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Amazing

#supervillain bragging about incompetent tech

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Mulcahy’s faith

Alright, I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but this post about Mulcahy and his relationship to his faith and personal theology and how that interacts with the larger concept of Catholicism both in the Korean War and in the 1970s-1980s when MASH aired was brought to you by @marley-manson and me having a full day off. It’s also fun to research Catholicism on Good Friday (although now I’m finishing it almost a week later).

A brief summary because I’m going to put most of this essay under the cut because it is looooong:

Mulcahy starts out the show as a fairly new priest whose faith is untested, and he is trying to conform to the expectation of his religious order, his upbringing, and the army. Throughout the show he grows and changes and finds a unique flexibility and strength in his faith. He’s tested and he starts to push back against the expectations and rigidity of both Catholicism and the military.

I’ve broken my essay into three major sections: how Mulcahy tried to conform, how he broke the mold, and GFA and his perceived future. Please let me know your thoughts because I could obviously talk about this for days.

Keep reading

#mulcahy's faith #father mulcahy #francis mulcahy #a catholic at the seder table

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oh poor thang

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hawkeye's preferred mode of transportation

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the secret to his workout is carrying around all that guilt!

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look man i understand the Narrative Themes. i know it's about gritting your teeth and surviving and looking out for your fellow man in the face of the abject horror of the imperialist war machine and feeling like a failure while you're at it because you just can't save everyone. but it's also about hooking up with your coworkers

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one thing i really like about mulcahy is that he gets one spell slot per episode he's in

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one thing i really like about mulcahy is that he gets one spell slot per episode he's in

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me and the bad bitch i pulled by having sympathy for the vulnerable and a simple zest for life

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i know he's been around the block and knows/indulges a lot more than he lets on, but he also seems like if you made a pass at him he's got a 50/50 chance of completely fumbling it

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hawkeye's preferred mode of transportation

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patron request for mulcahy doing a happy sparkly animal crossing emote!!! he's so happy to find one single morsel of joy in the midst of the carnage and misery ^_^

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French and English have borrowed words from each other for so long that a word in French which looks as if it ought to mean the same as a similar word in English and vice versa often... doesn't. Sensible - French, sensitive: English, done or chosen in accordance with wisdom or prudence; likely to be of benefit.

Hawkeye est très sensible.

Blesse - French, hurt: English, to ask God to provide good things.

Father Mulcahy m'a blessé

Magasin - French, shop/store: English, looks like it should be either "a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership" or "a container or detachable receptacle for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun."

Margaret a un nouveau magasin.

Les baskets - French, trainers or sneakers: English, a container made to carry things, or (slang) a man's genitals.

Gros - French, big: English, filthy.

BJ's baskets a gros.

It is not actually unreasonable for an English speaker who knows just as little French to ask for a translation of a meme in the French language - because while a monoglot will happily assume that all the words that look the same mean the same, many British kids learn just enough French in school to know that this can lead you up the garden path, or else mener qu en bateau.

How I would translate the meme is "POV: bisexuals when the doctor prescribed them antibiotics" and while I understand every word, I have no idea why anyone would think that funny.

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#French-English cognates #translation #language #mashposting

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Headcanon that the reason that Bones is the only main cast member not shown affected by the anxiety-producing Gorgan in And the Children Shall Lead is because he’s so used to operating at maximum anxiety at all times that it didn’t make a difference

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"I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior BeneDICK, nobody marks you."

Hot wedding idea, the worst man, it’s his duty to try and prevent the wedding at all costs.

#beatrice #benedick #much ado about nothing #shakespeare

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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

#internet archive #fantastic resource #support internet archive

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