#a trapper complex will do that to you

[ninjafuuzz]

the evil stache bj propaganda

[youngpettyqueen]

BJ and Trapper would have the most insufferable but lovable frat bro energy as a duo and nothing will ever convince me otherwise

[blessyouhawkeye]

reports of bj's trapper complex are greatly overstated but in the middle of crashing out about the shattering of his heteropatriarchal fantasy that man really did turn to hawkeye go i'm wildly jealous of your friend i've never met because he built the symbol of freedom we keep in our shared home with you oh and another thing about my wife. what else were we supposed to do other than start seeing visions

[beej-honnecticutt]

Further explanations in the tags! 🫶🏼

[cedarin]

Heyyy i really like your tf2 caveman au, I also really like the engineer from tf2 so I was thinking about how he would go about it and I think he would be like a trapper, I don’t think you can make one to one copy’s of his machines but like traps and maybe he could have an little thing rigged up so when you step on a little thing it fires a mountain of arrows at y’a. Idk trapper engie

( also I really like the pyro design, especially thinking of pyro doing the fire breathing thing and it coming outta the mask so they look more like a dragon then a man )

HIhi thank you so much I'm really glad you like my au and my designs!

Actually im keeping engineer for last cause hes gonna be the hardest one to create. I already got so many suggestions reddit and tiktok so here are my very rough ideas.

Dispenser- i feel the dispenser would be some kind of totem. i like they idea "horn of plenty" like imagine a skull that gives the mercs bones, rocks to repair their weapons and also meat to heal them. Or just simply shaman magic healing them.

Sentry- now sentry is a bit tricky. People on reddit suggested he would tame animals , but I want to keep his craftiness in my au so yes the traps seem like the best way.

One of my huge inspirations for this au is Far Cry Primal and there is one character "Wogah" that creates traps and is also really crafty like engi so i might base engi on him.

I think making a trap that shoots arrows is far too complex, but the part with rigged thing i like that.

Teleporter- straight up shaman powers, just a totem that teleports you when you step inside it.

[trueshredguitar]

I saw your post tags about transitioning would save Hawkeye pierce and I’m very curious, say more (if you’d like)

hawkeye has a lot of scenes that convey gender nonconformity under a humorous lens. sometimes it’s scenes implying that he’s sexually or romantically attracted to men; these scenes aren’t just “haha he’s expressing attraction to men,” they’re often based around the premise of hawkeye being a wife, being a woman, being pursued/“claimed,” and a shocking amount of references to pregnancy? see: “i know you’re a general and i’m just a captain but i wanna have your baby! i’ll kiss all your stars!”

i.e. the joke being made is about hawkeye liking men but it’s RARELY phrased as him being a homosexual man, it’s OFTEN phrased as him being a heterosexual woman

and sometimes it’s simply scenes calling him a girl or making references to him being soft/feminine/emasculated. often times he will make these jokes HIMSELF and call himself an aunt, a mother, a girl, demure or other adjectives that women were socialized to aspire to in the era. his friends will often refer to him like this without any hint of mocking, just lightheartedness (trapper referring to him as “miz hawkeye”)

i apologize that i don’t have the links right now but if you go into my archive and look in my “mash” tag there are video compliations of a lot of these moments, and the compliations don’t even include all of them

also imo these moments hawkeye has a) contrast with klinger’s relationship to his femininity/gender nonconformity, as he is all about playing with outward presentation, and b) compare with margaret’s relationship to HER gender. which, margaret’s gender by itself is an absolutely wildly progressive examination of womanhood where she is allowed to be “masculine” in many aspects of her life while still asserting herself that she is a WOMAN and always will be despite what she does, or how her life, career, or personality looks. that SHE is the arbiter and determinator of her gender and not how much she keeps into the femininity box. i wish i had concrete examples of why i think this, but it’s been a little bit since i watched the show and i think it’s mostly me reading too much into things

i think also hawkeye’s disassociation issues and complex ptsd is really like. advanced in contrast to other people in the 4077th. he’s the main character for a reason and that’s because he’s the one with the deepest emotional wounds and the drunkest, promiscuous, saddest, most insomniatic doctor in the place. there had been psychological issues in place before he had been sent to korea and none of them were very cut-and-dry as we find.

