hang tough

summer | band of brothers | history lover | intp

[smmrwinters]

Damian Lewis as Richard Winters | Behind The Scenes

[kaytario]

Eileen Mayo

[metamorphesque]

[soracities]

“It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write. You want to meet strangers for dinner, and not refuse another drink at another bar. You want to dance. You want to find yourself in a basement, neck loose, bobbing your head as a group of musicians play, not because they should, but because they must. It’s summer now, and you’re looking forward to worrying less. You’re looking forward to longer nights and shorter days. You’re looking forward to gathering in back gardens and watching meat sputter on an open barbecue. You’re looking forward to laughing so hard your chest hurts and you feel light-headed. You’re looking forward to the safety in pleasure. You’re looking forward to forgetting, albeit briefly, the existential dread which plagues you, which tightens your chest, which pains your left side. You’re looking forward to forgetting that, leaving the house, you might not return intact. You’re looking forward to freedom, even if it is short, even if it might not last. You’re looking forward.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[princessaredhel]

“If this word should turn out to be a ‘Te moriturum saluto,’ perhaps it will brighten the dark moments a little to think how you have meant to someone more than anything ever has or ever will. What you have striven for will not end in nothing, all that you have done and been will not be wasted, for it will be a part of me as long as I live, and I shall remember, always.”

―Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 26th September 1915.

[bandofbrothers2001]

Lord, grant that I shall never seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, or to be loved as to love with all my heart.

Shane Taylor as Eugene Roe in BAND OF BROTHERS | Pt. 6: Bastogne

[staud]

It’s the last day of somebody’s childhood. And every day I’ll try to do one thing I like, in memory of being happy. (x)

Joe Mazzello as EUGENE SLEDGE Sufjan Stevens, "FOURTH OF JULY"

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[cottagesongs]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[moxrglory]

“i desire violently—and i wait”- Anaïs Nin

[theworldatwar]

A US soldier examines a German Panther tank - Belgium, Dec 1944

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[ilymilfz]

Serving face

[yeoldenews]

A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

[runnerleckie]

JOE LIEBGOTT & merry christmas, please don’t call by bleachers

[andromeddog]

alone, together

my secret santa gift for @dudesinuniforms! a bit of star gazing speirton for your holidays ✨