M*A*S*H Fic Olympics

ATTENTION ALL PERSONNEL!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics, a week-long fandom-wide writing festival that aims to highlight and appreciate the amazing work of writers involved in the M*A*S*H fandom!

This festival is open to all ships (and gen work, of course), and will run Monday, July 3, through Sunday, July 9.

Your organizers are Jay (Jaybirbb on AO3 and @faggothawkeyepierce on Tumblr) and Parker (AMRV_5 on AO3 and @amrv-5 on Tumblr). Feel free to contact [email protected] with questions!

request list || prompt list

HOW IT WORKS:

Each day of the week-long festival will have a specific theme. Authors will have from now until the night before each theme to craft a fic to fit and post it to the AO3 collection M*A*S*H Fic Olympics (find it here!).

All of the posted works for a given day will fall under its theme. The fics can be submitted publicly or anonymously, and as individual works or chapters of a single piece. 

Works submitted to the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics collection on Archive of Our Own will be posted across seven days (the moderators will approve each fic on its theme day!). The links to the AO3 works will then be posted to this blog, moderated by yours truly.

Each day’s theme will be provided at the bottom of this post. A list of prompts for potential inspiration will also be provided.

As another fun way to engage with the M*A*S*H writing community, we will also be accepting fic requests to be filled out during the event! Find out more here!

We encourage readers to review and share the works once they’re posted so they can be experienced by as many people as possible! 

The event will begin on Monday, July 3rd and end on Sunday, July 9th. Participants should submit their fics by 5 p.m. CDT (10 p.m. GMT) the night before each relevant theme (meaning first submissions are due July 2nd, and last ones July 8th!). That said, we’ll also accept late submissions—the more fic, the better!

FAQ:

"Do I have to follow the theme?"

-Yes! This will make it a lot easier for us to organize on which day we’ll post the fics. Plus, it’s the point of the fic olympics!

"Do I have to follow a prompt?"

-No! The prompts are there for you to use as inspiration, but you can change them up or totally ignore them. As long as you follow the theme, everything’s good!

"Can I submit more than one fic?"

-Absolutely! Write and submit as many works as you want.

"How should I format my fics?"

-You can post the daily fills as chapters in a single work, or as individual works; it’s up to you! 

"How do I submit to a collection?"

-When you create a new work, you’ll find a menu in the “Associations” box that allows you to post your fic to a collection. Enter “M*A*S*H Fic Olympics” in the entry box, and it should allow you to select the collection and post to it! 

"How do I request a fic? How do I fill a request?"

-Everything you need to know should be in this post!

"I have more questions! Help!!"

-Do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] if you have any other questions.

RULES:

-This challenge is open to all ships, as well as gen work.

-Canon-compliant, post-canon, pre-canon and AU are all fair game! 

-Each day of the week-long challenge has an associated theme. To participate, write something incorporating that theme and post it to the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics collection on AO3. 

-No maximum or minimum word count. 

-Please tag your work properly, so everyone’s experience can be safe and enjoyable! The moderators may ask you to add a tag to your work after you submit it. We also reserve the right to refuse fics until they are properly tagged.

-Remember to be kind! Any participants who engage in hostile behavior to other participants may be removed from participation. We’re all friends here :)

-Have fun and be yourself <3

THEMES AND SCHEDULE: 

Monday, July 3 (Due July 2): Letters

Tuesday, July 4 (Due July 3): Weather

Wednesday, July 5 (Due July 4): Horror

Thursday, July 6 (Due July 5): Orange

Friday, July 7 (Due July 6): Injury

Saturday, July 8 (Due July 7): Alternate Universe

Sunday, July 9 (Due July 8): Secrets

PROMPT LIST:

If you find yourself struggling for ideas, we have a prompt list available here!

Thanks to everyone who submitted prompts! These are totally optional, and only intended to help provide some inspiration if desired!

Attention all personnel!

As a way for people to provide some feedback on the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics, we will be posting a series of surveys about the event!

As the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics are coming to an end, I would like to thank every single person who has submitted stories, prompts or requests for the event. My thanks to those who have submitted stories for every single day of the Olympics, I appreciate your dedication. My thanks to those who have read, liked, commented and spread the work of our beloved writers throughout the week, I appreciate your love for this community and your willingness to keep it alive and thriving. All of you have brought this project to life in your own little ways. I am so grateful that so many people took the time to make this event happen and bring this many people together to enjoy the incredible work of writers in the M*A*S*H fandom. The act of writing truly is something special and powerful, thank you all for partaking in it.

Most of all, I would like to thank my comrade, Parker (@amrv-5), who has done an amazing job all throughout the event and was so proactive in figuring out how to make it work and keep everything running smoothly. I appreciate your creativity, your efficiency and your patience so very much. The Fic Olympics could not have happened without you, friend!

I hope you are all as happy as I am with the way the M*A*S*H Fic Olympics turned out. I hope this event has brought a little bit of joy into your lives and I hope we get to do it all again soon!

Love,

Hi, folks! I guess this is the end... for now. I'll start off by thanking my fellow mod @faggothawkeyepierce — Jay is brilliant, and has done so much to keep this festival running. It wouldn’t exist without him, and I’m so grateful for all the work he’s put in to make this week possible! 

As for the festival itself: thank you so much to everybody who has participated! There are so many incredibly talented writers in this fandom, and it’s been such a joy to read what you’ve all come up with. Congratulations to all of you for your hard work and your creative, fascinating, surprising, and just plain fun interpretations of the daily themes. A highlight of this festival for me was reading through each day’s entries and tracing both the number of different interpretations and the unexpected similarities that popped up through the week’s duration.

 I’m also so appreciative of everybody who went out of their way to engage with the fics in the collection—commenting, reblogging, kudos, yelling in the tags, everything—thank you all so much! What I love most about fandom is the community aspect. People make this whole thing worthwhile, and this sure felt worthwhile. It’s so great to get to be in a space where we can all celebrate our love of a 50 year old sitcom with so much enthusiasm. 

In conclusion, thank you everybody for your effort, your time, your craft, and for just being you — fans of M*A*S*H, that is. I hope you had as much fun this week as I did, and I look forward to seeing you all at the next event, whatever that may be. 

Best, 

Author : satai

Theme : Weather

Pairing(s) : BJ/Hawkeye

Author : Lefty_Wilbury

Theme : Secrets

Pairing(s) : Gen

Author : The_dark_phoenix

Theme : Letters

Pairing(s) : Gen

Author : The_dark_phoenix

Theme : Secrets

Pairing(s) : Gen