in conclusion i think the fictional man with noted androgynous presentation who flouts gender conventions as well as masculine army structures and patriarchal power structures and constantly refers to himself as a woman and uses a psuedonym instead of his birth name and has very pronounced psychological issues and self-harming tendencies could be trans in 1950-whatever without good words for it, or be unable to in any way shape or form live authentically, and i think being able to be a woman would have probably made hawkeye’s life just a little bit easier. maybe transitioning wouldn’t save her because estrogen won’t airlift you out of korea but like maybe hawkeye would be a little less buffeted by the outward winds of the world. if any part of the world wouldn’t have buffeted her harder for it, anyways.

i mean, one of mash’s biggest themes at the end of the day is that we’re trapped in the time loop, a small and restrictive and violent thing set up by forces outside of our control that will hurt us if we defy them or dare to do anything the loop doesn’t already contain. and it hurts everyone, all the time, and no one knows why we keep doing it, only that we have to. and hawkeye’s the central victim of this. the time loop is war, the time loop is gender, the time loop is the american empire, the time loop is religion, the time loop is being who you are, forever, as They have forced you to be

[regular-gnome]

I love the new comic so much! Not only is it breathtaking on its own, but it adds delicious moral complexity to the collection incomplete verse. The Archivists eliminating all the titans is still very much not a good thing, but now we can see that the titans were far from paragons of virtue. Subjugating and extracting tribute from the populace. The titans may have considered themselves benevolent overlords, but overlords all the same.

Just this one comic gives a window into why the locals might have been down with joining the Archivists hunting the titans down. Conflict is so much more interesting when neither side is fully right or wrong and I'm thrilled to see this will be so much more complicated than "Archivists bad, Titans good,".

super happy you enjoyed it:P it took aaaa while to finish

But yeah, something I found interesting is that with creatures like Titans living among witches, there is a clear power imbalance between them, something that has many ways to go about. Especially considering how differently they are perceived by two groups of witches. On the Boiling Isles, they were seen as a source of all that's good amazing kind creatures of immense power, while Titan Trappers talked about them more like monsters. I like the idea there were societies or cults built around differnt titans, and the differences between how everyone interacted were more based on the personalities of those involved - leading to diffrent views on titans by the groups. And I know a cult focused on killing titans isn't going to be a source of reliable information on the titans. This is more about how they might have been perceived to make space for a third party to convince a group that murder isn't such a bad idea (it is, please don't)

Another thing is that all characters are people, not in the "humans" sense but there arent really levels of sentience. All characters have their own minds, whether they are titans, archivists, witches, etc. It's just different circumstances and abilities, and if the stakes were smaller and everyone was forced to sit down and reflect on what they were doing, it might have ended up much less deadly

The screens are from King's tales of his past that were very much kids imagination, but I like the idea that somewhere in Kings nursery those depitons were drawn showing a diffrent titan and it fueled his story. Debatable if it was an accurate and not a demonised depition though

[i-just-give-you-the-vidya-songs]

The song is "The Trapper and The Trader" from the game 'Inscryption', a 2021 roguelike deck building game developed by Daniel Mullins Games and published by Devolver Digital. Originally released on Windows, later released on Linux / macOS / PS4 / PS5 / Switch in 2022 and Xbox Series X/S in 2023.

-Submission by @chzdavmpr

[lola-andheruniverse]

WIP Saturday - Caryl Fanfiction Rec

Dear fellow carylers, today's WIP is a fic that I'm slowly consuming because it's so damn poetically eerie I keep going back and forth, rereading and contemplating passages. A Resting Echo, written by @thegratefulsouth, is posted on 9Lives and AO3.

