#BJ and Marley

[thekingofworems]

Sir BoJangles and Sir Marley

my royal bois<333 my special lil guys<3333

Their most recent designs, I might post the old ones if I ✨feel like it✨

Just realized his height is cut off but BJ is 6'1

[marley-manson]

Hawkeye dgaf about BJ's marriage except inasmuch as it makes BJ happy. He has no personal investment in it. In Hanky Panky he thought the idea of BJ fucking Donovan was funny and worth nothing more than lighthearted teasing until BJ turned out to be genuinely upset about it. He's happily friends with many cheaters and willing to fuck married people himself (except when he wants to marry them himself, ie Radar's Report).

When BJ demonstrates that 85% of his character is 'married' Hawkeye backs that marriage up 100% for his sake, but imo if BJ wanted to get a divorce, Hawkeye would back that decision up too, easily. If BJ wanted to fuck him, the only reason Hawkeye might not be down is because BJ could react badly and it could ruin their friendship and he's got a practical side to him, not because he genuinely cares about the sanctity of BJ's marriage.

And I think this is in keeping with other Hawkeye characterization where he tends to prioritize what other people value when it's relevant to making them feel better and supporting them. He's an agnostic but he validates Mulcahy's religious beliefs when he needs validation, he'll tell Radar either that it's awesome to not fuck or that he should go out and get laid depending on what Radar's upset about in any given episode, he cares about his patients a lot and wouldn't even defend himself when one attacked him but he's extremely cool about Mulcahy straight up punching a patient, etc.

Which, yk, is basic supportive character characterization, but he's got it more than other Mash characters imo, and I like it, and it makes a lot more sense to me than Hawkeye being a marriage cheerleader because he thinks marriage is awesome (he generally seems negative to on the slightly positive side of neutral at best on the concept) or because he's scared of BJ choosing him instead and sublimates that into marriage cheerleading. After all, this is the guy who seizes every romance dangled in front of him with both hands even if it is obviously doomed, and isn't repressed about anything to the point where the writers need to rely on actual traumatic amnesia to prevent him from discussing his problems immediately.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

For dating game: Donna Noble for a non Mash option from something I'm pretty sure I've seen you reblog stuff from, BJ, and Klinger

I can't believe I got 2 Donnas for this game and neither were the MASH one haha. And yes I AM a Doctor Who fan but like with Twin Peaks I'm only a shallow fake one because I only feel really passionate about RTD era :( sowwy again. I'm 0 for 2 today. But at least I didn't skip MASH s1-3 AND I didn't skip the 9th Doctor AND I read Laura's diary + Dale Cooper's tapes. So now everyone has to give me a little headpat and forgive me and say they're not mad at me thank you <3

Donna Noble

I couldn’t handle Donna QwQ I couldn’t match her energy it’s very sad :( I feel like I would do the exact opposite of what the Doctor did for her in terms of bringing out her most amazing qualities. And I do really try to highlight and praise the qualities of people in my life!! I just don’t know if I could help her reach her full potential. Which sounds like one of those weird therapy-talk approaches to relationships but unfortunately sometimes when you really admire someone you actually do start thinking about things like “am I supporting her journey effectively” and all that. But this is just a date right so it can just be a casual thing. I feel like Donna is someone with whom I could straight up be like Hey so I was never socialized properly and your last relationship ended comically terribly so do you want to like try practicing dating with each other? I think it could be fun! And then eventually she could move on to find happiness with Mr. Temple :)  

Wait actually sorry quick tangent if Donna doesn’t remember the Doctor what does she think happened to her fiance from way back when. Does she. Does she remember the giant alien spider or. Hang on--

BJ Hunnicutt

BJ Hunnicutt is the human equivalent of Disneyland. Everybody in the entire nation is absolutely obsessively feral over it it’s sooo beautiful it’s sooo fun you just HAVE to experience it it’s a quintessential expression of the American dream blah blah blah. But I will never attend this overpriced (constantly borrowing money) and overcrowded (too much competition from the rest of Mashblr) theme park. I do not care for its fastpass system (willingness to cheat on his partner) or its uninspiring coaster design (anger issues), and I am further offended to hear of the constant introduction of cost-cutting measures that harm visitor experience (growth of mustache). Not even the prospect of purchasing a fully functioning Cogsworth clock (chance to join the Punnihawk polycule) is enough to tempt me. It’s not happening. I am going to Dollywood (Maxwell Klinger).

Maxie my beautiful girl Maxie whomst is so very adored by me

My wife my kitten my sweet snuggly wuggly good time gal. My Dollywood. Know that I love and adore Maxwell for eternity <3

BUT. I must love her from afar because I couldn’t in good conscience waste her time when I figure there must be a more compatible match out there, ya know? Like, I know hardly anything about baseball and I wear the same clothes every day and I don’t eat red meat so I can’t even share those beloved hotdogs. Max deserves the Best as I’m sure we all agree, and we know he wants a serious long term partnership. I want the same thing, so I know that such a lifelong, committed relationship should be with someone who finds themself more easily compatible with Max’s tastes and interests.  

