looselipssinkships | Mail Call #32 (Fortnight of 11 August 2020) (Reply)

One U.S. Marine (circa WWII) sits in front of another, who is standing with his shirt open in the Pacific jungle.

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New Fills this Issue

Broken & Beautiful by

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BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters/Ronald Speirs, Werewolf!Speirs and his two lovers

killing me softly by

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GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, The first time Brad kisses Ray is the day they find out they're going home.

Observe/Admire by

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GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate was not prepared for Brad in a leather jacket.

New Prompts this Issue

Band of Brothers

BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, Before they ship back stateside after the war is over, Web gives Liebgott his Harvard pin as a romantic token. Years later, Web *doesn't* die of shark-related injuries and hops into a cab that happens to be driven by one Joseph Liebgott. He doesn't expect Lieb to have the pin stuck to his visor as his luckiest charm so many years later.

BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, Webster orders pancakes as delivery food. Joe is appalled.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Edward 'Babe' Heffron/Eugene Roe, It turns out you *can* be too cold to get it up.

BAND OF BROTHERS, George Luz/Joseph Toye, Toye struggles with chronic pain after the war from all the injuries he suffered. George, never wounded, tries to understand.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Herbert Sobel/Richard Winters, Sobel is canonically obsessed with Dick, but he doesn't realize the true reason behind his obsession until he loses Easy and is sent off to Chilton Foliat. When he is assigned back to the 506th as regimental staff, he keeps an eye on Dick and pines from afar (but he also messes up with Dick's orders, because he's Sobel after all). Bonus points for Nix being part of the equation.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Sometimes Nix envies how homesick Dick gets.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, The awkwardness of admitting that you don't like something your partner does.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Years after the war, Dick's old leg wound still hurts sometimes.

BAND OF BROTHERS, William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, Phantom limb pain.

Generation Kill

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, All the weird sex and confessions that were had thinking they would die, the awkwardness of being alive when everyone knows your secret kink.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Brad's dick is only Nate's fourth favourite thing about him.

The Pacific

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, Andy wants Eddie to talk dirty to him. Eddie is awkward about it.

Colonel Kink's Memorial Prompts

BAND OF BROTHERS, Carwood Lipton/George Luz, It starts out as a source of comfort and a casual way to blow off steam, and that's how it stays. (Friends with benefits forever!)

BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, They start sharing dreams.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Denver 'Bull' Randleman & Johnny Martin & William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, Johnny, Bull and Bill have a really tight three person friendship, and then when Bill gets hit and sent home, Johnny decides that he's going to cut himself off from everyone because clearly having friends is the worst. Bull is left out in the cold. Can be shippy or friendshippy.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Frank Perconte/Johnny Martin, Martin finds some way to welcome back Frank after he's shot in the ass that's even better than a Hershey bar.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Floyd 'Tab' Talbert/Richard Winters, Dick reads all the enlisted men's mail in order to censor it. Tab know that, and includes some messages for Dick in his letters home.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Knowing Nate has his back is the only way that Brad is holding on.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Ray hears Nate sing for the first time

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane, In which Phryne Fisher climbs Andy like a palm tree.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, “If I don’t come back, the company’s yours.” On his way back from command Andy gets cut off from the rest of the company. Eddie has to take over and find some way to help Andy return to them.

BAND OF BROTHERS/THE PACIFIC, Carwood Lipton & Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, The one where they're cousins.

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