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I have a question for all of you lovely people (those of you who are slashers, at any rate, which is most of you). How and when did you first get interested in slash? A whole day completely devoid of human contact has made me curious about things not entirely my business.

I think I've been a slasher all my life, even before I new what

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[saralotte]

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Metafandom? Oh, metafandom? Neat. I have no idea how I came to be there, but I'm happy to hear from you.

*Does Kirk really have red pubic hair? EWWWWW!* That is an image I *do not* want to visualize! Id didn't know that there was an actual published book in the library slashy Holmes and watson (although I had often wondered about their relationship)... Um, it's not sexy, per se, but rather... intriguing. Who wrote the book?

Unlike you, I seek out slash just for the slash. Your way is probably better -- I bet you find wonderful stories that I'll never discover because they're so mundanely *het*... *hits self*

Anyway, thanks for sharing your tale of slash.

*hugs*

[trepkos]

Then I found an actual published book in the library about Holmes and Watson and how they got it on.

I must see this book!
Who are your favourite screen Holmes/Watson?

[suzycat]

Well, from adolescent-hood I would create lengthy fic-like fantasies in bed of an evening, and in their earliest incarnations they involved a Sue (me, natch) - but I would "inhabit" all the different characters, as it were. When I wasn't much older I started sometimes making up stories in which the men were lovers. I always had a two guys, one girl thing going on, but the guys were invariably the main focus.

Flash forward a lot of years to my return to university in the latter 90s and reading Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers for a paper. Suffice it to say the copy falls open at the chapter "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk" because I read it so many times. That was the first time I realised that other women are like me - and they write it down!

Shortly after that I got into Smallville fandom and got to know about slash from the inside out, as it were.

[suzycat]

Also here via metafandom, btw)

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Oh, that fic thing in your head? I did that too -- a lot. It was fun for a while, but then it just became boring. For some reason I was never the "Sue" -- there was always a "she," and then, after a while a "he," and then suddenly two "he"s...

Allow me to demonstrate my naivete by asking "What's Jenkins' Textual Poachers"? That sound like a very interesting article...

Ah, yes, Smallville. Incredibly slashy. Good times.

Thanks for sharing! *kisses*

[suzycat]

Henry Jenkins is an academic who is also a fan, whose (?1991) book Textual Poachers had a radical effect on media studies. Routledge is the publisher - it's likely to be in your local library.

You can check out his cool co-authored, or really edited, article on why women like slash here:

http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/bonking.html

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[snapes_patronus]

[looks at your icon and laughs]

I was writing David Bowie/Mick Jagger RPS back around 1979-80, when I was 12. I didn't fully understand how guys actually went about having sex for another year or so, but I wrote it anyway because I liked the idea of them together. I also wrote some slashy stories about Jim Morrison when I was 15 or 16.

I wasn't part of any organized fandom, and was completely unaware that there were other women out there writing the same kinds of stories--I thought I was the only one.

I also recall watching the old Batman and Robin TV show in the afternoons after school, and thinking that Robin was Batman's boyfriend. I even drew pictures of them kissing. I was probably about 7 or 8 at the time. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I read an article written by a gay man about his childhood fascination with B&R, and how they became gay icons for him (and, apparently, lots of other little gay boys during the '70s).

So I've probably been a slasher since birth, too.

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Yes, yes *exactly*! Finally, another person who slashed rockstars -- and the same ones to boot! I like Bowie/Mick because hey, for a while there it looked like it actually happened (and maybe it really did, who knows?) and because they are just so good together. And Jim Morrison... I *still* slash him in my head sometimes... with Spike, weirdly enough. I am substantially younger than you unfortunately, so all this rockstar slashin' took place only about five years ago. *Hides head in shame* What would they say if they knew

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[subluxate]

Nowadays, I'm not much of a femmeslasher. Back in, oh, second grade, though, I read the Baby-Sitters' Club series and kept thinking Claudia and Stacey should date. Nowadays, I'm a M/M slasher in several fandoms.

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Nope, not much of a femmeslasher either. But I did share your thought that Claudia and Stacey should date. And you know the Boxcar Children Series? I read those in like third grade and I was awful: I didn't believe that life on the streets would be so *nice* (even though I really had no idea) so I did things to them in my head like have one of the younger ones die of malnutrition. I slashed Henry (the older one) with other boys in the story. I made all of them sleep with that kindly old man who adopted them (I mean seriously, I'm sure that actually happened anyway). Uh-oh, I've divulged more dirty secrets.

Thanks for sharing your slash history! *hugs*

[melata_fic]

I shipped all sorts of unlikely pairings. I did what I've been doing now, and been all about the dynamics. Not so much with the sex, though.

I have always loved the obsession and duty sort of twisted relationship. And when I turned to slash, that's what I tried to write. Mm.

I found Harry/Draco slash first. I thought, whee, fun plot device. And I didn't think it at all strange. *grin*

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Harry/Draco? I always thought that was sort of a weird pairing (no offense meant). I was mostly about Harry/Ron, which just seems more likely. Harry Potter is fun to slash because come on, they're seventeen now, they need more sexual experimentation! It's just common sense!

Anyway, thanks for sharing your slash history with me. *kisses*

[melata_fic]

It is a weird pairing, but I think it was the plot device that made it okay.

Harry/Ron is definitely okay. Particularly with Ron's jaelousy in GoF and so on.

*grins*

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Could you give me any recomendations in the Harry/Ron fic world? I'm not really in the loop, you know, but I'm having a yen to read some...

Thanks.