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something so innately raw about falling in love during a war. like you’ve seen the worse in me yet you still want me. you’ve seen me cruel, cranky, outright mean but you’re still here. you’ve seen me breakdown and cry until i’m sobbing and heaving but you promise to never leave me. like you’ve seen the worse of me but still continue to love me and you will most likely never see the best of me ever again (that was left behind when i entered the war). you remind me that we’re in this together and that we can build another best of us together. and then i remember that you too are just as broken as me and that i still want you at your worse as well.

me when the trope is traumatized dark haired cajun boys and their emotional support new kid redheads. bonus points if one is named eugene and the other goes by a bizarre nickname

those three words / are said too much / they're not enough chasing cars x baberoe – requested by anon

Gene is me. I am Gene

genuinely fucking crazy how babe looks at gene in the foxhole scene because???? sorry if one of my friends said “bAaAbE” in a goofy ass voice and gave me THAT smile while I wrapped the bandana of my deceased situationship around his bleeding hand (I caused it) we would be exploring each others bodies immediately

love that masters of the air is convincing other people into watching the rest of hbo war and i love how everyone's losing their minds at 1) going my way/we'll go to chicago, i'll take you there; 2) the homoerotic bar scene; 3) hell it was you first sergeant and; 4) the whole of episode 6.

can't wait for everyone to get to the pacific and start crying over the train scene.

Misc BoB text posts

BoBWeek2023 ▸ day six || favourite dynamics

please don't give up. because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. ♡ LOST (2004-2010)

@hbowardaily secret santa 2023 merry christmas and happy holidays @jim-bones-spock!!

there’s something really poetic about how gene is a medic that saves other people but he needs someone to save him. the way gene was internalizing all of his pain and kept it all inside because he knew he needed to be strong for the other men and couldn’t lose his shit. the way babe notices this and refuses to let gene do this. babe starts getting food for him and starts looking out for him. and of course gene doesn’t want the attention at first, he can’t get close to anyone—he’s a medic. but babe is a stubborn bastard if anything and he’s persistent and he’s so so nice but then julian happens. and gene watches how the talkative and happy babe goes from that to something sadder and refuses to let that happen. gene knows he’ll do anything to put that smile back on his face, he gets him chocolate and makes sure he eats it. and then reńee dies but gene has babe now, and babe is there for him—he always will be. the way the both of them just wanna give give and give to each other and would do anything to help each other. the way they love each other with everything inside of them.

A small amount of baberoe textposts

babe/roe starting to tickle my interest, but I can't say I fully understand the dynamic yet. I get eugene's side. throughout the series and especially in bastogne we see how isolated eugene is from the other men because when shit hits the fan he has to be objective about their medical care and do what he needs to do. he can't buddy up with them because if they get hit and he loses them the blow will be too great and he can't work in those conditions. he meets renee who unlike the other guys of easy, besides spina, understands exactly what he's going through and how hard it is to treat these wounded men. he loses her, but maybe in knowing her he realizes he needs someone in his corner, that he can't completely distance himself, so he allows himself to get closer to babe

what I'd like to hear people's thoughts on is what babe gets out of his relationship with eugene. we see that babe is pretty integrated into easy even though he was a replacement because he has that connection with bill. we see him laughing and joking around with the guys and he's well-liked. is it just that he sees how gene is different from the other men and feels some sort of draw to him because he's mysterious and reserved? i.e. he calls babe edward/heffron when no one else calls him that. babe is obviously really torn up about julian and felt some sort of responsibility for saving him but couldn't get to him, so is it that he's feeling eugene's pain of losing men?

anyways, these probably aren't original thoughts by any means but I haven't been active in the fandom in this capacity even though I watched the show ten years ago so I'm still new to the fandom interpretations of these characters/their dynamics. television man.......

what if I held you while artillery and snow threatened to swallow us whole? what if I didn’t let go? what if my touch lingered a moment too long? what if the feeling is all that’s keeping me warm? what if we keep finding the same foxhole night after night? what if we stop pretending it’s a coincidence? what if you push my hand away when it’s finally brave enough to touch your cheek? what if you don’t? what if I whisper your name and every tree in this forest echoes it? what if for a moment I can press my lips to yours and imagine we are anywhere but here? what if the terror of what this means doesn’t seem to matter? what if this war never ends? what if it does?