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One of the first and best fan films. Possibly the greatest movie ever made.

Thanks to everyone who came to Slash 2 yesterday.  It seemed to go OK and, as always, I learnt a lot - though perhaps a little too much about ejaculating ents. The delegates were an absolute delight and the papers both erudite and hilarious, a perfect combination ( Read more... )

Speakers include:

Sheenagh Pugh (University of Glamorgan): 'The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady: slash and women litfic writers'

Anna Smol (Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax): ‘Performance, fiction, and reality in Lord of the Rings slash’
Robin Anne Reid (Texas A&M University-Commerce): '”A room of our own:” How F/F slash queers female space’

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SLASH 2: THE 2nd DMU FANFICTION STUDY DAY

Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

Tuesday 27th February 2007

10.00 am - 6.00 pm

After the success of last year’s Slash Fiction Study Day, Slash 2 offers another slash-friendly forum for discussion of the most exciting developments in fanfic.

The main ( Read more... )

I'm going to host another Slash Fiction Study Day at De Montfort University next year, most likely on 27th February. If there is enough interest, it'll run over 2 days. The format will be much the same, except that papers will also be specifically invited on fan films and yaoi and there'll be a panel on Brokeback Mountain ( Read more... )

Finally got my chapter done on Tolkien...almost. Next little project is on the first Star Wars novels - at the moment I'm researching Splinter of the Mind's Eye, the first spin-off book, which is notorious for the sexual tension between Luke and Leia. Which makes me wonder - is there any Luke/Leia stuff out there...?

Here's a question for Harry Potter slashers:

What do you think of JK R as a writer? I've noticed that quite a few of you don't think much of her as a prose stylist - does that make it easier to write fan fiction based on her stuff?

I gave a paper at Aberystwyth Uni yesterday on porn, which went sort of OK - impossible to tell, of course, but the audience was charming and gave a good impression of being interested. But I think I may have had enough of porn by now...next stop Tarkovsky ( Read more... )