#Mulcahy

[morganaconda]

#is this not PERFECT?? #look at the sidebar of my blog for more #I'll be posting a lot more MASH text posts !!! #MASH #MASH 4077 #father mulcahy #mulcahy #francis mulcahy #hawkeye #hawkeye pierce #benjamin franklin pierce #pierce #mash text posts #text posts #m*a*s*h #father francis mulcahy #mashblr

[heckyeah4077]

“why, you're a very nice-looking young man! not that you don't make a very nice-looking young woman as well.” —Father Mulcahy

#mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #max klinger #corporal klinger #father mulcahy #mulcahy #mulklinger #queers

[mashed4077]

mulcahy weird gay little runs compilation

#tht do not piss u off bc they r endearing n cute #tumblr HATES me these were such a pain to upload #i had em at like 15 mb and the quality wasnt atrocious #and then tumblr was like under 10 mb pls hehe! #and >.> #mulcahy #father mulcahy #gifs #mine #oh and then tumblr didnt let me put spaces when i typed?? #weirdest thing like i could elsewhere n i can now #but on this post it jus. took away my space bar privileges #idek #o but i do hav the better quality ones on discord #which is irrelevant to yall but useful for me <3 #update i forgot to post these dshfjkdfhdsk

[soapchipss]

im going to VAPORIZE HIM!!!!!!

#mashposting #mash #m*a*s*h #father mulcahy #mulcahy #francis mulcahy #hawkeye pierce

[majorbaby]

i feel bad for people who skip the early years

#mash #m*a*s*h #trapper tuesday #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #trapper john mcintyre #henry blake #radar o'reilly #frank burns #mulcahy #s02e09: dear dad 3

[radarsmenagerie]

i think this is a jesus reference but i dont know from the bible so its just a 🤨 thing to say

#3x08 #francis mulcahy #francis #father mulcahy #mulcahy #mash #m*a*s*h

[sistersavelorn]

I want to catch him in a big butterfly net.

#my art #art #digital art #fanart #mash #mash fanart #father mulcahy #francis mulcahy #mulcahy #father mulcahy fanart

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: M*A*S*H

Sample Size: 2,385 stories

Source: AO3

#b.j. hunnicutt #hawkeye #trapper #maxwell klinger #charles emerson winchester iii #peg hunnicutt #margaret houlihan #mulcahy #francis mulcahy #frank burns #mash #m*a*s*h #fanfiction #ao3 #statistics #phantom statistician #bj x hawkeye #hawkeye x bj

[hawkeyeslaughter]

the parallels of hawkeye , who struggles with his faith , struggles to see good at times when he’s seen so much horror , agnostic hawkeye briefly losing his sight without losing his essence , without letting himself become bitter despite what it means for him as a surgeon . and father mulcahy , ever - faithful , someone who despite everything he sees strives to see good in others and do good himself , then to his faith when need be , losing his hearing without losing his essence , without letting himself become bitter despite what it means to him as a catholic priest .

#i love how different they are yet that they embrace hardships the same way #the biggest hearts in the entire universe #mash #m*a*s*h #mashposting #mashblr #mash 4077 #hawkeye pierce #hawkeye #father mulcahy #mulcahy #hawkahy #lgbt #lgbtq #mash spoilers

[summerreign4077]

Looks like Father Mulcahy did teach Charles to box after all…

#mash #mashposting #mash 4077 #charles emerson winchester iii #father mulcahy #m*a*s*h 4077 #francis mulcahy #m*a*s*h #charcahy #charles winchester #mulcahy

[quordleona03]

Mulcahy

I really, really hate M*A*S*H fanfic and polls and posts and articles which spell Father Mulcahy's surname incorrectly.

There is room for canonical dispute about which way round his given names go and whether Francis is his confirmation name, but his surname is spelled Mulcahy.

It feels like the person doesn't really care about that cute little cinnabon ball of rage who'll tell terrible jokes and play the piano and has a sense of humour as dry as the Sahara and will skin you alive at poker and does deals on the black market and faced down an angry corporal with a live grenade and an angry deserter with a loaded rifle and has a kind heart and a hot temper and loves Hawkeye.

Mulcahy. Francis John Patrick Mulcahy. Or possibly John Patrick Francis. Father Mulcahy. C'mon. It's not hard.

#mashposting #mulcahy #father mulcahy #mash tv #m*a*s*h #mash 4077

[ninetimesbluedemo]

The Mulcahy and Klinger parallels mean so much to me….

Arguably they, more than anyone else at the 4077, run their lives on the principle of kindness. Yet both of them struggle with their temper.

Neither one fits in with the traditional 50s gender binary. People don’t seem sure whether to treat Klinger like a man or a woman or something in between. And Mulcahy is celibate. He’s not treated like “one of the guys” nor does it seem easy for him to form friendships with the nurses.

Similarly, they both live alone.

Also, and this is less deep and more ??? but they both go deaf at some point! If I had a nickel for every time…

#mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h 4077 #klinger #max klinger #maxwell q klinger #maxwell klinger #father mulcahy #mulcahy #father francis mulcahy #Francis mulcahy

[mashed4077]

I’ve had a thought nagging at me ever since I first watched ‘Death Takes a Holiday’ and it’s been driving me a little crazy.

