Mail Call #49 (Fortnight of 06 April 2021)
Apr. 6th, 2021 10:07 am
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New Fills this Issue
Pinning All My Hopes On You by
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.
To Love and Be Loved by
BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Dick just wants to be held and told it's going to be all right.
hope tomorrow is a better day by
THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, The dog days of the Peleliu campaign on repeat.
To Books I am Beholden by
BAND OF BROTHERS/BAND OF BROTHERS RPF, David Webster, Stephen Ambrose falls in love with David Webster's ghost while reading his memoirs. Bonus points if set in library.
New Prompts this Issue
( Band of Brothers )
( Generation Kill )
( The Pacific )
( Crossovers and RPF )
Colonel Kink's Memorial Prompts
BAND OF BROTHERS, Carwood Lipton/George Luz, Luz decides that Lip needs to get laid, and tries to nose around for a partner for him, playing matchmaker because Luz doesn't think Lip would be interested in him.
BAND OF BROTHERS, Darrell 'Shifty' Powers/Earl McClung, Shifty likes it when Earl takes control.
BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, Webster picks up one of Liebgott's comics and makes a comment about how homoerotic they are. Liebgott doesn't know what that means.
BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Ancient Rome AU. Dick is a gladiator by trade, Nix the bored son of a rich merchant who's decided that owning a gladiator team is just the thing.
GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, During OIF, Nate is removed from his position for refusing to follow orders. The aftermath of that decision affects Brad and Nate's eventual reunion.
GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate is one of those motherfuckers that kept his early morning routines after getting out of the military.
THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, Anything that uses Andy playing sax for the college swing band.
THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge & Mary Frank Sledge & Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton & Sidney Phillips, Mary Frank quickly accepts her gay son. But she will not accept that swamp monster as a son in law. She takes it upon herself to find Eugene an appropriate match.
THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Sidney Phillips, They were each other's firsts.
THE PACIFIC, Robert Leckie, Home-grown US Marine entertainment in the form of a musical/play/show involving a lot of men in drag, and at least one wearing a head dress made of fruit.
(These prompts are worth two points if filled before the newsletter goes live on 20 April)
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