#klinger the love of my fucking life

[remyfire]

We can have beautiful Klinger moments too as a treat

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I’m doing a MASH rewatch because I’m mentally well, and I am a Hawcahy lover like all good red blooded Americans, but I was curious if you had any thoughts or opinions on Klinger / Mulcahy? Even from Klinger’s second appearance with the grenade scene I found myself watching for their shared scenes, though it’s clearly significantly less popular if AO3 tags are to be believed.

You can also use this to discuss the various Hawkeye ships (of which there are rightfully many) and any other MASH pairings you enjoy or maybe don’t partake in! I’m always here for more MASH content

they are VERY GOOD AND I LIKE THEM. klinger is a LOT of fun and there's definitely some kind of weird circuitous Recognition Through The Other i get with him as a butch lesbian. my whole life i've always felt like i'm some ugly bony man in drag whenever i dress girly so i feel really vaildated seeing how klinger fucking slayyyyyys in whatever he wears and has a blast wearing it. so naturally anything that makes klinger happy makes me happy!!! 🫡

i think i said it before a loonnnng time ago though but i'm just not really much of a multishipper! never have been... idk what it is but once a ship takes root in my brain i don't really multiship any of the people in it. there are very few exceptions to this. i have NO idea why i'm like this but i'm just Very Particular.

and hawkahy just fucking SEIZED me somehow so it got first dibs. my first exposure to mash was catching some season 7 episodes on retro tv, so when i happened to see hawkeye freaking out in a cave and mulcahy volunteering to be helicopter ballast back-to-back, i latched onto mulcahy first like "omg look at that little guy he's trying so hard" and then secondarily looked at hawkeye like "omg it's a womanizing sleazeball with a heart of gold i love those exact guys!!" and my go-to method of shipping is My Favorite x My Second Favorite, sooo that's how the cookie crumbled... :P

also basically as soon as i told my mom i was watching mash she was like “we need to watch the movie!!” and i was weirdly compelled by hawkeye and mulcahy teaming up to save painless??? mulcahy gets shoved out of the frame by the others when he's introduced but seeks out hawkeye later like hey you're the only one i trust to help me... and then it colored how i watched the show afterwards. i was like hang on. really interesting to see where these freaks can find a common ground between them in their respective approaches to pacifism and sacrifice. also my mom ships them. lulz

i also think traphawk and beejhawk are fun too BUT as a lesbian who does a lot of weird gay shit with her 2 straight roommates (one of whom has a bf) because THEY started it, i also find it VERY funny to just interpret hawkeye and trapper/bj with that angle of out-and-proud queer doing weird gay shit with his arguably straight (or latently bicurious) roommates as a form of entertainment/bonding/hazing. bc it's like [leonardo dicaprio pointing.jpeg] like we call each other pookie and slap each other on the ass so whatever hawkeye is doing to those men is just Normal to me

[thebreakfastgenie]

If the MASH seasons were exactly the same except once per season a character got to say "fuck" where would you place each fuck? If it makes it easier to decide this can instead be a version of MASH where all the writing is the same except one "fuck" per season but also the blood/surgery/gore is a little more explicit.

(Note this is a tongue in cheek ask, I am not proposing the show would be better if people got to say fuck, I just think it's a silly fun thing to think about.)

No the show absolutely would be better if people got to say fuck. Literally my one other note after the blood and gore is I wish they could curse.

This is just off the top of my head and there are entire seasons I haven't rewatched recently so this is not like, the ideal version. Just one set of suggestions. I would very much like to hear others!

Season 1: The Army-Navy Game, "Not only are we pinned down by enemy fire, we just got an unexploded bomb in the middle of the fucking compound."

Season 2: Hot Lips and Empty Arms, "But no. I married the army, and what the fuck have I got to show for it?"

Season 3: Officer of the Day, "I have had it with you fucking fruitcakes!"

Season 4: I think Hawkeye says "I really don't give a shit anymore" in The Interview, it might be "I really don't give a fuck anymore," but either way you can't unbleep that because of the format, so it doesn't count, but I wanted to give credit where credit is due.

Change of command, "No, no, no, no! It's not fair! It's not fair! It's my MASH. It's mine! It's fucking mine! Mine, mine mine!"

I just wanna see Frank say fuck and I think that would drive him to it.

Season 5: Hawkeye Get Your Gun, "You love life that little?" "I hate guns that fucking much."

Season 6: Temporary Duty, "Pierce, I never thought the day would come when I would admit this... but, God, I fucking missed you!"

Season 7: Peace on Us, "People are fucking dying out there! You gotta stop it! You can't wait anymore! You can't!"

Season 8: Lend a Hand, "I can't taste the cheese. All I can taste is the fucking mustard."

Let Alan Alda say fuck to his father.

Season 9: The Red/White Blues, "Klinger, I have one more order for you. Forgive me, please." "That goes for me too." "I'll think it over while I'm resting up from my imaginary fucking disease."

Season 10: That Darn Kid when they're explaining what happened to the payroll Hawkeye says "a fucking goat ate it"

Season 11: Hey Look Me Over, "The O. R. is in a fucking shambles!"

Also I do think Hawkeye would hurl multiple fucks at Sidney in Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, but it wouldn't work with just one.

It's surprisingly hard to insert these but I think it would have ruled if they were allowed to write them in in the first place.

[that-one-anxious-mango]

You + Me = Us (1.5: The Filler)

Summary: The aftermath of what you’ve done hasn’t fully sent in..because just as life happens and things occur that will everything seem dark and silent.

Contents: Brunch. Angst. Crying. Medical Emergency. Friends. Allusions to Abortion 🚨 Flashback scene.

A/N: Hello beautiful humans! Hope you’re all well! I wanna first off give a huge thank you to you all for all the love and support you’ve shown the series. It means the world to me that you guys enjoy my little ole’ stories. So in celebration I thought I’d release this filler installment to get you pumped for the ULTIMATE ANGST that the next and final chapter of YM=US. holds. Happy reading!

P.S feel free to send me a letter about the series or comment how you feel or what you think will happen next! Also comment if you wanna be added to the taglist!

