Mash-slash
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| Mailing List | |
|---|---|
| Name: | mash-slash |
| Date(s): | 2001 to 2016 |
| Moderated: | |
| Moderators/List Maintainers: | lisewilliams (thissugarcane) |
| Founder(s): | lisewilliams (thissugarcane) |
| Type: | Slash, fanfiction |
| Fandom: | M*A*S*H |
| URL: | https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mash-slash |
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mash-slash is a mailing list for slash fanfiction and slash-centric discussion about the TV series M*A*S*H. While it's main focus was slash, gen and het was also accepted[1].
The mailing list has generated some stories every year since 2001, although activity has been erratic in the last few years. With no archive available, though, the stories are restricted to list members. However, in 2004 the list membership organised the Mash Slash Awards[2] which provides an overview of some of the best stories available then.
List membership tends to be young, mainly high-school and college-aged. Stories on the list tend to favor Hawkeye/BJ, but cover almost every imaginable slash pairing; it's also considered perfectly acceptable to post a story with no character names attached, inviting the readers to imagine their own favorite characters in the roles. Femslash is rare, and usually features Erin Hunnicutt, the daughter of BJ Hunnicutt (never seen in the show, during which she was a toddler), aged up to high-school or college age and generally paired with an OFC.
Stories on the list -- particularly those featuring Hawkeye in any way -- also tend toward somberness and angst; there's lots of deathfic (often suicide); sometimes the death itself is the focus, but stories also revolve around funerals. There's also a remarkable amount of cutting and similar coping strategies.
In recent years, the mailing list has developed a sister-LJ community, also called mash-slash[3].