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who are you, a stranger in the shell of a lover (5949 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Relationships: B. J. Hunnicutt/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Donna Marie Parker/Charles Emerson Winchester III, B. J. Hunnicutt/Peg Hunnicutt
Characters: Hawkeye Pierce, B. J. Hunnicutt, Donna Marie Parker, Charles Emerson Winchester III, Father Francis Mulcahy
Additional Tags: Charity Auctions, Oral Sex, Feminization

“Hawkeye,” BJ says, looking at Peg's picture by his bed. “Do you think you could be someone else, for me?”

BJ wins his best friend in a charity auction. Then he has to decide what to do with him.

I keep being like, I should write about my life here! like I usually do. but no here's 500 words of melancholy autumnal whatevers. (Phoebe, when she was still with us, used to describe my entire artistic undertaking taken as a whole as "bittersweet autumnal breakfasts". You'd have liked this one, Phoebeface. Though no one asked you.)

your last homecoming / this final autumn (519 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Characters: Sidney Freedman, Hawkeye Pierce
Additional Tags: Autumn, Friendship/Love, Mental Health Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Not a romance, sidney is just a little in love with hawkeye as are we all

Hawkeye, too, is sharpened by autumn: hands in his pockets, overcoat flapping, eyes feverish-bright.

This is a scary story for Halloween slash Samhain! Not that scary, given I can't handle horror myself, but I enjoyed writing it extremely much. What a delight to have a beloved fictional character you can do terrifying things to.

Plus it has a cover. I am really pleased with this story, folks, I hope people like it.

note: I am not someone who celebrates Samhain. But being a Gael for certain values, I have decided to go with it.

Samhain (when you can hear the river rising) (13285 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Relationships: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, B. J. Hunnicutt/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Characters: Hawkeye Pierce, Margaret Houlihan, Sidney Freedman, B. J. Hunnicutt
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Mythology, Halloween, Alternate Universe - Ghosts, Hawkeye is a reliable narrator you can trust him, Hurt/Comfort, Holiday: Samhain, the pairing tag actually is a reliable narrator but this isn't a romance folks

Hawkeye can see ghosts, probably. But it's not the ghosts he's afraid of.

(Or: All Hallows Day, after the long and haunted night.)

it turns out I have SO MUCH to say about queers! and friendship, and gender, and love!

that goddamn dress they'll bury you in (1938 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Relationships: Margaret Houlihan & Hawkeye Pierce
Characters: Hawkeye Pierce, Margaret Houlihan, Maxwell Klinger
Additional Tags: Friendship, Sharing Clothes, Queer Gen, hawkeye and margaret take on gender, Crossdressing, Queer Themes

Hawkeye lays a man’s dress shirt out on the bed, and a pair of nicely-made black pants. “They won’t fit you well,” he says apologetically.

Margaret Houlihan is an officer and a gentleman; and anyway, this is all Hawkeye's fault.

So this is the ridiculous, 40k novella-length MASH Star Trek AU that I have been working on for the last few weeks, in which BJ Hunnicut is sent by Starfleet to a distant medical ship in the midst of the Dominion War, where he meets, and immediately adores, the ship’s sweet-but-crazy Chief Medical Officer (and indomitable head nurse!). Hijinks, as they say, ensue, alongside a little wartime romance and a lot of daytime drinking. Hawkeye is a nonbinary empath. Margaret is Bajoran. I had a great time.

If by any chance you enjoy my writing and want to read this though you’re not familiar with the set-up, you definitely could: either as a Star Trek story with all-original characters, set on a medical ship stationed near Bajor during the Dominion War, or as a completely original piece of space opera SF. I don’t think it matters if you know the MASH characters or not - they are a delight to meet for the first time, and obviously these are altered versions of them anyway.

To read this from the other direction or as original space opera SF, I think you’d need to know that there’s a war going on. Our heroes are Starfleet, who were formerly an exploratory and scientific organisation and have become a military force, and who are now are waging a war for the Federation, a giant, democratic alliance of worlds. They’re fighting an advancing empire, the Dominion, who are coming through a wormhole from the other side of the galaxy. The Dominion seek what they call “order” - basically subjugating everyone else in the galaxy to their will. Their forces are made up of foot soldiers called the Jem ‘Hadar, terrifying armed creatures which are organised and commanded by a different set of aliens called the Vorta. The Dominion is actually run from the top by the Founders, otherwise called changelings. They’re shape-shifters, basically people made of goo, who can make themselves resemble anyone or anything. They make perfect spies, because there are very limited ways of proving someone or something is a changeling rather than the thing or person it’s chosen to impersonate.

