MSTer

English

Etymology

From MST (“to mock a work by inserting commentary”) +‎ -er.

Noun

MSTer (plural MSTers)

1. (fandom slang) A person who parodies a fanfic by inserting satirical commentary.
   • 1995 February 5, [e-mail], “Re: MSTied fanfic (long)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎ (Usenet):

     If the MSTer never gets a responce^[sic] then they shouldn't do it. It' s a matter of politness.^[sic]

   • 2006 December 31, Elizabeth Helena, “Re: NEW TNG All Wet [PG-13] (Marrissa Stories)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated‎ (Usenet):

     Those guys were funny and a lot more decent than many MSTers I've read.

   • 2011, Michael Dean, “Frame work, resistance and co-optation: How Mystery Science Theater 3000 positions us both in and against hegemonic culture”, in In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology, and the Culture of Riffing, →ISBN, page 126:

     Most MSTers confine their "riffing" to original fan fiction rather than scripts from corporate-owned entertainment properties, which renders such twice-removed MSTing somewhat toothless: the cannibalizing parody of a patische.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MSTer.