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Just scrolled by these back to back and….

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bc wrishwrosh asked for a directors cut, im gonna shoot my shot too hahah it was such an expansive look at joe’s historical context and i wonder, did you have any darlings you had to kill, i.e. any historical research/scenes you cut off/deleted to make the work what it was in the end? (i really cannot stop thinking about your work!)

First of all: thank you so much. That the response this fic has gotten has been so lovely and so passionate has really made my week/month/year. You all are deeply wonderful. <3 (Still & forever talking about this fic, for anyone following along at home.)

Because of the way the fic was (un)structured I really could include most things that I wanted to; in fact I started to fear that it would never feel finished, because I would always be coming up with new sections I wanted to add. But this didn't end up being true! Towards the end of the writing process I continued coming up with new ideas but started to realize each one would overbalance something, or didn't have a neat place to slot in to what was there already, or just wasn't thematically a great fit. Most of these ideas were for post-war scenes, which I already focus on more than I'd originally intended to in the fic, so I consoled myself by promising to write a separate post-war fic to contain them all. So most of the darlings I killed were more postponed or replanted than outright murdered.

The only fully written and realized scene that I cut was inspired by Webster mentioning in Parachute Infantry that most of their truck drivers were Black; I thought that was interesting in general but also in particular as a fact we never get an inkling of on the show, and I wanted to write something about it. But in the end it felt too eager to Make A Point, so I cut it. I do think I could've justified it thematically, and certainly I was not allergic to including sections to make a point (hopefully without scare capitals), but this just felt too shoehorned in.

(I will say, the darling that I came very close to jettisoning but did not was the YMCA bit; for reasons unrelated to writing Band of Brothers fic I have in my brain a store of somewhat esoteric knowledge about post-war gay San Francisco, and I was a little too excited to get to use some of it. There is a fine line, I feel, between interesting background detail and annoying I Did The Research detail; I do try (not always successfully!) not to cross it, and this felt like seriously toeing that line. But in the end I liked the bit too much for other reasons: I like gen fic where the characters are still gay (or bi, etc.) and it felt like an important beat, as a sort of outward manifestation of the ways that Liebgott feels like he's letting down his family and himself and the idea of himself he used to have. So it stayed!)

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jj!! i really want to know more about miss nora so!

relationship/characters: Nora Huchthausen/Bucky Egan. prompt: the subtle things they notice.. become not so subtle.

hi yna!! thanks so much for the prompt - it ended up being more nora & bucky with a side of jackie/bucky, even though she wasn't in the room for this lol. enjoy!

“Buck says you haven’t so much as looked at any girls since coming back,” said Nora. Bucky’s head snapped towards her, eyes defensive and deep with emotion. Nora knew what it meant, she had since he got shot down and Jack Kidd’s first call was to Jackie. And Bucky knew that she knew, and yet here they were, dancing the old familiar dance around the flames of his feelings.

Bucky smiled ruefully. “I’m a changed man, Nora Huchthausen. The stalag will do that.” He let the words sit and stew, rather than using his boisterous persona to distract and fill up the silence. His eyes were searching, pleading, imploring her to let it drop. And maybe she should, if she already knew - but she needed to hear it from Bucky himself. And in the nearly empty Officers’ Club, the time was as good as ever.

“Maybe you’ve changed, Bucky, but you’ve always had your eye on Jackie Broussard. And Crank says you looked at her the whole flight back here, and DeMarco said you reread her letters over and over -”

“Damnit Nora! What do you want me to say? That I ain’t subtle - because I know, and that ship sailed long ago. But Jackie doesn’t need me, she deserves better -”

Nora shook her head aggressively, her hair shimmering in the low light. “No, she deserves to decide for herself. She’s not one of your ditzy girls from a few years ago, Bucky. She’s one of the most wonderful people I know, and she should decide if she wants you of her own volition, not because you force yourself away from her.”

Bucky looked away, seething. Nora could see his mind racing and his chest heaving, and she was sure that she looked much the same. But she breathed easier knowing that she was right - Jackie was strong enough to decide on her own, and Bucky needed to let her do it.

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lieb/tipp 🤨🎤

hmmmmm... makes sense and compels me. I mean I have other joe ships I like more of course but their scene in carentan... I know everyone thought tipp was dead irl he'd got it so bad so you could definitely play with joe finding out tipper is alive and them reconnecting and tipper thanking joe for the way he comforted him in an extremely fucked situation. there's stuff there for sure! also tipp being like "fighting over sobel. that's smart" while joe is beating bill's ass. pretty funny

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cariiiiiii! glad you're feeling better!

i really love "what's in a bag" things, so i'm here to ask what is in miss dot's and/or miss vera's footlockers (that may or may not be regulation)? <3

oc sleepover - ask away

thank you, yna! i'm glad to be feeling better

as for what's in dot's locker...

all the standards: extra uniforms, dress uniforms, civvies, hair products, cash. her non standards: letters - lots of em, from her parents and especially her older brothers; a few books - she and skip bought georgie's dad's book to see what all the fuss was about, a tree grows in brooklyn (where do you think perco got his copy?); a can of peaches that sobel will never find - only schmucks get caught; and photos. lots and lots of photos.

she's fascinated with the photos bertie takes and she takes all the ones their photographer wants to throw out - a shot of just an elbow; moe alley laughing - all blurry; a rocket coming down - the aps wants bertie to toss that one, and dot knows she's not supposed to have it.

but how can you get rid of them? those are her friends and their stories and bertie gets her a camera at some ponit. the alberts send one, monographed my her father in their shop in green bay, for dot and she cries when bertie's gangly ass hands it over. and she takes lots of pictures - some people gamble their pay away, she buys film with her poor french and gestures - of everything all the time, especially when she and don end up together in paris at the end of the war.

oh, and anita's last diary. it was supposed to go home with anita's personal effects but she snuck it out of her footlocker before the s-1 could get it when they got back from holland. it makes her sick that anita's family doesn't that this last part of their sister and daughter, but they wouldn't understand. all of anita's stories inked in her curling script about their friends and their company. her family wouldn't understand. besides, she has to keep it for the nights alex wants it, reading by moonlight after bill and joe's 8th threat to send him to his maker if he keeps that damn light on.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the internet's a place to look forward to whenever you're in it. hope you can watch some birds today and play mind palace 'the wire' dolls while u have cake. ily. <3 <3 <3 you're such a bright spot (even when u feel otherwise crummy).

AHHHHH YNA <3 thank you so much!!!!!!!!technically it’s tomorrow LOL caoimhe made a false start (it ok though we love her kiss kiss) but I suppose where you are it’s pretty close to the 28th!!!! anyways thanks this is so sweet!!! always nice to hear I’m not miserable to interact with 🤩🤩🤩 love you ❤️❤️❤️

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wtf how have i not followed you here yet. hi lou (i miss you on my dash even if i still see u there. can uni pls stop taking you away from here)

HI YNA!!!!!! this is my main blog yippee 😊😊 and my easter holiday is in like three weeks i will be so back in business then trust

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OMG KARINA HAPPY BIRTHDAY, QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wish you all the prettiest beads and trinkets in the world. MWAH!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAWJUS!!!!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰🥰 AAAAAA

WAHHHHHHHHHH I CRY THANK YOU YNA 🥰<3333333 🥰