#ww1 inspired

[soapflavouredsoup]

tws in tags (not a vent post)

dude like im not joking about the "ww1 inspiration" the characters i have? they're gonna get dysentery. im gonna give them dysentery and it's not a one-off it's actually gonna be quite common as it was. they get trench paw. snipers are going to pick you off while you're on break. there's no weeks long front lining, it's 3 to 4 business days and then you're back to digging trenches at the back. and those trenches? they're like me. they're not straight. oh and none of the section privates know the faceless general like irl because thats like. complete opposite levels of hierarchy. yeah im planning to do this the right way.

[amitanuki]

I’m happy to announce that “Saīka” is here!! 🎉🎉🎉 an original epistolary story I wrote :’) it’s a war diary

here’s the main cast 👀

check it out on AO3!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Original Character(s) & Original Character(s), Original Character(s)/Original Character(s) Additional Tags: Dark Comedy, Gallows Humor, Found Family, Slow Burn, Epistolary, Diary/Journal, War Diary, Military, Snow and Ice, Character Study, Unreliable Narrator, Emotional Numbness, eveyone is traumatized and no one is okay, One (1) nice man in a hellscape (not the protag), POV First Person, Cannibalism, Not the kinky kind of cannibalism, but it’s not the main focus I promise, War, Character Death, Blood and Gore, Blood and Injury, Suicide, Starvation, (It’s get better. Trust), Dissociation, PTSD, Grief/Mourning, Body Horror, Hetero men making way too much gay jokes for their own good, Philosophy, Poetry, Sarcasm, Paul Hecate, I’m adding him because he’s a warning, story art!, Liminal Spaces, Reflection on the Liminal, No beta they ate the beta, Alternate History, They’re from the 1920s, Period typical queer phobia, Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, the happiest I can think of anyway, why don’t you stick around and find out :’) Summary:

Things you need to know about the 35th Decoy Division at Saika :

- We are bait. We know this. The Empire is very committed to us knowing this. - The food ran out in January. - We are still here. - Do the math.

We’ve been ordered to guard a frozen lake nobody wants until further notice. Fuck them and these gods damn mountains, we’re literally freezing to death. The rations are running out, so we started eating each other instead, which honestly solved more problems than it created.

Or

If you ever wanted to read a story with as much bleakness and wholesomeness, found family, Great (I hope) character arcs, queer repressed soldiers in a ww1-2 inspired setting and cool philosophical reflection on purpose and what it is to be human- boy do I have good news for you !