Affectionate warning: this is a multi-fandom blog, and always has been.

At any given time, I can probably be found posting about M*A*S*H, The West Wing, Star Trek, and whatever else I'm watching at the moment.

Things pretty much always cycle back into style around here, so I can't make any promises on consistent content, but I'm really bad at actually ever leaving fandoms, so if I've ever posted about something, I'm probably still posting about it.

Does anyone want to talk about how I'm pretty sure the exact same score plays during the scene in "Evidence of Things Not Seen" where CJ manages to stand the egg on end (in an episode that's all about her faith in people, and the right thing) AND in the part of "Institutional Memory" where she shows up at Danny's door at last, choosing him?

Because I think about that a lot.

writing for a show that JUST aired its final episode is like

*screaming cat meme* WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME

fan fic friday

thanks to @kinardnatural for reccing Feet on the Ground, Head in the Sky, so as a thanks, I'm sharing a bit of chapter six (written, but needs editing):

not to be a bad bisexual, but I actually liked Buck's plot this episode. Would I have liked it more if he'd gotten to use the word bisexual? Yes.

But I thought it was fun. And I'm honking my clown nose over Tommy being the last time he felt anything real.

I think i've said this before, and it's been true across MULTIPLE fandoms tbh because it's apparently just a pervasive thing.

but nothing, and I do mean nothing, turns me off a ship faster than its shippers bashing other ships.

Tell me what's great about your ship, not everything you dislike about other ships! Tell me why you love these characters together, not why you hate those other characters together!

Otherwise, it just comes off as mean. And I'm shipping to have fun.

Ehhhh.

Disclaimer that I don't have PTSD. But the show generally tends to kind of brush things off after an episode or two when that trauma probably should've lingered longer (I've had friends talk about this more in-depth!).

Second disclaimer that while I'm sure Noel is a great representation of what having PTSD is like, I never watch it because it basically is shot/produced in a way that sends me into an anxiety attack every time I try and watch (it's an episode about ptsd for people who don't have nervous conditions already lol).

All that being said... I really wish we'd gotten more beyond the first two or three episodes of season 2. We have the president tell Toby that it was a lynching, and that's why it "feels that way." We obviously have CJ in the hours after the attack having a blank period of time in her memory. We have Charlie distancing himself from Zoey... but this is all mostly dropped within two or three episodes. I wish we'd gotten more.

(A great opportunity for trauma talk would've been in season 3 with one of the agents at Rosslyn being on the show!!)

So I guess I'd say when it's brought up, it's handled well, but sometimes it's not brought up when it could be?

Thank you <3

Oh it's been ages since I've done anything for MASH lol (😭)

Okay this is a very simple one: when it comes to Margaret's "old friend' love interests, I think she has way more chemistry with Lorraine Anderson in season 6 than Helen Whitfield in season 9.

Justice for my girl Lorraine!!

Overall my favourite season is probably season 1. Season 2 IS very good, and the MS arc is IMMACULATE, but season 1 is actually the best to me.

There's just this very hopeful-yet-realistic vibe to it, and the stakes are overall pretty low, like the weekly plots rotate around things like riders being attached to bills, and bill signings, and work trips, plus a few things that make a very interesting overall arc.

Like the stagnation arc that culminates in Let Bartlet be Bartlet? Immaculate. Danny being the one to break the memo story? Artful.

And yeah, okay part of the reason i love season 1 is because I am a Danny girl (not quite to the level I'm a CJ girl, but I love that man), and half of his appearances in the whole show are in season 1. I'll admit it.

But there's just such good narrative juice. The MS reveal. Them trying to find their footing. CJ's personal-versus-professional arc. Speaking truth to power. THEE best christmas episode (argue with the wall, because it is. Noel who?). Charlie and Zoey, which of course ends with one of the best finales of the show (the truth is, if the show does one thing perfectly ALMOST every season, it's the finales. But What Kind of Day has it Been? is right up there). Leo's alcoholism and the fact that it's literally not even the worst scandal.

It's also very funny. Woot canaw. "I don't understand, did you trip over something?". Gail the goldfish. Secret plan to fight inflation.

The only like, negative I'd claim is Mandy, and not even because I hate Mandy, but because so much of the time she's disconnected from the main narrative of the show, like they didn't know what to do with her, which is frustrating. Other than that? Poignant. Witty. Hopeful realism.

If I had to pick a top 5, like absolutely had to narrow it to five:

But also In Excelsis Deo, and Celestial Navigation, and Enemies, and The State Dinner- you get my point!

i will keep this short, sweet, and non-controversial, bc I have many MANY thoughts about shipping but I also have a deep desire to not have anyone mad at me. lol.

I do NOT like any of the Leo ships very much. Him and Jordon are okay, but I don't really see their chemistry most of the time, and I am very much against Annabeth/Leo. You know that scene where she's like "because of the tension" and Leo goes "what tension?" Yeah. That's me.

An intergenerational friendship there could've been lovely but then they had to make it weird and quasiromantic and I just don't see it.

I guess the one I like best, in a non canon sense is Leo/Jed, or Jed/Leo/Abbey, but mostly only the kiss in Gunmen, or that scene that looks like they're inviting him to a President's weekend threesome.