tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56917802011-04-21T22:51:44.724ZThis blog has general things about MASH and MASH fanfic. It is now defunct. Thanks for reading.swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1142806824424559812006-03-19T22:16:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:52:20.223Z

After a fair old time of it all, I've decided to reduce my online personae. I was writing my Buffy fiction under one name, and my MASH under another. Since I started archiving my Firefly and ER fic under my Buffy name, I decided it was easier to move all my fic under the one name.So all my stuff is now at The Order of Aurelius and I'm formally winding this site up. Thanks for reading.

swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1091058554276781642004-07-28T23:47:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:51:40.690Z

Ack. My bad. Another fic. Well, more of a five minute ficlet. If I wrote smut, it'd be a PWP, as it is, Wedding Jitters is just a missing scene from Margaret's Wedding. Who told Margaret about the plaster cast?

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New fic: Too Darn Hot, a sequel to Under My Skin. It's a whole Cole Porter thing. I just need a fall and winter song and the quartet of stories will be underway.

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Having posted nothing for months....two posts in one day. I'm clearly having a MASH re-awakening.An author rec: Samantha. Faceless is already up at her website and is one of the most hauntingly elegant pieces of MASH fanfic I've read. She has another story, Free Falling, on her ff.net page. She has a lovely grasp of the charged chemistry of H/M. And can write PWP.

swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1072716514039357152003-12-29T17:39:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:56:00.926Z

I admit it: I have a mild bugbear about the use of English in fanfic or, more precisely, the abuse of it. I know fanfic is something written for pleasure and for the chance to write scenarios never played out in the series. I don't think writing for pleasure automatically means ignoring basic rules of grammar and punctuation.Yes, the rules on the use of the apostrophe may seem a little eccentric,

swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1070236529443549862003-11-30T23:55:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:44:52.103Z

I'm working on a story, Iowa Boy, and posting it up at ff.net as I go.The first chapter is just setting the whole scenario up. It struck me one day that both Radar O'Reilly and Riley Finn are corn-fed farm boys from Iowa and both perform a similar role in their respective series (the naive innocent thrust into the complex world of a war, either in Korea or against vampires). I'm not particularly

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General Mitchell: Are you two together?Hawkeye: In all kinds of weather.I have a great many things I ought to be doing, what with the cold weather drawing in. Unfortunately a "first line" challenge on MASHslash caught my eye and I was unable to resist a piece of PWP called Cold Comfort.When you watch season 1 especially, it's hard not to notice the amount of queer banter going on between Hawkeye

swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1063480936101813152003-09-13T19:22:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:43:07.500Z

There's a new fiction, Strangers When We Meet, up. The title is from a 1950s Hollywood melodrama. If ever there was a genre which relied on subtext for meaning, it's the Sirkian melodramas like Imitation of Life or All That Heaven Allows. The recent Far From Heaven pays a homage to the genre but suffers from bringing the hidden elements - race, gender, sexuality - into the open. It's a beautiful

swamphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00193028545424698121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691780.post-1061241805361392542003-08-18T21:23:00.000Z2006-03-19T22:42:36.533Z

There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them. Much Ado About NothingI had a definite aim when I wrote Don't Marry Him, Have Me.I'm a Hawkeye/Margaret fan: there's an appeal to their screwball relationship, fire in that battle of wits tempered by years of war. On the other hand, I also like MASH for the political subtexts

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