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April 28, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973
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Blind Dates 2026 Masterlist
Brooke McFadden | The West Wing | @broadwaybaggins*
Caera Targaryen | Game of Thrones | @dragon-snare
Deor | The Last Kingdom | @moghraidhs
Edward | Foyle's War | @darkhorse-javert
Eli Acosta | Ted Lasso | @professorlehnsherr-almashy*
Elizabeth Sadler | Masters of the Air | @the-cinnamontography-is-amazing
Elizabeth-Mae "Bess" Abilene Tyler Sutton Whitfield | The Pacific | @upontherisers
Genny Guinness | House of Guinness | @loveduringthewar
Hester Bowman | Masters of the Air | @shoshiwrites
Hyacinth Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility | @professorlehnsherr-almashy*
Jean Noveau | Masters of the Air | @loveduringthewar
Jocasta Storm | A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | @mercurygray
Margaret "Gigi" Alden | Masters of the Air | @basilone
Marjorie Burkhardt | Band of Brothers | @coraxaviary*
Petronella Van Der Heide | Band of Brothers | @rosiecheekswindswepthair*
Vaeda | A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | @yoursweetheartsrevenge
*indicates first-time fest participant
Since I had so much fun last year, here is my entry for this year's @blind-dates-fest! Of course, I had to do another OC who works in the Office of Strategic Services, but this time for the Masters of the Air. Meet Elizabeth Sadler, an analyst working within the Enemy Objectives Unit and her witty co-worker Georgia. The EOU was a branch of the Research and Analysis division within the OSS, staffed with economists, historians, political scientists, scholars, and anthropologists. These men and women were tasked on deciding on the most effective targets for the USAAF to bomb. This is a very, very rough concept/WIP I've been thinking about for a while! I thought it would be interesting to have a bit of a different take on Harry Crosby and his interaction with someone in intelligence!
London, February 1944
Enemy Objectives Unit (EOU) 1. You must be able to reach it and drop bombs on it. 2. You must be able to damage it when you do hit it. 3. You must be able to impair the war effort, directly or indirectly, when you damage it.
Genuinely can't believe this is year six of @blind-dates-fest!! Even though this is a little late I couldn't handle not participating. Also, this is the first thing I've written in...quite a while. It's good to get back to it even if I feel pretty rusty. I've been marinating in a lot of 40s Vogue articles, Lee Miller photographs, and general London-ness, but all inaccuracies (and any leftover typos) are my own. Title from Tiny Ruins' song of the same name. Without further ado, meet Hester!
you've got the kind of nerve i like
There are things to do back at the office, and errands she could run, but it's Friday — the muted thud of surprise in her chest at the realization shouldn't have been one at all — and it's her lunch break.
Hester doesn't usually indulge in café tables. Though, she notes, it's hardly one of the fancier establishments, not like the places her mother used to lunch at with friends before the war. There are asterisks to the coffee now too, roasted from dandelion roots, and to the slice of carrot cake, leaning heavily on its namesake for sweetness. But an hour of reading time with her magazines and a book — that was the real treat. The fresh air is too, and it smells like rain.
She glances at the sky, past the green and white-striped awning, the soft gray like cotton wool shading darker towards the east, the slivers of light. Everyone else is headed towards something else, walking down the street. Maybe it's too chilly for them still, in early May, leaving her with her jacket and the only spot on the patio, her bike leant against the other chair at the little table.
first to tell the story of the earth
a/n: of course this took me until the last possible second to complete. so grateful to have had the time to participate in @blind-dates-fest this year and excited to branch out to the pacific for the first time. thank you merc for putting this on, we owe ya one!
“Jesus Christ, Runner, move.”
“I — There’s uh—”
“Get outta the way, I gotta fuckin’ piss.”
“T–There’s girls, those are girls.”
“Huh?!”
That which sealed the deal on getting this one out there.
Blind Dates Fest 2026 | Marjorie Burkhardt, The Pacific
Marjorie Burkhardt is a young and ambitious wartime correspondent who fights her way into covering Pacific island combat, managing to follow troops into inhospitable jungles and witnessing the slow and bloody advancement of the Allies towards Japan. As the war progresses, Marjorie is embroiled in battle, endangered by starvation, and hunted for reckless behavior by the US War Office. In the years she spends abroad with men she grows to love, Marjorie discovers that stories aren’t just commodities to be sold – they are special lifelines she has the privilege to document.
My @blind-dates-fest 2026 submission! Here's an excerpt of something I wrote just in time for this event. Better late than never :)
The Burn on the Way Down
Summary: The evening after Arthur's rally, those who keep the Guinness family have a conversation. Rafferty/OC. Kinda. (Not friends, not enemies, but a secret third thing. Business associates. This is a disaster of a summary, but I really don't have a great way to describe this. I know it's a roll-your-eyes owing to a missing family member kind of thing but. I get a real kick out of her name, what can I say. Anyway, this is for @blind-dates-fest but I fully understand if it doesn't really qualify owing to the length (...I am not cut out for short 🙈 I know, Jean was better), but y'know. Something wildly different here on this blog :) Also, should probably say, everybody's good post cliffhanger, ofc.)
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He knows she’s there long before she speaks.
— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress of the 96th Bomb Group in flight at sunset.
FRE 5895
a/n: my first band of brothers oc!! she's silly! if you were looking for dialogue, I'm sorry because you will not find this here. I love my cringefail baby, she thinks she's sooo funny. I hope you all will enjoy this silly girl written by a silly girl (me). Dear Petronella 'Nellie' van der Heide has been in my heart for a while now and I'm happy to share her for the @blind-dates-fest. I do have a story 'planned' for her (two little bullet points in my notebook) and that is coming to a cinema near you soon! Until then, enjoy this! (And special thanks to my dear friend @loserkaleidoscodes for beta reading.)
It's the start of @blind-dates-fest and I've been sitting on this one for far too long, so here we go! 😊 I'd like to introduce you to Margaret (Gigi) Alden, who's one of the flight engineers in my very-much-still-a-WIP MotA fic Songs for Space Travelers. She's one of the new characters in this rewrite, flying with good ol' Benny DeMarco... and that's really all you gotta know before diving into this one. Hope you'll enjoy meeting her!
She’s glad the dog didn’t notice her sitting here.
Meatball, as he’s called, seems far more interested following his nose toward the plane than following it to the crates she’s seated on. Seems to be invested in circling the hatch and whining about it, as though he wants to go flying again and can’t understand why nobody’s lifting him back into the plane.
He’s not so bad from this distance. Gigi’s fine with big dogs, really, as long as they’re in sight and nowhere near her at the same time. It’s even better if they’re on a leash, which Meatball hasn’t been since they first got here.
“You should put him on a leash, sir,” she suggests, seeing Benny DeMarco approach her out of the corner of her eye. “At least think about it. He’s gonna get run over or something. Or he’s gonna come over here and try and make friends with me.”
Two Chairs in a Field, 1945
Summary: Photojournalist Jean Nouveau finds a pair of chairs in a field. Captain Benny DeMarco finds her not long after. (This is. ? Anyway, I'm in on the first day of @blind-dates-fest for the second year in a row? Who am I! Let's not kid ourselves, there's pretty distinct inspo from what I remember of the film Lee (which is to say...aesthetically speaking) and the rest...well. Turns out I've never actually written Benny, in spite of constantly referencing him, so. Viola?)
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The chairs were odd and strangely haunting.
Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music.