mods are asleep, it’s bi-ace solidarity hours.
three co-dependent idiots, no waiting.
for pride, we can have a little found family, as a treat.
THE WEST WING 5.10 – “The Stormy Present”
more mash x cabin pressure
charles is a pompous delight
Rod Serling, recording narration for The Twilight Zone, 1964.
You may be cool but….
Fade out Fade in
I'm working on an intense scene between Hawkeye and Charles in my very-long-sequel-to-Sins&Virtues, and watching their first meeting in S06E01: CEW *drops his gloves on to the box of penicillin that Radar is holding* Radar: Gee, what swell gloves.
Charles (tersely, dismissively): "Calf."
Radar: "Oh." Hawkeye's first line to CEW is: "Where you from, Charlie?" Now if, as I have seen @thebreakfastgenie propose (and it is reasonably supported by canon) Hawkeye did one of his surgical residencies in Boston, he'd hear Charles' accent and he'd know where Charles Emerson Winchester is from. Also, Hawkeye doesn't like the way CEW spoke to Radar. Also, he can make a good guess that an uppercrust "Charles" doesn't go by "Charlie". But, asking CEW "where you from" is a superficially polite question that doesn't get him in trouble with Potter.
CEW (tersely, dismissively): "Charles."
Hawkeye says, quite quietly "Oh," and looks down. His reaction is superficially as demure as Radar's was a moment ago, but both Potter and BJ know Hawkeye well enough to know it is not a good sign. Potter's comment: "We're pretty informal up here. We get very close." is clearly meant to smooth over the intereaction - excuse Hawkeye to Charles for saying "Charlie", just as - a moment later - he reminds Hawkeye why they need CEW. Charles isn't looking at Hawkeye except to dismiss him. The only person in the room Charles pays any prolonged attention to is Potter, and Potter only because he's the ranking officer.
CEW: "I don't intend to be here long enough to get chummy." Hawkeye: "Well, I'll drink to that."
BJ: "I'll join you." Potter (now talking to CEW, but his words are quite evidently meant for Hawkeye and BJ) "Impressive, Doctor. Harvard Med. Massachusetts General. What were you doing in Tokyo?"
CEW: "Demonstrating new surgical techniques." Hawkeye: "Up here, it's strictly meatball surgery." Hawkeye says this sort of thing in that sort of tone of voice to surgeons who are superfically senior to him. (He says it to BJ, but in a much nicer tone of voice - BJ is very definitely not senior to Hawkeye, and Hawkeye isn't trying to pull rank on him.) Hawkeye is looking forward to educating Charles Emerson Winchester on meatball surgery as a dolphin looks forward to eating shark liver. BJ, who can tell Hawkeye is grinning like a dolphin who has sighted a shark "Patch 'em up and get 'em out." CEW [Snorts] "That's rather primitive, isn't it?" Charles has just annoyed the only person in the room who isn't either looking forward to eating his liver or looking forward to watching Hawkeye eat his liver:
Potter; "We've got a 98% survival rate, cowboy."
Hawkeye, very sweetly "Charles."
CEW: (Aware that when your commanding officer, however temporary, indicates he is offended, you had better apologise) "No offense intended, Colonel." BJ, taking on the role that CEW will come to find very familiar, the guard-dog snapping no-one but ME is allowed to talk to ꙳⸌♡⸍꙳Hawkeye꙳⸌♡⸍꙳ in a disparaging way "Offence accepted, Major." There's a lot going on in this scene - which is shortly broken off by Charles being hustled out to deal with the ventricular aneurysm and managing to impress everyone, including Hawkeye, with his work.
But what I was contemplating for insight on the scene I'm writing is that Charles utterly dismisses Hawkeye, and Hawkeye is extremely ready to bite. Mainers call people from Massachusetts Massholes, and there's that: there may also be Hawkeye hanging out with Trapper John and hearing what Boston Irish think of Beacon Hill bluebloods: and there is also that Hawkeye is tired, strung-out, slightly drunk, and happy to find a source of shark liver to sink his teeth into. And Charles is, in that scene, completely oblivious to the fact that the greatest danger to him at this moment is not the North Koreans or the Chinese or his irascible superior officer or the pugnacious blond with the California accent. It's the man he barely speaks to, except to answer and dismiss him. -"Charles." -"That's rather primitive, isn't it?"
It’s not just Mainers who call people from Massachusetts Massholes! But even just being from Maine, Hawkeye would have some experience with rich Bostonians. What little we hear about Crabapple Cove doesn’t indicate that tourism is a big local business, but it’s coastal Maine, tourist and summah people aren’t far. The Winchesters didn’t summer in Maine canonically (though maybe after they sold the Hyannis Port house…) but plenty of other well to do Boston families did. Boston was and to some extent still is “the city” for all of New England. Hawkeye also probably encountered enough people from Boston/Massachusetts at Androscoggin (which is based on Bowdoin) to know the type.
This is such a great assessment of their dynamic and how it’s set up from the beginning!
