u get to pick one (1) character in mash to be canonically trans forever (i'm talking well written and explicitly)

""Hold it. No offense, Majors, but we just can't afford to act like nincompoops. There are sick people here, and the three of us are all we have."

My favourite line in the whole Yalu Brick Road episode is Father Mulcahy's, especially preceded by his sudden whistle as Houlihan and Winchester face off, and because you can literally see him rolling his eyes in exasperation as the two Majors apologise to each other and Winchester makes up his mind to wash the sheets. Incidentally, you can actually see Mulcahy clenching his fist as he glares at Winchester. While he's addressing both Majors, it's quite clear who our favourite little holy pot of rage just about to boil over is really mad at.

But then Winchester agrees to wash sheets and aside from a sarcastic eye-roll, Father Mulcahy calms down and does not punch Winchester.

Love your neighbour, or I'll punch your lights out - The Gospel According to Francis Mulcahy

Ok so, my dad is a big fan of mash and we often talk about it when we hang out. He’s also interested in the lgbt headcanons people have for each of the characters (specifically BJ and Hawkeye).

So yesterday we were talking about those headcanons and out of nowhere, he says “I think Charles is non-binary.” With. No. Context. Mashblr, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this because this is just an interesting take.

A sMASHing find

I frequent my local thrift store often enough that workers recognize me. That aside, I thought y’all would appreciate the gem I found. I didn’t buy it.

And a note, I notice that Mulcahy is “John”.

@kimby1967 batter up - it’s slumber party weekend and some of us intend to round all the bases! 😉 ⚾️ ❤️

My biggest flex is that my role model was Margaret Houlihan.

She taught me I can be strong, kind, sassy, sarcastic, brave and know that I can change to be a better person.

Just like Margaret, once you know me, I can be the sweetest person in the whole universe, but I won't let anyone mess with me and I still can conjure storms (and kick everything that's in my way).

Thank you, Margaret Houlihan <33

somehow I can’t find anyone shipping these two. genuinely or ironically. I couldn’t even find a ship name???? but they’re both so stupid and so into each other I think they should have terrible, terrible sex and make each other worse. thank you for coming to my ted talk

This continues to be one of their cutest moments is the thing.

a bit of a late happy birthday to Mr Stiers

David Ogden Stiers, notoriously private individual who once refused to give a friend his phone number for six years: The major difference between me and my M*A*S*H character is that I sleep in the nude.

How do you think Charles would’ve gotten on with Henry, Trapper, and Frank?

i love charles ( even though i never talk about him on here , he will be talked about extensively when i get past the frank episodes of my rewatch TRUST ) so HERE WE GO

— like most everyone else , charles has little patience with frank . while i have the tendency to doubt he’d be as blatantly insulting to frank as hawkeye and trapper are , he certainly has his fill of backhanded and passive aggressive remarks towards him ( most of which go over frank’s head ) . objectively funnier is that when charles initially shows up , frank thinks that he finally has an ally against hawktrap . this isn’t true . one can catch him vehemently trying not to laugh at the stupid pranks that hawkeye and trapper pull on him , even though he knows that if they ever did see him laughing at the outcomes of said pranks that hawkeye and trapper would never let him hear the end of it . however , despite charles’ obvious distaste for frank , frank never really catches on . he’s always like , ok see you around buddy ! he definitely wants to be the other version of hawkeye/trapper with charles so he’s always like ,, following charles around and trying to get his approval 😭 it drives charles absolutely insane .

— a lot of people on here say that charles and trapper would absolutely hate each other and i just don’t think that’s completely true . yes , charles would loathe the information that he hails from the same place as trapper , considering that trapper is even worse than hawkeye when it comes to childish antics . i think , at least in trapper’s mind , that charles would fall into the category of the frank burns variety . so there isn’t a lot of love lost between them , at least initially . but here’s the thing . i do sincerely believe they’d have this begrudging admiration for one another . because as stubborn as both charles and trapper are , as much as they don’t really care for people with personalities as different as theirs , they know damn talented surgeons when they see them . they put their differences aside in that aspect . also , one time , when trapper is really drunk and he , hawkeye , and charles are hanging out in the swamp , he mentions this place in boston while reminiscing and charles is sort of surprised because he doesn’t imagine someone like trapper going to one of his old hangouts , and he’s like “ you’re familiar with [ insert place here ] ? “ and trapper says something along the lines of what doctor in boston isn’t familiar with insert place here . and then charles asks him about a different place and hawkeye is watching , for once sort of speechless because pigs are flying , trapper and charles are having a conversation and laughing and if there are insults being thrown around they’re taking them jokingly . nothing after that night changes dramatically , trapper is still trapper and charles is still charles . it’s not like they become best friends or anything , but there’s a new sort of understanding between them . they’re a step above acquaintances . friends in the very , very loose definition of the word .

— first of all i think charles and henry onscreen together would have been fucking hilarious . all i can imagine is the camera cutting to charles rolling his eyes whenever henry makes one of his jokes LMFOA . but i also don’t think charles’ habit of snarky , posh remarks would fly with henry at all . we already see him get annoyed with frank and margaret and , albeit more rarely , he even gets snappy with hawkeye and trapper when they’re being smartasses . so i don’t think henry would take too kindly to charles’ remarks and let them slide as often as potter does . but you know ? in a way , i think charles would more or less have to respect that he holds his ground with not only him , but hawktrap and frank and margaret too . but i don’t think henry would hate charles , either . i can imagine them sitting next to one another in the dining hall and henry laughing when charles rebuts some insult hawkeye/trapper makes towards him and charles letting a small smile slip upon making henry cackle . i can imagine charles walking into henry’s office while henry’s hanging up new drawings from his kids and henry grinning while charles examines them and calls them ‘ remarkable ‘ . i can imagine henry stopping by the swamp looking for hawktrap and at least trying to like the records charles has on . see , henry had this habit of at least trying to understand people , like them or not and i think that it would be no different for charles . lastly i think hen is a lot the same way with charles that he is with hawkeye in the sense that he talks to him . whenever hawkeye is upset about something , henry goes out of his way to try and figure out what’s going on and tell him maybe not what he wants to hear but what he needs to hear . and i definitely think he would do the same thing with charles . i’m really sad that we never got to see them onscreen together because i feel like they definitely would have been quite the duo 😭

I think I’m having such a hard time writing a longer piece from Charles’ POV because his narrative voice is nearly identical to how I write academic essays