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JOSEPH LIEBGOTT/sabotage, beastie boys

#when a man is angry all the time...when a man is confused and sad all the time....when a man is cocky as hell.....#show it to me please!!! show it to me rachel!!!#joseph liebgott #joe liebgott #david webster #etc #band of brothers #bob #hbo war #hbo war edit #personal #wwii #ww2 #beastie boys

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"

#Best edit of all time potentially #hbo war edit

andromeddog

won’t you please tell me what we’ve learned

#😁😁😁

wanderinghedgehog

What the fuck, Richard.

evidenceof

Hey, stovetop boys. Woof.

BILL LEYDEN and JAY DE L'EAU Part 6 Peleliu Airfield | The Pacific

*A vote of Bill'Eau is a vote for foxhole buddies*

#what's all this then

wrmhles

Can’t believe it’s over, huh? Sort of a what do you do now? “What do we do now?" What an idiot.

THE PACIFIC Part Ten

#it literally doesn't matter at all #the pacific

ww2yaoi

SIDSLEDGE: that’s so true

#waiittttt this is crazy #the pacific #hbo war edit

The problem with writing HBO war fic is that it feels basically impossible to write the women as anything other than a source of sexual conquest or moral edification for the main male characters and it tortures me because I don't know how to escape it like even if they're written from their own perspectives whether there are elements of romance or sex or there's pure character meta it's all relative to the desires and satisfactions and dreams of Gale Cleven or Bob Leckie or whatever......even if they're ostensibly in control of a scene/relationship (a la Marge in Charge or Leckie apparently pining helplessly over Stella) they still only really exist narratively because of the men who kiss them/cry over them/idolize them/discard them. Maybe this is a skill issue but every time I try to escape the trap I fall back into it bc they honestly only exist in the Tom Hanks verse as objects of social obligation it makes me want to cry

#and rule 63-ing the male characters doesn't work either because well they're men & it's kind of boring to just pretend that the 40s weren't #evil if you're trying to write fic about hbo war women #it's so pointless...I don't know...feels like the women basically have to exist completely outside the scope of their boyfriends and fiances #to gain any narrative independence #hbo war #the pacific #band of brothers #mota #personal

Leckie thought of the day...he's a little bitter a little jealous about his conquests/hookups/lovers and his words/writing/intellect because they're the only things he has to prove to himself that he's a real alive boy — if there's no God and no moral authority on earth and everyone is always dead or dying and every island seems antithetic to human existence well of course you'd be sort of petty and pretentious what else exists that you can touch and hold and own and re-member...sad...

#in my head he's the pettiest man in the world #because he's pathetic and afraid #robert leckie #the pacific #hbo war #wwii

sidsledge

honestly if you went by the original scripts, the pacific is way more of a psychological horror show that happens to be about war because why was leckie legitimately losing his mind for one second there.... he has all these dream sequences, hallucinations, incredibly uncomfortable conversations about God, death, morality etc. that I just wish made it into the show. it's all very horrific for sure – much more book accurate than the end product as well. like they really wrote “leckie looks skyward to a god who has long since forsaken him.” they really did that