"Holy migrating nipples, Batman!" (On writing my first House MST)

[bironic]

So I wrote my first MST* this week. I feel kind of bad about that, because the practice is mean-spirited and I believe that constructive criticism and offers of help are a more healthy solution to bad!fics than poking fun at them. But I guess all it takes is the right fic at the right time to overcome one's reservations, et voila -- 12,000 words (7

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[perspi]

Yes, perhaps the practice is mean-spirited. But oh, the funny it can bring. Especially when it's done well, with the running gags and the great characterization on the part of the MST-characters, which you nailed.

Kinda makes me want to put my first ever Housefic story up to be MST'd. Or write a story for MST-ing. Hmmmm.

[nightdog_barks]

Or write a story for MST-ing.

Y'know what might be funny? A bad!fic in which all the ... er ... parts have their anatomical names but the characters are referring to them in the purplest of prose.

Wilson gasped, rubbing the head of his penis (commonly known as the glans penis) against House's perineum. The corpora cavernosa slipped back and forth along the delicate skin, occasionally encountering the wiry hair of House's scrotum.

"Oh, House!" he moaned. "I can't take much more of this! My love rocket is engorged and throbbing with beatitude!"

Or ... something. Hee.

[bironic]

*makes a sound perhaps best transcribed as "snerf"* Throbbing with beatitude.

For a minute there, I thought you meant an MST where the bad!fic used anatomical terms and the characters used purple prose completely seriously. I'd attempt an example but it seems I'm all funnied out for the day.

[bironic]

MSTing is funny. And I am mean, at least when it comes to making fun of poor writing. But I'm used to being mean privately -- either in my own head, or to friends, or via email -- so posting that felt weird and a little wrong. But only a little. :D And thanks!

Or write a story for MST-ing.

Wasn't that a suggestion at karaokegal's Halloween party? Write deliberate badfic and MST it?

Do you really think your first story would be bad enough for an MST? Although, really, stories of any caliber can be picked apart in some way or another, depending on the tastes and abilities of the parodier.

[topaz_eyes]

Wasn't that a suggestion at karaokegal's Halloween party? Write deliberate badfic and MST it?

Yes, it was. And AFAIK, still is--I think she's planning on hosting another round this year.

[bironic]

Ooh, yay. Maybe if I get started on something now, I'll be able to have a costume this year. :)