looselipssinkships | Mail Call #21 (Fortnight of 10 March 2020)

Sgt. Brad Colbert and Cpl. Ray Person laughing in the interior of a marine humvee.

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New Fills this Issue

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BAND OF BROTHERS, Carwood Lipton/George Luz/Ronald Speirs, Looking after Carwood gets competitive.

In A Dark Theater by

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BAND OF BROTHERS, Eugene Roe, Voyeurism in a dark theatre as others get at it

Oh But You're Lovely by

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BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, First hookup at OCS.

Slow Dance by

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BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Slow dancing on Christmas night

Dead Man Walking by

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GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, After that ambush where Nate gets out and directs his platoon out of the kill zone.

New Prompts this Issue

Band of Brothers

BAND OF BROTHERS, Denver 'Bull' Randleman/Johnny Martin, a/b/o from friends to lovers

BAND OF BROTHERS, Denver 'Bull' Randleman/Johnny Martin, He promised himself he'd never say a word about what he felt.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Donald Malarkey/Joseph Toye, Unable to settle after the war, Joe drifts until he finds himself washed up on the shores of the Columbia, at the home of an old friend who needs help more than even Joe does.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Edward 'Babe' Heffron/William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, All these years of living in each other's pockets and being best friends, it's only now they realise they're in love.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Eugene Jackson/Robert Sink, underage + age difference

BAND OF BROTHERS, Floyd 'Tab' Talbert/Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, How they get together and how they chose to move to California together

BAND OF BROTHERS, George Luz/Joseph Toye, The thing he likes about Joe is that he doesn't look at George and see just the company clown. The thing he doesn't like, is that he has no idea how else to get Joe's attention.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Dick's spent his whole life keeping everyone at arm's length to keep everyone from finding out he's a sentinel. Nix, however, knows the signs, and once they're in combat it becomes impossible for Dick to hide.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Lewis is seriously worried Dick might be having a break down and wants to take care of him

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Lewis' parents gave him a summer companion, a young man from Pennsylvania called Dick, who was searching for a summer job before starting college in the fall. Based on Henry Scott Tuke paintings (Comrades and The Bathers)

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Merman!Lewis in the lake where Dick goes to swim and do his sunbathing (bonus point tentacle!porn?)

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

Generation Kill

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, Brad doesn't see himself as into guys. Knowing Ray is something of a revelation.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Brad keeps leaving pens lying around for Lt. Fick to find.

The Pacific

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane & Eugene B. Sledge, Sledge and Ack-Ack body swap while on Pavuvu.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, For various very good reasons, they decide that they can't be together, and massive pining and eventually getting together follows.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, Post War AU: The move in together to help each other adjust to post-war life, and then slowly realise they've been in love all along.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, They actually *can* read each other's minds.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Something causes Sledge and Snaf to soulbond (shared thoughts/proximity/whatever) as soon as they meet. This isn't a soul bond universe, but some kind of magic thing, and neither is impressed at all.

Colonel Kink's Theme of the Fortnight Month

As mentioned earlier, we will be continuing the Fill One Prompt, Save Three Prompts challenge until the newsletter is posted on 24 March. For that period, filling any prompt dated August or September 2019 is worth two points, and filling any prompt at all gives you the option of choosing any three prompts from August or September to save from the Great Purge. On the 24 March, all non-saved prompts date August and September will be deleted.

These are the prompts we've saved so far!

BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, 5 times Lieb trolls Web about literature (a la the Dick Tracy comment) and 1 time he can't let Web's shitty opinion stand.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Edward 'Babe' Heffron/Eugene Roe, Roe is killed in the air raid on Bastogne. Thing is, Babe keeps seeing him after.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 5 times the men of Easy gave Nix their blessing to go for it (and he totally didn’t pick up on it) and 1 time Dick got sick of waiting for him to wise up and made the move himself.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Dick hooks up with an MP a New York gay bar when Dick's on the booze run. A year an a half later, a new intelligence officer is assigned to Second Battalion just in time for the Battle of the Bulge.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, First hookup at OCS.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Nix doesn't get to come until he asks nicely enough.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Edward 'Babe' Heffron/William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, Sharing a foxhole

BAND OF BROTHERS, Eugene Roe/Richard Winters, Glorious desk sex in Crossroads.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon & Richard Winters, Dick is gay, Nix is straight, and also the worst wing man in history when it comes to helping Dick get dates.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Donald Malarkey/Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Malarkey keeps visiting Buck in the field hospital after Bastogne, and writing thru Buck’s recovery. What was a friendship becomes more.

BAND OF BROTHERS, George Luz/Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Compton's ashamed of how much he likes to bottom, but Luz has a way of making everything easier.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 1930s college AU

BAND OF BROTHERS, Harry Welsh & Lewis Nixon & Richard Winters, letters after the war

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Lieutenant Colonel Dobie, Dick won’t make a move during the war. Lucky for Nix’s libido, Dobie will.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, Post war fic that involves neither farming in PA nor Nixon, NJ. Do they start a vineyard in California? Maybe Nix writes romance novels?