On an unrelated note, Charles sure seemed to get super into baseball in War For All Seasons, huh? :) And we know he cares a lot about his clothes, as we see him hiring a personal tailor at least once! :) And he was surprisingly eager to get to share in Max’s hotdog delivery in The Grim Reaper, too! :) So many random fun facts in this world \^w^/

[marley-manson]

I'm only a fan in certain ways lol so this may have more of an emphasis on their relationship flaws and toxicity than another fan's list, but it's still shippy, and I aimed for a decent balance.

Ain't Love Grand: Hawk/BJ as the successful "couple" despite their surface differences paralleled/contrasted with two genuinely incompatible couples.

The Joker Is Wild: Trapper complex, top/bottom jokes, pigtail pulling perhaps, the fucked up weirdness that makes them compelling.

Peace on Us: The red party, aka BJ at his most supportive.

Period of Adjustment: Well it's my shippiest episode lol. BJ's insecurity about being Trapper's replacement paralleled to his insecurity about being replaceable to his family (ie how easily his daughter confused Radar for him) is nicely homoerotic, and I love the more toxic aspects of their relationship which this episode clearly focuses on.

Where There's a Will, There's a War: BJ fretting about Hawkeye, Hawkeye having difficulty coming up with something to leave BJ that symbolizes what BJ means to him, and the nicely homoerotic ending, ie BJ half wakes up and sees Hawkeye and says "remind me to give you a kiss in the morning" because he's been worried about him all day and he's glad to see him, but Hawkeye assumes he's dreaming about his wife and this assumption leads to his revelation about what to leave BJ in his will, prioritizing BJ's family. It's a disconnect between them that feels very homoerotic to me at this point in the story. BJ focusing solely on Hawkeye and Hawkeye mistaking it for his obsession with his wife and kid... good suff.

Oh How We Danced: Opening with a joke about Hawkeye standing in for Peg for BJ's anniversary, ending with someone else literally standing in for Peg while Hawkeye watches from the sidelines after giving him the most thoughtful anniversary present anyone's ever given anyone ever.

GFA: Their relationship is the most prominent with the final climactic goodbye, it's largely about their issues but in a way that's fun because again, I'm all about the flaws wrt shipping them. BJ doesn't want to admit he'll probably never see Hawkeye again, gets weird when he's drunk at the goodbye party and telling a joking story about cheating on his wife. Intriguing stuff. ETA whoops I missed that you also said discounting the last. Oh well, pretend Comrades in Arms is my choice here then I guess.

Hanky Panky: Because I feel like it serves as a good gay explanation for why BJ doesn't support Hawkeye emotionally very much if you want a nicer and homoerotic explanation for that, ie last time he was someone's shoulder to lean on he cheated on his wife. Plus a couple of gay jokes, and a neat parallel wrt BJ asking Donovan to open up to him and Hawkeye asking BJ to open up to him.

The Yalu Brick Road: Hawkeye makes a good joke comparing the North Korean who surrendered to an old girlfriend's sibling who tagged along with them and killed the mood, plus in general they've got a comfortable bickery married couple vibe here.

Rally Round the Flagg, Boys: BJ being a condescending dick about how he's so much more cool and rational than Hawkeye, and proving himself hypocritical by saving Hawkeye from an angry patient at the end more violently than necessary.

Bonus: The Grim Reaper for being the very first episode that made me start shipping them because it's one of BJ's first condescending dick episodes lol; Comrades in Arms for BJ fretting about Hawkeye; The Kids for Hawkeye's first sappy very loving look at BJ when he tells the story to the orphans... probably others where they seem happy and married-couple-esque together but I don't have a good memory for those.

Okay. BJ/Hawkeye fans only. This is a very serious research question which I will very much need an answer to fairly soon.

Ten best Hawkeye/BJ episodes. Give reasons for your choice. ("Welcome to Korea" does not count, I've watched that a lot and it's mostly BJ following Hawkeye around like a little lost duck.)

Seriously. Discounting the first and the last, "Welcome to Korea" and "Goodbye Farewell Amen", supposing you wanted to convince someone who wasn't a BJ/Hawkeye shipper that this is the ship, which 10 episodes would you want them to watch?

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[drpierceandmrhyde]

Making this a separate post because I don’t want to detract but @marley--manson’s tags on this post are exactly why I hate the BJ plot in “Bottoms Up.” Not only is he having everyone turn against/alienate Hawkeye, but they turn against Hawkeye over something that is a core part of Hawkeye’s personality. Hawkeye uses humor to cheer up his patients and bond with the staff of the 4077th, and now everyone is telling him that’s a bad thing, and it sucks!