Much love *hugs* 💚

Arie

Taglist: @purejasmine,@wacoshuffle

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Somehow after reading the letter a hundred times and crying fifty more, you'd still managed to pull yourself to together to get up and get dressed. 

How? You truly don’t freaking know.

But today you'd agreed to go out to brunch with Alana and, Avery, who was a friend from college you'd just reconnected with at the Glamour party awhile back that you'd went to with Austin.

It was just to catch up with each other for a little bit.

And you were still a woman of your word, so you were honoring the plans.

You were meeting up at the Upside Down Teapot shop down the way in downtown LA.

Since you felt like you couldn’t really drive you paid the expensive ass uber fee from your condo to downtown to meet the ladies.

Once you arrived you ordered a simple green tea that you were certain you weren’t actually about to touch and ventured out to the patio to find your friends waiting.

They both got up embracing you with greetings and love before you took a seat. 

" So, Y/N. How is everything going? Wedding planning, job, new actor fiancée." Avery giddily asked poking your in shoulder.

Still not taking off the sunglasses you had wore you looked to her nodding,          “ Everything is cool. Work is Work. Got offered a promotion though. Beatrice has been helping with most of the bridal stuff and Austin.” You cleared your throat when it had suddenly become dry, “ Austin’s okay. Working right now per usual...so yeah.” You finished.

Avery’s eyes lit up, “ Woah wait a promotion at the script house. That’s exciting. What is it? “ 

“ Um. Just one of the people who works there is retiring and threw my name into the hat to take their spot..it’s not a big deal.” You lied.

Only it was a big deal. It was actually a huge fucking deal. 

Two weeks Prior:

You were a script writer and worked in a writer's room with a few other folks everyday trying to piece together everyone's individual ideas to make the next best possible Oscar worthy work you guys could. You'd walked into your office today at Simon & Tills expecting the day to go like any other. You even had a killer idea that you had prepped to share for the script the B team was currently working on for a Spike Lee small film.

But once you'd got into the room you immediately noticed the way that all of your colleagues were eyeing you down. Some had looks of encouraging smiles while others glanced once at you and quickly shifted your eyes their eyes back to their computers.

Wrapping the hazel sweater around yourself tighter. You could feel your palms starting to get clammy and eyes began to hurt. You already hadn't been feeling the greatest the last couple of days, so whatever this was you hope that it wasn't that bad.

What was going on? What had you done.

Putting a pep in your step you were just about to reach your desk when the door of Cecelia Klinger, the Editor and Chief, pushed open.

" Y/N, do you mind popping in my office for a brief moment." She called out.

Shit. You'd thought.

Instantly a lump the size of a coconut was beginning to form in your throat while you shook your nodded trudging forward while still trying to ignore the dozen pairs of eyes that followed your every move.

Once you shuffled into the office and both of you were seated you started to mentally brace yourself for what was about to happen.

It would be the first time in your life you'd ever gotten fired and you were about to take it like a champ....maybe.......

It really depended on how stern her voice was going to be.

" So Y/N. " She started, " By the way that you're tensely sitting in the chair across from me I can tell that you probably weren't expecting me to call you into my office this morning. " She spoke.

At her statement you started to move around trying to look less uptight.

It only made it worse.

" Well let me start by saying there's no need to be nervous. In fact, I hope you'll find yourself elated by what I'm about to tell you next. "

" Okay." You replied watching her reach down into her desk drawer and pull out what looked to be the rough draft copy of a script alter you'd submitted to be in the final copy of a part of a script for a upcoming project for sony productions.

You didn't know who was producing or directing cause that hadn't been announced yet but you were given some characters and historical background. From there you researched on your own and wrote what you could. What you felt was right.

" This was turned into me by Calum." She stated referring to the office's Junior Editor, " Now. I have to tell you that rarely does Calum ever personally hand me over a single person's work to read. But he did yours. And I can say that I am more than thoroughly impressed. "

oh-oh damn.

You could feel the pit of your stomach start to feel like hills rolling.

Struggling to contain the look of shock on your face, you thanked her

" This prompted me to take a closer look at your portfolio and I must say I never knew that you were behind some of the work I was seeing. The works I liked. " She emphasized.

" And as you know Calum is retiring to spend more time with his husband and children. And when the topic of his replacement came up. So did your name." She dropped.

Now this facial expression of shock on your face, you couldn't hide. You'd never thought your work was that good. I mean you'd written a few things your were largely proud of. But this was completely unexpected. And as far as Callum went, you didn't know he knew your name.

" The way we feel you approach things and this certain insight that you have to you. Is especially refreshing. You don't write what's expected of you by the book. You write with your imagination and feeling. And I need someone like that to oversee the office. But more importantly I need that aspect for our publishing." She explained.

Still you sat amazed waiting for your alarm clock to ring or Adam Sandler dressed in spandex riding a dragon to pop through the wall. Because this had to be a dream.

" So Y/N. I am formally extending you the position of Junior Editor. It’’ll be more hours and more responsibility of course to take in. You can take the time you need to consider. I will need a answer by the end of the month when Callum fully resigns. Though, I truly hope that you'll choose to fulfil. Because I see a great deal of potential in you young lady. " Cecilia stated.

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“ Y/N that’s amazing! Congratulations!” Avery happily clapped.

“ Thank you but it’s not a huge deal.” You passed it off once again, “ And I haven’t accepted yet. I still have a week to decide.” 

A scoff came from across you, “ Don’t let her be modest with you, Avery. Y/N just got offered the junior editor position at the house if she accepts she’ll be the youngest junior editor ever while being one of the most powerful script editors in California.” Alana gloated on your behalf stunned, “ With that being said. Hun, what’s the hold up. Why haven’t you accepted?” She pressed. 

“ Well Lana there are a-lot of things to consider now. There are things and people this could affect.” You said hoping she’d catch your drift.

Eyes bucking Alana said, “ Woah wait a minute. Y-you’re not actually considering saying no are you? After all the work you’ve done.” 

Shaking your head in discomfort you said, “ I don’t really know just exploring my options as you love to say.” You replied.

“ Bu-” Alana started.

Feeling the table tense Avery quickly interjected with a question to steer the conversation elsewhere, “ But speaking of options. Lana aren’t you suppose to be doing the PR for the Met and Diamond Ball this year. How are you going to do both without outshining the other? “ She asked knowing it would send Alana down a deep black whole of explanation.

