More blathering.

[bubosquared]

Like asilvahalo, I don't really believe I'm going to get sued. But if I do, it's going to be on my fucking head, people. Mine. Okay? I do not speak for the slash community, and I fucking refuse to be 'resonsible' for its well-being? Because communities bounce back from a lot.

I'm 'out' as a slasher and as an RPSer to my family, to my friends, to even my coworkers. I guess, yeah, I'm doing my part to make fanfic of all kinds more public. But you know, I think slash, even and especially RPS, is a lot less private than people would like to think. My coworker'd heard of it and come across it. Sex Pistols and Metallica fanfic has been publicised in Q Magazine. There's been numerous mentions of FPS and RPS in the press.

We are 'out', folks. And the sky hasn't fallen. Yet? Perhaps. In any way, it's not my job to hold it up.

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There have been books...

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

FPS is one of the two major subjects of Contance Penley's "Nasa/Trek"

It spends about fifty pages talking about early fandom and the development of K/S slash and the growth of 'zine publications.

If a mass market publication with illustrations of Kirk and Spock doing naughty things didn't make the sky fall... then I highly doubt any of this is going to either.

Re: There have been books...

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Is this book for sale on Amazon? I may use this tidbit in the next version of the fmo.

Re: There have been books...

[lovelypoet.livejournal.com]

Yes it is, relatively inexpensive (it's a small paperback). I'd send you my copy but I no longer have it. A friend of mine did her honors thesis this past year on fanfiction and I gave it to her. I really need to go pick up a new copy myself.

The first half of the book talks about the ways in which NASA used the cultures obsession with Star Trek for PR and deals a lot with the Challenger Disaster and then it segues into discussion of Fan Culture around Kirk/Spock slash mostly talking about the old 'zine publications but it does delve into the "new" trend of internet fic. It's a few years old obviously.

I firmly believe that one of the illustrations overestimates Kirk :-)