He Ain’t Heavy. He’s My Brother

he’s like a beautiful wise owl to me

irl dick winters took one look at how damian lewis stared at ron livingston’s lips while lighting a cig in the opening scene and amended what he said about that man not being hot enough to play him. ​like ykw he may be a skinny ginger but that repressed longing and confused lust is period accurate.

Joe Toye’s second run-in with a grenade (Band of Brothers, 2001) // Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852)

Why did Dick offer to drive is it to show his gratitude or what

'you think he's a soldier like you and me? a fuckin' innocent german officer? where the hell have you been for the past three years?'

god, i wish lieb said that to winters.

i don't think web knew how just how tightly strung the nerve he hit when he said, 'major winters know about this?'

hearing damian lewis speak has ruined my night omg…king you are supposed to have a vaguely midwestern accent. you are dick winters. I feel like I’m listening to his weird British twin

I LOVE DICK!!!!!!!

dick being totally aware he's queer and having made his peace with it a long time ago but losing his fucking mind, screaming crying throwing up etc. at the fact that he's in love with his best friend, vs. nix thinking that loving dick is the most natural thing in the world but realizing with the utmost dread that it means he's queer. yay

david webster u so embarassinggggg. girl. van gogh was born in zundert you fucking idiot

face of a guy who remembers zundert

things from the 2001 television programme band of brothers that haunt me to this day:

- we’re paratroopers lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded. not to be your 60 year old military obsessed uncle about it but that line goes hard

- nix’s little giggle he does sometimes

- I’ll never forgive them for leaving gene’s medic training out of their training montage. in fact you know what? go back in time, film a parallel sequel of the other 9 eps from gene’s pov

- popeye’s “they called you guys too?” and the way his accent specifically scratches my brain

- they gave me moose heyliger and his massachusetts accent for like 20 minutes then the narrative snatched him away from me and i still miss him

- the way meehan looks at winters after he tells him to close the flap, in fact let’s talk about how every single one of winters’ commanders are obsessed with him in one way or another he truly is the it girl

- the chaos and fear that precedes gene and the calm and comfort that follows him

- I know everyone thinks “we’ll go to chicago, I’ll take you there” is the insane line but the one that actually makes me lose sleep is “what, and give up all this?” THAT MAN SAID I WOULD RATHER LIVE THROUGH THE HORRORS OF WAR THAN HAVE LIVED MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU

- alley is So Beautiful and I don’t think we collectively talk about it enough

- babe being some rando replacement in episode three and whilst his other replacement friends are being absolutely roasted he is immediately adopted by bill and then gets gene fucking roe of all people to connect to him?? he’s too powerful I need to study him

- speirs being this ghoulish terrifying boogeyman until lip is anywhere near him then he’s suddenly dimples and kicking his feet and giggling

- speaking of lip and speirs their little sarcastic in jokes, lip finishing speirs’ sentences fml it’s giving married

- you been working out? IN FRONT OF EVERYONE?? LIEB YOU SLUT?? THEN YOURE GONNA LAY IN HIS BED WAITING FOR HIM??? insane behaviour

- the unexplored but high potential friendships and the way I wanted like 16 more episodes for shifty and lip, nix and luz, nix and web, sisk and perconte, winters and gene, grant and tab, lieb and alley, speirs and harry, etc

- the more haggard and bitchy nix gets the hotter he gets. he also must be studied.

- “you should pack up those ears and go home” ok sobel kinda ate with that one ngl

- speaking of sobel the little confused/bewildered/piss-pants faces he makes david schwimmer the actor you are

- the silly little wide stance pennywise ass run hall does before he gets murked RIP king

- klepto speirs ilysm

- joe toye and his brass knuckles are v sexy

- sink letting nix give winters his oak leaves was very shipper girl of him

- lip harry nix speirs winters in the eagle’s nest dream blunt rotation

- the unsustainable amount of cunt served by nix, frank, babe, and luz at all times is truly a marvel

- tab really checked lip’s dick and balls mid battle and honestly that’s friendship

- bit parts for simon pegg, tom hardy, andrew scott, james mcavoy, michael fassbender, jimmy fallon ?? bob casting director you will always be famous

- peacock is so fine if he was even a little good at his job I’d be obsessed with him (special shout out to the scene of him getting sent home on furlough)

- I could list out every one of their meaningful little moments together but really it’s babe and gene just tethering and grounding each other and how they seem to gravitate to each other out of blind instinct? that’s some Brontë whatever our souls are made of bullshit I’m afraid

- ok I know I said I wasn’t talking about little meaningful moments but gene staring across the convent at where babe is sitting, lost in the peace

-bull in replacements getting imprinted on by a bunch of baby ducks and being SO PLEASED ABOUT IT he’s not the stepfather, he’s the father that stepped up

- speaking of, the underutilization of bull in the back half is such an out of character bad call

- you are officers, you are grown ups, you oughta know. HE’S RIGHT AND HE SHOULD SAY IT AND THAT’S ON GENE BEING THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO TELL OFF WINTERS

- I know nix and winters are married and whatever but the real married couple behaviour is luz constantly pissing off joe and joe immediately letting it go

- lip and speirs and their mutual competency kink

- I’M REAL SORRY FRANK skinny ilysm

harry third wheeling winnix: 😌✨wouldn’t wanna interrupt my two besties who make eye contact for waaaay too long ✨🌈 😮 oh! they wanna parachute into the pacific theater together? 😂😅 ahahaha classic dick and nix!! 🥰✨ kitty. 😀

skinny third wheeling webgott: i felt the touch of a beautiful woman once in bastogne and this is my payment? to be crushed between the proverbial immovable object and an unstoppable force, two warped mirrors reflecting each other? 🥴😵‍💫 woe is me. woe is me, lest my gunshot be the final word in their argument that does not seem to long for an end. 🚬💀

happy birthday lt. colonel dobie I guess. the face that launched a thousand winnix jealousy fics

u know what actually, thank god you’re all still into dead war vets who are allegedly fucking. it’s an honor rpf-ing a 23 year old show made for dads and uncles who salute the flag unironically.

​tom hanks we are in ur walls cornplating this show, wringing it down and screencapping to its last blurred pixel of a minor background character featured in a nondescript scene you’ve already forgotten you’ve filmed. every government website or sketchy war museum will become an unwilling collaborator to rpf. we are making every single soldier in this regiment kiss in half-destroyed billets, and give each other chaffing, shitty handjobs in a bastogne foxhole. no ground is sacred. every theater of war is fair play. no man will be spared from romance of debilitating degrees

me two months ago: see it's not technically rpf if it's the account of real life men as echoed through the mind palace of tom hanks and made physical by damien lewis and ron livingston, there's no disrespect involved, i'll just keep this for myself this is my own little hobby and i don't want anyone's grandchildren to ever read a word of this

me now: man, dick winters was gay.

OMG HE LOOKED AT HIS LIPS AHHHHHHH

me at 3 am: what if nixon doesn't like living on a farm?? what if he hates pennsylvania?? what if he wants to go on rich guy vacations on a whim and dick can't get away because it's harvest?? what if he wants to move to california and dick refuses??? what if they can't be happy??!!