And it did giving you a break to just sit and think while looking around.

Were you really about to give up your dreams for a man and a child? 

But not just any man and child, your husband and baby?

Did you wanna have this baby?

Is that the right decision? Had you become that type of woman? 

When you looked over a bit away from you, you seen a small family of three people. A woman and a man who in his lap was holding a baby who could've been more than five or six months old. Her mom was playing around with her trying to feed the babe what looked like mashed fruit.

 But every-time she'd bring the spoon to the child's mouth she turned her head making them both laugh. It was almost as if she thought it was a game. Trying again she put the spoon up to her daughter's mouth only this time the man had tickled the little girl under her chin making her laugh and open her mouth. Sliding the spoon in quickly, you watched as the child ate her food and in return her parents clapped along with the smiling baby before leaning over to kiss one another.

Seeing this scene unfold before made you experience a warm and gooey feeling and you couldn’t help the grin that graced your face.

From the way the man and his wife looked at each other, to the laughter the three of them shared at the small little things happening. It made you feel good inside, like this was something you wanted. You couldn't help the way your imagination ran to instead of the man and woman sitting there with their baby, what if it was you and Austin with yours.

Your baby.

The little chickpea sitting comfortably inside your womb.

Something that was made simply from the way you and Austin looked at each other...okay maybe more than just looked. 

But still the thought of that made your heart swell because you wanted that.

You wanted that. You realized.

And nothing else would matter if you had that.

Feeling light headed all of a sudden at your epiphany, you decided to go to the bathroom and get some air so you could muster up the courage to send a text to your husband telling him that when he got home, you were ready to talk.

Getting up you braced yourself on the back of your chair, " H-hey I think I'm gonna go to the bathroom and get a little bit of air. " You informed looking around at your surroundings that as of recent seemed a little less clear.

From where they were sitting both Alana and Avery took note of your shaky stance and flushed appearance. They were immediately concerned.

" Y/N, boo? You okay? You look a little flush." Avery called out.

" Yeah hun maybe you should sit back down." Alana chimed in.

But still you waved them off moving to take some steps, " I'm fine just need so-mme a-"

You never got to finish your sentence because in that moment the entire world went dark and silent.

All from around gasps of horror and concern could be heard as not only Avery and Alana rushed to you, but others around also.

“ SOMEONE CALL 911.SHE’S NOT RESPONDING. LANA SHE’S BARELY BREATHING.” Avery yelled holding you in her arms. “ Y/N..baby..come on...come on honey.” 

In shock Alana made the call practically screeching into the phone to the operator.

From there everything seemed to move in slow motion. 

They continued to trying to wake you until the paramedics showed up and whisked you up and away onto a gurney.

" Ma'am is there someone we should call as her emergency contact."  The EMT asked Alana while the others prepped you to be placed in the ambulance.

" Ummm...." The thought of telling them Austin's name and number had popped into Alana 's brain first, but when a pang of resentment washed over her, she pushed it aside and went a different direction, " Grace Kildeen. It's her older sister. The number is (469) 388-5670. " She informed.

" Okay we'll have someone give her a call. In the meantime would you like to ride in the ambulance with her, ma'am? "

" Of course. Let me just let our friend know. She's over there talking to the store owner right now." She motioned to where Avery was conversing.

" No problem."

Alana then went to go and talk to a shaken Avery who informed she'd be right behind you and had already made arrangements for the cars and everything else.

And before she knew it Alana was in the back of the ambulance holding your hand.

[rescue-ram]

mash, but if you get that multiple times then i'll also say naruto for the ask meme

MASH

my favorite female character

I mean Margaret is peak, but I really enjoyed the little recurring bits of Ginger and Margie in the earlier seasons.

my favorite male character

Trapurr :3c

my favorite book/season/etc

I mean my toxic trait is that the MASH movie is one of my comfort films, and when I'm craving MASH but feel overwhelmed by the number of episodes I just put on the movie. Of the show, my absolute all time favorite season is the 2nd, SO many good episodes in that season.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show)

OR is my all around favorite, Deal Me Out is my personal favorite, and Five O'Clock Charlie is my favorite silly episode.

my favorite cast member

Alan Alda ❤️

my favorite ship

TrapHawk :3

a character I’d die defending

Trapper again lol, I do not want to HEEEEEEEAR about the mfing note or lack thereof kdkdjj. Of all his many sins his friendship with Hawkeye is not to be numbered among them!

a character I just can’t sympathize with

I feel like the easy answers are Charles and Potter, but honestly because they're 'difficult' characters it's a little more interesting as an intellectual exercise to try and figure out their perspective on things. I honestly find BJ harder to sympathize with in a lot of ways because he's meant to be relatable but kind of embodies values of the past that go unchallenged or unexplained in a way that's kind of off putting.

a character I grew to love

Klinger or Charles. As a kid I remember not really liking Klinger for a while and finding him embarrassing or annoying, but I really liked his moment with Mulcahy in Dear Dad (I saw this after the later seasons when the show looped back around to the start in rerun jxjjxkc). I didn't like Charles until my most recent rewatch as an adult. Sidebar but I also misremembered Frank as being way more actively malicious, he's much funnier than I thought as a kid.

my anti otp

BJHawk

Naruto

my favorite female character

We are not exactly spoiled for riches here (🔪🔪🔪 at Kishimoto) My favorite as a kid was Hinata, but I do really enjoy a lot of Sakura's moments.

my favorite male character

Kakashi big time. I thought Lee had the most epic moments as a kid and really enjoyed him, but in a different way- was always way more interested in Lee canon and Kakashi fanon iykwim

my favorite book/season/etc

IDK if this is still cliche but the Zabuza Arc is one of my all time favorite shonen arcs ever. That was the arc that made me completely feral about this manga for like five years straight kdkdkjd. There are many peak moments afterwards that I like more, but as a coherent story arc from beginning to end the Land of Waves/Zabuza Arc is so tight and so good.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show)

🤔 The one that comes to mind is the Gaara Rock Lee fight which was a peak moment for me and also contains one of the earliest moments that made me ship KakaGai lol

my favorite ship

KakaGai for LIFE baby

a character I’d die defending

Honestly none of them they all must pay for their crimes ❤️

a character I just can’t sympathize with

I did not understand most of what happened with Sasuke and Itachi's stories as a kid and tbh I don't really understand most of the twists now. Also Orochimaru getting a redemption arc of any kind made me apo-fucking-plectic and still does fkkcjcjc

a character I grew to love

🤔 Tsunade... I found her annoying/irresponsible/over sexualized when I was younger, but I find her more interesting now.

my anti otp

KakaIru, one of my very first NOTPs ❤️

[marley-manson]

War of Nerves is a good episode, probably one of the best of season 6, which is kind of damning with faint praise lol, but still.