[marley-manson]

Depending on what you mean by trust, I might suggest season 5, since it’s when they team up for more serious shennanigans such as The Korean Surgeon and Souvenirs. He does tell BJ about sensitive things in season 4 though, like his sad monologue in The Late Captain Pierce, Carlye, and his erectile dysfunction lol, but tbf he tells everyone about the latter and imo Hawkeye being open and emotionally forthcoming isn’t necessarily a sign of trust for him, it’s just how he is.

Though tbh I never get the sense early on that Hawkeye doesn’t trust BJ, I feel like it’s just an assumed part of their friendship. Like if we’re talking analytically, I don’t get an impression that Hawkeye lacking in trust in BJ is a thing in seasons 4-6. Though if we’re talking in more headcanony terms of like, eg whether Hawkeye would come out to him lol, since that’s been a discussion going around recently, I don’t think he ever trusts him enough for that over the course of the show. Imo that’s less about trust anyway and more about a rock solid understanding of the other person’s worldview being compatible with having gay friends, and by 50s standards idt BJ demonstrated that worldview.

And that said, I personally also think that after season 6/7 Hawkeye’s trust in BJ goes down, as BJ gets more emotionally unavailable and combatative. Hawkeye turns to other people for support, sometimes directly eschewing BJ in favour of someone else, like seeking out Mulcahy in Letters, or Margaret in Blood and Guts after BJ spends a conversation ignoring him, or Mulcahy again in Depressing News. Which I think is a very interesting friendship trajectory for them, and very fitting as a depiction of friendships made in a war zone.

when dose Hawkeye start to trust BJ? because BJ trusts Hawkeye immediatley but I'm not sure when it really clicks that Hawkeye trusts BJ. I don't mean that he dosen't immediately like BJ, because he dose, they click instantly on a pretty core level, but i'm interested when that sort of intellectual thought out comes into the relationship.

[raywritesthings]

For the character meme if you're still doing it...

MASH: Trapper, BJ, Hawkeye

DW: Ninth doctor, tenth doctor

FMA: Alphonse Elric

Sorry this took so long! Have family in atm so I've only been using mobile lately. Here goes--

MASH:

Trapper

First impression: I saw MASH out of order, starting with season 4 (not because of any particular bias, my dad just wanted to introduce us kids to the show and saw the season 4 DVD boxset first at the store), so my first impression of Trapper was the whole "Trapper's gone" sequence between Radar and Hawkeye. I think kid me didn't really fully understand that there were prior seasons of MASH, so I didn't think about Trapper all that much given there's virtually no mentions of him after that episode. Ironically, I probably pictured him in my head looking more like the Elliot Gould version than Wayne Rogers, idk why because as far as I was concerned he was just an entirely offscreen presence.

Impression now: Definitely glad I ended up going back to watch the earlier seasons once I realized they did, in fact, exist because Trapper's easily become a fave. Most of it is just down to Wayne's performance more than anything, plus his chemistry with Alan Alda's Hawkeye is unmatched. I know some people wish that Wayne had stuck around for the later seasons, and in a sense I get that desire in terms of wanting more time with his character, but I also just like what we got with him and kind of worry how the later seasons might've tried to "deconstruct" his character or give him and Hawkeye more conflict or something that would've felt OOC to who we know him as.

Favorite moment: Man, this is hard, but I think I might choose the second-to-last scene of "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde" where up until the general arrives and goes into the latrine, Trapper's been trying to stop Hawkeye's sleep-deprived shenanigans, but as soon as the general goes in he just steps back and watches it all play out even as Radar's still desperately trying to avert disaster. Trapper's laugh is just so joyful as he watches Hawkeye tow the latrine away with Clayton inside, and I think in some ways it's a moment that says a lot about who Trapper is without necessarily intending to be a statement piece on his character.

Idea for a story: I lowkey want to write an AU where, after the events of "Preventative Medicine", Hawkeye pens a sort of pretend letter to Trapper expressing how alone he sort of feels in his defiance of the army these days with no intent of ever sending it (sort of like Sidney's pretend letter to Freud), only for it to end up getting picked up by Radar or Klinger by accident and sent out. Receiving the letter prompts Trapper to write back, they reconnect... I don't have much of an idea of what happens after that or even if it really works, but it's something I've had turning around in my brain after reading some of @marley-manson's posts on the episode in question.

Unpopular opinion: I guess my unpopular opinion was probably expressed above, which is that I'm not sure Trapper's character would've survived intact with the shift in perspective of the later seasons. It's not that I think Wayne wouldn't have turned in a good performance, I just don't know that it could have been recognizably "Trapper" in a way.

Favorite relationship: I mean if anyone answers anything besides Hawkeye, I'd be shocked. Like I like some of his dynamics with the other characters for sure and wouldn't have minded seeing them explored more, but as far as what's on the screen his relationship with Hawkeye is just kind of the whole point.

