#impalachick

Thanks for the tag @impalachick 💚💚 From my hangster wip where the boys will roleplay Jake as a virgin that one day will see the light and be finished.

Pushing off, he padded quietly until he could press himself along Bradley’s back, left arm sliding around his waist. He presses his grin into his shoulder when he feels Bradley jump at his sudden presence behind him. “Hi, honey.”

An eternal hit 🥹

HERE COMES TWINKLE TOES!!!!!!! ROSIE MY BEST BELOVED:

he hums! he dances! he re-ups because he cannot, in good conscience, leave this war to men who don't know what kind of hell they'll face up there! he shouts random words—americanski! coca-cola! lucky strike! roosevelt, churchill, stalin!—at soviet troops to convince them he's an american pilot and it works! he goes on to meet his future wife while he's on the way to prosecute nazi war criminals! who else! is doing it! like rosie!

your honor, i would die for this man except he simply would not let me 💜

thanks so much!

mota asks

12. is there a part of the show you usually skip?

i answered this already but all the harry/sandra sexy scenes when i get up to them in my rewatch lmao. not about that. to be honest i'll probably also close my eyes when curt dies ;_;

14. rank your order of war shows?

band of brothers > the pacific > masters of the air > generation kill. i think. i haven't done a full rewatch of mota and i haven't rewatched gk for a long time. i think that's how they shake out though!

15. do you have a comfort character?

i don't know if bucky counts because like. he makes me so so sick. him or MEATBALL MY BELOVED!

28. this show wasn’t produced or made in partner with HBO. do you feel there was a difference in production? if so, did it make it better or worse?

Oooh fun!! These are great~ I’ll go ahead and do ‘em both up for you. Let’s go in order, with Nix up first!

How I feel about this character: I love a quality sarcastic asshole and Nix is top of the line. I think his perspective on the events of Band of Brothers is probably really interesting and I would love to know more about what he actually thought. Part of why I find the character interesting is because he’s built out of other people’s opinions of what he’s like in a lot of ways and that’s totally fascinating to me.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Sticking to series here rather than actual RL canon but Dick Winters, obviously. Colonel Dobie, who deserves some actual in-fic loving for once, and I really like the sort of hatefucking dynamic he has with Buck Compton.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I’m very enamored of Nix and Dick’s friendship and I honestly really like him in the capacity of straight wingman to Dick. It’s a trope I’d love to try someday.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Um, I think Nix is mean and selfish. It’s part of why I like his character, so that’s not an indictment or anything but as fandom opinions go I don’t tend to vibe with Nix being a secret woobie romantic. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, YKINMKATO and what have you. I do think he shows affection in his own ways but I don’t think he’s the lovey-dovey type.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish we’d gotten to see the degradation of Nix’s confidence up to Why We Fight. Like, his POV episode comes out of nowhere and he’s breaking under this pressure (and doing it so beautifully, truly) but we don’t even get a slow indication in the backs of scenes from other episodes that it’s happening. I also wish we’d seen him interacting with the men more.

And now, onward to Brad!

How I feel about this character: Brad as portrayed in the series is the kind of brooding, stoic type that I think is interesting to watch but doesn’t appeal much to me to explore as a writer. I’ve had my fill of guys who don’t believe in love because of a bad breakup needing to be artfully coaxed through their manpain.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: While I can see the potential for the more popular Brad ships and am content to read a well-written fic that explores them, I don’t have the strong desire to romantically attach Brad to anyone, really.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I was a little torn on this one, because I do love the moments where we get to see Brad’s genuine respect and affection for Nate but Brad and Ray’s bromance is just so beautiful. It’s the kind of honest male friendship I feel like I don’t see on-screen that often and it strikes such a chord with me.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Honestly probably most of the opinions I’ve expressed about him so far.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish they’d explored Brad’s character more overall. He has some really beautiful moments but it’s like the writers took the ‘Iceman’ callsign and were like “That’s it! That’s all of his personality! Enjoy!” Even with the one scene we get where Brad loosens up, so to speak, it’s like there are these little tiny flashes of a fully rendered human person that come through in certain moments, and Skarsgard does such a good job with them, and I wish we’d gotten to see Brad either before his Iceman face got put on or after he was able to take it off for awhile.

Is that you in the picture?

Yes. But to be completely fair, this is also me: