#masters of the air ships

[suugrbunz]

I’m so excited to see your ship request open again and that you’re feeling well enough to be back from hiatus! I’d love to request a MotA ship if you could.

I was born and raised in Illinois in a small farmer/coal miner community so while I’m Midwestern, I sound Southern (and use words that make others cringe like crick instead of creek). I have a bachelors and masters in military history (concentration in world war one and did a dissertation over tunnel warfare) but work in the customer service realm because I love helping others above all.

Others describe me as bubbly, level-headed, positive, caring, deeply loyal, and outspoken when I see something wrong - even if it gets me in trouble (ie: Steve Rogers getting beat up for standing up for others). While I’m quick to stand my ground and fight for others, I don’t do the same for myself. I am told I have the patience of a saint in dealing with Karen’s or ridiculous people, but I grew up in an abusive home life so I try to be patient and give people the benefit of the doubt.. then when they’re gone, roll my eyes at a coworker and lighten the mood with a joke or two. Like any Midwesterner, I love talking and chatting with others whether it’s something lighthearted or serious.

I grew up playing baseball and watching it (go Cardinals and Brewers!). I love the sport itself but it holds a special place in my heart because it was the only time my Dad, sister, and myself could get away from any troubles we were facing as a family. When it’s not baseball season and I’m not with my friends, I’m out doing some photography for fun, taking a walk, reading a book, playing a video game, or watching a TV drama like One Day or Downton Abbey.

Thank you!!

hi! thanks for sending in the desc. for the ship!! 🫶🏼 I ship you withhhh...

☆ Ken Lemmons ☆

i feel like you two would meet at a farmer's market, idk why but it makes sense? maybe he works at the farmer's market, gives you a really good deal because he thinks you're cute.

cuteness discount.

i feel like he's very smiley around you when you've first met because he's feeling a tad bit shy but its ok he'll get used to that feeling

you two chat for a bit, he asks what your plans are for the produce you're buying, etc

its honestly just a really pleasant meeting and then finally he just asks if you'd want to go to the county fair with him, as date

and that's your date, pure fun.

he tries to win prizes for you

and some kids that were having a hard time winning a game

so now you and some kids have cute stuffed animals

absolute win for everyone— you're happy, kids are happy, and he's happy to be able to make everyone happy.

ooo and the fair food

i feel like he'd accidentally spill his soda on himself

he is a little bummed as he wore one of his favourite shirts on the date but tries to laugh it off for the time being

after the date...he does not kiss you as he believes it's a bit too early for that.

the first kiss happens about two months after dating

he initiated

its a timid kiss ‹𝟹

hes very gentle tbh

he isn't 100% sure about kissing but when you start to kiss back his heart just explodes with joy !!

Song for you two; Lavender Girl by Caamp :)

#mota ships #masters of the air ships

[cinnamonrollsledge]

Masters of the Air + Text Posts & Headlines Screencaps from @itstheheebiejeebies

#omg yikes i had the wrong like this whole time #masters of the air #hbo war #mota #buck cleven #gale cleven #john egan #bucky egan #rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal #buck x bucky #bucky x buck #MOTA text post #mota spoilers #masters of the air spoilers #mine #do they have a ship name? #creating a tag for these in case i end up making more #i always say i'm done and then i get more ideas so.... #I’m sorry about that badly injured man one 😭😭 #not trying to make light of the situation obvs #*link fuck I hate not being able to edit tags on mobile #mine: text post memes

[baberoe-archive]

how to be john egan

poem: how to be a dog by andrew kane / screencaps from @itstheheebiejeebies

#john egan #bucky egan #masters of the air #mota #buck x bucky #clegan #<- my endorsement of this ship name lol #long post #anyway this is what ive been working on sonce that joke post abt john egan being a dog toy. anyway. #egan

[lewis-winters]

anyway, gale cleven is trying to be the hand that feeds and comforts john egan, but since announcing that he's getting married to marge and effectively leaving john behind in all the ways that count, any tenderness from gale hurts more than it actually helps john, do you understand? so here john is, biting the hand that feeds and cares for him, either in an effort to recalibrate their relationship, reset their boundaries (you're getting married now, we need to stop acting like we're each others' first priority because that's going to fuck up your chances at being happy and my heart can't take it) or to make gale's abandonment of him happen faster (you need to be the one to rip the bandaid off, buck, because I sure can't).

but there is also a high chance he's doing it to be petty (why isn't this hurting you as much as it's hurting me, buck, huh? why aren't you hurting like me! i thought it was you and me until the end, buck, so why is my heart breaking on its own and you're fucking fine? fuck you).

