MirrorM*A*S*H

Fanfiction
Title:	MirrorM*A*S*H
Author(s):	Jane Carnall
Date(s):
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	M*A*S*H
External Links:	at AO3
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MirrorM*A*S*H is a M*A*S*H slash slavefic AU by Jane Carnall. It has seventeen chapters, and remains a WIP.

The story has been moved around a lot. Carnall's InsaneJournal is home to one version of MirrorM*AS*H. Links to other parts of "MirrorM*A*S*H" are available at the end of Mirror M*A*S*H: Through the Mirror, Part Two.

This story inspired Slash shock, shamelessness, and a rec.

Author's Notes

"This story is 28 885 words long and was written in 14 parts between 5 November 2004 and 1 January 2005. For fun (this is not how I usually write) it was not planned out, it was not beta'd, and it has not been edited. What you get is what I wrote. Some of the comments I got on this story as I wrote it were absolutely brilliant. Do read them."

"I write about why I temporarily friends-locked my journal, about finding a reference to my fanfic in the Onion, and about the making of MirrorM*A*S*H."

Subject of an Onion Shoutout

The author wrote about this story and the attention it got in The Onion. Sadly, the journal the comments are on has been purged and deleted. See MirrorMASH links.

A fan posted: "... I was amused to see this in The Onion's astrology column this week (no link since I can't get MT to render it properly, for some reason): Leo: (July 23-Aug. 22) You thought you'd seen the worst humanity had to offer, but that was before you read fan-fiction set in an alternate universe where Hawkeye Pierce and Father Mulcahy are lovers."

The Chapters Up to 14

• part 1: An Unexpected Purchase
• part 2: Meet the Colonel
• part 3: All Cutters to the OR
• part 4: The Craziest Story
• part 5: A Game of Poker
• part 6: After Five Minutes
• part 7: Come Here Often?
• part 8: Having A Sandwich
• part 9: Let's Get Drunk
• part 10: Five Conversations One Morning
• part 11: Of Chocolate and Tongue
• part 12: Breaking Everything
• part 13: Leave or Assist
• part 14: Hospital Encounters

Fan Comments

2004

The example you gave with Father Mulcahy specifically involved people who looked just like his friends and behaved entirely unlike them in every way, which seems like it could be about at most one M*A*S*H character, and the rest are explicitly not their M*A*S*H selves but just look like them.

So, remember slash shock? That weird feeling you got when you read that first story about Frodo and Sam, or Kirk and Spock, doing... things.. to each other, that feeling compounded of equal parts This is strange and wrong and dirty and This makes so. much. sense and more more more more more?

Yeah, well. I've just been reading a story that threw me right back there. janecarnall's MirrorM*A*S*H WiP.

It's the Mirror Universe from Star Trek. Only with M*A*S*H. And BJ is the colonel and he has a Mirror-Spockian goatee and the corresponding scary-badass manner. And there are slaves. And Hawkeye buys one away from a brothel, on a whim.

And it's Father Mulcahy. From our universe.

And it's THE MOST CRACKTASTIC THING EVAR, but... it works, in this supremely creepy sick-and-wrong immensely compelling way.

And it got me thinking.

So, I got into Star Trek at pretty much exactly the same time I entered puberty, and I don't for a moment believe the two things are unconnected. And so though I didn't think much about Spock having sex with Kirk, there was really no phase of my Trek fannish career where I wasn't thinking about Spock having sex with someone. So the issue with K/S, my first slash fandom, was about sexualizing the relationship, but it was never about sexualizing my views of the characters.

M*A*S*H, though-- I watched that when I was a kid-- I watched it religiously-- but I never entertained salacious thoughts about the characters, or gave much thought to any salacious thoughts they might have about each other. Slashing that carries a heavy frisson of OH GOD YOU ARE CORRUPTING MY INNOCENT CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. And as a result, even though I like the show, I have never gone seeking slash for it. I've read a little, when I've come across it, and it's always left me feeling rather dirtywrong, in the bad way, even when it was well-written and canonical and good.

But you know, the AU Mirrorverse slave thing is actually making it easier to read-- enough so that I'm thinking of looking for some this-universe, consensual Hawkeye/Mulcahy right now. (Um, recs? anyone?) And I think it's because of something idlerat has been talking about off and on for a while now-- the utter shamelessness of fanfic.

Because the scenario-- so, Mulcahy is thrown into a universe full of people who look and talk just like his friends, only he's a slave and they all want to rape him. (Because, really, who wouldn't?) That storyline cuts pretty close to the id, you know? And it's just one of a large number of similarly... charged storylines (soul bonds, every fuck-or-die scenario ever written...) that you see very very often in fanfic, and from time to time in profic as well.

[...]

[ETA-- And I got all flail-y and failed to circle back to what I was *going* to say, which was this: the really visceral wrongness of the AU scenario is blowing my visceral squick about slashing this show I watched in fourth grade right out of the water-- 'cause there's wrong and then there's wrong, and this Mirror AU is wrong but in the best possible way-- and I don't know that it's ever going to come back.]

Okay, I read it.

I enjoyed it in that wonderfully cringing sort of why one enjoys non-cons (see Taming 3ba).

I'm looking forward to more and then I'm probably going to teh Hell.

Eeeek.

HAWKEYE/MULCAHY!??>!??!??!??!?!?!

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ACK

[runs away, buries head in sand]

NO I WON'T COME OUT OF HERE

oh, dude.

You just had to post that link, didn't you? That was deeply disturbing, and yet hot. I'd forgotten that I used to love M*A*S*H way back when. You're evil.

...but in a good way.