Favorite headcanon: I definitely like the ex-Catholic headcanon I think you and some others have, as I especially think it adds an interesting layer to any of his interactions with Mulcahy. I also enjoy the headcanon that he and Charles somehow end up working at the same hospital after the war and realize they know some of the same people (and then Charles' anguish if Hawkeye ever comes for a visit to realize that "Oh God, there's two of them").

BJ

First impression: Given I started with s4 and it was all I had access to for a number of years, my impression of BJ was fairly positive. He's kind of just a Good Dude that season, and to a kid he worked well enough as someone for Hawkeye to bounce jokes off of. I sympathized with his being separated from his daughter, and I thought moments like where he tells Radar it's okay to cry were very sweet. I still think those things, actually.

Impression now: Nowadays, I find BJ a very fascinating character to look at from the lens of deconstruction (unlike Trapper). How war peels back the layers of Mr. Right to find a very flawed, very human man underneath, with all the good and ill that entails. It's funny because as I said when I first watched, I thought his and Hawk's double act worked fine, but I feel a little bad for him and Mike Farrell after having watched the early seasons because it just does not compare to the Piercintyre duo. Whereas I could easily see an AU where Hawkeye and Trapper met outside the war and became friends, I don't get that vibe with Hawk and Beej; their relationship exists purely because of the war. I can't say I necessarily like the person BJ became over time at the 4077th, but I still sympathize with what he went through and find him interesting to examine.

Favorite moment: I'm really not sure, honestly, because the later moments that I find interesting about his character aren't necessarily BJ at his best. Honestly, I think it might be that scene with Radar I mentioned above, because I think it shows that he is much more emotionally aware than the popular tumblr depiction of him.

Idea for a story: I floated this thought in the tags of a post I made about him and Frank recently, but I kind of want to know what effect there would be on the characters and relationships had BJ arrived in Korea without the Hawkeye Welcome Wagon there to meet him (like say Hawkeye doesn't arrive back in camp until that night rather than in the morning before Radar leaves to drive to Kimpo). How does this impact BJ's impressions of everybody else, and how long does it take him and Hawkeye to become friends, plus what's that one week under Frank's command look like in this version?

Unpopular opinion: I'm not really sure what counts as an unpopular opinion because the Beejgirls seem to take it as a badge of honor that he can be kind of a bad friend sometimes, but I guess what I'll say is that while Hawkeye was essential to helping BJ make it through the war, I kinda think the opposite is true in reverse. I don't think BJ needed to be some kind of yes man to Hawkeye, but man he really does love to just not be emotionally available for his best friend in the whole world and also gets his jollies out of playing mind games on him semi-regularly. And unlike writer/director Alan Alda, I don't really think Hawk deserved it most of the time.

Favorite relationship: That's a tough one, because I know it's not Hawkeye for me, but I also don't know who it is.

Favorite headcanon: I think he had one of the hardest times readjusting to life back home because he'd built it up so much in his head that any little deviation from the fantasy would be a let-down. I think he'd eventually get over this, but it would be a pretty serious stumbling block.

Hawkeye

First impression: the whole sequence with him riding up in the rickshaw and defying Frank's military precision was very funny to child me, and then the scene in the showers immediately shows you that this guy isn't just about the laughs. He has things and people he cares about, and he can be hurt, and he can work really hard to try and get the things he wants. If he doesn't succeed, then he'll just keep working hard to make everything better for the people around him. A+ character introduction, I was hooked, +1 role model and Guy I Like To Project Onto acquired.

Impression now: Honestly? Largely hasn't changed. He's still a great character, and I still aspire to have his quick and sharp wit. Obviously there's a lot to it that child me overlooked, and there's certainly moments where I don't like something he says or does, but that's part of what makes him 3-dimensional, and it's also unavoidable in a show that old.

Favorite moment: This is a frankly impossible question for this character. I can't even pick out a favorite speech. I guess I'll just say the Yankee Doodle Doctor film for managing to capture both extremes of his character in a few short minutes.

Idea for a story: My ideas for Trapper and BJ are also just ideas for Hawkeye, because that's just kind of how MASH works. Even when it's about someone else, it's about Hawkeye.

Unpopular opinion: I prefer the earlier seasons when Hawkeye's rebellions worked and achieved even little victories here and there, where his character was certainly critiqued but it wasn't like a half-hour of self-flagellation, and while the camp could at times find him irritating they also worked with him to pull off the hijinks. They're just more fun (and the satire more biting), and MASH is best when it's a comedy.

Favorite relationship: Early seasons? Trapper. Later seasons? Margaret.

Favorite headcanon: 70s Middle-Aged Vietnam War Protester Hawkeye, My Beloved

DW

Ninth Doctor

First impression: I also watched DW out of order, so I just kind of was vaguely aware of Nine as the guy the new episodes were started with. He seemed kind of broody, wasn't really sure what else to think of him because I had almost no information. The post-series 1 RTD Era kind of almost does their best to make you forget he even was there? Like why does the Doctor-obsessed fan club in series 2 only have photos of Ten?