(and the answer is gale isn't fine. none of this is fine to gale. he wants to keep them both, do you understand? he wants to live to go home to marge, and he wants john to live so gale could bring him home. gale wants them both, ok? in any capacity they both will allow. that's what he wants. he still hasn't understood why, yet, but he does. he just doesn't know how to fucking FIX IT.)

#masters of the air #mota #gale cleven #john egan #clegan #i still have no idea what the ship name is someone tell me #this isn't even meta this is just me rambling #just trying to make sense of it #estrella_marie

[panevanbuckley]

requested by @waitingforsols ▸ Harry Crosby & Joseph 'Bubbles' Payne in Masters of the Air

#masters of the air #mota #harry crosby #joseph payne #hbo war #userbbelcher #tvedit #cinematv #filmtvdaily #motaedit #mine #do i get bonus points?? 🥺 #i am OBSESSED with these two #do they have a ship name yet??! #crubbles #pasby #crayne

[spineless-lobster]

No because when Achilles said to Patroclus “If only the multitude of Trojans would die, and all the Greeks, and we alone, the two of us, survived the devastation, so we alone together could destroy the sacred crown of Troy.”

and when Egan said to Cleven “If this whole thing ended and there were only two pilots left up in the air… It’d be me and it’d be you, Buck.”

#DO YOU FUCKING GET IT???? DO YOU UNDERSTAND??????? #I DON’T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!! #HGMNGMHNGMHMH ME WHEN MY SHIPS ARE THE SAMEEEEEEE #AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #*throws a table across the room telepathically* #*glass shatters* *people start screaming* *I am biting and clawing the furniture* #mota #masters of the air #buck x bucky #john egan #gale cleven #the iliad #Achilles #patroclus #patrochilles #this will kill me one day I know it will

[kafka-ohdear]

"he said something like 'it should've been me and you getting married'."

callum turner i swear just admit you fell in love with austin butler and stop hurting me like this.

#help #i cannot stop talking about my mota ships #sorry 😔 #masters of the air #mota #callum turner #austin butler #clegan #buck² #buck & bucky #bucky egan #buck cleven

[johnslittlespoon]

thinking about curt always getting a little too smashed at pub nights and gale and john having to take turns carrying him back home bridal style or with him clinging to their fronts like a koala

but also thinking about john getting too sloshed one night and leaning on gale as the three of them walk back to the barracks, saying "how come y'guys never carry me home?" all indignant and offended and gale just laughs and is like "why don't you ask curt? maybe it's his turn to do the carrying."

curt ends up giving john a piggy back ride home with them veering back and forth on the path as curt stumbles and gale walks behind them with the fondest look on his face, watching his boys giggle and try to stay upright with john's long legs sticking out

and curt inevitably ends up taking a tumble into the dirt when john leans too far to one side in his laughter and the two of them land in a pile of tangled limbs, doing that kind of laughter where sound doesn't even come out bc they're just gasping for air

gale carries a camera around on base and he pulls it out to snap a picture of the two of them on their backs with tears of laughter in their eyes and he cherishes the picture forever and ever <3 the three of them look back on moments like that when shit gets stressful and overwhelming and they know they get to come back to each other at the end of every mission, and no matter where they are it feels like home because they are each other's home :')

#buck x bucky #curtbucky #curtgalejohn #i need a proper throuple ship name someone help i don't want the pressure of being the one to coin the name #masters of the air #mota #johnslittlespoon brainrot #curtbuckbucky

[precious-little-scoundrel]

Alright, allow me a word or two on this whole HARRY CROSBY weekend in Oxford situation. This is probably redundant in this wonderful fandom but I think many of us were bracing a little during it and I have thoughts….

1. Harry Crosby had a delightful way in his book of mentioning in the most admiring terms the different women he encountered while posted overseas, among them Subaltern Wingate. This ought to be less of an anomaly in the world than it is but yet, it’s remarkable all the same. Particularly during such a time period and it ought to be taken in the tone in which it seems to have been relayed. Now, that can be hard to transfer to the screen as audiences are often wired to see man+woman=sexual tension of any sort, that’s unfortunate but there it is. Add producer and the writer’s interpretation of it as well and you’ve got something even more skewed. And then, well, it’s wartime, it’s grief, it’s roommates, understanding and isolation from loved ones -and Anthony Boyle’s perpetual bedroom eyes as well -so it had me on edge at times about where the tone was gonna go. Altogether i am not mad or faulting anyone, I liked that nothing was suggested, what happened is what we saw. And I liked what we saw. You can read endless accounts of how wartime can feel a bit surreal sometimes and you’re given these pockets of moments with strangers that are sometimes more impactful than a lifetime with familiars -and I honestly think they caught that vibe well.