#this is great actually#but honestly i saw it as.... you've been here in this hellhole five minutes and someone's already using a patronising nickname on you#and tbh i get the hostility about that in a way? that's really not a level of 'chummy' familiarity charles lends himself to easily#“no we're not friends i will not be here long enough to make friends don't talk to me”#and he honestly did think he'd be gone in three days so why bother making any more of it than that#i get the hostility in both directions but charles' (before we get any further with him) i kinda understand it#then you chuck in everything in this post on top of that and it's like a meet cute but it's actually murder#mash
tragic and heartbreaking, guy who wants to have conversations can't think of conversation topics
gilbert baker gave us this beautiful beautiful flag and now it is literally an eyesore. and WHY
[ ID: a screenshot of a tweet by @theemilygwen on twitter. the caption reads: "if i'm remembering correctly, today, june 3, is the 5 year anniversary of my lesbian pride flag design (followed by a blushing smiling emoji)". the images attached to the tweet are the orange and pink lesbian pride flag. the first image is only the stripes, while the second image has black text describing the meaning of each stripe. the stripes, from top to bottom, are labelled: "gender non-conformity, independence, community, unique relationships to womanhood, serenity and peace, love and sex, femininity". end ID. ]
happy pride month! it's the 5 year anniversary of the orange and pink lesbian pride flag being unveiled to the world, but its creator (emily gwen) is still struggling financially despite big corporations using their flag this month. while inclusion and acknowledgement of lesbian pride and history is important (and g-d knows the old lesbian flag had a lot of issues), it's better to keep existing lesbians alive and cared for so that we can actually. y'know. be here to express that pride.
if you want to help emily gwen out financially, you can find their ko-fi here to send them money directly. you can also buy some 'official' lesbian pride merch (as well as some other cool stuff) from their store, available here.
am i having emotions about how one of Gilbert Baker’s last actions was to add a ninth stripe to his original pride flag to represent diversity and to protest conservatism? absolutely.
here is Gilbert Baker’s 2017 nine-striped diversity pride flag:
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the lavender represents diversity. the pink represents sex or sexuality (different sources say different things). the red represents life. the orange represents healing. the yellow represents sunlight. the green represents nature. the turquoise represents magic and art. the indigo represents serenity and harmony. the purple represents spirit.
actually, i’m going to have more emotions about how Gilbert Baker mentioned that he struggled to make rent but watched corporations make millions off rainbow products. and how three months after Gilbert Baker added a lavender diversity stripe to his original design (which was already a rainbow to represent the fact that the queer community should be all-encompassing without prioritizing one group over the others) the city of Philadelphia added black and brown to the six-stripe version to represent QPOC. and how people have been adding the trans stripes and the intersex circle. and QPOC and trans people and intersex people deserve way more than we’ve given them. but also there isn’t a consensus within the intersex community that being intersex is inherently queer. and i’m having emotions about how the original flag was meant to be correct no matter which stripe you put on top, because your orientation doesn’t make you any less valid no matter what it is.
anyway i love the sentiment behind the progress pride flags and it is tragic that the more colour, more pride flag was made because QPOC were being denied access to gay bars on the basis of dress code. at the same time, we cannot let ourselves forget Gilbert Baker’s lavender diversity stripe.
adding more in honour of pride month 2022. when pink and turquoise were removed, ¼ of the meaning was removed. while the six-stripe version is definitely more recognizable and easier to produce, online spaces don’t have to worry about finding sufficient fabric. there is no reason for the lavender stripe pride flag to be so obscure.
“Walking down Castro Street, I can’t pay my rent, but I see rainbow dildos in the shop windows and rainbow keychains, rainbow rings, rainbow candles and so on.” - Gilbert Baker, 2017
you might notice that i’ve reused that source. the truth is, i can’t find more information online about the lavender stripe diversity pride flag. i keep calling it by different names because there is no official or agreed-upon name for it.
there is no reason for us to ignore the 2017 nine-stripe pride flag. honour queer history. know about gilbert baker’s last action. i don’t care whether or not you use it. but please, please learn about it.
via @hussyknee
via @blacktabris
happy pride!!!! I made these paintings for us!!!! PLEASE use them!! as long as it's for personal use only 💖 i have a print shop and kofi if you want to throw any money at me, love u 💖
ok bye have a great pride month!!!! BE QUEER KICK ASS!!!!!
Source: jojo-oliver
#me: this whole storyline was loretta's idea cos david literally does play piano and went to julliard and and and how fucking amazing is that#also me: his mother is a concert pianist and the depth of his disappointment in not being amazingly perfect at this one very thing#this whole fear at not being a comfort when someone needs it#and the gnawing fear he is just not good enough and not perfect and forever a disappointment and and and#there are so many layers to this very small thing and i want to explore and devour them all tbh#mash
Gilbert Baker helps hoist one of the two original rainbow flags created by the decoration committee for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day | 1978 | ph: James McNamara, lead seamster of the flags
I was trying to figure out why Tom Lehrer’s music gives me such strong Hawkeyes vibes and then I learned that while drafted into the army, the naval base he was on didn’t allow alcohol so he invented the Jell-O shot, which is the most Hawkeye coded thing I could ever think of