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where to next, hawk? :)

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the cultural reputation of Hawkeye Pierce is wild bc you'll see members of Gen X who grew up watching MASH and haven't revisited it since recall Hawkeye as a macho military man who constantly gets pussy and sticks it to the man but then you watch the show and he's a antiracist bisexual pansy who DESPISES the military, (who does still stick it to the man) hates guns and begs for men to get him pregnant

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one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, "please don't make fun of me, i'm so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can't stop crying." she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, "i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?" i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again

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- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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The Wiggles always looked like they were wearing Starfleet uniforms, could you please put them on the enterprise where they belong

little-known tos fact: in every scene on the bridge, the wiggles are actually just out of frame

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happy pride to Boris from Ottumwa Iowa

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whenever I need it most, some beautiful soul always seems to find an old fic of mine and leave the most wonderful comment 🤍

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never not thinking about the shirt grab

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one thing i love about mash is the little background things that they do. not because theyre essential to the plot or literally anything but it just helps the show and the characters feel so alive. hawkeye spraying bugspray around the tent and getting trapper in the eyes has absolutely nothing to do with the scene or the topic of conversation its not even integral to the episode its just something theyre doing in the middle of everything else happening because they have to. hawkeye sitting in the colonel's office filing the nails of the skeleton dummy just because he's bored. trapper creating a paper clip chain on one end and hawkeye dismantling it at the other end while theyre in a meeting. theyre reading theyre painting theyre writing theyre winding up skeins of yarn theyre knitting theyre mending socks and playing chess. theyre playing football or basketball or golfing or going fishing or having cockroach races. not because these things are important but BECAUSE theyre unimportant. its what makes them human. Its what makes the sets feel lived in and not just sets. if you've got a group of characters who never do anything but talk about the scene on hand then you dont have a group of characters at all you have a group of plot devices. make them bored make them fidgety make them interact with the environment around them make them live.

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Why would I watch a new show currently airing when I could put on an episode of MASH I’ve seen 300 times

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the way bj grabs his wrist just to have one last second of touching him. hawkeye has to pull his arms off of him and has to fully look away to be able to leave. the shaking cry bj lets out as he brushes him off. fuckkk

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Me and my little treats...

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he’s stronger than you think!

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They aren’t talking

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trying to get irl friends into watching mash is insane, i'll be like "have you heard about this critically-acclaimed, emmy-award-winning, 11-seasons-long sitcom-turned-dramedy that established the A-plot-B-plot structure of modern tv writing and to this day holds the all-time record for the most concurrent viewers on a single episode of any tv show ever?" and they'll be like "no i haven't!"

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I wrote that post earlier about Kirk thinking of Spock as a gravitational constant and had completely forgotten that Spock actually textually refers to Kirk as a gravitational constant in Court Martial (TOS 1 x 21).

These two. They're going to kill me