morgandawn: (Star Trek My Fandom Invented Slash)
morgandawn ([personal profile] morgandawn) wrote2014-01-11 09:07 pm

Dear Diary...The Image Was Too Powerful To Hold In My Memory

I found this on tumblr today:

The text above and below reads:
"SOMEONE WENT TO A STAR TREK CONVENTION IN THE 1980’S AS SPOCK AND KIRK’S PENISES I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP

THEY PERFORMED SPIRK THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE."

I remember making this screencap for the Fanlore page. Wonderful to see it being re-discovered again and again.

And speaking of memories….Memories (or the lack of them) is one of the many reasons for Fanlore to exist. I watched the skit on videotape with my friend Sandy in the 1990s…I know this because she wrote a post to Virgule, the slash mailing list describing our glee and joy and hysteria. An email which I found 20+ years later tucked away in a folder. But in 2011, when someone asked me about the Dancing Penii, I had no memory of the skit. Or ever having watched it.  The image must have been too powerful to hold in my memory.  So I began researching in order to add more history to the Fanlore page. And that's how the screencap and Kandy's description of the skit  found its way there.

thirdblindmouse: The captain, wearing an upturned pitcher on his head, gazes critically into the mirror. (Default)

[personal profile] thirdblindmouse 2014-01-12 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Your memory clearly wanted to give you a chance to experience that anew a second time.
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[personal profile] nestra 2014-01-12 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, dear god.
dragonfly: (it can't be)

[personal profile] dragonfly 2014-01-13 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
That is ... flabbergasting. O-O