#freebooter4ever

[freebooter4ever]

4.3 MILES AND STABLE ENOUGH TO STILL DO THIS \o/

[ehghtyseven]

EVGENI MALKIN

[s-k-y-w-a-l-k-e-r]

for @freebooter4ever!

[lobotomizedskull]

[makesiteasier]

@freebooter4ever Okay, I tried to answer this a couple days ago but the electricity/internet has been very unreliable.

Anyway! Nobody was doing it like Lisa Frank! Who wouldn’t want to bare their soul inside a postage-stamp-size notebook with a rainbow spotted lion seal pub swimming in a rainbow coral reef on the cover?? She just GETS IT.

[izzy-b-hands]

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave for Sledgefu?

Technically I do have requests closed for the Pacific...but I love that song, and you, my friend, so I can make some Sledgefu happen! It’s short, but I hope you like it, and thank you for sending in a request for the song title request meme!!! 

Red Right Hand Holding Dress Blues is below the cut!

A little something, where Sledge and Snafu find themselves working to come to terms with one of the wider reaching effects of the war, their part in it, and what it means for them  as the future rises to meet them.

My love to all who read/like/reblog!

“You ever think about it?” Snafu asked him one night. 

“What?” 

“Money, and the war,” Snafu replied. 

“How do you mean?” Eugene rolled over in bed. 

Snafu sat up, staring at his hands. “Blood money. We killed, and-” 

“We’ve been over this,” Eugene interrupted. They had. With each other, with a therapist. But it seemed to haunt them regardless, Snafu more often than Eugene. 

“Even though it was to do something good,” Snafu continued. “To fight something bad. People still profited off of it. Off of death, off of us.” 

He looked out to the end of their bed in the dark, his eyes looking somewhere else entirely, somewhere not in their room but on far away shores. “And I don’t want to see that money. I think people might think that, when I talk about this, I know that damned doctor thinks that-” 

“He shouldn’t,” Eugene interrupted gently again. “We can talk to him about that, to make him understand what you actually mean.” 

“It’s wrong in general, on principle,” Snafu said. “No one should want money that comes in that way.” 

Eugene sat up, and wrapped his arms around Snafu. “I know.” 

“Just cogs in the machine,” Snafu whimpered. “And it’s nearly ground us up too.” 

“Not yet it hasn’t,” Eugene soothed. “We don’t have to let it, either.” 

“We can’t take back what we did,” Snafu murmured, horror in his voice. “Even now, someone’s in pain thanks to things we did. And some politician sits on the money we made him.” 

The tears flowed quickly, staining Eugene’s nightshirt as he pulled Snafu close, a hand rubbing his back, shaking with sobs.  

“If nothing else,” he said softly. “We never have to do that again. You know that. Just us, and the rest of our lives. Don’t even have to look at the uniform ever again, if we don’t want to.” 

“Wish I’d never seen it to begin with,” Snafu choked out. “I dread thinking about it. What’ll they tell the next boots, fresh in to camp, so they don’t realize that it’s all bullshit?” 

“I don’t know,” Eugene admitted, hugging Snafu tighter as a shiver went down his spine at the thought of it.

“It’s like a shadow,” Snafu wept. “And no matter what we do, we can never get out from under it.” 

Eugene swallowed back tears of his own. “Maybe we aren’t meant to. Not entirely.” 

“We don’t deserve peace?” Snafu asked, sounding heart-broken.

“I don’t know that we don’t deserve it,” Eugene replied. “I think...most people do. But I think some things can fill up the space where it’s meant to live within you. Takes time for it to filter out, so you can settle and let peace in.” 

“How much longer do you think it’ll take?” 

He needed a minute to ponder that. The variables were numerous. And he couldn’t say that the country itself would make it any easier. Each salute or ‘thank you for your service’ on the rare occasions they were asked if they’d served made him sick, and he knew it did the same to Snafu. 

The shadow, the long-reaching hand of the military and the men who ordered it weren’t something they would ever outrun completely. 

But that wasn’t what Snafu needed to hear right now. 

“I don’t know,” Eugene finally said, and gave Snafu a gentle kiss. “But I’ll tell you something. We’ve been working towards it since we got back. And you know what we’re gonna do tomorrow?” 

“What?” Snafu sniffled. 

