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variousqueerthings · 2 years

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I’m really not over the way that MASH nails on the head the tension between what is technically a terrible and severely limiting situation and place, and the odd freedoms a place like this affords to people. They way these people might never have been friends (family) by geography or interests or ideals outside of here, but now belong together, and the way individual idiosyncrasies afford one another the space to exist as a version of oneself who would get stifled/locked up/attacked/exiled/censored/judged in what one might consider “society”

yeah, that’s... literally what happened -- and happens -- over and over

#im watching MASH #MASH #one of 1000000 reasons I am fascinated and scared by the last episode #how do you *prepare* to go back to something that no longer encompasses you? and what you now know? and the People you know?#for many people that was to quietly fold themselves back into normative society and pretend it never happened #the endless ability of humanity to make the self smaller after having experienced another way of living #but that way of living being impossibly entwined with the deeply traumatic situation that allowed for the situation in the first place #and in MASH it's obviously due to so much -- the stories they collected -- the format of the show -- the creatives -- etcetc #it all adds up to this great bundle of Stuff

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