#Aarfy catch 22

[hyperbolicfixations]

Imagine everyone dying and your bestie leaving so now it's just you and Aarfy. Like I know Yossarian came back but damn that must've been awkward. I remember Watching the show and praying for him 💔

[audiemurphy1945]

Thousands of tiny bits of white paper were falling like snowflakes inside the plane, milling around his head so thickly that they clung to his eyelashes when he blinked in astonishment and fluttered against his nostrils and lips each time he inhaled. When he spun around in his bewilderment, Aarfy was grinning proudly from ear to ear like something inhuman as he held up a shattered paper map for Yossarian to see. A large chunk of flak had ripped up from the floor through Aarfy’s colossal jumble of maps and had ripped out through the ceiling inches away from their heads. Aarfy’s joy was sublime. "Will you look at this?" he murmured, waggling two of his stubby fingers playfully into Yossarian’s face through the hole in one of his maps. "Will you look at this?" Yossarian was dumbfounded by his state of rapturous contentment. Aarfy was like an eerie ogre in a dream, incapable of being bruised or evaded, and Yossarian dreaded him for a complex of reasons he was too petrified to untangle.

- Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I feel like Aarfy in Catch-22 is the modern codifier of the specific storytelling beat that is something that has been funny suddenly not being even a little funny anymore, all at once. laughter dying in the throat and replaced with sickness, sorta thing.

Yes, exactly this anon, thank you. Aarfy is a joke. He's annoying and all the other men hate him because of his pointless and often frustrating ideas of chivalry. Sometimes he makes the audience snort and sometimes he makes us roll our eyes but he's never especially remarkable.

Until he is.

And then suddenly everything else he's said and done is put in an entirely different light and Aarfy stops being funny.

[meteorologears]

4 your recent reblog, catch-22 >:)

001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character: Pass. Too many guys to choose from.

Least Favorite character: It'd have to be Aarfy. Not a massive Kid Sampson fan either he's just a non-entity to me.

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): Clevinger/Dunbar Milo/Wintergreen Cathcart/Korn (I didn't even consider this one until more recently) Yossarian/the chaplain Michaela/Luciana (I think they're nice)

Character I find most attractive: Luciana from the movie adaptation OR Wintergreen from the failed 1970 sitcom pilot

Character I would marry: Scheisskopf's wife. Terminal case of comp-het and mathematics major but I think I could fix her

Character I would be best friends with: Chief White Halfoat

a random thought: everyone should own a dumb Hawaiian shirt like they do on M*A*S*H, if for no other reason than to increase the tragedy of things like Cathcart sobbing at his desk over the concept of Yossarian!!!(?)! while wearing said Hawaiian shirt.

An unpopular opinion: I like the concept of the genderbends better than the original, non-genderbent characters--except for a few of them. I think the story can be told exactly the same, although with genderbends, there's an additional layer of introspection and tragedy.

My Canon OTP: Cathcart/Korn (none of these are really canon nor intended by Heller unless it's like... Yossarian/Luciana. However, I do think a good case could be made for the worst guys ever just from the actual book context)

My Non-canon OTP: Clevinger/Dunbar. Though Milo/Wintergreen is a close second because of how unhinged they are.

Most Badass Character: Moodus

Most Epic Villain: None of the villains in this are epic. If I had to pick, though, Korn.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Yossarian/Orr, not because I don't think it couldn't've happened, but because I can't write Orr for the life of me and thus can't imagine him doing anything ever.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): Every time someone tries to adapt Cathcart they fail awfully. Also, every adaptation screws up Wintergreen and Dunbar but only because they don't include them.

Favourite Friendship: Whatever Yossarian and Dunbar had going on. Get a friend who will pretend to be sick and leave his own squadron 24/7 regardless of what he's supposed to be doing to hang out with you.

Character I most identify with: Maybe Wintergreen?

Character I wish I could be: I would not want to be any of them. Everything sucks for everyone all the time and nobody wins. #love

Ask me anything from this post!

[branchingcrossroads]

Found myself thinking “’Catch-22′ is heavy listening. Maybe I’ll re-listen to ‘Blindsight’ after I’m done.” Which got me thinking, maybe part of the reason I find “Blindsight″ life-affirming is that in it, the characters act intelligently and efficiently and to the best of their ability. It’s a scary but sane world. In “Blindsight”, (most of) the threats are external, the mistakes make sense, the risks and sacrifices and tragedies seem reasonably justified. ((And isn’t that a pretty happy fantasy right there.)) In “Catch-22″, the biggest threats come from those who are “on your side”, from indifference and ineptitude and people being people and doing what people do.

The thought of taking orders from the inscrutable predator Sarasti and facing the inhuman, incomprehensible, technologically superior Rorschach may be daunting. But the thought of taking orders from Cathcart or Peckem, and facing Milo’s friendly fire and McWatt’s practical jokes and Aarfy’s cheerful “I still can’t hear you”, is soul-crushing.