Summary: Years after leaving Ed, Carol buys a haunted house in Maryville, East Georgia. Daryl, who is making a living as a hunter and trapper, selling furs and other animal products, lives next door. AU Non ZA

Rated: E Word count: 54.456 (11 chapters of?) Published: May 28, 2024 - WIP Our author is doing such a good job with this story! It's very emotional and full of rich detail and imagery, so you as the reader can become truly absorbed by what our favorite characters are experiencing. The way Carol and Daryl connect is as endearing as interesting. I love how drawn they are to each other and how important Carol's haunted cabin is to their bond. Also, I'm only on chapter five and it's great that some secondary characters from TWD have already appeared to enrich the story (Alden! *o* Eugene!). But the most important participation of all is hers and hers alone: ​​Sophia. But not any Sophia, an adult Sophia! Imagining her all grown-up and having a full (albeit complex) relationship with her mother is incredibly touching. For this reason alone, this WIP is a must-read.

Please, go read it, dear fellow caryler. And, if you can, leave a review/kudos. I'm sure it'll be deeply appreciated.

[tobiasdrake]

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 82 - Some Leeway for Megasmith

Well, this morning was a complete unmitigated disaster and now we have feuding cliques. That's great. Sure to make our job go so much smoother.

Fucking A-Team embarrassed me in front of the cool weirdos! And the fucking B-Team embarrassed me in front of the surprisingly reliable douchebags! I got it from both sides!

But. Okay. We have new facilities to check out and then hopefully some Free Time. Let's go see who's killing who and where.

My money's on a new way to upgrade our abilities. Maybe increase our stats or something.

Though if we're going to start jamming mystery fluids into our spinal columns or something, we'll need to test it and make sure it's safe. Fortunately, I see a volunteer ready and eager to be our guinea pig.

But I'm going to use Ima instead.

Oh good, the assassin is laughing maniacally. That always means good things for the population of their immediate vicinity. And very good things for the shallow grave industry.

Yeah, you'd be surprised how lucrative a business model it is to dig six-foot holes anywhere on-demand, no questions asked and no in-person meetings with the client.

On paper, they're contractors for laying pipe and sanitation and stuff but. Well. If you know, you know.

So you're going to be our bio mechanic, huh? I suppose that makes a certain degree of sense. Not as much as Tsubasa as our mechanical mechanic, but some.

OH COOL WE'RE DOING DRUGS

Whew

I thought we were gonna have to like cut ourselves open and get cyborg implants or some shit. But no, this is where we make the "Attack Potion" and "Defense Potion" and stuff that the B-Team had at their school. Okay, I get what this place is. It's a glorified pharmacy.

I don't need anything from here because I'm a straight-edge but be sure to let the others know. Several of them could use a chill pill or two to take the edge off. And Shouma needs about five stimulants.

THIS IS THE FATE OF HUMANITY, NOT THE FUCKING OLYMPICS, TAKUMI

WE ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO COMPETE FAIRLY WITH THE BING-BONG BANDITS.

Why do you have to suck the oxygen out of every room?

Oh, no, there it is. There's the cyborg stuff.

Hey, quick question, do you have like a cool laser eye under that eyepatch? Asking for a friend.

Darumi. The friend is Darumi. She's curious about how it can be used to add complexity to a Killing Game murder.

Yeah, you don't really need it. I'm sure you got the Super Saiyan gene from Taka, so you should be fine as is.

OH MY GOD

THANK YOU

I'm glad someone remembers that we're missing someone.

You're getting stronger, Kako. I can feel the will to assert yourself within you, and it's growing day by day. Give it time. We'll be here when you're ready.

It's almost like this is a military base or something.

Thank you for your service, Kyoshika.

Yeah, as our resident trapper and engineer, you would be at home in a workshop like this, wouldn't you?

That's an interesting hobby of yours, by the way. I don't usually think of alleged autocrats as being so capable in manufacturing.

...now, when you say "involvement", do you mean as investors and business owners or down on the assembly line? Because only one of those seems to explain your skillset.

Oh, never mind. That's actually a pretty satisfying explanation for all the stuff that's suspicious about your claim to an upper-class heritage.

