Birdie

19, she/her mash and movies and 60s folk (and many more!!)

[prehistoricmancunt]

Mean Creek (2004) if it were an album on cassette (please tell me I have fellow mean creek heads out there..)

[vague-space]

Under the house party (2009)

[personontheswing]

i need colonel potter thumb painting hanging on my wall

[h11tch]

funsies

original pics:

[birdthatwhistles]

Truly loving El Scorcho right now for reasons unknown to me

[princip1914]

Having some feelings about the most recent MASH episode I watched (season 4 ep 20 “some 38th parallels”). It’s just so tightly written? And so well structured?

In this episode, Radar gets attached to a patient after catching a mistake (IV not connected) that maybe could have killed him. Radar gets to know the guy, he gets sicker—BJ operates on him again—he gets better, they talk about home, and then he dies anyway. It’s clear from how the episode develops and the foreshadowing that this guy is gonna die, but it’s not shown on screen. All you see is Radar doing a puzzle with him to pass the time, the episode cuts to the B plot, and then you see Radar dejected sitting on the bench outside Post Op and you know clearly what happened without it being spelled out. Then BJ and Radar have a conversation and Radar is like “he was just talking with me, how could he have died?” And BJ is like “sometimes people just die. I could explain it medically but it won’t help.”

Ugh, it’s just so understated, so good, so succinct, and captures…I don’t know…an extremely real feeling of what these moments are like without any need for realism (no shots of medical heroics, no discussion of what procedures were tried, just two people sitting on a bench). It works so well.

The cherry on top which really makes this episode transcendent, is that the B plot is about Hawkeye’s dick not working. BJ’s lowkey teasing him about it, gleefully being a bit of an asshole, and then a few minutes later, he’s having that conversation with Radar about a young guy he couldn’t save. The whiplash of it, the profane to the sacred, is just so good, so compelling, again so real without being realistic. (Incidentally, putting these two plots together also makes Hawkeye’s sex problems more poignant—of course the issue is not that he needs a hobby, it’s that kids are dying for no reason and he can’t fix it, but that never needs to be said explicitly because the A plot makes it obvious.) The juxtaposition shouldn’t work, but it hits JUST right. And it’s something I feel a lot of modern shows wouldn’t be brave enough to try.

[cosmicretreat]

Summer 1985

[cursedworms]

obsessed with radar o’reilly and his fuck ass bugle

[wet-biscuit-mcglee]

FASHIONISTA!

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1840

Spitalfields silk

The Museum at FIT

[murreler]

redraws from s3 e14 and e15 because that’s where I am in my rewatch

[wavingtovirginia]

Virginia Woolf’s bedroom  

[wet-biscuit-mcglee]

the full "dark demon" scene bc it's just gold

[andthesunwillrise32]

BIGGEST NEWS EVER

[space-boy-next-door]

[banhmigoddess]

My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.

[major-marg]

"When I talked about acting, my parents insisted it would never happen. All my young years, I listened to a lot of negative feedback. Why didn't I accept the string of negatives and go deaf to the voices inside me? Well, it's because I had this strong I'm-going-to-show-you attitude.

Some people think my big break came when I got the M*A*S*H series. Well, it wasn't. My break came when I left home. All my young life, my parents would ask: Who do you think you are? Well, I've finally found out."

- Loretta Swit