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[arokel]

70s mash alternate future where Hawkeye moves to the bay area, he and BJ become active in the anti-Vietnam movement, and become buddies with Daniel Ellsberg:

Nixon: That [expletive deleted] Ellsberg and his little friends, who are they? One of them's got a funny name. Haldeman: That would be Pierce. Hawkeye Pierce. The other one is BJ Hunnicutt. Nixon: BJ? Is that a nickname? No, well, you know, they do live in San Francisco. Well, never mind. What are they? Radicals? Queers? Haldeman: As far as I'm aware, both. They're also doctors. Nixon: The medical profession is full of communists, that's true. His name is really BJ?

[arokel]

Heyyy, I was wondering if you had the link to that one woodstein interview in Florida. I need to bless @ask-woodward’s eyes with it.

—@ask-bernstein

oh god I'm sure I do somewhere, I'll look for it! @arcanemoody and @lamphous are both much more organized than I am though so they probably have it immediately findable lmao

[arokel]

you're telling me that carl and bob started their day every day getting coffee together?? assigned old married couple domesticity from day one fr

[arokel]

a visual representation of why Carl doesn't like bike helmets, as per this

[arokel]

Watergate ABO designations

sue me I finally went there also taking suggestions/critique

Alphas:

Bob Haldeman

John Erhlichman

Alexander Haig

Senator Sam Ervin

Ben Bradlee

Katharine Graham

John Mitchell

Edmund Muskie

Howard Hunt

Mark Felt

Gerald Ford

John, Bobby and Ted Kennedy

Betas:

Woodstein (beta-on-beta action as proposed by @rubber-garage )

Richard Nixon

Hugh Sloan

John Dean

George McGovern

Gordon Liddy

Herbert Hoover

Barry Sussman

Harry Rosenfeld

Omegas

Deborah Sloan

Lawrence Higby

Dwight Chapin

Leonard Garment

Rose Mary Woods

Martha Mitchell

Judy Hoback (The Bookkeeper)

Ron Ziegler

Reasoning and lore under the cut:

I'm basing these off a world where heat suppressants (first used to expand the fighting strength and manufacturing workforce during WWII) became commercially available in the 50s, and reliable scent blockers in the 60s, allowing for greater economic and social opportunities for omegas and to a lesser extent betas. Omegas are still more commonly found in "feminized" jobs like secretarial work, but de jure discrimination based on designation is technically over.

Richard Nixon is the country's first beta president, and he surrounds himself with alpha underlings to compensate for his lack of self-esteem. Part of his motivation for sabotaging the Muskie campaign was to make sure he would run against another beta in McGovern.

Newspapering is seen as a beta's field since the stereotype about betas being more sensible and objective still remains, and Katie Graham as both a woman and an alpha fought an uphill battle to gain respect, especially after bringing on another alpha as executive editor.

[arokel]

on this momentous day today the 50th anniversary of the most beautiful movie ever made (as pointed out to me by @telephonicsonnyboy) i encourage everyone to read or re-read On In Five by the lovely @fregata-magnificens in celebration of our two Bobs and two Carls <3

[arokel]

WIP Wednesday

getting back in the swing of things!! tagging @arcanemoody @effervescentyellow @dogwooddiaries @kjxlll @ftmshepard @serpercival @lamphous @hearteyespierce aaaaaaaaand anyone else who wants to!

some woodstein for you:

It wasn't even his decision to see it. Carl had called him, explained the situation at the office, and said Bob should come hide out at the movies with him in case their homes were being staked out as well. Bob couldn't fault that logic, and so here he is. It's just his luck that Carl has a rotten sense of humor.

Luck is on his side, however, in that Carl is the only person aside from Bob in the theater. Shockingly, Deep Throat doesn't appear to be popular three p.m. viewing on a Friday, so there are no more scandalized eyes to follow Bob's awkward movements as he makes his way through the row of seats towards the middle, where Carl is.

"Really?" he says, when he reaches the seat beside Carl.

Carl doesn't look away from the screen. "Shh, there's a movie on."

"Very funny." Bob pushes the seat down and sinks gingerly on to it, careful to make sure his knee doesn't touch Carl's. He isn't sure he even wants to sit next to Carl at a pornographic movie, but sitting somewhere else would probably be weirder.

[arokel]

My husband described you reblogging the animation I did as “a nymph being touched by a god”

—@ask-bernstein

waaauuuuuuuughhhh you're too nice to me 🥺

I've said it before and I'll never stop saying it, I'm so indescribably proud of the little fandom we've all created here <3 when I started writing fic I genuinely thought no one would even read it and it's so cool to have so many artists and writers and researchers and edit makers now (and an ask blog!! like a real fandom!!!!!)

woodstein is truth and the world is slowly waking up to it (joking. but also kind of not joking.)