Alright, Megasmith, I'll give you some leeway here. But if it turns out you're full of shit, I'm going to have the biggest "I KNEW IT" for you in the history of fraud.

Only some leeway, however, because that's not how skill development works. At all. You don't get good at manufacturing because of family history, you get good at it by physically doing the labor with your hands enough to develop a talent.

I still think you worked in the factory.

As unreasonable as that demand might sound, when taken with the context of the Revive-o-Matic, it's actually entirely plausible.

When we die, we're back on our feet between waves of enemy attacks. It's super fast. Probably takes like five minutes. If we put the ritual blades on a table right in front of the machine, we could have it done in half an hour.

We're not gonna 'cause fuck her, but I'm just saying that's a personal choice, not a logistical one.

In any case, it's time to go to--

...deal with whatever this is. Darumi or Eito, which will it be? My money's on Eito. Darumi likes to come calling early in the morning while Eito's the late night guy.

Bingo. You guys are like clockwork.

[pomegranate]

Im not disagreeing re Trapper Complex and ppl in fandom centering it just a little too much, but there was a whole episode dedicated in part to bj feeling jealous of people (because hes a massively envious guy generally) and the jealousy he feels towards trapper in particular seems pretty consequential. And also the added meta context that bj is structurally there in the narrative to replace trapper in the first place....i understand that its rlly significant. It honestly felt kind of novel to me that a sitcom character felt the strain of his narrative position that way (as klinger also feels replacing radar in the plot structurally) i feel like a lot of sitcoms try to cover the artiface of these scenarios by staunchly avoiding this context, but mash rlly leans into the skid instead (not just how bj demonstrates a bit of diegetic strain from replacing trapper if that makes sense, but also with killing henry and replacing him with potter so that the characters of mash feel the same apprehension and resentment towards potter that the audience inevitably would by virtue of him replacing henry blake regardless of how henry's character left the narrative) I hope this isnt coming off "um, actually" or unfriendly or something btw! In case thats not apparent id like it stated clearly that this is benign. Im very curious of ur thoughts on this matter tho if ur willing to talk on it?

Hey, no worries, I appreciate the opportunity to clarify! I think my frustration with “the Trapper complex” is that it’s an oversimplification and misrepresentation of why BJ might be jealous of Trapper. I think there’s absolutely jealousy, because Trapper got to be close to Hawkeye and build the still with him AND he got to go home and be with his wife and daughters - he got the best of both worlds. BJ’s only at the 4077th because Trapper went home and he’s miserable because he’s missing out on his daughter’s formative years, and there’s nothing he can do about it. So yeah, he’s definitely jealous of him! But I don’t think it’s because Trapper’s dick was bigger or because BJ thinks that Hawkeye liked him more or whatever, which is how I’ve often see it referenced.

This ties into the thing that irritates me most about the Trapper complex, which is that it’s sometimes used as an excuse to sort of … slam on BJ’s character in a way that I think is straight up dull. Essentially, I hate that fandom constantly pits them against each other. I find it exhausting because there’s no “winner” in those debates! Trapper and BJ serve the show well in their own ways during the time that they’re there. Trapper is a great partner for Hawkeye in the early, more satirical seasons and BJ is a great partner for Hawkeye in the later, more dramatic seasons. It’s not any deeper than that. You may like one more than the other, and that’s okay! But I personally think it’s pointless to compare them and suggest that one of them was better than the other, and too frequently the Trapper complex seems to come up in that context, as though it proves some kind of point about which character is better.

Just wanted to add that the thing that was annoying me & sparked that post in the first place was that multiple people were ignoring the part of the Mike Farrell interview clip where he fully admitted that he was wrong in thinking that the role he would eventually fill wouldn’t be difficult! He owns up to his own hubris and I think that was very sexy of him.

SORRY for the wall of text but I hope this makes my perspective clearer!

OH AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION -

I totally agree that it’s neat that MASH fully acknowledges the characters that came before! It’s great that BJ does show conflicted feelings about who came before him. I just think calling it the Trapper complex does a disservice to what is ultimately a really well-built characterization of a young father who’s been pulled away from his family, is all.

