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you can read my full thoughts on ‘in love and war’ here but to me these shots exemplify how and why this episode is less about the romance and more about hawkeye’s relationship to american imperialism and the war; even in his most earnest attempts to support kyung soon, he doesn’t fully understand the impact that his own actions play in the war machine despite his unwillingness to participate, and this to me is shown most obviously in the funeral procession for kyung soon’s mom. i understand that in-universe the uniform is the nicest clothing hawkeye has (besides the tux) and he’s of course wearing it to be respectful. how ironic is it that ultimate anti-war peacemonger hawkeye pierce wears a US military uniform to the funeral service of a korean woman who died because of the direct impact of american imperialism and war?? 

#YEEESS #it's bitter and it hurts

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i’ve talked a lot about the ways in which emotional vs. physical intimacy is explored on mash before but i do think it’s really significant that the show is ultimately very pro-sex. characters are not inherently shamed for being horny; in the case of margaret and frank, much of the humor around their relationship comes from their hypocrisy. uncomfortability with sex is also not shamed, as we see hawkeye in particular being supportive of radar and helping him with his nerves when it comes to dating/sex/relationships. sexual freedom is not only accessible to the men of the 4077th; while “edwina” is a messy episode politically, the take on lysistrata in conversation with the politics of early seventies feminism and the sexual revolution is interesting, especially for network television in 1973. jokes about sexual “perversion” and “degeneracy” are almost never at the cost of the subject they’re targeted at but used to point out the stupidity of the person delivering them and/or the comment itself. sex becomes less of a topic in the later years as there are more plotlines about emotional intimacy (specifically cheating) but sex itself is still treated as a positive (a big example is “major ego,” in which margaret having a one night stand with tom greenleigh is framed as a moment of personal growth). really interesting to me in terms of the show reflecting a shift in social politics throughout its run

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Fantasy Is A Metaphor For The Human Condition, a comic about magic, and art, and speculative fiction, and being sick, and how they all intersect. Originally laid out/pencilled November-December 2017, when I was in a very difficult place emotionally as I was relearning how to draw post-brain injury.

See more of my Brain Injury Comix at this link & in Dirty Diamonds #9: Being

#ow..

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#HE WOULD #charles emerson winchester iii

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unrestrained bald man summer fun in breaking up is hard to do (1979)

(dm me if you’d like a download of this for all your hot mash summer needs 😘)

#my focus is in the wrong place but that's definitely the dog from mash too

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What the fuck😭😭😭 this is so sad

#JESUS

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screams SIDNEY TIME LOOP???????? PLEASE say more

i do not have as many thoughts about time loop AUs as some of my wonderful colleagues here on MASHblr but i think it’s especially interesting that sidney is the only major recurring character (besides flagg) that isn’t tied to the 4077th physically or temporally; if the other characters are living the same casualties, the same violence, the same exhaustion over and over, what does it mean that sidney can come and go?? what does that mean for his job as a psychiatrist; this is a bigger question about war and trauma in general, but how can you try to help people through a traumatic situation if you keep living the same thing on loop?? this also would beg questions about where time passes and where it loops in universe; how does time pass at the 4077th vs. tokyo vs. the sanitarium?? if sidney was able to stay at the 4077th for two weeks in “dear sigmund” without being missed elsewhere, is it because they’re in a temporal bubble?? these aren’t fully developed thoughts but i do think it interesting that he’s able to come and go and potentially be the only one aware that they’ve living in a time loop

#always reblog i love thinking about this

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the character of radar o’reilly is sooooo funny to me. he is an 18 year old believably played by a balding 30 year old. he is accidentally one of the best portrayals of a trans man i've ever seen in a tv show. he is canonically psychic. don’t worry about it.

#and I'm fairly confident gary burghoff would hate that he seemed so trans #just a hunch #but it makes it funnier

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[L]awfully wedded

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A year or so after the war ends Hawkeye decides he wants to go back to surgery so Charles gets him a job interview at Boston Mercy and Hawkeye gets there early and runs into Trapper who is also working there and they're both delighted and go to get a cup of coffee and then Charles comes out of surgery and they realize the stuffy, obnoxious coworker Trapper has been complaining about and the friend who got Hawkeye the interview are the same person.

#actual post-show timelines

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dr pierce and mr hyde: a summary

#GOD

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#oooooooooooh

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Frank Burns is genuinely one of the best portraits of American conservatism I've ever seen. His life is sad. He is pathetic. He desperately wants to be loved. He is a hateful person who hurts others. He has the potential to improve, but he never does, even though he would probably be happier for it. He aspires to a certain kind of masculinity and judges other men for not living up to it, but he isn't comfortable or successful in it himself. The hypocrisy, the absurdity... Larry Linville said Frank Burns was real, and I know he was because I've met Frank Burns many times.

#would highly recommend reading larry Linville's commentary on him #he really got it

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fave MASH moments 8/∞

ginger! hey, ginger!

#adore her

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And when you meet people, don't look down. Look them in the eye. And don't back off.

#i miss him every goddamn day

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the episode where hakweye’s subplot is just him trying to get someone to play scrabble with him

#mash #i need to know who played 'fag'

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who's going to tell him

#let me do it