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MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) Part 1 Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Michael Cudlitz as Denver "Bull" Randleman in BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) ↳ Part Four: Replacements

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THE PACIFIC • 15 YEARS ANNIVERSARY — DAY 4 | FACELESS

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Having an absolutely atrocious work week so far and it's only ✨ Wednesday ✨

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The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. - General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Order of the Day (1944)

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I don’t know how to explain it but I can’t get “trapped together in an airport/train station AU” out of my head. Now to decide if it’s for MoTA or BoB…. or a combo?????

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Hi Katie! How about ✈️ for the writing ask game? - @roccoparondi

Hi Battie! More Rosie and Grace coming right up!

On the way to his apartment, he takes her hand, and their shoulders bump together as they walk.

He smiles down at her, and she feels like she's sixteen years old again, coming home from her very first date with the first boy she ever thought she might be in love with.

It was nothing like this though, this warmth that fills her up from the soles of her feet all the way to the crown of her head.

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🌼 missing scenes & ✈️ missing scenes, please?

Hi Carola! Thanks for sending these!

🌼 - Bucky and Ellie missing scene:

Bucky watches from the doorway as Ellie stands in her childhood bedroom, her back to him.

The room is bare bones now - her photos off the dressing table, her things packed neatly away.

He can't see her face, but he has a moment of wondering if he's doing the right thing taking her away from everything she's ever known.

✈️ Rosie and Grace missing scene:

She watches him when she thinks he's not looking, but he always notices, can feel her eyes on him like a homing beacon.

He's grateful that she can tell when gatherings like this are becoming too much, when he needs a break even though he loves his family and has often thought of nothing more than being right back here with them.

It's Grace who makes the excuses, who gives them a reason to slip away into the cool Brooklyn night and go back to his apartment where they can sit quietly together, no words needed.

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Make Me Write!

I saw this going around and I desperately want to get back into writing again.

RULES: Send me an emoji corresponding to the WIP and I'll write three sentences per emoji and share it.

🫶🏻 Barren Soul - Kat and Speirs at the beginning of their relationship, sometime between Hagenau and the Eagle's Nest

🌼 Daisies & Love Letters - Bucky and Ellie, missing scenes or the prompt of your choice!

✈️ These Heartbeats Clear - Rosie and Grace, missing scenes or the prompt you'd like to see!

🔮 Mystery, secret 4th thing for a pairing or OC you'd like - though please look through who I've written for before, as that would be easiest for me to churn out!

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Postcards from Thorpe Abbotts — 7 May 2025

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A young female welder in Connecticut, c. 1943. Photo by Bernard Hoffman.

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JOHN "BUCKY" EGAN in MASTERS OF THE AIR PART TWO ↳ i'm gonna sing.

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writing? oh, i’m definitely writing. in my head. during the most inconvenient times. like in the shower or when i’m about to fall asleep. actual typing? no, no, we don’t do that here.

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Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO