looselipssinkships | Mail Call #23 (Fortnight of 07 April 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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THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, It's the quiet moments like these that keep them going.

New Prompts this Issue

Band of Brothers

BAND OF BROTHERS, David Webster/Joseph Liebgott, and Joe crashed his taxi against Webster's car

BAND OF BROTHERS, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, He never wanted to hear that confession of feelings, but it was too late now, and he doesn't know what to do.

BAND OF BROTHERS, Richard Winters, h/c where Dick turns out to be allergic to sulpha tablets

Generation Kill

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert, Bravo Company adopts a kitten!

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, 'I can't come.' 'That's because you lack technique.' And that's how Brad decided to teach Ray how to perform a superior hand job.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, Alone with the sunset and a radio

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, it's not love at first sight but it's something

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, Ray buys Brad a sword to live out those dragon slaying fantasies

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, Ray shows up in London to visit Brad while he's with the Royal Marines

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, Ray's the first one Brad tells about his discharge plans

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, the only one he wants to come home to

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, there are the true loves, the first loves, and the perfect loves. sometimes the right loves are even better.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, They got lobster in Afghanistan

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, vacation in Thailand

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person, Something (injury? Curse?) makes it so that Ray can't talk.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, 'Are you even legal? Do I have to check your id?'

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, 'I want to put in a formal complaint.' 'Person, what happened?' 'Brad doesn't let me sing country music and it's not fair.' 'For fuck's sake, Ray.'

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, 'Marines make due, Ray.' 'Not when lube is involved, not when my ass is involved.'

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Before deployment they all went out for a drink. A couple drinks and Nate needs to step out to take a breath of fresh air.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, competence is in short supply out in the sandbox and the LT having any is hot

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, competence kink

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, dress blues

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, medic!Nate and psychologist!Ray, how do they meet

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate can't lie for shit because of those eyes of his

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate gets Sk8r Boi stuck in his head and he knows he has Ray to thank for it

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate is a knight in shiny armor on a mission and Ray is the companion that never shuts up but gives good advice. Turns out that the prince to be saved was actually Ray

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate is one of the medics assigned to Bravo. Ray has an ill-disguised crush.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate steals Ray's 'we pimpin'' glasses

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate wants to see for himself what the hot plate did to Ray's face

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Personal feelings, sir.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Praise kink. In the aftermath of Iraq, Nate doesn't realize how badly he wants someone to tell him he's good until Ray straps him down and makes him take it.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Ray is the post discharge psychologist Nate ends up seeing. Things get complicated fast.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Ray works late nights (maybe as a paramedic or a police officer?) and gets home at 5am to find Nate had waited to go to bed with him, even though Ray had specifically told Nate not to do that. bonus points if it's a quarantine fic where ray's job requires he leaves the house for work and Nate's doesn't, and double bonus points if it's just soft Nate/ray :)

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, They accidentally keep in touch after they're both discharged.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, they develop a closer bond on the front lines than Ray expects after the first time laying eyes on their baby faced LT

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, They've made communicating with their eyes through the deadpan they give each other an art.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, you get your brains back when you leave the military

The Pacific

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, The famous Haldane luck really comes from Andy's ability to catch glimpses of the future. Sometimes days ahead, sometimes just a few seconds. It's a future he can change, if he knows what to do, but in wartime this ability starts to overwhelm him.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, The moustache growing competition on Guadalcanal.

THE PACIFIC, Bud 'Runner' Conley/Robert Leckie, On the hospital ship back to the US, Leckie is trying to be kind and supportive of Runner (because he was so badly shocked thinking he was dead?) Runner begins to worry if Leckie might not have gotten hit on the head harder than he thought, and just wants his asshole best friend back.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Alpha Snafu and omega Sledge together post-war. Sledge really wants Snafu to see him through a heat and wants to give Snafu a family. Snaf wants that more than anything but is worried he wouldn't be a good father and mate.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Modern Military AU

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Snaf buys Sledge a puppy.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Snafu carries a curse that makes everything he wishes for come true but in the worst possible way. Snafu keeps himself from hoping for anything good in his life, but accidentally wishes for something good for Sledge, then lives in terror of how his wish will be fulfilled.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Sometimes Snafu has odd ideas of courting gifts.

THE PACIFIC, Robert Leckie, five times Bob Leckie tried to troll the medical staff, and one time they got him back.

Colonel Kink's Memorial Prompts

BAND OF BROTHERS, Carwood Lipton/Ronald Speirs, Ron never in his life imagined that *Carwood* would be the one led away in handcuffs.

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, Floyd 'Tab' Talbert/Richard Winters, It's unbecoming to be so smitten with a man under your command, but Dick can't help it.

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, The Snow Queen Riff: set post war or in Austria: Dick is the one who gets the splinter in his eye, and Lew has to put himself back together long enough to figure out where Dick's gone and go bring him home.

GENERATION KILL, Brad 'Iceman' Colbert/Josh Ray Person, H/C after Ray goes face-to-face with the hot plate.

GENERATION KILL, Josh Ray Person/Nathaniel 'Nate' Fick, Nate pops some Ripped Fuel and it's Ray's job to unfuck this situation per Brad's orders.

THE PACIFIC, Andrew 'Ack-Ack' Haldane/Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones, Eddie is actually a merman (or a siren), and to stay on land rather than being forced to return to the sea by his people, he has to mate with a human.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton, Hockey AU.

THE PACIFIC, Eugene B. Sledge/Sidney Phillips, Sid eventually working up to a polyamorous relationship with the support of his wife where it's a sort of 'this is my husband Sid and his boyfriend, Gene' situation.

(These prompts are worth two points if filled before the newsletter goes live on 21 April)