I love the kid Sidney worked on, love how he stays angry and yells at Sidney every chance he gets. Fully 100% support him, fuck Sid up kid, this is something we as an audience need to see imo. I do quite like that despite the show being on board with the 'throw them back in the deep end' attitude to trauma they do acknowledge here that it fucking sucks for the patient.

Sidney also gets the plotline I want Mulcahy to have, ie sends someone back to the front, they get injured and hate him forever. I mean I'd like the someone to die, honestly, but I guess this is the next best thing. At least someone gets this plot.

Kid is played by the same actor as the kid in Mad Dogs and Servicemen, with the very same affliction, but it's not actually the same patient lol. Despite that they still subtly reference Mad Dogs when Hawkeye instantly understands that the kid had hysterical paralysis after Sidney only says he saw 3 of his friends die. They shoulda just made it a real sequel ep and had him blame Hawkeye too, honestly. Cut the Charles/Margaret shit to make room for that. Oh well. Probably would've made the ep a little too crowded, and required too much explanation for an episodic show. Still, I would've liked it lol.

Not a huge fan of the Mulcahy and Sidney scene ('at least Pierce and Hunnicutt's failures only die, when i lose one i've lost a mind :(' 'when i lose one i've lost a soul :(' shut the fuck up lol) but I LOOOOVE Sidney throwing his fatigues onto the bonfire, in implicit acknowledgement that it's the military forcing these horrible no-win situations he puts kids through. I mean I can split hairs about volunteering lol but I won't here. I love the bonfire, no notes.

What else... Klinger's therapy scene was nice. I love Klinger loving fashion and Sidney functionally associating it with life in defiance of death. Plays into my life/death thematic read perfectly. Thank you Alan Alda for being so consistent on that. Radar's scene was also nice, if obvious. Charles and Margaret's were annoying as hell but at least the actors deliver their lines like champs lol, they're always so funny.

[hawkeyeslaughter]

A / T / U

thank you for the ask beloved mutual majorbaby !!! 🫶🫶🫶

— A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

— ugh , y’all know me i’m such a sucker for hawktrap but honestly i’m also down for the hawkeye/trapper/oliver agenda because i LOVE oliver and i miss him every single day of my life . and i always love a good klinger / henry moment ,, as far as friendships go as MUCH as i give bj a hard time i always love a sweet moment between him and margaret and i can’t wait to see that during my rewatch teehee !!

ships from other fandoms !! —

— mcspirk , broppy ( YES i watch trolls and it’s a better franchise than most of them out there do NOT come for me ) , hilson ( although i do think it’s 🤏 overhyped ) , chase/foreman ( bc why do they lowkey have more chemistry than chase/cameron )

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

— you know i do , but i’ll try to give y’all the just a few

— YES henry has dirty mags he keeps in his office for protection but he’s far more worried about keeping his fishing books and gear protected

— radar was one of those double jointed kids in elementary school who was always doing weird stuff with his joints to gross people out

— trapper worked a stint as a mechanic and is a car guy

— bj swears he loses a year off his life everytime someone asks him “ so how’s the weather up there ? “

— closest charles came to swinging at hawkeye was when hawk asked if he wanted his head polished

— hawkeye ate crayons as a kid

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

anyone who has seen any of my posts can infer henry is my favorite so we’re going with three DIFFERENT fandoms buckle up guys

— bones mccoy , star trek

i think bones was my first ever comfort character and it’s because he’s so real . like , he’s just not afraid to call people stupid and i respect him for that . i also like that he’s inherently someone who loves very deeply and wants to help people in every single way he can but it’s also very subtle … like he cares SO MUCH but it’s not in an over - the - top dramatic “ i would die for you “ way ( which he would , undoubtedly ) but more of a “ i love you and cherish you but you’re fucking stupid “ and that’s always been like ,, funny and sweet to me and shows that caring for someone isn’t always being nice to them sometimes you have to be a little cunty .

— elaine benes , seinfeld

— listen it was between her and lorelai gilmore and as much as i love and defend lorelai i love elaine more . y’all the amount of people who have said i’m literally elaine … and it’s a COMPLIMENT because i LOVE HER and you KNOW WHAT ??? i should’ve put her and george on the friends ship list because her and geroge are BESTIES . anyway i love elaine she’s so fucking funny ,, like be mean to jerry yes girl !!!! also she’s so cute i love that she’s so excited and over the top over everything all of the time i love her she’s my baby . is seinfeld even a fandom ? idk but you’re hearing ab it since we’re keeping the older show theme

— james wilson , house md

first of all the FUNNIEST MOTHERFUCKER TO EVER EXIST . second of all he’s MEEEE he’s literally me because i TOO just need people to stay and i also am on the nd meter and no one ever knows what the fuck i’m talking about so !!!!!! he also has the most beautiful big brown puppy eyes i’ve ever seen like okay gorgeous

— SHOUT OUT TO FRANK COLUMBO I LOVE YOU !!!! YOURE ON A GOD TIER YOURE MY FAVORITE EVER THAT JUST GOES WITHOUT SAYINF

[majorbaby]

2, 4, 9, 10, 14, 20

2 . what’s a detail that you would consider insignificant but you like ?

i like very much that trapper and hawkeye compete for the privilege of giving oliver a backrub that one time. i think you giffed it.

4 . what’s your favorite line ?

