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Cliff riders duck behind a waterfall in the Pololu Valley in Hawaii.

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mota racing AUs come so naturally because callum turner has that thick ass driver’s neck. that being said austin butler’s delicate slender swan neck does not have the integrity to withstand the g-forces in race cars so any AU where buck is driving anything but endurance is inaccurate. crew chief!buck forever a great plains boy is meant to wear a big ass headset and toss a tooth pick around from his seat on pit lane at talladega

edit: callum turner is too large for f1 cars. kill the f1 supremacist in your head if mota’s going racing it’s in nascar and MAYBE just MAYBE indycar

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keep reading if you dare....

african forest buffalo

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“I am sorry, I am sorry I have been so reckless with your life.”

easy company + ada limon’s ‘salvage’

hbo war + poetry 10/?

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okay i’ve been thinking about this post since i’ve saw it and yeah yeah mahalia is scar tissue all the way down and she’ll never heal right but like. she never stood a chance.

her five-year-old sister dies five months before she’s born so she was born as the skin that closed the wound of her parents’ grief. she was over the precipice in the womb and came out already healing at awkward angles. she has her sister’s name and her sister’s face and she’s never been herself. she’s only ever been her sister so yes she’s a ghost of herself! she’s a ghost of her sister who’s her and there was never a mahalia jane summerton born on her own birthday. she didn’t even have a name before she became the ghost of her forever kid sister! of course she’s hollow! the only things of inside her are things other people have put there.

every time someone calls her name, they’re not calling her. they’re calling a dead girl. and they love that dead girl so much. her grandmother loves that dead girl’s eyes and her mother loves her dead girl’s laugh and her father loves how fast she learned to read all of the dead girl books that the dead girl never got to start on. mahalia is the most loved thing she’s ever known and she doesn’t know if a single person knows her favorite color or what she wants to do when she grows up or that she got the highest score on her english assignment because her sister has all of those things. she’s only wearing a mask of her sister.

and she could never complain about it because her sister was such a sweet girl who accepted whatever was given to her like a perfect little lamb and she’s such a sweet girl. because she’s her sister. 

every time she’s tried to escape — rebellion, hair cuts, getting scars — she’s met with nothing but unconditional love and support. she’s just being a girl, she’s just growing up, and anyway her grades haven’t slipped and she’s never late for church and she’s such a sweet smart kind selfless independent easy humble child i mean high schooler and co-ed and pilot. forever carrying a five year old on her hip and she doesn’t know if that five year old is dead or her or both

would you guys be okay if i posted OC meta it’s okay if not i understand. writing OCs is one thing but analyzing them is insane behavior

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for @shoshiwrites

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would you guys be okay if i posted OC meta it’s okay if not i understand. writing OCs is one thing but analyzing them is insane behavior

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Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Anti-Elegy"

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The fact that Crosby's book actually says that makes MotA's avoidance so much worse oh my god you have one of your Main Guys literally verbatim saying it and you couldn't be bothered to actually try to explore that?????? Reference it as more than a throwaway at all?? Gross.

Re: this post, and here's the full quote (from chapter 28 of A Wing and a Prayer):

"To a degree, we learned to cope intellectually and emotionally with our life as destroyers. Some of us had trouble with our consciences. In long, late-night talks at the WAAF site, we discussed our ambivalent feelings about war, patriotism, and heroism. What was happening to us? Were we machines? Were we avengers? Had we adjusted too well to the humdrum business of winning the war?”

Yeah, I mean, you said it, anon. That's not the only time Crosby references that idea of destroyers/destruction, either (the epilogue in particular touches on it some more and suggests that he was not much closer, fifty years on, to satisfactorily resolving the issue in his own mind). It would certainly not have been inaccurate to include airmen wrestling with what they're being asked to do. As someone pointed out in the tags of that post, Crank brings it up once and gets shut down, which is framed in such a way as to suggest that his opposition is not widely shared and in fact perhaps he is in the wrong for not prioritizing brotherhood and the associated vengefulness.

The exclusion does feel intentional. It seems that, 25 years on from Band of Brothers, Hanks and Spielberg are still spinning the same nostalgic and idealistic yarn about the Great Men Who Won the War, without seeming to identify a need to explore deeper and extremely topical themes.

See also: in The Pacific they touch on Leckie's nihilism about war generally, but where is the heartbreak palpable in his memoir about the decision to drop the atomic bomb? Partial quote here, for ease of reference:

"And now to that Victim whose Sign rose above the world two thousand years ago, to be menaced now by that other sign now rising, I say a prayer of contrition. I, whom you have seen as irreverent and irreligious, now pray in the name of Chuckler and Hoosier and Runner, in the name of Smoothface, Gentlemen, Amish, and Oakstump, Ivy-League and Big-Picture, in the name of all those who suffered in the jungles and on the beaches, from Anzio to Normandy--and in the name of the immolated: of Texan, Rutherford, Chicken, Loudmouth, of the Artist and White-Man, Souvenirs and Racehorse, Dreadnought and Commando--of all these and the others, dear Father, forgive us for that awful cloud."

All to say there were tons of opportunities in hbowar to ask some harder questions! And I think that, in the current political/social climate, it is more obvious than ever that they did not do that, that this is a re-tread of the Hell Yeah America war show, and accordingly MotA feels surface-level to me in a way the others didn't.

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mota should’ve touched more on our main characters killing innocent civilians. loved that shit. when bucky was like idgaf let’s kill em I was like yes finally some good fucking food. and then they never brought it up again 😐

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still experimenting with the ✨retro✨ vibe

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Instagram.com/truenorthjewelry

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YOU AND HE AND SHE SHINE BLUE. IT IS UNFAIR TO EVERY HEART INVOLVED.