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ANNOTATED MASTERLIST
You've all been waiting so patiently, and I'm glad to announce that it's finally time for the big reveal! Here is the annotated masterlist for this year's Rolling Remix, complete with author names and how's and why for's as to remixing choices where provided. The first fic on each track is the starter fic, and thus does not include a remix note. If you're curious about what your fellow participants guessed vis-à-vis authorship, I have unscreened the comments on this post for your perusal.
SOME SUNNY DAY
by
Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 2K+
“I, uh. I didn’t think I was going to see you again.”
“Yeah,” Nixon agreed, half-breathless. He staggered forward, just a step but it was something. “Yeah, neither did I. Is it - ” He stopped, shook his head, and it was as if that small motion shattered the shell around him because his whole body relaxed, mouth tilting up into a smirk on one side. His voice was low and fond when he spoke, almost awed. “What are you doing here, Dick?”
Dick shrugged, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning his hip against the sink. “Saving your ass, apparently.”
SINK LIKE A BIRD
by
Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 2K+
Dick’s heart skipped a beat when D’Angiolo, the radio operator, came to smoke him out during his night break and handed him the jotted down coordinates and details of the new salvage.
“Regatta,” D’Angiolo said, in a somber voice. “Isn’t that your friend’s ship?”
Torpedo attack, said the note. Engine exploded. Fuel tank afire.
Remix Notes: My remix of "Some Sunny Day" was a very straightforward translation of a tanker AU into a salvage ship AU. The story unfolds in pretty much the same way as the original one, with Dick being the "savior" who rescues Nix from a difficult situation. They have some history and they promise to meet again at the end. Some dialogues are actually (mis)quotes from the original fic.
GOT MY FLASH ON
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Joseph Liebgott/David Webster, 500+
Joe-Liebgott-goes-to-War adventure with a twist.
Remix Notes: My first idea was to write something about the German U-Boat that sank Lewis's boat. But I decided to have a more traditional approach and so I followed in the path of the previous story and put Easy men in different units.
The 17th of May was Liebgott's birthday, so I was in a Webgott mode and Webster was a journalist in the making and I had just watched a documentary on American journalism during ww2 (Passato e Presente st. 2018/2019 "Hollywood va alla guerra" su Raiplay) and so this little story was born.
ALL THE ROADS LEAD TO YOU (70S IN SPIRIT)
by
Carwood Lipton & Ronald Speirs, 2K+
Oh my god, they were newscasters.
Remix Notes: I was charmed by
TATTERED MEMORIALS AND SOLACE
by
Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 1K+
Everyone in Easy is out celebrating their release from the front. Everyone that is but Dick Winters. Nix makes it his job to ensure Dick doesn't forget to take a moment away from his duties.
Remix Notes: The fic I received from thrillingdetectivetales was a delightful AU and the image that stuck out the most in my mind was Dick behind the typewriter dealing with things he didn't want to deal with. I remembered that scene from Crossroads and off I went. Otherwise, I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a small enough idea to fit the word count limit.
WE DO IT, BECAUSE IT'S ALL THERE IS TO DO.
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Babe Heffron/Eugene Roe, 2K+
Babe doesn’t understand why he keeps doing this.
He’s wandering aimlessly through the destroyed streets, old buildings crumbling from bombs, bullets, fire, possibly other things. God knows what they’ve been through so far.
A part of him wonders what the place looked like, before the war. Before Hitler decided to have half of Europe for breakfast and force Babe to fly across half the globe in an airplane with no door to stop him from making the rest of it his lunch.
He tries not to think about it. Instead, he does what he doesn’t understand, and turns his boots towards the first aid station.
I'M GOING TO BE HERE 'TIL FOREVER (SO JUST CALL WHEN YOU'RE AROUND)
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Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, 1K+
Brad needs something more than lingering looks, fingers brushing over a map, the heavy silence that hangs between him and the Lieutenant, those green eyes burning into him like embers.