Impression now: He's a great Doctor, and I really should get around to finishing his series instead of picking and choosing episodes to check out (I'm just struggling to work myself up to watching the farting aliens one, I'm sorry). From what I can tell, Christopher Eccleston was going through a rough patch while making the series and had additional disagreements with the producers that contributed to him leaving early, so while I understand a lot of people wish he'd gotten more time, I also wouldn't have wanted him to keep making it while he was miserable. I'm glad he's getting to do new stories for Big Finish and seemingly enjoying it.

Favorite moment: I mean for me it has to be "Just this once, everybody lives!", Eccleston's joy there is so pure and palpable.

Idea for a story: Honestly don't really have one.

Unpopular opinion: He was the right Doctor for Rose and she the right companion for him, and it all went downhill for that duo after he regenerated. Although idk if that's actually an unpopular opinion amongst Nine fans. Oh, here's an unpopular opinion for those who like Nine: the way he treated Mickey was cruel and there was no real reason for it, and he should have apologized.

Favorite relationship: It kind of has to be Rose by default, right? Although I'm to this day fascinated by whatever he and Jack had going on...

Favorite headcanon: I don't really have one of these, either. Unless we're talking about the AU in my head where everything's the same except he and Rose aren't awful to Mickey for literally no reason...

Tenth Doctor

First impression: Again, because I watched out of order, Ten was my second Doctor (after watching series 5 and 6 with Eleven), but the friend who introduced me to the show did not really care for Rose and had me start on "The Runaway Bride" instead. I then chose to skip to the rest of Donna's episodes since I was aware she became a full-time companion later and had a great time. He was kind of a bit too broody at times for my taste, but Donna was there to keep it from dragging out. He could be hypocritical, but it was an interesting and expected flaw for a character that old and varied, and I'd already grown to expect the Doctor to be deep in the moral ambiguity. He was never my favorite, but I found series 4 enjoyable (until the end, anyway).

Impression now: Hoo boy, is this one a doozy. Well, first off, I still really enjoy Ten and Donna's episodes. But it's all kind of downhill from there. After finishing Donna's episodes and the specials, I went back to series 3 with Martha. And because I love Martha... I can't really stand Ten for that entire series. It's the Mickey problem x3000. And because I knew what an awful person he was going to be to Martha, I couldn't ever get into enjoying him and Rose in series 2 when I went back to watch that knowing what it all was leading to. And also because they were both treating Mickey like crap still during it. I think that Ten is a fascinating character with a lot of depth and darkness to him that the narrative is sorta aware of but doesn't want to explore meaningfully enough until basically the last minute in the specials. There's a lot of cut moments and storylines that could have made this better and at least left me appreciating what RTD was trying to do, but... they're cut. So what we're left with is a guy who's mean to like half of his friends for very little cause (and when that half is made up of two Black characters and one queer character while the other half are all white and straight), and who causes most of his own problems (his and Rose's attitudes leading to Queen Victoria forming Torchwood -> Torchwood finds the breach at Canary Wharf and makes it bigger -> the Doctor and Rose have to intervene and get separated VS. the Doctor deposes Harriet Jones -> the Master steps into the power vacuum caused by Ten changing the timeline -> The Year That Never Was happens and puts Martha, her family, and Jack all through hell Fight!), and who very rarely gets called out on most of this in a way that sticks.

Favorite moment: Can't think of a specific one right now, but it probably involves Donna somehow.

Idea for a story: I wrote a ton of Ten/Donna stories a number of years back and kind of burned myself out on it (plus the general negativity of RTD fans towards the newer eras killed some of my enjoyment of that era in reverse), but maybe I'll get around to writing more for them someday. Or maybe just something where Martha gets to be awesome instead.

Unpopular opinion: He and "Fourteen" are the same guy, and RTD will never convince me otherwise.

Favorite relationship: Donna's the only person I can really tolerate him with, her and Wilf really, so that seems to be my answer. Good thing they're in the upcoming specials! All joking aside, whether you see it as platonic or romantic, he and Donna just had the best dynamic, and in RTD's own words it was the most "equal" partnership the Tenth Doctor had. Which just makes me feel bad for Rose and Martha, honestly, but... it definitely comes across that way in the show to me.

Favorite headcanon: I think he often knows his behavior is in the wrong but is one of those people who refuses to apologize for anything and instead just withdraws from the people he hurt to punish himself... which is again sorta an interesting character choice but unaddressed or uncritiqued just makes me think he kind of deserves to be alone, yeah.

FMA

Alphonse

First impression: First read this series in high school, so it was probably "Wow, this guy and his brother are so cool, but their story's so sad! I hope they get their bodies back!"

