An Agressively Lavender Marriage

Onawingansdaswear on Ao3, taking some time to wallow in feels about an anti-war sitcom that's almost fifty years old. Also, Captain Tuttle has been postumously promoted to Major. It's what he deserved.

[staticbluue]

M*A*S*H PINUP CALENDAR IS LIVE!!

Pinup calendar!! Ensemble cast + Kellye!!

My Secret Project is no longer a secret!! I've just opened up a fourthwall shop and you can buy this pinup calendar there! I know some people have been requesting P*E*A*N*U*T*S on t-shirts and tote bags (etc) so I'll be working on that pretty soon, too!

Here's the link to the calendar (!!!!) Buy it for yourself! Buy it for the weird freaks in your life! Buy it for your M*A*S*H shrine!

(You can only have 12 product images on fourthwall and I wanted to include the cover, so that's why Charles isn't there. Don't worry, he's in the calendar. ((You can see him up there ^ in the mockups)))

[moreroads]

Hey OP, this is excellent. On the listing on mobile, theres not a way to pick the size.

[staticbluue]

Oops, looks like the changes I made to the description didn’t save, thanks for letting me know! I actually have it available only in 11x17 because the smaller size had a sliiiightly different aspect ratio and I didn’t want to reformat.

[nicijones]

Ao3 version that lets you open the 'director's cut' where I, the author, explain every detail in excruciating detail to you and what it is in reference to.

[awordwasthebeginning]

@bonsaibovine being absolutely correct in the tags

[dreamtigress]

Legit. Ask me anything you want to know about my fics.

[dancinbutterfly]

boy howdy will I talk at you if you do this. on literally any fic. just go ahead and ask.

[germsauce]

hunnihawk commission from last month ♡

[prices!]

[elizabethminkel]

The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction — Fansplaining

In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people w

In a normal year, @flourish & I would have made a list of five big fandom trends for our annual "Year in Fandom" round-up. But the podcast is on hiatus, and I was left with MANY THOUGHTS about fanfiction seeming to break containment this year and nowhere to put them. So this is a "Year in Fandom" segment of sorts, about a set of related fanfiction trends that I'm pretty unhappy about!

I get that sense that a lot of fandom folks are, like me, worried about the way the ground seems to be shifting beneath us: in meta after meta, I’ve seen frustration over a larger but increasingly passive fic readership; dismay that traditional publishing has a growing influence over a practice that partly exists in opposition to it; and anger that some guy can just copy-paste your work and charge money for it, and no one outside of fandom seems to care.

What happens when fanfiction scales—but participatory fan communities do not? Read or listen to an audio version via the link above!

[ellipsus-writes]

🪭 Always on point.

[bamsara]

I highly recommend you guys listen and/or read this piece. As a writer and someone who's been in fandom for over a decade, the points brought up resonate very heavily with me.

It talks of fandom consumerism, the destigmatization of fanfiction and how since then, mainstream actors along with AI has been trying to monetize fandom, booktok's role, readers's roles, how culture around fandom has shifted, and more. Good read.

[majortuttle]

interlude (in diesel)

Pairing: BJ Hunnicutt / Hawkeye Pierce

Rating: T

Word Count: 1400

Summary: BJ and Hawkeye abscond with an ambulance for the first of many date nights. BJ hears the knocking of boots before he feels Hawkeye nudge his heel beneath the cover of the makeshift tablecloth. There’s wine. A candle. Igor’s best attempt at a date-worthy dinner, clearly intended for an audience including at least one nurse — possibly two, in his fantasies, at least. BJ wonders if Igor’s ever considered the opposite scenario: two of the 4077th’s gentlemen doctors playing house.

“You’re quiet,” Hawkeye teases. “Evening not romantic enough for you? Thinking of different company?”

“Plenty romantic,” BJ takes his repurposed martini glass and taps it against Hawkeye’s own, still resting on the supply crate gussied-up by a quarter folded hospital sheet. “Just lost in thought.”

“Feel free to take me with you. I could use a change of scenery,” Hawkeye reaches across the small table and takes BJ’s free hand, lacing their fingers with a care BJ usually sees reserved for terminal patients and betrothed nurses. “Hopefully, later, a change of clothes, as well?”

