#tsog

and then “Who will love you now, Dumbledore?!”

major thanks to @wexhappyxfew for being my hype man ✨🥰

hello! i wanted to do a fun little thing today and make a few moodboards, show some songs i consider important for marley and her relationship between others, & just start prepping for reg. updates of the state of grace to start!!

as usual, any and all questions are welcome, either as an ask or through direct messaging! also, just let me know if you’d like to be placed on a taglist as updates/posts become more frequent :D

also, i figured i might as well make a “game” (not really HA) out of this, so if you’d like, you can ask for a track for marley, any of the boys, relationships between marley and the boys, or a certain location of easy’s route/point of their journey. (or, if you’re simply curious and have a question about anything, please send them my way!)

relationships can also include:

marley + any of her siblings (victor, cecil, jules, and eloise)

marley + her parents

any other relationship i might not have covered!

ROSE-COLORED BOY (by paramore)

– don malarkey/marley chevalier

“ just let me cry a little bit longer,

i ain’t gon’ smile if i don’t want to. ”

MY FRIEND (by hayley williams)

– eugene roe/marley chevalier

“ not a secret i can’t keep.

all of your good and your evil, well,

babe you can leave it with me. ”

THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (by the smiths)

– johnny martin/marley chevalier/bull randleman

“ oh, please don’t drop me home

because it’s not my home, it’s their home,

and i’m welcome no more. ”

COUNTING PATHS (by matthew and the atlas)

– joe liebgott/marley chevalier

“ i crossed a clearing yesterday,

somewhere that i recognized.

counted all the paths along the way. ”

THIS SONG HAS NO TITLE (by elton john)

– george luz/marley chevalier

“ tune me in to the wild side of life,

i’m an innocent young child, sharp as a knife. ”

CHLORINE (by twenty one pilots)

– ron speirs/marley chevalier

“ let me catch you up to speed.

i’ve been tested like the ends of a

Jean Innocent in Every Episode

𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺

► coming soon (...ish)

► will be posted to both wattpad & ao3 under roguesunday

Marley Chevalier, no matter how badly she wants to, has never been one to test the limits. With a passionate heart influenced by her father and her mother’s fixed expectations she knows she can never meet, her life has forever been in a state of limbo - one she isn’t sure she’ll ever be able to confidently leave. That is, until December 7th, 1941.

The frangible and unsuspecting way that she's lived her life is gone, replaced with two brothers being called for return to service and her small town turning upside down with fear and wartime rage. The new tenuous reality that is her home of Houma, Louisiana leads Marley to a choice that will test every limit she’d once been too afraid to push; she enlists.

Before the war, enlistment had meant steady jobs for her brothers and the Great War that had long since passed. Now, it means concealing her name in the desperate hope that she can help in any way she knows how. And as fate would have it, history changes its course when she is placed among the likes of everyday men who, too, are to rewrite what it means to be a soldier for the United States. Together, they make up Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.

And with these men, Marley realizes that to make it through the Hell that is war, she has to embrace the fact that her once careful way of life will never be hers to live again.

MARLEY CHEVALIER MOODBOARD

𝘪 '𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪 𝘢𝘮. 𝘪 '𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 '𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 - 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥. 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦?

━━━━ author’s message

ok wow. so this is a thing. prepare yourself for a long heartfelt spill in 3, 2, 1...

i’ve loved band of brothers for what’s felt like a lifetime, and i’ve lurked the bob tumblr fandom for a similar amount of time. i’ve never really made my presence known, nor have i contributed anything to this fandom (with the exception of a couple of joe liebgott memes, which i will continue to treasure because i’m a comedic genius. kinda. actually, not really, but that’s neither here nor there)

i’ve always felt some guilt in regards to that, because i’m someone who likes to give back to things/people that have helped me or have influenced me in some way. not only has band of brothers impacted my life more than i could ever express in a novel, let alone a tumblr post, the fandom itself has always been one of immense positivity (at least the little corners i’ve kept myself to), spectacular creativity, and one of just extreme talent in the forms of literature, graphics, and more. as someone who lacks confidence and is particularly insecure when it comes to self-expression, i never wanted to thoroughly delve into a story or plot in fear that i could never follow it through. plus, what has been contributed to this fandom has always intimidated me just because of the sheer talent that radiates from every piece.

i’ve sat with marley for over two years now. throughout that time, bits and pieces of her story or just things i wanted to see in a band of brothers fic would come to me, but i’d force myself to lock it away. a combat medic oc is nothing new to this fandom, and i always doubted and second-guessed my abilities to make this story something that stands out or something that someone would want to read. because there has always been a voice at the back of my head that asks me: who would want to read a story written by you?

and yet, here i am. because as time went on, i realized i didn’t want to write for someone else. i didn’t have to make this groundbreaking piece that would amass huge crowds because that is not what i want writing to be about for me. i wanted to write for myself and for my own happiness, and that in itself has been one of the most rewarding realizations i’ve ever had. 2020 and this school year has not only been a fat punch to the gut, but it’s been a reality check for me. i want to do things that make me happy, and by God, marley chevalier and the challenges i face when writing her story makes me happy. she’s been with me for two years, and i’m excited to share her with the rest of this fandom. and whether only two people or two hundred people get to meet her too, it’ll be worth it. 

it’s been a long road for me. if i could do things again, maybe i’d have committed to state of grace earlier. but i can’t regret the past, so all i can say is that i’m so excited for what the future holds for this story. 

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 —

tsog’s intro. + prologue is officially posted to both ao3 and wattpad! (both under @ roguesunday)