"Where No Man Has Gone Before..."
Sep. 8th, 2007 01:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bradygirl_12Today is the 41st anniversary of Star Trek's network premiere!
Considering how so many of us started in slash fandom via Kirk/Spock, I thought it would be appropriate to note the date. :)
How did you start in slash fandom? Which couple captured your imagination and led you to us in the wonderful world of slash? :)
Considering how so many of us started in slash fandom via Kirk/Spock, I thought it would be appropriate to note the date. :)
How did you start in slash fandom? Which couple captured your imagination and led you to us in the wonderful world of slash? :)
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Date: 2007-09-08 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-09 12:45 am (UTC)You were highly motivated! ;)
And while it's no longer my only fandom, it's still my main one. Kirk and Spock are the two I grew up with. I was hooked from that first episode 41 years ago, even if it was only seeing them as best friends. So I know them in a way I doubt I could ever know any of my other pairings.
*nods* It's not my main fandom anymore, either, but I still buy the occasional K/S zine and read the stories on-line. I used to love h/c and then realized, hey, you can have all the good stuff without a lot of the hurt when it's slash! :) I remember the huge controversy when the first K/S story was published. Like, "How dare these people make pervs out of Kirk and Spock?!" It was't too many years after Stonewall that the first story was published, in 1976, I think.
There's a fannish project going on about putting a lot of remembrances in zine form about K/S fandom since it's hit the 30-year mark.
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Date: 2007-09-09 02:33 am (UTC)Yes, 1976. So last year wasn't only Star Trek's 40th Anniversary, but also K/S 's 30th.
There's a fannish project going on about putting a lot of remembrances in zine form about K/S fandom since it's hit the 30-year mark.
It's out. :-) Legacy, published in five volumes, debuted at Shore Leave in July. Lots of stories (I'm proud to say one of them is mine,) and interviews. Plus the controversy from those early years was pulled from the old letterzines and republished in Legacy. Fascinating reading, to coin a phrase.
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Date: 2007-09-09 03:21 am (UTC)Isn't it wonderful? *sighs happily*
It's out. :-) Legacy, published in five volumes, debuted at Shore Leave in July. Lots of stories (I'm proud to say one of them is mine,) and interviews. Plus the controversy from those early years was pulled from the old letterzines and republished in Legacy. Fascinating reading, to coin a phrase.
Do you have a website where it's offered, or any contact info? Like price! :) Did you get a 'trib copy or did you have to pony up? :)
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Date: 2007-09-09 02:21 pm (UTC)Here you go. :-)
http://liquidfic.net/legacyflyer.html
Did you get a 'trib copy or did you have to pony up? :)
I got a trib copy of the volume my story was in (the second,) but I had to buy the rest. At least I was able to pick them up at Shore Leave so I didn't have to pay postage. But they're well worth the price...even if I do say so, myself. ;-)
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Date: 2007-09-09 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-08 01:25 pm (UTC)Interestingly enough I never thought of Kirk/Spock until after I started reading about it being the first slash fandom relationship. My early fannish 'ship thoughts were usually "hunky male character/me". *g*
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Date: 2007-09-09 01:06 am (UTC)Interestingly enough I never thought of Kirk/Spock until after I started reading about it being the first slash fandom relationship. My early fannish 'ship thoughts were usually "hunky male character/me". *g*
LOL! I lot of people started out that way, Lady! :)
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Date: 2007-09-08 04:19 pm (UTC)Blake/Avon from Blakes 7 was the pairing that led me into active fandom and writing, though. So those two have a very special place in my heart.
*sighs nostalgically* Happy anniversary, Brady!
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Date: 2007-09-09 01:12 am (UTC)It's just in the bones, isn't it? *excuse pun, looking at icon* We who love slash always knew what was really going on. We just didn't have the right name for it! ;)
Blake/Avon from Blakes 7 was the pairing that led me into active fandom and writing, though. So those two have a very special place in my heart.
Oh, definitely! That's how Jim and Artie from Wild Wild West are for me, too, as they're the first ones I wrote.
*sighs nostalgically* Happy anniversary, Brady!
It's a wonderfully happy anniversary indeed, sweetie! :)
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Date: 2007-09-08 04:45 pm (UTC)Um... Betsy/Tacey in the kids books I read when I was little bitty were soverymarried even when they were so young (i was too at the time), or maybe it was Bess and George (cousins or not, they were a couple), or Frank and Ned when the crossover books started coming out (ooh antagonistic pairing yes yes)...
