#nixon is god

[evidenceof]

"What do you think you'll do after this?" "We'll go to Chicago. I'll take you there."

Lewis Nixon and Dick Winters EP 1 Currahee, EP 10 Points | Band of Brothers (1/? GIF Set for Winnix Spot Dog edit)

[cinnamonrollsledge]

BAND OF BROTHERS: EPISODE ONE + my favorite closeup shots

[shelyue99]

really like the lighting in Crossroads, also, Dick looks so fresh in those shots

[antigonenikk]

not speirs looting all that shit because he had a newborn child back in london and was worried his wife wouldnt be able to survive on his salary alone………

[balladofthe101st]

nixon and dick's committment to each other is insane like, nixon doesn't, not ever, want to separate from dick. he doesn't see a life during or after the war without him so, he offers him a job at his family's company, and even signs up to jump with him in the pacific. then even though dick is always trying to set nixon straight, telling him to cut off his drinking and to not fuck up with regiment, he gifts him, just him, a cellar's worth of alcohol, ordering two of his soldiers to stand guard because he indulges, for once, in his drinking and wants nixon to be the first one there and get all the best drinks for himself before anyone else in the whole regiment can. they're insane. insane. insane

[staud]

guys named harry simping over their wives | bofb ep 3 & mota pt 2 ↳ requested by @paratrooper56 🤍

[atomicradiogirl]

band of brothers (2001) part 5 - ‘crossroads’ dir. tom hanks

[yourdadsbasement]

yeah you didn’t need to tell us, bro

baby. baby boy

honestly as an aries mars i get this

i mean you had to have expected that guys he tried to steal a trophy from an eight year old

Nixon??? are we doing Nixon???

[pookielious]

Eyes don't lie ! Pt 2

[lewis-winters]

"what happens when the only person you want to go back home to is on the frontlines with you" took me OUT big time 🥺 it's also SO winnix. just like kitty is harry's only family, dick is lew's. and they're both out there together or going home together, there is no in between (aka "was thinking i'd drag you with me" and "i can't let him go by himself. he doesn't know where it is")

(here's a sneaky lil plug of the excerpt of the Harry/Kitty Kitty-On-The-Frontlines AU for those wondering! I've revisted it after reading the Welsh files and now it's all I think about)

You get it!! They literally have nobody but each other!! Lew has no one who loves him back home like this! Dick has never loved anyone else like this, how could he ever want anyone else? And they're both forced to deal with the fact that, unlike straight couples, they both have an equal chance of dying!! How fucked up is that!!

Furthermore! There's that extra layer of their very existence and love for each being basically illegal!!

I mean. Outside of being queer myself, that's the other thing that really snags my attention when it comes to queer love stories in this era, ya know? Like. Though the military definitely promotes homosocial behavior-- that is, male bonding and brotherhood, they still very much punishes homosexual behavior and relationships. What, then, does that mean for the queer men who find each other in the service, and who, in a time of suffering and strife, find something as fragile and beautiful as romantic love for another man? Your fellow soldier? Who is on the same front line as you? Who has just as much chance of dying by the same guns and bayonets and mortars as you?

And who, if he does, you are NOT allowed to mourn, lest your whole life be ruined? That's a different kind of grief, I think. One I think about a lot.

There's a musical called The Bandstand about a group of veterans and one war widow who come together to form a jazz band. Every one has lost someone or something in the war, and every one gets a chance to talk about what they've lost, what traumatized them. Except for the one queer coded character, who is only ever IMPLIED to have lost someone and refuses to ever talk about who he lost because if he does! he will!!!!! get arrested!!!!! he will be punished for his grief!!!!!!!! so all he can do is have a jazz saxophone solo during the climax of act 2 where he pours all his grief, and we as an audience are left aching with all the things he is NOT saying.

They're not allowed to be a family on the frontline. They're not allowed to be a family when they go back home. And yet they persist, they continue to love each other. Even if it guarantees death, both via guns, mortar, or bayonet, or the social death of getting found out!!!!

How fucked up is that?!!

[evidenceof]

really wish i could be like those men on the band of brothers sub reddit who can look at nix and dick and just literally go, 'those guys were hetero-life-mates.' instead of literally turning over every line dick has ever said about nixon, anything easy has ever said about dick and nixon. like i'm being paid to close read all the different ways that incident of nix getting hit and nearly killed south of vechel is recounted by dick in his memoirs.

or how in one memoir he recounts running down the stairs of the church belfry and laughing hysterically with nixon by the time they hit the landing. but never mentions that glee in the two other books.

this line, “he would not take this kind of behavior from any other man and was not sure why he tolerated it from nixon.”

dick saying, “on reflection, nixon always seemed to be around.” a thought checked and signed off by col. sink who says about nix, “hell, every time i need him he’s always here with you anyway. he may as well stay.” he may as well stay, dick. you may as well keep him.

how literally the prefix of "my friend" is only ever attached to lewis nixon, deetta. my friend lewis nixon. my friend deetta. normal thoughts. normal ruminations.

[cinnamonrollsledge]

Inspired by this

[dieinct]

what will it take to break my otherwise liberal father of the yoke of thinking david brooks has something to say

[ncr-psyop]

this man has been living in my head for the past week. i see him when i eat. when i sleep. repeat. PLEASE GET OUT OF MY HEAD, LEWIS (i actually don't mind, he can stay)

bonus:

[balladofthe101st]

sobel hated winters not because he was jealous of his skills and capability as a leader but because he loved nixon is my new headcanon

[presidentconfessions]

"I hate everything Richard Nixon stood for, but he was so cute when he was young and I just know he'd make the perfect submissive. He was so uptight and repressed but I think deep down he wanted someone to dominate and degrade him. I'd love to tease congressman era Nixon until he's on the verge of tears and begging me to call him a good boy :)"