historium | Entries tagged with topic: wwii

The last of these catch up posts! This one contains 2 ficlets and 1 fic for WWII-set fandoms. (They do also have something else in common, if someone's paying close attention. XD)

Shadow Trail (400 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Glorious 39 (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anne Keyes, Joseph Balcombe
Additional Tags: Community: no_true_pair, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Post-Canon, World War II, Spies & Secret Agents, Swearing, Community: 100_women
Summary: Anne catches sight of a figure out of an old nightmare.

Give Me A Smile I Can Keep For A While (2611 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wish Me Luck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colin Beale/Matty Firman
Characters: Colin Beale, Matty Firman
Additional Tags: Community: 100ships, Community: 100fandoms, Community: allbingo, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, World War II, Spies & Secret Agents, Reunions, Implied/Referenced Sex, Implied/Referenced Torture, Referenced Mental Breakdown, Scars, Kissing, Post-Season/Series 02, cross-class relationships
Summary: Matty and Colin collide again, just for a night.

Missing Pieces (1677 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Enigma (2001)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom Jericho/Hester Wallace
Characters: Wigram (Enigma 2001), Hester Wallace, Tom Jericho
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, World War II, mention of corpses, Community: 100fandoms, Community: 100ships, passing mental health slurs, (aka Mr Wigram being his own warning), Threats, Kissing, Community: allbingo, (post-canon but pre-the bookending post-war scenes), Community: 100_women
Summary: There's another body, and Mr Wigram is still looking for Claire - but perhaps Tom is finally looking for Hester...

sweetsorcery

kindreadspirits

This is a chat and fanworks community centred around making the most of the gay subtext abundant in a lot of vintage horror and classic ghost stories, namely of the Victorian through the Edwardian era and towards the middle of the 20th Century.

Another main purpose is to actually find the relevant stories within the plethora of horror fiction from the olden days, so a main focus of this community will be to let each other know what we simply must read/listen to at the first opportunity!

We write and gossip about gentlemen haunted by spooks and secret urges alike, so in the fashion of all the best gentlemen's clubs,

kindreadspirits is members-only. You must be 18 or older to become a member, as some content posted may well be explicit. (Please make sure your profile contains some kind of age statement.)

Chat is very much encouraged! Post about anything related to M/M slash potential in your favourite stories and novels - your chosen pairings and most beloved characters, quotes, and plot points. Post about authors you admire, ask for research or writing help, share interesting story finds and information, tell us about exchanges upon which we might want to descend, moan about your WIPs, ask for beta-readers, suggest challenges, post playlists or icons or mood boards you've made, etc.

sweetsorcery

Creator:

sweetsorcery
Title: The Day Before Genesis
Fandom: Thunder Rock (1942)
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count/size/length: 1,184
Characters/Pairings: David Charleston/Streeter
Notes/Warnings: Angst, Depression, Disillusion, WWII, mild blood
Summary: David wishes Streeter's last visit didn't mean anything, but something's changing inside him.

This was written for the current flash round of

bethefirst.
There's a link to an Internet Archive copy of this hard-to-find film in the story notes.

Link: The Day Before Genesis

thrillingdetectivetales

Hey guys! I wrote an introduction to/rec post for The Pacific, the HBO miniseries about U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theatre during WWII, as part of a challenge I'm participating in and thought some of y'all here might be interested.

It's over on my journal, per the requirements of the challenge! Let me know what you think!

thrillingdetectivetales

Hello

historium people!

I watched Fury, the 2014 flick about WWII tankers starring Brad Pitt, the other day and was delighted by surprise!Shia LaBeouf and so made a bunch of icons featuring him that I thought perhaps some of y'all might enjoy.

( I've put them behind a cut here so as not to clutter up the comm. )

I also wrote an incredibly vague review, for anyone that's interested, and welcome folks who are into this property (or basically any other WWII content) to hit me up! Always looking for more friends. :)

thrillingdetectivetales

Hi everyone! Starting Saturday, October 26th, you are invited to join HBOWar fandom community

heavyartillery to watch and discuss Band of Brothers, the iconic miniseries chronicling the exploits of Easy Company, an elite group of U.S. Army Paratroopers, from boot camp to the D-Day landings at Normandy and beyond. We hope to see you there!

For more information, please see the community announcement.

sailorkitty

Note: If anyone who has read this comic wants to weigh in with things that should go under ’content warning’, I’ll be happy to know.

