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Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
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Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: I May Know The Word by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Fandom: M*A*S*H*
Pairing: N/A
Categories: Sad stories, supernatural
Length: Medium (2730 words)
Warning: Canonical and extra-canonical character death
Rating: PG
Author on LJ: Not known
Websites: Her page on FanFiction.Net and [r]eturn [t]o [s]ender
Summary: Radar explains how and why he knows things before they happen.
Review: I'm going to start off, a little unusually, with what I don't like about this story. I don't like the typoes, which to me are evidence of carelessness, and I don't like the author's 'rhyming' plea for feedback. With those two bugbears out of the way, however, it must be admitted that what remains is delicate, unusual and beautifully handled.
This is a short piece from Radar's POV and gives us a little insight into his uncanny ability to know and understand things without ever actually being told. He has inherited a mysterious power from his mother; it's got a number of strange names and he doesn't quite know how it works, but he does know that it's dangerous to talk about it - yet it gives him valuable insights into the people he's working with. In these few short words we are shown revealing, Radar's-eye-views of most of the 4077's personnel and we learn which of them also have smatterings of the Talent, who their secret voices call to, and who it is that Radar himself feels closest to.
This is a story that defies categorisation; it doesn't have many equivalents. It's a small slice of character study as much as anything, a window into the heart of this most pivotal but often overlooked character, and a poignantly persuasive view of his comrades. It will stay in your mind for a long time after you've read it, and I recommend that you do so at the earliest possible opportunity.
Link: I May Know The Word
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: The Acme Judgment Company (Uncloseted Remix) by Sabine/iamsab
Fandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
iamsabFandom: M*A*S*H
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ, Hawkeye/female
Categories:
Length: Medium (4,900 words)
Warning: Fidelity, sobriety and truth are the first three casualties of war, so, hold on.
Rating: Author rates at 'T for Teen'
Author on LJ: The Sabrary
Website: punkandsabfiction. Her West Wing fiction is heavily featured on The National Library
Summary:"You want disapproval? You disapprove. I'm not the ACME Judgment Company." - BJ, The More I See You
Review:
An outsider's point-of-view on the Hawkeye/BJ relationship. Carlye Breslin (now Walton) was once Hawkeye's live-in girlfriend. When she is posted to the 4077 MASH as a nurse they take up again more or less where they left off - except that this time Carlye is aware that there's someone else in Hawkeye's life. It becomes apparent as the story progresses that, although he is fond of Carlye and fonder still of having sex with her, Hawkeye is - despite his own protestations - emotionally committed to BJ.
Naturally as we are seeing all this through the eyes of a third party it is a little short on specifics as far as the guys are concerned. To balance that, however, we have a coherent and well-constructed picture of Carlye as a concerned friend who understands Hawkeye better than he understands himself, sees through all his blustering and recognises the full significance of his relationship with BJ.
If I have one quibble, it would be that the author's chronology just doesn’t stack up. I don’t know if we were ever told Hawkeye's date of birth, but given that Donald Sutherland played the part at the age of 35 and Alan Alda first at 36 we can reasonably assume that Hawkeye was born in about 1915-1916; this makes it very difficult to believe that he could have been dumped by his live-in girlfriend on the day after the 1929 Stock Market crash. Indeed, he could hardly even have been a medical student then, unless he was Doogie Howser.
This aside, what we have here is a perceptive piece of work showing Hawkeye coming to grips with the central fact of his life - that he is in love with BJ. As a result it is no surprise to learn, through Carlye, that by 1954 the two of them are in an established relationship and sending out Christmas cards together from Mill Valley. It would have been nice to know more about this, but alas the story ends here.
I have slight reservations that the path of true love would be quite so smooth for these boys, but be that as it may Sabine has achieved something very unusual with this story - a third-person POV on a slash relationship that manages to be both revealing and discreet. It is a very delicate balancing-act, in which she has succeeded superbly.
Link: The ACME Judgment Company
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Just as Fatal by Meredith Bronwen Mallory
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Romance, Angst, Post-episode
Length: Medium (4850 words)
Warning: Discussions of death and claustrophobic situations
Rating: Rated T by author
Author on LJ: Unknown
Website: [r]eturn to [s]ender
Summary: Hawkeye is so jittery in C*A*V*E, but we're never told why he has claustrophobia, or even when he realised he had it.