Hawkeye's response to Wendell, the 16 year-old kid who enlisted as his older brother, after Hawkeye goes back on his word and turns him in:

Wendell: I'm never going to forgive you for this, not for the rest of my life Hawkeye: Let's hope it's a long and healthy hate

9 . episode you could genuinely write an entire essay on ?

many, but one I've been turning over in my head recently is how 'Adam's Ribs' portrays the misery our heroes' situation better than any other episode in the series.

10 . least favorite storyline involving your favorite ( or one of your favorites ) ?

for hawkeye: who knew

for klinger: your retention please

14 . you can get rid of one ( 1 ) episode . which one is it ?

either of the above can go, but for a unique answer, commander pierce.

20 . who would win in a fight , the character you deeply love or the character you cannot fucking stand ( this does not have to be a main character ) ( i will be realistic i promise . no bias 😒😒 )

answered!

[persianflaw]

for mash asks, 6 and 8 and also 11: fave klinger outfit + fave margaret hairstyle

tysm! i ended up almost falling asleep on the couch before succession which is why i took a while to answer these, lol

6. Top 3 favorite episodes?

this is tough. number 1 is probably O.R., the other two are less set in stone. i loved "the late captain pierce", which should come as no surprise to anyone who's known me for a while (i love MCD but even better is a character being presumed dead bc you get the drama and tragedy of MCD with the shock and elation and happy ending of finding out your loved one is really alive... oh man the ending where he's on the phone to his dad :') ). number 3... fuck idk. hmm. oh, maybe "carry on hawkeye", i love when hawkeye and margaret get bonding time. or "hawkeye get your gun", for the lines "you love life that little?" "i hate guns that much" which have permanently reshaped my brain.

8. Which character do you relate to the most?

hawkeye. yeah, yeah, yeah, i'm a cliche. sue me. if you hand me a character who is frequently Too Much to the point of having straight-up manic episodes, openly beefs with authority, passionately hates guns and the military and war, has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, is kind of a jackass, and has multiple full-on psychological crises and breakdowns, well, i'm gonna point to that character and

11. favorite klinger outfit + margaret hairstyle

god, it was really hard to pick a favorite klinger outfit! in a recent episode, late s5 i think, he had this terrific black hat with red cherries on it, and i think it had a matching dress, which i loved, but i couldn't find any pictures and i don't feel like trawling the episodes looking for one. it's a little boring, but i really love his old-fashioned nurse uniform with the cape! it's really pretty. the below pic doesn't have the cape and it doesn't even show that much of the outfit but he looks hot in this shot so that's why i picked it lol

honorable mentions go to the plaid skirt and red cardigan combo (specifically with the blue-and-red striped beret he wears to a poker game at least once), the pink dress with the fur coat he wears on patrol, and the yellow dress with the wide-brimmed sunhat.

favorite margaret hairstyle... the pigtails are really cute, but it's hard to beat the classic:

[thealexandriaarchives]

Klinger is a fascinating character because he exists within the world where M*A*S*H is mostly a true story that was written into a semi-true humourous autobiography by a doctor about a guy he knew during life in the Korean war, then got turned into a blockbuster comedy film where he was a one note gimmick character, then transferred over to the spin-off show where the tone changed again to be mostly a one-note character again, but be popular enough to be upgraded to series main cast by season three where he continues to evolve beyond 'Arabic-american guy from high crime city who really wants out of the Fucking army and cross-dresses and other antics to get out' to become more 'I am coping with this insanity in my own way and everyone else accepts and loves me for that as they have their own methods, I am bringing civilization and beauty to the front in protest of the barbarity of war while I perform the traditionally women's work that is looked down upon below the nurses, not by accident'. Then when Radar was leaving the show and Klinger steps up to fill his role, there's both a large Arabic-American fanbase that has grown for the character and wants to see him lean into more of those elements, and a concern that they don't want to see him reduced to being seen as a joke as the Colonel's 'secretary' or otherwise by his move towards primarily office work, so they focused more on his heritage and background for the last seasons, with him cross-dressing more as a special occasion. I'd definitely say he never loses his swag, though it does shift as he has to grow with the show to stop being just even the two-note character, not the one note character we started with.

In early season 2 a psychiatrist offers Klinger a discharge if he signs paperwork saying he’s a gay transvestite, but despite his apparently sincere desire to get out of the army he unexpectedly refuses, apparently because he’s not gay and just wants a generic “mentally unfit” discharge on his record. This is wild to me because there’s lots of ways to pretend to be crazy that don’t include cross dressing, so you’d think that he’d 1. have done more of those from the beginning, or 2. leaned into them harder after that conversation. But apparently he keeps crossdressing for ages after that episode, which you could take to mean that he’s actually just into it, except apparently later in the show he just stops for no reason? The whole character is incoherent to me. I do want to like him as more than a joke…

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

My takes on M*A*S*H characters' sexualities:

Hawkeye: THEE bisexual king. Preference leaning towards men. Dated mostly women in Korea for safety/privacy reasons but was involved in the gay scene back home. I personally don't headcanon him as nb, but I think his effeminacy is really important to him and how he views his queerness and place in the world.

Trapper: Bisexual with a preference towards women. Was always down with the gays in a chill way, but discovered this side of himself in Korea when his image as a deviant lead to some genuine propositions. Figures he's going to have to leave behind gay sex when he gets back to the "real world" but does eventually start hooking up with guys again after working through some stuff about the war. Hawk and him fucked and YES there were feelings.

BJ: Gay. Even outside of BeejHawk reasons (and I do adore BeejHawk) and gay little outfit reasons, I like this for the themes of his character. I like the idea that BJ was doomed to never have the white picket fence American pie life, and that it never existed in the first place (BJ left before it really could), the way the ideal nuclear family doesn't really exist in real life. It adds another layer to his unhinged fixation on his perfect life back home, and how unnatural it feels. BJ goes to Maine? Okay, I'll raise you BJ gets involved in the leather scene.

Oh, and his name is literally BLOW JOB.

Frank: Gay. Unfortunately.

