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

[raitala.livejournal.com]

That's was an interesting article. I remember reading one a while ago in which a reporter went to a HP slash con and, whilst trying to give a balanced report, could stop the 'OMG these people are WEIRDOS' creeping through. This one was much more balanced.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the "unbelievably explicit" fic the reporter sampled would have most of us just nod and go "Yup, that's P0rn" :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Hee! There's a fanfic out there that basically has that plot! Harry and Draco as journists who go undercover to a HP convension. It was surprisingly poignant.

I believe my sister might have use the term "unbelievably explicit" when she stumbled on a the Admin Series. *cough*

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Oh God! That's when she 'stumbled' on my reading of "Virtual" isn't it!?! :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*evil grin*

[potteresque_ire]

Naw, I think we'd be all like ... this is so mild. Daily Deviant won't take it :D

I think Slash is something people either get or not get. I'm not sure I'd ever be motivated to provide a logical explanation to its appeal - because I'm not sure that there is a logical basis to it.

And I I have to, I'd say it has much more to do with the branch of creativity the readers and writers had had and/or embraced than their view on sex and romance. Of the people I've met here, the latter differs widely, but the one thing that is for sure, that unites us is our ability and love to use a fictional world and characters built up in media as a foundation of a hypothetical world, and build something upon it by more or less following the guidelines that are provided by canon. It's ... rather like building a hypothesis upon a hypothesis, and many people do not find appeal in even the first hypothesis alone. It doesn't mean they're wrong or less in any way, it's just ... their thinking is wired differently. :)

[raitala.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I'd ever be motivated to provide a logical explanation to its appeal

No, there isn't one, but then there isn't really a 'logical explanation' for the appeal of snooker or stamp collecting or any number of pastimes people indulge in. You either find something interesting and enjoyable or you don't. The slash side of slash...*shrugs* definitely not something you can explain if people don't see it. People have all sorts of different explanations for why people are into slash, but really there isn't a single slash-type person so no one theory would cover it.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

A journalist once interviewed me and a friend about this fanfic stuff, and despite being visibly baffled and out of his depth wrote quite a balanced article... which his paper ran underneath a large photo of two female cosplayers in full Klingon garb, with nothing to indicate that this wasn't a photo of the people being interviewed.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hahahaha!

I could just imagine your face when you saw that pic. :D

I'm sure they wanted to grab everyone's attention with the photo of a couple of 'weirdos', but it's too bad the article would have been lost in the lulz.