Review: An odd story by one of the more senior writers in MASH fandom. After an incident in which Hawkeye is revealed to be claustrophobic, a verbal blunder by Winchester adds the information that it is somehow connected to his relationship with his mother. Once alone with BJ, Hawkeye seeks to unburden himself about the origins of his phobia.
It would be nice to be able to believe a little more fully in the backstory for Just As Fatal; for this reader the descriptions of Hawkeye's mother and her semi-mystical background didn’t quite ring true, although the picture of her still trying to tell him stories and legends even on her deathbed is a persuasive one. Nor is the incident that apparently triggered Hawkeye's claustrophobia entirely convincing; maybe the author could have spent a little more time on both of these aspects to good effect.
Nevertheless what follows is a sweetly described declaration of love from both parties, leading to the resolution that there is one confined space in which Hawkeye feels perfectly safe - the circle of BJ's arms.
Meredith Bronwen Mallory is an author who seems to impress and annoy me in equal proportions. What is good about her work is really very good indeed, but there are lapses which get on my nerves and her rhyming pleas for feedback make my teeth curl. If you don’t mind about such things, however, there is a great deal here to admire; I just wish that she had gone a little deeper with this one.
Link: Just As Fatal
Title: Redeployment by Tara Keezer
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Post-series, Romance, Angst, kind-of established relationship
Length: Medium (3409 words)
Warning: None
Rating: Not rated by author - very mild
Author on LJ: News of the Weird
Website: Elemental Vision
Summary: After eight years apart, it takes an accident - or a miracle - to bring Hawkeye and BJ back together again.
Review:
BJ's in town for a job interview when he accidentally knocks a local kid down with his car. Since nobody else wants to help, he and the mother load the kid up and drive him to a nearby clinic - which just happens to be run by the brilliant but irascible Dr Ben. (Guess who?) There isn’t time for much of a reunion; BJ is pressed into service to help with the treatment, but when it's apparent that the boy is on the mend he becomes aware that his presence is not particularly welcome. Indeed, Hawkeye can't get rid of him fast enough and seems to want never to set eyes on him again.
Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as that. BJ has omitted to sign his donation cheque, and when he gets back to his hotel room he finds Hawkeye waiting for him. This is when the truth gradually emerges; the relationship they had in Korea, the way it ended, the damage it did.
These are not quite the characters we are used to from the TV series; it's true that Hawkeye always carried a kind of inner darkness and a vulnerability which led to the mental breakdown referenced in the story, but the conventional picture of BJ was of a good-natured and essentially grounded family man who would ride out most kinds of trouble and end up making the right decisions. Here we have a less comfortable reading of BJ, as a man who has reluctantly faced up to the truth about himself and does not much like what he sees. When Fate brings them back together and gives them a second chance to take control of their lives, it's up to them to take advantage of it.
In many ways this is not a happy story although the ending is positive. It does, however, give a beautifully nuanced picture of two characters who can at last begin to overcome their individual difficulties and finally think about making a life together; that, in itself, is a more than satisfactory outcome.
Link: Redeployment
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Post-series, Romance, Angst, kind-of established relationship
Length: Medium (3409 words)
Warning: None
Rating: Not rated by author - very mild
Author on LJ: News of the Weird
Website: Elemental Vision
Summary: After eight years apart, it takes an accident - or a miracle - to bring Hawkeye and BJ back together again.
Review:
BJ's in town for a job interview when he accidentally knocks a local kid down with his car. Since nobody else wants to help, he and the mother load the kid up and drive him to a nearby clinic - which just happens to be run by the brilliant but irascible Dr Ben. (Guess who?) There isn’t time for much of a reunion; BJ is pressed into service to help with the treatment, but when it's apparent that the boy is on the mend he becomes aware that his presence is not particularly welcome. Indeed, Hawkeye can't get rid of him fast enough and seems to want never to set eyes on him again.
Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as that. BJ has omitted to sign his donation cheque, and when he gets back to his hotel room he finds Hawkeye waiting for him. This is when the truth gradually emerges; the relationship they had in Korea, the way it ended, the damage it did.
