the world has suffered long;

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[amidnightclear]

luztoye // spiracle, flower face

I want your safe word your passive resistance the sickness you foster your favourite addictions

[psychecreations]

captain brady and the terrible horrible no good very bad day

[rubinecorvus]

"I could hear the specks of life that crawled beneath my clothing, the rotting of the great tree which rose from its three-cornered trunk above me. I could hear the darkness gathering against me and the silences that lay between the moving things." Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow (1957)

"...when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.” Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (2014)

[winedark]

(Top) An RAF Coastal Command pigeon fancier. (Bottom) The same pigeon fancier demonstrating the proper the way to hold and launch a homing pigeon, while two members of an aircrew look on. Photos: IWM. (src).

[igotyoubabeheffron]

These lesions may frequently develop on preexisting abrasions or sores sometimes beginning from a mere scratch. Once developed, the ulcer may become chronic and stable, but also it can run a destructive course [...] - Tropical ulcer, Wikipedia

ROBERT LECKIE | RONNIE GIBSON ↳ HBO WW2 Rewatch Week 6: The Pacific Ep 4 + Jungle Rot

[rcbertleckie]

JOHN EGAN and GALE CLEVEN MASTERS OF THE AIR · part two — for @c-goldthorn

[winedark]

H.M. Pigeon Service. Fixing message to the bird previous to leaving the trench. May, 1917. Photographed by William Ivor Castle. Library and Archives Canada (O-1415).

[luckyreds]

Late to the party

[thewayisset]

Sketching around

[saintfrancisprayer]

Never meant

[airborneinfantry]

James Badge Dale as Robert Leckie in THE PACIFIC (2010) — insp (via @krakerjaksstuff)

[winedark]

On the Wing - a flock of pigeons from a Coastal Command loft on a practice flight, photograph issued in 1942. Imperial War Museum (CH 5786).

[basilone]

[6thofapril1917]

ronnie gibson best character in the pacific

[bossboudicca]

he's right

[beepbeepcomeatmebruv]

Brady is ✨getting laid ✨tonight

[howling-harpy]

Heartbreaker

Pairing: Shifty/Talbert Rating: T Word count: 8223

* It started because Shifty laughed at his joke aloud, and Floyd turned to that bubbly sound. He caught Shifty’s eye when he laughed a bit too hard, and when Floyd looked at him, he suddenly blushed and covered his mouth. They were passing the afternoon between drills at the canteen, Floyd, Smokey, McClung and Shifty, and the ordinary situation was quickly becoming extraordinary.

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