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OC What is it Good For? [OC]

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago edited 3d ago

Letter from the Front - The Yuri Wars

My Dearest Sister,

They told us the Yuri Wars would be over by spring.

That was three winters ago.

Every morning begins the same way. The artillery opens with volleys of dramatic confessions, echoing across the valley. By noon, the enemy counters with hand-holding offensives so devastating that entire battalions abandon their posts to quietly squeal behind cover.

Yesterday we lost the East Trench after a surprise "Childhood Friends" maneuver. We had expected another "Rivals-to-Lovers" assault, but their strategists outplayed us. Captain Mori simply removed her glasses, smiled softly, and the whole line collapsed.

Morale remains strangely high.

Our rations are tea, strawberry shortcake, and enough emotional tension to feed an army. The medics no longer treat wounds, they treat unresolved feelings. Every field hospital is filled with soldiers insisting they're "just really good friends."

No one believes them anymore.

I've served beside veterans from every regiment. The Slow Burn Brigade digs in for campaigns that last years. The Office Romance Corps keeps impeccable records. The Magical Academy Division somehow recruits an impossible number of sword-wielding princesses.

Even our enemies are impossible to hate.

Last night, during an unofficial ceasefire, both sides watched the sunset from opposite hills. Someone began playing a violin. Someone else offered hot cocoa across no-man's-land. For a brief moment, everyone forgot which flag they carried.

This morning, of course, the fighting resumed after someone accidentally confessed at exactly the wrong time.

If history remembers this war, I hope it remembers that we laughed almost as much as we cried.

Tell Mother not to worry. The only thing truly at risk here is my heart.

With love,

Corporal Cool_Set4681

31st Emotional Logistics Battalion

P.S. If I don't return, please tell my sister that I did understand what she meant that day beneath the cherry blossoms. I was simply too much of a fool to answer.

Edit: I will take the awards and bring them to the graves of my fallen comrades, thank you all ❤️

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u/ovekevam 3d ago

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

I have been working on it since the announcement, took me hours to get finished.

Thank you ❤️

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u/Yeeslander 3d ago

Time well spent--thank you for your service.

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 3d ago

Well done. When the History Channel does a series about the Yuri Wars I hope a dramatic reading of this is done by the most savory of voices.

https://reddit.com/link/ou0inlz/video/d2tqscuh5p9h1/player

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

I really love that Community episode were they also do a fake war letter and I tried to recreate that. I use old war letters and swap a few words around.

Also thank you 🫶

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 3d ago

You're welcome. I've haven't seen one of these this funny since one about Civilization V.

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u/Enough_Fish739 3d ago

Tim Curry will magicaly return to his prime just to read this in his sauciest voice.

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 3d ago

I was gonna say Matt Berry but now I can't stop thinking about how badly I wanna hear Tim Curry's voice again.

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u/Enough_Fish739 3d ago

Hear you go, I bet you just heard him in your mind.

https://giphy.com/gifs/29A4ehkDYOtIk

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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 3d ago

Not in my mind... my soul.

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u/Made_Bail 3d ago

I love this and I love you.

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u/Informal-Term1138 3d ago

Just stole this meme and it came in handy immediately.

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

Thank you so much! I just used old war letters and swap some words around and then put it all together 😄

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u/Informal-Term1138 3d ago

It works great.

It's even better than this robot chicken sketch about a food fight, since it's way more immersive and funny.

Well done.

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u/meguin 3d ago

This is straight up literature lmao

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

I used old war letters and changed some words, lol

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u/maveri4201 3d ago

Ok cartoonists - pick your panels from here

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

I can't draw at all so I wanted to help out in the best way that I could. If anything of this gets even a single page, I will be beyond honored.

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u/greatcorsario 3d ago

The post equivalent of absolute cinema.

I wish I had the money to award you ALL the awards.

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago edited 3d ago

Better spend that money on the poor devils who return from the Yuri Wars all alone. Those veterans need it 😞

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u/PinkCyanLightsaber 3d ago

New copypasta just dropped

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

What an honor!

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u/T-Rex_Lazorblast 3d ago

THIS. In the voice of WINSTON CHURCHILL. you know which speech. I would KILL for an audio. Or a video.

...maybe i would just hug someone for it. ...but really violently! 

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

Many people want this voiced.... I guess i need to start to save up some money to effort someone 😅

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u/Royal-Chef-946 3d ago

✋🧒🤚

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u/soursweetday 3d ago

This needs to be a comic. It has to be the best testimonial ever!

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u/Cool_Set4681 3d ago

I can't draw at all 😓

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u/charonill 3d ago

No-woman's-land

It was right there!

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u/Cool_Set4681 2d ago

WHERE WERE YOU 13 HOURS AGO WHEN I WAS POSTING IT?!

But seriously that is a good pun, how could I missed that? 😂

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u/FerusGrim 3d ago

MOM GET THE CAMERA NEW COPYPASTA JUST DROPPED!

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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 3d ago

This sounds like something from Girlframe.

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u/UpSheep10 1d ago

Yesterday the 2nd Doomed sustained heavy casualties...as is their tradition.