#s/i: margaret

[hippie-self-shippie]

woe. mollys future mishaps s/i be upon ye

his name’s margaret, he’s a glaucus marginatus, and she used to be a small (but well-liked) musician/composer until something happened to her (went into a major depressive episode) that made her go on hiatus for five years and counting. but one day, when they’re grocery shopping, they meet felicity, the manager of the time travel facility (who also happens to be one of his biggest fans)! felicity gets so excited that she introduces her bestie mrs. g to it aaaaand the rest is history!!! what does this have to do with time travel you ask?? i don’t know but i really wanna kiss mrs. g okay

[tiredandoptimistic]

One of the things that's deeply important to me about Margaret Houlihan as a character is that even as she grows past the "she's horny but also military" jokes, neither aspect of her personality is actually diminished. Throughout the entire run of the show she displays both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine traits, and despite the apparent contradiction neither of them actually need to override the other. She wants to get married and be taken care of while also maintaining her career and a dominant role in her relationships, she wears lingere and boxers, she dances and punches, she can do both. I feel like it would have been really easy to make her settle into just one characterization, either supportive and feminine or dominant and masculine, but that never happens. I think that's what makes her such a good and well-rounded female character, because she actually feels like a person with depth who happens to have wants and interests that don't all come in a prepackaged set of tropes.

Additionally, I really like that the two main things she was mocked for in the early seasons (liking the army and having lots of sex) are never negated, they're just given more empathy. Even though the show is largely anti-military, Margaret grew up in the army and very strongly values discipline. That's not a bad thing! The bad thing was when she would attempt to bully other characters who don't live up to her standards, and the show actively addresses those outbursts in a more sympathetic light with episodes like "The Nurses." Same goes for her sexuality; even as the show goes more into her desire for a meaningful romance, she never stops having one-night stands. There's nothing wrong with being a woman who likes sex! She can be hot and enjoy feeling hot and enjoy seeking out purely physical relationships, and that doesn't make her a shallow person; the shallow people are the ones who judge her for her sexuality without knowing anything else about her. I really love the scene in "Are You Now, Margaret?" when the guy accusing her of being a Communist tries to slut shame her to the Swamp rats, and they're all basically like "yes, she enjoys sex and has a lot of it. So fucking what?" that's such a good and mature take to have!

I'm not sure exactly where I'm going here, I just love Margaret and that she gets to exist in this nebulous zone of both masculine and feminine. She can be the manliest one of the main characters and that doesn't make her any less of a woman. Neither of these images are a facade, they're just different facets of who she is; she doesn't need to give one up and settle into being either a major or a mrs.

[hawkeyeslaughter]

hey , don’t cry . 256 episodes of mash to watch . many enjoyable . all with hawkeye . okay ?

[remyfire]

[cuepickle]

“Oh blow it out your ear!”

[t00thpasteface]

the every-season squad!!

[cottageonarainyday]

NOBODY TALK TO ME ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, IT’S MY QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY!!! 💅👑👸🏻

[hearteyespierce]

🎶 they did the m*a*s*h 🎶

[preacherboyd]

MASH | 3x07 Check-Up

[crustaceousfaggot]

[hippie-self-shippie]

im gonna kms this is literally mrs g and margaret

[dykewithamashobsession]

Y’all gotta quit saying that Frank was the reason Margaret was evil and that him being there slowed her character development. My girl was evil on her own. She doesn’t need no man to be the villain. Quit discrediting all her evil deeds to men! She did that crazy shit! I wanna see more of y’all supporting evil women. I love you girls, and know that you and you alone are evil enough, you don’t need no man to be a crazy villainess person.

[beechalk]

Love these guys. The Mash.

[remyfire]

[hawkeyeslaughter]

love that henry blake is genuinely just a normal guy . weirdest thing about him is that he’s obsessed with fishing and that isn’t even remotely as bizarre as anything hawkeye and trapper got going on at any given moment . he’s just some guy from illinois in a camp of people who are bonkers and he’s so fucking funny for it

[t00thpasteface]

major? sorry. major? sorry. major? sorry