Margret: Butch Lesbian. I know the comments about her wanting a crew cut and wearing men's underwear were throw away gags but they really do be having me like 👁️👄👁️. I think after the war she is forced confront the implications of the fact the she is not completely comfortable with feminity, and she has to make a deliberate decision to dress in a way that makes her visually an outsider, now that she doesn't get to dress in her masculine uniform. She also explores the fact that she feels the most fulfilling emotional, romantic, and sexual connections with women. She finds a partner that she can be as strong, masculine AND feminine as she wants with. She struggles with the lack of respect society throws at her but she feels like her most authentic self. Her, Hawkeye, BJ, and Charles get together for brunch and joke about how she is more man than all of them put together.

Charles: Gay. For no real reason than 1. I just like the thought, 2. He is so dramatic and over the top, 3. I think it's funny if him and Hawkeye have a wierd little thing going on. He'd have angst about failing to pass down the "Winchester bloodline" but calms down when he finds a snotty little man to be insufferable with. I am also a fan of ace Charles.

Father Mulcahy: Gay. I think Father Mulcahy always found the whole marriage + kids white picket fence life extremely unappealing for reasons he couldn't quite put his finger on, so it felt like a relief to give it all up. He comes to terms with being gay and having a little crush on Hawkeye during his Badass Father Mulcahy phase.

Henry: Bisexual. Literally that one post that's like if you ask Henry if he thinks men are attractive, he responds "Well that James Stewart sure is a guy" and never thinks about it again.

Radar: Straight

Potter: Straight

Klinger: Straight and cis, but loves crossdressing, good for him.

[remyfire]

Breaking my silence: I love him

[variousqueerthings]

So I rewatched the scene in period of adjustment and this time I noticed (because I wasn’t too busy gasping out loud) that BJ even says that Trapper built that still with Hawkeye!!

I fully was reading that whole context as subtext, but he fucking says it!!! (and then the camera cuts to a close-up of Hawkeye like this:

(what cannot be seen in a screenshot is how heavily he swallows, but the intensity of the expression? the bruise) 

It’s not until after that BJ says that he’s home too and Hawkeye tells him that he’ll go home, they all will (convincing nobody, including yourself of “going home” without leaving something behind...) 

but this isn’t about Hawkeye in this scene, it’s really just that I missed that whole moment, because I was already agog at the whole thing -- we’re talking about BJ:

(you ever think about how he missed this whole period in his own kid’s life?)

BJ who wants to go home, because that’s his lifeline, which reminds me once again of Trapper (and the way I think BJ will always hate Trapper for being there first -- no other character sits in someone’s shadow like he does, not Potter, not Klinger, not Charles). Both of them try to think of this part of their lives as a blip, after which they can return home to the real world and presumably forget it ever happened, although the way that they exist within the blip itself is different.

(and ok maybe this will be a bit about Hawkeye anyway)

With Hawkeye the feeling is he’ll never “escape,” if that was even something he was capable of trying to do in the first place (every moment is intensely real, welcome to Hawkeye and undiagnosed Brain Chemistry), but also these people all matter so much to him, which is part of the sadness of them having Something Else to return to, knowing that he’s a small part of a larger picture they’d all rather forget (except for Margaret...........??? I assume???)

anyway

BJ’s probably not going to forget, nor is he going to fit back into his old life like he used to (at least, that’s his fear), nor is the war going to leave him, nor is this a blip or an unreality, but he’ll fight it anyway (somethingsomething, my guy you’re so fucked up in ways that Sidney ought to prod at, but you’re waaay better at hiding it behind amiability up until the point you punch your best friend in the face)

Also this callback to BJ cheating on Peggy before (I was warned we hadn’t necessarily seen the last of that!) and Hawkeye being in his corner once more in ways that... aren’t the exact same words to last time, but have a similar sort of tinge to them -- that is, Hawkeye is basically making sure that BJ doesn’t fuck up with her (again). Anyway I wrote a whole post about that back in s4 (Season 4????? what!!)

And then this episode written and directed by Mike Farrell:

BJ: I’m a prisoner of war

BJ: I can’t go from “how do you do” to “I love you” because of the war!

BJ: I have a lifeline. I’m hooked to a little house in Mill Valley where my wife and daughter live. That line gives one tiny element of control in a situation where everything else is beyond my control

BJ: I’ve got to live for tomorrow, because for me there’s no now

I wonder how this attitude is going to serve him once the war actually ends. My guess is “not very well”

I suppose the conclusion to this is: this man is not okay. and he won’t be going home anymore than the rest of them. and the ways the war and the military hold him hostage means he can’t feel the things he may want to feel. and the lifeline he’s so desperately holding onto is fraying by the second (but may not noticeably break until he’s actually back?) and the dissolution of traditional/expected nuclear familial bonds. and Hawkeye built the still with Trapper. 

[trappper-johnathan]

Radar would probably like fantasy novels if his hero comics are anything to go by. Anything with superpowers or magic would probably be up his alley.

I'll be honest, even though Trapper is one of my faves, I'm not entirely sure what he'd like. I can see him being a mixed bag: if it's good, he'll read it, if it's not, he'll stop and find something else. He's a very lighthearted guy so I can see him liking lighthearted reading, something to distract from the horrors. Maybe shorter novels since he's a surgeon and has two children at home, so it wouldn't take him super long to finish in his limited free time. I can see him reading kids novels to his girls when it's bedtime.

If I remember correctly, Klinger has a (smutty) romance novel that he makes Charles read him in Operation Friendship, so it's safe to say Klinger likes romance books. I can see him designing his own dresses based on descriptions or pictures (from the cover) of the lead heroine's outfits. He ALSO likes poetry and had a poetry book in Springtime that he gave to Radar. He's a romantic sweetheart and I love him so so much Klinger best character <33

I can see Charles liking (auto)biographies and other nonfiction books, potentially anything about history. He mentioned having a butterfly collection (?) so maybe he enjoys reading up about them as well. I can see him having a guilty pleasure book genre as well, but I'm not sure what that would be, it's been a while since I've seen the later seasons. He seemed to be uncomfortable with Klinger's smut, so maybe not romance.. maybe mystery? He'd probably pride himself on figuring out the killer before the detective. Or maybe he'd like super nerdy fantasy novels like The Hobbit, something that's super long and detailed.

Henry strikes me also as a smutty romance novel guy, but maybe a bit more private about it than Klinger. Would throw it across the room if someone found it in his stuff and be like, "haha that's crazy who put that there??" Not to make fishing and golf his whole personality but fishing and golf strategy books? So he can git gud at his hobbies, of course. Maybe he even reads fish nature guides (?) so he can ID whatever he catches.