I was in comic and anime fandoms in grade & jr high school, thought Jean and Storm should have been the couple (don't ask, animated series), and Sailormoon and Ronin Warriors and DBZ, and all of those have yaoi/yuri couples, so it might have been one of those... but I was watching Buffy at the same time and Spike and Angel were an instant pairing in my head... but I'd already read Mercedes Lackey so I had the canon pair Van and Stef... Rob/Gabriel from LJ Smith's Dark Visions books, the gentle chi healer and the cold, calculating psi-vampire were a dynamic of utter YES!...
...I'm confusing myself.
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Date: 2007-09-09 01:18 am (UTC)LOL! I agree with you on all three, Yena! :)
...I'm confusing myself.
Hey, some days I live in the State of Confusion. ;)
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Date: 2007-09-08 06:42 pm (UTC)I started in the slash fandom with Aragorn/Legolas. I knew what slash was for years before, but until I accidentally clicked on a slash fic, I never read any. The fic stayed in my head the rest of the day, and the next day I went and found more. :) I've been in slash fandoms ever since then. But I only started writing slash with Bruce and Clark. :)
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Date: 2007-09-09 01:31 am (UTC)I always make note of it. It changed my life! ;)
I started in the slash fandom with Aragorn/Legolas. I knew what slash was for years before, but until I accidentally clicked on a slash fic, I never read any.
'Accidentally', eh? ;)
The fic stayed in my head the rest of the day, and the next day I went and found more. :) I've been in slash fandoms ever since then. But I only started writing slash with Bruce and Clark. :)
Good boys to start with! :)
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Date: 2007-09-08 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-09 01:50 am (UTC)Heh! Exactly! So many of us 'knew' it, but didn't know it! ;)
And I started with the pervy stuff right off the bat - Hardy Boys slash :) But I didn't put the two together - fandom & slash - until Hogan's Heroes. And after 19 years and too many fandoms to count - The Colonel and his Radioman are still one of my OTPs. I keep going back to them.
I have a special fondness for them, too, not the least of which is that we met through out mutual love of Robert/Ivan. :)
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Date: 2007-09-08 09:49 pm (UTC)Didn't really get into slash until I found Clark/Richard and Clark/Bruce. Before that, it squicked me out, or I just didn't see it really. I was just way too into putting my fave male characters with *me*. Oh, I was the queen of Mary Sues, even it I didn't get them all down on paper. ^_~ Ilyena Sylph mentioned the Ronin Warriors - if I'd been writing smut then, Anubis would have been in all of it. O_o Oh, I had it bad. :p
I never slashed K/S, since the show, and thusly the characters and actors, were so much older than me, but if the new movie makes them all young and yummy again, I might just have to consider it. ^_~
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Date: 2007-09-09 02:07 am (UTC)It's got a wonderful sense of optimism.
Didn't really get into slash until I found Clark/Richard and Clark/Bruce. Before that, it squicked me out, or I just didn't see it really.
Now Clark/Richard and Clark/Bruce is a very nice way to get into slash! :)
I never slashed K/S, since the show, and thusly the characters and actors, were so much older than me, but if the new movie makes them all young and yummy again, I might just have to consider it. ^_~
Ah, but age knows no restraint! ;)
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Date: 2007-09-09 12:09 am (UTC)My gateway pairing into reading slash was Spike/Angel. After I got acclimated to them as a couple, I started branching out to other pairings and fandoms.
If you mean which slash pairing did I start writing, then that would be Kurt/Logan. Those two are just so cute.
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Date: 2007-09-09 03:16 am (UTC)My gateway pairing into reading slash was Spike/Angel. After I got acclimated to them as a couple, I started branching out to other pairings and fandoms.
If you mean which slash pairing did I start writing, then that would be Kurt/Logan. Those two are just so cute.
Both ways! :) And you answered it nicely, Sasha!
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Date: 2007-09-09 01:21 pm (UTC)And actually, I guess that I should correct the pairing for the first slash story that I read. It was actually a couple in a Mercedes Lackey book but at the time I didn't know the word slash AND, for reasons I don't understand, it didn't really click that I was reading about a slash relationship.
Later on, when I got into fandom, I would go eww and quickly scurry away if I saw a male pairing but that first one didn't even ping on my radar.
Weird.
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Date: 2007-09-09 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-09 10:20 am (UTC)the second, methos appeared on screen with duncan, it blew me away.
i thought, no way, they arent gay, and sleeping with each other.
i already knew normal gen fictions , and some het, but seeing them, i just put in highlander fic, and voila, slash enlightment.
but i think with HL, it was not much subtext or AU, rather than text, coz with being immortal and such, i guess, everyone would be tired of their own sex sometime, and look for different things.
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Date: 2007-09-09 10:11 pm (UTC)