2. Now I’m getting analytical and probably making excuses for my fail of a kicked puppy husband who loves his wife but, hear me out:

:Croz’s time in Oxford starts with him delightedly reading the newest letter from his wife. that emotion remains until he reaches the end of the letter and her usual sign off, “say hi to Bubbles for me” -we see he’s promptly shattered and the letter is discarded. As is Jean and thoughts of her for the rest of the weekend. Writing back his beloved wife will require telling her of Payne’s death and in his recounting of stories to Alex. Westgate, there’s a very present tense to his reminiscence of Bubbles, which suggests that he has not fully processed it himself. Writing Jean back would be the finality he doesn’t want to except. So instead he has a new friend who gives him a reprieve, someone he can tell stories to without the shared history and grief that Jean will carry alongside him. Their histories are all too tangled. I see it as a sort of escaping mechanism, perhaps you could stretch it all the way into emotional infidelity as far as the show goes, but I think it’s less of indifference towards his wife and rather trying to put off the inevitable of hurting her and himself by writing that news. By the end of the episode he’s come back to earth, into reality, with a cold hard thump, having to get on with things. Legit telling jokes about death.

I think it’s interesting how they framed the episode in that way, and it’s perhaps an insight into what he psychologically was going through. anyway, I won’t be hanging out the “welcome home cheater” banner. 😭😆

#i already yelled all this at Ashley but I swear #i rarely pick up my baseball bat on here at all -much less preemptively!- but this one’s a little too neat and dear #we finally got ourselves a lady #an unattached and wonderful lady #i will burn all ships I’m swearing it now #Alexandra Wingate #harry crosby #masters of the air #mota #mota spoilers #motaedit #mota asks

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

my ships apparently really do make me like actors i didn't originally like very much

#yes this is abt tom cruise #but now its also abt Austin butler #bcs im a fucking clown #top gun #icemav #masters of the air #clegan #i gained another ship of gay pilots with one being played by an actor i don't really like and the other played by an actor i love #guess which two actors i actually liked in the first place #its val Kilmer and callum turner #🤡

[sig-nifier]

He takes the final step, lifts the lantern to flood the empty station with light, and sees a man laying on his stable floor.

He’s brunette, sweating, breathing unsteadily. There’s blood wiped messily on his forehead, down his neck. Half laying, half sitting up against the stack of haybales Buck keeps at the bottom of this station, he’s got one bloody hand pressed to his right thigh, which is caked with crimson. His other hand rests wearily on the Colt that’s tucked into the waistband of his pants.

Gale’s heart jumps, he wishes suddenly that he really did have a rifle, but when the man sees that Buck’s unarmed he raises the hand slowly, in a shaky surrender.

-

“You got a name?” Buck asks, in an attempt to distract.

The stranger swallows and takes a deep breath. “Bucky.”

Buck almost pauses in his work. He scoffs and shakes his head. “I’ll be damned.”

“Why’s that?”

“People call me Buck.”

Bucky huffs out a pained laugh, which quickly devolves into a groan. When he’s finished, he says, “Goddamn fate.”

-

The one where where stablehand Gale finds outlaw John “Bucky” Egan bleeding out in his stables.

the western masters of the air fic that nobody asked for. this is entirely self indulgent and i hope u all enjoy

#mota fic #mota #buck cleven #bucky egan #bucky x buck #john x gale #john egan #gale cleven #john bucky egan #gale buck cleven #masters of the air #masters of the air fic #ship fic #clegan

[suugrbunz]

ahhhhhh I need a mota ship please 🥹

i’m a total introverted, shy girl type when i meet someone and it’s so annoying bc once i’m out of my shell im like a total different person but it usually takes a persistent type of person to get me there. i love to read and study english lit, writing and poetry are just my favorite things ever. romance is just 😍🥰❤️ i love it. i could talk for hours about my favorite books or even movie adaptations especially if ive had a few drinks. im very girly and love having my nails/hair/make up done but in more of a muted neutral kind of way. i do feel like i have a secret adventurous side though, it just takes some time and comfort for her to show up. i used to date a guy with a motorcycle and going for rides made me realize maybe i have a secret adrenaline seeking side? ive realized there’s still a lot of me i have to learn lol. sometimes i think im boring or a bit of a priss but if im comfortable enough i feel like a normal person in their early 20s every once in a while 🥲

no you can't have a ship bugger off. joking. of course you can!! yk what all these mota ships have in common? ... Including me as the writer. We are all suckers for writing and romance.

