’s exceptionally well researched, and crucially a lot of the content comes from interviews with surviving servicemembers. There’s also a documentary based on the book, which came out a few years later and includes video interviews with some of the folks included in the text.

One of Bérubé’s main points in his introduction – and for writing the book in the first place – is the American government, history textbooks, Hollywood, etc. is able to paint the WWII-era military as an almost entirely straight military force because many queer people who participated in the war effort were silenced during their lifetimes, and were unable or unwilling to reveal their true identities. Some of this was from societal pressure – the post war period saw a huge surge in homophobic rhetoric and persecution in the name of fighting Communism, not to mention the ever present heteronormative pressure to get married and have kids – but also because so many queer veterans died during the AIDS epidemic. Bérubé was inspired to preserve the voices of those who were still with us and shed a light on some of the folks we lost. (Note that this was also an intensely personal issue for Bérubé, who lost friends and his partner to AIDS and thus saw first hand how devastating this was to the community in terms of robbing us of our loved ones, friends, elders, and history itself.)

In the book, Bérubé makes the point over and over again that queer people were involved at basically every level in the American military during the war. There’s stories about guys lying when asked “Do you like girls?” during enlistment, lesbians in the Women’s Army Corps being brought to trial for fraternizing, drag shows in POW camps and in reserve, front line combat veterans discussing losing romantic partners to enemy fire or coming out to foxhole buddies, who were supportive allies rather than hateful. One of my favorite stories that’s always stuck out to me is a guy who came home and decided to come out to his elderly mother, who was fully accepting and supportive of her son’s sexuality. I see so many people speaking in absolutes that there’s NO WAY you could come out to your family and be accepted in the past, and while that was certainly true for so many people, it’s also not an absolute truth.

Please note I am NOT giving blanket permission to make assumptions about real-life people’s sexualities or identities, nor am I saying Band of Brothers fics where half the company is dating each other are historically accurate, but it’s really sad to see folks on here (unknowingly, hopefully) perpetuating the myth that there really weren’t that many queer folks in the military during WWII. We were there, we just couldn’t be out the way we might have liked to be. After the war, the Red Scare, societal pressure, and a literal epidemic silenced countless members of the community about their time in the service. There’s no way to know how many people who fought on Guadalcanal or worked at stateside bases or sorted mail in France were queer, but it’s a lot more than you were led to believe.

As a member of the community and a historian (brief resume: MA in Public History, BA in American History, have published stuff and created exhibits for dozens of museums), I just want to remind folks that we have always been here, and our lives weren’t always miserable and tragic when we came out to people or decided to live as authentically as we could get away with. It’s not completely historically inaccurate to write fic or original fiction where your queer characters can come out to their families and not be shunned, or live with their partners and not be immediately murdered. Being queer wasn’t invented at Stonewall.

#hbo war #hbowar #band of brothers #the pacific #queer history #book reccs #lgbtq history

[onelungmcclung]

copilots 🤝 foxhole buddies. you understand.

#txt #masters of the air