[Discussion] The Battle of the Monday Blahs

[muccamukk]

Tec and I agreed that a weekly positivity thread might be fun, so here it is!

• Post about bits of canon you currently love/are thinking about.


• What random related facts delight you?


• Rec a fanwork you've recently discovered or revisited for the hundredth time.


• Actor just that damn pretty you have to share a pic or gif? Share one!

What's making you happy in HBO War Fandom this week, folks?

Comments

Recs

[muccamukk]

Lots of exciting stuff lately, but I would like to highlight:

SOMEONE (tearsandgold) MADE ME ANDY/EDDIE ICONS: find them here!

Also, I really enjoyed this Winter/Nixon fic that went up a few days ago:

In Between the Thin Air and the Unknown (5036 words) (Archive Locked)
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters
Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Unresolved Romantic Tension, First Kiss, Resolved Romantic Tension, Emotions Without Plot, Canon Era
Summary:

Nix in love and war

Re: Recs

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Those icons are so great~ I was drooling over them the other day.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

What’s making me happy in HBOWar fandom—and just in general—today is certified beautiful human Eion Bailey, our dearly beloved Private David K. Webster.

He’s so pretty:


Just so very, very pretty:


And, boy howdy, did he grow up nice:

[muccamukk]

Awww. I hadn't seen him in anything else, and he's got such nice eyes now. I'd love an AU where he and Lieb grow old together, while still occasionally trying to murder each other.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Omg yeeesss. That would be fun to do as a like, five times fic.

[sugardaddynixon]

Webster really heard "marry a nice jewish girl with big tiddies" and put in the work at the gym.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

😂😂

I arrive in San Francisco

hair: coiffed

religion: converted

tits: out

I am forcibly married to Joseph Liebgott

[arwen88]

Soooo! This week Alasse made for me an aesthetic set for my fic "Heaven out of Hell" and it's amazing! Honestly, I'm so glad she made something for Babe/Bill because there isn't as much content about them as I would like to XD

Here it is!!! Heaven out of Hell

Go and leave kudos to her, she's so good! (I'm sure we can manage to pull her into this fandom :DDD )

[thrillingdetectivetales]

That fic is very good and the moodboard she made for it is fantastic~

[muccamukk]

I really liked that fic, and the moodboard for it is excellent. I love it when people do art and graphics for fic!

[sugardaddynixon]

someone posted this to discord, and i too am grateful nix never got hurt

[muccamukk]

Subtle crush is subtle, Dick.

[sugardaddynixon]

Being a part of the BOB fandom and reading BOB fics has been such a positive experience for me in general. One of the reasons BOB really stuck with me is the Winters/Nixon relationship. For the past few years, I've been struggling with addictions (to xanax and ambien), and the character of Nixon really spoke to me. He was an alcoholic who didn't get better on the show, but he was still beloved by Winters, who I just saw as so pure and lovely.

Sometimes people with addictions aren't really ready to recover, and when they're in this sort of messy stage, they're portrayed as being toxic and having no real value. Like they're not worth loving. Winnix fic has been SUCH A DELIGHT because in most, Nix gets unconditional love by a pure and loving man.

The longfic that deals with these themes has emotionally gutted/but also uplifted me in ways that seem weird to say in comments on fics. It's weird to tell somebody that they helped you feel valid and worth loving, that's a bit too personal. So most of the time, I just say 'loved this!' or something. But they actually mean soooo much to me and I reread them a lot.

I've reread jouissant's series like 4 times last summer. The parts where Dick is going to Korea and Nix develops a relationship with his daughter especially. Recovery is super hard, so this unfinished fic I'm sure everyone has read really means a lot to me. The Earth Below My Feet series, which I believe is ongoing?, has also touched on these themes, and seems to touch on them more and more. And I've reread the post-war dreaming series a few times too. Nixon trying so hard to be the person that the man he loves needs is so inspiring?? Amazing happy ending, A+.

Anyway, I've never read any actual novels that deal with the theme of addictions while not vilifying the addict. So, thanks for providing this service for me, fandom!

(Also, I see this as positive, but maybe it's not?)

[muccamukk]

Hey, I think it's positive.

I found this fandom when I was majorly depressed a couple years ago, and reading and writing it, especially writing Post-War Dreaming and some of the other long fic REALLY was a balm for my soul. Like, something about these guys, I don't know man.

I id a lot more with Dick's repression, but it's sort of the same. Like that Babylon 5 Quote: "Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us."

[sugardaddynixon]

Seeing Nix, who has so many problems of his own, comfort and support Dick is kind of part of the theme that I love! Seeing a character that would normally be written in a different way, a much darker way, providing value and not just being toxic just gets me every time.

[scandalinbohemia]

That is a really sweet, really sharp observation. I agree 100% with everything you said and moreover with the importance of making that point come across in fiction.

And I'm proud and moved beyond words that my never-ending series (unfinished but ongoing!) resonated with you and/or helped in any way <3