[aerplain]

Hiii okay pick and choose or do them all haha :] 001, Catch 22, 002, Girlverse Cathkorn, 003, Girlcart (I'm sure you saw this coming) and your OC Saph :')

HEY MAX thanks for the ask and yes i will do all of them >:}

cut bc it will be very long

CATCH 22

Favorite character: Cath... idk. :] he’s so terrible but so dumb and his parts are the funniest to read. Awful person wonderful character. I want another book of just his reactions to Situations bc he’s just such a Guy. The guy ever Least Favorite character: I think the answer for most people is aarfy. and I agree but I'm gonna also say captain black. Aarfy because he was created to function as basically the Worst, and Cpt Black bc i just personally find him annoying. There’s a lot of awful guys in c22 who are fun to read about, but reading these guy’s parts is just “man them again. do they ever shut up”. 5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): 

Kathcorn 4ever </3 

M&W (thanks max) 

clevbar (thanks max)

Yoss/luciana - they’re a classic

space reserved for random joke stuff that has no reason other than “these guy’s names are always mentioned together so they’re a Thing now” (gus/wes or plitchard/wren) there’s no reason for this but its funny

Character I find most attractive: Any character I draw tbh. I think they’re all supposed to be just Guys but i cant help being like “hi 😘″ when i draw them.  Character I would marry: NO ONE. they are so ridiculous Luciana Character I would be best friends with: clevinger maybe. we’re both annoying and like to seem smart.  a random thought: said this earlier but they will never make a good adaptation if they don’t get the cathcart or the milo right. They're so integral to the story and they’re always adapted like “look at this funny guy. he’s going to be a nuisance.😉 now back to yossarian”. and milo is always clean shaven and cathcart is not smoking his opulent cigarette holder? why not?? An unpopular opinion: i dont know what unpopular or popular c22 opinions even are. major major could beat captain black in a fistfight My Canon OTP: Do cath & korn count. I think they should count (has read every part where they’re mentioned like 20 times and morphed it to fit my interpretation) I think heller could’ve meant it in a homophobic way. Gay disney villain korn time. If they don’t count i think the Yoss & Luciana bits were always fun too.  My Non-canon OTP: Milo & Wintergreen just cuz I love your writing for them max. I never would’ve come up with this on my own since I don’t think they really interact cuz the concept itself is so fun. Business rivals>business partners> Love?? Most Badass Character: No one they are all kind of losers. Maybe Orr  Most Epic Villain: same for the last one. they’re all lame. Or the idea of the catch itself and all of it’s enforcers  Pairing I am not a fan of: maybe this is my unpopular opinion but i think yoss & chaplain are not ideal romantically. its the fandom go-to romance bc its the literal first line (and i used to love them when i first read the book) but idk. theyre ok to me and not as fun as all the other wacky and crazy guys out there Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): I think duckett should NOT have been into yossarian and her thing should've just been being girlbffs with cramer. love loses. heller has to write every woman the way he does :[ Favourite Friendship: ME and MAX catch22bffs forever <3. real answer i think clev/dunbar/yossarian have the best conversations theyre all so insufferable in their own ways and its great Character I most identify with: nurse cramer. kinda her friend starts dating some guy and she’s like “ok what happened to being girl best friends😒”. and dobbs in the sense that i am kind of bad at a lot of the things i have to do Character I wish I could be: NO ONE for real this time. i can’t think of a single guy who isn’t either awful or has awful things happen to them. or both

Kathcorn :>

When I started shipping them: i remember reading the book the first time and thinking ‘wow they are just like my ocs. theyre dating behind the scenes haha’ and then forgetting about them. And I get back into the book and find a few other people who are Cath n Korn fans, I get really into Kathcorn Kontent, I draw them more and now they're my favorites <3 My thoughts: they’ve got one of my favorite themes, where the relationship isn’t beneficial to their main goals at all really. They both want to rise the ranks and being In Love with your right hand man isn’t really gonna help with that. Korn’s like one of those edgy guys who says he doesn’t want to get attached to people because it’s Just a Distraction from the Real Goal. And Cathcart’s one of those annoying guys who says he doesn’t want to get attached to people because it’s Just a Distraction from the Real Goal. And then both of them would try to justify it in their own silly ways and eventually have come to terms with it. And its also funny cuz they’re both just The Worst.  What makes me happy about them: they are both so lame and evil and sucks that everything they do will be entertaining to me  What makes me sad about them: I dont think they can even exist in a way that isn’t destructive to each other and everyone else around them. Not really sad since I focus more on the silly aspect but it could be. Not that they wouldn’t deserve it but it sucks that they have to drag the entire world into their evil love affair </3 Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Nothing they are ALL good i think to be a korn&cath liker you have to already Understand so all the fanfictions will naturally be good bc of that Things I look for in fanfic: For it to exist and for it to center around their inane interactions and just how awful they are but in a #love way My wishlist: I wish we got a scene inside the farmhouse. Just to see what theyre up to 🤔I wish we got the Korn chapter too Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: no one comes to mind. dreedle and peckem My happily ever after for them: their happily ever after is probably promotion and continuing to ruin lives but i think they really have to end up in the farmhouse. They cant have a farmhouse and not just retire there when everything goes wrong. its too convenient and its perfect

