#you remember the episode where he crashes in his jeep and monologues for 20mins and one of the things he talks about

[variousqueerthings]

it’s a problem that hawkeye looks like this: 

while talking about this: 

sir:

sir I know this is an entire scene’s worth of “pretending to be a homosexual who’s in love with frank” but you make it come out so sincerely that I have to overanalyse it just because and headcanon you’re talking about trapper by proxy (and you get away with it, because it’s a “joke” and juuust removed enough to be taken as such)

#hawkeye pierce #im rewatching MASH #MASH #he really does say things sometimes doesn't he..... #his hair really was black in the first season #and then..... #he's got kind of a classic moviestar look going on here #which is good because the classic moviestars were overwhelmingly gay #this scene really is several minutes long #were you like this back in america? #was your dad like *we can't let my son venture too far or he'll get hatecrimed* because honestly.... #this is the early 50s sir!!!! #(and he was an adult in the 40s already it's not like it's actually 1970-something and even THEN! this is the guy who made america #fall in love with him huh -- guess you really can get away with a lot if it's cloaked in comedy) #you remember the episode where he crashes in his jeep and monologues for 20mins and one of the things he talks about #is this one guy who beat him up whose shoes he vomited on back in highschool and who was apparently *a great guy* #yeah i'll overanalyse that anecdote too #you're not very good at pretending to be someone you're not (if you ever really were) #shielding yourself through comedy so nobody takes the truth seriously is a tried and ture tactic #true* #and of course... not like this is a single scene in which this happens... this is... one of many... many #many many many #we end our rambles here