The Grandfather of all slash: Kirk/Spock makes the news

[marguerite_26]

Newsweek attempts to answer the age old questions:

What the hell is Slash? and Where the hell did it come from?

I'm rather impressed at the accuracy of the article.

Where No Man Has Gone Before

*snort*

quote:
Some stories—including many tales centering around "pon farr," the overpowering Vulcan mating impulse introduced in the episode "Amok Time"—are almost unbelievably explicit, but most are primarily about the creation and maintenance of a romantic relationship.

I have this wicked desire to see what exactly makes something "unbelievably explicit". *g*

Thanks to romaine24 for the link!!! *twirls you*

Comments

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Well, this isn't the first article I've seen. I remember a couple years ago there was a pretty indepth article (far more than this one) about Xena and Buffy fanfic writers and what drove women to write slash.

It was not on on-line paper, though. So no easy linkies to archive, just names.

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

Heh. No, I imagine it isn't the first, but, dude! Newsweek?! And I think I'm showing my age, but there are still a larger number of staunch die-hard K/S fen from back in the day who refuse to allow any of the early stuff to be archived on-line so they don't lose track of their ability to distribute it.

I ran into this because a few years back I contacted a few old friends to see what they thought of the idea of creating an archive because I didn't want to see any slash history lost as we oldies up and died. And discovered that, seriously, they are still organized enough that they don't need an on-line archive. To say that I was impressed would be an understatement. That's not to say there aren't K/S zines available on-line, but a surprising amount of the early work is available only in zine format and can be borrowed from the K/S lending library. Including (omg) one of my earliest 'zines. Gah! *suddenly wishes they were perhaps a bit less well organized*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Oh you are an old K/Ser??? EEEeee! You must be salivating for Friday. :D

I'm proud to say I have no idea what zine is, but the concept of a fanfiction based fandom being run without archives is fascinating.

Including (omg) one of my earliest 'zines. Gah!

hahahaha! there is a Mary-sue het fic floating around wiht my name on it that I REALLY need to find and destroy one of these days.

[accioslash.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Yes, I am an oooooooooooooooold K/Ser from waaaaaay back. I've been a slash fan for 28 years, gen fan even longer than that. I did a post about my early days in fandom a few years ago. Ah, such fond memories.

Yep, so excited about Friday. I'm actually a bit worried that the new movie will rekindle my love for my original OTP. It's hard to give up almost 20 years exclusive shipping. ;D So, if my journal suddenly changes from Snarry to K/S, you'll know what happened.

I have hundreds of zines. Some fandoms still prefer to do at least initial releases in print form before releasing their fics into the wilds of the internet. Some people claim zines are higher quality. Meh. I know I've read some horrible crap in zine form and some brilliant stuff for free, so YMMV.

I never use the same name in two fandoms, so, thankfully, all my Batman fic is safely hidden. *snerk* Though I never wrote any Mary-Sue bad!fic, just regular plain 'ol bad!fic.