[Discussion] The Battle of the Monday Blahs

[muccamukk]

Before I go out and start shovelling snow, I thought I'd post our weekly round of positivity! Suggested topics include but are in no way limited to:

• 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

[kaasknot]

I'm writing a scene where Gene makes an AU redux of the Market Garden jump, so this image is stuck fast in my mind:

A less easy jump than Market Garden, lol, but the emotions are similar to the scene I'm writing

[muccamukk]

He is so serious and tiny!

[kaasknot]

His entire thought process during Uppottery/The Big Jump is--idek, I gotta know it! He's thinking such Serious Thoughts and I have to know them. One day I will write up some kind of thing about Gene & Dick's very clear rapport, but I don't fully grok it myself yet.

[muccamukk]

I would definitely read more about Gene and Dick's relationship. In a gen way. Should you decide to write that.

[kaasknot]

Oh yeah def in a gen way. I'm not an active winnix shipper, but only in the active emotional sense--like, I don't go into emotional fits for them like I do for other ships, but they're so obvious, their arc is so clear and devoted (potential miscommunications and flings with the redoubtable Col. Dobie aside, lol). And like... I don't like interrupting that. That's Inviolable.

But some kind of... quiet understanding between Gene and Dick is possible, like Dick doesn't have to maintain distance from Gene like he does with the other enlisted bc he won't have to potentially order Gene to his death--Gene's job description means plunging into death regardless of whether Dick orders it. And they have a similar quietness I think they'd find very restful to be around. Idk, like I said it's very much in the gelling stage, still trying to come together as an idea.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Such a handsome boy~

I'm very excited for this Market Garden redux!!!

[kaasknot]

Thanks! It's not so much about Market Garden, tho, like I'm not AUing the whole campaign, it just happens to be a single scene set during MG. Gene is sharing dreams with Babe because plot reasons, and there's a lot of calling back to/reduxing canon in them :)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Oooh! Shared dreams!! That's such a good trope and I am 10,000% here for it~ Especially in a BabeRoe! ;)

[kaasknot]

HOPEFULLY, if everything goes according to plan, it'll be ready for posting sometime between Feb 1 and Mar 1. And thanks, actually, I'll put "shared dreams" in the tag bundle, I didn't think of that as a trope ppl would search for

[slightlytookish]

Your fic sounds awesome! Count me in as another person really looking forward to the shared dreams :D

[kaasknot]

:DD No lie, they were some of my fave parts of the fic to write.

[arwen88]

I love Gene so much!!! In a both gen way and a ship way with Dick though.