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"you can't ship that, it'll never be canon!"

look, when I was your age, we shipped characters who never even met in canon. uphill. both ways. in the snow.

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mash + incorrect quotes (8)

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Yayyyyyy I've been REALLY meaning to use this image for a hot second and then FINALLY realized after talking with @serpercival & @ftmshepard that words from Chapter 3 of @remyfire 's fic Ease of Use would be SOOOOOOOO good & perfect. :3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/58160002/chapters/148084138 I've cried maaaaaany times rereading this and it for sure rewired a part of my brain WOOHOO. & oh to get to use a bit for my art yayayyayay

Below the read more I've tossed some earlier drafts (the white one is newer, the black one older & there's oooone with the original words I had.) I was REALLY convinced "There's something to be said here." was enough/not just placeholder but then I was talking abt Remy's thing and was like Im A Damn Fool I Know What's Missing LMAOOO so :3 yayyyyyyy weird art foreverrrr babeyyyyyy. also i make my stuff in canva which i say mostly bc it's funny. truly love to use software that. it's not designed For This. HEHE. I love to get into fist fights w the limitations of canva on the daily

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Obviously Sometimes You Hear the Bullet is the most important S1 episode in terms of setting the tone for the rest of the show, but I think that Ceasefire should be studied in political science courses. Because like... honestly, I think it might be the bravest episode MASH ever produced.

I don't really have a thesis statement or anything beyond uncollected thoughts, but listen:

In my opinion, Ceasefire is the most direct and timely political commentary the show ever made. Yes of course MASH uses Korea to talk about Vietnam, but the amount of time the show and the war actually overlapped is pretty brief. The last US combat troops left Vietnam four days after the final episode of season one aired. So season one was the show's diciest era, politically, and Ceasefire takes a targeted potshot directly at Richard Nixon.

In October of 1972, facing certain and overwhelming reelection as president, Nixon made a transparent ploy to boost his popularity even further by having Henry Kissinger announce that "peace is at hand" in Vietnam (Kissinger's choice of words, and Nixon was furious about it because everyone involved in the negotiations knew the negotiations were about to fall apart). Then, in December, Nixon secretly conducted the "Christmas bombing" campaign in which over 20,000 tons of bombs were dropped over North Vietnam. The Paris Peace Accords were signed in January 1973, with the exact same terms the US had proposed in October - aka, the bombing had accomplished nothing.

My dad, who was a long-haired college student in 1972, says that when he heard Kissinger say "peace is at hand" all he could feel was overwhelming disgust - it was so obviously designed to win Nixon re-election, and so obviously not true, that he didn't even feel a spark of hope. He just felt angry.

I think that Trapper in this episode represents people like my dad. I think Ceasefire offers the viewing audience a chance to sort of rage at the absurdity and pointlessness of the last few months of the Vietnam war. And I think that's really fucking brave considering that the head of CBS, William Paley, was being personally threatened by the Nixon White House to shut the hell up about Watergate.

To me, the fact that a show which had struggled ratings-wise for its entire first season, fought constantly against CBS's censors and higher-ups to be allowed to tackle more serious topics, and aired on a network being targeted by the men running the war it criticized chose to celebrate being renewed for another season with targeted (if veiled) political commentary is... kind of nuts. And I think Ceasefire stands as a message from the MASH creative team about what to expect from the next ten seasons: "fuck you, we're going to say what we want."

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Thinking about Daniel Pierce seeing his son again after the war

His son. His soft, loving, gentle son who left with stars in his eyes. His kind, fragile son who lit up every room. His baby boy who aged 11 years in 3.

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Thinking about Daniel Pierce seeing his son again after the war

His son. His soft, loving, gentle son who left with stars in his eyes. His kind, fragile son who lit up every room. His baby boy who aged 11 years in 3.

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[sidney voice] sigmund i just can't figure bj out. but i think he's secretly insane and i know he's got a big dick

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A popular artist suddenly made a trans man comic, and the viewers are not getting it

Being against a trans man's transition because you think it's too boring is transphobic, actually.

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i don't want boy pussy i want Man CUNT i want that pussy that's gonna grab my dick and shake it FIRM like a job interview

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I'm listening to her mashcast episode and emoting

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Everythings always about hawkeye with you

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Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss

…good morning.

…goodnight.

…goodbye.

…where it hurts.

…where it doesn’t hurt.

…on a falling tear.

…to shut them up.

…in secrecy.

…in public.

…desperately.

…in joy.

…in grief.

…discreetly.

…casually.

…passionately.

…lazily.

…to distract.

…as encouragement.

…for luck.

…on a scar.

…on a place of insecurity.

…in a rush of adrenaline.

…in relief.

…in danger.

…as a ‘yes’.

…as an apology.

…as a suggestion.

…as a lie.

…as a promise.

…as comfort.

…after a small rejection.

…to wake up.

…forcefully.

…to pretend.

…to gain something.

…to give up control.

…without a motive.

…because they’re running out of time.

…because time’s run out.

…because the world is ending.

…because the world is saved.

…out of pride.

…out of greed.

…out of lust.

…out of anger.

…out of envy or jealousy.

…out of spite.

…out of habit.

…out of necessity.

…out of love.

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The thing is that when it finally clicks for BJ Hunnicutt that there are actually no rules and you can do anything you want, everyone needs to get out of his way for their own safety. He's about to turn into a hurricane. Man who goes on a month-long bender where he ends up in a kinky polyamorous nudist commune smoking weed and milking cows while stoned and painting ceramics and having as much gay sex as possible in countless configurations and doing a lot of "Hey guys, watch this" which all end with him having very interesting scars to tell stories about later. And then one day he is going to wake up a little more sober than usual, think for about three seconds, say "Well, glad I got that out of my system," and then walk to Maine.

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It really is crazy how if you mention you write fanfiction with people outside fandom, they're always like "you should change the names and try to sell it." It misses the point (fun), but more importantly to me, I get slightly (and I know irrationally) insulted on a craft level. Excuse me, my fanfic is entwined with the canon, thank you very much. I wish sometimes less entwined. You wouldn't believe the stupid bullshit some of my fics have to include because of canon.

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its so easy to pander to me in fiction media. show me a guy that for some reason doesnt feel himself to be as human as most others are and i will sit with him for hours

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Because of course if he answers a question straightforwardly a shark will fall from the ceiling and eat him