"Where No Man Has Gone Before..."

[bradygirl_12]

Today 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? :)

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Started with K/S. As soon as we bought a computer I searched for Star Trek fanfiction. I knew it existed, knew slash existed, but had never been able to get my hands on any. Didn't take me long to find dozens of sites. Didn't take me much longer to find the slash stories. :-) 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.

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

I write more het than slash, but Spike/Angel(us) is definitely my first and favorite slash pairing to write.

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*

[jij.livejournal.com]

K/S was definitely my first pairing, from long, long before I knew what slash was.

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!

[ilyena_sylph]

Um... I have no idea.


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.

[starsandsea.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee!! Trek anniversary!! :D

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. :)

[khylara.livejournal.com]

I started in fandom w/Doctor Who (old school) and Blake's 7. But I've been thinking slash (and not knowing that's what it was) since I started writing. 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.

[saavikam77.livejournal.com]

Yaaaayyyyyy, Trek anniversary!!! ^_^ *huggles it close* I really think Trek is what kept me sane (or at least kept me from offing myself) when I was a teenager.

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. ^_~

[sasha-anu.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you mean by start?

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.

[ender24]

Highlander, duncan methos.
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.