I'm In Yr Thrift Stores Selling Yr FanArt

[morgandawn]

Thanks to Ann who sent me this tumblr link
  

heliwr:

so my roommate melissa works part-time at a thrift shop pricing donations and she happened to come across this gem

and bought it for me because she is a good friend

it’s signed, framed and dated 1976

this is framed ot3 fanart from 1976

it is now hanging on the wall in our living room for everyone to see

The artist is Connie Faddis. She published a beautiful series of  Star Trek zines called Interphase and illustrated one of the most sought after Starsky & Hutch fanzines, Scales of Justice.

[Note: of the 8000+ notes, these are my favorites:
*"This proves that OTPs and OT3s existed before our generation."
*"I’d expect Spock in the middle for body heat reasons."
*"this makes me so happy though because there’s K/S/McC fanart that literally predates me as a human being bless you..."
*"this seriously makes me wonder what all the porn etc people have been making will wind up doing about 40 years from now..."
*"the saddest part: to end up in a thrift store, somebody had to have parted ways with this thing in the first place."
*"Never forget: women invented fandom."
*"What an amazing find! Have some old-ass fanfic to go with it, circa 1976! http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6671809/1/Shelter"
*"Epic, also * gorgeous* even if you don’t ship them. The detail work is lovely!"
*"Trekkies are the elves of fandoms."
*"Things like these make me feel hopeful about humanity"
*"#we are your gay shipping predecessors #star trek started this stuff man."
*"I wonder about the journey this drawing made like how did it end up in that shop? who had it originally?"
*"- 1) My god, it’s full of stars. - 2) Now I wanna know how it ended up in the thrift shop. And what the store *"workers had to say when they processed it in. You know that was a rockin’ day in the stockroom."
*"After my mother died, I went through her things and came across notebooks full of writing. She’d been writing Star Trek fanfiction for years, and while none of it seemed slashy, she certainly spent a lot of time on Kirk and Spock. It was bittersweet, discovering her secret. I’d started writing X-Files fanfiction when I was fifteen or sixteen, shortly before she died, and it would have been nice if I’d known about this thing we could have shared."
*"this is like really impressive actually, also they’re all staring at jim’s dick."
*"woah!!!!!!!!! there should be an antiques road show for fangirls."
*"Not going to lie, this is the type of thing that finally convinced me to watch Star Trek."
*"Star Trek slash is immortal."

Comments

[aerye]

This makes my fannish heart so happy!