2010 Big Bang Masterlist
Alphabetical Order by Title
Title: All we gotta do is be brave and be kind (baby, we'll be fine)
Author: kubis
Crafter 1: aubreyrose
Crafter 2: lunatics_word
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad/Nate, mostly; there's a mention of Ray/Walt once, Poke and Mike even get to speak and there are some original characters, too. Oh, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have a little scene together. ;)
Rating: R
Word Count: a little over 20k
Warnings: mentions and acts of homophobia; swearing, but it's nothing you haven't heard if you watched the series.
Summary: Senator Nathaniel Fick of Maryland decides to run for president in 2024 election. What happened before, what happens after and what Brad thinks about all of this.
Link to Fic: All we gotta do is be brave and be kind (baby, we'll be fine)
Link to Craft 1: aubreyrose's art is here
Link to Craft 2: lunatics_word's art is here
Title: and my glory shall be love
Author: lakeeffectgirl
Crafter 1: cala_jane
Crafter 2: freetodream5
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Nate Fick/Brad Colbert
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 26,500
Warnings: Minor character death, minor Nate/OFC mentions.
Summary: There is little that Agent Mike Wynn takes more seriously than the life of Vice President Nate Fick. When the number of death threats starts to climb, he calls in the one person he's sure he can trust, USMC Sgt. Brad Colbert, and assigns him the 24/7 task of being the Vice President's shadow.
Link to Fic: Here at AO3.
Link to Craft 1: Art
Link to Craft 2: Fanmix
Title: Been Here Before
Author: sidrin
Crafter 1: uniformly
Crafter 2: redangel618
Fandom: Band of Brothers and Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): David Webster/Joe Liebgott, hints of Nate Fick/Brad Colbert and Ray Person/Walt Hasser
Rating: R
Word Count: 37, 419
Warnings: Strong language, war related violence, and some sexual situations
Summary: David Webster is a Gulf War veteran, and a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, he brings all this as well as his relationship with Joe Liebgott to the Iraq War when he embeds with the Marines of First Recon and starts to see the same war happening all over again.
Link to Fic: Been Here Before
Link to Craft 1: Wonderful Title Graphic and Mini-Mix by uniformly can be found here
Link to Craft 2: Awesome Fanmix by redangel618 can be found here
Title: Colbert & Fick: The case in point(s)
Author: cala-jane
Crafter: freetodream5
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad/Nate, vague Ray/Walt, Poke(/Gina)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 22 636
Warnings: all I know about PD and procedures I learned from TV
Summary: Detective Brad Colbert meets ME Nate Fick on a Tuesday, and he doesn't hate him on sight. It goes from there.
Link to Fic: Masterpost
Link to Craft 1: Art here!
Link to Craft 2: Soundtrack here!
Title: A Devil Dog in Baggy Pants
Author:buffyaddict13
Crafter 1: fishandcheese
Crafter 2: buffyaddict13
Fandom: Generation Kill, Band of Brothers
Characters / Pairing: Gen, Josh Ray Person, Brad Colbert, Tony "Poke" Espera, William Dukeman, Skip Muck, Donald Malarkey, Eugene Roe, Joe Liebgott, Bill Guarnere, Richard Winters, Albert Blithe, George Luz, Frank Perconte
Rating: R
Word Count: ~ 31,800 total
Summary: Josh Ray Person is a US Marine. He thinks he knows what war is. He thinks he knows what friendship means. He thinks there’s no such as time travel. Ray is about to find out he’s wrong on all three counts.
Link to Fic: A Devil Dog in Baggy Pants
Link to Craft 1: Ray's photograph by fishandcheese
Link to Craft 2: Music Mix by buffyaddict13
Betas: rain_1975, entwinedangels, foofighter0234
Notes: Thank you so much for your beautiful art, fishandcheese. ♥
Title: A History of Summer
Author: newredshoes
Crafter 1: skew_whiff
Crafter 2: crediniaeth
Fandom: Band of Brothers (primary); The Pacific (secondary); A League of Their Own (fusion)
Character/Pairing(s): Large ensemble; Winters, Nixon, Christenson, Compton, Gordon, Guarnere, Heffron, Liebgott, Lipton, Luz, Malarkey, More, Muck, Perconte, Powers, Ramirez, Randleman, Roe, Sobel, Speirs, Talbert, Webster; Basilone, Conley, Haldane, Leckie, Philips, Rodriguez, Shelton, Sledge; cameos from these and other Spanks productions too; chart of paratrooper-Peach name changes
Rating: Gen, Teen (language, brief sexual content)
Word Count: 45,868
Warnings: It's the 1940s. People say and do things that we will not and should not like.