Impression now: Wow, this guy and his brother are so cool, and they've gone through some really sad stuff! I'm so glad they got their bodies (mostly) back!" For Al specifically, he's so great. Both the nicest but the sassiest mf you will ever meet. His and Ed's brotherhood is Best of All Time, even and especially when he's being a little shit to his big bro.

Favorite moment: Nothing makes me laugh harder when the Elric Bros are telling Mustang to leave the forest where Gluttony is, because you expect it from Ed but Al's just so mean to Roy there, it's hysterical.

Idea for a story: Nothing comes to mind at the moment because I just love the original story so much it's hard to know what I'd add!

Unpopular opinion: I don't like Al/Mei and kinda find Mei's reasons for switching her crush from one brother to the other to be extremely shallow. I'd prefer if they got to know each other better as they grew up but just remained friends.

Favorite relationship: If the answer to this is anything but Ed (and vice versa) it's Wrong.

Favorite headcanon: I think Al both loves and resents Ed for trying to take on so much as the older brother.

So yeah, this one is probably a bit all over the place, and I'm fairly certain we won't see eye-to-eye on everything here, but I hope you find my answers interesting at least!

[thekingofworems]

More of my bois because<3333

[marley-manson]

I live for controversy lmao

but to dig into this bc it’s actually really interesting to me, it’s like, I wouldn’t actively call them masc + fem because neither are either when it comes to actual gay culture, and both are on the masc side to some degree when it comes to basic default gender expression, and both have fun playing up their feminine attributes within the context of the show's satirical take on masculinity, making the jokes, doing the bits, showing off their disdain for aspects of masculinity, etc.

Like I love all those Trapper moments you mention (Hawkeye’s “me and the missus” in As You Were is another good one). I think his “football injury” was actually a hemorrhoid lol but yeah like, he’s chill. He can be comfortably feminine. I can imagine him borrowing his wife’s frilly apron to cook breakfast in the morning, or doing drag for fun, or whatever. My headcanons don’t tend to stretch too far in terms of gender identity, but there’s more than enough material to play with there for both of them.

But in the show more often than not hawk/trap do tend to fall into wife/husband fem/masc bottom/top roles when it comes to the jokes and roleplaying and I kinda dig that honestly. Something about Trapper being a more overtly masculine counterpart to Hawkeye, even if in a way that gets subverted with Trapper not actually being much of a jock after all, and enjoying the feminine jokes as well, lends itself to like... seeing some of the gay jokes as not just an extension of femininity, but a different form of subversiveness. If Trap can be part of these jokes from a more masculine perspective at times, yk, it adds a certain je ne sais quois.

Also like the fact that Trapper isn’t like super manly and often has those moments that subvert his masculine vibe also kind of dodges that type of classic inherent no homo w/ he-man dudes doing gay/camp bits, where it’s the contrast that’s funny and there’s no danger that it’s real. Margaret’s textually stronger than him, he had to cheat to win a boxing match, he’ll happily let Hawkeye lead him in a dance, etc. He’s a really interesting happy medium in all this, basically lol.

the piercintyres deserve some drama and infighting as a treat - those of you who believe trapper is the masc one and hawkeye is the femme come say that to my face 

[marley-manson]

so many shitposts about how fucked up bj is, so little fic or longform meta about how fucked up bj is 😔

it's like 2 sentence tumblr post: bj is the zodiac killer, bj would accidentally write house of leaves, bj casually gaslights hawkeye regularly, bj has a volcano under there ready to blow just like sidney says, bj would verbally destroy hawkeye given the slightest provocation

beejhawk fic or meta post: bj is the best most caring partner ever, everything he does is for hawkeye's benefit even when hawkeye doesn't know it, bj would never casually even make fun of hawkeye he pays attention to all his jokes and knows his true feelings deep down and caters to them so considerately with months of planning, bj would do anything for hawkeye no matter what etc etc etc etc

and i mean i'm not asking for secret serial killer bj (though ngl i would read that lol) but yk. dude's got some major flaws largely related to not being supportive of hawkeye and clashing with him and acting out in some pretty wild ways, and that's a shitload more interesting than idealized bland caretaker bj who understands squirmy awkward baby hawkeye better than hawk understands himself, and i wish it made the crossover from shitpost to serious fandom creative output sometimes

[amrv-5]

@marley-manson thanks for the WIP sharing tag.....!! yet another chunk from The Long Fic below the cut. 

i’ll tag @pomegranate @theblob1958 @mashbrainrot and @kaviiinsky (if you want and also if you. don’t write fic .... SOWWY ignore this)

Enjoy BJ having a pleasant morning by sneaking out of church:

They spent the rest of the service outside, with Erin jumping around in BJ’s jacket like one of the superheroes in Radar’s comic books. BJ tried and failed to recite a poem he’d often traded with Hawkeye to her—he kept getting lost halfway through the second stanza, and Erin had taken to gleefully repeating the last word of every line, which was as cute as it was thought-derailing. 

