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Sister-in-Arms: -> chapter as of 6/3/26: HERE (my bad)

"In the Mood" finally got its day in Masters of the Air. Let it be known that it was originally proposed in 1999 for Band of Brothers as a montage soundtrack to the 1944 summer of cancelled missions!

#band of brothers #i mean it was one of the most popular songs of the 1940s so no shocker there #but still interesting nonetheless #I find it very entertaining how thoroughly I can read the BoBible script into an actual film in my head #because I know my favorite E company boys and every setting they're in from every angle and every point of view #what helps is writing ultra detailed fic where I fill in the setting gaps myself #girl I feel like Aldbourne is a place I've actually been

mercurygray

It is Joan of Arc's feast day, soooo... I did a thing.

#I loveeeeee parallels between Joan of Arc and other woman characters #peak #reblog

vechter

SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025) dir. Joachim Trier

#my belief also #reblog

im boutta have an aneurism from researching the Market Garden movements of Easy Company

#why don't people use consistent spellings for places #luckily the show handwaves EVERYTHING so imma do that too...#i gotta lock in because this is genuinely making me not wanna write #i keep opening my computer and staring at where I left off and navigating to the same wall-of-text webpages #girl i have exciting plot elements to get to but Oedenrode and Uden are standing in my way #did you know Easy Company got split in two at some point by a german roadblock #while traversing the Vegel area #I didn't #SiA

every single day I log onto reddit dot com and see some guy from Band of Brothers get his name absolutely butchered by a middle-aged white man

#band of brothers #hbo war #idk or a twelve year old boy. it's like a fifty fifty #I'm talking to EVERYONE who spells Dike's name DYKE?!?!?#AND BLYTHE??#y'all actually having Dike roll in his grave with how bad this problem is #usually no one corrects them either LOL the hivemind in the comments reverts to the OP's wrong spelling #this post was triggered by that “Webb” post referring to Webster. When Ken Webb absolutely exists but no one realizes they're mixing them u #ive seen some really bad butcherings... look I'm not expecting everyone to be a BoB tumblerina but at least spell their names correctly #their names are written on their uniforms...#i feel like one time I saw “peacok”#that was crazy #and no one knows the order of the e and the i in Liebgott and Speirs #I KNOW some of you are in those comments. I know we are all trying to be patient with them </3

guarno reckoning is coming

#im back on the writing horse #why oh why are my chapters so LOOOOOOOOOOONG #SiA #if there's something June cannot do it's take a freakin complimENT

real-living-cowboy

#WIFEMOGGING-#im cryin #op tags bro #reblog

rosiecheekswindswepthair

Reread some of my own writing, sad that author didn't write more though :(. I want to read that stuff, it's exactly what I like written exactly the way I like it :(. Please update!

#me #there's a good side to that coin though because it means you stayed true to yourself and genuinely created what you love #you are still the same person as you were when you started #reblog #not writing

coraxaviary

idk if anyone has done this yet

coraxaviary

waking up every single day to read people's stories in the tags is one of my greatest honors

#prev... that's crazy and i'm glad you connected over BoB even if it was an op #lots of stories about dads too. lol same for me #i actually think i asked my dad if I could watch it. not the other way around #this might've been after Unbroken and Saving Private Ryan? anyway it was covid times #idek how i found the wwii tumblrinas but it was very soon after initial show consumption #reblog

aliteralchicken

someone who is attempting to put their fav male character in a blender will say you hate your fav female character if you put her in a slight angst scenario, don’t let this deter you, she deserves the blender as well

#AUGHH #i am blending ma'am #reblog

rcbertleckie

LAURIE DAVIDSON as HERBERT NASH MASTERS OF THE AIR · part four — for @meet-you-at-the-north-star

#DUDEEEE NO ONE EVER MENTIONS NASH #he's so charming and handsome... here one day and gone the next unfort #nash please come back. please tell me you parachuted somewhere and just. um. like got lost in the forest or sum #rest in peace Lt. Nash #MotA #gifs #reblog

basilone

#oh my gawsh mr speirs #beautiful gifs op #me when im alr dead #gifs #reblog

finished MotA. Seeing Lemmons finally get to fly was the most beautiful thing in the episode to me. Not the American flag, not Egan and Cleven getting in their bomber. Maybe I have attached too much sentimentality to the act of flying, but thinking about paratroopers and bomber crews on a daily basis has me reflecting on the God-blessed feat of engineering that simply getting a crew into the air is. Not to mention mounting a bombsight and a full array of machine guns at almost every angle? Crazy. And the beauty of a mechanic finally getting to see the product of his work; breaking through the clouds scattering sunlight, the Dutch countryside, the dikes and windmills. Poetry.