“We’re gonna keep working on it,” Eugene replied. “I think a day out walking and bird-watching might do us good. Nothing but us and the birds and quiet. I think we might find some peace out there.” 

“I think so too,” Snafu whispered. 

It wouldn’t be an early start, the next morning, because they wouldn’t sleep again until the sun was peeking into their bedroom window, through the curtains. 

But the shadow of the hand over them would seem slightly less dark, in the fields, among the birds. 

[sledgefuweek]

the rule about not reblogging if submissions are late seems extremely unnecessary and really unfair on us who don't make the deadlines but who have worked really hard filling these prompts? it absolutely does not encourage further participation. this along with the only using one particular time zone instead of letting people just upload in their own time zones just adds complications and anxiety to what is supposed to be fun and without pressure, wtf?

tldr, i spent two months using all my free time to write and putting off my own personal projects to write within the prompts and now you're saying my work doesnt count if it isnt finished by a certain date? I am seriously not impressed by this.

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(since you’ve messaged me one on one about this, i feel like i don’t completely need to post this but i will for posterity and for other people who may be wondering. i haven’t edited my original message at all despite our conversation in my DMs)

hi!! thank you for sending us a message, and i’m sorry that some of the ways in which we chose to do this year’s ship week were frustrating -- this is how we’ve done things for the past couple years, and it’s worked so far, but sledgefu week continues to grow and it’s only the two of us, there’s really no way for us to know how to adjust for next year’s ship week until the current one is over! so thank you for your feedback. there’s always tweaks that need to be made for sure, and if it happens again next year the time zone thing is definitely something to look at. however, we did have a twenty-four hour window for everybody to submit stuff, which felt completely fair but maybe we need to have a better look at that for next year. it’s just lea and i running this week, and we’re both in a similar time zone so it’s really difficult to try and plan around every zone there is. that’s no excuse, just trying to be open about it!

in terms of the late submissions thing: i can completely see where you’re coming from. as i mentioned, sledgefu week grows each year and the guidelines we use have to change with it, so i see no harm in reblogging later submissions. i’m sorry that you’ve felt frustrated and that the way we’re doing things is unfair, i’d just really like to say that this is a small ship week for a small fandom, (or at least, it used to be very small, haha! this has been a really big sledgefu week this year) and we’re all still just muddling through trying to work out what’s best. we don’t do things to be cruel or unfair, there just have to be some rules to make it a special yearly event and to make it different to fanart or fic that’s posted for the rest of the year. part of the challenge and the fun of a ship week event is to see what you can do by the deadline! we never intended to make it feel like a stressful experience, it’s just simply the nature of a ship week. it also feels a little unfair to those who worked (just as you have! i know it’s not always feasible, of course, especially with everything going on in the world at the moment) to make the deadline if we’re reblogging things very very far down the line. we all worked hard, we all put off personal projects and used all our free time to write. there was a clear deadline from the very beginning, and one that even got pushed back by a month because lea and i were very aware of the pressures of both lockdown/quarantine and the protests that were happening at the time. i hope you can see where i’m coming from with this, just as i can see where you’re coming from too. 

thinking that an extra week for late submissions would be enough was my mistake, i didn’t think to take into account where others might be in their timeline -- i answered that ask last night before bed, and didn’t think it over, and i’m sorry for that! would the rest of august be a better stretch of time? 

again, we’re sorry that this may have been a frustrating experience for you, i know ship weeks are all about the time crunch, which can be quite stressful.

[vaguely-concerned]

freebooter4ever replied to your post “yone the real way you failed your little brother was in letting him...”

Wait is this new hanzo or a copy character??????

the bottom one is the newest league of legends character, yone, in his past/pre-death human form, and it's a real strange situation where like... technically yasuo and yone existed way before overwatch and thus genji and hanzo in the lol lore, sharing very similar storylines --  except as I understand it yone didn’t have a canon visual design until pretty recently, after the release of overwatch. so I’ve seen some intense shouting back and forth between the fandoms about who, exactly, is ripping off who here and it’s very funny to watch hahaha 

(to engage in some straddling of the fence I guess one could argue that both hanzo and yone’s faces might be loosely based on toshiro mifune in kurosawa’s films, since that’s probably the most easily recognizable image of a samurai in the west... but yeah it seems pretty blatant on riot’s part lol. yone is a demon creature... thing with a mask these days so it probably won’t be as confusing as it could be)