“Here come I to my own again,” BJ started again. “Fed, forgiven and known again. Claimed by bone of my bone again, and cheered by flesh of my flesh.”

Erin took a few toddler-wobbly steps down the stairs, and started dragging BJ’s jacket through parking-lot gravel. 

“The fatted calf is dressed for me, but the husks have greater zest for me…” he said, trailing off. He tried to imagine Hawkeye, sleep-deprived and bitter over a tray of poisonous-looking C-rations. 

He recalled Hawkeye’s voice as vividly as he was able, the timbre, the inflection, the way he elided consonants when he was tired, and the vexing half-stanza came to him almost immediately. 

“So I’m off with wallet and staff to eat the bread that is three parts chaff to wheat, but glory be!—there’s a laugh to it, which isn’t the case when we dine.”

Hawkeye’s voice was sonorous and soft, even coming to him from months in the past. 

Erin dropped his suit in favor of picking up a piece of gravel that was partially quartz. 

“Glory be, there’s a laugh to it,” BJ repeated to himself as Erin held the quartz out for his inspection. 

He held it to the light, admiring the way the light refracted through the crystal. “Beautiful,” he said, and handed the rock back to Erin. “Good find.”

“Diamond,” Erin said. 

“Quartz,” BJ said. 

Erin tilted her head.

“Quartz,” BJ said, “is a type of mineral. It’s what we call igneous—” he paused, and let her sound the new word out— “which just means that it was made when magma inside of the Earth cooled.” He tapped his cheek. 

“Do you know what magma is?” he asked. 

Erin shook her head. 

“What about lava?” he asked.

Erin’s face lit up. “Volcano,” she said. “Like hot laba.”

“Lava,” BJ said, enunciating carefully. “Well, it’s called lava when it’s outside. When it’s still inside the ground, it’s called magma. Anyway, the point is, when that melted rock—”

“You can melt a rock?” Erin asked, eyes ablaze with interest. 

“Yes,” BJ said. “That’s what metal is, and lava.”

Erin appraised the cars around them with renewed interest. 

“Anyway,” BJ said, smiling. “When that melted rock cools off, sometimes we get minerals like quartz. Actually, usually we get minerals like quartz. That rock you found is one of the most common minerals on Earth.”

“Common,” Erin repeated. 

“It’s everywhere,” BJ elaborated. “You can find it all over the place. It isn’t particularly valuable, or special.”

Erin looked at the stone in her palm. “But it’s pretty.” 

BJ cleared his throat, and then scooted down a few steps. He laid a hand on her shoulder, and then planted a kiss on her forehead. “I love you. Did you know that?”

“Love you,” Erin said offhandedly, looking for more quartz in the parking lot grit. 

BJ leaned back on his elbows and took in the sun and the peace and the vivid blue of the sky while Erin occasionally exclaimed over finding new and interesting rocks. 

[quordleona03]

Tumblr won't let me answer the same ask twice: Klinger/Mulcahy

For some reason, tumblr won't let me answer the second ask by clicking answer. The first ask is here.

marley-manson asked: bj/hawkeye and/or klinger/mulcahy for the ship ask meme

Okay! Klinger/Mulcahy - Do I Ship It?

Yes, I Ship It!

What made you ship it?

Remember that time with Klinger and the live grenade he was going to frag Frank Burns with, and Mulcahy taking the grenade off him and never telling anyone - just as he never told anyone that he'd got the wind knocked out of him with a blow to the stomach in a fight between Burns and Klinger. Mulcahy saved Klinger's life (and Frank Burns, and anyone standing next to Frank Burns).

I think of Klinger showing up to Mulcahy's early morning Mass, every week: stealing Bibles for Mulcahy from a hotel: wanting Mulcahy to see him in the suit he was wearing when he got drafted so that Mulcahy will remember him as a man in a nice suit.

I don't think Mulcahy would break his vows for Klinger and I'm sure Klinger wouldn't ask him to. But I love their affection for each other - I can believe Mulcahy and Klinger sitting at the movies together kissing and holding hands. And ending with Mulcahy marrying Klinger to Soon-Lee ("don't do it, Father! Three's a crowd!") and asking Klinger to name his children after him. Maybe Klinger did.

They're friends who love each other and love kindness. Both of them would give the shirt off their back to help someone else.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

They're the two kindest, gentlest people in the unit.They're both slightly off-set gender - Mulcahy by being a professional celibate: Klinger by crossdressing. Mulcahy is professionally a pacifist and volunteered to serve as a chaplain: Klinger is a committed pacifist who had to be drafted. They'd never have met except at the 4077th, but it's impossible not to see that they'd like and respect each other wherever they met. (Their relationship in AfterMASH is one of the things I genuinely like about the first season of that show.)

