#mcwatt

[thepresentman]

Circa 1944, Pianosa

[trans-pickles]

willie watt is so. i think making out with terry would have fixed him

[laughlaughatme42]

All of those men have gone mad, but each has done it in his own unique way, and I think the biodiversity is beautiful.

[meteorologears]

Mcwatt is so cute here but more importantly: game nights (and theater-enjoyer mcwatt) are canon confirmed! Also they're inviting hungry joe??? Why would they do this!

[vonlipvig]

catch 22 is really like: the silliest thing you've ever read. gruesome, traumatic, avoidable death. the silliest thing you've ever read.

[cctinsleybaxter]

On a less essay-y note we need more clevinger and mcwatt content they are sooooo emma woodhouse and frank churchill-coded to me but specifically cher and christian in clueless why are they not at the mall right now

[cominy-kiwami]

i cant believe catch 22 is done i wish it was still going on. im not done i have to yell and cry and throw myself out a window about the last part after la spezia when everything went to utter shit.

[sheepinthebigcity]

ok but i actually think that would own

[unamused-kookaburra]

I keep getting so excited to consume catch 22 in new ways that I forget that's it's full of tragedy and heartbreak until I'm already in the midst of it.

[decbes]

[C] 0979

Commission for McWatt!!!

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[catrinenice]

Commissions for Node and McWatt (FA)

[audiemurphy1945]

Aarfy would puff reflectively on his pipe throughout the whole chaotic clash, gazing with unruffled curiosity at the war through McWatt's window as though it were a remote disturbance that could not affect him.

- Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

[archerygun]

What annoyed me most about Star Wars Rebels was that there were so many good elements that tbh seemed specifically tailored to appeal to my tastes but then they took all that potential and pissed on it.

But hey, without Star Wars Rebels making me mad and form a slight obsession with how it could be rewritten/improved, we would not have God’s Worst Mistake™️ and by that I mean this poor sod:

His name is Erick Cartel, he is pure condensed bastard energy and the universe refuses to give him a break. I rewrote Rebels so many times that it evolved into a whole separate project that I ended up doing with a few friends, completely unrelated to Rebels in any way. Like this guy was a cross between all my rewritten Ezras and a shitty Biggs Darklighter AU I’d done. Nowadays he’s more of a glorious cross between Rincewind from Discworld, Han Solo and an unholy fusion of McWatt and Yossarian from Catch-22.

He is about as force sensitive as a brick but someone accidentally brought it up to him, then someone else started training him to try and resolve their own trauma and now he’s banned from casinos for life and also wanted by multiple entities in the middle of a mid-life crisis.

The only reason this guy isn’t straight up dead is because he accidentally befriended the people who are being sent to kill him before they were part of organisations that wanted to kill him. He is the dictionary definition of walking disaster and I love him.

[meteorologears]

Okay so then obligatory notes on who can/cannot drive out of yossarian's friends:

Can drive--mcwatt, milo (i think he drives in the text), orr (safely crashes planes. i'm sure he could drive without killing everyone else)

Can drive but shouldn't--halfoat (crashed the jeep, will drunk drive :'( ), nately (idk i wouldn't trust him), chaplain (gets nervous)

Can drive but avoids it--dunbar (i had to make him his own category. thats ok)

Can't drive--clevinger

Follow-up to the mcwatt post I made the other day. There's a funnier possible reason why mcwatt is driving, and it's if clevinger can't drive because he doesn't know how to

[cctinsleybaxter]

Kind of want the milo hawking crystals timeline because i feel like pianosa is easily divisible into tiers of Crystal Believers, but that'd be the 70s not the 40s

[tru857]

I’m currently rereading Catch-22 for the first time in a decade.

I first read Catch-22 as a summer reading book going to Sophomore year High School. I wasn’t really a summer reading book as I put finally reading it a few months into school. I tend to do that with a lot of books where I read the first few chapters, put it down for a while, then go and actually finish it once.

Currently, House of Leaves is one of those tomes that I am in the endless cycle of rereading the first few chapters, rereading the essays on the introduction of characters in the Navidson record, and beginning the descent into insanity with Johnny Traunt. I’ll make it farther eventually, but those pages are lead dense, making page flips Herculean tasks.

Catch-22 didn’t have that returning catch for me at first; it is loaded with numerous characters with their own fleshed out colorful personality that are thrown at the reader all at once, as if walking into a crowd and trying to greet everyone. For someone with rather poor social skills, this was a rather taxing task, but eventually, you settle down to only remember the standouts, and go back page searching for those that don’t. Everyone at least remembers Yossarian and Milo.

There’s also difficulty following the story as the story is not told in a chronological order, instead skipping to scenes and ideas that best portrait a character. That was also one of the major hurdles in starting.

But, eventually, I made it through the beginning, middle, and end, and it became my favorite book from then on. Mainly, the comedy. In my mind the book is always a comedy with a joke on every page, even if I can’t remember any japes.

I see a lot of myself in Yossarian. I am the person who would want to cower next to the escape hatch on the B-25s, who would drop the bombs early on every mission, and who knows that people are trying to kill just him.

The thing that I recall the most from the book is surprisingly not the comedy. The book is hilarious, don’t get me wrong. But, the moments I do recall the most are the tragedies which befall Yossarian in dark comedy: Milo bombing his own squadron, Kid Sampson’s and McWatt’s death, and of course, Snowden. All of these events are surprisingly mentioned early in the story or at least somewhat foreshadowed (McWatt’s death). I can still recall those imagined scenes clearly in mind, even after so long.

I am a bit sad that more people haven’t read this book. It still holds to the test of time for the most part; the ideas explored while reading remain ever pertinent to today’s political culture. The conclusions I reached were keystone to shaping my views on wars, people, and government.

I really love Catch-22.