Summary: In 1943, Stanhope Nixon established the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. That summer four teams of fifteen women each dazzled the nation with their grace, their guts and their game. An oral history of the Rockford Peaches.
Link to Fic: A History of Summer
Link to Craft 1: Chapter art, baseball cards and header by skew_whiff
Link to Craft 2: Snap, Crackle, Pop: Fanmix by crediniaeth
Link to Craft 3: Bonus mix by eudaimon
&spades Thank you.
Title: Light up the trenches where my heart lies (until I can see again)
Author: noelia_g
Crafter 1: solookup
Crafter 2: komadreja
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, Walt Hasser/Ray Person
Rating: R
Word Count: 20,636
Warnings: language, sexual situations but no graphic sex.
Summary: Actors AU. Brad Colbert and Nate Fick had met on the set of a now cancelled sci-fi show, years ago. Now, Hollywood turns out to be a small town after all, and it’s hard to avoid someone you broke up with. Especially when you both sign up for the same movie.
Link to Fic: masterpost
Link to Craft 1: komadreja's art is embedded in the fic, and also here
Link to Craft 2: solookup's fanmix is here
Title: Like It Was Yesterday
Author: Kahtya Sofia ( kahtyasofia )
Crafter 1: xlickthespark
Crafter 2: eudaimon
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad/Nate, Person, Hasser, Espera, Kocher, Lovell, OMC’s, OFC’s
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 28,791
Warnings: Intense violence
Summary: In the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Brad and Nate lost touch. Years later, Brad is an experienced, jaded Staff Sergeant on yet another tour in Iraq. He wonders why and how he’d let Nate slip away, until circumstances with dark implications have Brad babysitting a civilian investigation.
Link to Fic: archived at AO3
Link to Craft 1: Sketch by xlickthespark
Link to Craft 2: Fanmix and artwork - Somewhere In The Memory - by eudaimon
Title: Love is Like a Lobotomy
Author: poutmeter
Crafter 1: jeanquirieplus
Crafter 2: xlickthespark
Fandom: Band of Brothers/The Pacific
Character/Pairing(s): Winnix, Webgott, Snafu/Sledge, Leckie/Hoosier, Basilone/Lena, Ack Ack/Hillbilly, Muck/Malarkey, Runner/Chuckler, Babe/Roe, Harry/Kitty, Leyden/De L'Eau, Phillips/Mary, one-sided Sledge/Phillips, past Basilone/Leckie, assorted cameos by pretty much everyone else
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 34,350
Warnings: Modern AU, Crossover, Slash, Bromance,
Summary: Webster writes porn--if only to make a living--and gets into a car wreck with a mouthy cabbie named Liebgott. His fellow writer of the non-porn kind, Leckie thinks the two have oddly interesting chemistry but he's too busy being ignored by Basilone, who has just returned from overseas and makes it a point to avoid Leckie to devote his time to his new girl, Lena.
Snafu, the new secretary at Nixon's (yes, the alcoholic one) shrink office, secretly crushes on his roommate, Sledge. Sledge doesn't notice because his friend Sid is his moving away and he's only got eyes for him. Leyden's not gay or anything but he's kind of pissed Snafu doesn't like him that way. Chuckler/Runner and Skip/Malark are champion matchmakers and plot for everyone.
Haldane and Winters kind of just watch over everyone and make sure no one dies.
All in all, it just goes to show love can make you into a fucking mess.
Link to Fic: poutmeter @ Love is Like a Lobotomy
Link to Craft 1: jeanquirieplus @ Art
Link to Craft 2: xlickthespark @ Fanmix
Title: Nothing Like A Fairytale
Author: archae_ology
Crafter 1: deerane
Crafter 2: uniformly
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Character/Pairing(s): Speirs/Webster, implied Winters/Nixon
Rating: NC-17
Word Count:24,063
Warnings: Violence and original character death
Summary: In a world where magic isn't fiction, but fact, David Webster has been taught to hide his heritage from the world for his entire life. When his secret is pushed into the open by Ronald Speirs it seems as if he has finally found someone who could understand exactly what it meant to hide but with a single gunshot wound that all changes. An insidious infection works its way through the core of his abilities and nearly takes his life, but in the end it leads to a path that he had never once expected to be on, one that is both terrifying and exhilarating at once with the end of the war being only the beginning of his future.