Hawkeye is for sure a mixed genre kind of guy. He'll read whatever he can get his hands on. A personal headcanon of mine is that he's neurodivergent in some way (I'm no expert so I can't name what he's got with 100% certainty but I did write a fic where he had ADHD similar to that of a friend of mine so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ ) so I can see him fixating on a certain genre or book series for a long time before eventually moving on to the next obsession. He just loves reading!

Father Mulcahy obviously reads the bible, and I would imagine he enjoys it since it's his whole everything. He seems well versed on other religions as well so it's safe to say he likes reading about theology, mythology, etc. I can also see him being a history nerd. He's just a very well-read, smart guy if his extensive vocabulary is any indication.

Ack, I haven't a clue about Frank. He reads the bible, I know that, but I'm not sure if he actually enjoys it or does it cause that's what he was taught to do :/ He probably wanted to read superhero or fantasy stuff as a kid but was super limited due to his stifling, unloving upbringing. All his pleasures are probably guilty pleasures tbh.. He and Margaret read military manuals together as foreplay or something sgddhdgsh

Okay now onto Margaret. She's strict but I'm not sure that that applies to her reading material. She probably reads romance, though she hides her smuttier ones. She liked reading army manuals and procedure books cause she was an army brat and she wanted to please her dad, but after her arc she now does everything for herself rather than to please others. She'll read almost anything written by a female author because male authors can be such a fucking headache sometimes, she puts up with men enough in her daily life why should her fiction be dictated by them too?? And fuck it, she likes Frankenstein by Mary Shelley cause it's my favorite book <3

We know BJ likes mystery novels and Potter likes cowboy novels, but what kinds of books does everyone else like?

[johnnys-helmet]

MASH: S10E10 Follies of the Living, Concerns of the Dead

My Thoughts

Seeing everyone gather to help Klinger makes me really warm inside. My favorite thing about this show is the found family and this hits it right on the head.

Klinger hallucinating and talking to a pole while the dog looks on in confusion is so funny

So is him just falling onto the cot

This is one of those episodes where I feel really bad for Father Mulcahy. To feel like the only thing you're needed for is sending off the dead...it must hurt so bad.

I also feel really bad for Weston. I know the implication is that Klinger is hallucinating but I believe in spirits and to see a spirit afraid of leaving the waking world is so powerful to me as someone with a fear of death.

The arbitrary things the doctors argue about while Weston is struggling with being dead and fearing what comes next is so sad and so funny at the same time. The juxtaposition is like getting whiplash over and over again. This show really loves juxtapositions and I love that they do.

Kario Salem does such a fantastic job as Jimmy Weston in this episode. He does a fantastic job at making you feel for this poor kid who deserved to live but had his life torn away from him by a war that none of them wanted to be in.

Getting to posthumously go over your final belongings and remember your life through watching other people discuss them is such an interesting idea to me. Getting to connect with people you never knew and never will know.

As someone that has had a 104 fever I feel for Klinger so bad because I had no idea what the fuck was going on at any given time.

Waking up after being torn up like a piece of paper to find out your best friend is dead is so horrifying. I couldn't imagine this.

"Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?"

Father John Patrick Mulcahy I need you to stop hitting me so hard with religious text that makes me feel things.

Trying desperately to convince your friends not to grieve you is too real.

Klinger: I see dead people vs Potter: Shut the hell up is a very funny moment

I could never imagine being invisible like this. No one being able to hear or see you...it's gotta be so scary and frustrating.

Weston talking about what he'd miss...god.

And Margaret being a badass and him telling her to "go get em slugger" god i will CRY.

"I've written a lot of these letters, son." someone please give potter a hug.

I want so badly to know how I will be remembered. In a way I envy Weston for getting to see that.

Margaret trying to get mad and just stammering god she's so neurodivergent I love her

Winchester, Hawkeye, and BJ drinking together and talking about rats and the plague and playing with clamps are also very neurodivergent and I love their characters so much

Weston starting to drift to the other side and not understanding what's going on while the members of the Swamp toasting to the horrors of war is such a surreal scene.

To Charles!

Hearing the trivial and serious arguments and struggles of the camp only to see Weston passing to the other side is so...whew.

I love that they leave where they're going open-ended. You can believe what you want to believe and they allow that.

I love everyone excitedly greeting Klinger and Klinger just caring about what happened to this kid he never met...I adore Klinger

If people listened to each other more this show would have been over in two episodes.

And that's all for this episode! It's a very memorable one but it's also very hard to watch because it's so sad. (Not nearly on the level of the finale, but sad.) I adore it, and I wish we got to see more surreal stuff like that (like Dreams). They were very good at portraying stuff like this.

[nimuetheseawitch]

001. MASH. GIVE ME ALL THE DETAILS.

002. HAWK AND BEEJ, OBVIOUSLY

003. RADAR O'REILLY

Sorry I left this in my ask box so long. Here we go again :)

001 | MASH

Favorite character: I'm on such a Hawkeye kick right now. I just love the way he loves: so fully and completely and sometimes excessively. He loves passionately and he loves passion. He gives and gives and gives of himself and has a surprisingly large capacity for love. And he's whiny and annoying and full of faults and simultaneously expects everyone to love him and reject him at the same time. He is full of contradictions. He is a bisexual folding chair of a man.

Least Favorite character: Zale. He gets very little character except to be antagonistic towards Klinger. What does he even do?

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): inspired by @thebreakfastgenie, one of my new favorite non-canon ships is Hawkeye/being okay. Klinger/Soon Lee, Charles/Donna, Hawkeye/BJ/Peg (OT3), and Hawkeye/almost everyone. I want him to have slept with pretty much everyone in camp and just be a great friend to everyone later. It's practically canon, but I want to open it up to all genders.

Character I find most attractive: Margaret in that halter top...

Character I would marry: I think I constantly change my mind on this, but today I would marry Bigelow.

Character I would be best friends with: Mulcahy. I dunno, today I'm really feeling like talking about religion with someone, and he'd be up for all my weird thoughts on it.

a random thought: my mind is currently stuck on all the impressions they do of Mulcahy...

