#hippy thoughts

[inabigworld]

[t00thpasteface]

all of your post are making me want to watch M.A.S.H.... and I do really like stuff involving the korean/vietnam war.... do i do it?

it really is great if you already have experience with other art/fiction created during and after the vietnam war. Apocalypse Now comes to mind, but that really undersells how much of a total fluke MASH was for its time. i mean, it started airing while the vietnam war was STILL HAPPENING, and they HAD to keep it about korea just so they could get on the air, AND this was less than five years after the Hays code ended. it was the 70s, but it was also the 70s, you know?

you NEED to go into this show acknowledging that it was produced in a very very particular window of time; as much as we tend to think of pop media as existing in this anachronistic homogeneity wherein which things remain static for decades, that is not the case, and MASH is very very clearly a product of its time, as everything unavoidably is. general consensus is that the show really "grew the beard" around season 4/5 (the last 2 episodes of s4 are some of my favorite episodes of the whole show) but it's never perfect, and you shouldn't expect it to be. and this too has a metanarrative merit to it. we are all capable of evil (or just saying things in poor taste) even when our intentions are good, etc...

on the other hand, sometimes that's an incredibly impressive thing. watching MASH with a solid lens of its contemporary audience and culture will reveal all sorts of little shocks and rebellions that would seem tame or even regressive to a later audience such as us. if you have a cool parent or older friend/relative to watch this with who was alive at the time of the vietnam war and remembers seeing the dead bodies on the news every night, watch this with them. alternatively, check out commentary online by people in that age range, as well as writer/actor/director commentary if that's your bag (sometimes alan alda was all 3). enjoying antiwar fiction like MASH with that cultural context is like using one of those little decoder lenses on a cereal box or whatever. i said to another asker: "by 70s tv censorship standards, this show was basically on-screen gay sex and flag burning."

it's fucking uncanny when something in MASH strikes you and you can see how little has broadly changed in global politics since. and yes that's a tragedy. but i think there's a corollary to it:

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

Hey, folks!

I'm wondering if I can ask you all for ideas.

I'm moving from the PNW in August and am aiming to get a botanical tattoo of native plants to console me. I'm thinking Western red cedar fronds and trillium or avalanche lilies so far. But I'm also not a botanist and have spent most of my life going "oh! pretty flower!" when I see a pretty flower and then never finding out what heck it's called.

Do any of you have suggestions?

Is anyone out there certain they know exactly what the best-looking PNW fern is?

This will also be my first tattoo, so any advice you have to send my way would be deeply welcome.

[spaltedrat]

polyguns from today ^-^

[sippihippie]

Back when I was 18 and thought I knew everything :)

[inabigworld]

[free-grandmaa]

"While the world is lovemaking to cope with flesh.

I vow to touch the earth with the courtesy of life in mind."

[jazzzzzzhands]

Ohh i could not stop thinking about the one commercial with the Wally plush!! Where he says "Groovy", "Far out", and such!! And if you look up "70's background" There is just soooo much aesthetic suiting of Wally!! So i really really wanted to dress him up in some Groovy clothes!! The fish shoes were his original shoes, but i made them an alt cause they are hard to draw! pfffft! Wally can Dance! He can teach You how to Dance!

Alternate blue glasses, i could not decide on the color of his John Lennon's, so he can have many pairs! Oh and he definitely has a wide wardrobe!!

[bambi-eyes444]

“I don’t really know what kind of girl I am”

[sippihippie]

The best sex I ever had was with my first love’s best friend and until this day I still don’t know if that makes me a bad person or a bad ass bitch

[of-ether]

Anywhere with you.

I can’t explain where I’ve been or where I’m going, I’ve been on a mental emotional and physical life trip.

Bowing down, surrendering to all I have left to get me through this season of life— trust.

I’ll be back on the podcast for real this time; things are shifting. Blessed be

[seldompathic]

Every once in a while I remember that a random lady in my hometown bar looked at me with teary eyes and said "Thank you for everything you've been through. It made a beautiful spirit." and I get the urge to live another 8,000 years for her 😭

[creationtrip]

creationtrip

[sylvies-chen]

the carl mention in this ep is still weighing on me so much because it was just so beautiful the way his memory lives on but also it got me thinking: you ever think that lori would be so relieved right now that rick and michonne have found each other because michonne is for rick what lori couldn’t be for him and also because there is at least someone other than rick who is still alive to mourn her son when so many others either can’t or aren’t…

[sharkyy599]

Someone said that Tyrone looks like a hippie.

Whatever mate! He’s my hippie!!

[evanpeterswifeyyy]

If I were a flower, I’d be a Dandelion. I may be a weed, but I’m still strong and beautiful. And I will grow taller than the other plants so I can outshine them 🌼🌟