These are not quite the characters we are used to from the TV series; it's true that Hawkeye always carried a kind of inner darkness and a vulnerability which led to the mental breakdown referenced in the story, but the conventional picture of BJ was of a good-natured and essentially grounded family man who would ride out most kinds of trouble and end up making the right decisions. Here we have a less comfortable reading of BJ, as a man who has reluctantly faced up to the truth about himself and does not much like what he sees. When Fate brings them back together and gives them a second chance to take control of their lives, it's up to them to take advantage of it.
In many ways this is not a happy story although the ending is positive. It does, however, give a beautifully nuanced picture of two characters who can at last begin to overcome their individual difficulties and finally think about making a life together; that, in itself, is a more than satisfactory outcome.
Link: Redeployment
Title: Redeployment by Tara Keezer
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Post-series, Romance, Angst, kind-of established relationship
Length: Medium (3409 words)
Warning: None
Rating: Not rated by author - very mild
Author on LJ: News of the Weird
Website: Elemental Vision
Summary: After eight years apart, it takes an accident - or a miracle - to bring Hawkeye and BJ back together again.
Review:
BJ's in town for a job interview when he accidentally knocks a local kid down with his car. Since nobody else wants to help, he and the mother load the kid up and drive him to a nearby clinic - which just happens to be run by the brilliant but irascible Dr Ben. (Guess who?) There isn’t time for much of a reunion; BJ is pressed into service to help with the treatment, but when it's apparent that the boy is on the mend he becomes aware that his presence is not particularly welcome. Indeed, Hawkeye can't get rid of him fast enough and seems to want never to set eyes on him again.
Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as that. BJ has omitted to sign his donation cheque, and when he gets back to his hotel room he finds Hawkeye waiting for him. This is when the truth gradually emerges; the relationship they had in Korea, the way it ended, the damage it did.
These are not quite the characters we are used to from the TV series; it's true that Hawkeye always carried a kind of inner darkness and a vulnerability which led to the mental breakdown referenced in the story, but the conventional picture of BJ was of a good-natured and essentially grounded family man who would ride out most kinds of trouble and end up making the right decisions. Here we have a less comfortable reading of BJ, as a man who has reluctantly faced up to the truth about himself and does not much like what he sees. When Fate brings them back together and gives them a second chance to take control of their lives, it's up to them to take advantage of it.
In many ways this is not a happy story although the ending is positive. It does, however, give a beautifully nuanced picture of two characters who can at last begin to overcome their individual difficulties and finally think about making a life together; that, in itself, is a more than satisfactory outcome.
Link: Redeployment
Fandom: MASH
Pairing: Hawkeye/BJ
Categories: Post-series, Romance, Angst, kind-of established relationship
Length: Medium (3409 words)
Warning: None
Rating: Not rated by author - very mild
Author on LJ: News of the Weird
Website: Elemental Vision
Summary: After eight years apart, it takes an accident - or a miracle - to bring Hawkeye and BJ back together again.
Review:
BJ's in town for a job interview when he accidentally knocks a local kid down with his car. Since nobody else wants to help, he and the mother load the kid up and drive him to a nearby clinic - which just happens to be run by the brilliant but irascible Dr Ben. (Guess who?) There isn’t time for much of a reunion; BJ is pressed into service to help with the treatment, but when it's apparent that the boy is on the mend he becomes aware that his presence is not particularly welcome. Indeed, Hawkeye can't get rid of him fast enough and seems to want never to set eyes on him again.
Unfortunately it isn’t as simple as that. BJ has omitted to sign his donation cheque, and when he gets back to his hotel room he finds Hawkeye waiting for him. This is when the truth gradually emerges; the relationship they had in Korea, the way it ended, the damage it did.
These are not quite the characters we are used to from the TV series; it's true that Hawkeye always carried a kind of inner darkness and a vulnerability which led to the mental breakdown referenced in the story, but the conventional picture of BJ was of a good-natured and essentially grounded family man who would ride out most kinds of trouble and end up making the right decisions. Here we have a less comfortable reading of BJ, as a man who has reluctantly faced up to the truth about himself and does not much like what he sees. When Fate brings them back together and gives them a second chance to take control of their lives, it's up to them to take advantage of it.
In many ways this is not a happy story although the ending is positive. It does, however, give a beautifully nuanced picture of two characters who can at last begin to overcome their individual difficulties and finally think about making a life together; that, in itself, is a more than satisfactory outcome.
Link: Redeployment
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