An unpopular opinion: Charles is right - Mahler is good. And he wasn't playing Mahler's 5th loud enough. That opening should be eerily quiet, one lone trumpet into the void, and then a cascade of sound. Performing that symphony so many times is probably a big contributor to my tinnitus.

My Canon OTP: Klinger/Soon-Lee. It was short but oh so sweet. They didn't know each other for long, but the contrast was incredible. The way she was fighting against the entire concept of the army and Klinger was shaken out of his complacence to help her, and then she cares too much about him and leaves him behind but he cares too much about her and follows her closer to the front. And how she wanted to see him in a dress. And they look so damn happy. And they're gonna get three weddings: MASH, Korean, and Lebanese.

My Non-canon OTP: Hawkeye/BJ. I feel a little disappointed in myself, but I have to be honest. It's popular because it's good. They're a hot mess, and I love them for it. I also wanna fix it. And make it worse. And I'm a sucker for a mustache and suspenders (and so is Hawkeye).

Most Badass Character: Klinger. Like Ginger Rogers, he did everything his fellows did, but in heels (and probably backwards sometimes). And he can read, write, and speak in at least two languages with vastly different alphabets. He's brilliant and gorgeous and has an excellent eye for style.

Most Epic Villain: The constant trauma of war dredging up the traumas of their childhoods. I posted recently about this, and it's constantly on my mind. The war affects them all in different, unique ways. Hawkeye and his reversion to childhood and his pattern of repressing traumatic events, Charles and his obsession with what it feels like to die, BJ's attempts to control his life at home, Frank's clinging to Margaret and to "patriotism," and so much more. Their coping mechanisms often hurt them as much as they help, and it's all kinds of fucked up. And the Army preys on it.

Pairing I am not a fan of: Frank/Margaret. I mean, I love their dynamic, and it's a really interesting part of the show, but she has always deserved more. And Frank brings out the worst in her. Her character growth really takes off once she leaves him.

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another): POC characters. Ginger and Oliver had a few excellent bits and then just disappeared from the show. Captain Sam Pak was amazing and seemed like he would be a recurring character, but we only saw him a few times. It took them until season 11 to give Kellye an episode. When Klinger decorates, they spew racist garbage and laugh at him.

Favourite Friendship: I'm really into Hawkeye and Margaret right now. They're not always close, but she is able to take him down a peg when she needs it, and she has a huge capacity for kindness. She loves as hard as Hawkeye, but she shows it differently. They take a while to find their groove, but once they do, they're amazing.

Character I most identify with: Hawkeye. I think we're really supposed to identify with him, and I'm pretty sure my brain is cherry-picking bits of his character to make it work, but I just feel connected with him on some fundamental (and probably really fucked up level).

Character I wish I could be: Absolutely none of them. The 50s were bad for people like me, and a war is a terrible place. And they're all incredibly fucked up. I admire many of them, but I never want to have to be that strong.

002 | Hawkeye/BJ

When I started shipping them: subconsciously forever. More actively, probably last September/October during my 2021 rewatch. I'd thought it before (I've been rewatching it frequently since 2012), but it started rotting my brain around "Rudyard Kipling" this time around, and it brought me to MASHblr.

My thoughts: I wish they could make each other happy. I want to torture them, I want to see them in every imaginable scenario, I want to see them together, I want to see them yearning and apart, and I just want more of their absurdity.

What makes me happy about them: the way they laugh at each other's stupid jokes.

What makes me sad about them: they just don't seem like they'll ever be able to make it work.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Peg erasure. And bi erasure. I have read fic that convinces me of the comphet of it all for BJ, but he does love Peg, and that needs to be handled well. And Hawkeye is bisexual (or pansexual) and no one can convince me otherwise.

Things I look for in fanfic: Gotta have some angsty BJ who is struggling to process feelings. It's all about the characters for me, so I'm looking for interpretations that align nicely with mine, or do something new and interesting.

My wishlist: asdflsdkjf, I don't know. I want them to be happy, I want them to be sad, I want them to be a complete mess. But recently I really wanted more modern hospital AUs.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: BJ with Peg or possibly fucking up his entire life and ending up alone and regretful (can you tell I love him?). Hawkeye with someone new, not anyone from MASH. Or maybe with Trapper (Trapper's got some things to answer for too, but there have been some excellent versions of them getting together after the war).

My happily ever after for them: In a cute Victorian in San Francisco that's technically split into two apartments (for propriety), with Erin every other week (the rest of the time she's with Peg and her wife). OR neighboring houses/a duplex with matching lavender marriages. BJ working on a motorcycle while Hawkeye knits and talks. Lying on the couch/bed, Hawkeye somehow comfortable while awkwardly wrapped around or on BJ, who is sitting like a normal person but absentmindedly stroking whatever part of Hawkeye is closest while they read medical journals or do chartwork. Domestic bliss. Reading glasses when they get older. Maybe Peg takes Waggles and BJ and Hawkeye get two cats. Or they keep Waggles and get two kittens who annoy the heck out of him lovingly as he ages. Umm. I uh, maybe need to go write some fic now. About Waggles and Marlene (Dietrich) and Edith (Piaf), their cats. brb.

003 | Radar O'Reilly

How I feel about this character: I have complex feelings about him. How many times does he lose his innocence/possibly his virginity? I was tired of that plotline the first time. But I love the weirdness of his psychic abilities (when he responds to things Potter is writing/thinking!) and how he is sometimes a vegetarian? He's weird and wonderful.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: I dunno. I actually really like that one girl he meets at the airport near the end of his run. And there was at least one fic I read that implied that he ended up with Park Sung, which I love.

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: Henry. I don't think I can say more without crying.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don't know if this is unpopular, but Radar was wrong about how he got mad at Hawkeye. I kinda hated his hero worship of Hawkeye.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I wish they had let him grow up a little better. They kept rewinding him to make him so naïve, and I wish he'd had the chance to grow a bit more as a person.

Favorite friendship for this character: Klinger. I wanted more of whatever was happening with the practice proposal that one time.

My crossover ship: I just had the idea that he meets Shawn from Psych, and I don't know what's going to happen, but it sounds fun.