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Maru ([personal profile] yakalskovich) wrote2009-05-22 12:14 pm
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Fandom has come full circle

With the brilliant new Star Trek movie, fanfic writers and readers are rediscovering K/S, the grandmother of all slash.

So, as a service to those only now getting into this, I offer you my old fics in that fandom:

The Demon of Beta 55

First-time fic set during the Original Series and trying to stick as closely to its look-and-feel as possible, including the cheesy special effects, and resetting all to 'start' for the next episode. I wrote this in 1993 before I had ever read and actual K/S fics that were mostly in hectographed zines at the time; I had only heard of the concept, and re-watched all the eps recently. This is my take, at the time, of what it would be like.

Mastery of the Unavoidable
'Established relationship' fic steeped in fandom and set  between movies 1 and 2. Picks up some of the thoughts I had about slash on the one hand as I had read it by then, and the RL gay people I knew at the time (1994) and still know, largley thanks to... -- well, read the story!

[identity profile] wiebke.livejournal.com 2009-05-22 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's hilarious.

I discovered K/S through reading a Newsweek article back in high school. Everybody in my history class had to subscribe to the magazine so we could be up on current event. Of course I found this thing at the back about K/S stories and porn and was riveted! :)

[identity profile] wiebke.livejournal.com 2009-05-22 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I never really wrote proper ST fanfic... but when I was a young teenager I wrote a lot of TV screen plays and plots and would act out whole long sagas with Spock and various non-human lifeforms. I still have some of them written down. The only story I remember doing, probably in high school, was this DS9 one with a new crewmember who was a sentient plant and gets to be friends with Odo. I have that one as a text file somewhere. But it's funny, I had no idea fanfic existed until around 2000, when I got to poking around in the VampChron stuff.