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Roger Allam and Anthony Head get into what I hereby call “the Battle of the Sexy Voice”.

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A blooper from the recording of Vaduz.

[soulgyrl]

Oh goodness, I loved this show! 😂 So funny!

[vivarocksteady]

Baby has made her first ever fanvid! Please enjoy a tribute to BJ Hunnicutt's rage, set to the Richard Cheese big band cover of "Down with the Sickness."

[girl-mercury]

god, i wish i could have a list of what terry pratchett was reading when he wrote Night Watch. i’ve read this book almost every year for probably 15+ years now, and every year i’m more impressed by the depth of knowledge behind it. of course there’s urban design understanding, but he also concisely laid out a lot of concepts in civ-mil relations, the specific difficulties of fighting in urban environments without defined combatants and noncombatants, anti-escalation conflict management, the tension and symbiosis of idealists and those working within an imperfect system needing practicality, civil society and public service, community policing… just to name a few, and just the ones i’ve dived into myself. i’m not surprised when i see this kind of writing come from like CSIS or USIP or think tanks, and of course all of terry’s writing is very smart and displays good knowledge of the world, but it is remarkable to have it in a fantasy book about a time-traveling policeman in a vague les miserables backdrop, and to have it to the degree i keep recognizing more and more

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TEARS TEARS TEARS

[hawkeyeandblowjob]

when he talks about the chicken and it becomes clear that the woman killed it but it won't pan down far enough to see it so you just see her face and the horror in it and you know what it's going to be but you want to be wrong so badly even though you know you arent

and then hawk breaks and you know you were right and it's the worst possible thing in the world and you think no wonder he cracked and then he asks Sidney why he made him remember that and Sidney just accepts his anger because he knows it's the only way to heal

[notahorseindisguise]

knowing when to hold em and when to fold em is also important for origami

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@origami-trust

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Movement nudge!

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For anyone who missed it, here is a recording of the mash cast doing a table read of “bottle fatigue” courtesy of david odgen stiers recording it on his little tape recorder and if you love the gang, them reading/reacting to the jokes for the first time is something that can actually be so better than therapy

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And actually for anyone who can listen but has trouble with auditory processing even on the crispest of shows without subtitles, here is a rough transcript I like to have handy to scroll through when the laughing gets in the way of telling what they’re laughing at

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The Ghosts of World War II by Sergey Larenkov

Taking old World War II photos, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov carefully photoshops them over more recent shots to make the past come alive. Not only do we get to experience places like Berlin, Prague, and Vienna in ways we could have never imagined, more importantly, we are able to appreciate our shared history in a whole new and unbelievably meaningful way.

[albinosquirrels]

This is eerily touching.

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The three kinds of bird species name

1. God’s Specialist Little Boy

2. Hot Breasted Milf

3. Grey Bird With Brown Head

4. Walter’s Fingernail

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[mariekristina]

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just over here making myself sad thinking about how Margaret greets two very important men in her life. With Donald, she's like a teenager, so excited for her superawesome (Margaret's "words", not mine) boyfriend (husband) to show up so she can show him off. Her whole body language is so bouncy, and those little squeals of delight when she greets him just makes me so sad. We know things haven't been great between them, and she has decided to forgive his indiscretions, and it's just so clear how she more than anything just projects images of a perfect husband onto him. In her mind he's everything she wants him to be, and her whole being is just an embodiment of that fantasy.

And then, her beaming but contained smile when her father pulls up to camp, the hug he immediately reprimands her for. How she goes from calling him dad, to sir, to colonel in five seconds, getting farther away from familiarity with every word. It also breaks my heart how important it is for her to show off her nurses - the sharpest ones in Korea - just like a little girl wanting to show off something she made in school, hearing her father say she did good. But, of course, he doesn't. And the way she feels so controlled and held back with her father, like she is constantly aware of her movements, except for the hug, that unfortunate slip. Ugh, such great acting!

All of this makes me think of "Our Finest Hour", when Margaret talks about the people at the 4077 as family. The people there are everything Donald and her father are not, and also the ones with the biggest pieces of her heart.

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Is it ridiculous to make 8 memes about like two minor lines in Persuasion? Yes. Am I very proud of myself? Yes.

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Busman’s Honeymoon

A review of Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers – 260331 The last full-length novel to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, Busman’s Honeymoon, started life out as a play, a collaboration between Sayers and Muriel St Clare Byrne, A Detective Comedy in Three Acts, which opened at the Comedy Theatre in December 1936 and ran for 413 performances. Sayers used the essence of the plot and its characters to…

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[variousqueerthings]

I am being promised a deconstruction of BJ (a literal one, his construction is being dissolved and he’s So not okay) and it is being handed to me!!!

