Hey, as long as he's a paratrooper.
I Carry All The Words You Wrote (Epilogue II - 1946)

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Shifty blinked untimely spots from his vision, and there, he could see her, right where he’d hoped she’d be. She was clutching a suitcase in one hand and flicking the bell on Popeye’s bike with the other. In the scar on her wrist and the skirt wafting about her calves and the way she ducked her face behind her hair, he saw her. She was here at last. To the end of his days, Shifty would remember that shaky breath she took as the moment the war had finally come to an end.

Or, Verity fulfills a promise.

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May I present to you: another IDOC epilogue, only on AO3. Overdue, perhaps, but I think worth publishing despite the two years (my gosh) it’s been since I finished In Defense of Chicanery. Thank you, and I do hope you enjoy.

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#in defense of chicanery#in defense of chicanery epilogue#fic epilogue#verity epilogue II: i carry all the words you wrote#verity/victor rich#eugene roe#(he's not actually in this one either but I promise eventually he will be lol)#shifty powers#popeye wynn#band of brothers
padawan-historian

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animentality

a wonderful ao3 author note

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wef1ght

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Roe lied with his hands.
 
"This will help."
"You’ll be fine."
"Just hold on."
 
He lied to keep their souls
inside their bodies
long enough
for the shelling to stop.
 
He poured life
into shattered vessels
with bandages
and boyish faith,
 
but sometimes
he stayed too long—
 
and the light left their eyes
while he whispered
one more
useless truth.

twicearoundthebend

Imagine going on a cross country trip to share the (mildly embarrassing) news with an adjacent king that your guards lost a prisoner, but when you get there- there’s actually a huge crowd of people who all get called into a massive Super Important Meeting. And the prisoner (who you thought wasn’t like That Big of a deal) gets brought up, and everyone’s talking about how great your kingdoms security is, and how important it is that he’s locked up, and you’re just sitting there sweating buckets. And you have to stand up in front of Everybody and tell them ‘actually he escaped and had been gone for months’. While everyone looks at you with the most disappointed faces you’ve ever seen. What a loser.

And Then you have to go on an even Longer trip with all of these people who’s first impression of you was some cringefail sweaty loser who can’t even keep track of one (1) guy.

No wonder Legolas was showing off every chance he got, he was trying to bring his reputation up from like -100

sesamenom

not only that but two of the guys at the meeting very famously escaped from your dungeon about fifty years ago. because you were busy partying.

depressed--and--underdressed

the rubber duck

stormy-blue-skies

For anyone curious what they mean by the rubber duck, rubber duck debugging is a tactic used by programmers to figure out bugs in the code. To do it, they explain the code, verbally, line by line, to the rubber duck until they find it. 

It’s also very useful for writers, and I’ve used it multiple times with rubber ducks, stuffed animals, and my friends.

brunhiddensmusings

“when i say it out loud i realize where the stupid was”

elidyce

I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve gone to someone and told them ‘I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my story, please let me explain it to you’ and that was all it took. Sometimes they ask helpful questions like ‘did you remember to feed them’ or ‘so is this all on the same day’ but other times I don’t even need that, it just figures itself out as soon as I try to explain it to someone else.

It’s one of my go-to pieces of writing advice. You’re stuck on your story? sit down and tell me/someone all about it. 

emperornero

having an oc you havent drawn / written about publicly yet that only exist as a concept is so funny. i have special access to this limited edition guy from my brain

andromeddog

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won’t you please tell me what we’ve learned

poetmayne

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my favorite Webgott moment is Liebgott hiding his smile inside the coffee mug after spreading false information just to make Webster look like a fool...

tillius-the-paladin

Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.

cynicalclassicist

Put this out about Luigi Mangione.

captain-price-unofficially

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Photojournalist Lee Miller in Paris, winter 1944

icaruspendragon

i love you fanfics with rabid intimacy. i love you long and intricate passages about lovers who love with such intensity they want to make a home in the bones of their beloved. i love you insatiable need to get impossibly closer. i love you winter love, cold and intense and all consuming. i love you inherent divinity of lovers who love with such ferocity they want to be the blood pumping in their beloveds veins.

aliciax3

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From Rick Gomez's personal collection

randlemartin

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skinny always has to bear witness to some shit

nicijones

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

awordwasthebeginning

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@bonsaibovine being absolutely correct in the tags

dreamtigress

Legit. Ask me anything you want to know about my fics.

dontirrigateme

Happy Toye Day

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SSGT Joe Toye, 14 Mar 1919 - 03 Sep 1995