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-y’all, i decided to finally invest in a drawing app, instead of using a free one that drained all my battery with ads. so if anyone has any tips on how to use procreate PLEASE HELP ME. but here is my practice so far^

-ALSO. i would like to maybe start a taglist for my art but im afraid nobody will want to be on it. would anyone be interested in that?? pls let me know, it would make me so happy.

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Winnix moments that make me feral part 15/?

I really love the parallel and progression in these shots; the two of them drifting closer until they're side by side.

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It's my own piss, for Chrissake!

Untitled (Feb 1982)

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Re How many times Dick mentioned Nix in his memoir.

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This is the very bizarre thing I've been thinking about. Not only did they ride the train together to report to Toccoa, but they also ended up in the same company and the same platoon. They were in the same dorm too? How many of your classmates from OCS would experience such a low probability? I can't help but wonder if Nix pulled some strings to keep them together. What does that imply?

I must add something else: It is quite likely that it was Lew who proposed that they join the paratroopers. Setting aside Lew's vision and chivalric spirit, the original screenplay for Austria’s portrayal of Winters began like this: "It’s been three years since Lewis Nixon CONVINCED me to join the paratroopers." (This was also the intended opening for the entire TV series, which was originally designed in a reverse sequence.)  

Okay, why would the screenwriters write it this way? We always tend to think it should have been Winters inviting Nixon to join the paratrooper unit, but why do the screenwriters say it was Nixon who convinced Winters?

Probably because they knew it to be true—perhaps that's exactly how Winters told them! Remember the bacon sandwich? That wasn't made up on the spot; that came from the screenwriters calling Winters to ask what Nixon liked to eat at HQ, and Dick said, “Oh, a bacon sandwich!”

That’s how they scripted it.

Kind of fascinated by this little section in one of Dick’s books:

Our OCS class graduated on July 2, 1942 […] Following lunch at the officers club, we were free to go our own way, though few of us had actual assignments. Nixon was assigned duty at Fort Ord, California, and attached to the military police unit on post. With no immediate openings in the paratroopers, I returned to Camp Croft to train another contingent that had recently arrived. As an officer I didn’t last long at Croft: about five weeks to be exact, before receiving orders to report to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, at Camp Toombs, Georgia […] Following a brief leave, I arrived in Toccoa in mid-August. Disembarking from the Southern Railway train adjacent to the Toccoa Coffin Factory, Lewis Nixon and I were directed to board an army truck for “Camp Toombs” - Richard Winters and Cole C. Kingseed, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (2006)

Camp Croft is in South Carolina and Fort Ord is in California. I don’t know much about the USA rail system, or how involved the army would have been in coordinating their travel, but regardless of whether Dick was travelling from South Carolina or wherever he was on leave - how likely is it that they’d end up on the exact same train into Toccoa? Maybe something they’d either planned themselves, or they’d departed from the same place (maybe Nix had leave too?)- or a coincidental train/station reunion after five weeks apart? Who knows, but very sweet that he makes a point of highlighting that the two of them (and only the two of them?) arrived together anyway.

That detail I caught during the 600th time rewatching: when they both say bye to Jimmy Fallon, they're like perfectly synced, right? Nix drops a 'thanks' while Dick pats the car. It's as if they're just one person split into two bodies—Nix runs the brain and the words, and Dick's all about the moves. Yeah, they're literally one soul, and this is just one of the million little things they nail together in this universe.

Dick: People keep calling Nix a black cat.

Dick: He is not.

Dick: He is a raccoon that has been too socialized by people and now cannot be released back into the wild.

Lewis Nixon III you will always be babygirl to me