On MASH: I have changed nothing in this other than the obvious, it’s a show about war and pain and fear and serious mental illness, but to be clear: it’s a sitcom. Hawkeye and co. are much funnier than this story would lead you to believe.

some things you just can't speak about (wherever they come from, they'll never run out) (40893 words) by raven
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: MASH (TV), Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Relationships: B. J. Hunnicutt/Peg Hunnicutt, B.J. Hunnicutt/Hawkeye Pierce, Hawkeye Pierce & Margaret Houlihan
Characters: B. J. Hunnicutt, Margaret Houlihan, Sherman Potter, Radar O'Reilly, Maxwell Klinger, Frank Burns, Sidney Freedman, Hawkeye Pierce, Peg Hunnicutt
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Star Trek Fusion, Friendship, Romance, Mental Health Issues, Polyamory Negotiations, Dominion War (Star Trek), Nonbinary Character

The stranger is wearing a science-green uniform dress with a bloodstained white apron over it and a red dressing gown over that, and they don’t look like any Starfleet officer BJ has ever seen.

BJ Hunnicutt is sent by Starfleet to a front-line medical ship in the Dominion War, where amid terror, boredom and daytime drinking, he falls for his sweet-but-crazy maverick of a chief medical officer.

(Hawkeye, as ever, is doing their best in a difficult world.)

Another M*A*S*H story, this one is short and exceedingly queer. I was going to say that I love, love, love fictional mixed-gender (queer) adult friendships and that this is one of them, but I think this one might be the ur-one.

lipstick like a bullet in reverse (1369 words) by raven
Fandom: MASH (TV)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan & Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Lorraine Anderson/Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
Characters: Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Additional Tags: Queer Themes, Bisexuality, Make-up, Genderqueer

It makes Hawkeye look half-asleep, not entirely feminine, but like something inside him has shifted in that direction.

Dear yuletide author,

Thank you very much for writing for me. I appreciate it. As I say every year, I am a very strong believer that optional details are optional, and also that it does me good to read things I didn't expect to read. So if you have your assignment and your idea, go away and write that now and never mind me, and I will love whatever it is.

If you like to have more guidance, then here we go:

( The True Meaning of Smekday - Adam Rex )

( MASH )

( Parks and Recreation )

( Amstel Lager - The Chef )

Generally I like: people being competent; people being kind; found families and communities; gen and queer gen, though I'm down with any kind of pairing you like, inc poly; cliché tropes; friendships.

Generally, I don't like: women being erased; PWPs; character-bashing.

Lastly: I just got married. It was great, we threw a party. Why do you care. Because it was wedding no. 1 of 2. Wedding 2 of 2 takes place on December 29th and 30th, in New Delhi, a city which is approximately 4500 miles from where I'm writing this. While I may have time to read/comment on yuletide the week before the wedding, I may well... not. I honestly can't say at this stage. And after the wedding I am away another week, so I may not read your story until, ah, Epiphany or reveals or whatever. I am so sorry about that, in advance, and I don't want you to think I hate you or your story or that I'm not enormously grateful to you for writing for me! Because I don't and I don't and I am, and thank you, again.

Happy yuletide!

Raven

Today, I did answer some email and do some washing-up, but mostly I wrote. Only three stories, but in my defence two of them got longer than expected:

-For musesfool, who wanted CJ Cregg meeting Margaret Houlihan;

-For hedda62, who wanted something about Night Vale's actual weather, if you lift your eyes I am your brother (at the AO3; Cecil, Carlos and Dana coming home, 1200w)

-For forthwritten, marymac and philomytha, all who wanted stories about Nightingale from Rivers of London (!), a spell against the lonely (at the AO3, Nightingale and a queer life, 1500w).

To bed, to bed, etc.

I've had a lovely and interesting few days, and then a couple of weary-mental-health days, on which more anon; in the meantime please have several thousand words produced as a function of me at my wonderful super maddest.

For hedda62 and bibliotropic, which may be the only other people who share this teeny-tiny fandom nexus. Basically; how do you do a Vorkosigan AU for M*A*S*H? Well, take seventeen uterine replicators and stand well back.

Content note: (skip) This story has non-graphic discussion of rape. For more details, feel free to message me privately.


Fic:: Small Town
by Raven
3500w, gen, Vorkosigan and M*A*S*H. "You know," Hawkeye says, thoughtfully, "I'm allergic to fast-penta. It's natural, not induced. The first time they tried it on me I babbled, I giggled, I gave them two scenes of Hamlet, right down to the flights of angels only with more screaming and crying for my mother."

Illyan stares at him. "Why are you telling me this?"

( small town )

I have nothing to say for this one, except, it's a love letter. cosmic_llin looked it over for me; thank you very much, my dear.

[vid] you know there will be days [M*A*S*H]
by Raven
You know there will be days when you're so tired you can't take another step.

music: "Can't Go Back Now", The Weepies, from Hideaway
content notes: a very little gore
password to stream: afterlife / download from sendspace, 71MB [not my favourite, but agh, Reasons]

( stream, notes, lyrics )