#ok btw i go really mask off in these tags so only read them if you wanna hear my MotA edgy takes #i felt that MotA had a pacing issue. a lot of moments I WISH they took a little slower!!!! oh my gosh I wish I could have seen Lemmon's fac #just more reaction shots. please bro lemme see the wonderment and exuberance on this 22 year old's face.#this is something i feel The Pacific did well. emotional as heckkk #also. Buck and Bucky suffer from the chronic problem of guys being bros but being unable (unwilling?) to vocalize their love for each other #like even platonic friendship love. they clearly love each other. gosh darn tell him you MISSED HIM AUGHHHHHH #there's like nothing exchanged when they keep being reunited except for quiet smiles.#which yeah it's ok haha Austin Butler can have his Oscar moment or whatever but yall can hug. PLEASEEEE. it's not gonna kill u #maybe men are just like this. or maybe this is the MotA pacing issue again. like we can linger here??? please.#additionally I felt like the racial dynamics were really left so unexplored. MotA does the hollywood thing where they're like uh #--racism exists. anyway one white guy talks to him so they bridged the gap and it's all good now #also. is hambone racist or is he just Like That? big question #look i'm no media critic or civil justice academic but something just seemed really... like deprived and underdeveloped about the #... tuskegee airmen plot. They got their own scenes but half of them were like them talking about the way the US treats them. ok whatever #i could wax poetic about opinions all day but moving on #MEATBALL. WHERE DID HE GO?#and. oh my gosh Crosby is a dirty dirty cheater #and. glad they showed some holocaust acknowledgement. antisemitism and denial is getting so bad these days #we gotta double down like fr... the wehrmacht were not clean #i felt that BoB had a bit of that going on. idk. haven't developed a super thought-out position on the ethics of wehrmacht portrayal but ye #i gotta go back to writing o m g sorry this is the waffling i was talking about earlier in that ask bro #I SPEAK

Curiosity - what is your writing/posting schedule like considering SiA is such a big project? I've never written fan fiction, only read, so i'm really just curious LOL

Hi, thank you (again) for the ask! I pretty much try to work on SiA any night that I'm home. Often I get down somewhere between 500 and 1.5k if I make it across the initial waffling stage where I may be caught up in "research" (plying the depths of veteran blogs, raising my eyebrow at uncited wikipedia clauses, or ctrl-f-ing WW2 Gravestone, etc). The waffling stage is quite a monster. At times I have spent hours trying to lock in only to consult the BoB bible and end up scrolling it until I go to bed...

So all of this is kinda set up in an attempt to post weekly, with a goal chapter length between 7k and 11k words. I also keep a buffer of about seven chapters between the posted version and my draft backlog in case I need to retcon or reorganize the plot. And then if (1) a week has elapsed since my last update, and (2) I have added ~1 chapter's worth to material to my document: I'll edit the next chapter, run it through an html converter, and post! I used to have a beta(s) to wait on but no more (we die like paratroopers). Of course, life is unpredictable, so, like now, I am pausing uploads until I can sit down to write again.

I have no idea how most other ficwriters plan their stuff. I know of someone who basically prewrote their entire longfic and will release on a schedule. Others post their chapters right after writing and light edits. It really depends on the person. I have an attention deficit, so my solution to that is trying to brute force productivity by writing whenever I'm free. This is not a perfect fix, but it's better than waiting for inspiration to strike (it won't on its own).

And I'll close this excessively long answer with an encouragement: try writing a little! You never know until you try :)

#ask #callsignlucky #SiA #sorry this was so long but the more I wrote the more I had to say on it #also because I'm curious about other people's schedules? feel free to rb with your method if it's crazy / or not #btw i will never be one of those ao3 authors who are like “i got into a car crash and am uploading from the hospital” NO SIR lmao #and i kinda feel like George RR Martin sometimes. Bit off more than i could chew with a fic I cared about so much that was gonna be SO long #idek if I knew what I was committing to when I uploaded that very first chapter in 2020. but so be it because i'm here now #meta

for June: Who do you think readers would pair her with? Her relationship development with the easy company boys is so well paced that I could argue no one could properly guess her ship yet (which is great, who doesn’t love an oc-centric fic?) xx

Hi! Thank u for the ask!

I am glad you think the relationship development is well-paced. I, for one, am starting to feel the strain of the constant enmity and am relieved to be out of the training/bullying arc.

That aside, I've been putting Malarkey into the fic more lately, and when Webster transfers into E-Company before the Market Garden campaign, he is a frequent character. Roe has been nice to June since almost the beginning, so I can see readers pairing them. They have good chemistry and mutual respect for one another. Without really giving away my final verdict, amongst the aforementioned, I have considered Penkala, Buck, and Speirs for romantic interest, and I think some commenters have picked up on this.

Just to yap in general about my own fic: I didn't mean for it to be romance-centric which is why it's halfway complete with nary a boyfriend to be seen. June's relationship with the entire company is really the point of the piece (self-evident in the title) and a pairing is secondary to that. Also, some sort of inter-company relationship would complicate June's situation with the others. And if I know my OC at all, she would never participate in a situation that would make her further rejected from the group.

#rejection and PAIN is the point of the fic hahahahaa #just kidding it's love and acceptance #ask #callsignlucky #SiA #oc writer stuff

anytime i eat any cheese at all I just can't stop thinking about Winters's letter to DeEtta basically calling her a chopped chud for eating cheese

#it's just rent free. i just can't forget it #band of brothers #im looking at cheese rn if you were wondering #irlposting

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