“I’m just thinking about what this evening would look like if we were stateside,” BJ admits, fighting a smile of his own as he watches Hawkeye’s cocksure smirk falter.

“Which part?” Hawkeye questions. “The food or the company?”

“Neither. Both. I’m wishing I could let go and enjoy myself.”

“How so?”

BJ presses his fork into a piece of overcooked chicken; it isn’t ‘surplus’, even if it isn’t the freshest meat around, still as edible as any late-night hospital cafeteria fare he choked down during his residency. He debates using some of the wine as a makeshift sauce, but thinks better of ruining two rare delights, no matter how unenthusing they might be apart.

(Read the rest here on Ao3)

[omar-little]

[bocries]

Col. Potter said gay rights

[exuberantocean]

Two MASH Hot Takes Absolutely No One Asked For

1. What if Frank’s surgical skills really did decline during his stint at the 4077?

Early on his skills as a surgeon are described as “okay” or something to that effect.  Sure, nothing stellar but not bad.  Yet by the end of the series, he’s described as incapable of doing even the most routine things without help.

What if, as a sign of his increased emotional distress he lost the ability to concentrate and do his job?

2. We only have Frank’s word for it that he got promoted and transferred to a VA near his house.  Frank who (1) just had a nervous breakdown that included delusions and (2) most certainly would be the type of person to come up with just that kind of lie to tell Hawkeye.

[majortuttle]

Frank and Hawkeye being on opposite ends of the military service trauma spectrum: Hawkeye flaunting authority, society, even gender roles, and embracing madness to stay sane while Frank white-knuckles the command structure, following the guidelines the government has assured him will keep him healthy and alive while doubling down on 50s hetero-normative male/female power dynamics until Margaret finally breaks rank. Two very different men, who, at the end of it all, are in the same place. Traumatized draftee doctors having had complete mental breakdowns that ultimately compromised their efficacy as surgeons.

[hellouniversehowareyou]

the fact that hawk's chin is in the perfect height to rest on bj's shoulder is very comforting

[exuberantocean]

but the fact that Hawk’s over six feet tall is a little mindboggling.

[radarsmenagerie]

im losing my fUCKING MIND KLFJKLSJKFLSLKDKLJ

source

[sparklejamesysparkle]

A candid shot of 56 year old Paul Newman outside of his home in Connecticut, photo by Eva Sereny, 1981. Newman’s T-shirt reads: “get really stoned, drink wet cement”.

[starfleetsacademy]

[nanimonasho]

Confused.

[prawniscuous]

[thevibraniumvoid]

Yes I re-read my own fics because I wrote them for ME

[prawniscuous]

[leonardcohenofficial]

final chapter of the hunnihawk sondheim AU fic is up: featuring rodgers and hammerstein, scrambled eggs, margaret and helen, long distance phone calls, strawberry shortcake, and the sunrise hawkeye and BJ deserve ✨

[fieryphrazes]

okay so I don't have the brainpower to figure out which have been asked and which haven't so-- a prompt of your choosing <3

ahh thank you christian!! i'm gonna take this opportunity to do U and shower some love on three of my favorite fic writers <3

@tallsinspace ... a writer who changes the game every time. his fics blow my mind with their structure and story and THEME, my gOD the THEMES! literally was sitting around at work tonight just thinking about nothing unwanted (the sun in my morning) ... it's THAT good ... and it's just one of so many that are in turn devastatingly sweet and sexy and brilliant.

@crickelwood ... a writer who has perfected the art of seeing deep, deep into characters, and sharing glimpses of the depths with us. that applies to everyone in the extended mash universe but i think particularly hawkeye and margaret (slide on the ice my beloved). there is some kind of deep understanding (perhaps through witchcraft) that astonishes me, and hazel's fics make me melt like no one else's. the symbolism! the imagery! the prose!!!

@majortuttle ... a writer who blows me away with the breadth of her AUs (HELLO sweet liberty AU???) and the speed at which she churns them out. they are cheeky and smart and sexy and SO much fun, and there is always something happening. i love following whatever she's working on, and am always looking forward to the next thing <3

[majortuttle]

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