Link to Fic: Part One Part Two Part Three
Link to Craft 1: Art
Link to Craft 2: Fanmix
Title: Our Year Out of Time
Author: pjvilar
Crafter 1: Art by lunatics_word
Crafter 2: Fanmix by the_liftedlorax
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad/Nate, Tony/Gina, hint of Walt/Ray, Brad/OMC, mentions of Brad/OFC, Nate/OFC
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 40K
Warnings: (if applicable). Violence. Depiction of drug overdose. OC death. Sexual content. Mentions of excessive drinking, prostitution, drug dealing and drug use, as well as the usual cursing up a storm. Descriptions of protest and riot. Please note the canon material includes explicit racial and sexual discussions and slurs. This work contains the same. In many cases, those mentions reference canon. In others, they are meant only to aid in the depiction of the characters and in no way reflect the personal beliefs of the author. Generation Kill is a television miniseries from HBO based on a book by Evan Wright based on real life events. This is in no way meant to represent the real life people and the character depictions and canon material is, clearly, not mine.
Summary: The characters of Bravo 2 are brought together as young street kids in the broken-down, class-divided New York of the 1990s. Nate tries to get his found brothers -- Ray, Tony, Walt, Gabe, Mike and Doc -- out of a bad situation after a friend dies of an overdose. They found a new squat on Manhattan's Lower East Side and work to build it and get it to thrive. Brad is a runaway who has left military school under difficult circumstances and is brought into the fold. Conflict comes from former squat members, street dealers, the police, the government and a possible traitor in their midst. They work, fight, create and love each other through this war on the streets.
Link to Fic: Master Post is on my LJ here.
Link to Craft 1: The wonderful banner, icons and illustrations are embedded in the text and can also be found here
Link to Craft 2: The awesome, spot-on fanmix can be found here
Title: to a place inside where there is joy
Author: eudaimon
Fandom: Generation Kill, Band of Brothers, American Idiot, The Pacific.
Character/Pairing(s): Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, Joe Liebgott/David Webster, Tunny/Will, Leckie/Hoosier, John/Lena, Doc Bryan/OFC, Ray Person/OFC
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 20, 406
Summary: Brad has had a date written on a scrap of paper in his wallet for over a year and it's a date that he intends to keep. A journey myth of sorts - Brad sets out across America, pausing at various points across the way. What he can never really know is this: that he is not the first man who came home from the war to make this kind of journey. His path criss-crosses with those of three other men; Joe Liebgott who doesn't know where he's going, Tunny Clarke who doesn't really know who he is and Robert Leckie, who's struggling with what he needs to leave behind. It's a much a story about America as anything - a story about distance and how you live with it...a story about what it's like to come home and find a country that big waiting to be crossed. And nothing ever really changes.
Link to Fic: to a place inside where there is joy by eudaimon
Link to Craft 1: art by skyearth85
Link to Craft 2: mix by uniformly
Link to Craft 3: mix by newredshoes
Title: The Velveteen Soldier
Author:bookstorequeer
Crafter 1:flyingmachine
Crafter 2:crediniaeth
Fandom: Band of Brothers
Character/Pairing(s): Speirs-centric, Speirs/Lipton (brief references to possible Nixon/Winters)
Rating: R for war violence, violence, some sex, and homophobic slurs
Disclaimer: This never happened and I own no one. Written with the actors, not the real men in mind. No disrespect intended. To anyone.
Word Count: ~29,600
Warnings: war-violence, violence, death (war), character death (canon), character death (main character - old age/illness), homophobia, some smut
Summary:"Does it hurt?" asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
An exploration in Speirs. This is a look at the biggest bad-ass of Easy, from a young age living with his parents in Maine to old age living with his partner, Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton, in Montana. How did he go from being the quiet boy no one wanted on their baseball team in PE (even if he could run the bases faster than anyone else) to being the quiet foster father of four? From being a war hero and CO of Easy Company to being a handyman that all the women in the neighbourhood called upon? From being rumour-riddled and nightmare-haunted to being loved and care-worn? This is the story of how Ronald C. Speirs became Real.
Link to Fic: Masterpost
Link to Craft 1: Amazing art from flyingmachine
Link to Craft 2: Fantastic fanmix fromcrediniaeth
Title: Wild and Bereft an Assassin is Born
Author: passionofmind
Crafter 1: chemfishee
Crafter 2: sly_fuck
Fandom: Generation Kill
Character/Pairing(s): Brad/Nate, (Ray/Walt)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 20,900
Warnings: Adult Content, Violence, Minor Character Death
Summary: A GK Bourne Identity AU
Link to Fic: Wild and Bereft an Assassin is Born @ passionofmind
Link to Craft 1: Mix by chemfishee
Link to Craft 2: Art by sly_fuck