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mash fans i may have gone too far this time

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you’ll raise your eggnogs. I’d like to propose a toast. To someone who’s too modest, too utterly simple a man to know how much strength he gives us just by the decency of his life among us… Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy.

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they should sell this as a poster in those poster pop-ups at colleges and universities

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M*A*S*H | 2.17 - "For Want of A Boot"

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Just off my most recent M*A*S*H watch through, and as the Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen anniversary was not too long ago, I wanted to do my own little tribute.

Charles and Father Mulcahy are character who are written very differently, but both rely on music (in their own ways) to keep their sanity throughout the war. And in the end, they both lose their connection to it in different ways. After Charles works with the Korean POW musicians on the Mozart quintet (pictured), and they are killed, the safety of his connection to music is shattered, and all he can think about when listening is the violence and bloodshed. This is explicitly addressed in the finale.

However, Father Mulcahy’s loss is not. Yes, they address his going deaf after the explosion, but throughout the entire show he is shown playing the piano, singing, writing war songs. His connection to music is much less emphasized, but it persists through the entire series, and although he may not be a technical prodigy, it brings him joy. And then he loses it, along with the ability to take confessions, and a number of other facets of his job and life that gave him meaning and brought him comfort. Earlier in the show, during a particularly difficult moment, he is consoled by his colleagues performing Dona Nobis Pacem (also pictured). After he loses his hearing, he begins to question God. “Are you Deaf too?” I think this shaken faith and may have festered into an anger that contributed to his problems after the war (he was shown struggling in AfterMASH).

Anyways! Enjoy my angst fest (also I am VERY open to requests, especially for this show rn)

(I’m just gonna tag a few people I thought might like these (I’m a long time lurker, despite the lifelong love of the show) @major-charlie @thebreakfastgenie @statictwoo @hawkeye-pierce-4077 @frankburns-eatsworms

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peer reviewed

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the only indication that Father Mulcahy has aged is his hair being whiter.

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Happy Birthday Leonard Nimoy! (b. 26th March 1931) "I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to 'stop', but the ship doesn't stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I'm very flattered that people are still finding me useful."

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the cultural reputation of Hawkeye Pierce is wild bc you'll see members of Gen X who grew up watching MASH and haven't revisited it since recall Hawkeye as a macho military man who constantly gets pussy and sticks it to the man but then you watch the show and he's a antiracist bisexual pansy who DESPISES the military, (who does still stick it to the man) hates guns and begs for men to get him pregnant

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trying to get my friends into mash is crazy like dont worry about the fifty jokes hawkeye makes about mpreg and kissing his boy best friends hes just like that.

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Brother I have gone insaaane

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i said i would draw this, and i did

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I feel like the line between what I post on this blog (sketches and doodles) and what I post on staticbluue (finished art and responses to asks) is getting thinner and thinner. Eventually I might just post all art on staticbluue idk.

different colors under the cut because I couldn't decide which I liked better 👇

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Hey guys! I'm okay!

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radar got that Tboy swag