Girlcart<3<3<3

How I feel about this character: genderswap of cath that i got really attached to for no reason. Cathcart is interesting as a hypothetical female character since he’s trying to be this stereotypical toughguy all the time but he’s also so dumb and evil and awful. girlcart, i wuv her. she’s so important. She’s just woman cathcart but there’s the added interest of how she ended up as a squadron commander as a woman in the 40s, her relation with masculinity/femininity, whether she becomes more sympathetic when her problems are not all self imposed.. and we need more loser evil women everywhere Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: could it ever be anyone but girlkorn My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: to be honest she wouldnt have many friends but i think her interactions with milo would be funny. i like what we made up about Girl Milo being very ‘this is my 10 step beauty routine you should do it too. buy M&M skincare’ and cathcart being like ‘eww... makeup, gross” but also wanting to impress milo because milo is Successful My unpopular opinion about this character: She deserves everything ever shes so special. girlcart hiii. she sucks and she’s lame One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: there’s no canon bc we just make it all up. but i think her established storyline is growing up and not really belonging anywhere that a Lady(TM) would typically in the 20s-30s, always being second best in the rich east coast elite world and being desperate for some recognition. I think she deserved a friend who wasn’t caught up in the whole status thing Favorite friendship for this character: does milo count? danby? anyone? Korn’s her only friend and cathcart can’t stand her. I’ll be her favorite friend My crossover ship: what would she even cross over into?? she’d need a kornguy that’s all i know. 

Saph (OC)

How I feel about this character: Spy character for my main story. She's been around for longer than any character i’ve ever liked ever. I made her in middle school and she was a dragon named Sapphire (hence the Saph) and she’s stayed with me through countless story changes. I dont think because of anythign particularly special about the character but she was my first OC and typical toughgirl undefeatable no-weaknesses character made by a 12-year-old. and i think she retains that in sprit but in practice she’s a total mess. I <3 U saph Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Riya, another oc that i made to be saph’s sidekick also in middle school who i recently decided should #love her. I can’t really see Saph in any romantic situations so they’re either in an awkward purely physical relationship that’s really tragic for Riya or its an equally fail unrequited love situation. Riya’s not very outgoing so she’s kind of stuck with Saph and Saph doesn’t tend to get attached to anyone My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Riya again if you count the weird sexual-platonic thing they’d have going on. but she’s also got her spy team of basically a bunch of frat boys and they like to be Dudes together. I don’t like them tho and a lot of them are basically expendable in the story. rip My unpopular opinion about this character: she could fight 1000 demons and 1000 skeletons & not get scared One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: since her spy team is out trying to kill a politician (other side of the story)  i think it would be funny to write the alternate ending where they team up cartoon-style against a Greater Evil. i think the personalities would mesh well (awfully). I think a lot of her problems couldve been avoided too if the spy team had ditched their stupid orders and just gone on the run (which she and riya do in the end anyways) Favorite friendship for this character: i feel like she’s the sort to always Know A Guy wherever they go. but i dont really have anyone specific yet aside from the main characters and their counterparts. So for now im answering Riya for a third time. My crossover ship: i have nothing to cross over except catch 22. im gonna say wintergreen 

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

Every time I reread Catch-22, I hate Aarfy and Milo more. Hats off to Joseph Heller for making characters I want to drag by the hair into court or in front of a firing squad.

[cominy-kiwami]

oh im gonna be thinking about catch 22 for a WHILE. those last 50 pages were a damn odyssey themselves.

i cant believe the snowden chapter. when you think about what snowdens clothes were doing to keep his organs together and then remember yossarian decided to live fully nude after that for a spell. ripeness is all.

catch 22 only exists because people are upholding it. if everyone just stood up against it the way yossarian did, it would cease to exist. ripeness is all!

in all i loved the way it was written. but unfortunately hungry joe died while aarfy lived so all my predictions were wrong.

also how about the negotiation with colonel korn while cathcart was just saying cookie cutter nationalist keywords and phrases. what an excellent way to show both the conflict between idealism and cynicism and the themes of kafkaesque selective bureaucracy that both were very prominent in the book.

[cctinsleybaxter]

a little hershel and the hanukkah goblins homage ;-)

[fingertipsmp3]

One of my favourite hobbies/coping mechanisms is projecting onto fictional characters & also figuring out who all the people I know would be if we were in that universe together

[nero-neptune]

jesus christ, yo yo is like the fucking angel of death

[audiemurphy1945]

Aarfy would puff reflectively on his pipe throughout the whole chaotic clash, gazing with unruffled curiosity at the war through McWatt's window as though it were a remote disturbance that could not affect him.

- Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

[trap-22]

Aarfy from Catch-22 and Ralphie from the Sopranos have a similar energy.

[megaclaudiolis]

Yo-yo confronting Aarfy | requested by @bakingblues​

[soljoe]

i Do Not take constructive criticism since this fandom only has three people thank you !

[dummie-vaughn]

i just finished watching catch-22 and oh my god,,,, i love,,, all of them????

(except aarfy. fuck that dude.)