︵‿୨Curtis Biddick��‿︵

Ima be real any man in the army air force definitely was naturally persistent and stubborn (and possibly arrogant)

I feel like you two would look so pretty together

like youre such a cute couple 𖹭

but because you have a shell people need to break through

...that means a friend introduced you two, that's the only logical way of this relationship coming about

he'll pay for your nails to be done

and if you paint them? he'll help you pay for nail polish because good quality nail polish isn't that cheap anymore

perhaps, you two first meet and he's just intrigued by you.

so he HAS to know more

absolutely has to.

so he'll be a quiet presence around you, making some small talk

because small talk can grow !!

it can become useful !!

the way he gets you to talk? books and their adaptations

he had to ask a friend of yours about what you love so he could get you to talk but

he did it

first date? a bookstore

he picks out a book for you

you pick out a book for him

praying that you get a good book

as for the adrenaline side?

definitely can handle that

you two can definitely do random things for the thrill of it together just because it'll help you wriggle out of the shell for a moment

I think that's the best part of the human experience doing something that makes you uncontrollably smile as pure joy fills your body

and that smile that you'll wear in that most is like the smile a kid wears when theyre in a candy shop.

so when he's able to get you to smile like that, he's so smitten

Which is how the first kiss occurs

it just sort of happens when you're in the midst of smiling

He presses this sweet kiss to your cheek and pulls you into a tender hug

he can't help it

when you're in love, things like that just sort of happen

He'll be there for you no matter the era of your life, he loves watching you discover yourself.

mwah love this dynamic

song ooo song ok

I think it'll be something light hearted but sentimental?

what about

with or without you by U2

That's a lovely song, I think?

#hbo war #masters of the air #masters of the air ships #curtis biddick

[dinozenkaiju]

Does anyone notice how calm Bucky looks after the war? Or I'm just going crazy over analyzing his character ^^"

So I think his time in the pow camp with Buck changed him, he is no longer as impulsive and reckless as before. First I think he learned some more self control bc the only reason he stayed at the pow camp was Gale, he wanted to run away in the beginning but Buck convinced him to stay and even if it was the hardest thing to do for Bucky he didn't run away. Bucky prefered to die instead of staying, but again Buck was his anchor so he waited with Buck and for Buck even if his mental state was bad. I'm guessing living so close to each other for such a long period of time makes you pick up some things from your buddy. Second thought is the scene with the celebration after the war we see everyone drinking, dancing and having some wild good time while Buck and Bucky are quatly sharing a drink outside like is that really John Egan? So uncharacteristic but so beautiful to see his character development. Look at his soft smile!

You can't tell me he didn't became a better person just so he can save Buck bc I'll cry!

#mota #masters of the air #buck x bucky #his calm happy face when they were flying back home. #i love ships where they fix each other

[avikats66]

Maki x Mina is canon to me, you will not change my mind.

#air master #anime ships #yuri #wlw #fandom ships

[lewis-winters]

john egan/gale cleven and winnix same same!! but different!! let me demonstrate!!

gale cleven: oh, you have an impertinent, hypercompetent, dark haired best friend who likes to party and have fun and inexplicably picked you out of a crowd of hundreds of other soldiers (despite your clashing principles and differing lifestyles) to have a weirdly co-dependent relationship with? huh, me too!

dick winters: haha yeah.

dick "in my mind lewis nixon and I are as good as married" winters: but you are being VERY weird about yours.

gale "I love him so much I cannot even remember what life was like before him; I also do not realize this" cleven: ... I am?

dick "been there done that" winters: wish I could say give it time... but you don't have the luxury of it right now, so

gale cleven: ... huh.

#winnix #gale cleven #dick winters #band of brothers #masters of the air #mota #fr what is the buckybuck ship name #anyway i havent had time to think of mota Deeply like i have bob so this is more first impressions rlly #but yeah #that

[ghostofadragon]

what the fuck were they feeding those show writers and can i please have some

#my artwork #masters of the air #clegan #<- i finally unearthed the ship tag name #i feel like the dialogue i chose undersells the levels of homosexuality going on here #i dont know why the fuck callum turner and austin butler decided to act their characters like that. but by god im glad they did