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]

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.