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[EVENT] The Pacific 10th Anniversary Comment Fest

It was recently brought to my attention that I allowed the 10th anniversary of the air date of the first episode of The Pacific to slip by without comment. To mitigate my shame, and to celebrate what this series has meant to us all as a part of the HBO War oeuvre, Heavy Artillery will be running a 10th Anniversary Comment Fest from now until the air date of the final episode in the series, May 16th.

To participate, just drop a comment below with a prompt relating to The Pacific and eagerly await a fill from one of your HBO War fandom fellows. Think of it as a mini-meme, where the name of the game is short and sweet!

Every fill posted by May 16, 2020 will be added to a collection on AO3, if possible, and to a masterlist here on Heavy Artillery. As per always, if there are any questions you’re welcome to reach out to yours truly via Dreamwidth, Tumblr, or Discord for clarification.

Now, go! Go forth and flood the world with some Pacific Theatre goodness!

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Leckie/Runner - “peaches”

Sledge/Snafu - “summer”

Sledge/Leyden - “rough”

Andy/Eddie - “cards”

Andy/Eddie - Guitar

Leckie/Hooiser - Movie night (canon era)

Sledge/Sid - dancing together at the ball

Andy/Eddie - nightmares

Sledgefu - Puppy

Title: A Quiet Evening
Pairing/Characters: Andrew Haldane/Edward Jones
Word Count: 1000+
Warnings: None, it's just cute
Summary: A quiet evening in the rainy jungle is sometimes exactly what two weary Marines require.
Link: Read here on AO3!

Title: Meaning of the Hearts
Pairing/Characters: Andrew Haldane/Edward Jones
Word Count: 1,800
Warnings: FLUFF
Summary: A late night on Pavuvu with a bottle of whiskey and a deck of cards.

Eugene/Sid - First time he sees him in a uniform

Sledge/Snafu - Snafu accidentally gets his hands on Sledge's notebook

Andy/Eddie - Old wounds acting up (post-war)

Andy/Eddie - Boys don't cry

BY REQUEST ONLY
Andrew ‘Ack Ack’ Haldane/Edward ‘Hillbilly’ Jones
2K words, no warnings apply

Andy huffed a breath and turned his head just far enough to murmur, “S’at?”

“Hmm?” Eddie dragged his fingers up over the crown of Andy’s head and back down again.

Andy groaned, eyes rolling even though they were still closed, and sighed, “Y’r singin’.”

“Oh.” Eddie’s fingers stilled for a second and then he curled his hand into a self-conscious fist against the ball of Andy’s shoulder, brushing his knuckles up and down. “Ain’t nothing. Just a song I like.”

Here on AO3.

Edited 2020-04-19 06:32 (UTC)

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Title: At the Order of Myths Ball
Pairing/Characters: Sid/Eugene
Word Count: 1,600
Warnings: FLUFF
Summary: "I told Mary," Sid said, voice blurry with rum, "I told her, I said, 'I'll get Eugene Sledge on that dance floor if I haveta lead him myself!' and she said she'd like to see that, and here we are."

Edited 2020-05-15 21:10 (UTC)

Title: Promises to Keep
Pairing/Characters: Merriell "Snafu" Shelton/Eugene Sledge
Word Count: 1,249
Warnings: Some angst (but with a happy ending!)
Summary: The boys find a dog on Okinawa. Sledge wants to keep it.

LUCKY STRIKE MEANS GREAT TASTE
Bud "Runner" Conley/Robert Leckie
1.7K words, no major archive warnings apply

“Holdin’ up alright, there, Peaches?” Runner asked, voice low in deference to the sleeping Marines slumped across every surface, and brought a hand up to rest against Bob’s shoulders.

“Oh, sure.” Bob nodded as well as he could, folded over the water-slick taffrail like a sack doll. “Fit ‘s a - urp.” He pressed his mouth closed and squeezed his eyes shut, wrinkling his nose when the captured breath burned its way out. He stayed there for a long second, gut tight and nostrils stinging, then sighed, “Fiddle,” when he felt confident he was no longer about to lose the evening’s mess over the bow.

Here on AO3.

Edited 2020-05-16 22:55 (UTC)

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[EVENT] The Pacific 10th Anniversary Comment Fest

Andy/Eddie - A quiet evening

Eddie & Gunney Haney - Advice

Leckie/Runner - Last Cigarette