Remix Notes: In the fic i remixed, there was focus of the "why am I doing this" aspect of babe seeking out roe throughout the ruined city, that there's a want from the involved parties but still, duty holds everyone back form an actual relationship or fulfilling any of the wants they have.
there's also the "call me by my real name" thing, from both babe not wanting to be called heffron, and nate not wanting brad to call him captain after the paddle party.
i originally wasn't going to write brad/nate but their relationship fit really well into the prompt given and i really justwanted to go for it.
i did go for a less ambiguous ending though, just because i think brad and nate deserve some modicum of happiness.
AMERICAN DREAMING
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Joseph Liebgott/David Webster, 2K+
“Holy shit,” Joe said after he’d wrenched the damn door open, which was clearly not the greeting Webster had been hoping for, from the way his smile stiffened into a proper grimace. Joe blinked at him for a long, bewildered second and then offered by way of recovery, “You’re here.”
“I’m here,” Webster agreed. He swallowed, throat clenching and tongue darting out over the chapped pad of his bottom lip, and then added like he was afraid Joe might’ve forgotten, “You invited me.”
THE LOQUACIOUS MR. LIEBGOTT
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Joseph Liebgott/David Webster, 2K+
“What’s going on?” The man on the stage—was he wearing pajamas beneath his trench coat, David frowned—jutted an angry finger at the house. “I’ll fucking tell you what’s going on! My wife is schtupping the rabbi’s son!”
NO MATTER HOW NEAR YOU'LL BE (THE SAD AFFAIR REMIX)
by
Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 2K+
Four years after the war, Dick is still dragging Nix out of bars.
Remix Notes: I took Webster running into Liebgott making a drunken fool of himself in a dive bar in the village and turned it into Dick running into Nixon making a drunken fool of himself in a dive bar in the village. Elements carried over including the wife running off, public admission of homosexuality and somewhat bailing the drunken party out. Though of course Nix and Dick know each other and it's canon setting, whereas the fic I remixed was a first meeting set in a fusion of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the tone was very different.
TAKE A CHANCE ON ME
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Thomas Peacock/Edward Shames, 2K+
Back in England after Carentan the only thing Tom wanted was a nice weekend leave to spend in London away from everybody else, a nice hamburger and possibly the chance to forget his name during a long good screw.
Remix Notes: From the fic I received I decided to take the scene in which Dick arrives at the bar and watches Nix through the mirror behind the bar, seeing him flirt before Nix turns around and goes "Oh, hey!"
So I took the scene almost completely? And so there is Thomas entering the gay bar and seeing Ed through the mirror behind the bar, and he stops there, surprised and a little worried. Ed turns around, sees him and "Oh, hey!"
I thought it was really really obvious, I have to admit XD
A DOSE OF CIVILIZATION
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Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters, 2K+
That was just how Nix was, all grand gestures and big plans. He was forever inventing scenarios that played out in some dream of a future without war that Dick couldn't picture no matter how hard he tried. But he still listened in the lurching belly of a crowded troopship as Nix rambled about taking Dick to California, and when he promised a jaunt to Chicago as they paced the far end of an airfield.
They were fun stories to pass the time, and maybe that was all that Nix intended them to be. But they were easier to believe in before Dick spent a day wandering the streets of Paris, alone.
LOVESICK
by
Lewis Nixon & Harry Welsh, (Kitty Grogan/Harry Welsh, Lewis Nixon/Richard Winters) , 1K+
Harry doesn’t purposefully designate himself as the Easy Co. relationship expert, but it happens anyway.
Nix is a tough nut to crack compared to the others, but he eventually tells Harry what's bothering him.
PADDLING THE WINE-DARK SEA
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Elmo "Gunny" Haney & Edward "Hillbilly" Jones, (Andrew "Ack Ack" Haldane/Edward "Hillbilly" Jones) , 2K+
Even when it comes to affairs of the heart, which no one suspects that a life-long bachelor like Elmo would have, he's an untapped well of indispensable advice.
Remix Notes: I took Harry being the guy everyone goes to for advice convincing Nix that he has a chance after a botched kiss with Dick, and turned it into Gunny Haney being the one who gives advice whether anyone wants it or not convincing Eddie that he has a chance after a botched kiss with Andy. Elements carried over include previous examples of advice, and a suggestion to move the romance to somewhere actually romantic. Tone somewhat different, and of course they're in a boat.