[arokel]

Hi I already said this in the ao3 comments but I genuinely cannot tell you how much I loved Goodnight, Sweet Princess. Your prose is so so good and your characterization is fantastic and. ugh. ough. You said in your notes that you're a beejhawk guy primarily but you write a fantastic Trapper (likely thing for a guy normal about Trapper to say). h. have you ever. considered beejtraphawk (likely thing for a guy whose main MASH ship is beejtraphawk to say). 👀 Proselytizing done I just needed to give you another compliment on that fic because it was phenomenal

IT'S SO FUNNY YOU BRING THAT UP because I have actually been rotating something beejtraphawk-esque for the past few days but it is... logistically complex. to say the least. so I'm hoping that if I just keep rotating it all of the logistical challenges will smooth themselves out and I won't have to sit down and actually untangle them? surely this will work. (relatedly do you know of any uhhhhhhhh show timelines that try to put the episodes in real-world order? understanding of course that this intersperses BJ/Potter and Trapper/Henry episodes but that's hopefully sort of the point)

but thank you SO much, I was very nervous to join (to me) a bigger fandom after years of 10-person fandoms but everyone has been so welcoming and kind! I like it here 🥰

[thebreakfastgenie]

Hawkeye for the character ask game please ❤️

How I feel about this character

"Character of all time" is perhaps played out, but... I love this character. He's complex and interesting and shaped like that. He's one of my favorite characters ever. He's from Maine! He has one of the best character names of all time.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Margaret

Frank

Trapper

Charles

Bigelow

Carlye (not endgame)

Inga

I'm also a big fan of Hawkeye/OC, especially Female OC but Male OC too

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Hawkeye and Trapper probably takes the cake, but I also love his dynamics with Radar, Klinger, and Sidney.

My unpopular opinion about this character

This is tricky because there's a lot of fanon that I agree with the broad strokes of but disagree with the details, or feel it's taken too far. I'm a fan of exploring his trauma; I think he has PTSD and he's still going to have an adjustment, but I don't think he's a broken bird.

I don't think he's overly political. I don't think he's read theory, I don't think he throws around words like imperialism. He certainly has political opinions but I don't think they're ovelry sophisticated. I think he's much more of a mainstream liberal than a leftist and he's definitely not a communist (though people like Flagg would call him one). I think his strong anti-war feelings come from a more basic moral place of hating death and violence and his anti-bigotry views come from a similar place. I think that's an important part of his character, because the show is trying to say that the horror of war should transcend politics, that everyone should be as horrified by it as Hawkeye is.

I don't think he's especially feminine, I think he has a lot of masculine traits and he's a man who's very comfortable in his masculinity which makes him willing to explore more feminine traits too, because he's not afraid of being "less" of a man. I think most of his gender-nonconformity is about about rebelling against authority much more than gender expression. Even his more feminine traits feel like more of a statement of what a man is allowed to be.

I don't think he's a bottom and I hate the bratty bottom characterization (he's vers; I can buy bottom-leaning but he definitely enjoys topping).

The last thing he would ever do is sit around pining for someone who wasn't available. I don't think fandom consciously characterizes him as a pining love martyr, but a lot of ship fic/fanon relies on that characterization, so it's very popular.

I don't think he was wrong in Fallen Idol, Commander Pierce, or Bottle Fatigue, but I don't think he's a saint who's never wrong.

I think a lot of his friends treat him badly in the later seasons, especially 8-11, and he doesn't deserve it.

I'm not sure what the popular view on this is these days but I feel very strongly that Hawkeye was raised culturally New England protestant but agnostic.

I think he wants to get married and have kids someday, just not yet, and he probably does eventually.

Of course, my least popular opinion is that he has no romantic feelings for BJ whatsoever.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish he'd gotten a medal! You could get a great storyline out of his attempts to avoid it. Unlike BJ's bronze star storyline, it wouldn't be out of guilt, it would be purely because he doesn't want to be honored by the military.

