there's a war on

an hbo war fanblog

[airborneinfantry]

This great undertaking for God and country has landed us in a tropical paradise somewhere in what Jack London refers to as "those terrible Solomons." It is a Garden of Eden. The jungle holds both beauty and terror in its depths, most terrible of which is man. We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

THE PACIFIC (2010) ↳ Part One: Guadalcanal/Leckie

[airborneinfantry]

He had never been totally convinced that Vera was real. She was always the Perfect Girl, the one just out of reach, and so it had never been a surprise when she slipped from his grasp. But Eugene… he was real, and he was human, and Leckie had never doubted that. Never idolized him. Never had any reason to think he shouldn’t fall in love with him, and that he couldn’t be loved in return. - Where to Begin by ama (@warriorgays)

Robert Leckie & Eugene Sledge in THE PACIFIC (2010) ↳ sidgene's 12 Days of Ficmas: Day 8 - Any Leckie Ship -> Sledgekie

[warriorgays]

IN GOOD COMPANY

a Malarkey/Speirs World War I & Prohibition-era AU. coming to Ao3 4/16/19.

don’t care if he’s guilty, don’t care if he’s not he’s good and he’s bad and he’s all that i’ve got oh lord, oh lord, i’m begging you, please, don’t take that sinner from me

[warriorgays]

I don’t know how active this blog is anymore, but on the off chance you check this: would you be willing to share a few details about how your Speirs/Malarkey prohibition AU was going to end? It’s a favorite of mine that I return to time and time again—the world is so interesting and so well-executed—and I’ve always been curious. Both to see how the story ends but also get another glimpse into how they got together in the first place. It’s such an endlessly compelling premise. Love your work!

Hi anon! I really appreciate this ask, because I have always loved the ending to this fic (as someone who haaaates writing ends), and the fact that I never finished it has always lowkey haunted me. This ask prompted me to go back to my draft of chapter 3 to remind myself of what was going to happen in it, and in doing so I realized that the chapter was actually just 2.5 scenes away from completion. One of those scenes I could not remember in the slightest, one I decided was unnecessary, and as for the half, I think I was just being too much of a perfectionist when I was initially writing it.

So I lowered my standards a bit, resisted the urge to do a complete edit and rewrite, and published chapter 3. 🙂 Sorry for the wait lol.

Some of the other details I would have included have faded from my mind, but I hope the resolution is satisfying. At one point I also intended to write a followup oneshot where Malarkey realized that Roe/Toye were together and just keeping quiet about it, but alas that basic detail is all that stuck around.

[warriorgays]

@anon I did get your message and you will get a thorough response! I’ve got some stuff going on in my personal life at the moment that may delay it for a few days tho

[atomicradiogirl]

them :( <3

[hbowardaily]

THE PACIFIC 1x09 okinawa

[jackharkness]

BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) | THE PACIFIC (2010) History is full of wars fought for a hundred different reasons, but this war, our war, I want to believe, I have to believe, that for every step across that airfield, every man’s that’s wounded, every man I lose, that it’s all worthwhile, because our cause is just.

[hbowardaily]

[warriorgays]

people on twitter: having discourse about the real-world inspiration for the dwarves

me: no fuck this I'm not doing this again

[warriorgays]

Hey I wanted to thank you for your Justified timeline! It's the tentpoles holding up my s1 fic, and I always have it open in a tab while writing.

aw that's nice! I'm glad it's proved helpful!

[warriorgays]

The number of ships I’ve written for where characters have the same name is actually very small—aside from intra-HBO war stuff—but there is something deeply ironic about the fact that two of my most beloved ships lately have involved men named Webster.

[warriorgays]

I watched the Downton Abbey movie tonight and when I got to the scene where Thomas is at a regular bar and ends up following a guy to a gay bar and dancing and is kind of giddy about it becuse he's never done anything like this before I was like "wait, why is this so familiar? what other show have I seen this in?"

and then I remembered I literally wrote that scene (minus the raid) in Through the Gay Days lmaoooo. where are the royalties, Mr. Fellowes? pay up.

[helenekuraginaarc]

robert leckie + text posts

[warriorgays]

Leckie/Sledge

“Now that explains it. You’re a believer.” “Yes.”

[warriorgays]

wow super annoyed at myself for learning about the hbo war fic exchange for the first time at ~midnight the day before it closed, thinking "oh I'll sign up first thing tomorrow!" and then not doing that at all

[warriorgays]

Richard Armitage once tweeted out a song that included the lyrics "farewell, I've gone to take my throne above, but don't weep for me, for this will be the labor of my love" with the caption "Hey Dwalin"... that was a thing that happened once. damn.