my life was written by alan alda

londie, 26, normal enjoyer of mash enjoying it a normal amount normally 🩷 main blog @londonlock

[alansalda]

[princip1914]

The thing that drives me so wild about MASH (from a shipping lens anyway) is that if BJ and Hawkeye were fucking offscreen the *entire time* it wouldn’t change canon at all. They are so thoroughly married by the narrative, and the narrative is so full of unsaid things already, that an unspoken sexual side to their relationship is extremely plausible without bending any of the fundamentals of the show. This vibe is like crack to me every time I come across it. It makes me want to eat the walls. I temporarily disassociate and when I blink my eyes it’s 3am and there’s a new fic in my Google Docs.

[omar-little]

[sexchangedotcom]

his name is gay bj

[major-marg]

no one crashes out like the 4077

[conceptual-orange]

stuck in my head for 2 days and counting

[beejwatch]

[ladybugpill0wpet]

yea bro i noticed you were feeling a little down today so i carefully planned a huge surprise party for you and convinced the whole camp to dye their hair and clothes your favorite color just so i could try and cheer you up even for a few minutes. no biggie though anything for my best platonic pal. woah why are you grabbing my sweatshirt like that

[preventativemedicine]

somewhere in san francisco, ~1960 something...

[gloomsday]

cowboy beej

[ladybugpill0wpet]

yea bro i noticed you were feeling a little down today so i carefully planned a huge surprise party for you and convinced the whole camp to dye their hair and clothes your favorite color just so i could try and cheer you up even for a few minutes. no biggie though anything for my best platonic pal. woah why are you grabbing my sweatshirt like that

[varsityhearts]

it turns out its actually very easy to set up a custom search engine . so! here's the MASH transcript search engine i've always wished for!

it pulls from the transcripts on subslikescript and is hopefully a useful resource for finding out which episodes specific words/phrases/lines of dialogue are from . it helps makes it easier to locate scenes for edit making, see how often certain phrases appear in the show or just trying to remember what episode That One Thing happened in . i also recommend using quotation marks for better success when searching for phrases! like this:

inspired by @butch--dan's eternally useful spn search engine + thank you @theblob1958 for directing me to a decent transcript source :-)

[4-0-doublenatural]

I like to think getting a section eight became less and less appealing for Klinger the closer Hawkeye came to one. At first he thinks Hawkeye's doing the same thing, trying to scam his way out of the army, and hey! Had some good ideas there! But it becomes clear that Hawkeye actually has periods of intense emotional distress to the point of pain and disfunction. Klinger knows the signs, he's tried to replicate the signs, but he never understood the fear involved until he sees it on Hawkeye's face.

And he sees all this, sees the difference between faking it and what losing your mind looks like and watches as Hawkeye is sedated, or calmed, or talked away from the edge, or sent for R&R and they never even talk about sending him home because his hands still work. His hands never shake. He can still do surgery.

And Klinger's the only one that isn't truly surprised when Hawkeye Pierce is sent back to them after time spent in a mental hospital.

It wasn't about being crazy at all. It was about being functional as a cog in the war machine and Klinger and Hawkeye were always the most functional pieces in the 4077th.

Crazy or sane they were trapped.

[macbethheadband]

[gayhawkeye]

at first i thought charles laying like this was deeply ooc. and then i realised that everything in this episode is turning charles’ opinions on its head. laughing against his will at freddy’s jokes, thinking that knowing the accordion equals no musical talent, and now this. might be too deep for a bed posture but there you go

[beejwatch]

We should all watch mash together

[mikeyfarrell]

gay bj is sort of like a religious movement

[alansalda]

the greatest love story of our time already exists, and we can never duplicate it, no two actors can quite replicate the chemistry needed to play up its conclusion, it wouldn’t be made today and yet it’s what every show runner in hollywood thinks they’re doing. i’m talking about goodbye, farewell and amen.