[rescue-ram]

trapper: 17, 18, 19

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

🤔 Trapcahy. It's hypothetically got some interesting parallels- they have similar interests and backgrounds but different personalities- and I've enjoyed fics with this ship, but they just have so little canon interaction I can't get Bananas about it, and I prefer either of them with Hawkeye 😅

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Weird pick but first relationship that came to mind was Ginger. Probably the closest Trapper comes to having respect for a woman, their interactions are sparse but consistently sweet/protective, and them being implicitly an interracial couple feels significant for both the time the show is set and the time the show was shot. It occurs to me I might've misread the verb admire in this sentence kxkxjdj but Trapper is an irreverent character, he doesn't have an excess of admirable relationship, but he is least misogynistic with Ginger and I appreciate that :'3

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

I'm not a fan of TrapMarg. Like, on a raw animal instinct they both think the other is hot level, that's canon, and I think they have a couple very sweet funny scene together. But I also think Trapper is genuinely mean to her at several points, doesn't respect her, and I think that if they actually tried to have a relationship they would bring out the worrrrrrrst in each other's gender complexes. Like in Comrade in Arms, when after they sleep together Margaret starts expecting Hawkeye to be manly? She would do that to Trapper but he'd absolutely go along with it and be so misogynistic and terrible to her. And literally all of movie!Trapper's worst crimes are directed at her and motivated by sexual aggression and like, that absolutely colors my perception of this ship.

[chaigirly]

Egon Spengler

Oh my good looking boy ⬅️ Link

Preview ⤵️

Saying you loved Egon was an understatement.

You adored this man with your whole heart, even if you didn’t understand most of the things he’d talk about it.

“So how do the ghost trappers work exactly?” You ask, walking with Egon downstairs to load todays catch into the containment unit.

You knew that would spark one of his rants, going on about things you couldn’t even repeat due to the complexity of his vocabulary.

You didn’t care though, it was intentional.

Just because you didn’t get it didn’t mean you couldn’t listen and try to understand.

Plus you loved his voice and the little glimmer in his eyes whenever he talked about something he was passionate about.

“When they’re activated by spiritual energy, they generate a localized electromagnetic field that attracts and captures spectral entities.

The trap opens to create a containment vortex, which, assisted by our proton streams, draws the ghost inside.

Once captured, the trap seals automatically, securing the ghost within a stable containment grid to prevent its escape,” he says as if it was common knowledge and you hadn’t zoned out while staring at him.

Oh he was so cute when he talked about anything to do with spiritual activity.

This hadn’t been the first time you had asked him about it and it certainly wouldn’t be the last time either.

How could you not?

He loved talking to you about it even if he knew you didn’t completely understand.

And you loved listening to him.

Well, staring at him and daydreaming would be more accurate.

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[bisexualdawnsummers]

DOWN SOUTH. And MASH if you're up for it. I want to know every opinion you've ever had.

Thanks for the ask! <3

I assumed that you meant due South, which I answered in another ask here :)

As for MASH:

my favorite female character: Margaret Houlihan. She’s such a complex, flawed, mess. She can be downright unlikeable sometimes, and I couldn’t love her more for that.

my favorite male character: Hawkeye (I love him almost as much as he hates war)

my favorite book/season/etc: season 3

my favorite episode (if it’s a tv show): Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde 

my favorite cast member: Alan Alda

my favorite ship: Hawkeye/Trapper. I love how much they delight in each other and always ‘yes and’ each other in any situation. They just have such a natural rapport with each other. You can really feel how they met and instantly clicked in a rare and beautiful way. I love how they were there for each under unimaginably awful circumstances and ‘made it bearable’.

a character I’d die defending: Trapper (I don’t have time for any ‘he didn’t even leave a note’ bs!)

a character I just can’t sympathize with: Colonel Flagg, I guess for a recurring character. But there are a lot of one-off characters that come in that are just plain awful.

a character I grew to love: Charles Emerson Winchester III 

my anti otp: I don’t hate them or anything, but I’d have to say Hawkeye/BJ (sorry, they just do nothing for me)