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MASTERS OF THE AIR + FACELESS 1st motaversary • week 2

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Seeing Richard Speight Jr on my tv in 2025 was a surprise. A good surprise, I've missed seeing that guy around!

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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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masters of the air part ix.

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Motaversary Week 1: Favorite pilot + Blue

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JOE RANTZ or JOHN EGAN requested by @ronsenthal

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Since I'm kinda planning on sticking around for a bit, I thought I'd do a quick little introduction for those of you who might be new here/don't know me/don't remember me.

I'm Roe, 28 (Jesus Christ I'm getting old), from grand ol' Sweden. I've been in the HBO War fandom since 2013 when I first watched the original shows. I met a bunch of the BoB guys in 2016 during a reunion, which was one of the coolest weekends of my life. I've been very vocal about my love for birds, and I've been a budgie owner since 2005. I still have five little cuties left, but they're all getting old and I'm not planning on getting any more. Mainly because I got a cat in October and he would love a bird for a snack (RIP).

Other than that? I love war history (obviously), and I've got a pretty nice little war and history library at this point. At the moment I've been reading more Swedish war history to make sense of what it was like here during WWII as a neutral (debatable) country. I just finished a book about the murder of the Swedish spy Ebba "Jane" Horney, which was interesting but a little dragged out towards the end.

Lmao anyway. Idk what the fandom is like these days, if there's any people left around here, but hey, feel free to reach out if you want and say hi!

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The Six Triple Eight (2024) dir. Tyler Perry

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when you sleep through a pivotal moment in history

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Meet the character

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love starting a war show they just throw 25 identical looking guys at u and then leave u too it. they don't even wish u good luck or nothing just. here have the lads. its like getting into a new kpop group

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2024 was one heck of a year, but hey, at least I started 2025 right by finally watching Masters of the Air! Literally can't believe it finally happened, I remember when it was just a whisper on the horizon. I watched Band of Brothers and The Pacific for the first time in like... 2013, and even at that point they were talking about it, but it just never happened.

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All right, I'm crawling back in to post some pictures from Melbourne and filming locations from The Pacific. Please note that A. these pictures are not great (Flinders Street and Flinders Street Station are really busy and it's hard to find somewhere to stop) and B. a LOT has changed since they shot here back in 2008/2009, so it was really hard identifying anything. If I hadn't found articles talking about how they closed down Flinders Street for like two days, I don't think I would have recognised much. They've built lots of modern buildings and such, and obviously it would look different in the show due to set dressing, camera angles and lighting and such.

Anyway, I'm putting the pictures under the cut for anyone that's interested, as well as any info on what they may have used that location for from my memory/comparing the few screencaps I've got saved (I don't have access to the Melbourne episode atm).

Okay, so this is like the one place I properly recognised right away from the show. This is right off Flinders Street Station (station on the left, street on the right), and where we see the boys eating ice cream in the show.

Flinders Street Station is pretty y'all, and very old time-y which I love! Hard to photograph because busy, and also most of the inside is modernised and/or closed off with ticket gates. But they totally shot here.

So this is Flinders Street, with the station and the area where they're eating ice cream on the left. I'm guessing this is where they filmed the tram scenes as well. They still do run some older-looking trams along Flinders Street, but idk if they're the same they used in the show. I was going to try and go on one, but I haven't gotten the chance to.

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I'm here, crawling out of my little hole to say that I am currently in Melbourne (in fact, I've been in Oz for almost 6 months y'all, it's been a wild year), so guess who's gonna look up filming locations for The Pacific and sob about walking the same ground as not only Robert Leckie, but also my boy James Badge Dale and the rest of the cast and crew?

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Not to be dramatic, but I haven't been on Tumblr in literal months and I’m only back to yell about Leckie, so there's that. I finally finished reading “Strong Men Armed”, written by the main dude himself, and his author’s note is one of the most iconic things I’ve ever read.

“[names of a major and other author] insists that there were no snipers riding the Japanese tanks annihilated in the D-Day attack at Peleliu. I have said there were, because I saw them and shot at them, as did many of my comrades. Major Hough’s authority was my own battalion commander, who was quite properly some distance behind the battle, whereas Mr. McMillan’s is a tank colonel who went over the battlefield after the fight was over. Certainly there were no snipers on the tanks by then; they’d been shot off or pulled down from their slings of camouflage netting.”

“[...] I have usually preferred the account of a man who has been in the battle to that of another who has not, even if that person happens to be the commander of the unit involved.”

Aka: Robert “I was there, fucking fight me” Leckie strikes again

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NELLIE in HEARTSTOPPER (2022-)

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Whenever a Band Of Brothers or The Pacific actor shows up in a different show, especially in newer ones, I always get really hyped.