Title: Peach Melba!
Author: SailorKitty
Fandom: Desert Peach
Historical Connection: Historical Fiction, WWII, Afrikan Campaign, Underground Comic.
Content Warning: Takes place on German Front during WWII, some characters display period attitudes to ethnicity and gender/sexuality. Out of ca 30 chapters, 3 deal directly with the Holocaust. 1-2 occurrences of graphic violence. Nazism is never portrayed in a positive light, but does feature. Erwin Rommel appears as a character. Swastikas. Rape via sex pollen in order to turn character straight (Treated as rape by the narrative).

( Only click this if you have read the warning. )

thrillingdetectivetales

Hi everyone!

I'm new to the community but I watched Twelve O'Clock High last night and was inspired to make some icons, and I figured some folks hereabouts might be interested. Feel free to use! Credit is nice, but it's not going to ruin my life if you forget.

( Icons behind the cut. Enjoy! )

(Mods, if I have done anything wrong re: posting, let me know!)

muccamukk

Title: Between Debarkation and Ice Cream
Fandom: Band of Brothers (Grogan/Welsh/Winters)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 9,600
Notes: Based on the Loose Lips Sink Ships prompt: "Harry Welsh/Kitty Grogan/Richard Winters, Dick is at loose ends after the war. Harry and Kitty help him find his way." Also written for Harry Welsh's birthday. He'd be 101.
Summary: Dick arrives back in New York at the end of the war feeling adrift and unsure of what to do with himself. Harry and Kitty have a few suggestions.

Title: A Friend in Need
Fandom: Band of Brothers (Lipton/Talbert)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 5,900
Notes: Based on a Loose Lips Sink Ships prompt. Thank you to

thrillingdetectivetales for beta reading. I cannot overemphasise how much this fic is about penis angst, if that's not your thing.
Summary: Carwood is having trouble feeling himself again after his injuries in Carentan. Tab decides to help out.

thisbluespirit

New BBC1 WWII drama, starting tomorrow:

"World on Fire Trailer - Sean Bean | Lesley Manville | Jonah Hauer-King - BBC Trailers" (Watch on YouTube)

muccamukk

Title: Take My Whole Life Too
Fandom: Band of Brothers (Nixon/Winters)
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 10,900
Notes: Based on the Loose Lips Sink Ships HBO War Prompt Meme prompt: "It turns out that the sum total of their combined knowledge of how to gay sex is zero." Check out the meme for more prompts. There is now also an opt in game component.
Summary: After spending the whole war pining, Dick finally confesses his feelings. The trouble is, he doesn't know what to do with Nix now that he has him.

looselipssinkships

Loose Lips Sink Ships is an ongoing HBO War fandom prompt meme, including content for Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Generation Kill, and actor RPF for all three shows. All characters, pairings, ratings and warnings are welcome.

To leave a prompt, fill a prompt, and find the fills masterlist, check out Loose Lips Sink Ships.

To discuss prompts, page a mod, and receive weekly updates of new prompts and fills, check out

looselipssinkships.

For the AO3 Collection, go to Loose Lips Sink Ships.

dimity_blue

I read this book last night.

Written by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, it's based on the true story of Mona's mother, Lisa Jura, who was sent at the age of 14, from her home in pre-war Vienna on the Kindertransport to England.

The book covers Lisa's years during the war. At first her concern was to find a sponser for her 12 year old sister, Sonia. Without a sponsor, Sonia couldn't board the Kindertransport for England.