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I don't think it's been written enough to have an unpopular opinion! I think if they had a clash, it would be over the number of times Mulcahy talks someone into going back to the front instead of deserting, whereas Klinger would happily give the deserter food, fake ID, and look the other way when they stole a jeep or bummed a ride in an ambulance.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Charles & Hawkeye

Thank you anon! And thank you to @marley-manson @majorbaby and @charleshawk4077 who also all asked me about this same pairing. Feeling very beloved amongst the CharHawkers this week <3 My friends and allies from a neighboring land to which I venture gladly and often <3

Sidenote I wish that highlight color was blue but I couldn’t figure out how to get a colored highlight tool in any fucking program I know so I had to use the stupid yellow snipping tool highlighter. Life is so fucking hard when you have to have everything be Just Right but also you’re incompetent. But we’ve all seen The Light That Failed so moving on.

So these two are sooooooooooooooooooo

Listen. I’m just gonna say it. Hawkeye/Charles has about as much canonical evidence as Hawkeye/BJ to me. Like there’s more Hawkeye/BJ content/fodder/moments/whatever purely quantitatively because they have more scenes together but in terms of the level of homoeroticism and bonding and tenderness and all that, qualitatively Hawkeye/Charles is on equal footing. You know what I mean? Obviously the dynamic is super different but just in terms of the quality. I mean look at all these tropes. Enemies to friends to lovers. Rivals. Clown and straight man comedy duo. The Round One And The Pointy One. It’s almost too easy.

Sometimes I think that’s why it’s not a personal passion of mine, even though its fantastic potential is obvious to me. It’s kind of the same problem as Donna/Charles. It’s just too easy. It feels like Charles speedruns his character development in these two relationships a bit, compared to the rest of his character arc (as much as he has one lmao). I’ve talked before about how when it comes to fanfiction, I don’t require the whole slowburn play by play for these ships, but in canon the cute moments do sometimes feel, not unearned, but not earned quite enough. Especially since the constrictions of the episodic sitcom format means Charles’ development and Hawkeye’s treatment of him completely regresses whenever the plot necessitates.

In the end it also ties back to my main Charles grievance. Hawkeye (and everyone else by extension) is somehow always treating him both too kindly and too cruelly. It grates on me, you know? Like the yellow highlighter. 

But in spite of all that: excellent duo, obviously. The chemistry is fantastic, every episode centering on their relationship is a total classic, all their moments together are memorable. The fandom really DOES sleep on this one, and it genuinely puzzles me! CharHawk nation rise!! RISE!!!

[nimuetheseawitch]

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

I was tagged by @marley--manson​

Out of the Blue: The color faded out of his world with every drop of blood on the sand. 

Dear Rodney: Rodney generally avoids the mail - he hasn’t received any personal written mail in years now that everyone he knows uses email.

Dear John: Mitch and Dex made fun of him when they realized all his letters were technically Dear John letters, especially when they found out Nancy actually began every letter that way.

Sinew and Satin: "Ugh, this is disgusting."

Autopilot: Due to time differences on either side of the gate, he’s been up for 37 hours straight, and all he wants is to collapse onto his bed face first.

AC/DCs (What about those who swing both ways?): To be fair, the running and violence were pretty significant reasons why Rodney McKay hadn't wanted to join Sheppard's gate team.

The McMurdo Chess Club: As he came in through the garage, Rodney heard Jeannie talking to someone, and it took him a few moments to realize that someone was Sheppard.

Defined: “Aagh! Major, why are you so– so–”

I'm missing you like I used to: Peg pores over the letters at night when BJ has to take a night shift and Erin's sleeping.

Sitting here tonight: Margaret wrote him letters like clockwork once a week, starting almost as soon as he made it back to the States.

Wow, I really like letters. This is not news to me, but 4/10 of these stories are about letters. I’m also glad the one explicit one starts with “Ugh, this is disgusting.” That’s a really appealing way to start porn. I’m not sure what all this says about my writing, but I definitely see some patterns.

Anyone should feel free to consider themselves tagged.

[majorbaby]

kinktober 2023 ✨

i've shared a few of these fics throughout october, but i wanted to do a roll-up of everything i posted last month

thank you @marley-manson @persianflaw and @rescue-ram for supporting in various ways - editing, helping to create prompts and chatting with me about many of these pieces <3

all fic is hosted on ao3, rated E and tagged for content within the body of each fic

Aphrodisiacs - Trapper/Hawkeye

First time - Margie Cutler/Edwina Ferguson

Face sitting - Margaret/Trapper

Sex pollen - Hawkeye/BJ

Stuck in a wall - Trapper/Hawkeye

Mutual masturbation - Margaret/Helen

Bondage - BJ/Peg

Spitroasting - Hawkeye/Trapper/Oliver

Feminization - BJ/Trapper

Frottage - Hawkeye/Frank

Pegging - Ginger/Trapper

CNC - Hawkeye/Trapper/Margie

Impotence - Trapper/Hawkeye