#just.

[puns-and-musicals]

Watching M*A*S*H for the first time and the themes really do be theming. What do you mean Trapper’s writing a letter to his daughter about how they patch up soldiers but “They don't ever seem to stop coming.” What do you mean he writes “I’d like to be able to tell you when I’m coming home” and the record next to him starts to skip. What do you mean it repeats the same little warped bit of what once might have been music, over and over and over in a twisted display of its intended purpose, caught in a meaningless loop what do you MEAN

[bluehardtops]

I know im always thinking and yapping and unprompted sharing my thoughts but "protecting your legacy" is not a real thing and I need you all to absorb that. When you are on your death bed you will not think to yourself "wow im so glad I retired and protected my legacy". You will just feel regret, always thinking about what could have been. You will feel sad thinking about how you gave up what you liked doing to "save" an already cemented legacy. Fernando Alonso won his championships in 2005 and 2006. It's been 19 years since he won a championship and it's been 12 years since he won an F1 race. Nobody says that he needs to retire to protect his legacy. Jenson Button won his championship in 2009. His last race win was in 2012 and he didn't retire until the end of 2016. Nobody told him to retire to protect his legacy. Should scientists who win a nobel peace prize retire to protect their legacy? Should people who win olympic medals retire? No. A legacy is something that outlives you. Lewis could never win again and it wouldn't change the fact that he is a 7 time world champion. Back in the day it was common to win maybe a handful of races in your f1 career, and multiple championships if you were really lucky. We don't look back on champions past and think "oh, yeah, but he stopped winning". Nobody cares. You shouldn't stop doing what you like to do, because what? you might "fall off"? A career of any sort has a natural life cycle, and letting that cycle run it's course shouldn't be anything to be ashamed of. And besides. Like. Even if right now, any driver on the grid managed to win 7 championships, that would be their legacy. Lewis's racing career is only a small piece of a legacy that includes making way for POC in many fields, helping school children, supporting human rights, supporting women in motorsport. And your drivers legacy would be... what? Icecream? Being ruthless and mean? Tshirts...? Not kneeling for BLM? Publicly supporting Donald Trump? Sure, Lewis has a lot of money, which is a different discussion all together, but it's important to note that continuing in F1 puts him in an amazing position to be able to do the things that he does. I believe the way that Lewis uses his wealth and fame, in more recent years especially, has been a net gain for society. There is nothing anybody else on the grid could do to match him. I've kind of said this before, but the only reason people think Lewis' greatness depreciates is because he's a black man. Especially because he's the first black man in F1. People who think Lewis needs to retire to protect his legacy are viewing him through this commodity/idol/deity lens instead of viewing him as he is. He's not a car, he's not a thing, his legacy doesn't depreciate or go up and down like a net worth. A legacy just.... is. Lewis has gained and changed and formed his legacy through his struggles and his triumphs, and he will continue to do that until he decides he doesn't want to anymore. People will always, always, expect more from him as the first black man in F1. More pace, more wins, more anger, more calmness, more speaking, more quietness, more standing up, more standing down, more politics, less politics, more, more, more. He is held to an impossible standard that the collective of white drivers never will be because he's the only one.

[yayee-pspsps]

You know what hell yeah

[findmyfears]

theyre so fucking married, its honestly insane…

[ivarismaybecrazy]

ike eveland, you will NEVER be forgotten.

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

"if you'll have us, we'd love to just finally be ourselves and do what we love, which is really how this should have been this whole time"

[lornteeleaf]

Thinking about Ghost and Soap developing feelings but never acting on them.

Ghost isn't sure when his annoyance with the new guy turned into something else. When he started to worry when the comms line stayed quiet for too long, no scottish drawl in his ear. He doesnt know when it changed, only that it did. So maybe he likes Soap. He also likes Gaz and Price, it's not any different.

Only it is. It becomes different when starts to notice Soaps absence more than his presence. He gets antsy when somebody else sits next to him in the mess or the Heli. They get split up for an OP and Ghost cant seem to relax quite the same without Soap in the same safe house.

And then it's the late nights. He doesnt know when it started. One night he was smoking on the roof of the barracks and Soap joined him. Almost shy, cognizant he was intruding on something. But Ghost let him in. Gave him a cig and the lighter. It had been a mistake.

Suddenly Soap was there every time. They smoked together on so many different roofs and balconies in so many different countries, always looking up at the same stars.

He knew it had been a mistake when he missed Soap by his side every time he lit a cigarette. He knew it was a mistake when he lent in close one winter night, cupped his hand around the lighter and caught the ends of both of their cigarettes held between their lips. Too close.

He knew it was a mistake, when Soap pulled out his own lighter one night, Ghosts lost after he fell into a stream, and lit his cigarette for him. When Ghost let him do that. He knew it was too late when he looked into Soaps eyes and saw the warmth of the flame mirrored there.

He didnt act on it. And sometimes he hated himself for that. But he'd rather smoke with a friend a hundred more times, than lose somebody he loved on the battlefield.