My thought is this: when the wounded flood in and the nightmare starts up again, Father Mulcahy, for all his purity and good-naturedness... takes on the role of an angel of death figure.

When Mulcahy tries to do the last rites on the dying soldier in ‘Death Takes a Holiday’, B.J. tells him, “No. You can’t have him yet.” It made me realize that from the doctors’ perspective, if Mulcahy closes in because things are looking dire, that means that they lost. They have to give their patient up. They failed.

It’s not just that episode. It’s also in the way he’s always present in the OR, as crucial a presence as the doctors or nurses, always lingering... in case someone dies. Waiting for someone to die. He’s also there to help if he’s needed for orderly duties, of course, and I’m sure he’s also praying for things to go well - but the main reason he’s there every single time, on hand even when there’s only a few causalities and everyone’s assistance isn’t necessary, is if someone doesn’t make it. He considers that a sacred task, and within his occupation, it is. But for the doctors, his stepping in to do his job means that they failed at theirs, and they lost the life.

On a spiritual level, really, if the healing of the physical body by the doctors fails, then the priest steps in to try to provide benediction to the soul, right? Being a man of faith, Mulcahy believes that’s just as critical, that a soul’s just as if not more important than the body, and it’s a solemn task but one that probably gives him a modicum of consolation, that he’s provided a service that’s essential within his world, and that he was there to provide that to the fallen in their final moments. But none of the surgeons who’d be torn up over losing a patient (aka all of them except Frank) are particularly religious. We don’t know if they believe in a heaven or not. It doesn’t matter to them that Mulcahy’s providing something to the soul, or that the soldier they couldn’t save may be in a better place. At the end of the day, they’ve still got a dead kid on their table, and that weight’s on them.

And it’s not just the last rites. The doctors handle the wounded living; Mulcahy is seemingly the person within the camp who’s in charge of the deceased. In one episode he explicitly mentions serving as the Summary Court Officer for one of the fallen young men: a Summary Court Officer is “a commissioned officer appointed to handle the personal property and effects of deceased personnel.” We see him do this in multiple episodes; Radar and other corpsman usually take care of the living soldier’s belongings (which Mulcahy sometimes assists with), but Mulcahy’s the one we see boxing up the belongings of the deceased to ship them back to their families. He’s often the one who writes the letter that lets them know they’ve lost a son. 

As much as all of them hurt for the lives they can’t save, Hawkeye and B.J. get to escape back to the Swamp right after and drown it away with booze, and Radar gets to stare down at a statistic in his report and wonder how a little number could possibly constitute an entire human being - but Mulcahy’s the one shifting through the remnants of a stolen life, trying to find a way to be tactful about something heart-breaking and maybe even life-ruining. He has that burden on him. He’s the one holding the hands of murdered eighteen year olds as they breathe their last breaths, something arguably more personal and intimate than rifling around in anonymous insides like the surgeons do - but that’s not even the end of it. It doesn’t end there. Because afterwards, in his duty to inform the families of their loss, he’s forced to inflict an impossibly painful wound. Can you imagine repeatedly writing letters that, when opened, will bring people to their knees with grief? Worse yet, the depersonalization of it? Especially for someone as people-oriented as Mulcahy. Maybe it’s better, not having to look them in the eye when you tell them, not having to see their initial pain, like a doctor would at a normal hospital after a surgery proved fatal or a person succumbed to a sickness. In both cases, you don’t have to see them after. You tell them the news and you don’t have to stick around to see the years and years of grief.

But there’s a different pain, for the surgeons and for Mulcahy, in how much they care about people, in being forced to do this repeatedly, endlessly, until the causalities all blur, until the deaths don’t even hurt anymore, until forgetting is possible and you realize the family would’ve got the letter last week and you forgot to send a prayer their way. He doesn’t just feel useless - he’s being forced to actively inflict pain. No other priest besides a war chaplain would have that responsibility. As often as a confession goes well and he offers a recovering soldier some peace, does it even balance out? Does a smile and some relief make up for being forced to play ferrymen to the dead?

It’s an impossible task... and it’s never even dwelled on or given focus. He just lives with that. 

Really makes me think about all those times he’s stood in such a way that one of the OR lights lit his head up like a halo.

#mine #father mulcahy #txt #meta #mulcahy #he's such a tragic figure to me #i wrote this back in march im finally posting it

[sistersavelorn]

Get rotated idiot

#not art #shitpost #father mulcahy #francis mulcahy #mulcahy #mash #fueled purely by my need to microwave this man

[t00thpasteface]

what do you mean this isn't them

#art #comic #mash #m*a*s*h #hawkahy #father mulcahy #hawkeye pierce #text post meme

[goodsirs]

M*A*S*H 3.09 "Alcoholics Unanimous"

#mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #maxwell klinger #father mulcahy #francis mulcahy #william christopher #jamie farr #mashedit #sitcomedit #tvedit #*