Lisa stayed in London during the war. For most of it, she lived at a hostel in Willesden Lane for Kindertransport children. During the day, she worked at a factory which made uniforms for Britain's armed forces. In the evening, she studied music so she could become a concert pianist.

~~~

I really enjoyed the book. It depicts what life must have been like for those children, so far from home, who had no way to find out what was happening to their parents, siblings, and family who were trapped in Europe and unable to escape Hitler's grasp.

ljwrites

Les marguerites fleuriront ce soir (2156 words) by Lunatique
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: World War II RPF, 20th Century RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: virginia hall/paul goillot
Characters: Virginia Hall
Additional Tags: World War 2, French Resistance
Summary: When an Allied air drop goes wrong Virginia and her Maquis spend a much more exciting night than they had expected.

sailorkitty

Biggles Series by W. E. Johns

Time period: WWI-WWII-Cold War

Features: Boy's Own. Shell-shocked teenagers. British Royal Flying Corps during WWI. Found family flying planes and having adventures during WWII. Aeroplane adventures. Aeroplanes.

Why is this interesting?:

Aerial warfare in WWI was a madhouse. A pilot’s tenure averaged at around 17.5 airborne hours. Their machines were little more than wood, canvas, and engines. The RFC was nicknamed ‘Royal Flying Circus’, and the after-hours were spent drinking heavily.

James ‘Biggles’ Bigglesworth runs away from school to join up, and enters the squadron as a short, delicately-faced boy with girlish hands. He witnesses planes blowing up and friends being killed, and suffers perpetual PTSD. Most of it is in the background, but it -is- there: Just another reality of being a pilot. There are quite a few references to 'flying nerves', and the mental condition of the pilots do not go unremarked upon.

”He broke into a peal of nerve-jarring laughter which ended in something like a sob. 'Get me a drink somebody, please,' he pleaded. 'Lord! I am tired.”

He later finds a friend in Algy, his cousin who likes flowers(To the point where he shoots up a German flower-garden in an act of revenge), and an enemy in Erich Von Stalhein, a German who keeps popping up throughout the wars.

Most of the stories are either self-contained short stories, or longer boy's own adventures with spying and mysterious lands. The dogfight scenes are part of the main draw, as W. E. Johns was a pilot himself. This shines through in the action:

”Biggles knew it, too, and waited with the calculating patience of the experienced air fighter. He saw the earth, a whirling band of brown and yellow, floating up to meet him, and saw the first movement of the Pfalz's tail as the German pilot kicked on top rudder to pull out of the spin. With his right hand gripping the firing lever he levelled out, took the silver and blue machine in his sights, and as its nose came up, fired. The range was too close to miss. The stricken Pfalz reared high into the air like a rocketing pheasant as the pilot convulsively jerked the joystick into his stomach; it whipped over and down in a vicious engine stall, and plunged nose first into the earth. Biggles could hear the crash above the noise of his engine, and caught his breath as a cloud of dust rose high into the air.”

Later books dip into WWII and the cold war. The WWII books are considered to be ‘second best’ of the lot(And still very good books in their own right), while the cold war books are known for being less well-written and batshit crazy. But still entertaining.

Where do I find it?

Do the honourable thing and get a reprint. Red Fox has re-released all of the WWI-books in a format close to the original. You can also ask mum or dad for a copy from their attic, alternatively shell out five-hundred grand on the second-hand market. Be warned that these might have expletives and references to drinking taken out, leaving pilots risking their lives for cartons of ‘pre-war lemonade’.

thisbluespirit

A handful of stories I've written for the LWT series Enemy at the Door (1978-80), set in the Channel Islands during the Occupation in WWII, mostly involving Dr Martel & Major Richter, but also depressing minor character slash and an invasion of killer plants (um, yes, sorry).

Outcomes of War (5430 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Enemy at the Door (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Philip Martel & Dieter Richter, Ernst Freidel & Dieter Richter
Characters: Dieter Richter, Ernst Freidel, Philip Martel, Olive Martel
Additional Tags: War, World War II, Suicide, Execution, Starvation, Post-Series, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, 5 Times
Summary: "Whatever may be the abuse of man, that is the use of nature - first survive.” Three things that may have happened to Major Richter and two that definitely didn’t.

( The rest under here )

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thisbluespirit - Fic for Glorious 39, Wish Me Luck & Enigma
sweetsorcery - Community Promo: Kindread Spirits
sweetsorcery - fic "The Day Before Genesis" David Charleston/Streeter (t)
thrillingdetectivetales - The Pacific Promo Post!
thrillingdetectivetales - Fury (2014) icons!
thrillingdetectivetales - Band of Brothers rewatch starting this weekend! All are welcome!
sailorkitty - Fandom Promo: Desert Peach
thrillingdetectivetales - Twelve O'Clock High icons!
muccamukk - Two Band of Brothers Rarepair Fic
thisbluespirit - Upcoming Trailer: World on Fire
muccamukk - Fic: Take My Whole Life Too | Band of Brothers | Explicit
looselipssinkships - Loose Lips Sink Ships: An HBO War Fandom Prompt Meme
dimity_blue - Book: The Children of Willesden Lane (WW2)
ljwrites - Fic: World War II
sailorkitty - Fandom Rec - Biggles
thisbluespirit - Fic: several works for Enemy at the Door

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Fic for Glorious 39, Wish Me Luck & Enigma

Community Promo: Kindread Spirits

fic "The Day Before Genesis" David Charleston/Streeter (t)

The Pacific Promo Post!

Fury (2014) icons!

Band of Brothers rewatch starting this weekend! All are welcome!

Fandom Promo: Desert Peach

Twelve O'Clock High icons!

Two Band of Brothers Rarepair Fic

Upcoming Trailer: World on Fire

Fic: Take My Whole Life Too | Band of Brothers | Explicit

Loose Lips Sink Ships: An HBO War Fandom Prompt Meme

Book: The Children of Willesden Lane (WW2)

Fic: World War II

Fandom Rec - Biggles

Fic: several works for Enemy at the Door

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