So Operation Friendship, right? That was an episode that happened. It feels like it exists in tandem with Period of Adjustment in the long-simmering-boiling-over BJ saga (and right after that he went aaaalmost off the rails in No Sweat, and I am not convinced that after Hawkeye snapping at him that Peggy’s gonna leave him that nothing would have happened, that man is as taut as one of those ropes they use to tie up boats that can smash buildings if frayed too much – BUT I digress, it was a fun-episode, and therefore it ended in fun + that all happened in the shower which was also… a choice… as we know about showers and MASH)

(also Hawkeye is SO invested in the Hunnicutt marriage, it’s not even funny anymore)

Operation Friendship

1. BJ’s insistence that Everything Is Fine

2. Hawkeye’s insistence on playing nurse-maid, constantly staying by his bed, making suggestions for an ice pack, an insurance exam, etc. (and I have that post queued up that talks about how genders are constructed differently in the 4077th, ex. Doctor and Nurse, rather than Man and Woman, but also Caregiver and Care-needer, Protector and Protected, Senior Officer and Lower Ranking, everything that Klinger does, including “Just A Guy From Toledo” and “Maxine,” Daddy/Dad/Father and Mommy/Mom/Mother (not related to Man and Woman), Sir and Ma’am (also not related to Man and Woman), etcetcetc and they’re not necessarily as binary or rigid as they may be perceived here either!)

3. Hawkeye’s caretaking of BJ is not the same as BJ’s caretaking of Hawkeye, and BJ doesn’t like it! He acquiesced to it back in Period of Adjustment because he was at his lowest and therefore couldn’t help it + he’d hit Hawkeye earlier and I’d HC that plays into it, but it’s far more often BJ-in-support-of-Hawkeye (whether it be a scheme and/or a mental state and/or physical support – I mean protecting him from getting beaten up of course…)

that’s their Roles! Hawkeye is messing with the Order Of Things!

4. Hawkeye’s territorialism???? His possessiveness?????????? 

5. going back to BJ’s insistence that Everything Is Fine: I just wrote in a tag that BJ s4-7 seemed to (basically, simplifying here) frame him as “sure he has issues too but it’s a war, and maybe there’s some performativity to his Self, first really highlighted by the surprise that he’d be the mastermind of pranks when he’s just a good American boy, and then seen several times ex. in the mystery of his name, but ultimately he’s trucking”

and then s8 was like “what if BJ is just straight-up losing his mind and ability to place himself in the future and desperately clawing for that future (which looks too much like the past) and possibly knowing it can never be that way, and sometimes he just snaps I Guess!

Hawkeye Is supposed to be the frayed one. He’s got Issues, that’s what everyone knows. BJ is an amiable, getting-along-with-things, Father and Husband. He takes care of Hawkeye, not the other way around! Not like this!

6. the ending of the episode once again forcing BJ to acknowledge a need for help in the face of literally being about to lose his hand. My guy. You can… ask for help sooner…. it’s…… it’s cool………. (it isn’t)

(his hand looks so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

7. Also the ending of the episode having Hawkeye relinquish his need to take care of him, again because he could actually lose his hand!!! 

What! Am! I Supposed! To! Make! Of! The! Metaphor?! Of it all???? The Symbolism???? The Dissolving Of Stability!????

8. BJ still taking the time to threaten the doctor when he’s talking Hawkeye down!

9. the fact that they both laugh about how they could’ve just let BJ die in order to get the last laugh on the hand specialist guy. It’s morbid sure, but it’s not just that, it’s… idk. The only way they could talk about how fucking close that one was? Skirting around the Ways they both went about the whole thing? Deliberately restoring equilibrium with the most tasteless joke BJ could think of, testing the waters to make sure everything is fine again

also the way they both gang up on the specialist… rewatching it, because I felt like he wasn’t that obnoxious, he was just stating that he has a speciality and would like to be respected for it, as well as literally having practised medicine for longer than either of them, while Hawkeye hovers over him and tries to find reasons to critique… and yeah, they were definitely coping by finding a scapegoat there, good thing he wasn’t sticking around for longer, they would have been such mean girls! But they needed that too in order to cope

TL;DR BJ and Hawkeye were so okay this whole episode, except for the fact that they were utterly unhinged about each other, about social (gender) roles, and about needing and giving help